NCIS: Best Shots

Chapter Six: Cruel Nights

Every night without you is more than I can bear
Moonlight can be torture
When your love isn't there
I see you in the shadows
I can hear you in the wind
I think of you and I can feel my world closing in
I can't sleep I keep wishing I could touch you
I'd be fine if I could make it through
Through these

Cruel nights
Cruel nights
Missing you nights
What do I do nights
Cruel nights without your love

NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs's eyes snapped open as he came out of the coma and immediately panicked, feeling a tube down his throat.

A doctor leaned over him, asking if he wanted the tube out. Gibbs blinked in response, and then sagged with relief when it was out and he could talk. Right then, though, the only thing on his mind was Shannon and Kelly, his murdered wife and daughter.

"You're in the hospital. You were in an explosion," the doc said.

Jethro nodded. "Yes, I remember."

"That's good," the doctor said to the other person in the room: an Englishman in his sixties with glasses, a suit, and a bow tie. "They rarely remember the incident."

"Hello, Jethro," the Englishman said, ignoring the doc and stepping forward. "You certainly gave us quite a scare."

Gibbs blinked in confusion. "I don't know you."

...

Hours passed, but as to how many, Gibbs had no idea. When he came out of a drug-induced stupor, moonlight filtered in through the window. Grief over Shannon and Kelly's death—as if it had just happened—swept over him. He imagined he could hearShannon's voice whispering in his ear. In his mind he saw the two of them, laughing over an inside joke.

Try as the former Marine might, he couldn't fall back to sleep. Jethro missed his first wife and daughter fiercely.

Counting every minute
Every minute feels like days
Feels like time is standing still since you've been away
Always thought you'd stay forever
Always thought that you'd be here
Now it's been a lifetime since I've held you near
Days crawl by, I keep wishing they'd be over
But I know they're only leading me to
To these

Cruel nights
Cruel nights
Missing you nights
What do I do nights

Cruel nights without your love
(Cruel nights) since we've been apart
(Cruel nights) it's been tearing up my heart
(What do I do nights) since you've ran away baby
Cruel nights

Oh I just can't get through another night
Without you beside me (without you beside me)
I need you beside me (I need you beside me)

I can't sleep
I keep wishing I could touch you
I'd be fine if I could make it through
Through these these cruel nights

Cruel nights
Missing you nights baby
What do I what do I do nights
Cruel nights without your love

(Cruel nights) it's been tearing me apart
(Cruel nights) you're playing with my heart
(Cruel nights) since you've been away
(Cruel nights) whoa baby
(Cruel nights) these cruel nights, these cruel cruel nights
(Cruel nights) come on come on baby