Author's Note: I've decided that I'm going to take this story farther. I liked the StoryLine on the last, and I think it could really go somewhere. How about everyone else? Thanks for adding this story to Story Alerts & Favorites.
Disclaimer: You get it, I get it, why does it have to work like this? NCIS, don't own it. Blah, blah, blah! :)
Everyone sees who I appear to be, but only a few know the real me, you can only see what I choose to show, there is so much about me that you just don't know.
Things had started to calm down around NCIS, and their crime scenes. Tony had made sure that he was there with Ziva everytime she had to interview someone. He wasn't about to let anyone get past her and her emotions, because he knew how bad she hated to show them. It had hurt her on the inside just to break down to Tony and tell him what she had been upset about.
Over the last week, they had worked two cases. The rest of it, they handled paperwork on cold cases. It still brought up the memory to Gibbs, about Pacci. He had turned him down on a case, and then, Pacci had turned up dead. Not many of the team had known him, but were still hurt by the empty spot that sat at his desk for the longest time.
Gibbs had went out for coffee, leaving his agents in the Bull-Pen, alone. Timothy McGee, typed away at his keyboard, trying to get by with only half of his paperwork, just so he could leave the silenced filled room. Ziva David, had been sitting at her desk, just barely looking up every so often to look over at Tony. And last, Tony DiNozzo, had done nothing, like usual. He had only acted when Gibbs was around. The only thing he wanted to do, was stare at Ziva.
Ziva had suddenly looked up from her desk, and looked at both of the other agents on the team. "Is anyone hungry?" She asked. "It's lunch-time, and I'm sure Gibbs wouldn't mind if I took everyone out for lunch. And we could even take Abby." Ziva said. It had been the first time since she had came back from Israel, that she had wanted to get lunch with the rest of the team. It had taken McGee by suprise.
"Umm..., sure. I'll call Abby and see if she can go." McGee said, first. Not wanting everything to be awkward. He hated it when Tony and Ziva were quit, it was when they had talked the most. It was like you could just read their minds on what they would be saying to each other, if they were talking.
"That sounds good, Zee-Vah." Tony stood up from his desk, and walked over to Ziva's. He had looked down at her, and into her eyes. Tony got close enough to where he could breath on her ear. "I'll buy yours, sweetcheeks." He said. Ziva had shuttered under Tony's breath. It had been a while since anything had went on between the two, Tony hadn't wanted to rush things.
Ziva backed up and looked to McGee. "So, is Abby going?" She almost stumbled with her words, but got herself back on track. He had nodded Ziva's way. "Good. Now we can all go." She smiled. "As couples." Tony let out a soft chuckle at Ziva's remark.
"Does mine and Abby's relationship had to be around everyone? Maybe I don't like for people to discuss what Abby and I have. Like we had anything at all, really." McGee had always been touch-y on the subject, maybe because Abby was the one who had broke his heart many years ago. At that time, Abby had came in behind McGee. Tony and Ziva had hid their laughter.
"What are you talking about, Tim?" Abby asked. "Because it sounded like you were telling Tony and Ziva that we had a relationship, when we do not." She turned him around to look at her. "Why would you do that, McGee?" Abby asked. "Is that what you want? Is it because I turned you down? What has got you talking about this?"
McGee hadn't known how to answer the questions that Abby had been shooting out at him. Mostly, because he was embarassed, and then there was Tony and Ziva standing across the room, and Tony would never let him live it down. "Abby, can we talk about this another time? We were just going for lunch, and all of this got mixed up...,"
Abby stopped him dead in his tracks. "NO!" She yelled. "I want to talk about this now, Timothy." And now he knew she ment that she had wanted to talk about it. She had only called him Timothy when she was really mad at him. "Why would you do that? Were you trying to impress them? Impress me? Well, all you did was make me mad." She said. "Maybe, if you wouldn't have done that, we might have been able to have something."
"Abby, I never got over you." Tim said. "If your wanting the answer to why I did it, it's because I never got over you. You broke up with him, and it broke my heart. Abby, I was in love with you." McGee just said out into the world of NCIS. He would have never done anything like that before. It had showed how much he had grown up since everyone was sent to different places. "Thats your answer. You didn't like me, and I couldn't take it. Why do you think that I stayed mad at you so long?"
Abby stood there, stunned. Along side Tony and Ziva. Tony had his mouth open so wide, his jaw could have hit the floor. "Wow." He had said in Ziva's ear. She nodded. "This is something I would have never dreamed of happening. McGeek..., in love. With Abby?" He asked, just as quitely as he could, not wanted the other couple across from them, to hear them talking about them.
Ziva wasn't about to talk, but just about to burst out in laughter. She had covered her mouth with her hand, but it wasn't going to be long until everyone heard her and Tony laughing. They just couldn't believe the sight in front of them, but when McGee and Abby turned to look at Tony and Ziva, they held straight faces, knowing if they didn't, they would pay for it in the end. "Whats so funny you two?" Abby asked.
"Nothing Abby. I was laughing at a joke that Ziva was over here telling me." A quick lie that Tony had just thought of on the spot. "Something about a Mossad Assissin and a copy machine." Tony said remembering back when Ziva had got mad and took it out on their copy machine at NCIS. Ziva elbowed him in the stomach, as hard as she could.
Abby turned back to Tim. "You could have just told me all of this. I just got scared when you asked me where our relationship was going to go. I wasn't ready to get married at the time, and I still don't know if I am ready." She said. "Not that I ever expected to see us get married, but.., it was just a thought at the time." Abby sighed. "And what would you even want with a girl like me? I thought only..., freaky-killing-stalkers, wanted to date me."
Tim chuckled. "Abby, I don't care what is on the outside of you, I know whats on the inside and that is all that matters with me." Abby had thought it sounded kind of cliche, but it was Timothy McGee she was listening to. His mother had raised him to respect the women that he dated. He smiled at her, in hopes that she still wouldn't be mad at me. "So, are you still mad at me? And can we still be friends?"
Abby smiled up at him, today she had wore flatts, and she was glad she had. Abby loved it when she had to look up at him. "No, I'm no longer mad at you, Tim." She said. Her smiled grew on her face. "Is friends all you want to be? I was thinking I wanted to be more." Tim nodded. She stood on her tip-toes and kissed McGee.
By now, every NCIS agent that had walked by, had stopped to watch. Everyone clapped when they seen McGee and Abby kiss. They were finally happy to see that McGee finally got a girl, one that they knew existed. Tony would have to be the happiest, though. McGee was like his brother, and he had tried to help him so many times, he had finally gave up. Tony had thought that McGee had no chance.
The team had walked out of the NCIS building, and out into the Navy Yard. "We'll take my car." McGee had said. His had been the only car that had four seats. And they had all planned to ride together. "Hey, did anyone tell Gibbs that we were leaving for lunch?" He asked.
"I left a note on his desk." Abby said with a small smiled, as she walked right beside McGee. Tony had Ziva had layed behind and watched the two of them, they made such a good couple, at least, thats what Tony and Ziva thought.
Right when they had arrived at McGee's car, a shot was fired at one of the team members. One of them layed on the ground, bleeding. One of the team members was holding the one that was hurt. Another looked around to see if anyone was out with a gun, while another just dialed 911. Today, on of the NCIS team members, had a bullet, several inches from their heart.
Author's Note: I know I had said that it was only going to be a Tony and Ziva thing, well..., I changed my mind. Just like I changed my mind about it not continuing from that first part. I thought it would be better that way! :)
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