Thank you to Flying Piglet for feeding the muse. Don't know if I like this one, but you all can be the judge.

Kate looked and him and shook her head in disgust, he was fooling around again talking on the phone instead of working.

"I'll be right back." Tony tells her after he puts his desk phone back..

"We're suppose to be working Tony. What if Gibbs comes back."

"Tell him the truth I went down to security to pick something up." He says with a smile, a smile that makes her all the more huffy as she returns to her work.

"Where's DiNozzo?" Gibbs asks as he walks by Kate's desk.

"He said that he would be right back he had to go down to the security." She answers.

"You getting anywhere on that lead?"

"Not yet Gibbs I'm waiting for a return call."

"Well move on to the next lead."

Nodding her head she knows that it is pointless in trying to argue with Gibbs so she turns her attention to her computer screen.

Tony goes straight to Gibbs desk smiling the whole way he places a plan white envelope on the desk without a word he returns to his own desk and gets right to work.

"What's with the grin DiNozzo you look like cat that just ate the canary and didn't get caught."

"I just pulled a few strings that's all, for self preservation if you must know."

"What did you do now? That has Gibbs so angry at us." She asks him with a smirk.

"I didn't do anything. Flanna did, I just fixed it."

She stands and goes to his desk. "Who is Flanna some bimbo that you introduces Gibbs to?" Kate asks in a mocking voice.

"No actually Kate, Flanna is Gibbs' mysterious red headed friend. By the way that's what Flanna means in case you are wondering, red headed."

"You said you didn't know her."

"I don't, I know of her, Kate. And every time she gets a speeding ticket Gibbs gets pissed at the LEO's. This time I got it taken care of, now I owe a favor to a LEO."

"Why would you want to owe a favor to a LEO."

"Good working relationships with the locals have helped solve more cases than not. That's why Kate."

"So does that mean that you'll fix my speeding tickets too?" She asks with a coy smile.

"No, only Gibbs he's my partner."

"But, I'm your partner too." She challenges

"No, you're my teammate, not a partner. I trust my life to Gibbs, maybe in time I'll have the same trust for you, but not yet."

He can see the confusion in her face, so he exhales slowly. "When Gibbs offered me this job, I had just found our that my partner was dirty. I was not in a forgiving mood, so I did a little research and found out everything I could about him. It was then only then that I knew I could trust him with my life."

"How could a mere detective do that kid of a background check?"

"Believe it or not, I'm very good at what I do, before I came here my solve percentage was in the nineties as well and it was just a two man team."

'So how long before you have the same kind of trust for me?"

"I trust you Kate, I do, as does Gibbs. But sometimes your actions leave me with more questions than answers. As for when I don't know. Trust is earned and right now you're still earning it."

She turns and looks at Gibbs ."Gibbs?" She asks.

"He's right Kate. You're to trusting at times, you need to be a little more cynical."

She looks at her boss then at Tony, not understanding completely what they mean. She is good at what she does, she knows she is. She has taken the profiler course, she might not be as good as the agents as the BAU but then again who is? Those agents get into the unsubs minds. What she does is good enough for the NCIS team, basic behavior about how the criminal they are looking for. She does admit that sometimes she misses things, but not often.

"I need the ladies room." she says softly then leaves.

"Boss." Tony starts to say.

"How long have you known?"

"About Flanna? Or about the boat and how you get it out?"

Gibbs doesn't reply at all he just glares at Tony.

He looks at Gibbs his smile gone. Standing he goes to him and hands him a finished report. "I'm not sorry, she needed to hear it. One day her indecisiveness is going to get someone hurt or worse. I just hope that we aren't around to see it."

"I know Tony we'll work with her. She just needs time and good teachers."