Jenny Shepard was standing on the staircase, looking down over the squad room. She saw Gibbs, McGee and Ziva sit at their desks, anxiously waiting for Tony to come back from wherever he had gone. She noticed the elevator doors opening, but sighed as Abby and Ducky emerged from the elevator. They walked up to the others, Abby sat down in Tony's chair and Ducky remained standing as McGee filled them in on what had happened. Jenny had her hands on the railing as she silently observed Gibbs and his team. The reason she was standing here was that she was worried Gibbs would 'forget' to call her when Tony arrived, and she wanted to hear what had happened from him, not getting the short version from Gibbs later. She saw the doors open again, and breathed out when she saw no one other than Anthony DiNozzo escape the elevator.

Abby had also looked up when she heard the ding of the elevator, she looked relieved when she saw Tony walking up to them.

"Tony!" she called out, causing the others to abruptly turn their heads. A weak smile was playing on Tony's lips as he stopped between his and Ziva's desks.

"Where have you been, Anthony?" Ducky wondered, his voice holding a hint of concern.

"Wait, I should call the Director" Gibbs interrupted as Tony was about to open his mouth, and picked up his phone.

"I'm here" came Jen's voice from behind Tony and Gibbs' eyes found her as she walked past him and casually leaned against Gibbs' desk.

"I have to admire your timing, Director" Gibbs said with a still smile.

"I was standing on the stairs, worried you would forget to call me" she explained and glanced at him, looking rather amused.

"Guys, can we hear Tony has to say now?" McGee's voice cut them off just as Gibbs was about to respond.

"Thanks probie" Tony said and took a breath before preparing himself to share the amazing experience he had just had.

"I figured out where Kate wanted me to go, it wasn't to that street or her house. She wanted me to visit her grave" he began, and the others were completely silent, anxiously waiting for him to go on.

"The thing is, I have never been there since the funeral, because I thought it would be too hard" he continued, and now Jenny cut in.

"Because you loved her"

"Exactly. I love her but I never got the chance to tell her, until just about half-an-hour ago" he smiled at the memory, but seeing the confused looks on the others faces he realized he still hadn't told them what had happened.

"You care to share?" Gibbs asked, his eyebrows raised.

"Yeah, sorry boss. I was standing at her grave, and in the next second she was there with me!" he exclaimed, and Abby's jaw dropped.

"No way! You saw her? Did you talk to her?" she sounded really excited and Tony nodded.

"Yeah, we were surrounded by white, and we talked"

"Did you ask her is she was the one pushing me down the stairs?" Ziva questioned, and Tony turned to her.

"She did" he answered and then McGee's shocked voice made him turn to the probie

"Why would she do that? She has no reason to hate Ziva!"

"Why did she?" Jenny asked and crossed her arms across her chest.

"She was afraid that Ziva would take her place in our team. She was afraid we'd forget about her" he answered

"What! How can she even think that? We will never forget our Kate!" Abby exclaimed, and Gibbs smiled.

"We certainly won't" Ducky agreed and turned to Jenny "Too bad you never got to meet her, Director. You would have liked her"

Jenny lowered her gaze, but nodded slightly.

"She won't hurt you again, Ziva" Tony assured her as he turned toward her "I told her she has nothing to be afraid of"

They all went silent, remembering their former team member.

"So..." Abby sadly broke the silence "How come she hasn't visited us?"

Tony looked away from them, he hadn't asked Kate that, but he kind of understood why, the question was, how was he gonna tell the rest of the team?

"I guess..." he started and even though he was staring at his feet, he could tell they were all looking at him "I guess there were some unspoken words between us. And she couldn't move on without telling me..." his voice broke, he didn't know if he wanted the others to know, but since his secret was already out...

"Telling you what?" Abby pushed, the tears were glistening in her eyes now.

"That she loved me" his voice was not more than a whisper, but everyone heard him, or maybe they had already figured that out.

Abby smiled through her silent crying, she could hear Kate's voice telling her to not be sad, she would always be watching over her. Abby wiped the tears from her eyes and took a breath to calm herself down. She knew Kate was still there, sometimes when she wasn't feeling well, her warm presence would fill up the room and sooth her.

Gibbs briefly wondered whether his rule 'Romance between agents never work' had kept them from reveiling their true feelings for each other. He glanced at Jenny who was still leaning against his desk, they were living proof that two field agents should not be involved with each other. But he had numerous times wondered how things would have turned out if they hadn't been co-workers.

Gibbs raised his head and looked up at the balcony over the squad room. Kate was leaning against the railing, smiling down at him. He smiled back and she gave him a slight nod before she started to slowly fade away. She disappeared in a shimmer of white, and Gibbs looked away.

"What is it?" Jenny asked him when she noticed his smile. Everyone looked at him as he answered

"Kate"

The End

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Emma