IN HIS BONES
By
Ashleigh Anpilova
The fourth part of the Aftermath Series.
Jimmy is thinking.
An established relationship story.
Written: May 2008. Word count: 200.
He stands alone, a little to one side, out of their peripheral vision.
He sees them all.
Agent Gibbs and Doctor Mallard: together. Standing so close, alone in their own world.
Abby and McGee: together. Standing in a loose embrace, her head on his shoulder.
Ziva: alone.
He wants to go to her. But he doesn't know how to.
He wants to say something to her. But he doesn't know what to say.
None of them seem to notice him. But then they rarely do, not really.
He heard Tony's vitriolic outpouring as he'd handed over his badge and gun, as he'd walked away from everything and everyone.
Part of him doesn't blame Tony for leaving, for what he'd said.
But part of him knows that what Agent Gibbs and Doctor Mallard had done had been right.
He couldn't have done it. He knows that.
Just as he couldn't do what any field agent does.
He'd thought, in a giddy moment after he'd 'apprehended' Telsa Suskavcevic, that maybe he could.
He'd thought of approaching Agent Gibbs about a career change.
But he hadn't.
It wouldn't have been fair to Doctor Mallard.
Besides, being a field agent wasn't in his bones.
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