Heya everybody! i hope that you all had a GREAT x-mas and New year! here is the LOOOONG awaited Abby and Kate conversation. Next part will be the send off of team Gibbs and Kate...and a bit more. so please leave a review..they help me to type...and maybe even some suggestions as to what you'd like to see, and i'll try to find a way to incorporate them in the story!

Hope you enjoy the chapter...and i hope i'm over writers block!

Chapter 15

Kate pulled into her driveway, still smiling at the events that had taken place over the last 24 hours. Maybe things would work out after all.

Kate jumped as her car door opened and she was dragged out by a lacy black gloved hand.

"ABBY! Are you crazy! What the hell are you doing here!"

"Hello to you too! Come ON! I want details!" and practically dragged Kate to the front door.

"OKAY OKAY! Let me at least find my keys!"

Once Kate finally got the door open, Abby crashed though and pounced.

"Ok, I've ordered a vegetarian Pizza… now talk, you and Gibbs, in his house… WHAT HAPPENED!"

Abby got herself comfortable on the bean bag, and looked at Kate expectantly, waiting for her to spill her guts.

"Nothing happened Abby, we talked, we ate, we talked, kissed and then slept. Grace was just exaggerating this mornings events."

"So you weren't making out in the kitchen."

Kate blushed.

"You WERE! Kate come on! I tell you everything-"

"And you know some thing's I really don't need to know Abby!"

Abby narrowed her eyes at Kate, making her feel a little guilty. Abby was like her sister, her best friend, and confidante. She sighed. Abby grinned inwardly, guilt trips were fun!

"What do you want to know? There isn't really much that you don't already know."

"Details Kate! I didn't even get the Cliff-notes version of things," Abby whined exasperatedly, "I want the blow by blow, and the he said she said. And if you don't I'll go and ask Grace."

Kate laughed, of course she would, and no doubt once Abby left her house, she'd be on the phone to Grace filling her in on the details that she hadn't gotten out of Kate.

"Grace doesn't know anymore than you do. So I think that I might hold out a little longer." She said smiling evilly.

"Kaaaaaaate! You're being as annoying as TONY."

"Oh Ouch. Ok fine. I honestly don't know what to tell you."

Abby grinned, "You're in luuurrve! Hahaha, I can tell by that look on your face. I want to know everything. From the start to the end. Give me the intimate details- just not so – intimate."

Kate sighed. She honestly had no idea where to start, so she decided to start at her arrival at the Gibbs residence.

She was just about to begin when the doorbell rang indicating that 'Dougie' the pizza guy had arrived with their meal. Abby groaned and got up from her comfortable spot to answer the door, while Kate just chuckled.

"That guy has the worst timing" Abby grumbled.

Finally, after shooing 'Dougie' away, they settled down again, with pizza and beer, Kate picking at the toppings, thinking of the point where her relationship was about to change.

"Ok, you want the WHOLE story, from beginning to the end."

Abby gave an eager nod of clarification.

"Right. Ok, Gibbs called me after breakfast, and asked me to come over so I could go over details about the trip with him around lunch time-"

"Yeah, I'll bet you really went over details." Abby interrupted cheekily

"Hey do you want to know what happened or not?" Kate quipped

Abby held up her hands as if to say 'Please do!'

"Mm, where was I? Oh right, so I went over to his place with the itinerary, and the tickets, running into Grace who was on her way out –"

"Oh yeah, I heard that she got yelled at when she came home"

"She kind of did. It was so different, seeing Gibbs interact with her. He was like a completely different man. I mean we've all seen him with suspects and victims children, but this was different, he's like a totally different man around Grace."

Abby nodded in understanding "I know what you mean. I remember when I just started working here, and Gibbs was fighting for custody of Grace, I'd never seen him so determined. It was heartbreaking watching Gibbs say goodbye to her. He was the biggest grump for months after that. I wish you could have seen him when Grace showed back up on his doorstep. He wore this huge grin on his face or months."

Abby and Kate went quiet for a few minutes.

"Oh no, that's not cool. You changed the subject." Abby narrowed her eyes at Kate, as she innocently picked at the cheese on her pizza.

"But it worked didn't it! So Grace was on her way out. And I went to the basement-"

"Woah, you went into the basement? I've NEVER been in the basement."

"ABBBY! Let me finish! So I was in the basement, and he was working on the boat." Remembering the way that Gibbs body moved as he worked on the boat brought a flush to her cheeks, quickly, she coughed and hurried on.

"Anyway, he ordered us some lunch and we went upstairs so that I could tell him about what was going on. We talked for a while, I stole his food, he stole my food. He asked about my family, I told him, oh, and I cried"

"WAIT you cried? Why! He made you cry, and you're still going to California with him?"

"NO! he didn't make me cry. I was just- you know me, nerves, stress. Everything kind of just bottled up and I cried."

"So what did he do?" Abby was on the edge of the bean bag, her eyes wide, the pizza in her hand forgotten.

"He hugged me. And just held me until I stopped crying."

"Gibbs. Our Gibbs. Mr. Shows no emotion other than extremely pissed Gibbs?"

Kate laughed and nodded. "Yeah, he was really…I cant believe I;m saying this, but he was really sweet. He was so different, caring. So unlike the Gibbs we see at work all the time. Things were said – private things, and then we kissed…"Kate trailed off, and looked at Abby who had this dreamy look on her face. She burst out laughing, who knew the funky gothic lab tech was a romantic.

"Annnd!" Abby whined

"And nothing! That's it! Nothing happened. Nothing. I fell asleep, and you know what happened with Grace, and ou heard what happened this morning. There is nothing else to tell."

Kate purposely left out the part about her telling Gibbs that she loved him, and Gibbs doing the same. She wanted to keep that to herself, that and she had already put a huge dent in Gibbs' tough guy image.

Abby looked at her disbelievingly, she knew there was more to the story, but decided not to push her luck. Besides, she had a duty to fulfill. As a participant in 'Operation get Kate and Gibbs together' her new mission was to help Kate pack.

"Abby where are you going?" Kate yelled as she bolted into Kate's bedroom.

tbc...

personally i don't think that this was the best chapter...but i still had fun writing it!

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ps...Brit..you'r updating your two fics helped me get off my butt and finish this chapter!