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GAbbs Hints- Major and Faves

Okay, well, in the episode "The Boneyard" (and I was so mad that no one even caught Gibbs doing this- not the characters and not a huge amount of viewers... it made me sad..), after Kate and Tony had gotten back from their 'role play' at the birth control centre or whatever it was. So they were hanging out in Abby's lab, discussing their own version of the Jerry Springer Show. And Abby and Gibbs were just sort of in there- she was waiting for results, and I speculate that he just wanted to hover there. Whether it was because he didn't want to be left in the lonely and quiet bullpen or whether it was to be with Abby, I won't get into. I assume that you all know what I think anyways. So she got some tiny piece of information and told Gibbs about it. In the episode right before, Gibbs and Ducky had both been pretty harsh with Abby. They had ignored her and she even ended up fishing for praise- which she rarely does, unless she's joking. So I assume Ducky apologized to her, as he's Ducky. But I don't think Gibbs would ever really be able to outright say he was sorry. There's some speculation that maybe he didn't realize he was being a bastard. Whatever. I think he realized and didn't want to bring it up. Anyways, I sort of got the gist that Gibbs felt bad for snapping at her in "Lt. Jane Doe" so he was being nicer in this episode. Was I the only one to notice that he rarely asked her to do anything and he was in there for no reason. Also, another little hint, we never saw him leave or enter the lab. So we have no idea how long he was with her. Anyways, after Abby gives Gibbs this morsel of information, he grins and brushes his hand against her cheek in the shape of a sort of backwards fist. Then he turns- we assume to leave, though he's never actually shown leaving- and she watches him with an incredibly dreamy expression on her face. Care for an explanation? Gibbs was using ASL (American Sign Language). In ASL when you do that to your own cheek, it simply means girl. When you do it to soemone else's cheek though, it's the same as a normal person grabbing the other person- in this case a girl, as it was the 'girl' sign- around the waist, holding them as close as you can and shouting "Mine" very possesively at anyone who so much looks at her. Normally, I would have simply written that off as a kind 'thank you' or 'sorry' gesture. But the network continuously points out that both Abby and Gibbs know ASL- and are the only one's who do so. They've also told us that the only reason Gibbs learned ASL was because he wanted to be able to 'chat with Abby'- and that was in his own words. It's also speculated that he felt vaguely left out. I don't believe that that has any merit though, as she had no one else to use it with. Not the point. Anyways, my source of information was Megan Turpin, who is incredibly fluent in ASL as she is legally deaf. She is one of my best friends and I love her to pieces. Now, some people argue that Gibbs just could have been doing that- as a 'father figure'- to say 'that's my girl; good job Abbs' kind of thing. It's not possible- I asked Megan. "That's my girl" is something that has a different signing for each word; the possesion in the backwards fist is only there when it's to someone else. According to her, anyone who knows ASL can't refute this one.

Another hint- though semi-vague- came from the episode "See No Evil". Now, I saw Gibbs and Abby playing the whole mother/father thing, and I took that as a hint. But, amazingly, that's not the hint I want to point out. Okay, first I have to explain something from the episode (for those who haven't seen it). Gibbs told Abby to try to hack into the Pentagon and she was telling him that she didn't think she would be able to and Gibbs threatened to call McGee. He basically played off of Abby's pride in her talent. Anyways, she told him that she would do what she had been told, no matter what. And he gives her the closest thing I've ever seen him get to a 'good girl' look- not Gibbs being a good girl, but him calling Abby one, in case you were confused. Anyways, he comes back down into the lab to see her several hours later. He asks her how much she's progressed and she looks sad, mad at herself, defeated and guilty. He asks her if she wants help and she eventually nods. He grinned encouragingly. "All you had to do was ask. The smartest person I know once told me that." She gave him a confused look. "Who?" He grins at her- half seductively, really. Or- in any case- it was a similar look to the one he gave Karen in "Doppelganger", right before he kissed her. ::shudders:: Obviously, I wasn't happy about that one. Anyways, the point is that I thought he looked seductive as he said, quite simply, "You." She had the most dreamy look on her face. But, to get that scene, you have to have seen "Enigma". In "Enigma", Abby lured Gibbs into the basement and then she, Kate and Tony cornered him and told him that, in short, that they cared about him and wanted to help. So Gibbs finally tells Abby that he wants her to see what she can do with the tape he gives her- which was shot, literally. So she looks at him, almost sadly/disappointedly. "All you had to do was ask Gibbs." And looked at her like that thought had never occured to him- simply asking her. "I'll try to remember that next time."
Some interesting things that this leads us to believe. First of all, Abby will willingly break the law for Gibbs; all he has to do is ask. They were supposed to be arresting Gibbs' ex-CO, but Gibbs was trying to help him. So, by doing as Gibbs asked, she was breaking the law. She didn't care. And, this was something that she wanted to do. Also- it never occured to Gibbs to ask her to put her job/life as she knows it on the line. He figured he could just go it alone and spare his team the trouble. They didn't like that though. That's what we deduce form "Engima". As for "See No Evil", we can deduce that Gibbs took what Abby said to heart. Even in "Engima", all Gibbs remembered Kate and Tony telling him was that they 'stole/lifted/borrowed' his cell phone. Sure, he knew that they helped and were willing- but probably only because of the outcome of the case. But he literally quoted Abby's thing in "See No Evil", giving reason to believe that he took it to heart. In any case, it's stayed with him for a good 4 months- probably more. By her reaction of "Who?"- which, by the way, sounded like a very curious 'who?' to me- she obviously didn't think too much of what she told Gibbs. That leads us to specualte that either she doesn't care or it was an eveyday thing. I think Abby cares a great deal- she seems to care about them all. Therefore, logic tells us that it was simply an everyday thing. She really believed that and thought nothing of telling him that. The fact that Gibbs remembered- not only the gist of what she said, but her actual words- leads us to speculate that this was a revelation to him. Why else would he be able to quote her? He had to have been dwelling on those words at least a few times for them to stick with him. Plus, he told her she was the smartest person he knew- and Gibbs doesn't often praise people.