"If I Stay"

[alidiabin]

 Title: If I Stay 

Fandom: NCIS
Author: Alidiabin
Words: 880
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Warnings/Spoilers/Rating: AU, mention of baby loss | 9x14 no further | Teen
Parings: Palmer/Breena.
Summary: Gibbs gets a glimpse of the future.
Series: "The Mess I Made" :  Family First || Borrowed Time|| Right Reasons
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If I Stay

Gibbs stood in the middle of the dinner. He watched as everyone whose lives he had been a part of in a good or a bad way, did their own things.

Ari sat alone by the chess board. Vance had left the game and Ducky had walked in and won the game. The team were all smiling and laughing in their booth, except for Ziva she had seen Ari and had gotten up to meet him. Ari had gotten up too.

"Ari," she whispered as he face formed the same broken look it had when she had killed him. Tears formed in her eyes. "Sorry,"

Ari shook his head. Ziva moved toward him wanting to embrace her brother, but he walked away. He was met at the door of the diner by a teenage girl who looked very much like Ziva, who was wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign. He watched the tears swell up in Ziva's eyes. Gibbs watched as the team got up from her booth and embraced her, she let them comfort her.

NCIS

He continued to look around; he saw all the people whose lives he had changed both in a good way and a bad way. He saw Kate chat with Jenny and smiled, he had always thought they would be good friends both had the same drive and desire to show they were as good as any man. He saw the team in their booth, they were laughing and joking.

"This is what happens if you stay," Shannon approached him holding a book in her hand.

Shannon handed him the book which revealed itself to be a photo album; it did not host photos from the past but those from the future. He saw not just his future but that of the his family; Leyla becoming an American citizen, Emily Fornell graduating college, and him walking Maddie Tyler down the aisle. As he flipped the pages he saw even more happy moments; Ziva as a blushing bride, Abby with her biological brother and McGee at the book launch of a new book which was much more fictional. He also saw multiple photographs of a little boy; he wondered so many things; who was this little boy? Who his parents were? What was his name?

Gibbs opened his mouth to speak. Shannon covered his lips.

"This is Amira's high school graduation party," she told him.

"I feel old," Abby muttered as they sat in Leyla's kitchen eating all of the food that Lelya and Ziva had spent the afternoon making.

"We are old," Tony replied. He surveyed the room; Breena and Palmer were sitting on the couch with both of their hands over Breena's swollen belly.

"You are as old as you feel," Ducky declared with a smile on his face.

"Let me guess," Ziva whispered, "You still feel twenty-five,"

"Of course," Ducky responded. Ziva bent down and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He smiled and grabbed his walking stick intending to stand up. Leyla offered to help the elderly man, but he refused.

"The next time we do this, it'll be LJ's graduation party," McGee whispered as they all toasted to Amira graduating.

NCIS

"Wait who is LJ?" Gibbs asked. Shannon smiled.

"You always had to know everything, didn't you Gibbs," she whispered.

"Grandpa," a five year old boy called as he rushed down the basement steps.

"Why are hiding down here?" eighteen year old Amira asked as her 'cousin' rushed to his Grandpa.

"I asked him the same question. He has not given me an answer," Emily Fornell said from the corner of the basement. The twenty-five year old law student fiddled with her engagement ring and then smiled as LJ engulfed her in a hug.

"Me and grandpa do building," LJ shouted as he moved toward Gibbs latest projects. "I help with Amira's present, and we're gonna make a crib for Jimmy and Breena's baby."

"Why don't they just use the one from last time?" Emily asked. "It was not used."

Amira moved slightly. Emily had been in college when Breena and Palmer's daughter Grace was born severely premature and died, she had missed the grief that had nearly broken them. It had taken Breena and Palmer a long time to get back to where they were. Throughout the new pregnancy, the couple and the whole 'family' were on edge, every time something seemed less than right with Breena or the baby boy she was carrying, a doctor would be called and they would all do their best to hold it together.

"New baby means new crib," Gibbs muttered. "Maybe in a couple of years, I'll be building one for you and Daren,"

"No," Emily responded, "Daren and I are not having kids."

Meanwhile LJ showed Amira her graduation present, which was a very sturdy and well-crafted bookcase for all of her text books, as she was going to be pre-med student.

NCIS

"Who are LJ's parents and why the hell did they name a kid after me?" Gibbs asked.

"He doesn't have the same name as you," Shannon replied "just the same initials. And as for his parents you're going to have to find that out for yourself."

"Guess so," Gibbs said.

He blinked and everyone was gone.

A/N: Yeah, I did not indicate much about LJ, so you can make him the biological/adoptive/foster child of which ever pairing or main/character OC couple you like.

Also, thank you for reading and waiting. I did intend to include another chapter about Gibbs seeing people like Paula Cassidy and Chris Pacci whose lives he also cut short by decisions he made but my muse wouldn't co-operate. If anyone else has played with that idea do tell me, I'd love to read it.

Thank you again for reading.

Comments

[proseac]

You're such a tease! Ok, in my world LJ will be McGee and Abby's son.

Nice touch having Gibbs walk Maddie Tyler down the aisle. "Family first"...Gibbs needs to take more of his own advice, doesn't he?

[alidiabin]

Well I ship lots of things so I couldn't decide. I also didn't describe him physcially because he could have been adopted. I like to think that if the team had the resources and were allowed to adopt they would.

Yeah, Gibbs needs to learn his own lesson.

Thank you for all the lovely comments.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Very moving and very well done.

I really like this.

*Saves to my computer*

[alidiabin]

Thank you.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Yay!