There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do ya?

Tony hesitated as he stood outside Timothy McGee's apartment. Why was he here? The images that he had been fighting against all afternoon flashed again into his mind.

Tony stood in the concealing dark of Observation and watched Tim slowly seductively slide his hand up Bobby Danforth's strong muscular thigh………

"Bobby……….Come on you can tell me………. I already know. I saw you watching me in the elevator………There is no need to be afraid………..You can trust me…."

The whispered breathless yet slightly rough voice Tony had never heard before from Tim taunted him, curling around his innards and squeezing as he stood and watched his arms clenched tightly across his chest.

"You told us you were with Linda at the time of the murder. That you were lovers but I know for a fact that can't be true. You might be her friend…….but her lover? I don't think so …..Bobby. Do you want to know why I know that?"

Tim's bedroom voice so quiet it was barely picked up by the microphones as he lured and seduced.

"You're a very attractive man Bobby. It must be hard for you to resist all the time. To hide yourself away to protect your reputation……"

The demure swoosh of long curled eyelashes as Tim coyly teased and enticed the bedazzled Mr Danforth.

I like you Bobby……I'm sure you can tell…I don't want you to go to jail. Jail is a dangerous place for men like you and me. But if you don't tell us the truth that is where you will go. That's all we want. The truth……Bobby….

The slow arousing wet trail the tip of Tim's tongue made as he licked up Bobby's neck while the helpless man shuddered and whimpered gripping the table before him…………

"You see how you tempt me Bobby? You're a dangerous man and Linda knows that. She is trying to use you to save herself…."

The curl of Tim's full soft bottom lip as he nibbled on Bobby's ear while Bobby pleaded ignorance ….and simultaneously instinctively tipped his head to the side for more, his eyes shut, his breath hitching.

"I'm sure you didn't expect this to go this far. Did you? You knew she hadn't done it. She was your friend…….."

The ownership Tim claimed of Bobby's shirt buttons sliding first one then another out of their confines, his hand circling and caressing the slowly revealed flesh.

"We have to be careful …..you and I……I understand that. I'm a Federal Agent and you're a Navy Commander. Times may have changed but not that much. I understand Bobby….what you go through everyday…."

Tim's fingers as they curled and twisted at the nape of Bobby's short hair as Tim leaned in his mouth slightly open and wanting, his eyes heavy lidded and sultry and…..

The sharp dry voice of Fornell as it sliced through Tony's growing arousal.

"Well I don't remember FLETCH teaching that interrogation technique in any classes I went to."

Gibbs snorted in agreement and the moment was lost. Tony blinked and Ziva nudged him encouraging him to shut his mouth which was hanging open.

"Are you sure this is ok? McGee isn't going to flip out on him or anything is he? I know he hasn't been cleared for field duty and I'm still amazed you let him go in there." Fornell frowned at Gibbs uncertain at the recent turn of events.

Gibbs just smirked "Technically interrogation isn't field duty. He's doing fine. None of this is admissible anyway after your boys screwed the pooch Tobias. But maybe if Linda knows she doesn't have her pit bull in her corner anymore she might buckle. We might get the whole house of cards to come down if we are lucky and Bobby admits he wasn't there. Still when McGee asked to go in and talk to him I didn't think this would be how he would go about it."

"He has been a bit…..on edge……since the Laylan Brothers case." Ziva's voice broke into the silence defensively.

Tony just watched confused, aroused and isolated from the talk swirling around him.

Timothy McGee was seducing a suspect. A man. On purpose.

And he was heartbreakingly good at it. Tony allowed himself a brief vision of Tim's clever fingertips delicately, slowly sliding across his own collar bone before he snapped himself out of it as he felt himself physically respond, his pants tightening.

That was strictly never allowed. Not at work.

Tony concentrated until he was back under control again closing his eyes against the visions taunting him on the other side of the glass.

Tony's eyes snapped open as a new voice made itself heard.

"She asked me to say that I was there…She said she had been out but she couldn't prove it. She was desperate and …and I owed her so much. So I said yes."

Gibbs turned to Fornell and grinned.

"Well it's something to work with at least"

Tony stared through the glass at Tim's triumphant grin his arm still draped around Bobby shoulders.

I did my best it wasn't much

I couldn't feel so I tried to touch

I've told the truth,

I didn't come to fool you

And now here he stood outside Tim's apartment. He had so many questions burning through him he felt afraid. But it was the hope that was killing him.

Was he here as a friend? To see if McGee was alright? Or was it for another reason? Did Tim know he was seducing Tony through the glass as much as he was the suspect? Did Tim know how his heart had leapt at the idea that just maybe Tim might consider the touch of a man not as revolting as he had thought? Or had it been purely about the case? About doing what needed to be done? About proving himself once again to his team?

Tony stood silently in the corridor, the minutes ticking by and knew that he couldn't continue on without knowing what was going on in Timothy McGee's head.

And his heart.

Tony knocked.

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(I hope Im maintaining the intensity of the first two chapters as i love those. Looking at two more chapters to go? The one shot that keeps on talking. Thanks for those letting me know your reading. Precious)