Chap 10.

Sun streaming through her blinds awoke Kate at 0830 the next morning. She stretched her whole body and merely lied there looking out of the window into the neighbourhood. She got up, and once she noticed she was in her clothes she went over to her dresser and opened the second drawer. As she yawned and stretched again reaching her arms up towards the ceiling and breathing in deeply she took out a pair of baby pink boxers with a smiley face on the trunk and the matching pink tank top that said "Don't worry be happy" over her chest. She yawned as she took off her old wrinkly PJ's off and shrugged on her crisp new ones. She walked over to her duffel and took out her walkman, strapping it on her upper arm she turned it on and Vanessa Carlton's 'White Houses' Started playing. She opened her door and started to sing along.

"Crashed on the floor when I moved in
This little bungalow with some strange new friends
Stay up too late, and I'm too thin
We promise each other it's til the end
Now we're spinning empty bottles
It's the five of us
With pretty eyed boys girls die to trust
I can't resist the day
No, I can't resist the day"

She made her way down the stairs and ran a short distance then letting her self slide in the kitchen on her stocked feet. She opened the door to the fridge and took out a pitcher of Orange Juice, eggs, bacon, cheese and tomatoes. She went through her cabinets and took out a frying pan. As she cracked some eggs in it she started out singing again and slowly began moving her hips to the music.

"Jenny screams out and it's no pose
'Cause when she dances she goes and goes
Beer through the nose on an inside joke
I'm so excited, I haven't spoken
And she's so pretty, and she's so sure
Maybe I'm more clever than a girl like her
Summer's all in bloom
Summer is ending soon"

From the couch Gibbs's eyes wrinkled and he slowly stretched his limbs over reaching the arms. He ran a hand through his hair and merely blinked over and over again. From the opening to the kitchen he could hear Kate's voice and the smell of bacon getting cooked and the sizzling of the eggs. He leaned on his shoulder and looked over the back on the chair. He broke out in laughter he never knew he was possible in doing at the sight of Kate dancing oblivious she was being watched. But the sight of her swaying hips roused him deeper then he had ever imagined. He listened to the song she was singing and at the same time managed to dance and cook breakfast. I don't even think she knows I'm still here he thought. Gibbs got up and walked over to the door frame and leaned against it; arms folded over his chest just looking at her. Kate's back was towards him as she rinsed off the tomato and began chopping it and throwing it in with the shredded cheese and the eggs.

"It's alright and it's nice not to be so alone
But I hold on to your secrets in white houses

Maybe I'm a little bit over my head
I come undone at the things he said
And he's so funny in his bright red shirt
We were all in love and we all got hurt
I sneak into his car's cracked leather seat
The smell of gasoline in the summer heat
Boy, we're going way too fast
It's all too sweet to last"

Kate's hips were in full swing and she started up with her legs. She dipped down to the ground and got back up sticking out her bum a little. When she got up she felt her hip vibrate, she took her cell off her hip, took out and ear phone with still the other one blasting in the other.

"Katie." She quipped in her cell all cheery.

"My my Caitlin, aren't we cheerful this morning." Ducky said amused. Kate laughed lightly and paused her song. She continued with her cooking, humming once in a while Ducky talked.

"I have no means to be in a foul mood yet Duck, Tony's not here." She said with a laughing tone.

"Ah yes, young Anthony do tend to press peoples buttons. And what of Jethro?" He inquired as Ducky made his was towards NCIS.

"No it's a new day Duck, yesterday was an off day." She said turned over to go flip her bacon and stir her eggs.

"I cherish your constant sense of optimism my dear Caitlin, lately you seem to leak of it. Again she smiled as she lowered the heat on the eggs to prevent it from burning.

Gibbs leaned on and listened to what she said about Tony and himself. He smiled every time she laughed and smirked when her face lit up in a smile. He knew he should make his presence known but watching her in her own little world and her own environment he couldn't help but be deeply intrigued about it, as well as fascinated. This was a side of Kate he has never seen before, and he wasn't about to stop discovering it.

Kate cradled her cell phone between her shoulder blade and her ear as she scrapped the bottom of the pan in the garbage. She nodded and acknowledged what he was saying on the other side of the receiver.

"Well I'm just glad to hear you haven't rid of Jethro just yet." He said heading up the elevator and erupting in the bull pen to find it empty. He would have at least expected Gibbs to be there coffee in hand but suspiciously he wasn't. Ducky leaned in to the receiver. "Caitlin, you did leave Jethro in one piece did you?" He asked half out of surprise and half out of concern.

Kate's face screwed up in a confused glare and blew out air.

"Of course I did, if it were still yesterday then maybe not but I swear I saw him leave last night…wait…no I didn't." She drifted off. Kate turned around and her now petrified mocha eyes met his aroused blue ones.

Kate looked down to what she was wearing and snapped her head up and tried her best to cover herself. Gibbs let out a low chuckle at her reactions and rolled his eyes.

"Ummm Ducky can I…can I call you back later?" She said throat dried, she kept trying to swallow to apply moisture to her now sand-papered throat. She hung up and her cheeks flared red.

"I eh…" She brought her arms down to her boxers and tried to pull the materiel a little longer to try and cover as much leg as possible, but found she couldn't. She ripped out her other ear phone and un-velcroed it in one swift motion. She bolted out the kitchen and down the hall. Gibbs watched her every move as she made her way down the hall picking her pace until she reached her room where she slammed the door behind her.

My first time, hard to explain
Rush of blood, oh, and a little bit of pain
On a cloudy day, it's more common than you think
He's my first mistake

Gibbs walked into the kitchen turned off the burner for the bacon and put them together on a plate. He sighed and slowly made his way towards Kate's room at the end of the hall.

He knocked softly on the door. He was met with silence, he tried again and once again there was no answer. He opened the door a little and called her name.

"Kate…Katie?" He said softly as he opened the door wide enough to slip through.

Kate sat at the edge of her bed house wrapping her frame. She hugged a pillow to her chest and looked down to her orange lilac painted toes.

Gibbs walked up to her and sat beside her on the bed. They both said nothing for quite awhile. Just inhaling and exhaling the sexual tension enveloping them both.

"Kate I…" He began to say but shut his mouth uncertain. Kate looked up at him; pillow still snuggled beneath her chin.

Maybe you were all faster than me
We gave each other up so easily
These silly little wounds will never mend
I feel so far from where I've been
So I go, and I will not be back here again
I'm gone as the day is fading on white houses
I lie, put my injuries all in the dust
In my heart is the five of us
In white houses

Gibbs took a deep breath and looked at her square in the eyes and took a deep breath for a second then let it out.

"I'm sorry for what a propelled yesterday, and caused and fuelled. But…I'm not sorry of the outcome." He said was ran a hand through his hair putting its already bed-headed state to a finger-in-a-socket state. Kate looked in front of her confused and slightly embarrassed of the other day.

"I'm sorry for provoking you to fuel the fire, and I'm glad of the outcome too." She said softly staring at her toes again.

"Katie…"She looked out at the mention of her nickname and interlaced her hand with Gibbs's when he took hers randomly. He ran a hand over her knuckles gently, leaving behind burning skin that seeped to her beneath her skin. "I don't know how to say this, I'm no Romeo." He said and scratched his hairline with slight embarrassment.

Kate laughed lightly causing Gibbs to look at her with a raised eye brow.

"I'm no Juliet either Gibbs, far from it." She said as she brought their intertwined hands up to her lips and kissed each of Gibbs's knuckles. "But I'm pretty damn close." She said cheekily grinning ear to ear, Gibbs laughed lightly at her burst of wit.

All of a sudden as their eyes locked for a brief moment, but the energy that passed through them, the intensity, the love, and the lust was incredible.

Slowly Gibbs brought his hand up to her face and cupped her head, cradling it between both his calloused hands. They stalled for a millisecond before their lips met for the first time. Fireworks erupted inside them, breaking down their barriers they had built; they all shattered to nothing as the kiss intensified. Gibbs slowly and enticingly licked her bottom lip begging for entry, which Kate gave him full access to. She moaned as his tongue plunged into her mouth savoring her taste, and bringing it to memory. When the need for air became too hard to ignore they pulled back, both of them gasping for breath. Kate leaned her forehead against Gibbs's as they just sat there vibrating with intense energy.

Gibbs put a finger beneath her chin and tilted it up so that their eyes met.

"So, we're good?" He asked a centimeter away from each other.

Kate bit her lip flirtatiously and met his eye.

"I think we're more then that Gibbs." She sat running a hand through his hair and brought him closer as their lips met again. The testing was over. Now they ran their hands over every inch of each others bodies. Gibbs tangled up his hands in her hair, as he sucked the life out of her. They drew back again both of them wearing smiles.

""I love you Katie." He whispered posing a kiss on her lower neck making Kate escape a moan from deep in her throat. He looked back at her as she ran her hand up his chest, his shirt long since been discarded. She posed tiny wet kisses from his throat all the way to his lips.

"I…love…you…too…Leroy Jethro Gibbs." She said as she paused for kissing him, even though she kept her lips in contact with his skin for mere seconds, those kisses more then enticed him to recaptured her lips.

And you, maybe you'll remember me
What I gave is yours to keep
In white houses

FIN

Author's Note: I finally finished woot woot! Thank you for the great reviews I took them all by heart and appreciated each and every one of them kiss kiss

-Brit- x0x