The computer screen was bright against the dark that engulfed Tim's apartment that was filled with what someone once described to him as his geek gear. Abby and him had been going over their new pet project making sure all the numbers were just right and they weren't over estimating the numbers after all everything had to be fair.

"Okay so what was Adam on the resistances scale on a one to ten?" Abby asked her slim pale fingers poised over Tim's keyboard as she waited his answer.

"I'd say he was probably a two, there was a little bit of resistance but he caved in pretty quickly." Tim said looking down at Abby as she typed, he would've been sitting down beside her but he found the pain in his back side too much, which made him slightly apprehensive because he had work tomorrow and he had to find a convincing lie that Gibbs would believe.

Tim could see Abby grin; her smile seemed slightly evil because of the harsh angles of the shadows that the computer cast on her "Wow, Tim I've got to say you're really stepping up here, who knew you could be such a smooth talker, I'm impressed."

Tim blushed a bit, not bothering to smile knowing that his next challenge on the list was not going to be an easy one, the next person was going to take all of the minimal skill he possessed. "Well we'll see how good I am after Tony rejects me while laughing his ass off at my pitiful attempt at seducing him. Besides" Tim added growing nervous at his next challenge "how do we even know that Tony will do it, he's a ladies' man, why the hell would he sleep with me, a guy."

"If he rejected you" Abby said turning towards Tim and folding her arms over her chest "it would be because you're not confident enough, nothing else. You're a very appealing person, and regardless of the fact that you're a guy I think Tony will be drawn to you, if you would only show that demanding devious side you had when you first started this little experiment."

Abby's little speech pepped him up a bit to make him smile "Well all the same it still doesn't erase the fact I'm a guy going after the most notorious of lady chasers." There was a slight sense of amusement in Tim's voice as he spoke thinking of how wonderful it would feel to finally have Tony.

"Tony doesn't just favor women" Abby said turning back to the computer to finish the data on Agent Adams. Leaving Tim gapping at her back.

"You fell of a horse?" Gibbs asked incredulously, the nearly empty coffee cup stopped halfway to his Gibbs mouth.

"Yeah" Tim said nodding and swallowing the lump in his throat hoping beyond all hopes that Gibbs would believe him or at least just pretend to believe him.

"What's this" Tony's voice echoed throughout the nearly empty bullpen, the one day that Tony decided to show up early had to be this day. "Not even a horse wants McGeek on him?"

McGee was just about to say a nasty comment back to Tony when Gibbs spoke up "I'm assuming that the horse was spooked by something and bucked you off?"

"Ugh yeah" Tim said nodding his head in agreement, trying to keep the disbelief that Gibbs actually believed him out of his voice.

"That's good, because I wouldn't to think that one of my top field agents was too clumsy to hold on to the reins." Gibbs gave Tim one last look that Tim had now way understanding before walking off smacking the back of Tony's head.

"Really Gibbs bought that stupid lie?" Abby asked, disbelief riddling her face.

"Yeah I guess" Tim said, leaning his weight on his forearms against the computer desk in Abby's lab, his legs were getting tired from standing all day but he still didn't want to sit down. Even though his backside was feeling better he didn't want to give Tony any more ammunition to tease him because of the uncomfortable look he had on his face.

"Hmm…something doesn't seem right" Abby said putting her finger to her chin, both of them jumped nearly a foot in the air and nearly knocking a drink off the counter when Gibbs voice broke their conversation.

"That's what I've been thinking all day" Gibbs said stepping from out of the shadows of the open doors, Abby hadn't even heard them open, sometimes Gibbs was too sneaky for his own good. "So" Gibbs drawled stopping in front of the rather nervous Tim and surprised Abby "mind explaining to me while I was lied to today by one of my agents?"

Tim wasn't sure who the question was directed to but Abby beat him to the punch "Well you see Gibbs, about two months ago, me and Tim were really bored and Tim came with this really awesome idea that involved the people that we worked with". Abby said in a rush trying to get it all out before Gibbs interrupted her "So the whole thing is we're basically doing a scientific experiment to as the sexual libido of the average NCIS agent and we rate them from a one to ten on how much they resist, one being the least amount of resistance, and ten being the most resistance. Then we rate then on how well they performed on one to ten, one being bad, and ten being really good." Abby paused for a millisecond for air; Tim was looking very nervously over at Gibbs. "And you see McGee slept with Agent Adams last night for the sake of the experiment and contrary to my beliefs he is rather well in bed but in accordance to my beliefs he only gave up a little bit of resistance to Tim's advances." Abby kind of petered out at the end, her black rimmed eyes looking nervously up at Gibbs as he digested the information given to him by a rambling Abby.

"And they all know that this is a experiment before hand?" Gibbs asked, Tony nearly yelled in surprise this was not what he was expecting, he was expecting for Gibbs to yell and slap the back of the heads, telling them they were fired and what they were doing was unethical.

"Well the majority of them do, some we tell after, surprisingly none of them have really been all that mad" Tim pitched in feeling awkward not saying something in the conversation.

"Ah" Gibbs said his eyes reading the computer screen as he did so.

"Would you be interested in the experiment?" Abby asked out of nowhere causing McGee to choke on the air he was currently inhaling.

Gibbs scoffed lightly "Only if McGee wore a dress" he said, Tim was pretty sure he was joking.

"That can be arranged" Abby said back a grin on her face, they needed information on a team leader badly and who better than the one and only Gibbs? Tim began to think that Gibbs wasn't joking.

Gibbs looked at Abby with a bemused expression on his face, his left eyebrow raised in slight question or was it because he was considering Abby's offer. Tim could feel his face grow hot as Gibbs looked over at him "The dress can't be yellow" he said, Tim felt like his face was on fire. Gibbs wasn't joking.

"So how awkward was it?" Abby asked as she bounced on her computer chair, her caff-pow sat in the middle of her crossed legs. Tim's face was burning red in remembrance of the night, he really didn't want to relay to Abby the information he had gotten from Gibbs, just thinking about it was weird enough. "Did you actually wear a dress?"

Tim looked at her in embarrassment and slight anger "No…I didn't have to wear the dress, but I swear to god Abby you will never get me to do something like that again." Sitting down the chair by Abby Tim dropped his head into his hands. "I don't even think I can accurately rate him."

"What! Why not?" Abby demanded setting her Caff-Pow on the lab desk "Come on Timmy you can't fail me now, getting Gibbs is really important information. This can change our entire course of research you know."

Looking over at Abby Tim could feel his face flush bright red again "You have no idea how awkward it was to…to do…well that with Gibbs!"

A small chuckle escaped Abby's lips, but it was effectively silenced by a glare from Tim "Well, I will tonight, me and Gibbs are going out for dinner and a movie and well you can guess what's going to happen next."

"At least you get a date?" Tim said not hearing someone entering the lab.

"Ah don't feel bad McGeek, you'll get a date one of these days." Tony's familiar voice made Tim jump out of his chair, he could feel his heart beating violently against his chest, he hoped to God that Tony hadn't heard their conversation. "You know one of these days a girl will get desperate enough to say yes to you."

"How…how long have you been down here?" Tim asked nervously.

Tony gave him a weird look and walked over to Abby's computer, luckily Abby was quick enough to close down the screen before Tony could see the data sheet. "Just long enough to hear you bitch about not getting a date."

"Oh don't be so mean to McGee Tony" Abby said to Tony trying to fizzle the agreement "Tim does pretty well in the love life department."

"Ha!" Tony barked, his deep throated laughter filling the lab "I'll believe that when I see it."

Tim could feel his face flush in a mixture of embarrassment and anger "Well I don't see you going on any dates of the late." Tony's face feel at Tim's accusation.

"You shouldn't be talking McGee, when's the last time you've had a date, two, three years ago." Both of them could hear the defense in Tony's backlash, Tim had struck a chord with his words.

Even though Tim could tell that Tony was offended or hurt by his comment, he couldn't control what his mouth was saying. "Well actually I had a date two nights ago, if you must know."

"Ha! That's laughable" Tony said back, he took a step towards Tim, he was starting to get angry "You can't just make up dates to prove me wrong!"

"I'm not making it up!" Tim argued back, Abby tried to step in and break up the fight but she couldn't get a word in edge wise with these two guys.

"Oh yeah then prove it?" Tony snapped.

Narrowing his eyes at Tony Tim snarled back "Fine I will, come to over to my house tonight and I'll prove to you that I had a date."

"This going to be interesting" Tony glared at Tim before abruptly turning on his heel and storming out of the lab room, leaving a frustrated Tim and a slightly puzzled Abby behind.

"Wow" Abby said shaking her head "men and their ego's I swear when the day comes that a man can admit he's slightly wrong against another guy hell will literally freeze over." Abby looked at Tim who still looked mad "Um you do realize that the last two nights you've had dates with Adam…a guy?"

"Yeah" Tim answered shaking his head slightly at the door.

Poking her head into Tim's view she looked up at him concerned "Well it's just the whole thing that Tony has no idea that you sleep with guys as well as girls." Tim's face dropped "Well I guess his theories about you are half right."

"What theories?"

A slightly apologetic look crossed Abby's face "That you're gay, he spread that rumor through nearly the entire lower floor."

"What?" Tim croaked, that would certainly explain some of the guys willingness to do sexual things with him.

"Yeah" Abby said "and now you're going to take him to your house and show him that for the last two nights you've been on a date with another guy."

"Shit!" Tim squeaked.

"Don't sweat it" Abby said patting Tim on the back "think of it this way, it'll be a lot easier to get Tony in the sack."

"The only thing that is going to happen is that Tony is going to either A. punch me in the face or B. spread it around the entire office that I sleep with guys."

"Is it really that big of deal?" Abby asked, leaning against the lab table she crossed her ankles and looked up at Tim. "It's not the eighteen hundreds anymore you don't get hung for doing something with another guy."

Tim shook his head "That would be getting off too easily, now a days they just mercilessly tease you or something worse."

Abby's brows scrunched together in concern "It sounds like you have experience in that department."

Nodding his head Tim ran his hand through his hair "Yeah during college, sharing a dorm room with another guy, who is one hundred percent straight, is a hard thing to do."

"Ah" Abby said in understanding.

Looking at the time Tim's eyes nearly bugged out of his head "Holy shit, Gibbs is going to kill me I was supposed to have the Nettle paperwork done in fifteen minutes." Tim turned to leave when Abby stopped him.

"Wait McGee" Abby said jumping up, Tim turned back towards Abby.

"What?" he asked impatiently.

"How are you going to prove to Tony that you had a date?"

Tim sputtered for a second a slight red tinge graced his cheeks "Well ugh…I have security camera's by my door, and ugh…well let's just say Adam's like to have something to record his conquest." Abby burst out laughing as Tim ran out of the lab, she wished very badly that she could be there to see how that little viewing party went down.