Title: Investigate
Rating: T to be safe
Spoilers: Hiatus I & II
Author's Note: From Chirugal's 2010 Hiatus Week 5 prompt "Investigate".
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except what I write. NCIS and all its characters, plots, and quotes are all Mr. Bellisario's…I just play with them every now and then.
Her face haunted him – he'd jerk awake at what Mike would call some ungodly hour with it floating behind his eyes, more a ghost than Shan and Kelly ever were. He wanted – no, needed – to talk to her, to apologize – never a sign of weakness when it concerned her. He should never have left her like that, without a word – her, to whom words were so important, a connection to those around her.
But he couldn't call. He had run off like a dog with its tail between its legs, ashamed to have been caught in a lie of omission by his team. How could they – they who looked to him for guidance – ever again follow an investigator, a seeker of the truth, who lied to everyone he met for years?
No, he'd wait for her. Wait to see if she would ever want him in her life again. If she did, he knew she'd use every trick she knew – some he had taught her, but most that she had taught him – to track Mike down, and him, too. Using none of the classic investigative techniques she usually did – there were no crime scene photos, no ballistics, no physical evidence – she would find him.
He hoped she did.