I am so sorry to everyone. I know that I haven't updated in like forever, it really didn't seem that long ago until I actually looked at the date. Again, really sorry. Hopefully this chapter will make up for all the time you have to wait.

I can't wait until next Tuesday. The episode is supposed to be good. Tony opens a letter with a mysterious powder in it. Then him and Kate are put into isolation as a precaution. We all know how much they get on each other's nerves so this has to be funny.

Okay, since you guys have been waiting so patiently while I rambled, on with the story.

Abby sat at Kate's desk, her head resting on her hands. Apparently no one had caught her when she fell so now, her head was throbbing. Ducky had checked her out and she didn't have a concussion. Tony even asked her who hadwon the Battle of Bull Run, just as a precaution of course. When she had answered "Confederates," he had shrugged his shoulders and said, "How should I know." Typical DiNozzo. Always has questions, but never any answers.

Kate returned with a wet wash cloth and handed it to Abby. "Thanks Kate. Do you by chance have any aspirin?" Abby asked, praying to God that she would say yes.

"Yeah." kate opened up one of the drawers on her desk and pulled out a few bottles. "Do you want Aleve, Advil, Tylenol or IBprofen?"

"Geeze Kate. It's like a damn pharmacy in there," Abby said, staring into the drawer at all of the pill bottles.

"Gotta be prepared... for Tony."

"You'll need more than a bottle of aspirin to rid Tony of the headaches you, Gibbs and McGee probably give him," Abby laughed.

"I was more referring to the headaches HE gives ME," Kate replied smiling, making sure to put emphasis on the two words he and me.

"Well, McGee aggravates Tony by... just being McGee. Gibbs slaps him in the back of the head all the time, which has to hurt and it has to be hard keeping up with you in all that banter."

Yeah whatever. What kind of aspirin do you want?"

Gibbs took the elevator down to Abby's lab. He hadn't really talked to her much all day. It made him feel kind of bad because he looked forward to seeing her everyday. His feelings for Abby definitely ran deeper than just friendship, but he wasn't sure if she felt the same way.

He walked into her lab and to his surprise, there was no music playing. "How are you feeling Abbs?" he asked, handing her a Caf-Pow!. He wanted to ask her how Nick had gotten her new number, but he didn't think Abby was up to being prodded for information right now.

"My head kinda hurts," Abby complained, taking a long sip of her Caf-Pow!.

Hearing her recent statement, Gibbs walked up behind her, put his hands on the sides of her head and began to massage her temples. "Feel better?"

"Mmm-hmm," was all that managed to escape Abby's lips. She laid her head forward and closed her eyes. The world around her disappeared and she seemed to be floating on clouds. Everything was at peace and Gibbs' hands were magic.

Interrupting Abby's little world of enchantment, Tony barged into her lab. "Yo Abbs, have you seen Gi..." Tony paused as he saw Gibbs standing ackwardly close to Abby, both looking equally guilty. "Umm, Gibbs," Tony said as he cleared his throat. "We got Nick's landlord here. Kate made him an offer he couldn't refuse."

At that comment, Gibbs raised his eyebrows and Abby snickered. "Oh no! Don't worry... not that kind of offer. I thought that same thing, but as usual, I was wrong," Tony said, correcting what they both were thinking.

I promise that this chapter looked longer in my notebook.

I am going to try to update as often as possible, but I am not sure howpossible that will be because my last week of finals is next week... lots of studying.

Oh and just for laughs right now, my dog is chasing his tail. It is actually really funny because I never knew that dogs really did that.