Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS or any of the characters…Does anyone else get bored of typing those words?

A/N: Hey, sorry this chapter took so long, I was out of reach of computers for a while there, but I am back now, Enjoy, read and review as always… OK... thinking about doing a chapter or two in Gibbs' point of view...?? any comments?

Chapter 7 – : /

I was soon inside Ziva's apartment; I hadn't been able to say anything yet. I was extremely hyper and happy, she was confused when I managed to say that my last Caf Pow! was this morning. She had gotten me some tea to calm me down and we where now sitting on the couch. She was staring at me intently. I could tell she was trying to figure out what was going on. I beamed at her.

"Ok," I said putting my tea down on the nearby coffee table, she was still looking at me like she questioned my sanity, "He loves me too, and like that, not like I thought he did, Ziva. My silver haired fox is finally mine."

I watched her face and knew she was genuinely happy for me. I beamed once more. He's mine, he's finally mine.

"Seriously?" She said her eyes wide and I nodded, "And this is good?"

"Very," I replied as I picked up my tea again, "But you seriously can't tell anyone, he totally rule four'd it."

I still wondered why, but it wasn't the point right now, the point was that he loves me back.

"Why'd he rule four it?" asked Ziva, she was also very confused by that decision.

"No idea," I said, I don't know why but it really hit me, does he really just not want people to know?

"I am sure he has got a good reason," said Ziva.

The next day I walked into my little glass cubicle in my lab. On my very crowded desk was a large Caf Pow! waiting for me, I smiled. The morning went on as normal, minus a visit from Gibbs. I was surprised that he hadn't come down yet, but didn't think too much of it.

"Abbs?" He said as he finally entered the lab about nine that morning, I immediately ran to him, and gave him a huge hug, "Anyone down here?"

"No," I said smiling, "Why?"

"I was wondering if you had a nice time at Ziva's last night," He said mischievously, he honestly knows me way too well.

I just shook my head.

"I actually have several reasons to be here," He said as he handed me test tubes filled with samples, presumably from Ducky, "Most are very unprofessional. So, A, we have a new case and we need you to explore those. B.."

He quickly pecked my lips and pulled me close.

"C. I wanted to see how you were doing this morning," He said, at this point I could tell he was stalling about something so I cut across him.

"You're stalling," I said with a small smile and he glared teasingly at me with his blue eyes.

"You can tell huh?" He said smiling again, the usual smile that makes me want to do back flips even though I haven't the slightest idea how, "She's here."

"Mann?" I said disbelievingly.

"She's on her way down," said Gibbs as I sat down and he started to message my shoulders, "I just wanted to warn you and make sure I was the one to tell you. I don't want this to screw us up."

"It won't," I promised, I wasn't going to loose my silver haired fox so quickly, "What's she doing here?"

"She says her superiors and ours decided she would do a good job investigating the case," said Gibbs, rolling his eyes as he ceased rubbing my shoulders and wheeled my chair around so that I was facing him, "Which is why I wasn't down here sooner, I was having a nice little chat with our dear little director."

I chuckled as I finished off my Caf Pow!

"Please don't tell me you threatened her," I said jokingly.

"Alright I won't," He teased back and I started to laugh.

I went to tend to the samples and he followed, as my heart pounded he went to put his hand on my waist. However we were interrupted by none other than Monster. Gibbs put down the approaching hand and turned to see her.

"Hi," He said smiling his fake smile, which for once I was pleased to see.

"Hi," She said, clearly we hadn't noticed her in time.

"Hi," I said, because I was feeling left out, "You here for the samples?"

With the looks being shot around that room, you would think one of us was on trial for murder.