Fiction. Tomorrow Is Another Day (Gibbs/Ducky)

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TITLE: Tomorrow Is Another Day
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: NCIS
PAIRING: Leroy Jethro Gibbs/Donald 'Ducky' Mallard
GENRE: Slash
SUMMARY: In his grief Jethro makes a comment he will live to regret.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 100
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Written for ncisdrabble100 'Past Relationship' Challenge.
WARNING: Very angsty (yes, in 100 words)
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.



1991

"They're dead."

"Yes, I know, Jethro."

"They're dead."

"Yes."

"They're dead and you're alive. Why couldn't it have been - Oh, my God, Ducky, I'm -"

"It doesn't matter, Jethro. Sleep now. You'll feel better in the morning."

Jethro felt the prick of a needle in his arm. And then . . . Nothing.

The next morning when he awoke and went downstairs things weren't better.

They were worse.

Much, much worse.

There it stood cold, stark, simple, devastating.

A few lines in Ducky's handwriting.

It ended:

I will always love you.

Ducky

No, things weren't better.

Things didn't begin to get remotely better until 1996.