"Have A Little Faith In Me"

Abby sighed contentedly. She was lying in Tim's arms, her favorite pastime. They were at her apartment, watching a favorite movie of hers; The Princess Bride. He was stroking her hair as she played with the fingers on his other hand. She noticed it shaking.

"Tim, are you alright?" she asked, alarmed.

"I'm fine, Abs, I'm-"

"Lying," she cut in. "What's wrong?"

She pulled herself out of his embrace and sat on the couch cross-legged. She searched his face for a problem. He smiled her favorite smile, his eyes bright.

"I'm just a bit nervous, Abs," he admitted. Her eyebrows shot up.

"What's there to be nervous about, Tim?"

He sighed deeply, standing up. He walked over to her television, and pressed the pause button on the black DVD player. Westly and Buttercup would have to wait. He took a deep breath before speaking.

"Do you love me, Abby?"

She smiled, loving light filling her eyes. She had been worried that something was wrong with him, but he was just thinking too hard. As usual.

"Of course I do, Timmy. More than anything in the world." She said warmly. She was even a little surprised that he even had to ask, as many times as she had told him.

"Good," he smiled, inhaling deeply.

Then he sank to his knee.

Abby gasped, eyes growing larger than normal. She all but stopped breathing. She frantically felt around for Bert, who announced his arrival, and then held him tightly. He smiled as he pulled a wine-colored velvet case out of his sweatpants pocket.

"Abigail Scuito." He said softly. "I love you more than life itself. You are my entire world, from the first moment I heard your voice I knew that I was going to fall in love with you. Nobody else on the planet can talk geek with me and down such immeasurable amounts of caffeine without crashing. And you never crash; you have this kind of light around you that just draws people in. You also give the absolute best hugs ever. I just want to be around to get them every day. I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and forever afterwards." He took that last deep breath, and flicked the case open.

"Abs, will you marry me?" his eyes shined.

Taking the first breath she had in over a minute, she picked up the case with trembling hands. She stared at it for a few moments, ridiculous thoughts running through her head.

This is the most beautiful ring I've ever seen in my entire life.

I can't believe he proposed when I'm wearing my PJ's.

I can't believe he proposed period.

I can't believe he could hide this in his pocket all night without me knowing!

Holy crap- I can't believe his sweats have pockets!

What would Gibbs say?

What would Tony say?

What would Ziva say?

What would Kate say?

I wonder if we are still gonna watch the movie after this.

Why didn't I wear something nicer?!

About this time, she looked back to Tim, who had been patiently waiting on his knee. Finally, the grin cracked her face in two as she screamed.

"YES!" She propelled herself off the couch and knocked him to the floor, hugging him so hard he worried a rib might break. She kissed his softly, knowing she was doing the right thing.

"I love you Abby," he whispered.

"I love you more," whispered back.

Gibbs knew that Abby was in that morning by the yells of surprise that were emitting from the lower floors. When Tim had first asked Gibbs' permission for Abby's hand, he had reflexively slapped him on the back of the head before exclaiming, "About time, McGee!"

Now, two days after she had accepted, Tim was getting ready to tell the rest of the team. Abby was currently down in Autopsy, showing Ducky and Jimmy her ring. She had been ecstatic about the ring that Tim had bought her. It was dark, smoky silver that wrapped it's way around a bright red ruby, with small onyx and diamond stones placed intricately around it.

Tony and Ziva walked out of the elevator, bickering as usual. Tim's face paled as they drew closer. Gibbs smiled, and decided to help out. He cleared his throat, which shut them up.

"What's up, Boss?"

"McGee's got something to say, DiNozzo. So pay attention,"

"Sup, Probster?" he said. Even Ziva looked curious.

"Uh, well . . . you see, what's going on . . . the thing is-"

"Spit it out, McGeek!" Tony chuckled.

As Tim stumbled over his words, Abby materialized by his side. Tony's smile fell.

"Oh, God, you knocked up Abby!"

The hard smack on the back of his head and Tim's scarlet cheeks told him he was wrong. Abby kept wiggling her left hand, but Ziva was the only one who noticed.

"Oh, I understand, McGee," She giggled. Tony glared at her.

"What? What's going on?"

Gibbs laughed. "Go on and tell him, Tim. Clueless here might explode,"

Tim inhaled. "Abby and I are engaged,"

Tony froze for a moment, then pulled Tim into a bone-crushing hug.

"McGROOM!" He bellowed.

Gibbs chuckled, then walked off to refill on coffee. Ziva was looking at Abby's ring.

"It's stunning, Abby," she said.

Abby glowed. "He picked out, just for me!"

As the two were giggling, Tony turned to Tim, who was sitting in his chair.

"Got a date set yet?" he asked.

"October 31."

"Halloween?"

"Yeah . . . Abby's idea," he admitted. Tony smirked.

"Yeah, that sounds like Abby,"

Hands covered his eyesight, and she kissed him upside-down.

"Rule 12 breaking, Boss!" Tony called.

Gibbs reappeared from down the hall, cup in hand. He sat at his desk, grinning.

"Rule 12 is against dating a coworker, DiNozzo," he said. "Not falling in love with one,"

Tim and Abby smiled at each other brightly.

Even if there had been a rule against that, they all knew that those two would have broken it anyway.

Author's Note;
Well, that's it! I hope you enjoyed it, and reviews would be the icing on my imaginary little cake here:)
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