Guys and Nightmares

The first site that greeted them as they stepped out the cab was a bizarre one. A man slumped on the porch floor wearing a tatty black hat, torn black pants, scuffed up shoes, dusty old waistcoat and a ripped long sleeve shirt. He had a cardboard sign round his neck with 'Cent For The Guy' written in black marker. As McGee and Abby walked closer they noticed the man seemed to be covered in blood, they ran to him 'how could Alan miss him on his way in' Tim thought. Abby knelt down beside him and shook him, his head rolled of and hit the floor with a thud, she jumped back and threw her head back laughing McGee had closed his eyes but at the sound of Abby laughing re-opened them the man seemed to be stuffed full of straw, quickly grabbing the head and looking at it he began laughing to. It was a painted straw filled sack with a wig on it.

"I'm glad I came McGee. That is the most hinkyest thing I have ever seen" Abby said regaining control of herself.

"Ello can I hel- Timmee me old mate howya' doin son! Mate what as 'appened to your 'air!" the door opened and a strong east London accent shot at Tim.

"Smithy! You haven't changed a bit" Tim replied shaking his hand. "Oh Abby this is Alan Smith my old roomy. Alan this is Abby Scuito she's a forensic scientist at the place I work. She would be the reason for the hair" Tim laughed

"Ello my lovely call me Smithy everyone does. Core good job getting 'im to change his 'air we 'ad trouble getting him to change his style of clothes at MIT. And core Tim nice bitta crumpet their mate." Smithy replied kissing Abby's cheek and winking at Tim.

"Crumpet? What's crumpet?" Abby whispered to McGee as they walked in.

"I'll explain later Abs" McGee replied with a smile. They walked through the house and out into the yard, suddenly standing still with their mouths open.

"Whow!" they both gasped seeing the ten foot high pile of wood and junk.

"Uh….smithy is that the bonfire?"

"What. Oh yer mate good init"

"You sure the fire chief's are going to like this?"

"Duno mate. To be honest I can't see the 'arm it'll do. Back in England we 'ad bigger one's than that." He laughed handing Tim a beer. Abby began laughing.

"I love his accent it's so funny" she said taking hold of Tim's hand as they walked and talked to all of Tim's old MIT friends. They were just finishing ungluing their jaws shut from the sticky toffee apples and sticky toffee slabs when smithy called over to them.

"Ay Tim, Abby fancy 'avin a go of bobbing for apples"

"Oooo. Like on Halloween yer sure smithy but I get to go against Timmy" Abby said bouncing over to the crowd huddled around the tank. Tim and Abby's hands were tied behind their back and they dunked their heads. After a while of head bumping with Abby and the side of the tank Tim got his teeth into an apple for some reason the apple felt heavier than normal apples none the less he lifted his head as he lifted it water covered his eyes but he could make the outline of a face inches from his own, as things became clearer he could see jet black hair in pigtails 'no way! how could she have beat me. I didn't feel her lift her head' McGee thought as the water dripped off his eyes he realised they had got the same apple. Abby looked just as surprised they knelt there staring for a while then got to their feet still biting the apple.

"Let go McGee I wana win" Abby mumbled

"No I wana win for a change" he mumbled back. Abby looked him in the eye, her eyes full of want and innocents, pleading like a puppy does for food. How could he refuse those beautiful green orbs he let go immediately Abby started bouncing up and down.

"I won! I won! I beat Tiiimm" she teased

"Yer alright" McGee replied putting his arm round her waist and pulling her close to him. They talked to some more of Tim's old friends as darkness fell. The Guy was brought from the porch and placed on the bonfire. Smithy's children and family cheered as it came past and the bonfire was set alight. As a treat for the couples who came, Smithy put a few love songs on to dance to.

"Do you want to dance?" McGee said softly, offering his hand to Abby who was sitting at the time. She took his hand and he wrapped her into a dancing embrace. They slowly danced around the yard holding each other close. McGee looked into Abby's face, she couldn't have looked any more beautiful the flickering light off the bonfire lit her face up so perfectly and defined the facial features he adored, her majestic green orbs, soft black pigtailed hair and tender lips. They stared deeply at each other as their lips began to grow closer and closer, finally meeting and locking on to each other for the longest kiss they had ever had to them there was no crowd, there was no music, there was only the two of them and the gentle warmth of the bonfire. They broke apart begging for oxygen, as the song finished. As they stood holding each other a firework went up and so began the display. Abby looked over at Tim while he was watching the display his face was lit up in different colours blue, red, white, green each one lighting him up to reveal his features to her then fading 'his new black hair suited him' she thought smiling to herself. She rested her head on his shoulder and turned back to watching the display.

"Night Smithy. see you another time maybe?"

"Yer mate soon hopefully night Tim, night Abby"

"Night Smithy" Abby replied taking hold of McGee's arm. They had opted to walk home instead of take a cab as Abby insisted on a midnight stroll. The stars blinked down upon them and the moon lit their way along the dark streets.

"So Timmy you never told me what crumpet is" McGee smiled at her nervously not sure how Abby would take the news.

"Well…it's…um" McGee stalled wondering how best to put it "Well in England a crumpet is a sweet cake and where Smithy comes from it also refers to a....um….a well a good looking woman" Tim finished quickly. Abby stopped and Tim gulped waiting for the wrath of Abby he new she hated being looked on as an object.

"You no what Tim…. I don't mind being your crumpet" she laughed as McGee let out a sigh of relief.

"So did you like tonight?" Tim said pulling Abby a little closer.

"It was great Timmy; I love Guy Fawkes Night its like Halloween only less latex masks. Say do you want to stay round mine tonight instead of driving all the way back to yours. I think I'd like some company besides Burt tonight." she said looking up at him and grinning mischievously.

"Sure no problem" he replied Smiling broadly as he pulled her closer to keep her warm he could see she was shivering from the cold but trying to hide her shiver from him. They had both always loved midnight walks, the stars the cool night breeze and the silence of the usually busy streets, nothing could be heard except for the distant sound of the odd car or rustle from the bushes as the breeze passed through them. Abby looked up and began star gazing.

"Oooo that one looks like a skull" she said Tim looked up and spotted the congregation of stars spotting the skull Abby was talking about.

"Hey that one looks like Burt" McGee spotted a group of stars that resembled Abby's farting hippo. Abby found it and laughed.

"Those two look like….like the gleam in your eye when Gibbs tells you, you can stay and help me in my lab" she smiled at the two shimmering starts

"And those two there look like the sparkle in you eyes when I bring you a Caff Pow even if you do sometimes blackmail me into getting you one" McGee smiled.

Eventually they reached Abby's house. "So do you want me to take the couch?" McGee asked.

"No I want you to sleep in my bed Timmy you can take Burt's place" McGee's ears turned pink "Timmy there's nothing to be embarrassed about, we can sleep together especially if one of us brought the other a very beautiful necklace and has dyed his hair black and got a black rose wrapped in barbwire to remember me" she winked

"I'm…I'm not embarrassed" he stuttered

"Oh really so why have your ears turned pink?" she laughed as McGee cupped his hands over his ears.

"That's cheating" he said punching her arm lightly. She replied with a slightly harder punch so he punched her a little bit harder. She screwed her face up not wanting to lose and jumped on top of McGee. The pair started play fighting on the ground giggling. Tim got the upper hand and rolled on top of Abby pinning her arms beside her head "Ha I win" he said smiling.

"Ooo, I love it when you're rough and take control Timmy" she replied seductively raising her head and opening her mouth ready to kiss Tim, McGee bent his head down and was about to place his lips over hers when she raised her hands and flipped him off to the side and they continued wrestling. "Not going to win that easy Timmy. You know me better than that" she teased. "Ooo Tim have you been working out your a lot stronger than the last Tim we did this" she said grabbing hold of his tensed bicep and feeling how solid it was. Tim was glade she had noticed he had been trying hard to get in shape so he could take down suspects and fight Abby easier. Finally exhausted from Abby's energy he caved and let her pin him. "See I always win Timmy" she said innocently

"Okay…okay…you…win" he panted "but I totally had you first half"

"No way! I let you win that was all" she replied bending down and placing her lips on his to stop his comeback. Tim began running his finger along her spine with one hand and through her hair with the other. Then with out warning he flipped himself on top and broke the kiss.

"Ha told you I could win" Tim said quickly placing his lips back to Abby's and entangled his legs with hers. After they could hold their breath no longer they broke apart. Tim scooped Abby off the floor, picked her up in his arms and gave her a quick kiss before walking to the bedroom and placing her on the bed. She sat up and pulled McGee towards her and began unbuttoning his shirt he helped by unbuttoning the bottom buttons he threw the shirt off and Abby's mouth fell open.

"Wow Tim you really have been working out, Tony will be jealous about these " she said rubbing her hand down the washboard abs. Tim grabbed her top and pulled it up over her head whilst Abby unclipped her bra "Ah free at last" Tim dived on top of her and they started a different style of wrestling.

It was now two o'clock in the morning as they lay hugging each other under the covers, Tim rubbing his finger up and down her spin as he often did when they were together. Abby had her head on his chest listening to his steady on time heart beat and his deep and slow breathing. She could feel her eye's drooping and herself drifting off to sleep when Tim broke the silence.

"Hey Abby, does this mean were back together?" he whispered

"McGee…"

"It's okay if you don't want it to get serious I don't mind doing all of this again but I was just wondering"

"Timmy I want us to be together again like before but…" she said resting her chin on his chest and looking up at his face. Tim's face had fallen at the word 'but'.

"But it's just this time I do want us to be serious like proper boyfriend and girlfriend"

McGee's face lit up like a Christmas tree and Abby smiled at the delight this news had brought to him she rested her head back on his chest and began drifting back off to sleep.

It was cold, uninviting dark and most of all she did not want to be there. The place felt exactly the same as it did when Kate was here only this time things were worse, she had lost the only person that ever brought her happiness, joy and that actually cared about her more than Gibbs did. She walked through the doors to the table where he lay covered over by a white sheet. She stood over him trying to gather the nerve to pull back the sheet and look at the one person she had truly ever loved. She didn't know if she could face it alone but she would have to try, slowly moving her shaking hand towards the top of the sheet. She held her breath as she grabbed hold and began pulling it back. His hair was revealed first still black, then a pale white forehead, followed by two closed eyelids if he wasn't so pale and still, she would have thought he was sleeping how she wished he was and that she could climb in next to him and listen to his heart beat, finally she uncovered his mouth as she took in his face two tears spilled from her eyes. Timothy McGee would never be there to hold her, to comfort her, to make her laugh or to help her ever again. She began shaking violently sobbing.

She sat bolt up right, tears streaming down her face leaving wet black tear tracks from her mascara Tim was sitting next to her looking concerned.

"I woke you up, you were sleep crying and then you star-" Abby flew at him and wrapped her arms around him squeezing him into a bone crunching hug.

"I had a nightmare usually I like nightmares but this one was different you were init and I was in autopsy and there was a table and a she-" Tim placed his finger over her lips to cut her off he could guess the next few words. He began running his hand through Abby's soft black hair gently calming her. After a while the sound of sobs stopped and normal breathing could be heard coming from Abby. He laid her back down and propped himself up on his elbow.

"Don't worry Abs I'm here, nothing will happen to you or me I promise" he said gently kissing her neck. He stroked her arm with his finger. Her deep soft breathing took over again and he knew she was asleep. He sat there for a while staring at her sleeping form, gave her one last kiss on her head and fell asleep with her.

Tim was first to wake this morning usually Abby was first to wake as the need for her early morning Caff Pow took over. But the events of last night with Tim and her nightmare had drained her and she and now her body was craving sleep more than caffeine. Tim looked at her, smiling to himself at the fact he had woke before her, he got out of bed and walked to the kitchen. He would surprise her this morning with breakfast in bed, he had just finished her pancakes and toast and was setting it on the tray when he her Abby shout.

"Tim…Tim…TIMMY!"

"It's alright Abs I'm in the kitchen" he replied

"What are you doing in there?"

"Making you breakfast in bed I've just finished"

"McGee get your butt in here before I drag you in and tie you to the bed"

"Oooo would you do that? thanks Abs" Tim replied joking. At that moment though Abby came running in, grabbed Tim's hand and dragged him to the bed and cuffed both his hands to the bed post.

"No…no…wait a second I was joking" he laughed trying only lightly to resist Abby

"Should be more careful about what you joke about Timmy" she laughed sitting on top of him, running her hands over his chest and around his neck before pressing her lips on top of his.

"You know your breakfast is getting cold"

"It can wait McGee"

"Oh so I guess that Caff Pow can wait then" he smirked

"Early morning Caff Pow for me!" Abby said jumping up and darting out the room. Tim's face fell as he realised she wasn't going to untied him.

"Hey Abs…Abs you need to untie me" no reply came

"Aw come on Abs you can't leave me like this" she came back in with the tray and sat beside him.

"Aw McGee my favourite pancakes, toast and Caff Pow. I love you here you want some?" she said cutting a slice of pancake drenched in syrup and putting it in front of his mouth. Shrugging his shoulders he took the slice off the fork and they sat there rather strangely eating Tim handcuffed to the bed with Abby sitting next to him. Finished with tormenting McGee whilst he was handcuffed to the bed, Abby released him.

"I'm going for a shower want to join me" she asked seductively. Knowing that she wasn't joking this time McGee followed her into the bathroom and they got in the shower together.

The water on their bodies made the touch and feel of each other even more sensational. Never in McGee's whole life had he felt so dirty in a shower, even though there wasn't a speck of dirt on him. Tim was behind Abby with his hands wrapped around her waist kissing the back of her neck, she giggled as a tingle went through her at each kiss. She turned to face him and their lips locked together as both of their hands explored each others body. Finally finishing their shower and getting ready Tim screamed.

"AHHHHHHHH! Abs my hairs still black!"

"What it shouldn't be I used the oh…"

"The oh Abby I don't like the oh what's the oh?" Abby began laughing

"I used my dye instead of the one I brought for you. You have to grow this one out" she said laughing. McGee's eyes went wide as dinner plates.

"Dinozzo's going to slaughter me for this and Gibbs. What's Gibbs going to say" McGee said smacking his forehead.

"I'm sorry Timmy it was an accident" she said with puppy eyes, running up to him and pulling him into a hug. "Dinozzo you're just going to have to live with. Gibbs I'll talk to him and he'll understand" Tim calmed and started stroking the back of her head.

"Thanks Abs and don't worry I know it was an accident." She kissed his cheek and they walked to the living room and crashed out on the sofa.

"So my black haired Timmy wotcha want to do?"

"I don't know wotchu want to do?"

"No I asked you first, so I demand an answer" she said punching his arm. McGee looked at Abby, smiled and punched her arm back, Abby screwed her face up.

"Oh you want to start this again do we" she said pulling Tim into a head lock. McGee with a free arm scooped her up and walked across the living room with Abby in his arms kicking she managed to break free of his hold and pulled him down on top of her before rolling on top of him.

"Don't make me get the handcuffs Timmy"

"Ah you won't get the handcuffs" Abby looked confused at him "I have them ha" he said pulling a pair out and cuffing Abby's right hand.

"Oh no you don't McGee" she said grabbing the other cuff and placing it on Tim's left hand before pinning both his hands. McGee moved his left hand across quickly, pulling Abby's right hand out from under her making her fall on top of him. Before he had a chance to roll on top of her Abby locked her lips on to his and they began tongue wrestling.

'Ding Dong'

Abby broke the kiss and looked a McGee.

"Who could that be? No one's called to say their coming over she got up pulling McGee with her to the door. He hid behind the door with Abby's arm whilst she opened the door as a way of teasing her he began gently kissing her hand and moving slowly up her arm.

"Oh hey Gibbs" McGee stopped, his eyes widened, he gulped and stood bolt up right

"Hey Abs, I came to see how last night went for you and McGee. Mind if I come in?"

"Oh last night was great and uh…" she turned her head to McGee behind the door, who shook his head back at her. A grin spread over her face. She looked back at Gibbs and opened the door so McGee could be seen "And me and Timmy really hit it off" McGee looked at Gibbs still with his arm hand cuffed to Abby.

"H-hey boss" he gulped

"McGee!" he turned back to Abby and raised his eye brows, when a smirk grew across his face "nice hair McGee I never thought you would turn Goth" McGee's ears turned pink.

"No Boss Abby dyed my hair for the party. But used her permanent dye instead of the wash out one" Gibbs turned to Abby and began signing to her.

"Hope you know what your doing" Abby's eyes widened

"Gibbs of course I do its McGee, he treats me right beside's if he doesn't he's got you to answer to" she smiled

"Okay, okay if he gives you any trouble at all though come to me. And what's with the cuffs? On second thought I don't want to know" McGee looked from Abby to Gibb's confused at what they were signing to each other when Gibb's said

"Well I'll leave you two to get on with what you were doing" he said looking down at the cuffs "Bye Abby, McGee" and with that he turned back to his car.

"Bye Gibbs, Boss" they both said in unison Abby saying Gibbs McGee saying boss.

Authors Note: first off I'll explain some of Smithy's slang for those who can't understand it:

Ello= hello, howya'= how are you, 'appened= happened, 'air= hair, 'im= him, 'ad= had, 'arm= harm, 'avin= having.

Next, sorry this has taken a while to update but like I said computer troubles and time troubles are putting me behind. Thank you to those who have reviewed and added this story to your alerts or favourited it. Please keep reviewing I love seeing what you think and it inspires me to write more and quicker. Next chapter again may take a while but I'll try to speed it up it will go back to the case but be warned this story could still go down a dark path and become a tragedy.