"hum hummm hum mm…

"hum hummm hum mm….himmmm hum hummm…."

"Tony!"

"What?"

"You are humming. It is driving me crazy"

"No I'm not"

"Yes you are. Just because we are going to the hospital to see McGee and your happy about it I don't think you need to hum at me."

"I am not humming……And I'm especially not humming just because we're going to see McGee."

"Fine then"

Tony tightened his hold on the gift he had got for Tim. It wasn't a Magnum PI Hawaiian shirt but still he hoped Tim would like it. He had it gift wrapped and the box was tied with a big bow and tucked securely under his arm.

"hum hummm hum mm….himmmm hum hummm…."

"Tony!"

Tony and Ziva approached McGee's hospital room only to hear a woman's laugh. Tony narrowed his eyes as they stepped in the room to find a very attractive nurse, smiling prettily at Tim.

"Ahem" Tony cleared this throat significantly and Tim looked up while the nurse smoothed the covers on the bed.

"Hello" Tim smiled at Tony and Tony felt his toes curl as Tim flashed his big green eyes adoringly at him.

"Ahh Hi"

"Well since you have guests, I should go Tim"

Tim??

The nurse stopped at the door and then turned to look at Tim.

"I was wondering ….well once you're better and out of here, would you like to go for a drink sometime?"

Tim smiled and flushed "Thanks …but….well actually…I'm kind of …ah …seeing someone at the moment"

Tony grinned.

The nurse, Kirsten judging by the name badge she wore caught Ziva's eye with a smile and then sighed.

"I should have known a great guy like you would be taken. They all seem to be taken….or gay"

Kirsten disappeared around the door with a smile and a wave while Ziva smothered her laugh. Tony shot her a dirty look while Tim squirmed.

Tony came over and sat beside Tim and presented his gift with a flourish.

"I thought I would get you something….looks like I was just in time. Can't have you being chatted up by cute nurses while I'm not around to defend you."

Tim smiled his eyes warm. "You were jealous"

"No I wasn't! In fact …..I was ….being checked by a nurse just before we came in!"

Ziva rolled her eyes "No you weren't. You didn't even see them walking past. You were too busy humming and smiling and telling me how many days until McGee gets to come home."

Tim smiled and Tony threw his hands up in the air "Ziva! Don't tell him that"

"Why? What's wrong with telling your boyfriend that you are eager to see him?"

"Hey McGee's not my Boyfriend. We haven't even been on a date yet…I mean Boyfriend is a bit serious isn't it?"

"Whatever Tony"

Tony turned laughing to Tim and saw the happy look of earlier was replaced with a slightly sad, kicked puppy expression that made Tony want to kiss the little frowny face away.

Tony suddenly shoved the box at Tim and shot a glare over at Ziva. Oh he was so talking to her in the car on the way back to work.

"Here McGee. I got you a present. Its not as great as the one you got me ….but still I hope you like it"

Tim cheered up a bit as he settled back into the plumped up pillows and opened the box.

"It's a shirt. Oh Tony it's really nice. Wow"

Tim carefully pulled out the rich sky blue dress shirt with fine pin stripes running through it, out of its tissue wrapping. The cotton was so fine and rich it felt like silk in his hands and the fine white stripe caught the light like gossamer. The tiny mother of pearl buttons glimmered in the soft light and Tim knew it would fit to perfection.

Tony grinned smugly as he saw Tim's eyes widen in appreciation

"I thought you might like it. The color is called French Blue. You don't really have any nice dress shirts I like so I thought I would buy you one. Can't be taking you out looking …well you know…McGeeish."

"Are you saying you don't like the way I dress?' Tim frowned

"No no….I mean you dress fine….well much better than you use to. God you used to be terrible! I mean bad. Really bad. Thank god you spent some money on your wardrobe. It was a little embarrassing. Now it's just that you lack a little…..flair. You know you're kind of boring. I figure it would be good to see you in some stuff that's a bit edgier. You know?"

Tim turned to look at Tony, with a hurt look on this face.

"Is this gift your way of saying you don't want to be seen with someone as boring as me then? The way I dress isn't good enough for you?"

Tony sat very still and replayed his gift over in his head. It wasn't meant to go like this. Tim was supposed to be pleased with his present, not cross at him.

"So….you don't like the shirt?" Tony was a bit confused

"Of course I like the shirt. It's fantastic….What I object to is you telling me I'm boring and a terrible dresser."

Tony laughed "But you are!"

Tim quietly folded the shirt and put it back in the box.

"I'm feeling a bit tired so if you don't mind I'm going to get some sleep now. Say Hi to Abby. Thanks ZIVA …for coming down."

Tony frowned. Had he just been dismissed?

"Um ok…well I will come by later then?"

Tony awkwardly stood not quite certain of what to do. Should he kiss Tim goodbye? Maybe on the cheek? Shake his hand? Give him a hug? What did gay guys do when they said goodbye. Sing?

"Yeah …whatever" Tim didn't meet his eyes and just rolled over and faced the window.

Ziva dragged Tony out of the room and out to the car while Tony protested.

"I don't understand? Why did he get so mad at me? I mean I brought him a gift AND I came over to see him. He was the one being fawned all over!"

Ziva just sighed "Man the two of you! Your not very good at this relationship thing are you Tony"

"Well I haven't had much practice….but I thought that I was doing ok."

"Tony, in the space of two minutes you clearly said McGee wasn't your boyfriend, you didn't like the way he dresses, he used to embarrass you and that you consider him boring. Oh and worst of all you laughed at him when he objected."

Tony pouted "But…but I brought him that shirt because the blue color would make his eyes look fantastic….…really show up the green……..and he has such pretty eyes."

Ziva groaned "Well why didn't you tell him THAT instead of insulting him a dozen times over?"

Tony just looked out the window and sighed "Ziva, this relationship stuff sucks"

"Welcome to the real world Tony. By the way you better get used to it. If you and McGee break up before you even end up going out Gibbs is going to kill you. Oh and Abby"

"What about you?"

Ziva smiled smugly "I might just have to go comfort McGee through his heartbreak"

Tony shot Ziva a dirty look and she laughed "What? I think he's too good for you. Cute, smart, polite, famous, rich, sweet……. Besides if Gibbs is willing to look the other way on the whole Rule Twelve thing…."

"You are kidding? Aren't you?"

Ziva just smiled and shrugged as she sped through the traffic.

"Well if you don't want him……."

Tony watched her for a moment before he burst out angrily "Don't you dare! That's my boyfriend you're talking about there."

"Oh so he's your boyfriend now is he? Are you going to tell McGee that?"

"Just shut up Ziva."

"Well that's really mature Tony"

Tony turned and poked his tongue out at Ziva "nnhhhhh" before sulking and looking out the window.

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Tim sighed and looked out the window. Stupid DiNozzo had to go and spoil it all. He had been so looking forward to seeing him. And then he just had to open his big stupid mouth.

Tim took a deep breath. Look he knew that it wasn't going to be easy. Nothing Tony ever did was easy. Look at the good points.

1, He did come to see you

2, He was excited to see you

3, He was jealous. (This instantly put Tim in a better mood)

4, He brought you a gift (even if he did insult you when trying to give it to you)

Okay so he didn't get an I love you, I miss you, or even a kiss. Ok so patience this was going to just take some time.

In a few days he was going to be able to get out of here and maybe they could spend some time together where Tony didn't insult him.

Boring? Lacking in flair? Embarrassing? Huh

Well he was going to show Tony. Tim reached over and grabbed his laptop with wireless connection and prepared himself to spend some money.

Silk. Black silk. Yeah

He was going to look so smoking hot Tony would be throwing himself at his knees and begging him to be his boyfriend!

(Thanks to those reviewing and alerting. And please keep it up as its really helping me stay on the quick updates.)