The next morning, Tony steps off the elevator to find that Kate is already there.

"Good morning, Sunshine," he says, walking in.

Kate jumps and gasps slightly. "Tony, for Pete sake, would you stop sneaking up on me like that!," she growls.

"Who's sneaking! I'm coming in to work."

"Yes, but every time I get here before you, you make it a point to sneak up on me and scare me!"

"I do not!," he says, putting his stuff down and then sitting at his desk.

"You do, too!"

"Do not!" He flips his computer on.

"Do, too!"

"Do not!"

"Do, too!"

"Hey, hey, hey!," McGee says, walking up. "What are you two arguing about so early?"

"Nothing, McGee." Kate takes a freshly printed report off of her printer and starts thumbing through the paper.

"I do not!," Tony says, quietly.

"You do, too!" Kate says, quietly.

"Knock it…," Gibbs says, walking up.

Kate jumps and gasps slightly. Gibbs stops and looks at her and then, at Tony.

"Knock it off," Gibbs says, walking toward his desk. "Both of you."

Kate thumbs through her report, nervously.

Tony crouches his head. "See," he says, quietly. "It isn't me. You're just being jumpy."

Kate looks up and glares at him.

Gibbs looks in Tony's direction. "I said knock it off, DiNozzo."

Tony gets a scowl on his face and turns to his computer.

Gibbs's desk phone rings. "Yeah…Gibbs," he says, answering the phone. "On it." He hangs up the phone and gets up out of his chair. "Grab your gear. We have a dead Marine. McGee, get Ducky."

"Gotcha, Boss." McGee picks up his phone and dials.

Kate stands up and opens a desk drawer.

"Not you," Gibbs says, walking by her.

"Gibbs, it's been weeks since Ari came after us and you haven't let me go to one crime scene since!"

He stops and gives her a stern look. "I know, but you're still not going." He walks off.

Kate slams her desk drawer shut and sits back down with a major scowl on her face.

"Sorry, Kate," McGee says, walking up to her.

"Don't worry about it, McGee."

McGee walks off toward the elevator.

Gibbs, then, says something to Tony and then, Tony jogs briskly in Kate's direction.

"Okay, crybaby," Tony teases. "Gibbs changed his mind. He said you could come."

"Oh, ha ha," she says, standing up, opening her desk drawer, and then, getting her stuff.

"And who are you calling a crybaby," she says as she and Tony make their way to the elevator.

"Hurry it up," Gibbs says as Tony and Kate step on.

Kate makes a point not to look at Gibbs and gets on the elevator in such a way that Tony has to be between her and Gibbs.

"You. You've been ranting ever since I got here this morning!," Tony says, trying to be discreet.

"I have not!," she says, glaring at him.

"If you two boneheads don't shut up, I'm gonna put both my boots up both your butts."

Kate crosses her arms and looks the other way.