Chapter 2

NCIS

Meanwhile back NCIS Tim was in Abby's lab helping her try to figure out the bug. However, Tim wasn't really focused on the task in hand, Tim was lost in thoughts about his relationship with Ellie.

They had met two years before, at the park when Tim was taking his dog Jet the German shepherd for a jog. He had stopped at a bench to rest for a bit and bent down to retie his shoe when someone had asked him about his dog, looking up he met the prettiest brown eyes he had ever seen. The woman smiled and had apologized for starling him, but Tim had told her it was okay and introduced himself, she did the same in return, telling him her name was Ellie Bishop, and after talking for a bit asked him if he would like to get some coffee, Tim had agreed.

They had hit it off from the start-finding out they had smeller interests and that they both work for federal agencies. When they started dating, they had an understanding that they cannot always tell each other about their work like that, they were doing or, if they went out of town, where they were going.

However, about a year later while Ellie was at work, she was in the brake room watching the news that a bomb had gone off at the navy year where Tim worked, Ellie was horrified that something had happed to Tim.

It didn't help that she and Tim had an augment about getting a new couch that morning, both of them had said some not very nice thing before they left for work and now she heard that a bomb had gone off at NCIS.

She gets a call minutes later telling her Tim was on his way to a hospital for having a piece of glass in his side. She ran out of the NSA building as fast as she could. She got to the hospital and the doctor told Ellie that Tim got lucky and that the piece of glass did not do too much damage so Tim just needed stiches but had no farther damage. When Ellie walked into the room Tim was in, she was so happy that he was all right she ran up to him and kissed him hard, than she let go and hit him in the arm for scaring her.

It was about a month after the bombing when Tim asked Ellie to marry him and she said yes. After the bombing they realized how much they loved each other and that it would destroy them if anything ever happened to either one of them.

Tim was brought out of his thoughts by a sharp slap.

SLAP!

"Ow! Hey what did I do?" Tim exclaimed rubbing his head where Abby had hit him.

"That is for spacing out McGee. Gibbs is not going to be happy that you're daydreaming and not working." Abby replied sharply.

"Sorry Abby I didn't get much sleep last night." Tim exclaimed 'well it's not a complete lie' he thought to himself.

"Well you better snap out if it unless you want another Gibbs head slap?" Abby told him.

After that Tim and Abby got back to work.

Tim's co-workers knew he was seeing someone but they did not know who she was or even what she looked like. Tim had his reasons for not telling them and Tony and Abby were two of them. He did not need Tony making fun of him or having Abby keep bugging him about it either.

NCIS

Back in the Bullpen Gibbs, Tony and Ellie had just gotten off the elevator.

'So this were Tim works.' Ellie thought to herself. 'But I can't see Tim anywhere.'

"So what is it you need my help with?" Ellie asked.

"We need you to help us figure out how and who could have pulled something like this off." Gibbs said gruffly.

"But how do I do that? I don't even know who else read my paper." Ellie said, a little annoyed

"Would it help to study the bug?" Gibbs asked.

"It would be a start, yes. Where is it?" She asked.

"It's down in the lab." Gibbs explained.

"And where exactly is that? I don't know my way around this building." Ellie pointed out.

"Don't worry little lady, I'll take you there." Tony said trying to flirt with her, using a line from one of his movies.

"Did you just try to hit on me? You do know I engaged right, in fact I believe I said that my fiancé works here at NCIS when you first talked to me at NSA." Ellie snapped, not impressed at all with Tony attempts to flirt with her.

"No…well… yes but I don't see a rin…." Ellie cut Tony off by showing him her engagement ring.

"Oh… aw…hehe… I guess I did not see it earlier. Or heard what you said either." Tony said nervously.

"Yea I guess so." Ellie responded rolling her eyes.

Gibbs just stood there with a smirk on his face. He was enjoying watching Tony being told off by Ellie. Not many had the guts. At last Gibbs decided to step in with his famous head slap.

SLAP!

"Ow! Thank you, Boss." Tony said in pain.

"I'll take her down to the lab. You stay here and work on finding out where SECNAV has gone in the last few days to see if there is any important info that someone would want to bug her for and who might want to get a hold of it." Gibbs barked orders to Tony.

"I'll have McGee come up here and help you." Gibbs said as he and Ellie headed back to the elevator.

'McGee? Can they be talking about Tim?' Ellie asked herself.

"McGee go up and help DiNozzo find out who has a lot to gain with bugging SECNAV" Gibb ordered when the two get down to the lab.

"On it Boss!" Tim said as he got up to leave the lab, but when he turned around he came face to face with Ellie.

"Tim?!" Ellie exclaimed.

"Ellie?!" Tim shouted.

"Wow! You two know each other?" Abby asked.

At first both Ellie and Tim just stood there in total shock; however, Ellie soon snapped out of it and smiled at Tim happy to see him.

"Hey Tim!" Ellie said to Tim happily, which snapped Tim out of it as well.

"Hey Ellie, what are you doing here? What's going on?" Tim asked still somewhat in shock from seeing Ellie at NCIS.

"What's going on is exactly what I want to know as well, McGee, how do you two know each other?" Gibbs demanded.