AN: This is a song-fic of sorts. The lyrics at the top are AFI's 'Too Shy to Scream'. The below is inspired by all the times Abby has caught Tim watching her, and all the times she has not (or at least not said anything).

Dis: NCIS, it's sceens, characters and their awesome charisma is not mine, nor am I making money off of writing this. The same goes for 'Too Shy to Scream' there is no affiliation between AFI and NCIS other than in my head.

Too Shy To Scream

I come quietly, Silent entities

can lack a certain weight when unseen.

Do they speak of me?

My voice left with the breeze that

whispered "you should flee or you shall be seen."

I'd die

if you only met my eyes.

Before you pass by,

will you pause to break my heart.

I am everywhere, everywhere but here,

for here is where you grace the nameless.

Were I not so weak could I even speak

I'd warn that you should leave before

you're seen with me.

They don't hear me.

Do I bore them when I tell them

I adore them?

He watched her from the doorway. Knowing that she knew he watched but silently hopping that she hadn't noticed him yet.

He watched her move about the lab. Not walking, shuffling or bouncing, her movements were smooth; she was comfortable here, she had her own tempo her own dance.

The tightness in his heart echoed through his body igniting a fire inside his gut. Screaming for her to notice him. To see the real him, to give him a chance to match her tempo and be part of her dance.

Her heart skips a beat, he is doing it again. She knows, she can feel his eyes follow her she can practically hear his desire scream out to her. She gives him what little she can, allowing him to watch as long as possible before it would become obvious that she was doing such.

If he only knew how badly she desired to pull him into the room and sweep him into her dance. Had he never joined the team they would never have become closer, but it is for the same fact that they can not become any closer.

She dared not look at his eyes when he watched her for fear that the fire inside of her would consume her, though she could not help but wonder if he felt the same heat.

Neither was a fool, they both knew that all watched them and everyone knew what went unspoken and unexpressed between the two.

Still they were both too shy to scream.

Bonus points for those who know what AFI stands for.