What You Said That Day (NCIS, prompt #23) Title: What You Said That Day Fandom:NCIS Characters/Pairing: Kate/Abby Rating: PG Word Count: 164 Challenge/Prompt: #23 - believe Summary: What do you believe?
"What do you believe?" Kate asks Abby, suddenly, one afternoon. It's a rainy Saturday, and they're curled up on the couch together, reading, drinking coffee, absently twining their bare legs around and under, toes curling back and forth.
"What do you mean?" says Abby, lowering her book, some huge technical thing. It must weigh a ton, Kate thinks.
"What do you believe in?" she asks again. Abby thinks, wrinkling her forehead and pouting a little in the way that Kate knows means she's really concentrating, really thinking.
"I believe," she announces, seriously, "in this."
"In what?"
"In this," Abby says, placing her hand on Kate's chest, above her breast, on her heart. She can feel the warmth of Abby's skin through the fabric of her t-shirt, can feel the solid thump of her own pulse echoing against Abby's steady fingers.
"Yeah," says Kate, covering Abby's hand with her own. "Me too."
She doesn't know what this is, between them, but she knows. She believes.