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-21-
Over the next two days nothing out of the ordinary happen, in fact nothing happened at all.
The only change was that Gibbs didn't stay with her twenty-four hours straight through.
Instead someone of the team stayed with her while the others worked on finding a lead, which seemed to be a useless task.
There were no fingerprints on the wrapper of the chocolate, or on anything that had been in the paper bag as well.
The local police had no lead on who had stolen the car.
Gibbs went home for a few hours of sleep during the day so he could stay awake watching her at night. Abby didn't approve, Gibbs knew that, but both knew he wouldn't rest until Abby was safe again.
A sigh left her lips as she closed her eyes again.
48 hours of boredom, which was in Abby's eyes worse than the previous weeks. A hyperactive bunny like Abby could only sleep that much. Even though her body still needed rest her mind didn't and since she wasn't really fond of the reading material the nurse brought her she was doomed to watch reruns. This was okay as long as she watched them with Tony, who seemed to know a story to almost every show they had watched so far. Maybe he made them up to entertain her, who knew.
When Gibbs got back from his short stay at home that day he had brought her mp3 player with him along with Bert, trying to make sure Abby would feel a little better.
The two nights she had to stay in hospital Abby found herself relaxed in a tender embrace of Gibbs, who surprisingly willingly laid down after Abby had asked.
When Laura finally told the scientist she was free to leave the hospital Abs natural excitement reappeared full force.
The scientist still would be indoors but she could definitively do more than just sit around once she was out of that way too white, way too quiet room.
However the excitement had dropped a little when she had opened the bag Tony had delivered through Ducky's hands.
With a frown on her face she sat at the table opposite of Ducky, both staring at the items on top of her hospital bed.
Abby had noticed that Ducky had a hard time keeping a straight face, which only added to her irritation.
"Why is he doing this to me?" She pointed to the bed.
"Abigail dear, I'm afraid Jethro has no idea. He gave Tony the order to get you a disguise."
"Of course." She growled.
That moment the door opened and an eager looking Tony stepped in, followed by a coffee and Caf!Pow carrying Gibbs.
As soon as Gibbs had free sight on Abs, she began to sign. *Smack him over the head.*
Without thinking about it he brought the drink container to the crook of his arm, pressing it against his side with his forearm and smacked Tony's head.
When Tony's hand began to rub over the back of his head, Jethro spoke up.
"Why?"
Abby pointed again to the bed.
Luckily Tony had been smart enough to bring some space between himself and his boss.
"I thought you would appreciate the color, boss."
Abby sighed and got to her feet first crossing the distance to collect a sweet kiss and her beverage before she went to the bed.
Straw at her lips she gently sucked in a sip of her much loved drink and grabbed the wig, the dress and her make-up bag Ziva had brought.
"Do I really need to wear that?" Abby looked toward her man.
"We don't have something else."
Passing Gibbs on the way to the bathroom she muttered just loud enough for him to hear 'I'd prefer the body bag'.
"Abs." His voice made clear what he thought of that sentence.
"Yeah, yeah…"
Ten minutes passed after Abby had closed the door behind herself before her voice became audible.
"DiNozzo, you won't know when, you won't know how but you WILL pay for this."
A lopsided grin became audible on Gibbs' face, oh he would love to witness that payback.
About five minutes later the door finally opened and a completely different Abby stepped back into the room.
The dress was a knee-length pink dress, with violets printed on it.
So not Abby's style.
The wig that hid her natural long black hair was red. The wavy red strands were hugging her shoulders.
All of her visible Tats were covered with makeup.
"I can do with the wig, but this dress is killing me."
She looked down at herself. "Every woman with an ounce of taste wouldn't mix that hair color with such a color." She pointed to the dress.
Ducky was the first who spoke up.
"You look different but stunning as always my dear."
She smiled. "Thanks Ducky, I don't think so- but I give you a point for trying to make me feel better."
The older man smiled.
Tony, still smart enough, kept his mouth shut.
Gibbs looked up and down his love and agreed with her the dress was a killer, but he did like the wig.
He loved Abby just the way she was. He considered her as sexy no matter what she wore or how she had her hair, but all knew he had a thing for red-heads.
Red-head-fetish-after all.
Once his eyes were focused again Abby signed *we keep the wig for a little fun and games?*
Before he could answer Ziva and Tim entered the small room, followed by Dr. Thompson.
The last entered looked around the room until her eyes stopped at Gibbs.
"Where is Abby?"
Before the agent could answer Abby herself spoke up.
"Well, at least this masquerade is working."
She stepped right in front of the Doc.
"I'm right here Laura."
The female doctor, who had become a friend, looked up and down Abby's frame.
"The hair is hot, the dress not. Who picked it?"
"Tony."
Laura laughed. "Figures."
"HEY! I'm in the same room."
Ever since the doctor hadn't fallen for his flirt attack he was a little cranky when they met. Not that he wanted something from her, no- he had his girl, but his reputation had to be maintained, especially in front of Gibbs. Little did he know.
Finally Gibbs spoke up. "It is time to get you to the safe house Abs."
Abby nodded and looked at the doctor.
"I want you to come to see me once this is over."
"Yes." The forensic scientist hugged her surprised new friend.
Ziva's eyes met the doctor's ones. "You get used to it."
Abby again looked down at herself causing Tony to speak up. "Ziva packed a bag with your usual stuff; it's already at the house."
"Thank god. I don't know how long I'm able to keep myself from ripping this scary dress apart." Looking at Gibbs with a smile she spoke up. "I hope that house has a bath tub."
The doctor watched the strange little crowed leave the room, hoping everything would turn out good and Abby would be safe.
With a smile she shook her head and went on to check on her other patients.
The ringing phone let the hospital employee look up from her task at hand. The young female nurse hated phone calls. Phone calls always meant there was a family member in search of news for their beloved one. In nine of ten cases she had to tell the family she was sorry but…
Better to get over with it. She reached for the phone and answered. "Bethesda Hospital, emergency ward, Nurse Sarah speaking."
The blond nurse listened to the young man on the other side of the line. "Let me check the computer." She pinned the receiver between shoulder and ear and spoke up again while opening the directory of patient-lists. "The name please?" She listened. "Abigail – can you spell the last name please? S-C-I-U-T-O. A moment please."
Dr. L. Thomson just arrived back from her round, when she overheard the phone conversation of one of the new nurses.
"I'm sorry Sir; there is nothing in the computer about an Abigail Sciuto."
Shit. Couldn't that fellow have called half an hour earlier, when the agents still had been around? Hurrying toward the nurse she spoke up. "Is there a problem?"
"I can't find a patient in the computer Dr."
"We had some problems with the system the last week." Laura outstretched her hand for the phone.
The nurse handed her the object in her hand and went back to the file cabinet.
"This is Dr. Thomson speaking."
Laura heard a young man's voice. "I'm calling for news about my cousin Abby Sciuto, I've heard she was brought to the hospital I want to know how she is doing?" "Normally I'm not allowed to give information about patients. Mr…?"
"Sciuto, Fred Sciuto."
"Mr Sciuto, I'm afraid we couldn't help your cousin. She died four days ago."
"Oh God, little cousin. Who arranged things?"
"Her Boss, Agent Gibbs was noted as her emergency contact we released the body into his care."
"Thank you Dr. You helped me very much."
"I'm sorry for your loss."
With a sigh she ended the call as well and hurried toward her office to call the lovable NCIS ME.
Oh no. WHo is the man on the phone? Any ideas?
A/N: You can still offer my word prompts for this year's advent calendar :) Yeah I know, we still have a few months left!