Dinozzo leaned over his desk and sighed, his knuckles were white lined as he gripped at his desk. Pain shot through him, though he kept that smile of his. He wanted to gasp and cry out but he refused to as his other hand reached down and opened a bottle. Pulling out his last two pills he greedily shot them in his mouth and swallowed them. Sighing with relief as his pain ended he returned to work, his palms were still sweaty though as he fumbled over the keys and attempted to focus hard on what he was doing.

Kate had watched him pop the pills and cocked her head to the side, she moved to sit on the edge of his desk.

"What's wrong with you? Been finally diagnosed with ADHD?" She smirked, and let out that catholic school girl chuckle that drove him mad.

"Actually no, they were caffine pills. Trying to ween myself off of cokes and such, need to get healthier ya know?"

"Damn you need to get healthy? Thought you were healthy Dinozzo." She said in slight disbelief.

"Yes well, apparently you thought wrong Kate. I have some work to do if you don't mind." He was defensive, and that made Kate furrow her brow. She sighed and turned back to her desk.

It lingered on Kate's mind all day that he had gotten so defensive when she addressed the issue of health. She decided that she was going to ask Ducky about it, since he was the only real talker on the team. But she loathed the thought, for it meant she would more than likely have to hear one of his long winded stories. Though her thoughts were cut short as Gibbs ambled down the way between the cubicles.

"Keys," Tony abruptly tossed them to him, "We have a case lets move."

"Yes boss." Came the resounding answer from the three team members. Since McGee had just walked in behind him.

"McGee your late, I don't like late." Gibbs sneered. Sighing lightly McGee turned to what he was expecting to be a sarcastic remark from Dinozzo.

"I wouldn't worry too much about it McGee, if its a big case he will forget about it anyway." McGee almost fainted, there was no 'Proby,' at the end of it or anything cruel. It was acutally nice for a change. This made Kate more suspicious, though once again she kept her mouth closed.

>>>Meh sorry it is so short. Running on fumes tonight, but alas at least it gets the story moving a bit more. I have to admit I am a suck suck author, so when you review please be honest! I want to get better with these, and thanks for the reviews guys. I realized after I posted the first part that I used 'Sir' instead of 'Boss' and I felt like an idiot, so it will be the right way from now on! Thanks again, The Sixness.