Tim tried to stop his eyes popping out of his head. Becky? His heart hammered in his chest and he felt himself break out in a sweat. He was a trained agent he should be able to handle these things with poise.
"Err Hi …I mean ..err.. hello?" He failed miserably and managed to stick his arm out ramrod straight which Rebecca his lover of less than 24 hours ago shook awkwardly while she too blushed and stammered a greeting.
Lucky Director Vance excused himself after a second as Cynthia called to him that his incoming call was waiting in MTAC.
"Well I'll leave you two to get acquainted. Please excuse me." Vance smoothly walked to MTAC, shaking his head. Agent McGee really needed to learn to get a grip around pretty woman if he was going to be a good agent.
Rebecca grabbed his arm and hauled him gently around the corner where they could be away from prying eyes.
"You NEVER said you worked here! Oh ….. oh… crap! I was so worried I mean this is really important to me and I wanted to make a good impression and here I have ruined it completely. And I have only been at work, what an hour! And I have already had sex with a subordinate. Oh no! My reputation will be ruined before it's even started"
Tim bit his lip as he watched Becky almost quietly hyperventilating as she paced back and forth in front of him.
"Hey. Hey it's going to be ok." Tim soothed
Becky abruptly stopped and looked up at him with worried eyes.
"Really? How can it? I mean talk about awkward." She sighed her eyes downcast and then she lifted a sad smile to him.
"By the way it's good to see you again?"
Tim laughed and resisted the urge to pull her into a hug. "Yeah me too. Look why don't we just … I don't know .. put it down as experience and just pretend it didn't happen. Just start this day over."
"Start over?"
Tim stuck out his arm again "It's nice to meet you. I'm NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee. I was transferred across from being a Field Agent into Cyber Crimes at the request of Director Vance. I believe you are going to be my new boss?"
Rebecca Wylde shook his hand. "It's lovely to meet you. I have been transferred across from the San Diego office… at the request of Director Vance. It sounds like he is doing a bit of a shake up around here?"
Tim rolled his eyes "Oh you have no idea."
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After bumping into Rebecca and blushing for the seventh time, calling her Becky twice and finding himself taking note of how she liked her coffee and Rebecca finding herself checking out his butt as he fixed the photocopier and leaning over to wipe donut sugar off his face they reconvened privately at the end of the day.
"I don't think this is going to work" Becky no Rebecca sighed.
"Maybe we just try this from another angle?" Tim ever the scientist was trying to exhaust all possibilities before having to request a transfer from Director Vance. Because it would have to be him. Rebecca had worked hard to get this chance and he didn't really want to be in Cyber Crimes in the first place.
But to ask Director Vance for a transfer? It would almost seem like he had slept with Rebecca to ensure he couldn't stay at Cyber Crimes. And that just wasn't true. And it would still be a terrible way for Rebecca to start out. A member of her new team asking for a transfer for personal reasons? On top of that where would Vance send him? The Agent Afloat program, like Tony? Tim shuddered at the idea of the constant nausea and claustrophobic conditions.
"If you have anything I'm all ears at this point, Tim… er Agent McGee"
"Ok look I think we both did something we don't normally do and now we are super sensitive to each other. And it is freaking us both out a little. I'm just going to get this off my chest. I like you, and I was going to call you and ask you out. But to be honest at this stage I don't really know you very well."
"Yeesss I'm with you so far" Rebecca blushed slightly at the idea that he was going to call to see her again.
"So I think we should go out and get to know each other as ordinary sober people and as co workers and then we will realize that we don't really have anything in common …. Other than that brief physical attraction when we were both a bit vulnerable then .."
"We can file us away as something that wouldn't have worked in any case and move on to be just friends instead of this massive maybe……" Rebecca was excited.
"Maybe what?" Tim was curious and Rebecca blushed again. Thank god someone else blushed around here.
"You know. Thinking that maybe what if, against all the odds … you're The One? And it just got thrown away before it started… because we work together" Rebecca's voice was very quiet and Tim's heart pounded loudly in his chest.
He cleared his throat as he didn't know what to say to that. He thought he was the only person in the world who thought things like that.
"Ahh yes. Exactly. So how about we meet up tonight and just talk?"
Rebecca looked thoughtful and then she smiled "Aren't you asking me out on a date?"
Tim back peddled quickly "No No well sort of … but think of it like an umm…. an ..anti date."
Becky laughed and tossed her dark hair over her shoulder "An Anti date?"
Tim couldn't help smiling in return. "Yeh. The object of this date is not to like you more but to get to know you so we DON'T want to see each other."
Becky nodded still smiling "Alright. It's an Anti date then. How about you pick me up at seven thirty then and we can get something to eat?"
Tim looked thoughtful "How about we meet somewhere rather than me picking you up? You know since it's… "
"An Anti date?"
"Yeah."
Becky smiled "Ok then you pick the place since I don't know anywhere in Washington yet. And you better not smell so good either since we want to NOT like each other. That cologne you're wearing drives me crazy"
Tim smiled "Ok then since we are on the topic. Can you wear your hair tied up instead of down around your shoulders? When it's like that I just want to…" Tim trailed off and considered how inappropriate talking to his Boss like this was.
"Ok. That seems reasonable" Becky was flushed and she studied the floor.
"How about you text me when you think of somewhere to go and I will meet you there then?"
"Ahhh ok yeah.. alright" Tim nodded as he watched her walk away, her knee length skirt just skimming her trim figure.
Crap! Ok. Now think Tim. Where was the most un romantic place in all of Washington he could think off?