As expected most of the other women were dressed very similar to Kate and Gibbs had been correct he was the oldest of the group but there were a few closer to his age. Soda in hand he stood by the barbecue with Mark and a few of the single Marines, she couldn't hear what they were discussing but could see he was relaxed and having a good time, his eyes catching hers he smiled. She loved his smiled, she smiled back happy to see he was having a good time before returning to her conversation with Leslie.
"Gunny you keep looking at her like that and I'm gonna need a cold shower." Mark teased, Gibbs grinned he was always careful at work when he checked her out, but playing her husband he could do it under the guise of being undercover. And now that he knew about all her tattoos he just couldn't help himself. "Hell I'm surprised you didn't throw a muumuu on the poor girl after the other day."
"She was gonna wear jeans, actually had to fight to get her to wear a suit." he chuckled. "She didn't want to ruin my reputation." He wasn't happy that Ari was watching but they had a cover to maintain and as long as Gibbs was around Ari was never going to do anything more than look, Gibbs would shoot him if he tried anything else.
"As what a bad ass with a hot wife?" Brian, one of the younger men, teased.
"She doesn't see herself that way." he shook his head taking a drink, Kate knew she was pretty and knew how to use it to get her way but she never said she was beautiful.
"Let me get this straight Gunny." Brian rested his hand on Gibbs's shoulder "Your wife, who is smoking by the way, doesn't think she is?" Gibbs chuckled, Kate saw herself as simply the girl next door and was pretty sure if she knew she was being talked about she'd be blushing.
"Nope."
"I want one, does she have a sister?" Gibbs smirked.
Gibbs relaxed these boys would tell him Kate was gorgeous and tease him that his wife and preferred rifle had the same nickname but would take it no further.
Leslie shook her head, "They are so obviously talking about you."
"I told him I didn't want to wear this suit." Kate muttered flushing, around Gibbs she was sure she wouldn't be self conscious but Ari was somewhere watching too, or as Abby said creeping. She and a few other wives were helping set the paper plates and spoons on the table.
"Honey it's a good thing." Leslie patted Kate's shoulder when she saw her glancing at Gibbs again "And he's handling just fine, our boys won't cross the line, they tend to have crushes but move on when the next new pretty face arrives."
"Hopefully soon." Kate rolled her eyes.
"Never one for the attention were you?" Leslie teased, a couple of the other women laughed as well.
"Not really." Kate admitted.
"So how did you meet?" Mia the youngest of the wives asked.
"My best friend married his son, we met at the wedding."
"His son?"
Kate nodded "He's such a sweetheart and Yessica fell head over heels for those green eyes of his." McGee was standing in the pictures for Gibb's son.
"And what was it that made you go for Daddy?" another wife, Destiny, asked sipping her beer.
"His eyes, and not just because they're blue, when he's not hiding it you can see everything in his eyes." she'd seen the pride when McGee stood up to Tony the first time, the amusement when she had challenged him on the plane, the pain when a child was hurt by a case, and of course the love every time he saw his 'baby girl' Abby.
"I see what you're saying." another of the wives fanned herself "Wish my husband looked at me like that." By the time Kate glanced over her shoulder, Gibbs innocently raised his soda to her with a smile, the other wives giggled and laughed. Rolling her eyes Kate took a drink "Bet the sex is great." Kate spit, coughing she hadn't been prepared for such a brazen statement.
The women started laughing, to that the men all looked over, Kate was wiping soda off the front of herself "That can't be good Gunny."
"Depends on what Kate does next." Gibbs said truthfully, he watched her, he knew she could handle herself no matter the situation.
Kate accepted the wet paper towel from Leslie wiping the soda from her jaw and neck catching it before it traveled any lower. "Sorry." the woman chuckled, "I forget you're new to the wives."
"A few are as bad as the men." Leslie pointed to three, including the one that made the sex remark "Symone is the worse." the woman shrugged.
"I should be used to it, my brother is just as bad." she chuckled , Tony and Abby were constantly making those kinds of remarks.
"She's not denying the sex is great." Symone laughed.
Kate grinned wickedly "Let's just say he's never failed to please, marrying an older man has many advantages one being you don't have to train them." she glanced over her shoulder shooting Gibbs a mischievous wink.
Both Gibbs and Kate grew more comfortable with the neighbors as the afternoon wore on, joking kidding and somewhere along the way Kate ended up with a sleeping baby in her arms. Gibbs only concern was her shoulder, the baby's head rested right on her wound.
"Hey." he said quietly, giving the baby's back a quick light rub Gibbs smiled at Kate.
"Hi." she said just as quietly, tilting her head she accepted the light brush of his lips against hers "Having fun?"
"Yea, it's not too bad, you?" he rested his hand on the small of her back.
"My shoulder's fine." she answered his unasked question, he lightly chuckled.
Walking hand in hand back across the street Gibbs carrying some leftovers he admitted "I had fun."
"Me too." she agreed opening the door, they hadn't locked it because they were right across the street.
"Still up for a movie, we can make the 8 o'clock." He called from the kitchen where he tossed the leftovers in the fridge before following her into the bedroom, she nodded.
"Can you untie this?" Kate held her hair up with one hand while the other held her clothes that she'd grabbed and her bathing suit top in place.
He brushed his fingers across her back before untying first one and then the other, a cheap thrill for both of them.
While she changed in the bathroom he changed in the bedroom leaving his blue tee shirt on he switched to a pair blue boxers, jeans and a blue flannel that Abby had packed him. He was pulling on his white socks when Kate came back into the room, her jeans and her red v-neck ¾ sleeve shirt, one of his favorites, it was fitted not tight.