Before my ritual author's note, I would like to vigorously thank whoever nominated me in the fanfiction awards. Whoever you are, THANK YOU SOOOO FRIGGIN' MUCH! I LOVE YOU TO DEATH! LMAO. Anyways, that completely made my millenium, and I would like to know who you are so I can figure out a way to properly thank you. Thank'ee again! kisskiss ;)

AN: Sorry it's late. Again. Hey, I've been busy. I have another story and a Virtual Season to work on! Plus my other(counts) 15 or so stories I randomly work on. They're all NCIS, so gimme a break. Sorry if it sucks. You'll live. :D I love Happy Bunny! :: winks at Em:: (who hopefully isn't the only one who shares my love of this adorably nasty little rabbit.) Now, on to the story!

Kate sighed as she sunk down into the bathtub. 'I'll have to Lysol the car to remove the stench of garbage. Tony probably will too."

Kate sighed again at the thought of him. 'I was awfully rude to him. Everything he'd said had been true. Is that why I snapped at him? Because a relationship is possible? Well, except for Gibbs. He'd kill us if we were dating and he found out. So best to just leave it alone.'

"Great, Todd. He has you talking to yourself. Real healthy." Kate muttered. Rolling her eyes, she submerged herself in the water.

Kate strolled into the lab on Thursday morning. "Hey, Abby." Kate frowned when the goth didn't respond. "Abby?" She called over the music as she walked further into the room. "Hey, are you-"

"What?" Abby yelled as she sat bolt upright in her chair.

Kate jumped. "You scared the Hell outta me." Kate exclaimed.

"Ditto," Abby grinned and stretched, blinking sleep from her eyes. "I'm so sleepy," she yawned.

"Did you not leave last night?"

Abby shook her head. "Pulled an all-nighter running tests on that body from the dumpster. I heard you and Tony had quite an adventure in there." she mischievously said.

Kate rolled her eyes. "Whatever Tony said, it's not true."

Abby frowned. "Actually, I haven't seen Tony yet. Gibbs spilled. After of course he told me to make this 'priority one'. The bosses are freaked because someone was killed in our alley and we didn't know about it sooner. Maybe you'll get out of the ball."

"Doubt it." Kate replied as she strode toward the doors. "Gibbs made it quite clear that 'unless we're bombed in the next 48 hours' we're going. Meet you at the mall at 6 if he'll let me go."

"I'll talk to him." Abby grinned. "He'll cave."

Kate chuckled as she left the lab. Abby had Gibbs wrapped around her finger.

Tony was already at work on his computer when Kate entered the bullpen.

"Whatcha doin'?" She asked.

"And a good morning to you, Kate. I'm running a background on Major Kevin Banyai. Abby left copies of the test results on your desk. The Swiss Army knife; only blood on it was his. I'd say suicide, but-"

"Why slit your own wrists in a dumpster?" Kate cut in.

"Yeah. Horrible thing to smell right before you die. I had to wash my car out last night."

"About that. I want to apologize."

Tony shook his head. "I told you it's fine. I know you didn't mean anything by it. Ah! Here he is. Major Kevin Michael Banyai. Retired in '98 from the Corps where he was- Holy Hell!"

"What?" Kate frowned.

"A guard at Guantanamo Bay. We're going back to Cuba!" Tony grinned.

"Not so fast, DiNozzo." Gibbs startled them as he strolled in with his coffee. "First we'll-"

"-teleconference with Gitmo." Tony finished dejectedly.

Gibbs smirked. "Very good. Now, you and Kate go set it up."

Kate nodded as they headed for MTAC. "Want us to call you when it's ready?"

Gibbs considered for a moment. "Nope. You two can do it on your own." He replied and turned to his computer. Tony raised his eyebrows, but Kate just shrugged and headed up the stairs. Tony grinned, following right behind her.

"Good morning, Agent Todd. Hi, Tony. What can I do for you?"

Kate grinned up at Paula. "Yesterday, we found the body of Major Kevin Banyai. He was a guard at Gitmo. Retired in '98. We need anything-everything you have on him. The director's flagged this as priority one."

"No rush." Tony grinned. "Please."

Kate elbowed him in the ribs.

"Ow." he mouthed.

Paula eyed the pair in amusement. "Trying to get out of something?"

Kate rolled her eyes at Tony. "Yeah. The interagency spring ball."

Paula winced. "Sorry I asked. We don't have those at Gitmo."

"Just iguanas." Kate smirked as Tony shot her an evil look.

"Thanks, Paula. Fax the documents to me when you get them?" Kate requested.

"No problem." Paula smiled and logged off.

Kate headed back for the bullpen, Tony in tow.

"Good thing they fax now. If we'd've had to wait for snail mail from Gitmo, it would've taken forever." Tony said.

"And with our luck, it would have been lost forever in Taiwan, or somewhere like that."

"Unlikely. The Navy never thows anything out. You wanna trash a blank paper, you make triplicate copies and file them first." He joked.

"Hey, it's their system." Kate replied as the pair rounded the corner to their desks.

"Well?" Gibbs inquired.

"Oh. Paula's faxing us everything Gitmo has on the major. Should start coming in...3, 2, now." Kate nodded at the fax machine behind her desk as it instantly began spitting out paper. The men raised their eyebrows.

Kate simply shrugged. "I've been spending off time with Abby."

They nodded their heads as they went back to work.

AN: Review please. Inspire me! :D Oh, and for all of you who were going to call me on this, I know Gitmo is actually GTMO and stands for Guantanamo. GuanTanaMO. But I spelled it Gitmo for all of the people who don't know and would've called it G.T.M.O. the entire time. :D Bless their little hearts. ;)