12 Weeks Later

Tony walked into work and set his backpack down next to his desk. Turning to Gibbs and McGee, he whispered, "When Kate gets here, don't say anything." He sat down at his desk and started his computer as McGee looked on, confused.

Gibbs, however, just smiled, "First day wearing maternity clothes?"

"Yeah boss." Tony said miserably, rembering the morning he had had.

He had just gotten out of the shower and was brushing his teeth when he heard a cry from the bedroom. He was out of the bathroom in record time, "Kate?" he called frantically.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed, her head in her hands, cryng. "Then don't fit." She muttered repeatedly. At this, Tony looked down at a pair of jeans discarded on the floor. She looked up at him, "My jeans don't fit." She said sadly.

Tony sighed, "Honey, just wear the maternity pants your sister bought." He didn't see the big deal,

Immediately, he knew that he had said the wrong thing. She looked up with daggers in her eyes, "Tony, thats not the point. I'm just going to keep getting bigger. I might never wear those jeans again." She sobbed.

Tony grabbed her maternity jeans out of the dresser and laid them beside her, "Just think about it. I'm going to get ready for work and when I'm done you better have those jeans on and be ready to go." he told her, smiling at how adorable she looked. He walked back into the bathroom and just before he shut the door, he heard her say

"I'm not going to work!"

Ignoring this, he shut the door all the way and got ready for work.

20 minutes later, Tony came out of the bathroom all ready for work. He smiled when he opened the door to see Kate putting on her make up in the mirror. "Atta girl." he grinned, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her cheek.

She just glared at him, "Are you happy? I put on the stupid pants. And now, my make up looks horrible because someone was in the bathroom the whole morning and I couldn't wash my face or..." She trailed off, tears coming to her eyes.

"Kate, you're going to ruin your make up." he teased.

She broke into tears again and Tony rubbed the back of his neck nervously

"Bad joke?" he tried unsuccessfully to make her stop crying. He couldn't believe her hormones were this bad already. He tried one last time, "Kate. Why don't I go get the car ready and you can do whatever you need to do."

She nodded and went into the bathroom, shutting the door. Tony let out a breath he didn't realize he had been holding and went down stairs. He grabbed the keys off the counter and walked out to the garage. Just as he finished backing the car out, Kate was locking the front door and walking out to meet him. As she opened her door and got in Tony looked as if he were about to say something, but she cut him off, "Not a word." Her voice was like ice.

Tony was brought back to reality with the ding of the elevator. He sent a look around to the team as Kate walked in. Her eyes were only slightly puffy from crying. She sat down at her desk, "Morning Gibbs, McGee."

"Morning Kate." Gibbs said casually, looking over at Mcgee.

"Uh, morning Kate." McGee said