Loyalty Intervenes
"Are you serious, Tim?" Gibbs asked from across the hospital room.
"That's what Kate told me. Why he'd feel threatened by me of all people is completely beyond me."
"He seriously told all the women downstairs that you were gay?" Gibbs was caught between seriously unimpressed, and trying not to laugh. Laughing still hurt like hell.
"Kate told me he said it would cut down on the competition." McGee was sitting up, his bandaged and braced-up wrist draped lightly across his still-bandaged chest. Gibbs shook his head. "McGee, from day one you've only had eyes for Abby. I mean, you haven't always been together but you've always seemed to drift your way back to each other. Maybe even permanently this time."
McGee shrugged. "Well, I know that, and you obviously know that, hell, even Abby knows that, thank God. I guess Tony was just covering his bases." He glanced over at his colleague, snoring softly, almost inaudibly. "He looks so innocent when he's sleeping, doesn't he, Boss?"
Gibbs grinned. "Go figger. Anyway, Tony's dated most of those women. Clearly if they'd go out with him, they're not your type."
"Well Boss, if they believed a word of what Tony told them, women in general are not my type." McGee shook his head, sighing. His eyes lit up suddenly. "Hey, I wonder if they ever heard about that time in the bar… Pacci's murder investigation." His green eyes shone with diabolical glee, and Gibbs could already hear the gears turning inside his youngest Agent's head. Gibbs cleared his throat. "I did NOT hear that, Special Agent McGee. Of course, I am doped up on pain meds. I could have just imagined you said it." Gibbs smiled sweetly, still hovering in his happy place.
McGee sighed happily, glancing over at Tony. His colleague lay sleeping peacefully, his breathing softly audible, his chest rising and falling with each breath. McGee wrinkled his nose, contemplating something. "Nah," he finally said. "Tony's my partner now. That'd just be wrong, on so many levels." Gibbs raised an eyebrow. "But it's still tempting, huh?"
"Hell, yeah!" McGee said, grinning broadly.