AN: I figured a week was long enough to wait to post again. And besides, you guys left me an additional-what- 21 reiews? Or was it 16? Point is, I asked for 10, and you guys far surpassed yourselves. If I can manage it, the next chapter will come out sooner. : (that was a kiss.)Okies! Someone mentioned that the last chapter(at least the dialogue)was hard to read due to the paragraph placement/absence of excess blank lines. Wow! That made no sense WHATsoever. Oh well. In an attempt to rectify this, I've put spaces between almost one of the lines. So.. Read through this chapter, and when you review, let me know which way you guys like it better. We'll go by majority vote. Got it? Thanks. Oh yeah! Small spoiler for 'See No Evil'. If ya blink, you know the drill. On to the story...

The car ride conversation to the base was dominated by file memorization- Kate reading the files out loud while Tony drove.

"Caitlyn Danae Addams and Anthony Steven Addams. I have no siblings, but you have two older brothers and an older sister. We married on December 11th, 2004, so we've been married less than 2 months... Oh good God." Kate groaned. They can't seriously expect us to to act like people who've been married 5 weeks"

"I think they can, and they do." Tony grinned. "But if you really wanna ask Gibbs, can I listen in?"

Kate glared. "Haha. No. We'll just play that part by ear. But I swear, DiNozzo, if you try to take advantage of this, I will maim you. And I assume I don't have to tell you which appendage will go first." She forcefully added.

Sherelented at the look on Tony's face. She shrugged, and looked out her window."Public displays of affection aren't exactly my thing." she admitted.

Tony spared a glance at her. "Really? You seem like you'd revel in that kind of thing."

"I do more blushing than 'reveling'... Don't get me wrong, I like it, and I can pull it off if I need to.."

"Hmm." was all Tony said.

They sat in silence for a few minutes before Kate picked up the file where she'd left off. "My dad died when I was 15, so Uncle Charlie walked me down the aisle. Your mother's an ordained Methodist miniser and she performed the ceremony. Hmm. Thebase church is Methodist too.Methodism is based off Catholicism, so I should be fine there. How 'bout you? Do I need to teach you the Apostle's Creed before we go to chapel?"

Tony kept his eyes on the road as he spoke. "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. And in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary..."

"Okay, I'll take that as a no. How about the Gloria Patri?"

Tony began in a soft baritone, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost..."
Kate raised her eyebrows. "I'm impressed. Religious studies in college?"

Tony shook his head. "I'm Italian." He shrugged. "I also happen to be Catholic."

Kate nodded. "Sorry."

"For what?"

"For assuming you'd never been in church."

Tony snorted. "My life doesn't exactly lead one to believe that I have."

"I still shouldn't have done that."

Tony brushed it off. "You weren't wrong by much. I haven't been to services in a while. My earthly father was an alcoholic who made my life a living Hell, so I figured my Heavenly one had pretty much given up on me; cut me loose."

"God doesn't give up on people, Tony. People give up on God."

Tony bit his lip, and they sat in a slightly tense silence until Tony spoke up again.

"So, what jobs did Gibbs pick for us? M.P.s, supply, baggers at the local exchange..."

Kate flipped a page of the files. "Actually, you'll be a guard at the base gate, and I'm a yeoman at the base commander's office." She nodded in approval. "We'll have a good handle on what's going on. You'll have access to who comes and goes, and I'll hear the office gossip."

"No fair, Kate." Tony mock whined. "You get the fun job."

She gave him a skeptical look. "Pushing papers all day? Oh yeah. I really lucked out on that one."

"No. I meant the base C.O. Have you seen her? She's a total babe."

Kate sighed. "One, fraternization is illegal here. Two, you're married to me now. And five weeks, is not long enough for you to have already started an affair."

"Maybe I was cheating on you before we got married. Or even engaged." A sly grin played across Tony's lips. "I could even be married to another woman."

Kate smacked his right arm, which caused him to weave slightly in his lane. Kate's cell phone immediately rang.

"What the Hell is he doing?" Gibbs demanded.

"Nothing." Kate replied.

"He's driving like me. Tell Earnhart Jr. to slow his ass down and lay off the tequila." Kate heard a soft click as Gibbs hung up.

"Well?" Tony asked
.
"Gibbs said to quit driving like a drunk race car driver. Remember, he's driving that moving van. It won't go over 65."

Kate heard the car decellerate as Tony eased his foot off the gas, and she watched the speedometer drop from 85 to 60.
"Much better."

"How much longer 'til we're there?" he asked.

Kate keyed up the gps navigator. "Take the next exit onto Smith's Hill Road. Then it's 5 miles straight, a right for 2 miles, a left for 4, and we're on the base. That's 11 miles, so about... 7 minutes."

Sure enought, in 6 minutes and 50 seconds, they pulled up at the base gate.
Tony turned in his seat to face her. "How'd you do that?"

"Do what?" She absentmindedly asked while messing with her PDA.

"How'd you know we'd be here in under 7 minutes? Aha! You got it from the g.p.s. nav."

"Nope."

"You've been here before?"

"Nuh-uh." Kate motioned that the M.P.? was coming to the car.

"But how'd you-" He insisted.

Kate finally looked up and smiled. "Ask Mrs. Powers when you apologize to her."

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