Under the Covers
Chapter Four

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Hope you enjoy this chapter, I'm going to try and make them longer but life is so hectic at the moment!
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P.S Thought I'd throw in some Jibbs and McAbby this chapter! x

"So, they're watching and they know we're watching them?" Tony asked this was all a little too confusing.

"It seems that way." Kate replied, putting her hands on her hips and wondering why Gibbs hadn't clued them in on this. Maybe he just didn't know?

"Bathroom?" Tony suggested. Kate raised her eyebrows but followed him; he shut the door firmly after them.

"Tony, what are you doing?" Kate asked, watching as he leant over to turn on the bath taps.

"We have to play this properly now, we have to act as though we really are a married couple at all times. We don't know how much they've seen of us already so we need to make sure that we don't arouse suspicions."

Kate nodded. "Makes sense." She paused. "Wait, does that mean we'll have to…" She tailed off.

Tony grinned from ear to ear. "I love my job."

Kate left the room, resisting the urge to push him into the bathwater first. She stretched out on the bed and relaxed into the pillows. This operation was getting stranger and stranger by the minute. She took her phone out of her small handbag and began to type a message.

Gibbs was sat at his desk, a cup of cooling coffee beside him as he stared into space. He was thinking about Kate and Tony and whether he had done the right thing in sending them into what could be a potentially dangerous situation. He looked up to see Director Jen Sheppard walking passed his desk.

"You're here late Jethro." She commented but she didn't sound surprised. Jen stopped close by his desk and Gibbs could smell her scent.

He looked up and met her eyes with him; he was about to speak when his phone buzzed to life on the desk beside them. He picked it up and opened the message it was from Kate.

Gibbs exhaled and read it through again.

"Is everything okay?" Jen asked, still hovering by his desk.

"It's from Kate." He replied. "She and Tony are being watched too. I think we have a scenario that may explode in our faces, Jen."

"Kate and Tony are good agents, I have every faith in them." She paused. "I have every faith in you too, Jethro." She added quietly. The silence between them was heavy, the sexual tension between them as powerful and apparent as always. It would just take Jenny's tough exterior to crack and then they'd be back to how it was in Paris. They looked at each other for a while, their eyes meeting and holding each other's gaze.

Half an hour later Timothy McGee was downstairs in Abby's lab adjusting the uncomfortable red waistcoat he had been forced to wear. He knew he had to count himself lucky, he may look ridiculous but he was better off than Kate who was confined to a hotel room with Tony.

"Red suits you." Abby commented, stepping close to him and helping him with the garment. She stood back and admired his disguise. "It brings out the colour of your eyes." She laughed.

"Thanks Abby, the moral support I'm receiving from you is great." McGee muttered sarcastically.

Abby laughed again. "Now, you know what you have to do…"

McGee interrupted. "Yes Abby, I have to go to Tony and Kate's room and slip them this piece of paper." He gestured to the pocket in the waistcoat. "Take their order for room service or whatever and leave."

Abby sighed dramatically and shook her head. "I know all of that McGee but that's not what I mean and you know it. I want to know if anything's, y'know, going on."

McGee raised his eyebrows, he liked Abby's complex personality but sometimes she was just a little too cryptic.

"Going on?" He reiterated.

Abby rolled her eyes. "They've been cooped up in a hotel room together all day, knowing the sexual tension between them I reckon things are close to boiling point." She laughed conspiratorially.

"Right, okay." McGee still looked confused. "Maybe picking you for the job would have been better."

Abby rolled her eyes again. "Oh yeah McGee, 'cause I really blend in with the crowd."

McGee nodded, the girl had a point.

Kate knocked on the bathroom door and through gritted teeth she said.

"Tony, honey, are you nearly finished in there?"

Tony's reply was muffled through the door and the sound of water disappearing down the plughole.

"Why, am I keeping you waiting dear?" Tony replied, smirking as he slipped on one of the white dressing gowns provided by the hotel.

Kate was glad that the bathroom door was between them otherwise a divorce may be on the cards sooner rather than later. She sighed and returned to the bed, flipping through a glossy magazine that she had bought on a whim, she was glad she had now; it was something to take her mind off the current situation.

"Bathroom's all yours." Tony said, entering the room. He stepped towards Kate, who was now on her feet. He placed his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him.

"What the hell are you doing?" She whispered angrily in his ear.

"Just playing the part." Tony whispered back with a smile on his face.

A knock on the door prevented further conversation and Kate and Tony sprung apart as McGee entered the room with a bemused look on his face. Abby would definitely want to hear about this.