Working Weekend

”Do you have time for lunch?”

“What?” asked Gibbs, confused and cautious. He'd only just answered his phone, and was already losing the thread of the conversation. But that was normal when he talked to Willow.

”I asked if you had any time to spare for lunch. You know...Food. Eat. Yummy goodness.” she said, speaking to him in her 'humouring the slow person' voice.

She was the only person who could use that tone of voice and not be torn to shreds, and she knew it.

“I'm kinda busy here.” he told her, not lying. He had three dead bodies, one of them a marine killed in action and on the fast track to a silver star, but only if they could prove that he hadn't been the cause of the first dead body. And their only real source of the truth had to go and commit suicide.

“Can you spare fifteen minutes for lunch?”

“Sure, but I can't get across town in fifteen minutes, let alone down the block.” he told her, pitching his voice low enough that he hoped Kate Todd and the visiting Commander Coleman couldn't hear.

”Just come outside, silly. North entrance, picnic table on your left.”

“What are you doing here?” he asked. She was suppose to have gone shopping for work clothes, not visiting him at NCIS headquarters where he was working through the weekend. “Weren't you going shopping?”

”I did that yesterday, Uncle Jethro. Today's Sunday. And you definitely need a break, if you don't remember that. I brought food. Now get out here and enjoy the sun with me.”

And then she hung up, cutting off whatever protest he might have had.

Gibbs just stared at the silent phone for a minute, trying to decide if he should be angry or amused.

He finally went with rueful amusement, and decided that she'd been spending far too much time around him. She was starting to pick up his bad habits.

“I'll be back in fifteen minutes.” he announced aloud as he left the office, uncaring of the smile stretching across his face.

It was nice to have someone who cared.

END

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