hey everyone, this is my second go at a kibbs piece, and unrelated to the first, please tell me what you think afterwards, i'm always striving to improve.

disclaimer: nothing you might recognise belongs to me


Kate stumbled out of the elevator, and slowly hobbled to her desk. The bright lights making her already bad headache worse. She collapsed into her chair glad for the rest, her head throbbing, she blew her nose for the fiftieth time that morning.

"Jeez Kate, you look awful, why on earth didn't you call in sick?" McGee's ever irritating voice cut into her head like a knife into butter.

"Ohhh Kate, hot date last night... oooh what happened to you?" and then to top it off it seems that DiNozzo had rounded the corner, "stay away from me and we'll get on fine today." he sat at his desk and stared at Kate, she really didn't look good, her face was really pale, almost white, her eyes were all puffy and her nose was red from the amount of times she'd blown it. The only response she managed was a half-hearted groan with the general tone of 'shut up Tony'.

"McGee, down to Abby's lab, DiNozzo, the director wants to speak to you." and then the tall, silver haired man stopped, while the boys scurried off to do there tasks, Gibbs fixed kate with one of his unique gazes. "Kate why are you here?" All she managed was a gesture at the case files scattered on her desk. Gibbs sighed and moved forward so he was stood directly in front of her desk, "You actually drove to work in that condition?" she inclined her head, before sneezing over her desk,

"Uurgh, look, we've got a case to finish Gibbs, i can't be sick."

"I'm calling Abby, shes going to take you home, your going to go to bed and i refuse to let you step foot in this building until you are 100 better, am i clear?" Kate just nodded in agreement, she couldn't really argue, she felt like death warmed up and she had to agree that she felt absurd trying to work in this state.

He'd never seen Kate this ill before, she'd had colds, bad headaches but nothing that she would let stop her doing her job, just the fact that she had agreed with him without so much as a but made his chest knot in worry, and yet her determination to make her still try and come in made him swell with pride and... something else, something that felt so right and... no he wasn't going there, he just couldn't let it go there.

A quarter of an hour later, Abby arrived to take Kate home, she wrapped her up in her coat and gave her a big hug, but just before they left Gibbs took her to the side for a quiet word.

"Look, just get her home and into bed, make sure she has something to eat and drink, and do NOT let her get out of bed, ok?"

"Sure Gibbs, buts what with all the concern its so un... Gibbsish" All he managed was to fix her with a stare that would stop any other peron delving further, however Abby's eyes widened, "Ohhh, i see... you .. you have feelings for kate?" Abby dared to say, anybody else would have then ran for cover and asked for a transfer abroad where it was a certainty that Gibbs could never find them, but not Abby, Gibbs now fixed her with the glare that had turned the hardest of criminals into simpering fools, the only effect was that Abbys eyes grew wider, "Oh My God!" she coverd her mouth with her hands, "its more than just felings isn't it?"

"Abby, you'd better fast track out of here before i eat you alive!"

"But Gibbs, this is so... so... AMAZING!!!"

"Abbs, go!"

"Fine Gibbs, i understand, your secret is safe with me!" she winked at him, and went back over to Kate and led her towards the elevator, risking glances back towards Gibbs every 5 seconds or so. Gibbs hoped to god that Abby really did understand, because no matter what he felt, he couldn't let Kate know, more likely than not she wouldn't return his feelings and it would make team relations harder, or he would lose one of the best agents at NCIS to another team, and, he dared to let himself think, even if she did return his feelings, how would it work? Romance between agents never worked... it was his own rule, but he still couldn't put out that little light of hope in his heart that it could work. Often when he would work on his boat, he would think up scenarios in which they could be together, where she felt about him, the way he felt about her.


Ok, so thats chapter one, please tell me what you think, i'll try to add the next chapter soon, which will be slightly more from kates POV

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Sam Murray