Office Pool

Summary: McGee's finally a field agent at NCIS. But a conversation with Kate may have him regretting his decision.

Disclaimer: I have decided to start a petition to get NCIS signed over to my name. However, I can't seem to find anyone willing to sign it, so I still own nothing.

Pairing: Implied/future Gibbs/DiNozzo

Author's Note: A part of me wants to do a few of these, like with agents coming into NCIS and how they would respond. So if you like it let me know and I will create more. Otherwise, this will be a stand alone. Well, I hope you enjoy me torturing Tim McGee yet again. I have noticed that I do that a lot. I don't know why, but I love it when he gets so flustered.

Tim McGee was one of the happiest people in the world. He finally got his promotion. He was a full time field agent. Sure, Agent Gibbs was terrifying as hell, and Agent DiNozzo was just a pain in the ass at his finer moments, Agent Todd—Kate—wasn't bad. Although, she too could be pretty scary. But in a completely different way than Agent Gibbs.

But it didn't matter, they were his team now. He was a part of their team.

He smiled. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't wipe that stupid grin off his face. It was like he lost his virginity all over again.

He stood in the break room getting a cup of coffee when he heard the door open. His head swiveled around. Kate stood there, smiling widely at him. Her hair was pulled back and the sweat was finally drying up. The air conditioning came on only seconds after he got the great news. And that was only two hours ago. He had been a field agent for two whole hours.

"How you doing, McGee?"

"I'm great. Really, just great." He smiled brightly at his new teammate. He loved that he was finally able to call her a teammate. She was no longer a coworker that he was forced to work with on occasion, she was a teammate.

He was so happy he hadn't even noticed that she moved to stand next to him. As he saw her standing there less than a foot away from him, he jumped about three feet in the air. Her smile lost a bit of its warmth, now it seemed, almost creepy.

"What are you doing?" He asked, still terrified.

"I wanted to know if you wanted a stake in the office pool."

"Wha?"

Kate stood up straighter as she started to explain. "Ducky came to me right after I became an agent here. It's a pool that started a little under three years ago, and now just about every person at the yard has a stake in it." She stopped. "Well, actually, even a few agents not assigned to the yard have a stake in it. Fornell does. So does Agent Burley, you never met him, but he used to work with Gibbs, B.D."

"B.D.?"

"Before DiNozzo." At McGee's look of confusion, she rolled her eyes. "No, I did not come up with that, actually Chris Pacci did. Actually I think he was the one who started the pool in the first place." She stopped, a hint of grief washed over her face. McGee understood. Nobody was really exempt from the grief at Pacci's brutal murder.

After a while, Kate managed to shake it off and get back to the point. "So, are you in?"

McGee started stuttering. "Well, uh, th-that depends. What's the pool?"

Kate's smile widened. "When are Tony and Gibbs gonna have sex?"

McGee dropped his coffee cup.

The hot liquid hit his leg while the cup smashed his toe. He yelped and jumped again. Kate stood watching idly as he hopped around on his uninjured foot while the coffee burned his skin and his toe throbbed.

"What?" He was still hopping.

Kate grabbed his shoulders to stop him. "Come on, McGee, can you honestly tell me you don't see it?" McGee was silent. Kate rolled her eyes again. "McGee, you're an investigator now, even complete strangers see it!"

"Strangers see Tony and Gibbs having sex?"

"Strangers see the attraction between them." She rolled her head around. "Ok, I'll admit, when I first met them on Air Force One, I didn't really see it. Actually I thought Gibbs was flirting with me." She chuckled. Apparently she thought that idea was funny.

"Maybe he was," McGee suggested.

Kate gave him a look. It wasn't really pitying, it was more an 'I thought you were smarter than that' kind of look. "Last year I may have agreed with you, but now I know better. One of these days, Tony and Gibbs are just gonna let loose and tear each other's clothes off." McGee closed his eyes as a mental image came to the forefront of his mind. It was actually slightly creepy. "There's no way around it. The only changeable factor… is when." Her grin widened again.

McGee couldn't understand this. He had been a full time field agent for—he checked his watch—two hours and fifteen minutes. And his teammate was telling him about the most bizarre office pool he had ever heard of. It didn't make any sense. "I thought Tony was straight."

Kate nodded. "He is."

"And Gibbs is straight."

"Right."

Silence.

"Then how… why… what?"

Kate rolled her eyes again. "Tony and Gibbs think they're straight, but that's because they're too stubborn and pig headed to see what's in front of their faces. Once they figure that out, there's no going back." She sounded very sure of herself.

"Aren't there policies against that sort of thing? What does the director feel about this office pool?"

"He has New Years' weekend for next year."

McGee blinked. "Director Morrow is in on the pool?"

"Of course he is. See, he was smart, he decided that it would take a few years for them to actually act. Stan Burley said that it would happen two days after we met him. He even tried to give Tony a little extra push by telling him how Gibbs must like him and the reasons why."

"What's your date?"

Kate huffed. "My date already passed. When Tony's boiler went out, I knew that Gibbs would eventually cave and let Tony stay with him. So I made my bet for the month they spent together."

"And nothing?"

She huffed. "Gibbs found the camera!"

More silence.

"You bugged Gibbs' house?!"

"I didn't! Director Morrow did! He figured that if they ever did have sex, Gibbs would want to have sex in his own bed, so he had one of the computer…" she trailed off. McGee glared. He knew she was going to say 'geeks.' "Techs down stairs hide a small camera in Gibbs' bedroom. And basement."

"Why his basement?"

"Gibbs spends a lot of time down there. Abby actually thinks their first time will be under the boat."

"Wait, Abby's in on this?"

"Her bet is for the week before Thanksgiving of this year."

"Oddly specific."

"Well they have to be. But you are allowed a week for better chances, instead of just the one day. So, are you in?"

"How are we even going to get confirmation, if by some miracle they do wind up together?" He could not believe he was actually going along with this. Is this what it meant to be a full time field agent? If so, he was half tempted to scram back to Norfolk.

"We put in smaller cameras, plus every time Tony walks in smiling that 'I just had sex' smile, Abby goes back to his apartment to try and find the condom he used."

"Does she check Gibbs' place?"

"Of course she does. That one's easy to break into, he never locks his door. He really should, the amount of times we've gone through it looking for evidence for the pool."

"What if they never have sex?"

Kate smacked him lightly in the back of the head. It still kind of hurt. "They will McGee! They have to."

"Have to?"

"Yes! Seriously McGee, watch the two of them interact. If they don't get together at least once, then," she paused. If McGee was correct, there was a tear in her eye. "It's a wasted life."

McGee continued to stare at her. She sounded so serious, like she actually believed what she was telling him. He thought back at his time with the team before. Every time he saw Tony and Gibbs together, it looked like Gibbs was barely holding back the urge to kill him, or at the very least fire him.

Then came the thought, was it really any of their business if they were sleeping together? Sure it was the director's, he would need to know if his agents were sleeping together. But did they have any right to bet on it? Then again, he did want to fit in.

"Put me down for fourth of July weekend."

Kate grinned. "Good call, McGee!" She patted his chest.

McGee just nodded and left the room, completely ignoring his coffee cup still on the floor.

As soon as he was out the door, he slammed into somebody heading in. Of course, knowing his luck, it had to be Tony. "Hey! Where are you going in such a hurry."

McGee froze. He knew that Tony was standing in front of him, and he knew he was fully clothed. But in his eyes, he saw Tony and Gibbs, both buck naked, lying on a bed, touching and kissing and…

"I gotta go." He fled as quickly as he could without resorting to a full run. When he passed by Gibbs, he kept his head down and made a dash to his desk.

Maybe being a field agent wasn't such a good idea.

So, I know it's short, but I hope you liked it all the same. And again, I might want to make more of other people finding out about the pool, let me know!

Bob