[Drabble] Too Late
TITLE: Too Late
AUTHOR: nicis_anatomy
CHARACTER: Jethro Gibbs
GENRE: Gen, Angst, Episode tag (for 5.18 "Judgment Day")
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 300
SUMMARY: His hesitation might have cost him his last chance to ever hear her voice again ... Written for challenge #175 "Jenny Shepard" for ncisdrabble100 and day #01 for ncisdaily.
WARNINGS: English still isn't my native language (although I wish) and the story is not beta'd and it contains huge spoiler for 5.18/19 "Judgment Day"!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters (although I'd love to own Action Figure Gibbs), nor am I making any money from them. If I would Season 5 would have ended different.
~*~*~*~*
It takes you a while to dial this number, not sure what to say, once she would answer the call, and unsure of what to say or how you should say it.
Later you would learn that this hesitation might have cost you the last chance to ever talk to her. You won't know if that might have saved her life that day and you'll try not to think about it too often. You already have to live with much older 'what-if's' and 'if-only's', and you'll know that it wouldn't be healthy to burden yourself with more guilt.
When the call is finally answered you are relieved, but instead of the voice you expected there's only deafening silent, and you start to wonder if you've dialed the wrong number.
"Jenny?" you try. "Jenny ... you there?" You can hear someone breathe, but you know it isn't her.
You realize the hand holding the phone starts to shack and you try to blame the bourbon you had all day for it; deep inside you know that this isn't true. Your gut feeling has never failed you and when quiet mumbled words reach your ear, followed by Ziva's shacking voice you know that something is awfully wrong. Ziva is the strongest woman you know (except for Jenny). You've only heard her cry twice, and both times something devastating had happened to her.
You tell her to talk to you, although you know you don't want to hear what she has to say.
This time it isn't only Ziva's world crashing down.
You hardly manage to ask where they are and to tell them to wait for you, before your phone crashes on the workbench and you cover your face with shaking hands that definitely aren't the result of too much bourbon.
- The End -
A/N: I know that Tony was the one picking up Jenny's phone, but I like to believe that he couldn't speak to Jethro and handed the phone over to Ziva instead.
AUTHOR: nicis_anatomy
CHARACTER: Jethro Gibbs
GENRE: Gen, Angst, Episode tag (for 5.18 "Judgment Day")
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 300
SUMMARY: His hesitation might have cost him his last chance to ever hear her voice again ... Written for challenge #175 "Jenny Shepard" for ncisdrabble100 and day #01 for ncisdaily.
WARNINGS: English still isn't my native language (although I wish) and the story is not beta'd and it contains huge spoiler for 5.18/19 "Judgment Day"!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters (although I'd love to own Action Figure Gibbs), nor am I making any money from them. If I would Season 5 would have ended different.
~*~*~*~*
It takes you a while to dial this number, not sure what to say, once she would answer the call, and unsure of what to say or how you should say it.
Later you would learn that this hesitation might have cost you the last chance to ever talk to her. You won't know if that might have saved her life that day and you'll try not to think about it too often. You already have to live with much older 'what-if's' and 'if-only's', and you'll know that it wouldn't be healthy to burden yourself with more guilt.
When the call is finally answered you are relieved, but instead of the voice you expected there's only deafening silent, and you start to wonder if you've dialed the wrong number.
"Jenny?" you try. "Jenny ... you there?" You can hear someone breathe, but you know it isn't her.
You realize the hand holding the phone starts to shack and you try to blame the bourbon you had all day for it; deep inside you know that this isn't true. Your gut feeling has never failed you and when quiet mumbled words reach your ear, followed by Ziva's shacking voice you know that something is awfully wrong. Ziva is the strongest woman you know (except for Jenny). You've only heard her cry twice, and both times something devastating had happened to her.
You tell her to talk to you, although you know you don't want to hear what she has to say.
This time it isn't only Ziva's world crashing down.
You hardly manage to ask where they are and to tell them to wait for you, before your phone crashes on the workbench and you cover your face with shaking hands that definitely aren't the result of too much bourbon.
- The End -
A/N: I know that Tony was the one picking up Jenny's phone, but I like to believe that he couldn't speak to Jethro and handed the phone over to Ziva instead.