Spoiler: Small Miss Congeniality part in it enjoy D

Chap 2

Kate kicked the 'girls changing room' door open with her foot and threw her duffel halfway across the room where it hit a locker with a bang. She yelled at herself and walked over to her duffel. Once there she stripped off her delicate suit and exchanged it with a pair of 'lulu lemon's' exercise pants and a thick-strapped tank top that had 'NCIS' printed in the front. Gathering her hair at the top of her head and tying it in an up hazard half bun half pony she stomped out of the locker room. The minute she entered the gym she groaned. In the opposite side of the gym, in a man-made ring Tony and McGee were wrestling…if you would call it that, basically it was Tony taking swings at McGee and running away every chance he could. Men! She rolled her eyes and headed silently towards the closest punching bag. She picked up a pair of black punching gloves and turned on her disk man she had strapped around her forearm. She glared at the punching bag, pasting mental images all over it, Tony, McGee, Gibbs, and Sullivan her old boyfriend and her father. She waited until the rock music blared in her eardrums and she let out angry jabs and sometimes switching to kicks.

Tony sighed heavily, as he dropped his arms to his sides and un-strapped his gloves.

"That's why they invented gloves Probie, defend yourself!" Tony yelled at Tim as the young agent leapt off the ring and hurried away from the lunatic still in it. He slowed when his eyes stopped on Kate who was furiously punching the living hell out of a punching bag, now she would but Tony's money where his mouth is. Just then an evil idea entered his mind. He avoided Gibbs's gaze from where he just came out of the change room, he too was surprised at the sight of his whole team needing to blow off some steam. He knew for a fact he find would Kate here, she had lost her patience with him earlier in a discussion she would normally win, she even when as far as threatening Sullivan with his life earlier in interrogation. Gibbs jogged over to the ring where Tony was shaking his head.

"You ready DiNozzo?" Gibbs said hoping on and tying McGee's discarded gloves onto his own.

Tony gulped, he could take on McGee any day, Kate he never saw fight but he was pretty confident he could take her on as well, but Gibbs no way in hell would he come out of a fight in one piece. He might as well have some fun while he could still breathe.

"Depends, you want to get cardiac arrest early?" He titled his head from side to side stretching his neck.

Gibbs chuckled softly and went into position. "When you're ready DiNozzo." He said placing his gloves in the defense position.

Ready for a beating… by Gibbs! Yah right! He lunged at his boss.

Kate felt a light tap oh her shoulder and whipped around, want to be near anyone, at any moment she was going to explode and she didn't want it to be on McGee.

"What do you want McGee?" She said as she turned back facing the bag and pelting it again with an array of punches.

"I know how you can unleash your anger." He gently said keeping out of her reach. She stopped a minute and turned around to face him, breathing heavily. With the thumb of her gloved she tucked a strand of moist hair behind her ear. She leaned down and grabbed a water bottle and drank 1/3 of it in one breath. "And how is that may I add?" She threw the bottle on the seat and lowered her headphones to hear his proposal.

"I was fighting with Tony over there when I heard him mumble something about you-" He stopped talking and finished the rest whispering in her ear. Her eyes went into slits, her mouth into a tight line and her cheeks dimmed onto a furious red. McGee pulled back and pointed at the ring where Gibbs had Tony in a headlock.

"That bastard!" She exclaimed as she stomped her way to the center of the gym. McGee grinned happily as he tried to keep up with her, even from a distance he could feel her anger radiate off her body.

"Uncle!" Tony yelled under Gibbs's armpit. Gibbs released him and immediately Tony fell to the floor clutching his chest that was rising up and down at a fast level.

"Had enough Special Agent DiNozzo?" He grinned as he leaned over to grab his water. He walked out of the ring to take a swig when he noticed out of the corner of his eye Kate fume her way onto the ring with a grinning McGee standing out of it. Tony got up and smiled tiredly.

"You want some of the Tony…you sure you won't break a nail?" He said teasing her as she leaped in place holding her hands in front of her face. "Not as likely as I'm going to break your arm!" She let gathered up all the tension, the impatience and fury and fed on it. He shrugged and launched himself at her middle. Before he slipped his hands around her waist to take her down she raised a knee and he ran into it. He toppled over holding his stomach in pain. She kept her hands in front of her waiting. Gibbs knew DiNozzo was in for it, he couldn't watch as he got pelted again. So he hopped on the ring and jogged up behind Kate, he swung at her back. Upon contact she was propelled forward into the ropes. She bit her lip in pain and turned around to face her boss. She had it over her head with him. Boss or not he was as good as dead. She ran gloves raised and swung at his middle, he blocked it easily. She withdrew and he came at her jabbing her in the stomach with a fist she barreled backwards, but she didn't leave him time to think she dove for his middle and brought him down hard knocking the wind out of him. She glared at him as he rolled over causing her to topple under her.

She smelt slight sweat and couldn't deny the proximity was causing her pulse to go into hyper drive. She breathed heavily as he straddled her. He was wearing a grin on his mouth. To the un-trained eye you would think it would be nothing, but to a girl that worked under her bastard of a boss for 6 years she knew he was amused.

"Not bad Kate you lasted longer then DiNozzo did." He said. He was blind by their proximity either, he knew this would end badly but the fact the he was caught up in a moment with Kate he was too preoccupied to notice. He could smell her vanilla soap and strawberry shampoo, along with a light tinge of sweat.

Kate shot daggers at him through her eyes and brought up her legs from behind Gibbs to loop over his head and to tangle on his throat. His eyes opened in shock, as she pressed hard against him sending him to the ground and her on top. She grinned evilly and whispered in her ear.

"I'd say the same thing to you but that would be giving you far too much credit then you deserve." She got back up and bounced in spot watching her boss with new found hate, she hated the fact that he was amused, the fact that even when she wanted him dead he could send her hormones flying, the fact that he invented something so useless as rule 12 when McGee and Abby were having a relationship and when Tony and the receptionist had been seeing each other for 2 months. She let Gibbs get up, him stroking his neck from where she took him down and glaring at her.

Now he was mad, before it was just to save Tony's pathetic ass but now it seemed they did this for relief. He would give some things to think about.

She noticed his eyes went from an ice blue to a steele gray, she knew she was in for it, but the fact that she could hit her boss without getting suspended seemed to blow the other possibilities away.

Author's Note: Hope you like this little tidbit…I thought it appropriate for her to release some tension some way ((giggling)) Please tell me what you think.

Brit -xox-