AN1: My vision of the missions in Europe is that they weren't too long and weren't strung together, so there are trips back to the States in between. Plus, this way I can write about them all individually if I want. If someone wants to give me a time line and/or fix whatever I get wrong, feel free.

AN2: I have a major ginormously important law paper due soon, so I wrote this. At 2am. Again.

AN3: There is a gratuitous mention of baseball in here at the beginning because baseball is my religion. I was going to trash talk the Washington Nationals but then I realized that they were still in Montreal during this since they didn't move to DC until 2005. And Kate's from Indiana where they don't have baseball, so I haven't made her a fan of any particular team.

199?

It'd been a while since Kate had company at the bar. She knew Jenny was off gallivanting around Europe and was waiting for stories of undercover glory when she came back. In the meantime, she enjoyed the comfort of a place where she could be without her co-workers and where the bartender knew to bring her a drink and stay away.

Kate came in and found herself alone again. The bartender slid her martini over to her and left her to her thoughts. She was so lost in thought (or the baseball game on the TV above the bar) that she didn't see Jenny walk in.

"I'm sleeping with my boss." Jenny said from over Kate's shoulder.

Kate nearly spit out her drink and whipped her head around. "What?"

"I'm. Sleeping. With. My. Boss." Jenny repeated slower.

Kate smiled this time. "So when did this happen?"

"Marseilles. An attic. And a lot of free time."

"Well you certainly seem happier and less irritable than when I last saw you. I told you that you should just go for it."

Jenny had an already empty glass in her hand, a smile on her face, and a gleam in her eyes. "And how have you been, Agent Todd. Enjoying life with the Secret Service much?"

"Yet no less snarky," Kate remarked, continuing her previous statement. "I'm moving up in the world, almost finished with the profiling training. Apparently, I'm pretty good at it, so they want to fast track me into the advanced training program. Career-wise, it's a wonderful opportunity to move towards the presidential detail. But you weren't looking for information about me. You're just looking to find a way to talk more about your time in France. So talk."

"I can see the profiling training is working." Jenny said. Kate stuck out her tongue. "But since you are so eager to hear more, let me tell you. The overseas investigation thing is amazing. Really boring actually. I think it's just using that spare time to work on more interesting pursuits that's fun. I can't tell you what I was actually there to do. 'Need to know' and all that."

Kate observed that Jenny's speech kept getting faster and faster. "Jenny, just spit it out before it kills you."

"One night, we had way to much free time and, in such a small space, we were constantly on each others' nerves."

"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Kate snickered.

Jenny continued. "Anyway... we were going at it and all of a sudden, it went quiet. Then we were kissing. It was just like in the movies. And things moved rather quickly from there. Lots of kissing. Lots of sex. A little bit of work here and there."

Jenny and Kate sat in silence as Jenny remembered and Kate imagined.

"Are you back with your old team now? Do they know?" Kate asked.

"Yes and no. If they knew, they'd annoy me. Then I'd have to shoot them and that would just get messy.

"I must have impressed the higher ups along the way as well. I'm headed back to Europe soon. I don't know where or for how long. Kate, you should really get yourself a boyfriend. Or girlfriend if you lean that way. Or maybe even if you don't. You can't always rely on me for excitement," Jenny teased. "And in all the time I've known you, I've never heard you talk about anyone."

Kate glared at Jenny. "When have you given me any time to talk?" Kate did a high-pitched imitation of Jenny, "My boss this, my boss that. My boss has gorgeous eyes. My boss builds a boat in his basement."

"I don't sound like that," Jenny argued.

"Ya kinda do," interrupted the bartender. Kate and Jenny sent him death glares.

"Now you're sleeping with him. Lord knows I'm never going to hear the end of that. Just so you know, I don't need or want the intimate details."

The bartender risked their wrath as he swept up their glasses and put down a new round. "But I do."

Both Jenny and Kate reached for their service weapons.

200?

Kate compared her time at NCIS to Jenny's escapades. Jenny went to France. Kate's first NCIS trip outside of the continental US was to Guantanamo Bay. Jenny got to have super secret spy sex. Kate got to share a bathroom with DiNozzo. Life was so not fair.