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Prompt #1: Teasing - It's something they've always done, before and after they had their relationship.

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If you happen to walk by the forensics lab of NCIS, you may hear a pair of close friends exchanging very suggestive remarks to each other. If you dared to look inside, you'd see the peppy Goth scientist known commonly as "Energizer" Abby Sciuto speaking with Agent Timothy McGee from Gibbs' MCR team. If you listened long enough, you could probably arrive at the same conclusion many of their colleagues at NCIS already had - that they were an item.

However, you, and them, would be wrong.

Hearing them talk, sometimes people were under the impression that they were dating or very close to. But that misconception was always squashed. Gossip was healthy and always up-to-date in NCIS, and everyone knew the score between McGee and Abby.

The score being - there was no score. They were just friends. Who used to date, but broke up. And now they're great friends.

Really, it's much too complicated to go into in one sitting. Let's just focus on the wordplay between them.

Abby usually instigated the digs, but over the last few years, McGee's gotten better at dishing them right back out to her. It's almost like flirting, or a verbal chess match, geared towards showing some sort of hidden emotion that the pair may or may not still harbor towards each other.

But you'll never get them to talk about it. At least, not outright.

Sometimes their remarks gets too serious to be considered jibes. Sometimes, despite their best intentions, a hint of something else enters their voices.

But only a very highly skilled investigator can tell that. McGee is an agent of the highest caliber, while Abby is a forensic scientist of that same caliber. They're both very good at finding evidence. Adversely, this makes them very good at concealing it too. At least, evidence of the emotional standpoint.

However, there are times it peeks through. Mostly when one of them is in danger, whether job-related or personally. The jibes practically vanish, and there's a level of serious concern that makes even established couples want more out of their relationship.

Because c'mon, there are times when their concern for each other has crossed the friendship line like whoa.


"So, Abby, are you...are you going back to court today?"

"...McGee! Don't tell me you came down here again hoping to see me in my court suit."

"No!"

"Liar! You're blushing redder than a virgin watching her first porno."

"Says the porn queen herself."

"Ew, that's right. Yuck, thanks Tim, now that caseload's back in the forefront of my brain."

"Sorry Abs. Maybe I can make it up to you later."

"...Weeeeeell...buy me dinner and we'll call it even."

"Deal."


And now we begin the McAbby! Relax and enjoy the fun!

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