Time will tell:

A/N: ok, so this is the squeal to Funny what the Heart Feels, it's been a year since the Gibbs trying to kill Tony thing, and our fav couple is happily living together, but once again it seems that fate is about to throw them a challenge that will truly test their love for one another and strength as a couple.

It's going to be a dark/ romance story, and just for Sweet Lil loz, I will be working on my Fluff and will be adding as much as I can possible get in.

I do not own NCIS or anything other than Agent Harrison and maybe the villain.

Please do read and review, as I do love reading your comments and taking on board your feedback and suggestions, thank you for your time, hope you enjoy.

Ducks last words to the couple had been:

"Time will tell".

And it certainly had, it had been a fully year now since Tony and Kate had made that leap from co-worker friendship to romantically involved, and they were going from strength to strength, although...when they did fight, and they did, it would be massive, they'd only really argue or fight at home, which was now a larger three bedroom apartment closer to work thanks to their recent promotions and pay raises, or in Abby's lab, often the fights that were reserved for those places got heated, very quickly, ending in both of them really screaming at each other, objects being thrown at Tony before Kate finally stormed out in tears.

As much as Kate hated it when they fought, she also loved it because weather he was right or wrong, Tony always apologised and begged for her forgiveness, and his apologises were overwhelmingly romantic.

It would start with the largest, and most beautiful bunch of flowers being delivered to her desk with a loving note on it, that would state something along the lines of:

"You are the most important star in my night sky, you're the sun in which my entire universes moves around, and the only woman that has stolen my heart."

This would always make Kate smile, as it meant she had a lot more to look forwards too.

As a couple both Tony and Kate had been through a lot, firstly with Gibbs trying to kill Tony and then the number of ops that went wrong, or undercover missions that went tits up the most recent being when Tony had to go undercover with Ziva in a hotel, they were meant to be pretending to be a young married couple who were also assigns...it didn't go so well, Tony nearly died again, and Kate hated him for the things he HAD to do in order to maintain their cover.

The team, including the director had noticed the ways in which they dealt with bad news, whenever an op Kate was on fell through, Tony would act professional and do what he had to do in order to get Kate back, but he'd risk his own safety in doing so, he'd become reckless with his own life, never putting his teams at risk though.

Whereas Kate, walked calmly to the elevator, press the button for Autopsy and when she arrived both Abby and Ducky would be expecting her, thanks to McGee, there she's break down, then thanks to Ducky's advice and hypothetical situations she'd re focus and coordinate the team leading to Tony being returned alive, and because of her nearly "Losing" him again, that night she'd have him in almost every room of their apartment, of course Tony wouldn't complain, but he'd make a joke about nearly getting killed more often, which would kill the mood and turn Kate into a sobbing mess.

Another thing that had happened, which Mr DiNozzo was rather happy for, was that Kate had defiantly started becoming dirtier, with not only what happened in the bedroom or not sometimes, it could happen in the living room, dining room, kitchen, hall floor, even Bethesda Naval Hospital once, but also the IM's she sent Tony during work, little winks and touches every now and then, she was defiantly willing to try new things with him, as she felt safe to do so, she knew hat is she didn't like what they were trying, or if it hurt or felt uncomfortable, then she could say stop and he would, without argument and they'd just make love instead.

In one word though, no matter the fights or the arguments, they were happy together, incredibly happy together, they complimented each other professionally and personally, they were the perfect match and the poster couple for work place relationships, yeah, they were happy, well and truly happy.

Kate woke to the familiar warmth that she now craved every day, and one she would never tire of, even during the heat of summer, she smiled tiredly to herself as she rolled in the arm she felt over her waist to face the arms owner, her smile growing as she stared into the sleeping face of her boyfriend, best friend, partner, lover and boss.

Part of her didn't want to wake him, he looked so peaceful, so at easy and ready for anything, he'd stopped having nightmares around the nine month mark in their relationship and now slept peacefully through the night by her side, she slowly and softly placed a hand on his cheek, her thumb stroking the skin below his left eye gently.

"God I love you" she whispered lovingly at his sleeping form.

Tony shifted with a slight groan, pressing into her soft palm slightly causing her to smile more, she removed her hand deciding not to wake him, she made to leave the warm bed and head for the bathroom, but laughed slightly when she found herself being pulled back into bed and Tony cuddling into her, resting his head on her chest and settling back to sleep.

Kate smiled and ran her hand through his hair softly.

"Tony, Baby" she whispered softly "I need to get up now baby" she whispered placing her hand on his cheek again.

Tony didn't reply, just cuddled further into her and let out a contented sigh.

Kate made to move again, but Tony re affirmed his hold on her, making her roll her eyes but smile.

"Tony, we have to go to work" she said, now fully aware that he was awake and just pretending to be asleep to keep her there longer.

"no, we don't" he mumbled, his voice full of sleepiness still.

"what do you mean?" she asked confused while looking down at the unmoving form of the man she loved completely.

"we're on holiday" Tony mumbled "booked it off last week, left Ziva in charge, got two tempera agents to stand in while we're out, they'll call if they need us." He explained tiredly.

Kate couldn't stop the smile spreading from her lips, this, as poorly arranged as it was, was still romantic...in a way, she relaxed back into the mattress and let her arms fall onto Tony, once he felt her relax he shifted so he could wrap her in his arms, she turned her face to face his, Tony closed the distance, taking her lips in a quick soft kiss, the lay his head back on the pillow and smiling at her, he saw her smile fade slightly, but noticed the raise of both Love and Lust in her eyes, she wanted him and he knew it, he wasn't exactly going to say no to her, but he wasn't going to make it easy for her either.

Kate saw the hint of mischief in his eyes as he smiled at her, but she didn't care, she was fairly sure that when she made her advance on him, and she wasn't shy about making her advances on him anymore, that the little boy would vanish and he'd eagerly respond.

She slid closer to him, the tips of their noises touching lightly, as their eyes locked.

"Tony..."she breathed softly.

She dipped her head, she needed to feel his lips against hers, his body against hers, feel the love he had for her pour from him into her, she just wanted to feel as close to him as possible, she wanted their bodies to become one, there souls to merge she wanted him to make love to her, she needed him to make love to her, before her lips met his he jerked his head back slightly, Kate moaned in protest, leaning even further forwards to try and capture them again, but once again he moved slightly out of the way, Kate whimpered desperately, she really needed this, it had been a whole week since the last time they were intimate, and Tony defiantly made her want to be...intimate, to say he was talented would be a massive understatement, as much as she hated the blond bimbos that came before her, she was grateful for the practice they offered him, because it was...WOW.

After hearing her whimper, Tony decided he was being cruel now, he wanted her as much as she wanted him, so when she tried for the third time to kiss him, he eagerly responded, their lips touching softly, she moaned gratefully into the soft kiss, but soon needed more than just touching his lips, she needed to taste him, she ran her tongue along his bottom lip as she slid over and on top of him, he willingly allowed her access, his tongue rushing forwards to great hers, this time they both groaned as Kate pressed her hips down onto him.

She slid her soft hands over his bare chest, god he felt good, this is what she needs, what she wants, Tony toyed with the bottom of the tank top she wore, Kate pulled it up, not wanting to break there kiss she only lifted it so it cleared her perfect breasts, before Tony could cup the glorious mounds of flesh she fell forwards onto him, pressing her bare chest against his, both moaned again at the sensations that ran through them.

"I love you" Kate gasped as they finally broke for air.

"I love you Kate," Tony whispered sincerely "so much, so much" he added before their lips crashed together again.

Tony gently slid the flannel bottoms of Kate's nightmare over her firm backside, making sure to press his palms against it as they went; this caused Kate to press herself even further into him, both of them groaning into each other again.

Kate reached between them and grasped Tonys stiffing manhood through the material of his shorts, he jerked his hips up at the sudden sensation of her hand there.

"I want it" Kate whispered softly looking deep into Tonys eyes "please Baby" she whispered as her lips pressed a soft kiss to the sensitive set of nerves on the right side of his neck.

That was it, Tony lost all control, he rolled Kate over so he hovered over her, Kate smiled and slid his shorts off and down his legs, Tony dropped his head, trailing kisses down the side of her neck, across her collar bone and down between her breasts, Kate allowed her eyelids to flutter closed as her breath came quicker, Tony diverted from his downward path to capture her left nipple, he circled it with his tongue making her gasp and run her hands through his hair, before he clamped his lips around it, nipping and sucking, her body withered and squirmed under him, the pleasure ran from the tips of her toes to the tips of the hairs on her head.

Tony left the nipple and slid over to the right, doing the exact same to that one as he did the left, Kate gasped his name as her hips bucked up, brushing her entrance gently with his man hood, making both groan together, he was just about to continue down to where he really started to shine when his cell burst to life.

Kate groaned.

"ignore it" she begged, she wanted to feel the orgasm that only he could give her, she needed to feel it.

"might be Ziva or McGee" Tony breathed into her belly button.

Kate moaned annoyed, as she snapped her eyes open and turned her head, she reached out and snatched her boyfriends cell from the bedside table and flicked it open.

"Agent Harrison?" she sighed.

"He's one of the temp replacements" Tony sighed and he came back up and hovered above her "I should take" he said softly before placing a soft kiss on her lips.

"But..." Kate groaned.

"I know sweetie, I really wanted this too" he stated looking down her bare naked body "god you're beautiful" he sighed.

He reached for the ringing device and took it from his girlfriends soft hand and placed it to his ear.

"Agent DiNozzo, this had better be bloody important Agent Harr..." he gasped before he could finish the sentence as Kate hand wrapped her soft fingers around his firm and upright shaft, and started stroking him softly, her eyes locked with his, a wicked smile on her face as she watched him try to maintain his "boss voice".

"I'm really sorry agent DiNozzo, but Ziva said we needed to get hold of you and agent Todd," the nervous agent stated from the other end of the line.

"Wh...Why's that?" Tony breathed as his eyes fluttered closed, Kate was amazing at this...no, she was amazing full stop, but this...this felt way to good to be even allowed to happy.

Kate's smile grew as she watched her boyfriends face reflect the pleasure she was giving to him.

"I want you inside me" she whispered into his free ear seductively.

Oh god, Tony thought, if she continued to talk dirty and continued to...work him, then there was no way he'd last.

"Well, we got called out to a crime scene, and it was one of our own, but there was a message on the body...cut into the chest, it was to Agent Todd" the nervous and obviously green agent explained.

Tonys eyes snapped open, his free hand shot down and stopped Kate's moving, he rolled his head to face her, panic and worry in his eyes, Kate's seductive smile vanished as she saw the look in his eyes.

"we're on our way" Tony stated before hanging up.

"what is it?" she asked concerned.

"someone wrote you a message" Tony said softly as he rolled out of bed "it was in an NCIS agents body" he explained as he pulled Kate out of bed and carried her into the bathroom "so we're officially back to work, where I can keep an eye on you until we figure out why it's addressed to you." He added as he stood her in the shower with him.

Both of them unaware of the man standing outside their apartment's door, he'd finished doing work on the two new security cameras outside the apartment, and was now filling in a form on a clip board in his hands, Kate and Tonys apartment was marked with a large red cross, and four words written in red ink.

"Kate Todd is MINE".

A/N: I had thought of the idea for this story just before I feel asleep last night, it was really annoying as I was so tired and couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to write it down, so instead I pulled my laptop open and typed it up instead, so it's like 3am now...I hate it when I have ideas at night...anyway, ok, so it's safe to say that the target in this Story isn't so much Tony this time but Kate, so let me know what you think of this chapter, so I know whether or not to continue, as I have some ideas, but they need fine tuning, thanks again for your time, and I hope you liked the first chapter.

Reaper85 :D