( what I've become )
“What have you been doing to my brothers?” Abby asks, running into the room and looking upset.
“Brothers?” Tony asks, disturbed and confused.
“If you’re technical about it all, we are both her brothers, though a bit closer physically than Siamese twins, eh?” Half of it is the fact that they’re all acting as if this is normal, making him feel like the not-so-sane one.
( Xander hasn't had to explain to someone who didn't know in a while. )
( vague uneasiness )
“Haunt the past. Do not let the past haunt you,” one of the girls says sagely to Abby, who looks confused.
“That sounds good and all, but what does it mean?” she asks.
Gibbs watches from above as Xander smiles into his hot chocolate.
All three in the room are aware of the details of the case. There’s not much reason to go over it now. “Look up a group called the ISWC,” Gibbs asks once he gets away. Specifically, the guy’s going to bring in his people so that they can actually get started.
“Me, Boss?” Tony asks, and Gibbs rolls his eyes.
“Everyone. That includes you, DiNozzo. We’re going to be working with them.” It goes without saying that he wants to make sure that he can trust these people to have his six.
“I am on it!” Abby states with enthusiasm.
Never take anything for granted.
Xander’s eyes are definitely not dry when he opens the umbrella and joins Abby.
“Rule number eight?” she asks, having stared like the rest at the tombstone with confusion.
“Juniper wanted it to be ‘Rule Number One’, but we argued it was a little too depressing, so she decided on Number Eight instead. I’m glad about that. It’s still a dying message, but, y’know, a little more hopeful than it would have been.”
“Never let suspects stay together?” she asks, scrunching up her nose a little in confusion.
“Slayer’s Rules. Don’t die,” he states simply, and smiles a little through the tears at the compassionate hug he gets, and hopes that, whatever afterlife she ended up in, Juniper’s smiling too.
“You’re the best sister I never had.”
“Where does Willow fall, then?”
“…Both of you are the best sisters I never had. Come up here and get your hug. It’s a limited time offer.”
“Very used car salesman of you.”
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