"Morning Kate" Tony walked into the office, placing his cup of coffee on his desk and taking of his coat, before sitting down at his chair. The entire office was filled with Christmas decorations.

"Hey" Kate answered shortly, Tony frowned at her. "You're not a morning person are you?" he said with his usual confident smile. With that Gibbs came in. Tony sat up straight like he was in the military. McGee did the same thing.

"Hey boss, we have a case?" He said, Kate looked at them and smiled. Gibbs took a sip of his coffee. "Not yet" he said, and walked on by. There was another person who wasn't a morning person.

With that, Abby came upstairs. "Hey guys" she said with her normal smile. "Are everyone ready for the Christmas party tonight?"

"I sure am!" Tony said and winked at Kate. "See you under the mistletoe Kate?"

She just sighed. "In your dreams DiNozzo" and it was in her dreams, almost every single night, but he wasn't going to tell her that. He shifted the conversation.

"It's ice cold outside, why isn't it snowing?"

"I don't know. On the weather channel they have said it's going to snow for two weeks now" McGee answered.

"And you still believe in them McGee?" Gibbs said. McGee didn't answer, he looked off guard.

Abby was still standing there like an idiot, before she finally spoke again. "So, I expect you all to bring a date to the party tonight" Everyone looked up at her. "Why?" McGee asked.

"You'll see, and since they're more men than women working here, you better ask someone fast, or you'll end up going with another guy!" She said with a smile "Why can't we bring someone from outside work?" Kate asked, and Tony looked at her. Was she dating someone? No, he would have known, he always knew. "Not enough room"

As Abby started to walk towards the elevator again, Tony almost jumped off his chair and walked towards Kate's seat.

"You want to be my date to the party tonight?" He asked with a smile

. "Why would I?" She said, she was playing hard to get, as always.

"Oh come on, don't make me go with McGee! Please" He practically begged her. She considered her options, she could go say no, and show up with a hot guy and make Tony jealous, but then she first had to find a hot guy who would go with her, and if she didn't she'd had to go alone, and then she would be jealous at Tony, because there was no way he couldn't find a date.

"Fine, you'll pick me up at seven, and there will be NO touching!" She said strictly.

He nodded; "Sure thing" she went back to her paperwork and as Tony walked back to his seat she couldn't help but smile. And when she wasn't looking, he was smiling at her too.



After a little while of looking through old files on the computer and playing Tetris every once in a while, Tony got bored. "Hey boss! Why are we even here when we don't do anything?" At the second he asked, McGee and Kate understood that was a stupid question.

"You're bored DiNozzo?" He asked as he came towards him with a huge file "Here, you can do some paperwork" Tony sighed as the file gave a "bang" as it hit his desk. "Come on!" He said, and Gibbs gave him one of his famous DiNozzo head slaps.

"Something wrong DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked.

"No" he said and looked up at him

Gibbs smiled. "Good, that's what I thought"

Tony just stared at the file, sighed and opened it. Kate had to hold back her laughter. "This is from the case we had last week" he said. "Yes" was all Gibbs answered.

It took the entire day, and nothing happened, this was just one of those days where everything was quiet. McGee and Kate were also tired.

"Okay team, if we have to go to this party you can leave now" Gibbs said, they started packing up their stuff in a hurry, afraid he would change his mind.

"Hey boss, who you're going with?" Tony asked. Gibbs didn't answer, and Tony didn't want to stay at the office the entire night so he didn't ask again.

Tony took his coat on his arm and walked past Kate "Want me to hold the elevator Kate?" He asked, ignoring that maybe McGee wanted him to hold it.

"I think I'll take the stairs. "She said with a cocky smile.

"Okay, see you at seven then" He winked at her, and then McGee stopped the elevator doors from closing.

"Hey, hey, hey! You're ruining the dramatic affect" he said before the elevator doors closed.

"Well, if you had held it open until I came into the elevator that wouldn't be a problem" he said.
Tony just looked at the ceiling

. "So, you're going with Kate to the Christmas party?" McGee asked.

Tony nodded, looking at McGee; he saw that he wanted him to ask who he was going with.
"And who are you going with probe?" he asked, with a cocky voice. "Melinda" he said.

"Melinda? The assistant on the fourth floor?" he said, McGee nodded with a huge smile on his face.

"Pling!" The elevator doors opened.

"Hmm, I thought she was a lesbian, well anyway, see you tonight McGee!" he gave a quick wave 

before putting on his coat and walking outside and into the ice cold street, with people he didn't know surrounding him.