Basement of Ill Repute, Late Monday Evening
Alex was relieved she'd encountered Ziva today, at the Perk. To learn that Gibbs's daughter was his, but not from a messy divorce. Just from a time before his life had gone to hell.
She had been out walking earlier, wondering how someone even came to terms with such a nightmare, when she'd seen the gathering in the park. Teary-eyed teenagers, sending off young children through a strange silvery glowing gate that looked straight out of something on the Sci-Fi channel.
She didn't want to pry. She also didn't think Gibbs should have to be alone, right now. So she had let herself in to the basement with a bottle of Scotch.
If somehow he came back with Kelly, she'd hide in a broom closet if she had to. Maybe Fate was giving them both a second chance.
But Alex didn't really trust Fate or anything else in this world to be kind.
(Basement modded with famous_gut's permission, and it's just for him, please.)
She had been out walking earlier, wondering how someone even came to terms with such a nightmare, when she'd seen the gathering in the park. Teary-eyed teenagers, sending off young children through a strange silvery glowing gate that looked straight out of something on the Sci-Fi channel.
She didn't want to pry. She also didn't think Gibbs should have to be alone, right now. So she had let herself in to the basement with a bottle of Scotch.
If somehow he came back with Kelly, she'd hide in a broom closet if she had to. Maybe Fate was giving them both a second chance.
But Alex didn't really trust Fate or anything else in this world to be kind.
(Basement modded with famous_gut's permission, and it's just for him, please.)