"Hey Kate, you're not Kate, why are you at Kate's desk?" Tony skidded to a stop seeing Ziva and not Kate in the agent's desk, nobody messed with Kate's desk, except for him.
"I was told to sit here." Ziva shrugged.
"By who?" Tony scoffed.
"By me." Gibbs slipped in behind him.
Tony jumped "Didn't see ya there Boss, why is she at Kate's desk?"
"Hi Ziva." Kate smiled carrying a box in her arms, she'd already cleared most of her personal items but she had a few left "Sorry I'm late Jenny wanted to talk to me." Kate apologized putting her plant and frame into the box, when Ziva pointed to the items tacked to the half wall Kate nodded and Ziva began taking them down.
"Um Kate what are you doing?"
"It's called packing DiNozzo, didn't you read the memo?" Kate asked taking the items Ziva handed her.
"I just got here." Tony eyed Kate as she continued packing.
"Might wanna read it." Kate smiled.
Sitting at his desk Tony pulled up the memo while Gibbs read his paper and Kate stopped for the moment and waited for Tony to read the memo, Jenny had the memo sent first thing, Tony eyed it, something about profilers again. "What about it?" NCIS didn't have it's own profilers, they called in outsiders which was a pain in the ass, or others teams would come and try to borrow Kate which pissed Gibbs off. Continuing to read pass the initial greeting and first line about finding a solution Tony's eyes widened and he looked at Gibbs, they were taking Kate, Kate was to head the new team of profilers. "You're leaving us?"
"Just moving upstairs Tony, to an office with windows that open." she teased, leaving out that she'd probably never open it and they had put the same glass in her window that had put in Abby's. Kate had asked knowing it would make Gibbs feel better.
"But why?" Tony stood up. "You like taking down the bad guys."
"And now I can help more teams take down the bad guys." Kate said tucking her sketch pads and pencils into her box.
"B...but..."
"Dah-Veed is your new partner." Gibbs said taking a drink of his coffee.
"What?" Tony's head snapped to the Israeli at Kate's desk. "I don't need a new partner, I got McGee." Kate rolled her eyes, Tony hated change as much as Gibbs.
"Ignore him Ziva and welcome to the team." Kate smiled.
"Thank you." Ziva smiled back.
"Does Abby know that you're leaving us?" Tony asked.
"Yes and I'm not leaving, I'm just moving upstairs to an office." Kate nodded and thankfully McGee was with her so Abby didn't ask about Gibbs. "And I'l be back for lunch."
"What about Timmy? Did you tell him, he'll be heartbroken." Tony gestured to the other agent's empty desk.
"Yes I told him and he's happy for me." Kate said picking up her box, standing up Gibbs walked to her desk taking the box from her "Carrying my books for me?" Kate teased, Gibbs chuckled offering her his elbow which she took. "Do I get your letter jacket?"
Leaning down he whispered in her ear "Might pin ya later." throwing her head back Kate laughed.
Getting up Tony headed the opposite direction, he was going to Abby, he knew he'd find McGee with her.
"Why didn't she tell us Friday, we could have celebrated, we could have clubbed all weekend?" Abby scowled. "Did you know?" Abby demanded when Tony joined her and McGee.
"No, I just read the email...damn it..." Tony realized "She was talking to Gibbs about something last week, when I went over to talk to him, she was there."
"She was at Gibbs's house?" McGee asked confused.
"Yea." Tony nodded "I thought I was interrupting..."
"You mean you hoped." Abby laughed.
"A hundred bucks is a hundred bucks." Tony shrugged throwing his hands out to his sides. "But no, she was drinking bourbon and talking to him, had to be about this move to profiling but why wouldn't she tell us?"
"Maybe she wanted to surprise us?" McGee offered.
"Why not stay with us?" Tony frowned.
"It's a promotion Tony, she's head of her own department like me," Abby sighed "she's going to grab people from inside NCIS before hiring from the outside and she gets to pick her own computer guy if she wants one." Abby dropped down on her stool pouting "So depressed we didn't get to celebrate all weekend, it would have been awesome."
"Ducky said we're going to lunch to celebrate." McGee said trying to help.
"Not the same." Abby muttered.
Taking a drink of his coffee Tony settled into his emails, Gibbs eventually returned and answered emails, made and returned phone calls and read the paper. Tony sighed, it was boring without Kate and McGee, muttering to himself as he grabbed his weapon a few hours later, he left on his break alone. He returned quite happy with himself with a small blue gift bag for Kate.
True to her word hours later, purse on shoulder Kate walked into the bull pen lisping "Gibbs."
"Lunch." Grabbing his jacket and weapon Gibbs nodded to Tony and Ziva as he walked to the elevators with Kate. "DiNozzo, David, lunch let's go."
"On your six Boss." Tony scrambled to catch up, Ziva slipped by him and into the elevator with Kate and Gibbs.
The group met in the parking lot taking two cars to lunch, Kate taking shotgun in Gibbs's car with Ziva, McGee and Abby in the backseat, Tony and Ducky drove together in Ducky's car. "This is weird Ducky." Tony glanced over at the older man, his Morgan had a right side steering wheel.
"It's a 1964 Morgan my boy, the steering wheel is in it's proper place." starting his car Ducky chuckled, while Tony mimicked his actions. "So how has your first day without Caitlin?"
"It's boring." Tony sighed settling in his seat. "I don't know what to do with this Ziva chick and Timmy's not here..."
"He will be at lunch and I am sure they will figure out the computer issue soon." Ducky chuckled
"You think Gibbs ask Kate out yet?" Tony clicked his seat belt.
"I am sure it is bound to happen," Ducky shook his head amused. "it was easy to see their attraction on the plane and it has not diminished."
"Well yea," Tony shook his head asking Ducky "and we all saw it, the 'please', so why didn't he just ask her out then instead of hiring her and tormenting himself?"
"She had a boyfriend Anthony who then died during the investigation and Jethro was seeing someone, it would have been in bad taste." Ducky chastised him. "And he was afraid to lose her to the FBI Anthony, Agent Fornell saw her talent too, this way he gained a talented agent and profiler and." Ducky added "here he could keep an eye on her."
Tony added "And torment himself every day, I couldn't do it, work with a girl I seriously liked day in and day out and do nothing, it would drive me crazy."
"Yes well you are an impulsive lad Anthony." Ducky chuckled.
Getting in the front seat Kate put her purse on the floor by her feet before buckling herself in, Abby sat right behind her asking "Why would you deny me a weekend to celebrate with you Kate?"
Chuckling Kate answered "I'd rather not spend my weekend getting groped Abs, I relaxed in front of the fire and had take out, I spent Sunday with my sister."
Pinching the bridge of her nose Abby shook her head. "That's not better than clubbing."
"I like quiet evenings at home Abby, I'm a simple girl." Kate chuckled, Gibbs smirked watching in the rear view mirror as Abby rolled her eyes. "I curled up with my favorite body pillow and watched movies."
"That's not simple, it's boring."
"Anything but." Kate promised, Abby snorted. "There's nothing wrong with a quiet weekend Abby." Kate yawned "With everything we've been through lately I'l take a nice quiet weekend."
"You owe me, we need to go out this weekend." Abby pouted.
"Can't, I'm helping my sister move this weekend, plus I have files to go through, the Director wants my thoughts on who I want for my team." Kate explained glancing at Abby in the rear view mirror.
"Do you need any help?" McGee asked, being a military brat had given him the extra skill of packing and unpacking quickly.
"I'll ask her tonight." Kate promised, she knew he meant with moving her sister.
"What about tonight?" Abby asked.
"I don't go out on work nights Abs," Kate lisped shaking her head "you know that."
"Why don't you want to celebrate Kate?"
"We are celebrating Abby, I just don't want to go clubbing." Kate gave her a smile in the rear view mirror.
Abby pouted the rest of the way to the cafe, leaving the car ride quiet.
They gathered at the table, Gibbs automatically taking a seat next to Kate, they weren't hiding that they were together but they weren't broadcasting it either. Ducky was already talking to Ziva discussing the different meals on the menu, lunch went exactly how Kate knew it would, they'd each gotten her gifts and after they ate she had to open them. Ziva's present amused both Kate and Gibbs, it was a knife shaped letter opener that was engraved with two words, rule 9. "I knew you'd like that rule the best, thank you Ziva." Kate smiled knowing her letter opener was slightly sharper than the average letter opener.
McGee gave her a photo frame that changed the photo every few minutes, "I loaded a few pictures of the team," McGee explained "but there's room for more."
"Thank you Tim." Kate smiled tucking it back into it's bag.
Tony gave her a picture of himself earning him a head slap from Abby "What? She's going to miss this gorgeous face of mine." Tony grinned, knowing Kate had already recognized the frame from being from her time undercover with Gibbs, Tony had caught the eyebrow arch. He also knew she would check the frame when she got back to her office because it bulged slightly in the back. "Where's yours?" Tony asked Abby.
"She already gave it to me." Kate answered "A pillow set for my couch, it'll be delivered tomorrow."
"Wait you have a couch?" Tony asked.
"I do and a little coffee table and a mini fridge." Kate nodded.
"Seriously? A mini fridge?"
"And a coffee maker." Abby added, Tony frowned.
Kate continued opening her presents, Ducky gave her a beautiful and personalized pen and pencil set for her new desk. "These are beautiful Ducky thank you."
"They pale in comparison to you my dear." Ducky smiled, Kate blushed.
Gibbs put a small wooden box on the table in front of Kate, tilting her head Kate studied the little box, giving an amused smile she softly said "So this is what you've been hiding from me." Gibbs smirked and shrugged when she pushed his shoulder. "Ass." Kate chuckled studying the box, he'd left the sides bare but the top of the lid was a carved peony.
Lifting the lid Kate smiled, sliding out four matching hand carved coasters "Those are gorgeous Gibbs." Abby gasped in surprised.
"What is the flower?" Ziva asked "It is not a rose."
"Peony, Indiana state flower." Kate said running her finger over the peonies that decorated the edges of the coasters. "Thank you Gibbs." tucking the coasters back in their box Kate leaned kissing Gibbs's cheek.