Everything She Ever Wanted

Chapter 2.

In the end they do end up being lucky with having no new cases come in other than the one that they're working on and getting everything ready for Tony and Kelly-Ann to go undercover. Although it had also been decided that some aspects of it would have to be left on hold until the FBI was fully involved. So the team was open for new cases but if it appeared to be anything major that they couldn't be bogged down with then Balboa's team was sent out.

That morning when Kelly-Ann had woken up she found herself feeling very happy and happy about the prospect of going into work, and she knew that very much Tony was the one influencing that happy feeling in her. As she arrived that morning she was also quite surprised to find herself being the first one there, although she did know that Gibbs was already in and somewhere round the building because there was a coffee cup sitting on his desk. After a while he appeared and said that they would be working on cold cases before he then picked the cup up and headed up to Vance's office. So she had then made a start on working through her pile as McGee arrived. When Tony then arrived a little while later she somehow knew that he was on the elevator and when it finally dinged on their floor she found that the butterflies were building in her stomach. Then she didn't know if it was because of the way the two of them had been cuddled up together the night before and that his scent had already started to permeate in her senses. Because she had already loved the way he smelled, but she would only tend to pick it up if the two of them were either standing or sitting close together. That day she picked it up just as he was approaching their area and was walking past her. Then when he finally got into her sight her heart started racing away and she couldn't believe how much she was feeling like a giddy teenager. As he then wished them both a "Good morning." She could also sense how happy and bubbly he was also feeling. Then as he sat down and powered up his computer he gave her a sly smile which she returned with one of her own.

About half way through the morning she disappeared off outside for a while to get some air and a coffee, which she then took and went to sit in her favourite spot. The reason that she loved it so much was because the stone seat was slightly set back near some trees and shrubs and the path that it sat near was one that was hardly used by the Navy Yard workers, so it was nice and quiet. Over the years of her working at the Navy Yard it had certainly become her most favourite spot of all with the way she could sit with her coffee and meditate for a while, even on a freezing cold winters day she could still be found sitting in that exact spot. Although in all that time she had only just found out that that spot wasn't covered by the CCTV cameras on the Yard either. So it then made her smile when she saw Tony walk past just a little bit further up on the cross roads obviously looking for her. When she saw him pass for a second time a few minutes later she couldn't bare it any longer so she cleared her throat loudly and sat forward so he could see her, and when he did spot her she was rewarded with one of his million watt smiles that she loved so much. As he came and joined her she could tell that he was being slightly hesitant about their vow of keeping work and home life separate. So she then whispered in his ear about there not being any camera there. He then just took her hand in his and she laid her head against his shoulder and they then just sat like that enjoying the silence together.

When they went back upstairs they shared a quick kiss where they were sitting before then going back to the coffee stand again to make it look like they'd just been on the coffee run. As they were just heading back to the bullpen again it was to see Gibbs coming down the stairs and as he saw them he rushed over to tell them to go and pick up Carla Monroe. She was the wife of one drug dealer called Nathaniel Monroe who had killed a marine after that marine had threatened him for dealing drugs to their fellow marines and his best friend had also been killed from a bad batch that he had been selling. It seemed that now Nathaniel was trying to cut a deal now that his trial date had been set. So he had now grassed the wife up saying that she had been the one that had contaminated the drugs and had given them the evidence to also prove it. Himself and McGee would be following on afterwards to search the place as they thought it best to do it when she was out of the way. Because when they'd gone to arrest Nathaniel she had gone a bit mad fighting them from taking him and had been lucky with managing to land a few punches on both Gibbs and McGee. When she'd gone in for another punch on Gibbs he'd managed to grab her wrists so that Kelly-Ann had then managed to get the cuffs on her. On that occasion as they'd taken her back to the Navy Yard and Kelly-Ann had talked her down during the ride back to the Yard and had calmed her down somewhat. Then whatever she'd said to Carla as they'd put her in the holding cell it had seemed to resonate with her and it had then made the interview so much easier. So as they left Kelly-Ann guessed it was the reason why Gibbs had sent them to do it. When they arrived at the house and got out of the car she said to him in warning "Just look out for the punch." This time though she didn't use her fists but she did try to escape them. The funniest thing about it was that just as they got hold of her she managed to get out of their grasp and sent the two of them flying into a muddy ditch. Kelly-Ann managed to find her footing first and got out of it, got after Carla and finally caught her. When she turned and saw Tony still trying to struggle out of it she had to bite her lip to stop herself from laughing at the sight. In the end though she took pity on him and after depositing Carla into the car and making sure she was cuffed and locked in there, she went back to him and helped him out.

When they got back to the Navy Yard again and had deposited Carla into holding again, a lot calmer than she had been on the first time they'd put her in there. As Tony headed to the locker room because he knew he couldn't go to the bullpen in the state he was in. Even with Kelly-Ann being in a bit of a state herself she went up to tell Gibbs what had happened to them and that Tony was just getting clean and changed. Gibbs told her that she should do the same and then the two of them were to go and watch in observation.

While she was in the shower she knew it was going to happen, but actually found herself not getting nervous when she heard the door creek open, close and then lock. She just found herself getting a bit nervous about him seeing her naked as she started to let her thoughts get to her about it. It wasn't the thought of her being naked as such it was just that over the years she'd become quite self conscious about the scars she had on her body from the abuse she'd suffered and also the new scars she'd picked up a few years ago when Harper Dearing had blown the NCIS building up. Even though she had got those scars from that day she had been grateful to Tony getting them out of the office when he did, because at that time she'd been in the office which had been next door to the armoury. Because the bomb had gone off as they were still trying to evacuate the building she'd ended up getting stuck under a pile of rubble. Even so when she had healed from her injuries she was so very happy that they'd got out of the office because that was no more and had completely collapsed. There was one scar from that day she had loved though and she never knew what had been digging into her, but whatever it was had left her with a heart shaped scar on her side. Luckily she'd only come out of it with just cuts, bruises and a broken arm. So in the end after getting some courage up she peeked round the shower curtain at and said "Anthony DiNozzo did you just sneak in here to see me naked?"

He replies "No because I guessed that for the moment that would be a hard limit for you. I just wanted to make sure that you were ok?"

She answers "I'm ok. And at least this time we only ended up being dirty and not punched, are you ok?"

He then answers "I'm fine. But I think the suit has probably had it though."

As she then shut the shower off she then said "Can you pass me a towel please?" He does so and in the process does manage to get a quick flash of her body. Although with guessing from what they're probably from he feels his anger build up as to how someone could cause that much damage to a child. But of course it's the newer ones that draw his attention especially as when he sees the heart one he thinks that it's cute. Because of realizing what he's seen she says calmly "Most of them are from when I was a child. The more recent ones I'm thankful to you for them."

He asks with a puzzled look on his face "Why?"

She answers "Because you got us out of the office when Dearing blew the building up. I still managed to get struck under some rubble because of the bomb going off as we were evacuating. But if you hadn't come in the office and told us to get out I wouldn't be here because the office I was in got completely destroyed in the blast. The heart one I love and is a reminder of that day."

He replies "I'm glad that you were ok, even if you were trapped. Mind you I was stuck in the elevator, but I should think that being stuck in rubble was quite scary?"

She answers "It was quite scary as I was in pain and only found out later it was because of a broken arm. Not only that the worst thing was being able to barely move and also not being able to breathe very well because of the rubble on my chest."

He then says "And I know how that feels in a way after having the pneumonic plague."

As she says "What?" He says to her "Get dressed and I promise you that I won't look." He then sits on the bench on the opposite side to her so that he has his back to her, while she then gets dressed out of his sight behind him and he carries on saying "It was before the time you got here. But I opened an envelope with the Y pestis inside it in the bullpen and ended up with the plague. I was drowning in my own fluids and of course survived it. So I presume that being stuck in rubble was something the same as that?"

She answers "I think so and probably for a few days after that as well because my chest and ribs were severely bruised from it. So it came as a relief when it eventually went off so I could breathe and cough and do other things without it being agony and not breathing properly. But then after seeing what had happened to the office afterwards and also knowing how many people had died on that day as well I was very thankful to be here still." As she then sorts out her hair into its ponytail and has the back of her neck exposed, he places a soft kiss to that spot on her neck and he says "And I'm glad that you're here too."

She then turns and kisses him softly on the lips before saying "You know even if it is a shame that your suit got ruined, it is nice to see you in your casual stuff. It reminds me of the old days when I was first here and did sort of like you then. Of course that was when I thought that you wouldn't be interested in me at all."

He replies "Thank you that's good to know. I might just have to remember that, especially as I think that we've established now that I don't care about what you have or have not done. I must say though that you look in your work suits and dresses too, but you also look good just being casual as well."

She gives him a shy smile and says "Thank you."

After that he says "Anyway we'd better get out of here and get to observation before Gibbs sends out a search party for. As he'll know that we're not there even if he is in interrogation."

By the time Gibbs had dismissed them for the night everything on the case had been wrapped up nicely. In the first round in interrogation Carla wouldn't admit to anything and kept saying that they couldn't prove anything to her involvement. Even after the search had turned evidence up for them and Gibbs tried again he still didn't get anywhere. As he came out of the room and they came out of observation Kelly-Ann said about how closely she'd been watching Carla closely and had started to wonder from her tells if there was another accomplice or a couple. To which Gibbs said that when they were doing the search and she was in holding he'd left strict instructions that for now she wasn't allowed to have her call yet and she had been very desperate to make a call. So Kelly-Ann said that most probably she wanted to call them to either get the evidence to disappear before they got there or get them to cause a distraction and do an escape attempt, thinking that most probably she was going to be present when they did the search or even stick her tongue out at them so to speak when they didn't find anything and then had to release her. So with that Gibbs decided that they should do a stakeout on the place. He sent she and Tony on ahead so that they could plant a package in the place where the proper package had been found, when they'd done it and had got back into the car again, they called to say it had been done. Gibbs then made a call to holding to say that Carla was now allowed her as he and McGee then made their way to join her and Tony for the stakeout. After Gibbs got the call to say that Carla had done her call he told them all to be on standby. About half an hour later someone turned up at the house and they followed him into the house a few minutes later and caught him red-handed with the false evidence in his hand trying to get rid of it because of thinking that it was the real thing. When they got back to the Navy Yard again with their new suspect Gibbs gave his interrogation to Kelly-Ann and Tony, which the two of them soon had him singing like a canary. While they were doing that Gibbs was in the other interrogation room having another go at Carla to no avail. So as Kelly-Ann and Gibbs talked things through again and she said that as he'd not said about having the accomplice there. Carla was most probably thinking that he'd got to the house and had got the job done of getting rid of it. So they then came up with a plan that he would have another go at Carla and then on his cue she would knock on the door and interrupt him. They would act out like she was showing him the evidence, he'd then let her in for her to slam the evidence down on the table in front of Carla and she would then ask calmly what that evidence was. Then they would just have to hope that she would finally admit things. Even though it was all a set up with the interrupting Gibbs as she waited for her cue to do it Kelly-Ann was quite surprised at how nervous she felt about doing it with knowing the rule about not interrupting him oh so well. In the end things did go according to plan and Carla was soon admitting everything. When they got back up to the bullpen Gibbs told them that the paperwork could wait until the morning and to go home. As they were all getting packed up Kelly-Ann found her mind wandering to she and Tony's date a bit later on, as well as to what she was going to wear for it. Not only that she could also feel the nerves and excitement starting to build up. Although as she, Tony and McGee ended up in the elevator together going down to the parking lot and they said "Goodnight." Just before heading to all their separate cars McGee also added "Have a good night." She replied "Will do!" And as she turned to face Tony she couldn't help the small smile that came onto her lips.

By the time Kelly-Ann got home she worked it out that she about an hour in which to get ready in. So first of all she had a quick soak in the bath, before getting out to stand in front of her wardrobe to make up her mind what she was going to wear. When she finally decided on what to wear and put it on, she then did her make-up. As she did it and was looking at her reflection in the mirror, she found herself thinking that for the first time in her life she was actually feeling really good about getting herself ready for a date with a man. Plus she knew that with the way Tony hid behind his own masks and she couldn't hazard a guess as to what sort of life he'd had in the past. She somehow knew that one day he would probably tell her everything and those masks would drop away. Although in her heart she did know that he was the right man for her and she really hoped that things would work out ok for them as a couple.

In the end by the time she was ready she'd got about ten minutes to spare, so she ended up sitting down to have a cup of tea. Which in the end she did sort of regret doing because it gave her time to think and allow the nerves to build up, in the end though she told herself to stop being so stupid because she knew Tony, even if it did mean a big change to their overall relationship with one another.

When her front doorbell finally rang she got up from the sofa and as she went to open the door she took a deep breath, then as she opened the door her eyes nearly popped out of her head as to how Tony was looking. Even though at work she'd found him sexy in a suit, this suit was certainly one of his best ones. Not only that with the crisp white shirt and the green stripped tie that was really bringing out his gorgeous eyes, it took her a minute to finally take a breath with how sexy and gorgeous he was looking. He then presented her with a bunch of flowers which she just quickly put into water to put them into vases later on. As they then walked out o his car, he was the perfect gentleman, as he took her arm to walk her to the car and also opened the car door for her to get in.

For their date itself they went to a little Italian restaurant that was out of the way. Because of the place being just so small it was quite packed out. Even so because of the way it was all set out when they were sat at their table it still felt like the two of them were alone. The night also ended up being a really good one because of the food being so good, but it was also so good being in each other's company and very much enjoying it. It was also from that night that she knew she had started to very much fall in love with him, because of the way he was such good company and the two of them talked with ease. Not only that being in the candlelight was making his green eyes shine so much, making her want to fall in them so very much. She was also amazed to find that she was very much getting the man behind all the bravado and the frat boy image. It did also make her realize that he did truly know how to treat a woman properly. The other thing that surprised was when as they were leaving the owner of the restaurant and his wife came to hug and kiss them both. Then in Italian they congratulated Tony on bringing such a beautiful woman with him to dinner and that they really hoped he was going to be with her for keeps. To which he replied also in Italian that he did really want her to be because she was a very special lady and he cared about her very much. After saying it he then put his arm round her waist and pulled her into him, before then placing a light kiss to the top of her head. She was then taken by surprise again when Mrs Fonsecca said that she must be very special to him because she was the first woman that he'd taken there. And somehow with that remark Kelly-Ann knew in an instant that he did truly want the two of them to work and knew that he did really care about her a lot. Of course while they'd been talking she hadn't given anything away that she did actually know what they were talking about. Because as yet nothing had come up during the time she'd been on the team to show that she was also fluent in speaking Italian. She'd been doing it ever since she was a child because her cousin Tom had married an Italian lady called Lola and she didn't speak one word of English. Kelly-Ann started to learn from a young age so that she could act as the family's translator whenever they went to visit them and vice versa. She did though finally give away that she knew what they'd been talking about when Mrs Fonsecca told her to look after Tony, to which in Italian she said that she promised she would do so. It then of course made her laugh when she saw the expression on Tony's face as to what she'd done. As they then held hands as they walked back to the car again she did apologize to him for not saying that she was fluent in Italian too and then explained about having done it since she was a child. All he did was turn round and say that it was ok because it now meant that they could share secret messages with one another because of the way the others didn't know Italian.

By the time they got back to her apartment again following their date Kelly-Ann is feeling very happy and contented. Not only that she also had a feeling that being with Tony was helping her confidence grow, but she also knew that she could really trust him with her life both on and off the job. After helping her out of the car and taking her to her doorstep they hugged and kissed, as they broke apart she took his hand and whispered in his ear "Do you want to come in for a coffee?"

To which he said quietly back "Are you sure?"

She answered him "Yes I'm very sure."

"Ok I will do, thank you."

While she sorted out the coffees in the kitchen he went into the lounge. While she waited for the coffee getting done, she turned to pull the blind down over the window but while holding the string and looking out she soon became lost in her thoughts. As she looked at the moon outside she started to think that she wasn't to waste this chance because he was a really great man and throw things away with him, not only that this was her chance to put the past finally behind her and have the man that she did really want to have in her life with her. When she finally managed to pull herself out of her reverie, she pulled the blind down and shut the darkness out. Because of how her kitchen was also set up and having the sink in front of the window to be able to reach the blind string she was standing on her tip toes. But was very surprised when she all of a sudden felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her from behind her, she then took a deep breath in just to drink in his glorious scent. As he then kissed her neck and started to graze on the spot just below her earlobe, she soon found herself instinctively moving her neck so that he had more access and she was also soon finding that she was loving the sensations that it was causing to course through her body. It then made her smile when he whispered in her ear in Italian "You're a beautiful woman." To which she replied that he was a gorgeous man as she stroked his arms that were around her body. Once their coffees were ready they took them into the lounge and then sat having it cuddled up together on the sofa. As they finished them, he first of all put his cup down on the coffee table, before he then took her cup from her and did the same thing. After that they began to just share some lazy kisses, before he then pushed her down gently to be laying on the sofa. With also knowing about her past and her nervousness being in that position may bring up, he then made sure that as he went with her, he went down at her side rather than ending up on top her. As he moved to grazing on her he started to also let his hands roam over her body, but again took things very slowly with her. In the end though he did make sure that he ended things before things go to heated and it could end up going somewhere that she didn't want it go in. As she went with him to the door to see him out, just before she opened the front door they shared another kiss. Then after she opened the door and he was standing on the top step she said to him "Thank you for a very special night." Before they shared another quick kiss, as he then said "Goodnight." And headed for his car. As she then closed the door she collapsed lightly against the wall as she sighed and touched her lips thinking just how lucky she truly was.

A/N: So I've managed to have a busy morning this morning so that I could bring you two updated stories today, woo hoo! I hope of course that you enjoy this one! The next chapter will be just a shorty as the set up continues for the undercover op and of course the continuation of their relationship, will something more happen? Wait and find out! I was also considering putting the rest of the short stories into this one to make it a long one. Please let me know if you'd prefer it as just a series or if you would like it combined into one as I am happy to do that! xxx. D.