Day 5
They woke up by a very hard knock on the door.
"Kate! Where the hell are you! Get up and come downstairs...and I cannot find DiNozzo!" Gibbs yelled annoyed. Kate opened her eyes slowly and moaned. She drowsily looked at her watch and her eyes flipped open.
"O my god, Tony. Tony wake up... it's 9 am already. Gibbs couldn't find you. He's back! We have to get ready...now!" Tony nodded while his eyes remained closed.
"I've never slept this late" she continued, then looked at him and started grinning viciously when she removed the sheet from his body causing him to protest.
"That's it DiNozzo, get up! We have to be ready in at least 15 minutes with a reasonable explanation!"
"What about food poison?" he answered. They looked at each other and smiled.
"Ok, now go to your room to change clothes and then pick me up and we'll go together!" He nodded and silently left her bedroom. She didn't have time to think about what exactly happened between them last night. She quickly took her shower and got dressed, just in time to hear the knock on the door.
"Katie, it's me" he whispered. She opened the door: "Let's go."
They were jogging through the hallways to get there on time, only to find out that they were too late for that.
"Well, where the hell were you guys that long huh...this isn't a vacation, we are working on a case here! McGee is the only one who has a good excuse for not being here!" Gibbs yelled.
"Food poison" Kate replied, "me and Tony had dinner here in the hotel and I told him that it tasted funny but he was laughing at me, so we both ate it and hmm, I was hanging over the toilet the whole night and couldn't sleep until early morning. Sorry Gibbs." She smiled sweetly. He growled and waved his hand that they had to sit down.
"Well, I heard about what happened yesterday, since McGee was the only one who opened his door this morning and I'm wondering what kind of agents I have. I'm gone like for just one single day and everything goes wrong. I'm not here as a baby-sitter, I'm your boss and you're my agents and if I ask you guys to find information you find information no matter what the circumstances are!"
"Was that your lecture Boss" Tony asked jokingly.
"Does it look like I'm finished DiNozzo!" Gibbs answered mad. "Ok, Darlene Stevens called me yesterday to have the body shipped over here. She wants the body cremated because nobody will question then anymore the fact that it is not her husband who was murdered. Abby contacted me and told that Brian Shaw does not exist. The DNA of the John Doe will be ready this afternoon. And now I still want to go to Melissa Stevens for confirmation and finish the job I told you to do yesterday afternoon."
They headed outside towards the car. Gibbs was preparing himself for another adolescent bickering about who would get the front seat, but was surprised by Tony saying to Kate that she could sit in the front.
"Thanks Tony" she looked at him and smiled.
Gibbs could not believe his eyes. The last time I saw her smile like that, was when DiNozzo gave her flowers. What did he give her this time?
Also in the car Gibbs was waiting for some kind of comment of DiNozzo that would piss Kate off and would start their usual bickering to get their right. Nothing came, Tony was sitting in the backseat with some kind of inner smile glued to his face and Kate in the front seat was also daydreaming. He shook his head. Food poison my ass! Who do they think I am! Gibbs parked the car on the driveway of the villa again.