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Part 584 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 46 of One shots - Gibbs centric: bastard
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Nonage

Summary:

Watching the neighbors reminds Gibbs of his childhood.

Notes:

Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 12/06/2000 for the word nonage.

nonage
The time of life before a person becomes legally of age.
A period of youth or immaturity.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #268 Tree.

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Nonage

Gibbs like many adults occasionally missed his nonage. It was a simpler time then. Not as many alimonies.

A time when he built a treehouse with his father. A time when his mother was still alive. A time when his relationship with his father wasn't as strained because his mother was still there to run interference.

Gibbs shook his head to clear the memories away and returned to watching his neighbor build a treehouse. He could see the neighbor's kid helping as well as he could at that age. Though like most kids what he could help with was limited. He hoped the neighbor's kid would get more use from the treehouse than he did with his treehouse when he was a child. After Gibbs lost his mom, the treehouse saw very little use as Gibbs and his father couldn't stop fighting enough to finish it.

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