Too preoccupied with Colonel Mann, Gibbs forgets to follow through on a promise to Abby.

Here we have a collection of Abby and Abby/Gibbs drabbles, one sentence fics and longer stories.  About 2,000 words in all.  The last is slightly adult but can easily be skipped.  There's some fluff, some funny stuff, some angst.  Ziva's knife throwing lessons return!

Oh!  One of them features Gil Grissom and Greg House!  I wanted to throw some Grissom into a fic, but because I don't really watch the show, couldn't do it extensively.

He heard the gravelly creak of brick grinding against brick and knew, without turning around, that Jamal Malik had opened the secret doorway.  Paula and Tony stood in front of him and he watched them turn, watched them come to the realization that by the time they reached Jamal, it would be too late.  None of that mattered in the end.  She was there for the ceremony, all in black, her hair in low pigtails.  She was the closest, and she’d always been brave.

“Why,” she fixed him with a stare, “have you got Abby’s shoes here?”

He took a swig of his beer.  “She left them here.”

 - Mann gets a little look into the personal friendship between Abby and Gibbs, and doesn't quite like what she sees.

He took off his NCIS windbreaker, rolled it up and pressed it to her.  She cried out and he felt something vile rise in the back of his throat.

Prepare yourselves for a shock.

We have angst!  It's not deeply angsty, but it can, in no way, shape or form, be considered fluffy!  It's a bit different from my usual stuff, (obviously) so tell me what you think!

*does tribal dance around laptop...don't quite know why*

A post-Hiatus fic, that deals with Abby, Tony and Gibbs.

Some things, it seemed, were just not his anymore.

Well, this isn’t a chronological continuation of the last story.  It’s the next step of the theme, but it comes about entirely separately of the events of the last fic.  I might still do a direct follow-on, but for the moment, this is what’s in my head.

About two-thousand words, each and every one of them scutinized to death.  This took me about four hours to write!  I'm extremely happy with the end result, if I may say so myself.

One thing though, it helps to have read this fic here, because otherwise an entire part of the story will make NO sense at all.  http://imaginary-iby.livejournal.com/7796.html#cutid1

Basically, the fic deals with three different things; Gibbs' return, Abby's past and how Abby feels about Tony, Gibbs, Ziva, McGee and Ducky.