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Jethro POV

"No Kat, bring your knee higher."

"L-J my leg can't get any higher. My groins cramping."

"No pain, no gain. Kat you can do it. Just lift your leg and rest it on my shoulders. That's it. Lock them in."

"Gah!"

"Feels good, don't it Kat? Now just go slow and steady. It's building strength..."

No, legitimately this isn't what sounds like. After an hour on a cardio circuit Kat asked me to teach her some basic self defence. After some basic wrestling and boxing she wants to know how to disarm someone. So I showed her how to flip your assailant over to get the upper hand. Using your leg muscles.

Kat POV

"Gah!" I'll be certainly feeling this all week. I'm sore all over. Jethro has certainly done a number on me. I can't wait for a long soak in a hot bath to loosen up all the cramped muscles.

"Come on Kat! I'll take you home." He tells me knowing I don't have my car with me when I don't have the girls.

The ride home was silent and I feel as if I could sleep the rest of the day away.

"Into a hot bath will do the trick." Jethro's left me to run the bath. "Come on Kat, let's go."

"I just wanna sleep." I whined feeling sore all over my entire body.

"Do I have to get in the tub with you?"I stand there looking at him, like he's crazy. "I won't let you sleep."

5 minutes later I lie back blissfully against the naked body of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. The water is hotter than I'd normally make it but just the same, lavender oil, eucalyptus and smidge of honey.

"Kat, baby. Don't fall asleep." Jethro says startling me awake. He is running his hands lightly up and down the side of my ribs.

"Not asleep." Looking at this tub it doesn't look big enough for two, yet here we are with plenty of room to move.

"Kat, do I have to seduce you in the tub to keep you awake?"

"Trust me L-J when I say it's pretty hard to sleep with L-J junior digging into my back"

The only reply I hear is the a deep laughter for a minute or so. "Really? So new fantasy. Water. Anywhere that involves water."

"Maybe another time, when I'm not dying of muscle pain from muscles I never knew I had."

L-J and I spent the evening together before a dinner of scrambled eggs.

"Can I stay the night? The twins aren't here. We could actually just stay like this." An hour ago we moved our activities into the bedroom. Haven't bothered getting up to dress yet. By now, I would have because of Lucy and Zoe.

"Are you asking? What happened to rule 18: It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission?" Teasing him about his precious rules.

"There's a time and a place for those rules Kat. You know I'd never take liberties with you." That was one of the most cockiest grins I've ever seen in my life from Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

"Bull! Homecoming 1999, Denny tried to slip me something in my drink. You punched him, then took me home. You stopped two streets over and kissed me. It was not a platonic, I'm just a friend kiss. For no reason. You pulled back on the road and drove home. I'm still waiting for an explanation. All these years later."

"It was 1998 and I have the best reason in the world." Again with the cocky grin.

"Which was?" I demand.

"Remember the dress? Black one?"

"It was blue." I correct.

"Not the one you wore out of the house, the one you changed into after you left the house."

"Ok, still not following you." What the hell is he harping on about?

"Let's just say our bedroom windows look into one another and I know what you had on underneath." OMG!

"Leroy Jethro Gibbs were you perving on me?"

"Not really? I just looked up and there you were. No bra, in a slip of a poor excuse for black lace panties."

"I remember the dress, it's in the closet some where."Cut very low at the front and practically backless. My father would have had a stroke if I had of left the house looking like that. "I don't remember hearing any complaints."

"Oh Kat, you wouldn't have. Besides knowing what you wore underneath gave me the courage to ask you to dance."

"And of course that lead you to kiss me on the way home."

"No that lead me to what happened behind the stage that we never speak of. On the way home I realised not only did I ruin your panties I never even kissed you during it."

"Out of control foreplay. That's what I called it."

"Well it was."

"We never, ever tell the girls about our childhood! Agreed?"

"Agreed!"

A/N: I'm thinking Kat and Jethro had a pretty naughty childhood and adolescence!