Disclaimer: I own nothing, but Don Bellisario and CBS are both doing very well these days!
Author's Note: Yes, I am aware that "Back in the Day" needs an update horribly soon, however I saw the episode "Good Wives Club" twice in one week. Being the Kibbs fan I am, I decided to write this story based slightly on the episode, While searching the internet it seems that the pamphlet featured in the episode is an Urban Legend of much debate, nobody knows if the article was ever really published...so I did adapt some tips from a guide purported to be the original article (Insert utmost thanks to Wikipedia here) I have never written a story of a mature nature before and I hope I did okay. I appreciate reviews especially this being my first attempt way out of my writing comfort zone any constructive ideas are appreciated...also I cannot decide if this is a one-shot or not, please let me know what you think, and happy reading...BKC
"Be careful with that! It's evidence and it's kinda fragile." Abby said sharply.
Kate Todd gingerly set down the bag and put on a pair of latex gloves.
"Why are you so interested in this?" Abby asked her best friend.
"Well McGee and Tony were awfully interested in it." Kate said with a chuckle.
"Well McGee needs all the help he can get with women, and DiNozzo's probably hoping he can train some woman into being his submissive Fem-Bot." Abby joked.
Kate laughed at the accurate depiction her friend had provided of their co-workers.
"The Good Wife's Guide...let's see what you've got to offer..." Kate mused.
She opened the evidence bag with care and thumbed through the magazine with even more care.
"Aloud please...I'm dying to know." Abby said as she began programming a machine.
"Step One...After a long day of work it is prudent to have a meal and cocktail waiting when he arrives home...men are usually ready for a meal by five p.m. he's had a long day and now it's time to pamper the breadwinner of the family." Kate read as she choked back disgust.
"Yeah because taking care of a house and children is no work at all." Abby grunted as a machine beeped back at her in rebellion.
"Riight..." Kate said trailing off as she scanned tip number two
"Step Two...freshen up...your husband has probably seen many dreary looking people today it is your duty to smooth your skirt, curl your hair and put on some fresh lipstick...go the extra mile and make sure the house is clutter-free." Kate chuckled at the thought of it. In reality with the hours she worked it would most likely be a man making her dinner, and as for dreary looking...dead people were probably as dreary as it got.
"Oh how times have changed." Abby said as she stood next to Kate.
"Step Three...if it is chilly light a fire if you've got a fireplace. Both of you could use the boost. Now is the time to quiet the children. He's dealt with noise all day now is not the time to wash, dry or vacuum."
"Screaming children and appliances make no noise whatsoever." Abby countered with a wry grin.
"June Cleaver you are not." Kate said as she shook a finger at Abby.
"Got that right...how times have changed...any man I find better be able to put up with...well you know...this!" Abby said with a grin as she waved a hand around her lab.
"Any man I find better tolerate long hours, a demanding boss, and the fact that I'd probably win every argument." Kate added.
"Go on...I'm dying to know the rest." Abby said with a clap of her hands.
"Step Four...be happy to see him, always smile at your husband his topics of conversation are more important than what you did all day...let him speak first. Do not complain, he has problems at work that are bigger than your difficulties." Kate finished reading and let out a hearty laugh.
"I would have been a misfit in the fifties." Kate said with a howl of laughter.
"Me too." Abby said as she joined into a laughing fit with her friend.
"Okay, enough before I wet my pants..." Kate said as she calmed down.
"Same here." Abby replied.
"Step Five..later in the evening offer to adjust his pillow and turn down the bed...most importantly do not ignore his advances unless absolutely necessary." Abby read over Kate's shoulder.
"I think it would be absolutely necessary every damn night. More out of retribution than my own needs of course." Kate said with a sly grin.
"Withholding it...the weapon of choice for women everywhere." Abby added with a knowing shake of her head.
"Step Six...last but not least, never question his judgement, he is king of the castle, and a good wife knows her place!" Kate set the magazine down and burst into absolute hysterics along with Abby.
"Yeah...freakin'...right..." Abby choked out as she laughed
"Us...keeping our mouths shut...not likely!" Kate chimed in.
"And back into evidence you go." Abby said as she and Kate were getting ready to leave for the night.
"Dinner?" Abby asked as she headed to elevator with Kate.
"Yeah." Kate said. She had know she'd be flying solo tonight and was happy to have Abby's company.
"No...wait I can't... I have to go home and make dinner for my man, and then later tonight we're going to push the beds together." Kate said as she winked at Abby.
"First of all...you're a perv... secondly you haven't got a man." Abby said teasingly as she hit the down button on the elevator.
Kate remained silent. She had no witty reply, and she was caught off guard when Abby pinched her.
"Kate...I was just teasing...you're not a pervert, Tony's a pervert." Abby clarified.
"I'm not upset." Kate said as she snapped out of her daze.
It wasn't the pervert comment that had gotten to Kate it was the one about not having a man.
"Oh Abby if you only knew." Kate thought to herself as the women walked to their respective cars.
"The new Vegan place on F Street!" Abby yelled as the women got into their cars.
Kate nodded and got headed for the restaurant.
"You really should tell her...she's your best friend." Kate's conscience nagged at her.
"But I can't." Kate said aloud to herself.
"Oh but she'd keep your secret. She always does. She's loyal like that...if she knew she'd never tell...she'd be so happy for you...for the both of you." The nagging voice was back.
Kate whipped into a parking space relieved to be at the restaurant. Idle chit-chat with Abby would quell that voice.
"So...any prospects?" Kate asked hopefully as she dove into her mushroom soup.
Abby shook her head no.
"Bleak is the dating life for us single girls." Kate said knowingly.
"Mmmhmm." Abby agreed as she bit into a pita.
"Maybe if we acted more like good wives we'd be married by now." Abby added as she finished chewing.
"Yeah right...is that what men really want? A submissive woman? I doubt it. I can't believe our grandmothers and our mothers ever put up with that...I would have gone insane." Kate said as she glanced at Abby.
"Obviously, it's not my ideal but there is something to be said for submissiveness." Abby argued logically.
"In what sense?" Kate asked intrigued.
"In the sense that once in a while take the time to be subordinate...men need to be needed. It's good for their ego. We like to be pampered and indulged...why do you think we go to the spa once a year? Men like to be waited on too." Abby said as she picked at her tofu salad.
"Oh so you're saying that we women should wait on the men to boost their ego?" Kate pushed incredulously.
"Of course not...I never said that the woman is the only one who should be submissive...it's a two way street. If you know he's having a rough time at work, and let's face it who isn't? Make him his favorite dinner...put out...but in turn the next time you're not feeling well, or having trouble keeping up he should unload the dishwasher, do the laundry, that sort of stuff." Abby surmised as she chewed noisily.
"So what you're saying is really about compromise." Kate replied tartly.
"Philosophically speaking...isn't compromise just a form of submissiveness?" Abby asked as she dug around in her purse.
"Sort of I guess...you submit to me halfway, and I submit to you halfway..." Kate concluded.
"Exactly...and maybe sometimes in this day and age it's worth the surprise and a happy partner to submit completely." Abby said as she put money on the table to pay for the check.
"Abby, do you realize we've spent over two and half hours philosophizing and theorizing about relationships. I can't believe I'm saying this...but maybe we were better off vacuuming in heels and pearls. At least in the forties and fifties men and women had clear cut roles and expectations whether they liked them or not." Kate added.
"Yeah...Gibbs said pretty much that same thing too." Abby said as they exited the restaurant.
"Huh?" Kate replied in confusion.
"Well...when we were trying to profile this guy he was in the lab and ran a theory past me...that maybe it was a man around our age who was frustrated because of the way society has gone. Back in the day there were really clear-cut rules about what men and women should and should not do. Now it's all jumbled up. Men stay home to raise children, women make six figures a year, men spend three billion dollars a year on eyebrow waxing and tanning, more women own firearms than ever before...times have changed, and maybe they're more equal, but not necessarily better...what have we gained besides confusion and a partial Friday night mulling over the hazards of dating." Abby was almost breathless when she finished her monologue.
Two thoughts intersected through Kate's brain like freight trains on parallel tracks. One: Gibbs had stolen her profiling theory and passed it off as his own, two: being young and single was complicated.
"So here we are...two old maids out on a Friday night." Kate joked as she walked to her car.
"Speak for yourself. Brain Matter has a show at midnight tonight...the old funeral home in Foggy Bottom...wanna go?" Abby asked.
"Not really...Brain Matter isn't my thing...and I'm tired...and really, really ready for bed." Kate said as she glanced up at Abby.
"I kinda knew you didn't like their style, but I thought I'd be polite and ask. It's probably for the best anyhow. I have to pick Gloria up from the airport tomorrow and I shouldn't stay too late." Abby said as she hugged Kate.
"Call Tony." Kate said as she hugged Abby back.
"Nope. Date with some hot young thing. Right now he's probably convincing her that she should build him a fire and only vacuum when he's not around." Abby joked.
"Classy...real classy...DiNozzo the charmer." Kate said with a smile as she got into her car.
Once Kate was sure Abby had driven off Kate put her car in drive and headed off. She knew Abby would be suspicious if she didn't see Kate head for home, so that's why she had waited.
"What? No argument?" A hollow-sounding voice greeted her.
"Nope." Kate said as she let her overnight bag fall on the unfinished floor.
"It's usually a battle...what gives?" The voice asked, suddenly becoming clearer.
"Well..."Kate trailed off as Jethro Gibbs emerged from behind his boat. He was tall and handsome, his blue eyes shining in the dim basement light, his hair slightly tousled.
"Well what?" Jethro asked as he wiped his hands on an old cloth.
"Well I just wanted to be different...you know to see where it takes me." Kate said remembering Abby's words; compromise and sublte submissiveness. She was still mad that Gibbs had stolen her profiling theory.
"Different is good." Gibbs said as he closed the gap between himself and Kate.
"Are you sure you're okay with this? I know you like your own bed." Gibbs said as he leaned down and kissed Kate's soft lips.
"I am completely fine with it." Kate said still heady from their long kiss.
"Me too." Gibbs replied as he turned and headed towards his work bench.
"You park in the garage?" Gibbs asked.
"Like always." Kate said, knowing they couldn't risk anyone seeing her car at his place.
"No fight. I like that. What gives?" Jethro asked knowing that Kate had an angle, not that he minded.
"I have a slight caveat...you stole my profiling theory and passed it off as your own." Kate said hotly as she poured herself some bourbon.
"I didn't steal it. We're a team we share information, and besides I never took credit, I just repeated what you said. In case you hadn't noticed I don't have a fancy psychology degree from Purdue." Jethro said with a snort as he sipped his bourbon and reached for a fresh piece of sandpaper.
"Fair enough." Kate said, happy for the moment at least.
"No Brain Matter?" Jethro grinned at Kate with his crooked smile that absolutely drove her mad everytime he did it.
Desire flashed through Kate like a bolt of lighting.
"Earth to Kate!" Jethro exclaimed as he waved a hand in front of Kate's face.
"Yeah...ummm...she uhhh invited me but I said no thanks, I told her I was tired, and she's going but won't stay for the whole show...Gloria comes in tomorrow." Kate explained.
"So did you girls enjoy your evening reading?" Gibbs asked as he sipped his bourbon.
Kate took a sip of her own bourbon.
"What?" She asked dumbfounded.
"The Good Wife's Guide. I know it's gotten passed around the office and you girls are no exception." Gibbs chuckled as he stood next to Kate, she was leaning against the workbench, her chest jutting out slightly. She was still in her work clothes, and the way she looked filled him with lust.
"Interesting to say the least." Kate said coyly sipping her bourbon again.
"I knew you and Abby would hate it." Gibbs replied.
"Bed?" Jethro asked, eyeing the neckline of Kate's pristine white blouse.
"Bed yes, sleep no." Kate replied.
Jethro picked up Kate's bag off the floor and followed her up the stairs, enjoying the glorious view of her backside encased in a tight black pencil skirt.
"It's been a long day." Jethro said as he tossed Kate's bag on the floor in his bedroom.
"Yep." Kate said as she kicked off her heels.
"But now we're here...just me and you...you and I ready to relax." Jethro said as he stood behind Kate and began massaging her shoulders.
"Jethro!" Kate said in surprise at the kind gesture.
"Relax...it's Friday night." Jethro whispered in Kate's ear. His hot breath tickled her ear and sent a chill down her spine.
"Yeah, but you've been chasing people all week, and working on that boat." Kate said with an idea popping into her mind.
"How about if you lie down and I massage you?" Kate asked in a sweet voice.
Jethro's gentle ministrations stopped on Kate's shoulders as quickly as they had started.
"Really...I don't think I've ever given you a back massage." Kate was pushing her suggestion now.
"Okay...sure." Jethro took off his sweatshirt and undershirt in one swift motion and got into bed rolling on his stomach.
Kate admired his cute butt for a few seconds and then straddled him, her knees resting on either side of his hips.
She rubbed her hands together to warm them up and proceeded to knead Jethro's firm shoulders and his neck. Paying careful attention to the clock she spent her time on his shoulders, spine and then at the very end, his lower back.
"Ohhh Katie...I love it..." Jethro cooed his words muffled by the pillow.
"Why did you stop?" Jethro asked pitifully as Kate's massage ended.
"We're just getting warmed up." Kate replied in a whisper.
Jethro tensed slightly when he realized Kate was unbuttoning her blouse, and then he heard the snap of her bra clasp and heard it hit the floor.
"Oh my God!" Jethro exclaimed when Kate leaned down and rubbed her bare breasts on his back. The skin on skin sensation was overwhelming and wonderful.
"So nice...so...soft." Jethro murmured as Kate continued slowly moving down Jethro's back.
"Mmmhmmm..." Kate murmured softly.
"Kate?" Jethro cooed.
"Yeah?" Kate answered.
Before she knew what was happening Jethro had reached for her wrist and flipped them over. He was on top of her, and he used the weight of his hips to pin her to the bed.
Kate glanced into Jethro's blue eyes she saw so many things there, love, kindness, and passion that needed to be fulfilled.
"You move fast." Kate teased.
"So do you." Gibbs countered, remembering their first night together.
"Enough of this talking." Gibbs said with a disgusted look as he kissed Kate's lips with fervor. She responded to his advances and ran a gentle hand through his hair.
Gibbs trailed his kisses lower, past Kate's neck and down to her breasts. He cupped them gently in his hands, lightly brushing her hardened nipples with his thumbs.
"Oh...Jethro!" Kate moaned in exasperation. His slow teasing tormented her but she loved every minute of it.
"This skirt is going to look gorgeous on my floor." Gibbs teased as he tugged at the fabric around Kate's hips.
Compliantly Kate lifted her hips and reached around the back to undo the zipper. The skirt was quickly discarded.
"You had these on...all day?" Jethro asked wide-eyed as he looked at the black lace garter belt and matching panties Kate had on.
Kate nodded.
"In the office...all day...wow...glad I didn't know I would have jumped you in the elevator." Jethro teased as he ran a hand over Kate's sheer stockings.
"But I wore them for a reason." Kate replied weak now that Jethro was massaging her legs with his deft fingers.
"You've wanted me all day." Jethro said as he winked at Kate.
"Egomaniac." Kate replied with a wicked grin.
"I'm not arrogant if it's true." Jethro replied as one hand traveled up Kate's leg to undo the snaps on the garters. Kate smirked at his wise-ass comment.
"Mmmmm" Kate moaned as Jethro's fingers teased her hips and thighs.
"You're so beautiful." Jethro whispered as he slowly removed Kate's stockings kissing her legs the whole way down.
"Mmmm thanks..." Kate replied softly. She was so wrapped up in the sensations of the moment. This was wonderful. They were both relaxed, they were both taking their time, making love to Jethro was always amazing, but this was beyond amazing, it was...
"Oh my God Jethro!" Kate's thoughts were interrupted by the sensation of Jethro's warm breath along her most sensitive area.
"Thaaat'ss awesomeee." Kate said drawing out her words.
Jethro slid off Kate's panties and unsnapped the garter belt, flinging both items on the floor. He eyed her with hunger and lust...Kate Todd was all his for tonight and he was going to enjoy every minute.
"Uhhhhhhh!" Kate moaned as Gibbs ran a finger along her center, exposing just how ready she was for him.
"You like that don't you?" Gibbs asked teasingly.
"Mmmhmmm...just don't stop...ever..." Kate said in a throaty voice.
Kate closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensations that Jethro was pleasuring her with, his fingers gently caressing her senstive areas, making her wetter and more aroused with each caress.
"Jethro..." Kate moaned his name.
"Yeah?" He said it so quietly Kate almost didn't hear him.
"I want you...now." Kate demanded.
"Not yet." Jethro replied as his tongue slowly made contact with Kate's clitoris.
Kate gasped and lifted her hips off the bed at the sensation. Her hands gripped at the satin sheets, her arms tensing slightly.
"Now Jethro...now...please." Kate demanded...he was amazing but she wanted all of him.
Jethro stopped abruptly and stood up. Kate rolled to the side and clawed at the zipper on his jeans...she was really aching for him...and a pair of well made Levi's were not going to stand in her way.
The button on the jeans popped in frustration and clinked on the hardwood floor as Kate pulled Jethro's pants and boxers down to his ankles. Clumsily, Jethro stepped out of them and fell back onto the bed.
Kate's eyes were wide in anticipation. His excitement hadn't escaped her notice,she was more than ready for him, and he for her.
"It's Friday night." Jethro said as he propped himself up on an elbow and smoothed Kate's hair out of her eyes.
Kate bit her lower lip in anticipation.
"About that...do you mind?" Kate asked hoping it would go over well...she was in the mood to be subordinate.
"Changing the ritual are we?" Jethro asked as he shifted his weight, once again using his hips to pin Kate to the bed.
Kate delighted at the sensation of Jethro's hardness resting on her belly.
"I can get on top." Kate said quickly as she scrambled to move to her usual Friday night spot.
"I got this." Jethro said as he used the force of his weight to prove his point, effectively keeping Kate in her place as he slid into her slowly.
"Ahhh..." Jethro let out a throaty moan as he delighted in the sensation of making love to Kate Todd.
Kate gasped at the sudden but welcome fullness she felt.
"Deeper." Jethro cooed as he thrust his hips, and Kate wrapped her legs around his waist, driving Jethro even deeper.
A breath caught in Kate's throat as she tilted her hips gently.
"That's the spot." Jethro whispered as he grinned at Kate.
The couple settled into a slow steady rhythm. This was nothing like the frantic, lust and bourbon fueled Friday nights of the past few months, no this was something different, it was as if they were speaking without words. Maintaining steady eye contact Kate got lost in the blue pools of Jethro's eyes in turn Jethro was lost in Kate's chocolate-brown eyes, reflections of admiration and physical need rife between the two. It was Kate who broke the silence.
"Ohh..I'm...ready..." Kate panted as she reached up and pulled Jethro closer to her.
Jethro winced for a second, he might have nail marks in the morning but he wouldn't mind.
"Me too honey..." Jethro whispered as he kissed Kate and increased his pace slightly.
"Yes...yessss! Jethro!" Kate panted as she felt her muscles tense, and then relax. She closed her eyes relishing the sensation. Mere seconds later she felt Jethro's release, she opened her eyes, and ran a delicate hand through his hair.
"Wow." Jethro said his breathing still heavy as he moved and lay down next to Kate.
Kate's breathing was returning to normal as she rolled and faced Jethro, lacing one of her hands through his and snuggling closer to him.
"What made you change your mind?" Jethro asked, a curious grin playing across his face.
"It was just an idea." Kate said plainly as she kissed Jethro's shoulder.
"Well I liked it." Jethro smiled back at Kate as he said it.
"Sleep?" Jethro suggested as he pulled the comforter up over them.
Kate nodded yes and didn't bother to conceal a heavy yawn. She reached over and turned out the beside lamp, content to return to Jethro's waiting arms.
"A little submission goes a long way" Kate thought happily as she and Jethro both drifted off to sleep.
