a/n: Here's the last chapter in Damselfly. Enjoy and I hope that it's satisfactory.

Damselfly: Epilogue

Shelby felt as if he had angry butterflies in his stomach. He was nervous about doing this, but would always wonder if he didn't. He thought that they had a connection, other than Gibbs. Him and her. He couldn't get her- get her name, Kate Todd- out of his head the whole two weeks that his dad had him on lock-down.

The elevator doors slid open with a muted ding, and he took a step out. This was the first time he had been here, and the place was dark and inactive. He sighed. Of course she wouldn't be here, it was late as heck. He was such an idiot.

He turned back around and was about to step back into the elevator when he heard the ruffling of pages. He turned back.

"Hello?" he asked.

There was a pause of silence, then... "Shelby...?" Kate popped up from behind a short section of wall, surprised.

Shelby felt the same.

"What are you doing here, Shelby?" she asked him. "Gibbs went home a little while ago."

"Oh." he bit his lip. "I didn't come here looking for my dad."

"You didn't?" she furrowed her brows, but found that a small smile spread across her lips.

Shelby shook his head, smiling a little too. "I was hoping to find you."

"You did," she agreed, starting to feel butterflies in her stomach.

He looked down for a moment, before looking at her, taking a breath. "I was hoping to ask you to dinner."

Kate's brows rose. "Really?"

Yep, butterflies were there. She remembered what Gibbs had told her in the hospital, and for a moment she felt conflicted, but it was only for a moment. Shelby spoke before she could.

"Yeah. If you're not busy, that is. Or if you not hungry... or just don't want to." he started to babble. "I mean, that's okay with me. It's not like I'll be-"

Kate held up her hand and he stopped. "I would like that." she told him.

His lips split into a big smile. "Great!"

Kate smiled to. She knew that she didn't want to start this of with a lie, so she encouraged herself to tell him. She didn't want to compromise Shelby's budding relationship with Gibbs, but knew that Shelby was a man and so what he thought was right with it.

"There's something I should tell you," she said, and he stepped forward as she came out from behind her desk. "Before I left the hospital, Gibbs told me that he didn't want us to get involved with each other." she held her breath, waiting for his reaction.

"He did?" Shelby didn't know why this surprised him. She nodded, and he thought about it for a moment. He was just starting to get his relationship with his father back up and running, and didn't want to lie to the man. But Gibbs was being irrational about this. He was an adult, he could date whomever he wished. And he wanted to date Kate. "I guess we just won't tell him, now will we?"

She chuckled. "I guess we won't."

Damselfly finished.

Hope you liked the ending. I will be doing a sequel to this called: Dragonfly. It will focus on Kate and Shelby's budding relationship.