The Bright and Dark Sides of Life, Part 1
DISCLAIMER: I don´t own NCIS or any of the characters. I don´t make any money with this and won´t try to. I promise. But honestly looks to the big and very important guys, if you guys worry about that, I wonder w… never mind...shutting up
PAIRING: TATE, and maybe (I guarantee NOTHING) GABBY
A/N: Alright, this is my first English story that will have more than only a few thousand words. Therefore I divided it into a few parts (Okay, maybe I did that to leave you with mean cliffhangers HEHEHEE). The title might seem a little wrong in the beginning (as there are hardly really dark sides) but that will change. Anyway, reviews and critique are always more than welcome (Other people might survive by air and love – I need to know what you guys think about my stories LOL)
A/N 2: On a more serious note: I never planned to mix this story with my personal experiences, worries and thoughts. But as I´m writing about an international youth camp in this part, I thought up a few girls coming from Germany, just like me. It seemed to be the easiest way (The other language I learn is Latin). The point is that we – especially some of the younger ones – of course have to deal with our past. I went to England with a youth group two summers ago, and we had, unfortunately, a lot of trouble. In this story, I try to explain how we – or at least I – feel about it (I think a lot about our history, especially recently, because I´m going to go to Canada on a student exchange next year). I hope it doesn´t ruin the story.
"This was your fault!"
"Was not!"
"Was too!"
"Was not!"
"I´m not discussing that!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
Abby watched her friends with an interested look on her face. Kate and Tony were fun to watch whenever they had one of their arguments – and that was practically always.
"Do you guys know that there are some frogs in the middle of Asia that fight with their partner before making lots of cute little baby frogs?"
Tony and Kate immediately became silent and glared at her.
Kate turned to Tony, pointed at him, and said dangerously calm "It WAS your fault!"
She turned around again, and, before Tony could even try to answer, rushed out of the lab.
"Alright, what was your fault?" Abby asked more than just slightly amused. During the past two years, the usual arguments between Tony and Kate had become her personal cheer-me-up-machine.
"Uhh…" Tony groaned "Gibbs is a little mad with us"
"How mad?"
"Mad enough to send us babysitting."
Abby giggled "Babysitting? What have you guys done?"
"I have no idea, but Kate claims that it has to be my fault."
"And what exactly do you mean by babysitting?"
In that moment, Gibbs´ head appeared at the door "DiNozzo!"
"Yeah boss…"
Tony slowly left the lab, making a face like a rock fan on a Britney Spears concert.
"You have one hour to pack whatever you need." Gibbs said matter of factly, looking from the very pissed looking Tony to the even more pissed looking Kate.
"You´ll need the usual camping stuff." He continued, but stopped when he recognized the sudden change of expression on his agents faces.
He sighed "Please don´t tell me neither of you has ever been camping."
Getting no answer, he knew that he had hit the bull's eye. Great. "Just take something comfortable you could wear when going camping or climbing… or both."
"I´m afraid I have nothing to wear." Kate stated, seeing her last chance to get out of this.
"Don´t be ridiculous, Katie." Tony grinned.
"Stop it! Both of you! This is an ORDER, understand? You go home, pack, drive to the Canadian border and become group leaders of an international youth camp for ten days. While doing this, you will check on the other group leaders because one of them might have bought navy weapons and might try to bring them outside the US. That´s all. Oh, and I expect you to behave like adults. That goes for both of you. Now move!"
"Okay." Kate and Tony immediately responded in unison.
"Good."
Kate was the first one to reach the elevator. The doors were already closing when Tony was on his way.
"Kate…!" he had no wish to use the stairs "Hold it, please!"
A grin appeared on Kate´s face "Ha!"
The doors closed and Tony stopped, about a meter away from the elevator "Uh, you´re gonna pay for this, Katie."
He ran down the stairs quickly to be the first one to reach the car. Kate seemed to have forgotten about her car being without wheels at the moment. Not having a garage does that to you. That had been the reason why Tony had picked her up for the last few days, too - and was the perfect chance to have his little revenge.
When Kate came out of the NCIS headquarter, she automatically went to the place where she usually parked her car. When she recognized the empty space, she smacked her head. Great, she had to drive home with Tony after she hadn´t hold the elevator for him. She wondered what Tony would do to torture her, like singing, when a very familiar looking car crossed her.
"DiNozzo! Don´t even make the try!" she shouted and ran after the car "TONY!"
The car stopped and Kate sighed.
She opened the door and quickly took a seat. The danger that Tony would finally decide to drive home without her was too high.
"Ha!"
Kate remained silent. She couldn´t force herself to say "sorry" or "thank you".
They reached Kate´s home and Tony turned to her "Shall I pick you up in… let´s say 40 minutes?"
Feeling guilty for being so unfair before, she gave him a smile "That would be very kind. Thank you."
She left the car, wondering why it always ended this way. With her feeling guilty because no matter what a pain in the ass Tony was being, he never became really mean. Well, maybe that wasn´t true. He could be mean. But it was usually her who said or did things that were meant to hurt the other one.
"Ouch!" Kate had been looking to the ground while thinking and ran into her door.
Shaking her head, she opened the door, turned on the light and made her way to her wardrobe.
"Alright..." she sighed.
This case was so not going to be fun. Kate knew that she didn´t get on with children and teenagers. Not because she didn´t like to be with kids, but because she never knew the right things to say. It was hopeless.
When she was almost done with her packing, her mobile phone rang.
"Yes?"
"Hi Kate, this is Abby."
"Abby! What´s the matter? I hope you´re calling to tell me that Tony´s and my horror trip is being cancelled?"
"Sorry, no. I´m calling because Tony called Gibbs and Gibbs said I should call you…Umm, the point is: Tony wanted to know whether or not he had to take a tent with him, but they have group tents there, so just in the very unlikely case that you have a tent you wanted to take with you: No need."
"Tell me you´re kidding!"
"Huh?"
"We´re going to sleep in tents for ten days? In GROUP TENTS?"
"Yup. Listen, I have to go, McGee needs my help. Have fun!"
"Abby? Abby? I don´t believe this…" Kate angrily threw her mobile phone on her bed, on which it began to ring again.
"Yes!"
"It´s Tony. I´ll be at you place in a few minutes."
"Okay." Kate sighed. "I´m just saying bye bye to my bed and the roof above my head."
Again, Kate threw her mobile phone on her bed and changed into comfortable clothes.
Kate looked out of the window and saw Tony who had just arrived and now jumped – yes, jumped – towards her door. She couldn´t help but smile, her partner seemed to look forward to the camp. No surprise, she thought, he´s a kid himself!
But it was part of his undeniable charm, how she admitted to herself, and went to open the door.
Tony gave her a serious look "Are you ready for the ultimate trip to hell?"
Kate burst out laughing "Tony, sometimes you really have your moments."
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Tony asked, puzzled.
"You´re looking forward to this, aren´t you?" Kate smiled.
When Tony didn´t answer but continued staring at her, she pointed at her window.
"If you wouldn´t look forward to the camp, you hardly would have jumped like a little boy."
Blushing, Tony asked "Can I help you with your things?"
"Yes, thanks."
She watched Tony bringing her things into the car, an amused smile on her face.
"What?" Tony asked, recognizing her smile.
"I don´t know." Kate shrugged "It´s kinda cute, y´know, how you´re looking forward to being in the middle of nowhere, sleeping in a tent and so on. I never pictured as someone who´d enjoy such things."
"Cute." Tony said to himself when he placed Kate´s stuff next to his own.
"What did you say?" Kate asked after she had locked her door and was now on her way to Tony´s car.
"I just wondered how you managed to pack a bag as huge as yours when you´ve got nothing to wear for camping."
"Yours is bigger."
"Only because I have the entire tech stuff McGee gave us."
"Whatever."
They drove off to 10 days youth camp and a few surprising developments neither of them had ever thought of as possible, but right now, Kate wondered about the showers at the camp and Tony wondered where the next McDonalds was – he hadn´t eaten in 3 hours…
"Honestly, Kate, why do you think this camp is going to be a bad thing?" Tony asked some time and 2 cheeseburgers later.
Kate thought for a moment "Let´s just say I can imagine nicer things than sleeping in tents and being with stubborn teenagers – with lots of stubborn teenagers."
"Hey, you´re with me every day. It can´t be that hard."
"Good point. Doesn´t change the tent thing, though."
"Have you never dreamed of sleeping in a tent? In the middle of the forest? The stars shining over you…" Tony had a dreamy expression on his face.
Kate raised an eyebrow, not really believing that there was actually a romantic side of Anthony DiNozzo. She watched him for a moment. He seemed to be serious. This was spooky.
Tony recognized Kate watching him and immediately came up with something to shatter the picture "Of course it´s only nice if you´re not alone in that tent." He gave her an ambiguous grin.
"That´s so you." Kate´s face fell when she said that and mentally slapped herself when she recognized that she had done "it" again.
This "it" were the moment when she thought that there was actually something more to Tony than his usual childish, sexist behaviour – something more she lo… liked. But somehow Tony always managed to ruin these moments and made her feel stupid and angry by doing so.
Kate bit on her lips and remained silent for the next hour.
"We have to think about what we tell them." Tony broke the silence.
"Huh?"
"We´re supposed to be youth group leaders from DC. We´re both teachers at an elementary school. Ohhh…"
"What "ohhh"?" Kate asked, having a bad feeling when she remembered how delighted Abby had been when she had created their new identities.
"Seems like you´re my wife, Katie."
"We are married?" Kate´s mouth dropped open.
Still half looking at the papers in his hand, half paying attention to the traffic, he answered "Yup."
"Have you figured out a way to kill Abby yet?"
"Okay, we´re Mr and Mrs Miller, we´ve been married for 3 years, have no kids yet, and love to be group leaders…"
"Argh…"
"Smile, honey, we´re there."
"Sure, sweetheart."
They gave each other an ironic smile and left the car.
A red-haired young woman recognized them and greeted.
"Hi, you must be Anthony and Caitlin. I´m Ally and the guy over there is Geoff."
"Hi, nice to meet you, and please call us Tony and Kate."
"Okay. I´ve heard a lot about you."
"Oh really?" Kate asked with a smile on her face, noticing that this woman could lie right into your face without blushing the slightest bit.
"Yeah, a girl in the last camp – what was her name? I can´t remember, anyway, she told us a lot about you guys."
Tony gave her the same smile Kate had given her before "My wife is really great with kids."
"Uh, honey, that´s not true. He´s exaggerating, you know, he´s much better with them."
"I see. I´m sure you want to see your tent and unpack?" Ally asked them.
"That would be great." Kate´s smile was still the same and Tony had the impression that it had just frozen.
"You guys have a tent for yourselves. Well, actually we have only tents for two. We used to have bigger group tents, but there´s a camp with smaller kids this weekend and so we gave them to them because the group spirit is even more important to young kids – but why am I telling you? Come on, I´ll show you everything. The kids will arrive in about 2 hours."
Kate and Tony went after Ally and gave each other a look. Ally couldn´t be trusted.
They followed her to a small tent standing at the very end of the camp.
"Here we are. When you´re finished with unpacking you can help us to welcome the first kids, okay?"
"Sure."
The agents entered the tent. After they had made sure that Ally had gone, Kate took her mobile phone and called Gibbs.
"Gibbs? This is Kate. We´ve just arrived at the camp."
"Anything important yet?"
"Maybe. One of the other group leaders lied right into our faces. She´s strange. We´ll keep an eye on her."
"Good."
"Umm, Gibbs? Could I have a quick word to Abby?"
"What makes you think I´m with her?"
"Music in the backround."
"Okay, hang on a second…" Gibbs turned around. "Hey, Abbs, Kate wants to talk to you."
A grin appeared on Abby´s face "I bet so."
Raising an eyebrow, he held the mobile phone into her direction.
"Umm.. I´m busy." She giggled and quickly turned towards her computer.
Gibbs shook his head "Abby´s busy, Kate."
"Yeah, like hell. Tell her I´m gonna kick her ass."
"Umm…okay." Gibbs wondered why Kate would kick her best friends´ butt, but considering that his whole team was crazy from time to time, he didn´t ask any further.
"We´ve to unpack, I´ll give you a call in the evening." Kate said and hung up.
Abby was still giggling, but immediately became serious when she recognized Gibbs´ look.
"I shall tell you that Kate, I quote, is gonna kick your ass. Why is that?" He had a bad feeling about it, as it needed quite a bit to make Abby become girlish.
"Uh, was she… I mean, was she really really pissed off, or just a bit?" Abby asked.
"Abbs!"
"Alright, alright. Gibbs, there might be something I forgot to tell you. It´s nothing that bad, I just couldn´t resist it."
"Could you just tell me what?"
"I made them husband and wife."
Gibbs groaned "Tell me you´re kidding."
Abby made a face and hid behind her computer "No…?"
"Do you think, do you HONESTLY think they´ll behave like adults when you make them a married couple? I told them not to behave as if they were in kindergarten, but now I can be sure they´ll do exactly that. Thank you, Abby!"
Meanwhile, Kate was making a few things clear to Tony.
"This is my side of the tent. You cross this line you die, understand?" She stated and pointed at the bigger side of the tent.
"Why do you get the bigger side?" Tony asked, more amused than annoyed.
"Because I´m the girl." Grinning, she added "Or do you want to tell me something, Tony?"
"Don´t think so, HONEY." Tony repeated, expecting an annoyed answer. To his surprise, Kate only continued to unpack and said nothing.
After a few minutes, Kate spoke again "Ready to go?"
Tony nodded "Do you know the program for today?"
"Nothing special. The kids will unpack and after that there will be a few games at the fire. The real program starts tomorrow." Kate left the tent without waiting for Tony.
Quickly catching up to her, Tony gave his partner a questioning look "Kate?"
"What?"
"Are you okay?"
Kate sighed, turned around, and looked him straight into the eyes "No, I´m not okay. Not at all. Can we go now? We have a job to do." Without another word, she continued walking into Ally´s direction.
"Okay…" Tony followed her. Before they reached the other ones, he grabbed Kate´s arm "Do you want to talk about it later?"
"No!" Kate snapped, giving him another look which he couldn´t define.
Tony whispered, just before they reached the other group leaders "Think about it."
With the brightest faked smile possible, Kate ignored Tony and greeted Ally and Geoff.
"Hey, has anyone arrived yet? You must be Geoff. Nice to meet you."
"Hi… So you guys are the famous Millers. The kids love you." He smiled.
"Oh, let´s just say they don´t have to deal with us every day." Tony laughed.
Tony and Kate exchanged a look, which the other ones misunderstood and laughed.
"I guess we have to welcome the kids now. Geez, they´re older than I thought…" The surprised Kate said when she saw three girls coming towards her.
"Of course. This is an international camp. Didn´t you read it? It was all in the papers… They´re all between 14 and 18 years old."
"Sure." Kate smacked her head "Where have I been with my thoughts!" Kate was angry with herself. What a stupid mistake! She would have to be more careful.
Tony smiled "Hi, welcome to the camp. I´m Tony."
"Hi." One of the girls greeted. "I´m Edda."
The girls seemed to be a little shy. The girl next to Edda was younger than her, blonde and staring at the ground. The other girl seemed to be the eldest of them, and also seemed to find the ground extremely interesting. The fact that they didn´t speak obviously made Edda feel uncomfortable.
"These are my sisters, Alena and Luisa." She continued.
Now the group leaders and agents recognized her accent. That explained a lot.
Kate gave Edda an encouraging smile "Hi, I´m Kate. Where are you and your sisters from?"
"We´re from Germany." Edda looked at her sisters "Could you guys also say something, please?"
The younger one gave her sister a look "Wieso denn?" "Why?"
"You´re being rude, Luisa, speak English." Edda growled.
Luisa sighed and said "Hi, I´m Luisa."
Kate thought that this would be even more difficult than she had expected.
Now Alena spoke "Edda, your English is goo… better."
Edda ignored her.
"Errr…Girls, I´ll show you your tents." Kate interrupted before the sisters could start a fight.
"Who of you is going to share a tent with someone else?" she asked further.
Edda gave her an ironic smile "That would be me."
"Okay, your tent is over there." Kate pointed at a tent about 50 meters away. "We all meet up in an hour at the fireplace, okay?"
The girls nodded and Kate went to welcome other teenagers.
"Na dann bis später." "Well then, see you later." Edda said to her sisters and took her things.
Kate reached Tony and gave him a sceptical look "This is even harder than I thought."
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Tony enjoyed being a group leader. The kids were all great – at least those he had welcomed.
"Do you know whether or not there are other kids that aren´t native speakers?"
"There´s one girl from Austria. The other ones are from England and Ireland."
"I wonder how that will work. Luisa and Alena seem to have difficulties with speaking English. "Kate worried, raising and eyebrow.
"We´ll find out in about 30 minutes."
Kate nodded "We will."
They spent the next 30 minutes with welcoming kids. Finally, they met up with Ally and Geoff.
"Huh. That was quite a bit of work." Kate was exhausted.
"Has everyone arrived?" Tony asked, playing his role that perfect that Kate wondered whether he wasn´t acting.
"Yup. No problems this far. The kids are all waiting at the fireplace – we shouldn´t let them wait." Geoff pointed at the group of kids sitting at the fire. He looked at a girl and boy and sighed "Alright. The problems begin right now."
"That´s Edda!" Kate recognized the brown-haired girl, who was angrily discussing something with a boy.
Not waiting for the others, she quickly made her way to Edda. "Do we have a problem?" she asked.
"I don´t, but he obviously has, and I won´t accept it!" Edda was furious; she turned to Kate, looked back at the boy, and looked back at Kate. "He doesn´t even listen to me, AND he has no right to judge me, or my sisters, or my whole country!"
Kate was speechless. She just stared at Edda and didn´t know what to say.
But the boy Edda had been arguing with did "Why should I listen to your excuses?"
"I´m not apologizing for anything! If you would listen to me, I would tell you about my home country. I gladly would. But you obviously are either to arrogant or have too less brain to listen to me! It´s so easy for you to say what we did and to blame us, isn´t it? You have NO idea how much we work against racism, how much especially the young ones have to deal with the past!"
"Edda…" Kate tried to make her calm down a little.
"What!" she snapped, but almost immediately apologized "I´m sorry. I never intended to be rude, I just can´t stand it when someone who doesn´t even know the year of the beginning and the ending of World War 2 insults me. Of course, terrible things happened. I completely understand if someone who was a soldier in that war or lived in that time is prejudiced, but… I can´t change who I am. And I can´t change where I was born. And I wouldn´t want to. Our country has a very dark history when it comes to the 20th century, yes, we´re guilty of the most disgusting crime in history, but everyone who went to my school once or to any other school or town, that isn´t the point, the point is that the past is very present to us. It´s some kind of unwanted shadow we have to deal with. It makes us careful. It makes us try to prevent racism in every possible way. I heard him making fun of it…" Edda pointed at the boy "… and I told him that in Germany you could end up in jail for something like that. We´re very sensitive when it comes to the very few people who think that Hitler was right. I don´t want to say that there are none, because it would be a lie, but there are such a lot of people who work very hard in their free time to make things clear to people who aren´t interested in our history, who fight racism, that it´s just not fair to make fun of it or to say that all Germans should be in jail." Taking a deep breath, Edda went away into the forest.
Sighing, Kate turned to the other three adults and the kids. It was a very uncomfortable silence, which Kate decided to break.
"Alright guys, I´m going to talk to Edda, and you should have a talk as well. Maybe it would help us if Alena and Luisa told us something about their lives in Germany and about their home country in general?"
Tony, Ally and Geoff nodded and Kate followed Edda.
The young girl had sat down at the beach of a nearby lake. She stared at the water and wondered whether she had done something wrong.
"Are you okay, Edda?" the young woman that had welcomed her and her sisters asked. Her name was Kate, if she remembered correctly.
"Sure. I´m just thinking."
"About what?"
"I´d rather not talk about it. I´ll only say something I will regret later. That happens to me from time to time, just like at the fire."
"You were angry."
"Yes, indeed. I´m still angry, but right now I worry about my sisters. I might be a year younger than Alena, but… I think you know what I mean. I shouldn´t have let him make me angry. Don´t misunderstand me, but I´d really appreciate it if I could have a moment for myself."
"Okay, but do you promise you´ll join us later?"
"I don´t know…" Edda made a face, feeling very uncomfortable.
Kate gave her an encouraging smile "See you then."
Back at the fire, Kate was happy to recognize that the others had managed to build a small group of kids with whom they were now discussing about history. Unfortunately not everyone had joined the group.
"Hey, well, what are you talking about?" Kate smiled and sat down next to Tony, as she was supposed to be his wife.
"How´s Edda?" A boy Kate didn´t know yet asked.
"She´s okay, still angry though."
Tony also smiled "Okay, now you Luisa and Alena. Tell us something."
The sisters gave each other a look, then Alena as the elder one spoke "But our English is not as good as Edda´s."
Another girl laughed "Hey, don´t worry."
"Okay… What do you want to know?"
"Why don´t you begin with how you usually spend your spare time?" Ally asked, forgetting to talk slowly.
"Excuse me?"
"Uh, I´m sorry Alena. What do you do after school? Which sports are popular?"
"Hmm… Soccer and riding are popular. We have another school system, we can´t decide what we want to learn at school. After school, which is at about 1.15 pm, we go home and do whatever we want to do. Sports, meeting friends and sometimes even doing homework." Alena grinned.
Kate tried hard to stay awake, but after some time her eyes became heavy and she couldn´t follow the discussion anymore. The day had been too exhausting.
Looking at his watch, Tony decided that it was time for the kids to go to bed. "I would really like to discuss with you until you fall asleep right here, but we have a program tomorrow that says "Breakfast at 8.00 am.". So you better go to bed now."
"I´ll see whether or not Edda is already in her tent. Who´s sharing a tent with her?"
The girl that had encouraged Alena earlier raised her hand.
"Good. Come with me and try to talk to her, okay? She might feel a little lonely."
She turned to Tony "I´ll give my brother a call. His new girlfriend – what´s her name? – Abigail was injured by some woman and I want to make sure she´s alright."
Tony somehow managed not to grin. "Okay see you later, honey."
After she had made sure Edda was in her tent, she went into the forest and called Gibbs "Hey Gibbs, it´s Kate."
"Hey, anything new?"
"No, unfortunately not. This group leader thing is a full time job." She sighed.
"You´re not a group leader, SPECIAL AGENT Todd, you´re a NCIS agent."
"Of course."
"Call me when you´ve got news."
"Okay." Kate hung up and went to her tent.
Tony was already lying under his blanket "What did Gibbs say?"
"You mean expect for reminding me that I´m an agent and not a group leader? He said I shall call him when we´ve got news."
"Oh great."
"Hmmm…" Kate took a big shirt out of her bag. "Tony, if I only think you might watch me while changing into this, I´m so gonna kill you."
Tony just turned around, mumbling something that sounded like "Outrageous".
Blushing a little bit when she remembered how she was singing under the shower, she said "Very funny, DiNozzo." And quickly changed into the shirt.
After some time, they both lay with the face to the tent and though they were tired, neither could sleep.
"Kate, are you awake?"
"Yeah."
"When we arrived today you were upset, remember?"
Kate smiled without knowing why. She had forgotten about it yet. "It was nothing."
Tony knew she would only get angry if he asked further, so he accepted what she said and changed the subject. "You did well today."
"So did you. The kids love you."
"Yeah, well, they´re not kids anymore." He grinned "That´s the reason why the girls like me – and some of the boys."
"Sure…But honestly, it was harder than I thought but it wasn´t a bad thing.
"No it wasn´t. Have you figured out a way to find out more about Ally and Geoff yet?"
"I think we have to wait until one of them or both go away without the group. Then one of us has to follow them."
"We can´t do much except for that, can we?"
"I´m afraid no."
"Are you tired, Kate?"
"I was. But right now I feel very much awake. What do you have in mind? I hope it´s none of your usual night activities, because if so I´m gonna kick your ass – and worse places."
"You´re not going to kill me this time?"
"No, that one´s getting old. Now, spill."
"I just thought that though we´ve known each other for almost 2 years now, we hardly now anything of each other. I mean except for the usual stuff. This would be the chance to change that…Of course only if you like to tell me more about you."
"Wow." Kate turned to him "Spoken like an adult. I´m impressed, Tony."
"Do you think I´m always like that?" he asked and sounded more hurt than he wanted to.
Kate thought for a moment and eventually decided to be honest to him "Actually no. There are surprisingly many moments I do think there´s much more to you than a chauvinistic pain in the ass, but you´re quite good in ruining those moments. Ummm… who gets the first question?" she asked, eager to get away from the it topic.
"Ladies first."
"Okay. What are you afraid of?"
Tony made a face "I´m afraid of big dogs if I don´t know them… And I´m afraid of ending up alone." There was a short break in which they just stared at each other, then Tony looked away and asked "What about you?"
"Hmm, let´s see… I think I´m afraid of screwing something up in general: my job, family, boyfriends and so on. I don´t want to disappoint people. Your turn."
"Which movie makes you cry?"
Kate rolled her eyes. Of course! Tony had to come up with a movie question! "Titanic. What about you?"
Tony mumbled something and blushed.
"What? C´mon Tony, it can´t be that embarrassing."
A little louder, he said "When Harry Met Sally"
They asked and answered questions and laughed a lot until the early morning hours. When Kate clock rang at 6 am - as group leaders they had to be showered and dressed when the first kids woke up – she just wanted to sleep a little longer.
"Kate? Wake up!" she heard Tony´s voice from somewhere far, far away.
Without opening her eyes, she mumbled "Leave me alone, Anthony."
"Kate." He took away her blanket "Sun is shining!"
Slowly, Kate brought herself into a sitting position "Dammit, I think I slept on a stone or something."
"I can give you a massage later if you want." Tony offered.
"Thank you, that would be great." Kate rubbed her eyes "I´m going to have a shower. "
Tony grinned "You should hurry before one of the boys gets weird ideas."
"What´s that supposed to mean?"
"Let´s say the showers don´t hide much if you want to see something."
"I´m running!"