Vivian kissed her son on the head gently then watched him run into school with his friends, he was twelve years old going on thirteen and didn't she know it, obviously hitting puberty, regular mood swings, spend all night in his bedroom on the computer talking with his mates, and so she'd been told by a friend this was only the start. Vivian smiled gently to herself and climbed back into her car then made her way to work. About ten minutes she climbed back out her car in the FBI unit underground parking lot seeing Danny and Martin in the lift about to go up. She speeded up her pace.

"Hold the lift guys" she shouted making her way across the lot.

"Why? What happens if we don't?" Danny called back jokingly.

"A smack round the head for the both of you" She wasn't joking

They looked at one another and Martin stuck his hand out to prevent the doors from shutting.

"There you go my lady" Danny said grinning widely.

Vivian looked at him curiously then turned to Martian "What's up with him?"

Martian shook his head "Don't ask, he's been like it ever since I picked him up, I'm thinking it's got something to do with his mystery woman" Martin smiled and nudged Danny in the side.

Danny laughed and elbowed him back.

The doors dinged and then opened up onto their floor.

Vivian lead the two men out and round to their working area, there they spotted the new girl fiddling around with what looked like to be a powered screw driver.

"What an earth are you doing?" Vivian asked looking puzzled as to what she was doing with one of those.

She looked up and seemed surprised that there was three agents staring at her.

"Oh hey. I was just trying to get it to work" She replied

"No I think she meant what are you doing with one of those at work?" Martin asked.

"Well" she started fiddling with the screw driver again "All our furniture got delivered last night, all it all came flat packed, from table to bed, to cabinets, to shelves basically everything you would have in an apartment except for clothes, food, books and films. I think my room mate went a little over board. Anyway I'm not that good at wood, or anything along the lines of putting stuff together, so I went down to Mr. Fix-it down the street from here and got a quote to see how much it would cost for him to put everything up, but he said something ridiculous so I went to the hardware store a few blocks down and picked up this stuff because I decided I'm gonna do it myself" She smiled as if she seemed pleased with the idea.

"What?" Danny sounded confused

"Why, you don't think I can do it?" She asked

"No not that, I meant why did you go to the hardware store which is a couple of blocks away when there's one five or six doors away from this building?"

"There's a hardware store a couple for doors down?", they could tell by the tone of her voice she defiantly didn't know that.

Vivian nodded.

"Anyway back to the question before, no I don't think you can do it" Danny said taking his jacket off.

"Why not?" she asked

"Have you ever put anything together like that before on your own?"

"No, but that's not the point"

"Okay but how are you going to know what to do?"

"I'll probably read the little white piece of paper that comes with it and says 'instructions' across the top of it" she replied mockingly.

Martin smirked at her sarcastic comment.

Danny spent a few seconds trying to come up with a come back but he couldn't so he left it.

"Alright come on you three lets get to work" Vivian said turning to face her computer screen.

"Already done it" Kate said smacking the top of the driver with her hand.

"You've completed your statement on yesterday already?" Vivian sounded surprised.

"I did it as soon as I got into work this morning"

"And exactly what time did you get into work this morning?"

"About five, did my work, then went down the street to fix it, then the hardware store and back"

Vivian raised her eyebrows, five? She thought to her self, the girls gotta be mad!

Martin spent a couple of minutes on the main table next to Kate filling in some paperwork and all he could hear was her clicking and tapping things.

"Seriously, what are you trying to do to that screw driver?" he asked looking up at her.

She paused and looked back at him "I'm just trying to get it to work, I've been trying for the last hour, I put it on charge and everything. I think it's broken"

He held out his hand and she gave him the screw driver, with in seconds he pulled the trigger and it made the sound of a working screw driver. Her eyes widened and she seemed surprised at how quickly he had done it. She pulled the trigger herself and again it worked.

"How the hell did you do that?" she asked

He had to stop himself from laughing at how simple it was, he pointed to a little red button on the top "You had the safety lock on. You have to turn it off when you wanna use it"

"Ooohhh, so it's not broken"

He shook his head "and you're seriously thinking of putting everything together your self?"

"Well I'm gonna try anyway, try and save a couple of hundred bucks, the amount my room mate spent on everything I'm gonna need to."

He smiled at her then turned back to doing his paper work.

She put her things away then watched the other three agents work, she leaned over to Martin "Do you need any help?"

He looked back up to see Kate looking a little bored, she's had nothing to do for a couple of minutes and she's bored, got knows what she'd be like on a flight to the other side of the world he thought to himself. He shook his head "No"

"Okay, a coffee?" she asked again

"I could drink a coffee" Danny said calling out from his desk overhearing the conversation.

"Viv, you want one?" Kate asked standing from the seat

"Please"

"And me" Martin said.

"Alright" she replied and made her way to the break room but stopped off in the ladies room to use the toilet. She went into the cubicle , turned ready to flush it when she heard another woman talking. She stopped instantly and listened for a moment.

"Martin, you've been here for a while now…" the female voice began.

Caitlin was instantly curious, she bent down and looked under the door to see one pair of legs standing in front of the sinks and mirrors. Obviously practising.

"Where was i? right oh yes. Martin you've been here a while now and over the time we've gained a friendship. No not gained a friendship that sounds stupid, you moron. Become close working partners. Yes much better. I have liked you for some time now and I was wondering if you'd like to go out for a drink some time, as a date type thing." The woman continued

Kate covered her mouth with her arm, encase she let out a small laughter. After a second curiosity got the better of her and she needed to know who it was. She flushed the toilet and opened the door. She walked across to the sinks and stood by the woman, she looked over and smiled at Cindy, the forensic scientist.

Cindy instantly blushed pure red, realising that Caitlin had heard everything she had just practised, she knew she should have checked every toilet instead of just assuming no one was in here.

"Hi" Kate smiled brightly whilst washing her hands

"Hello" Cindy replied getter even redder "Look what you just heard was"

"Don't worry, I won't tell him, he'll be completely surprised when you asked him out for a drink, just don't call it a 'date type thing'." Kate smiled one more time the walked out.

Cindy was so embarrassed she felt a little angry inside that Kate had actually listened to her talking and given her advice on it, who was she to give advice, firstly she didn't even know Cindy or Martin for that matter. The new girl had certainly made a bad impression on Cindy even though Kate thought she was being nice by giving her the hint.

Kate made the coffee's and took them out to her fellow agents, she placed Danny's on his desk: "There you go 'sex bomb'" she said.

His head shot up recognising the name calling from a previous relationship.

"Where'd you get that name from?" he asked looking at her cautiously.

"Let's just say that there's message on your work phone which was left at around six thirty this morning"

"Danny looked at his work phone and the message light was flashing, he pressed the button and began to listen to the message:

"Hey Agent Taylor you Sex bomb you, I was just thinking about the last time we spent the night together and I couldn't help but think that you could maybe come round some time and I'll let you lick my…" The message stopped as Danny pounded his hand on the phone a couple of times trying to stop it as he already knew where it was going, he turned round to see the rest of the team looking at him, he blushed a little.

"Lick her what?" Martin asked leaning back into his chair.

"Never mind" Danny said quickly

"Oh no, but you wanna hear the next part, it gets even dirtier" Kate said

"Really?" Martin asked

"Oh yeh, she starts talking about chocolate and marshmallows or something like that. Lets just say the old man that empty's the bins left with a pretty big smile on his face." Kate informed

Danny rubbed his fore head, he couldn't believe some one had left a message like that on his work phone, any one could have heard that, no not just any one, Jack could have heard that.

The rest of the group smirked at one another then left Danny to blush on his own.

Then Kate sat and boringly surfed the internet looking for something interesting.

Another half hour later Cindy approached the bullpen and gently tapped Martin on the shoulder, he looked up from his work at her and smiled.

"Hey, what can I do for you?" he asked nicely, he was always nice around Cindy, mainly because she seemed like the quite type that you'd always feel really guilty around if you offended them in any way.

"Hi, Martin could I talk to you for a minute"

Danny, Kate and Vivian all looked up from their work at Cindy and Martin.

"In private?" she asked

"Errr sure" he got up from his chair and they walked off into the break room.

"What's that about?" Danny said looking at the closed break room door.

"Come on Danny, we all know Cindy's got a crush on Martin, you know when we tease him about it" Vivian said like it was so obvious.

"Yeh, but I never thought she'd act on it" he replied

Kate sat their smiling to herself knowing exactly what Cindy was going to say and that Martin would say yes because he seemed to nice a person to turn down such a polite girl.

"What you smiling at?" Danny asked her

She shook her head "Nothing"

In the break room Martin leaned against the wall waiting for Cindy to spit out what ever she had been trying to say for the last five minutes. She had babbled on for the last couple of minutes mentioning friendships, and how long he's been working here, and possibly something about cheese. He widened his eyes a little trying to stay focused on the conversation.

"Cindy what are you basically trying to say?" he asked looking confused at the last five minutes.

"Basically Martin I was wondering if…" her hands were sweating like mad, she was blushing and beginning to stammer on her words, could this be anymore embarrassing she thought to herself.

"if?" Martin pushed

"If you'd like to…" she couldn't do it, she was too scared he'd reject "If you'd like to help me with one of the puzzles in my magazine, well it's a cross word actually" Could I sound any more lame? She thought to herself

"Crossword?" he asked sounding puzzled by the whole conversation.

"Yeh I need the name of an American state beginning with A, seven letters"

"Arizona?" Martin said

"Arizona, yeh well done, I should have thought of that" she became redder "anyway thanks for your help I have to go and… erm… do some work" she ran off.

Martin came out of the break room and sat at his desk in the bullpen.

"So, what was that about?" Vivian asked sounding keen

"She wanted some help on a crossword" Martin replied thinking how weird it sounded in his head, the whole conversation, he knew it wasn't about the crossword, she's asked for private conversation a few times over the past month and has come up with some lame question part way through.

"Crossword? Sounds like someone chickened out again" Danny said

"Thank god" Martin added

"Why thank-god"? Kate asked

"Because she's not really my type"

"What, quite, brunette, slim, pretty, clever isn't your type?" she asked, she was slowly beginning to learn more about her colleagues.

"No they are, except for the quiet part, I mean I'd hate to go on date with a person who's mega quiet and really shy"

"Like Cindy" Danny added

"Like Cindy" Martin repeated

"Besides, she's not exactly pretty or slim is she" Danny added

"Well she's hardly ugly and fat" Kate protested

"I'd say closer to them two then the other"

Kate ignored the mean comment and turned back to her computer.

Five weeks passed and Kate and the team had gotten to know one another a lot better, it was the end of the first week of December.

Jack walked into his Bullpen where his team was sitting filling out some paperwork, it was about six thirty and every one was looking for ward to going home, it had been an extremely long week for all of them, they had never had so many cases in so short of time. They all looked up to see who it was then avoided eye contact with their boss knowing he had bad news for them and that they weren't going to be going home tonight for another couple of hours at least.

"Alright we got a woman gone missing, last seen fifteen hours ago leaving a masquerade party last night at around one thirty. Daughter of Kevin Heifer"

"As in the actor?" Sam asked becoming more interested

"That's right meaning you all need to be fully alert for this case. Rosie Heifer is our new Victim, grab your things and we'll head out" Jack finished.

The team did as instructed, which much moaning and disappointment in between, and all left the building together to begin some more overtime.