A/N: Thanks for all the great reviews...now I may be able to get on with...The Plan...grins This will be fun...:)
Ally stepped off the elevator after Abby, and followed her into the lab. She began looking around at all the very creative artwork adorning the walls. Abby flipped on her stereo, and began to show Allyson all of the "toys" that she had in the lab to play with. Ally especially loved the giant screen that projected everything that Abby wanted to project. Abby showed her how to do fingerprint scans and compare DNA. Ally was having a blast learning about all the forensic stuff. Around lunchtime, they began to slow down, and relax, since no new cases had come in yet.
"So," Abby said as she took a sip of her Caff-Pow, "what do you think of NCIS?"
"It's totally awesome! And Tony is quite the cute one..." Abby just smiled.
"Yeah he's pretty fine...Can I tell you a secret?"
"Sure."
"I have been here for quite awhile, and I have noticed something very strange about Tony and Kate. Have you noticed anything...interesting?"
"Um...well...I did notice that Tony was focusing very intently on Kate this morning. And Kate seemed very weird when I asked her about him earlier, when I ran up there to see her."
"Ally...do you get it?"
"Are they...dating?"
"No, but they should be. They are like totally head over heels for each other, but they so won't admit it."
Ally sat silent for only a moment before she spoke. "We should set them up!" She grinned at Abby who returned the smile.
"Now you get it!" Just then the elevator dinged and Kate walked into the lab. "Hey guys! How's it going?"
"Great!" Ally smiled at Kate and then Abby, who couldn't wipe the smile off her face.
"Ooookay then...anyway, we all decided to go out to the Italian restaurant around the corner for lunch. You guys coming?"
Ally glanced at Abby with a knowing smile. "Yeah sure." Abby said as she stood up and pulled Ally to her feet. "Let's go."
They walked into the restaurant and were quickly seated, after waiting only 3 minutes. Gibbs took the seat at the head of the table, while Ally and Abby quickly sat down beside each other in the booth on one side. This left the booth on the other side empty for Kate and Tony. They had no choice but to sit beside each other in the tiny booth. They each ordered and made small talk around the table until the food came. As they each finished their Italian meals, they all decided that dessert was a must. Tony ordered Peanut Butter Pie, Kate got an ice cream sundae, Ally and Abby both got a large chocolate milkshake (which they decided was just another coincidence) and Gibbs gotwhat elsea piece of coffee cake. Tony kept leaning over to Kate and stealing little bites of her ice cream sundae with his fork. Kate just rolled her eyes and stole a bite or twoor fiveof his pie. Abby and Ally shared a glance, as Gibbs looked on, one eyebrow raised, before shaking his head and continuing to eat his cake.
After lunch was over, the group returned to work and soon after they got back, the phone rang in with a new case.
"DiNozzo, Kate, you two head out to Norfolk, I'll meet you there in half an hour. Abby, you get down in the lab, and get ready for a major bin of evidence. And Ally, you can..."
"I'll head down to the lab with Abby and hang out here. I don't think I want to go out to the crime scene."
"Alright then. Let's move people."
Abby just grinned at Ally as they began to walk to the elevator. Ally turned around and called back to Kate and Tony. "Behave you two..." and she ducked into the elevator just as the doors closed. Kate and Tony shared a confused look, as Gibbs smirked, and Ally and Abby headed down to the lab to begin formulating their plan.
A/N: Ok...so it's not the most well-written chapter, but I was sorta stuck on getting into all of this TATE stuff. I think I know what I want to do with this, but I'm not quite sure...any suggestions are appreciated:) YAY! Almost my birthday!
