*Sorry, for the long wait... "School." Here's the final chapter.*
Best Mistake.
Dawn was breaking when her hangover was setting in while she entered her restroom. A hot shower was her remedy to soothe her aching body, her eyes shut as the water washed away the kisses he had left on her. Her sore muscles reminded her that she hadn't been with someone like him before. He made her feel like she had never made love before but last night wasn't just passionate love making, it was revenge on the fool who broke her heart. A one night stand she kept insisting, just a drunken fuck in his back seat… her eyes opened.
"Shit." She breathed as the water ran over her body.
Her hair drenched hung around her face as her eyes fixated on the tiles, but she didn't see the tiles. Her mind raced while flashes of him, the sound of heavy breathing and his name echoed in her ears. Shutting her eyes once more she forced the memory from her mind as she relived that night.
'Standing at the door of the man she had fallen for she heard the door shut in her face. Carol was right, she told herself as she turned and walked away with a broken heart. She thought, she hoped and wished that he was different but he was just like the fool before him. She gave her heart to him and the only thing he gave her in the end was the feeling of being alone. Another fool had hurt her and here she was again her mind set on drowning the hurt in alcohol.
She had found a lone bar that she had hoped no one she knew would go to. A glass of Jack in her hand her blood alcohol was rising as her 'I'm stupid' tears fell. Wiping her tears there she sat hoping that maybe she would get drunk enough that any stranger in this bar would help ease this hurt. Even if it was a one night stand she didn't care just as long as it was anyone. Another round of Jack in her hand and another trail of tears that's when she heard him say her name.
"Abs?"
Her dark green eyes opened again as she shut of the water in the shower. She stood for a moment as the water dripped from her aching body. 'Out of all the strangers in that bar it had to him' she thought. A random bar on the side of town she hope no one she knew would be that's where he found her. Crying because she had loved another fool, drunk because it was better than being sober with a broken heart. Out of everyone she knew it had to be him that she met last night.
"Oh my god." She whispered as the flood of regret filled her.
45 minutes later...
Pulling his red hoodie over his head he walked into the kitchen.
"Morning, son." Jackson greeted him.
Frozen surprised by the presence on his father he stood looking at the old man seated at his table.
"Dad?" He replied softly.
Looking over his specs he grinned at his son who stood motionless.
"Put a pot of coffee on when you were in the shower." He informed his son.
He entered the kitchen without responding as he headed over to the cupboard and pulled out a glass. Pouring himself a cup of water instead of his usual coffee cause his father to question him.
"You okay, son?" Jack asked.
Swallowing down the cold glass of water he replied. "Yeah."
Jack huffed as he lifted the paper from the table and began reading. "Oh, I had some lumber just laying around. Figure you could use them they're in the back of the truck."
Setting the glass down he walked by his father. "Thanks." He mumbled as he headed for the front door.
Jackson curiously watch his son exit the house, something was wrong but with his son it could be only one thing he figured, his job.
Outside Gibbs stood with door the shut behind him. The cool air was enough to make him feel normal aside from the headache that was setting in. The events of last night flashed through his mind.
'Parking his car he walked up to the bar seeing the usual cars that were always there. Putting his keys in his pocket he walked up to the heavy doors to the bar. Instantly hit by the heavy smoke he made his way past the unusual number of people that were there that night. Pushing pass the bodies that hovered in the smokey bar he made his way to his stool. The one place where he could just sit and drink while occasionally being visited by a fellow drinker. Tonight wasn't any different besides the fact his seat was taken by a woman.
She sat to the bar as he stood there just watching unable to deny the similarities of a girl he knew. Her clothes weren't like her but that dress that clung to her body caused him to take in a breath. Was it her? he asked himself as he eased toward her. Coming up beside her he leaned forward to see past the jet black hair that hung around her face.
"Abs?"
Taking in a deep breath he forced the thought from his mind as he headed over to his fathers truck. Walking down the path he tried to occupy his thoughts with anything but her. Reaching the back of the truck he put down the tailgate to pull the lumber from the bed. Taking a plank from the truck he began to pull the lumber when a flash entered his mind.
'Can we go somewhere?' She had whispered.
A dirt road, a spider web tattoo and her hands gliding over his body...
"Fuck" He breathed as he dropped the plank back down in the bed of the truck.
Turning around he leaned against the tailgate. "What were you thinking?" He asked himself aloud as he sat up on the tailgate.
Minutes passed by as his mind went over and over the things he should have done last night trying to erase what he did instead. No amount of should have's could change what happened and no amount of rules could prevent him from feeling the way he felt about her now. She was his best friend the one girl he would run to even when there was a bomb threatening to bring the building down around them. She was his purpose in more ways than one and now she was the reason his barricaded heart had no more walls. Out of all the people that came in and out of his life she was the one he would always love but here he was in the aftermath of a drunken night with her. Alcohol laced kisses and the fool who did her wrong led to sex in the backseat of his car. Last night he couldn't deny that he did love her but this morning he was certain that he did love her in a way he thought he would never love her.
Caught up in his thoughts he was suddenly distracted by a car... her car pulling up. Swallowing down what tasted like fear he sat unable to move as she parked her car.
Taking a deep breath she collected her nerves to open the door and approach him. Getting out from her car she walked up the drive way to his fathers truck where he sat quietly. Feeling her heart beat beneath her chest she walked up every step brought her closer and closer to him.
Tentatively he looked up at her seeing her search for words to speak.
"Hey." He greeted her softly.
"H-hey." She replied nervously.
Keeping her distance from him she tucked her hands in her pockets. For what seemed like an eternity she stood in the awkward silence with him, trying to figure how to say the things that she came here to say.
"I... need to talk to you." She said softly.
Slowly looking up at her. "Okay." He replied.
She looked at him briefly. 'Why does he have to look so hot in that pull over?' She asked herself as she quickly turned away. Taking in a deep breath she started to pace in front of him making him even more nervous.
"Look... I -" She cringed losing the words that she wanted to say.
He was dying to speak but he needed to know what she wanted to say to him.
"Gibbs..." She tried looking at him but turned away quickly again. "um... last night. Last night I was, drunk." She managed to say.
He didn't say a word as she continued to pace.
"I was feeling like shit after he... after he, it doesn't matter. What matters is that or..." She trailed off. "What I mean is last night was a... mistake."
Like a bullet aimed for his heart the word pierced him as he looked up at her.
"Gibbs, last night should have never happened. I was there trying to get over being treated like I was nothing. I was there just to get drunk and not feel alone." Her voice cracked.
"Abbs." He said softly.
Stopping in her tracks she found the courage to look at him. His eyes met hers for the first time since...
"Gibbs, we were drunk and... we should just get back to normal, pretend that nothing happened." She insisted.
His mind was telling him to agree to that and just let it be but his heart wasn't about give up that easy.
"Pretend." He said in barely audible reply.
"Yeah." She breathed.
"Like nothing happened." His blue eyes looked into her green pleading ones. "You expect me to forget."
"I want you to." She whispered.
Turning away from her he took in a deep breath. "That easy?" He asked.
Dropping her gaze from him she replied. "I didn't say it was going to be easy."
"It's not." He said as he looked back her.
"Gibbs, please." She begged.
"I don't regret you and... I'm your mistake?" He asked with his tone of voice hinting at anger.
"You're... I mean, we. Shit, don't make this harder than it has to be." She said as she turned away from him.
"Abs... last night I was - I wanted to kiss you, I wanted to not make you feel alone and now you're asking me to forget."
Her eyes filled with tears. "You have your rules. Last night was last night and now this morning I'm begging you to please just let us get back to-"
"Normal?" He asked.
Turning back to him she sniffed back the tears. "Yeah." Her voice cracked.
He slowly shook his head. "Can't... can't get over you; can't forget last night and normal what is normal for us Abby?"
She said nothing as she wiped the lone tear that fell.
"Go back to innocent hugs, my rules and kisses on the cheek? Is that normal for us? Or is normal the fact that we have feelings for each other but we're to fucking scared to face them? Maybe that's normal." He pointed out sternly.
"Gibbs, please don't. I'm fighting a lot of things this morning. My hangover, my head because I keep thinking about you, my feelings because I don't know what the hell to do with them and I'm fighting the fact that I want what I can't have."
"You'll always have me." He whispered.
Shutting her eyes she dropped her head and shook it. "No, no I can't." Her voice cracked. "You have rules and this would never work. The only reason things happened last night was because we were both drinking." She looked at him. "We had to drink to even kiss Gibbs... I had to drink to be with you. I'm probably going to have drink to get over you too."
"No matter how strong the drink is I won't ever get over you. No matter how drunk you get you won't forget me." He replied.
Slowly she walked over to him. Standing between his legs she cupped his face in her hands. Sniffing back the tears that feel she spoke softly. "Gibbs, forget me, forget that you kissed me, just forget it." She plead. "I need you to- I need you... " Her own words made her realize exactly what is was she needed. "I need you." She whispered again.
Wrapping his arms around her waist he whispered back. "I need you too, I always needed you."
Shutting her eyes she rested her head against his. "It had to be you... it had be you that found me last night. Of all the people in that bar it had to be you."
"Out of all the places that you could sit, you had to sit on my stool." He whispered.
Smiling she brushed her nose against his. "Gibbs... are you sure about this, about us?" She asked.
"Never been more sure about anything." He replied his lips millimeters from hers.
"You're the best mistake I've ever had." She whispered.
Smiling he kissed her lips soft and slow as she wrapped her arms around his neck. This kiss was not laced with alcohol and their feelings weren't brought on by shots of Jack but these were the feelings they had finally allowed themselves to express. Love, this was it in it's purest and basic form a single kiss shattered all the complications that prevented them from loving each other this way. He was hers now and forever and she was his just like she had always been, this kiss said it all.
Lost in their kiss and eyes shut they didn't know that they were being watched from his living room window. Smiling Jack sipped on his coffee as he watched them lost in their kiss.
"That a boy Leroy." He mumbled as he turned away giving them privacy once more.
Parting their lips they rested their heads against the other as he whispered.
"You're not going to be lonely any more and I'm not going to be the fool who let you go."
*POOF*
~*THE END*~
"Never thought my one shot would turn into 3 chapters... lol. Hope you enjoyed it. Now back to my 'Don't Belong' fic."
-The Gabby Effect-