[From Meat Puzzle]

I saw Tony come from the corner of my eye, he was slowly eating a cup of ice cream. It's a little early for ice cream isn't it? He stopped by my desk. I continued typing up reports on my computer, ignoring him. Tony sat down on the edge, facing me while he placed another spoonful in his mouth.

"Mmmmm. I love Philomena's ice cream." He commented, getting trying to get my attention. I looked up at him with a small smile.

"Philomena's in Georgetown?" I asked, looking up at him. He nodded.

"My standard first date place." He told me. Huh that's interesting. I chuckled.

"I went there on a first date Saturday night." I told him. That was a great date.

"Yea?" he asked me wide-eyed.

"After dinner I like to stroll the lucky lady down Wisconsin to this pretentious art gallery called…Impressions. They really eat it up." He told me. I looked at him quizzically. There's no way this is a coincidence….

"That's where we went after dinner." I told him playing off my hunch. It was probably nothing.

"Really?" he sounded mock shocked.

"Huh?" My smile dropped hearing him say that. He didn't!...I stared at him, and he just glanced over at me.

"You've been following me." I accused. Is nothing sacred?!

"Me? Follow you on a Saturday night?" he said trying not to laugh. Leaning forward seriously he added,

"I'm not that desperate Claire." I crossed her arms over my chest. Since when?

"I don't believe you." I shook my head.

"Well, I swear on my mother's life I was not following you." He told me. Gibbs walked in behind Tony.

"Your mother is dead." Gibbs and I deadpanned at the same time. He wasn't fooling me.

"I didn't follow her boss." He told Gibbs leaning his head back to watch him walk over to his desk. Tony smirked.

"I do know her boyfriend, Steve Adler." He slyly commented popping another scoop into his mouth. I scowled at him.

"He's not my boyfriend!" I quickly protested. Yet…Tony chuckled with a little boy's smile. I was tempted to smack it right off his face.

"I don't believe this." I said looking at Tony. He gave her an innocent stare.

"Did you tell her about your fraternity brother yet?" McGee excitedly asked behind him. I scowled. He was in on this too?! I work with sneaks.

"I was just getting to the good part." Tony told him. Kate glared at him on my behalf from her desk.

"Steve Adler is your fraternity brother?" she harshly asked him.

"I would show you the secret handshake….but then I'd have to kill you." He harshly whispered. I rolled my eyes.

"I already knew that Kate, it's no big deal." I told her looking at Tony. His eyes widened. I guess he didn't realize that.

"You knew Steve was my Frat brother?" he asked.

"Yes Tony, I knew Stephen was a Frat brother. I knew a lot of your Frat brothers. We met at a party back in college. A few weeks ago we bumped into each other and we've kept in touch since then." I said not looking him in the eye. He was weird about me dating his friends.

"And you were going to tell me this when?!" he asked, looking flustered. I just sent him a sarcastic smirk and dismissed his question. I glanced around seeing if anyone was looking before asking Tony something that had been bothering me.

"He told you about our date?!" I whisper asked him, leaning forward. Tony scrunched up his face in thought.

"Well, not the intimate details…until I asked and….then he had to." Tony told me. McGee beamed over at his desk hearing this. I shot him a murderous look and he looked away quickly.

"It comes with the oath." Tony told me and quickly jumped off my desk before I could do anything. Like smack the living daylights out of him, as I so desperately wanted to. I closed my eyes in exasperation. I'm going to kill Stephen….

"Gibbs!" I shouted, very aware I sounded like a tattling child.

"DiNozzo." Gibbs called. Before he could get an answer Ducky came up to the bullpen.