DISCLAIMERS: Same as chapter 1

KATE:

I bump into Jethro down in the break room. He looks around the room quickly before giving me a kiss hello.

"I missed you" he says as begins to nibble on my ear.

"Whose fault is that?" I ask purring back. He always gets the right spot first time every time.

"Director Sheppard's. I swear Kate…" I cut him off.

"Just tell her no. By the way, Dan says thanks for the lift but Mike is sick. They also want us to come over for dinner tonight. It sounded kind of important." I slither up his chest and put my arms around his neck leaning into his whole body and whisper "If your slave driver calls tell her you're too busy making love to me."

"Ah Kate," Jethro lets out a strangled cry and I can tell that I have achieved my goal. After a few sleepless nights I know it can just take one touch for Jethro to get incredibly turned on. "I have a better idea. You're tired, I'm exhausted. I say we have a sick day together this afternoon."

"I have a class at 2 this afternoon." Director Sheppard has me training the probies in building profiles. Not part of my job description but what the director says, goes. I'm supposed to working the cases and building suspect profiles. But training newbies takes me out of the navy yard and sees my clear across to Quantico.

"Meet me at home for lunch?" he asks waging his eyebrows up and down.

"Midday?" I ask in return.

"11, I can't wait that long." Gives me a big, cheesy cheshire cat grin and leaves.

ABBY:

I came into the break room to get some chocolate from the vending machine. I stopped dead in my tracks and listen in. I don't mean to eavesdrop but it's just that Gibbs and Kate are so adorable together and they have seemed a little off late.

Man, he really is a romantic one, trying to get Kate to play hooky so he can have sex. I take that back. Not romantic. Tonyish.

Note to self check and see if Tony and Gibbs are related.

DAN:

Kate is glowing all over and I can tell she looks thoroughly….. rested. I called her office this afternoon to see if she had brandy snaps in her cupboard but Ziva informed me that she went to lunch and never returned to work missing her 2pm class which she had Ziva fill in for her. Funnily enough Jethro never returned from his morning tea coffee run to his caffeine dealer. Neither of them came home until half hour ago. I must get the gossip.

"Kate darling," I call sweetly as her and Mike are discussing heaving and navy transports. "Could you give me a hand?"

Following me into the kitchen, I corner her at the breakfast bar.

"So spill, what the secret?" I ask looking her directly in the eye.

"Nothing, I just had a good rest." I can tell she is lying. She is Mike's sister and they are both hopeless liars. "Fine, we played hooky today and got a room at the navy lodge across the Anacostia River. It had been a REALLY long time. With Jethro on demand 24-7 by our new director and me travelling between the navy yard and Quantico there's never any time for us.

JETHRO:

I know exactly why Dan dragged Kate away and it's my entire fault she looks radiant. We had a very busy afternoon and twice more in the shower getting ready to come over here. Since this morning in the break room I haven't been able to stop thinking about her. It's driving me nuts in the best way. It's like I'm falling in love with her all over again.

MIKE:

I'm trying very hard to pretend I don't know what's going on. Dinner is a lively affair but it always is with Kate and Jethro. After dinner we have something very important to ask them.

"Kate, Jethro we want to sound you out about something?" this gets their attention. "Kate, we were wondering if you would be a surrogate mother for Dan and me. Now, before you jump in. we don't want your answer tonight. We want you think very carefully and talk about it together. What it would mean for you two? Forget that we matter for a minute. Just you two. Any questions?"

"Why me?" Kate asks softly at first I thought I heard wrong.

"Kate Honey," Dan begins "clearly two men can't biologically make a baby but you are Mike twin. Fraternal twins yes, I'll give you that. But no one on the planets DNA is as close to Mike as yours. You guys share everything. And we cant think of anyone who is as brilliant as you to do it."

JETHRO:

I'm floored. A baby!

R&R: Will they or won't they?