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Gibbs cringed as he slowly sat up. His back was aching from lying on the ground but he wasn't going to complain because waking up in the outdoors was so much better than in his house or at NCIS headquarters. He loved being outside, it reminded him of his days in the marines. Gibbs crawled out of his tent and surveyed his surroundings.

It must have been a really bad storm.

Leaves and sticks littered the campsite and the ground was soft. Gauging from the position of the sun, it was around seven or eight am. Other than the twinge in his back, things were really great. He got to sleep in. The retired marine sniper couldn't remember the last time he had slept this late, and it was nice. He strolled over to one of the cars to find the coffee stuff. Luckily, NCIS had given them some firewood because dry wood would be extremely difficult to find with the given circumstances.

Gibbs gathered some of the logs and twigs that were in the car and arranged them in the fire pit. He expertly lit the fire with only one match and headed back to the car for a pot and coffee pod. He was glad that coffee came in little pods now, making it so much simpler. Filling the pot with water, he set it on a grate above the fire and waited for it to boil.

Gibbs went to Tony and McGee's tent to wake them up. He quietly unzipped the door to peek in; he wanted to scare them awake because it would be more fun. Peering inside, he was surprised by what he saw, it was too good to ruin. Tony and McGee were snuggling with each other. They were facing each other and Tony was hugging McGee like he was a teddy bear. Gibbs closed the tent. He couldn't wait to hear what happened when they woke up.

The water was boiling so Gibbs pulled the pot off to the side and dropped the pod in. The smell of coffee floated through the air. Kate woke up because of the coffee. She always woke up when she smelled food of coffee. It was so pleasant. She sat up and stretched. Memories of last night flooded her mind. She shook them off and climbed out of the tent.

She was surprised to see only Gibbs was up. Kate rubbed her eyes and sat in one of the chairs that Gibbs had put around the fire. He handed Kate a cup of coffee and smiled at her.

"Morning Kate, sleep well?" he asked, his voice uncharacteristically cheery.

"Ummm, yeah, other than the storm waking me up. I hate to ask, but why are you so…happy?" Kate eyed him, realizing he was probably making fun of her less than presentable appearance.

Gibbs nodded his head towards Tony and McGee's tent. Kate got up and went to their tent, slowly unzipping the door so she could look inside, just as Gibbs had done. Her hand flew to her mouth to stifle her laughter. The sight was hilarious; it could rival her wet T-shirt photo that Tony found on his spring break trip. Kate sprinted to the car to grab her camera. Going back to the tent, she could sense Gibbs silently laughing at her. She didn't care.

Kate snapped a few pictures of Tony and McGee, then re-zipped the tent and went back to the fire.

"Pancakes?" she asked Gibbs.

"Sure."

Kate went to the car and found a frying pan and pancake mix. She stood by the picnic table and mixed up the pancake batter, then replaced the coffee pot with the frying pan and buttered it up.

"Do you want the first one?"

"Of course." Gibbs went to the car to dig out the paper plates and syrup.

The pancake sizzled on the frying pan, its aroma mixing with the one from the coffee.

"Mmmh." Tony mumbled, snuggling closer to the warm body next to him. He was still in his dream where he was on a beach with a beautiful woman, holding her close to him. He opened his eyes but was surprised to find he wasn't on the beach. He apprehended his situation; he was in a tent on an NCIS assignment. He tried to get up, and lifted his arm. He froze, looking at the person he was hugging. Oh no. This is not good. Tony was hugging Timothy McGee!

"Probie… McGee… MCGEE!" Tim jolted awake, opening his eyes to be less than a foot away from Tony. Kate and Gibbs heard the entire thing and started laughing. "McGee, get off my arm." Tony growled. He could hear Gibbs and Kate laughing. They must have already seen.

"S-s-sorry." stuttered McGee, rolling away from Tony in the little space they had.

"Don't speak Probie." Tony opened the door and stormed out, then stopped when he looked at Kate and Gibbs. "This isn't funny! I am the victim!"

"I'm pretty sure you were hugging him." Kate scoffed, holding up the camera.

"Kate!" he said, charging after her. She dropped the spatula and ran away from Tony with the camera.

In the meantime, McGee climbed out of the tent looking very pale.

"It's not your fault McGee, now finish making the pancakes." said Gibbs, sitting back in his chair.

"Boss, why is Tony chasing Kate?"

"Kate took a picture." Gibbs smiled at him, McGee paled more. "You're fine McGee, he was holding you."

Tim relaxed and poured himself a cup of coffee, pulling a chair next to the frying pan to finish making the breakfast.

"Kate! Give me the camera!" Tony yelled as he chased Kate throughout the campground. Even though she was a woman, he couldn't catch her because of the head start she had gotten. Plus she had already had coffee.

"Shhhh. People are sleeping." She called over her shoulder.

Tony picked up his pace and caught up to her. He was directly behind. He wrapped his right arm around her middle and pulled her back. He held onto her and reached around her with his free hand to pry the camera out of her hand. She squirmed in his arms but he only held on tighter.

"Tony…" She gasped. "I can't breathe." Kate coughed.

"Give me the camera." Kate stopped moving but continued to cough. She let her weight fall into him, which she never does. "Kate!" Tony released her and she fell to her knees. He knelt next to her and put a hand on her back. "Are you okay? I'm so sorry."

"I'm not." She grinned at him. She knocked his feet out from under him with a swing of her leg and took off back towards their campsite.

Tony sat up and watched Kate's figure retreat. How did that happen? He picked himself up from the ground and walked after her. He looked around and saw all of the people looking at him. Crap, we were supposed to be blending in. Tony tucked his head slightly and jogged after Kate.

When he got to the campsite, Kate, McGee, and Gibbs were all staring at him and eating pancakes. He glared at Kate who smirked back.

"Can I have some coffee and pancakes?" Gibbs nodded his head towards the picnic table. Tony poured the coffee and grabbed a plate, dumping syrup all over his pancakes.

"Ewww, Tony! You are like an 8 year old." Kate said, staring at him in disgust as he took a huge bite for syrupy mess. "Where is the camera?"

"DiNozzo! You aren't getting that camera. If those pictures are ever deleted, you'd better look for a new job. Hurry up eating, we have a job to be doing here. And you two are making it hard to stay under the radar." Gibbs looked quite agitated. Kate knew his good mood would never last. He got up and went to his tent.

"Gibbs."

"What." he growled.

"Can we shower?" Kate asked.

"Yeah, you have half an hour."

"Kate, we can save some time and shower together…" Tony winked at her.

"Tony! That will never ever happen. You are so disgusting." She said, storming off to her tent to get clothes and soap. She came out and walked straight towards the bathrooms without looking back at Tony or McGee.

"Probie." Tony got up and set his sticky plate on the picnic table, "You're on clean up duty."

"At least I don't need a teddy bear to sleep." He murmured.

"What was that Probie?" asked Tony, stepping up to him behind his chair. He threateningly gripped his shoulder.

"Nothing." mumbled McGee, staring down at his coffee.

"That's what I thought."

"Tony, McGee-25 minutes." barked Gibbs from his tent.
Tony slinked back to his tent to get clothes and soap and headed towards the bathrooms. McGee threw away all the plates and cleaned up the campsite, throwing some more wood on the fire before preparing for his shower and heading to the bathrooms with the rest of the agents. Gibbs came out of his tent and went to shower too. The day was already heating up. It wouldn't be less than 85 degrees today.

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