Can I just hang out in the lab with Abby?

NCIS is supposed to be one of my light and fluffy shows, where the most distressing thing going on is my apparent inability to stop shipping Gibbs/Abby (I don't want to, but they're so cuuuuute when they're together). Heck, I've ended up missing big chunks of a season the first time around because there was something opposite it that was more important to me. NCIS is not supposed to gut me.

( Spoilers for 5.14 - Internal Affairs )