Kate was distracted the next day, and ignored the looks from Gibbs and Abby. She however glanced at Tony sometimes and decided to tell him in the evening, there was never a good time to tell it and they needed time to think about what they were going to do. She had no idea how he was going to react, but expected the worst. When Gibbs headed for the elevator to have a chat with Abby or Ducky, Kate saw her chance. She took a long, hard breath and started:
"Tony, I have to tell you something."
He grinned. I knew it! She wants me back! Told you that you still had it sex machine, oh yeah!
"I'm pregnant"
What? "Mine?" he stammered.
"Of course" she answered indignant, "Look, I didn't expect this to happen neither than you did Tony, I just forgot that the pill doesn't work when you throw up and have a hangover. But it's not too late yet. We still have time."
"My baby" he whispered, while he came out of his chair and silently walked over to her.
"Yeah, guess we know now what we did that night we couldn't remember," she continued. He stood before her and touched her belly.
"We made a baby"
"What? Are you saying that you want this baby? I thought you never wanted kids?" she said surprised and confused.
"And are you saying that you don't want our baby?" he snapped back.
"Yes...no, I don't know. Look, I'm not prepared for this. And neither are you! It's just not all the happy moments you know, you have the crying and getting up at night at the beginning, the dirty nappies, the child getting sick, teething and god knows what else. I just don't want to get all of that alone and that you come by in the weekend to take the kid for a walk in the park and then disappear again." They didn't hear Gibbs and Abby walking in. Tony was still standing there, his hands on her belly.
"What is going on here?" Gibbs asked looking at the pair of them. Kate wanted to keep it a secret just for a while, and opened her mouth to say something funny, when she heard Tony say:
"She's pregnant Boss, we're going to have a baby!" he smiled gladly. Kate gasped for air.
"What? What did you do to her DiNozzo?" he yelled.
"Very funny Boss. Since I fell in love with Kate I didn't even look at any other woman! And I was thinking, I'm 33 now and maybe it's time that I settle down, you know, start a family and everything."
You could hear the silence breathing all over the bullpen. Kate's jaw dropped at his words. Tony said it so fast, that he himself was also surprised by his own words. Maybe it wasn't always a good thing to think before you talked.
Gibbs was baffled. The first one to break the silence was Abby.
"Oh my god, you totally transformed him Kate! That is so cool!" She walked over to Kate and hugged her. "Hey, can I be auntie Abby? That would be major cool!" she jumped up and down.
"Yeah Abby, I can even do better, you can be godmother!" she smiled.
"Hey, wait a second, who said that the child is going to be raised catholic and be baptised?"
"Of course the baby is going to be catholic!" she said firmly.
"So I don't have a say in this, oh hey, well, I'm just the father you know!" They were facing each other now, as if nothing had changed, bickering and bantering, Kate with narrowed eyes and Tony acting like a spoilt teenager. Gibbs quietly motioned Abby to go outside. They silently walked through the main doors, hearing the two of them continuing their bickering. Gibbs sighed. One day those two are going to kill each other.
"God, you are so..." he waved his hands upwards in desperation. He fell onto his chair and sighed. "I didn't think it could be that..." he whispered.
"Amazing?" she whispered back.
"yeah" he sighed. " I just thought if we got together this once, it would resolve all this tension and it wouldn't affect our partnership...guess that was the biggest lie ever!" he continued. "I just can't stop thinking about you, everywhere I turn during the day as well as the night," he said desperate, "what has happened to me?"
She came over to his chair with a develish smile on her face. She sat on his lap and whispered seductively in his ear: "It's like falling in love...it can happen like that" while she snapped her fingers, glad that she finally got him back for that morning being hostage of Ari.
When Ducky came out of the elevator, he saw Kate sitting on Tony's lap in his chair, while he kissed her neck.
"I'm sorry Tony," she whispered. She noticed Ducky coming nearer and smiled.
"Hey Ducky." The old man was stunned as well.
"What did I miss?" he asked.
"Not much." Tony answered, "We're pregnant." Ducky rolled his eyes and left the bullpen. I must be going senile. Kate and Tony smiled at each other.
"Missed me?" Tony asked while he gave her little kisses.
"Like a bullet through the head!" she laughed.
The End
A/N: Well, this was the last part of "Greed", I hope you all liked it:). Thanks go to my Beta Mel again, to the members of Scuttlebut (especially Hellfire, who reviewed every update:) and to all the other tate-lovers out there! As far as I'm concerned, tate lives and will live forever:)! I do not like Ziva and am still disappointed in the way the writers decided to handle Kate's departure of the show as well as her burial. Long live the world of denial and tate fanfics;)!