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He hears the soft humming and heads down to his basement where his boat is. His boat got a lot of work on it in those days after...afterwards, and he found that, much to his horror, it was almost done.
He remembered Ducky rambling about a story...Odysseus or something. He vaguely remembered the tale from high school. Odysseus was gone for twenty years; the latter ten he was supposed to have come home. His wife had waited for him, weaving a shroud and burial clothes for her deceased father-in-law...she'd weave in the morning and take it apart at night.
There was an immediate reason for it, to stave off disrespectful suitors, but in those rare moments when Gibbs actually thinks over Ducky's stories, he wonders if there wasn't anything more. That finishing those clothes meant burying her husband more than it even meant burying his father, and that THAT was the real reason Penelope unraveled her weaving every night.
So one night he took apart his entire, nearly-finished boat.
NCIS
Gibbs/Cait
Moving On
sammie28
I..am not usually a Gibbs/Cait fan. But, I was bored and hit the random button to see what would come up. And when it came up, I read it because...well, that's kind of the point of hitting the random button. Anyway, warning. That was one of the most painful stories I've read to date. You have to know the characters though. So there, you've been warned. Enjoy.
He remembered Ducky rambling about a story...Odysseus or something. He vaguely remembered the tale from high school. Odysseus was gone for twenty years; the latter ten he was supposed to have come home. His wife had waited for him, weaving a shroud and burial clothes for her deceased father-in-law...she'd weave in the morning and take it apart at night.
There was an immediate reason for it, to stave off disrespectful suitors, but in those rare moments when Gibbs actually thinks over Ducky's stories, he wonders if there wasn't anything more. That finishing those clothes meant burying her husband more than it even meant burying his father, and that THAT was the real reason Penelope unraveled her weaving every night.
So one night he took apart his entire, nearly-finished boat.
NCIS
Gibbs/Cait
Moving On
sammie28
I..am not usually a Gibbs/Cait fan. But, I was bored and hit the random button to see what would come up. And when it came up, I read it because...well, that's kind of the point of hitting the random button. Anyway, warning. That was one of the most painful stories I've read to date. You have to know the characters though. So there, you've been warned. Enjoy.