You Could Be Happy

Chapter 3
Ending 2

Gibbs chuckled then sighed, resting his head on Kate’s.
“Katie, don’t go.” Kate looked up a bit surprised.

“What?” Kate pushed away from Gibbs

“I don’t want you to leave Katie. Your right, I am scared. So scared, hell even saying that is hard for me. This is what makes me vulnerable Kate, opening my heart to someone, and I know you already know that and you have accepted it which terrifies me even more. I’m so used to having women trying to change me. All the women I have been with never accepted me for me but you have!”

Kate shook her head.

“I’m not like ‘all’ the women you have been with Jethro and it’s a huge insult to me for you to even put me in the same category as them!”

“No I don’t, I have always known you were different Katie. Christ you are so different, so much more special and you mean so much more to me!” Jethro moved closer to her and took her hand.

“I just regret that it took me losing you to fully realise that.” His eyes pleaded with her. They held everything he was feeling. All the love, the loss, his hopes and fears and most of all, the truth in what he was telling her.

“Stay.”

“Only on one condition.”

“Anything.”

“No more barriers between us, no more secrets or hidden feelings. Nothing. I want everything to be out in the open.”

Gibbs smiled and pulled her into his arms, dipping his head to plant a quick kiss on her lips.

“Done.”

Kate looked up at him with pleading and uncertain eyes.

“Please Jethro, never push me out again.”

Gibbs pulled her in tight, burying his head in her hair.

“Never.”

5 Years Later.

Kate sat on the park bench, her sketch pad open in her lap. A slight breeze was whipping through nearby trees creating a tranquil howling sound. Kate looked down at the picture she had been drawing. Adding a small bit of shading, she smiled. It was finished and it looked magnificent.

She heard a loud giggle and looked up.

“Mama help!!” Kate laughed. Gibbs was coming towards her, their baby girl hanging upside down in his arms like a monkey.

“Careful now. We don’t want any injuries.”

Her daughter’s laughter rung out again, her little face was going red. In one swift movement, Gibbs flipped her up and onto his shoulders.

“Come on, time to go. It’s getting cold.”

“Giddy-up daddy!” Gibbs chuckled. Kate grabbed her stuff and slipped her hand into Gibbs awaiting one.

By the time they reached the house they had a very sleepy child on their hands. Kate took her into the house and laid down with her for an afternoon nap.

After a while she felt the bed go down beside her and a pair of arms embrace her from behind. Closing her eyes she allowed herself to drift off to sleep, content in having the 2 people she loved right beside her.

So this is ending number two! The happier ending. YAY!
I was a bit worried that in the beginning Kate and Gibbs were become a bit OOC but I loved their interaction so much I couldn’t change it!
But anyways, please be sure to review on your way out and thanks to everyone who has been reading!

And this chapter is dedicated to Roger! For planning to ditch Olympic volunteering and hang out in bar street all day. If I was in China for the Olympics I would join you! But I’m not, I’m happy here at home! We are totally doing Bar Street for our birthdays when I’m back but!!

XxPrincess-LeaselxX