Title: Through Troubled Nights

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS. If I did I wouldn't have let Sasha leave… I would've chained her to… Michael. Then the writers would have a great excuse for writing lost and lots of Tate moments, they would have to be in all scenes together! mohahaha

Summary: Tony has a bit of fun in the office and Kate's having a bit of trouble with a new boyfriend. Can she trust Tony to help her out when she needs it?

Spoilers: Shouldn't be any… if there are… well then… I must have lost it 'cause there really shouldn't be any.

Timeline: Twi- what? Have nooo idea of what you're talking about. No Twilight here… just didn't happen in my world. No, nein, nej… No but seriously this could be whenever really.

This chapter is dedicated to Tony………………………………………………..the dog.

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"Damn…"

Kate tried to ignore Tony as he swore loudly and frustrated tried to rebuild his fallen pyramid built out of Maltesers for about the 12th time in the last 30 minutes.

"If only I could…" He bit his tongue in concentration and slowly… slowly reached out to place another light ball of chocolate on the growing formation on his desk.

"Aren't you supposed to work?" Kate asked not lifting her eyes from her own work.

Gibbs walked in and made it over to the desk area in a very quiet Gibbs way.

"This is working…" mumbled Tony.

"So is prostitution! Wanna do that for a living DiNozzo?" Gibbs slammed his fist into the younger agents' desk and the Maltesers formerly known as a 30 cm high pyramid went flying.

"No" sighed Tony as he saw his project fall into tiny pieces, chocolates with crisp centres shattering to the ground ending up all over the floor. Kate stuck her tongue out at Tony.

"Back to those files then, before I fire you," Gibbs barked. He was on his way down to Abby and couldn't for his life understand why his agents had to behave like 3 year olds all the time. "and put your tongue back in your mouth Agent Todd."

Tony grinned at her, pleased that he wasn't the only one to be told off. Kate rolled her eyes at him and returned to her own files at her desk.

Tony tried to work his way through the files at his desk… he really tried… but he just couldn't concentrate. Across from him sat Kate. For every sentence he read or for every name he followed up on his computer he came to the same conclusion; Messing with Kate would be more fun.

He looked in the direction of the elevators just to make sure that Gibbs wasn't on his way up again and then dove under his desk.

"Hey my tiny little delicious chocolate covered buddies!" he greeted as he found himself sitting among Maltesers on the floor. He poked his head up just above his desk to make sure Kate was still concentrating on her paperwork. She was.

She was used to Tony not sitting still at his desk and didn't think twice about the movement she caught in the corner of her eye when he jumped down behind his desk. As always when it came to Tony and his little escapades she should've thought about it… she should've gotten out of the room when she had the chance.

Tony placed himself on his stomach on the floor careful not to lie on any of the chocolates. Messing with Kate was fun but he did not want to ruin his new white shirt. He filled both hands with sweets and started crawling around the desk on the floor. Helping himself forward with his elbows, he had to bite his lip not to laugh out loud at himself.

I'm one funny guy, he thought and nodded. He almost wished that Kate would tare her eyes from her computer and see him there on the floor, that's how funny he considered himself at that moment. Gibbs for one would not agree. Tony winced at the thought of Gibbs finding him there on the floor and glanced once again towards the elevators. No sign of him. Funny and hot as hell, he thought continuing his trip towards Kate's desk.

Kate was determined to finish her paperwork early today. She wanted to go home and prepare for the evening. She had decided to break things off with this guy she'd been seeing for a couple of weeks now. Mitchell had been great at the beginning but lately Kate had seen sides of him that she didn't really like. She didn't think he had a problem with her job at first but just the other week he had made it pretty clear to her that he didn't think it was a job for a woman. He'd also become very protective and possessive, something that Kate, in mild doses, thought could be cute but with Mitchell it made her uncomfortable. He'd become violent and angry if he saw her talking to another man. Kate had planned to stop seeing him for a while now but something always came in the way. She would be ready to tell him over dinner and he'd jump in and accuse her of something crazy like cheating on him. He would go on and on about it and twist and turn things until she found herself defending herself, and she hadn't even done anything.

The evening would end with her practically apologizing to him for making him even consider the possibility of her cheating on him. He had this way with words that made her head spin and she found herself just nodding and agreeing with him time and time again. A man that does that to a woman that used to be in the Secret Service and now is in NCIS is trouble. Kate did not need those qualities in a man and his violent tendencies had started to scare her.

Tonight I won't let him twist it around in any way, she thought, tonight I'll just do it. I'll tell him it's over and that's it. I won't let him scare me.

Meanwhile Tony had made his way over to her desk, still on his stomach and hands filled with now sticky, half melted chocolates. He crawled in under her desk. This would have been even more enjoyable if she'd had a skirt on today… He thought, grinning as he carefully made his way closer and closer to her legs. He knew he was lucky. Had she not been so concentrated she surely would have realized he was under there by now.

He held his breath as his nose could almost touch her knees now. He looked up and could see her chin in the crack between the top of her desk and her stomach. He had to come just a little closer. On his knees now, under the desk he turned his head just slightly and manoeuvred himself over her knees so that if he let his head down just a cm or two, it'd rest on her lap. Now this is almost silly, he thought to himself, how can she not notice what I'm doing!

Gibbs wouldn't be out of there forever so Tony decided that it was now or never. With another one of his huge grins on his face he counted to three in his head and then threw a sticky chocolate ball up in the air. It found its way to Kate's chin and she stirred, her concentration broken. She looked down at a grinning Tony with her eyes wide just as he threw another one, and another one. And there it came again, and again, again, and again. He laughed, enjoying himself and thought he would die from laughter as she scrambled from her chair with little screams, trying to get away from him and the small half melted chocolates that came flying hitting her in the face, leaving little dots of chocolate on her skin.

"TONY!" she screamed at him. "Get out from under my desk you little… little… aarrrgh!"

He climbed out from under the desk and hopped onto her chair where she had been sitting just seconds earlier. He laughed and gave the chair a little spin.

"I'm totally telling Gary in Surveillance to get me a copy of this!" he grinned, spinning around and around on Kate's chair.

Kate stood really angry at him scrubbing her face trying to get rid of all the chocolate dots. "I want to strangle you DiNozzo! I'm not kidding, I want you dead!"

Tony just couldn't stop laughing. This so beats going through files!

Gibbs stepped off the elevator and Kate immediately dashed to his side.

"Gibbs! Tony-" She was really angry with Tony and Gibbs knew what was up. It felt like they dealt with these kinds of things a thousand times a day. He didn't feel like hearing what Tony had done this time and then hear Tony tell the tale of how Kate had bugged him earlier and then crack some joke about how Kate was just embarrassed 'cause she wanted to sleep with him. Gibbs decided to cut Kate short before the whole carousel started.

"Go home guys. Kate, Tony… see ya tomorrow. Go! Try not to shoot him in the elevator Kate."

"Can I shoot him in the parking lot then?" she asked.

"If you have to shoot him, do it some place without surveillance cameras." Gibbs returned to his desk and sighed as Kate and Tony fought all the way to the elevator pushing and shoving each other as they went.

As angry as she was with Tony, Kate was still a little sad to be separated from him there in the parking lot. He was annoying as hell but still she managed to like him and care about him and most importantly, she didn't think about Mitchell when Tony was around. For some strange reason she seemed to only think about Tony when Tony was around.

"See you tomorrow Katie" Tony smiled, popping a Malteser in his mouth and then stepping into his car.

"… Bye Tony" she sighed unlocking her own car and then getting in. She now had a couple of hours before she was supposed to meet Mitchell and break things off with him. Please let this go well, she thought as she left the parking lot. She had a feeling that it wouldn't.

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What will Mitchell say when she breaks up with him? And Tony is great at bugging Kate but can he help her when she needs it?

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