Tony was freezing slightly when he woke up and noticed the lack of Kate's warmed body as he stretched out his arm.

"Kate?" He said and sat up in bed, but he couldn't see her anywhere so he tugged on his jeans and walked into the living room, and looked around, but he couldn't see her and there was no sign of her being in the kitchen either, so he called again:

"Kate?" But then realization hit him and he sighed and walked over to the bathroom door and knocked.

"Kate, are you okay?" He asked and went into the room to find Kate over the toilet bowl.

"Seriously, you haven't even had breakfast yet" Tony said and sat down beside her.

"Well excuse me then!" Kate hissed.

"No I didn't mean it like that" Tony said and soothingly rubbed Kate's back and she sat up.

He couldn't help but saying "Gross" as he flushed the toilet and handed her a wet towel.

"That's nice DiNozzo" Kate said and grabbed the towel from Tony and wiped it over her mouth.

"Sorry, I feel bad for you" He said and kissed her on her forehead. "Christmas is coming up and you're sick"

"I'm not sick Tony" She said and almost threw up again, but swallowed deeply instead.

"Well, its called morning sickness" Tony pointed out.

"Whatever" Kate said and grabbed a hold on sink and got up from the floor with a hand from Tony.

"I'm figuring you're not that hungry?" Tony asked and followed Kate as she went out and into the kitchen to fetch herself a glass of water as her phone rang and Tony went into the bedroom to get it.

"I think it's one of your brothers!" He yelled.

"Off course you think so DiNozzo, you've probably looked through my stuff so many times that you've memorized my numbers, but I don't know why he- Oh shoot, I forgot to call them!" Kate said.

"What? You forgot to call; they must have been worried sick"

Kate ignored him and grabbed the phone. "Hey" she said and Tony could see her expression change.

"Sorry, I forgot to call, but I was working and couldn't catch my plane" She said and Tony could hear a voice in the other side of the phone.

"No, I won't be alone on Christmas, I will be with Tony" A pause. "Yes, Tony DiNozzo, that's right"

Tony was a little surprised as it sounded like Kate's family knew who he was.

"Yeah, we're dating" Kate said. "And-"

Tony tried to stop her from saying anything else, because he really didn't want Kate's family to think the worst about him.

"And I'm kind of pregnant" She said and she could hear Tony whisper:

"Why did you say that? And on the phone!"

She ignored Tony and just accepted the angry voice in the other side of the phone.

"Ehh, two weeks… Yes I know it usually takes four weeks before you can know for sure, but we went to the doctor and…"

Tony stepped closer as he tried to hear the voice in the other end.

"Look, I'll call you on Christmas eve okay?" Kate said. "Okay, bye" She sighed annoyed as she hung up the phone and Tony laughed slightly as he tugged an arm around her shoulders.

"Didn't take it too well?" Tony asked.

"They just have to get used to the thought, they'll come around" Kate said in a sigh.

"I'm hungry" Tony suddenly said and had gone from Kate's side to the kitchen counter in 0.2 seconds and cut up a piece of bread.

"Tony" Kate said and laughed.

"Oh, you want some?" He asked as he found some cheese and butter from the refrigerator and started smoothing some over the bread.

She shook her head. "Maybe later"

"Okay" Tony said and took a few pieces of cheese on the bread and took a bite.

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"Kate!" Tony said as he came back from the gym that was one of the few places in town that didn't close during Christmas. "I'm back"

"Hey, you back already?" She said and looked at her watch.

"Already? I was gone for two hours" Tony said.

"Yeah?" Kate said and Tony looked a little wide eyed at her.

"I'm just kidding Tony" Kate laughed, Tony grinned widely and bent down to kiss her.

"It's weird isn't it? How it's not that long since you despised me?" Tony said in a laugh.

"Sometimes I still do DiNozzo" Kate said and tilted her head slightly in at typical Kate kind of way.

"Ha-ha, very funny" Tony said and went into the bedroom and dropped his bag on the bed.

"Can you believe tomorrow is Christmas Eve?" Kate asked and started walking over to her closet and Tony off course had to joke about it.

"No, it's totally unbelievable; I can't believe it's here, oh my God!" Tony said and pressed his palms over his cheeks in an 'over shocked' kind of way and walked up behind Kate and got am elbow in the stomach.

"Can you stop doing that?" Tony said and rubbed his palm over his stomach. "I'm going to have bruises there until I'm 80"

"Stop annoying me and I'll stop elbowing you" Kate said and grinned Tony. "All I'm saying is that time passes by so fast you know?"

"Tell me about it" Tony said and referred especially to the last weeks, where everything had moved so fast with Kate, but so slow with finding out the truth about Stefania. "And since tomorrow is Christmas Eve then it's okay to get the presents and lay them under the tree right?" Tony asked hopefully.

"You're not going to open them until Christmas morning Tony, its tradition" Kate said and Tony agreed.

"I know, first dinner at Christmas Eve, and then presents and cartoons Christmas morning" He said with a nod.

"Cartoons Tony?" She asked and cocked an eyebrow towards him.

"Like you said its tradition" He pointed out.

"You have yours and I got mine I guess" She said, and hers was definitely not as sad as Tony's, except for the cartoon thing which sounded kind of fun.

"Fine, I'll go get the presents" Kate said and walked into the bedroom and into her closet where there was a mountain of old shoe boxes and behind them the presents were.

"So that's where you hid them?" Tony said and Kate nodded.

"Couldn't have you snooping around for them"

"I have some presents in my… In my old apartment" Tony said and pointed towards the door. "I'll just head out and get them" Kate gave him a nod and started taking presents out of the closet and walked them over to the Christmas tree.

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Short chapter guys, hard to find inspiration these days..