Only With You
- Epilogue -

"Did you get it?"

"Oh I got it."

"Can we see?"

"I can't believe you actually want to watch this!"

"C'mon don't leave us hanging here!"

"You just want to know if there was a morning round."

"Damn straight!" Tony grumbled at his partner whose teasing had been upped after this new piece of evidence had been found. "Abby..." he whined.

"We are so getting fired for this," McGee sighed.

"Don't you remember what Jenny said, what Gibbs doesn't know, can't hurt us!" Ziva repeated.

"He won't hurt me, I'm the favorite," Abby bragged. She cued up the video footage she'd found in the cover house. She had taken it because the Director told her the government was selling the house and the footage might be classified material. She had given Abby special permission to view it. It had occurred to Abby that there was a strong possibility that her plot's fruition was on these tapes and so she had called the team down when she knew Gibbs was in the Director's office. Tony had assured him he was spending longer periods of time in there, than usual and so not to worry if the Boss wasn't supposed to know.

"Stop, I saw his car pull in," Ziva announced from her monitoring of the outside footage.

"Here we go, Tony's getting rich today!" Tony gloated.

"We shall see," Ziva commented. They watched the tape, as Gibbs entered the house to find a fire and sleeping bag but no Director or Duke. They watched him as he went through the whole house and then back down to the kitchen where they had a lovely view of Gibbs starring at something in the kitchen.

"Show time, didn't I tell you Probie?" But Tony was disappointed as Gibbs walked off the screen. "Abby?"

"I'm working it, I'm working it," she mumbled. "C'mon babies."

"Abby this is a real bad idea," McGee again inserted.

"Oh shut up Timmy." She cued the next sets of tape and the next. "No!" She wailed.

"No?" Tony and Ziva echoed.

"Something's wrong with the footage," she paused as she saw McGee edging for the door. "But McGee can fix it."

"Abby..."

"Probie, do it now!" Tony ordered.

"Or what Tony, you'll tell Gibbs?"

"I'll sic Ziva on you." McGee moved quickly back to his chair muttering curses under his breath. He screwed with the footage and then sighed.

"Here." They saw the tail end of what they thought could be a kiss, or a hug they weren't entirely sure and then the tape cut and they were looking at a sleeping bag lying in front of the fire. There was movement and the team turned and stared.

"In a sleeping bag?"

"That's a new one."

"Wow."

"Okay pay up!" And the moving in the bag stopped and two pointy ears followed by a muzzle came out.

"Duke!" Abby whined. "Not fair!"

"Wait see the figure in the corner," McGee pointed out.

"No...wait reflection there," Abby pointed to it on the big screen as McGee enlarged and cleaned it up. Defiantly two sets of legs, one large, one thin and long, hidden behind the larger ones. They tried to go higher up when they felt an overwhelming need to run.

"ABGIAL SCUITO!"

"ANOTHONY DINOZZO!" The two matching voices bellowed into the lab and Ziva and McGee quickly tried to slide to the edge of the room as Gibbs and the Director walked in. "You two stay put!" Gibbs glared in there direction.

"Is there are reason none of you are working?"

"We were working, that is we were but needed a break and wanted to try this idea on something else before we tried it on actual footage, right McGee?"

"Uh yea!" He agreed.

"And DiNozzo your reason is?"

"Moral support Boss, me and Ziva both."

"Exactly!" Ziva nodded. Gibbs took a step closer to Tony and cuffed the back of his head. Abby tried to move closer to the Director.

"Don't hide behind your Director's skirt," he warned the young Goth. "No Caff-Pows for a week."

"But Gibbs!"

"And no setting up any accounts for them," he glared at the Director.

"The girl has to drink something Jethro, would you rather it be coffee?"

"One Caff-Pow a week, that's it," he amended. "McGee empty her supply."

"McGee," Abby sniffled. He shrugged looking sorry as well.

"DiNozzo, David, upstairs now!" The two went racing for the elevator catching Gibbs' faint smirk as the doors closed. Jenny watched them close.

"Happy now? You're still intimidating to your team."

"Wouldn't want them to think I'm going soft in my old age." She causally leaned up against him.

"Not where it counts at least," she replied as she stepped into the now free elevator.

"You know if Duke didn't loyally guard you all the time I'd..."

"There's no Duke here," she whispered. All Abby saw were the doors closing as Gibbs backed the Director against the wall, and then the elevator stopped between floors. She looked to McGee and made to run to her computer. McGee stopped her.

"Wasn't it your idea to keep this quiet?"

"Yea...damn, why does he have to be so secretive though?"

"Well he doesn't tell us secrets."

"Nope, only her." They both sighed and McGee went back to hiding the Caff-Pows in another freezer and Abby tried to hack the main security footage. Ducky watched them from just outside the lab and smirked. And to think all this started with a trip to a marriage counselor, now everything is as it should be and I can get some work done.

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