Hey guys thanks for the reviews! They mean alot to me. I just want to say that i already wrote up to chapter six. You guys have alot of laughing and questions to ask. I think the chapters are really really good. I don't really want to say much more but soon its going to start to get very... adult like. So if you're offended by cussing and talking about sex, i suggest you stop reading. There isn't in this chapter but it will be coming up in chapters 5 and 6. Just a warning! and there's going to be lot of cussing also. but if your okay with that then enjoy!

It was the first time he was ever invited to go to Sullivan's with Flack tagging along. Flack always thought he was a nerd, but this time Flack was the one who invited him. He was so excited, because Kylie was going to be there. He had even decided to gel his hair.

The walk was cold, but he didn't mind, he just stuck his iPod in and walked from the lab to the bar. He finally made it and saw Flack, Kylie, Danny, and Lindsay sitting in a booth. "Hey, Adam." Kylie cheered. She was definitely drunk already, he could tell.

"Hi, Kylie." Adam said. "Hey guys."

"To Adam." Lindsay said.

"Yes." Kylie agreed. "For breaking up the vegetable oil. I mean. Olive. And leading us to that stupid cook. What's her name? Holly Hitchers? Yeah. How can you kill someone? It's so... so... disturbing." Kylie hiccupped. "I'm a little intoxicated. Don't let me drive." She chuckled.

"This is for one case." Adam said. "What's she gonna be like when we work two in a day?" Flack smiled.

"Even worse than this." He said.

"Let's play I never!" Kylie shrieked.

"Yes." Lindsay agreed.

"No." Flack said.

"Girls win." Kylie said.

"I'm in." Adam said. They got five shot glasses and a bottle of vodka from

Frankie.

"Okay." Kylie said. "I never…slept with my girlfriend's sister."

"Not fair." Flack said, downing a shot. "Me next. I never slept with someone because they had money."

"Curse you." Kylie said taking a shot.

"I never slept in the lab because I got kicked out of my own apartment." Lindsay sang as Danny took a shot. "I never did it in a public bathroom." Lindsay said again. Adam, Flack and Kylie all took their shots.

"Go Adam." Flack said giving him a high five.

"I never pissed my pants on Halloween because some house was supposedly haunted." Adam laughed as he watched Danny take a shot.

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"Hung over on your third day of work." Kylie whined to Lindsay.

"Never good." Lindsay said back. "What happened when Adam took you home?"

"Nothing." Kylie said. "Adam is to nice to take advantage of a drunken girl."

"But if you weren't drunk?" Lindsay asked.

"He saw me in my bra and thong." Kylie laughed. "I'm assuming because when I woke up, that's what I was wearing, and I don't think I did that myself. I'd have put pajamas on."

"Yeah, he definitely saw your ass in a thong. They matched though, right?"

"Thank God. Any guy who sees a woman in not matching underwear is married." She laughed.

"Guys." Adam said walking into the break room. "You need to go get a dead body. I'm bored out of my freaking mind!"

"I'm hung over. I don't need to do any scenes. I wont do any scenes unless Mac makes me." Kylie said.

"Same here. Let's not play any drinking games when we've got work the next day." Lindsay chimed in.

"Deal." Adam said. "Although taking Kylie home was something else." Adam smiled when he noticed her blush. "Nice matching underwear by the way." He said before leaving. It was his turn to leave her in the dust and think about what he had said, instead of the other way around. Two could play that game, and he was certainly capable of it, despite the fact he was a little socially challenged.

"He's into you." Lindsay said.

"No he's not." Kylie said. "You think?"

"Yes." Lindsay said. "I never took you for the geek type. You're always looking at the officers."

"You've known me three days." Kylie said. "And I like lookin' at what the Leos got. I don't like having them." Kylie said.

"Leos?" Lindsay laughed.

"Law enforcement officers." Kylie said. "FBI lingoes. Not quite used to how you guys do things. Like Sid. I noticed he called the Vic victim every time. He respects them. I like that."

"They don't do it like that on the FBI side?"

"Not quite. The department I was with was more worried about being promoted. You guys care here." Lindsay nodded in agreement. It was the reason she moved to New York too. "I miss some of the guys there, though. Well not the guys in The CNU. The NCIS."

"You worked with NCIS too?"

"No. My best friend, Amy, did, and she introduced me to them. We're all still pretty close." Kylie said.

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"Kylie." Hawkes said. "You ready?" It was the end of shift and Hawkes was waiting for Kylie to finish up some evidence. She nodded her head and followed him out. They grabbed some coffee and then started to walk Central Park. Kylie refused to talk about it until he mentioned it. "What happened, inside, Kylie?" He finally asked her.

"You a shrink to?" Kylie asked defensively.

"You should talk about it before I take a look at your head."

"I don't really know you, Shell." She started.

"I understand that." Sheldon said. "But I'm a good listener." Kylie sighed and then started to talk.

"It was like any other day." She said. "Went to the coffee shop picked up Hans and myself some coffee, and then he came in. Told us all to get on the ground and put our cell phones in this bag. The bag got to me and I put a cell in there, my leisure one. I kept my commercial one and called it in, then set it back in my pocket, and went to draw my weapon and wait for the opportunity to start talking him down, but then he saw my gun. I slipped up, and he noticed. He picked me up by my hair and threw my across the room. Literally." She paused, wondering if Hawkes would say something.

"You were brave." He said, watching her the whole time. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"He kept calling me a whore, slut, its in the book, he called me it. And he took the butt of my gun and beat me in the head at least five or six times." She pointed to the back of the right side of her head. "I kicked him away. For then. And finally the CNU got there. But, they couldn't talk this guy down. He wouldn't listen. So I watched him. I noticed he sweat a lot. Nerves. And then I watched him as he looked at his hostages. There was a little girl. He never let her go, but I knew he wouldn't hurt her. The way he looked at her… he had a daughter. I tried to play hero and fight for his gun, and mine, but I wound up getting shot in the shoulder. This guy…he… he was mentally ill." Kylie started to cry. "I'm sorry." She said, wiping a tear.

"It's okay." Sheldon said. "Let's just sit." They sat down on the closest bench.

"He shot me more than once." She said, before taking a sip of her coffee.

"How many times?" She held up five fingers. "Kylie, what else did he do to you?"

"I killed him." She ignored his question. "I woke up from a coma, and they told me I killed him…. I saved all those people's lives, but I took his away."

"You did the right thing."

"I don't even really remember killing him. They told me I jumped him from behind and strangled him with the string from a woman's skirt, and that's when he shot me in my foot. And then… he shot me again in my leg and again in my arm and then I kicked him, and I kicked and I managed to get a gun and he shot me again right before I shot him three times in the throat, and the chest. But I don't remember him ever…trying to rape me. They told me he tried raping me. I don't remember it. Five bullet wounds and he never managed a kill shot. How lucky. Right shoulder, right leg, right arm, left foot left shin. No kill shot." Hawkes put his arm around Kylie, and squeezed her shoulder. She told him the truth about as much as she could, but some of it was still a lie.

"You're alive." Hawkes said. "And because of you, that little girl is alive."

"I'm alive." Kylie repeated. "But I live with the pain. I get shots of pain going up me everyday. I have headaches from when he beat me."

"Its normal." Hawkes said. "But you need to see a doctor in a hospital that can give you painkillers. Kylie, you have to face the truth. You're in pain."

"Pain is good." Kylie said. "It lets you know you're alive."

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"Hawkes, what are you doing here? It's Kylie's shift." Mac said when he caught Hawkes grabbing DNA results from Adam.

"Hey Mac." Hawkes said. "Sorry, uhmm I decided to trade shifts with her. I thought she needed some rest."

"Why didn't you run this by me?" Mac asked.

"Mac." Hawkes said, flatly as he followed Mac to his office. "She is in no condition to come to work right now. She is lying on my bathroom floor, crying."

"What?" Mac asked. He stopped in his tracks.

"I talked to her finally."

"She told you?"

"Everything. Now, Mac I'm sorry but she's not in the best state right now."

"I'll let it go, but next time, clear it with me." Hawkes nodded and left the room.

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"Kylie?" Hawkes went to his bathroom but she wasn't in there. He opened his bedroom door and didn't see her. He walked past Adam's room and found her curled up in a ball, sleeping, on Adam's lap.

"She called me." Adam whispered. Hawkes nodded.

"How long has she been like that?" He whispered to Adam.

"An hour." Adam whispered back. "My. Foot. Is asleep." Hawkes smiled and did his best to hold back a laugh.

"Hungry? I brought pizza." Adam shook his head.

"I'm just gonna sit here with her." He said, looking down at Kylie, whose nose was twitching. "Can you call Flack so he doesn't worry?" Hawkes nodded his head and shut the door, making his way into the living room. He took his phone from the counter and dialed Flack's number. Surprisingly, Danny picked up.

"Danny?" Hawkes asked.

"Flack's at my place. We got a bet on the game tonight. He's in the bathroom." Danny explained.

"Tell him that Kylie is alright, and that She fell asleep in Adam's lap. She's fine though."

"Will do." Danny said. "She talked to you, didn't she?"

"Yeah, and now she's a mess." Hawkes admitted. "I feel terrible."

"Don't be. She needed to tell someone. All right I gotta go the game's back on. See ya." Danny said. Hawkes didn't have time to reply because Danny had already hung up.

An hour later, Adam walked into his living room. Hawkes was still watching TV. "Hey." Adam said to his roommate. She sat down on the couch and took the last piece of pizza that sat in the box.

"There's more in the fridge." Hawkes said. "I figured when she woke up she'd be starving."

"I know I am." Adam laughed. "She's really worked up over it."

"Adam, she told me a lot, and none of it was good." Hawkes sighed.

"I wish she could have told me." Adam sighed back.

"I know, buddy. But she will. When she's ready. I mean she went to you for comfort." Hawkes tried his best to comfort his friend.

"I'm going to bed." Adam sighed. "I guess I'm stuck on the couch."

"Adam?" They heard Kylie yell.

"Looks like your not." Hawkes laughed. Adam got up and headed towards his room.

"I'll leave the door open." Adam called behind to Hawkes who was laughing.

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She woke up and smelled Adam's cologne. She realized she was lying on a bare chest. It was Adam's. He was just in boxers. She looked at her own clothes and realized she was in a baggy Arizona t-shirt. Adam's. She noticed she wasn't wearing any pants. Just the girl's boxer briefs she had on from the day before. Definitely Adam. She couldn't help but smile though, because she realized that he was there for her when she had a breakdown. She looked up at him, and he was sound asleep. She didn't want to wake him because she knew she had kept him up half the night. Instead she stretched and got up to find the bathroom. When she got back, he was rolled over on his stomach. She silently laughed at how much he tossed and turned and then climbed back into his bed. He jumped up at the sudden movement and turned to look at her.

"Oh, its just you." He sighed with relief. She tried not to laugh.

"Rough sleeper?" She asked. He nodded his head.

"How about you? Are you okay? Do you need anything? Was my bed comfy enough? Did you sleep well?" She tried not to laugh as Adam started to reveal his social awkwardness once again.

"I'm fine, Adam." She said.

"Okay."

"So to answer the rest of your questions. Do I need anything? Feeling kind of hungry. Was your bed comfy? Yes. Did I sleep well, no not really." She said.

"Hungry." Adam said. "Okay what do you want?"

"Hmm." She sighed. She bit her bottom lip as she thought. "A nice big old bacon egg and cheese bagel."

"Wow, you've got an appetite." Adam said.

"Yeah, come on. Get dressed so we can go eat." She said. Adam laughed as he climbed out of his bed. "Hurry, Ross. We haven't got all day. My stomach wants food and it wants it now." She whined. "I'll be in the living room waiting for your slow ass." She walked into the living room and turned on the TV. "Hey Sheldon." Kylie greeted him as he walked in the door. "We're going out to breakfast. Wanna come?"

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Kylie, Hawkes, and Adam all walked a block to a small diner called Mama's. They had ordered their food and were drinking coffee when a man came over to them. "Kylie Flack." He said.

"Anthony DiNozzo." She smiled. "Long time, no see."

"Look at you." He said, leaning down to hug her. He kissed her cheek and came back up. "Two guys at once, Kales. Damn. You're like me only a girl."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Kylie said. "This is Sheldon Hawkes and Adam Ross. Adam is a lab tech and Hawkes is a CSI. Guys this is Tony DiNozzo. He is an NCIS agent." The guys exchanged waves. "What are you doin' here? You live in D.C."

"Gibbsy sent me on a quest." He said.

"Gibbs let you out and about on your own?" She laughed.

"No way!" A man said behind Tony.

"Gibbs! Agh who's dead?"

"No one yet." He said, hugging Kylie.

"Okay, I can play that game too. How's Abbs?"

"Her normal…well not normal self." Tony said. "Gibbs, I'll be back." He said.

"Why?" Gibbs asked.

"Two hot babes…calling my name." He said walking off.

"Buy him a leash." Kylie said.

"Heard that." Tony yelled back.

"Hey. I'll call you tonight we can get together. I'm sure Abby will wanna see you." Gibbs started. "I gotta go grab Romeo and make sure those girls don't beat him with their purses. It was nice seeing you again."

"See ya Jet." Kylie said. "I used to work with Abby she's a lab tech. She introduced me to the guys at NCIS." Kylie explained. "Gibbs is like a father to me, and then Tony is…well a pig."

"That's cool." Adam said.

"Yup." Kylie said. "You'd like Abby. She's…something else."

"How do you mean?" Hawkes asked.

"Loves caffeine." Kylie started. "Goth music. Black baggy pants, tattoos, piercings. She's like a little ball of joy though. Shocking how she dresses, but she is awesome. She's like the smartest little girl scientist in the world."

"And the smartest…ugh…yah know…Guy? Scientist. I mean." Adam asked.

"Yeah. You noticed I said girl." Kylie laughed. "You." She winked.

"Thanks." Adam smiled.