Title: Interrupted
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Excessive geekery
Spoilers: None
Summary: Tony eavesdrops.

Author's Note: Yep, this is what happens when your smut-creativity runs dry and your mind turns to gaming instead...

"Oh, god, so close…"

Tony froze in the corridor outside Abby's lab, wondering if he'd actually heard what he thought he'd heard. Surely not?

"Come on, McGee, just a little more!"

Abby and McGee, doing the nasty during office hours? This he had to see.

"Hurry up! If Gibbs catches us, we're screwed!"

Tony took a quiet step forward, his eyes fixed on the doorway. A hand on his shoulder caused him to jump a foot in the air, and he spun to find Gibbs staring at him. "DiNozzo. What the hell are you doing? I told you to get that sample to Abby."

Tony glanced down at the evidence bag, then at the doorway. "Boss, I think you should just–"

As if on cue, Abby and McGee cried out simultaneously. "I don't think they really wanna be disturbed right now, Boss."

"Then why did I catch you creeping up to the door?" Before he could come up with a suitable excuse, Gibbs snatched the evidence bag and strode through the door. "McGee!"

"Oh, crap," McGee stammered. "Boss, I, uh, we were…"

Tony crossed the rest of the distance between himself and Gibbs at a jog, eagerly seeking out the sight of McGee's humiliation.

"You were what?" Gibbs snapped.

Tony's face fell. Far from the compromising sexual position he'd imagined, Abby and McGee were standing in front of the plasma. McGee was holding a videogame controller. On the screen, a pale guy wearing combat pants was getting the crap beaten out of him by a purple dude with a face in his stomach. As he watched, the purple guy shot a fireball of some kind, and the other character crumpled and died. Abby groaned again, putting a sympathetic hand on McGee's shoulder. "Better luck next time, Timmy."

Tony really didn't get computer nerds. "This is what, now?"

"It's Tekken 5, Tony!" Abby said excitedly. "It's a beat-'em-up game, brand new! McGee's trying to get past the final boss."

"I was just about to knock him down, too," McGee added glumly. Gibbs fixed him with his trademark 'look', and he handed the controller to Abby. "I mean, I was just about to get back to work on Jenson's computer, boss."

"Well, yeah, McGee, that'd be a good idea." Gibbs held out the evidence bag, which Abby took, her unabashed enthusiasm not dulled in the slightest by his stern tone. "As soon as you can tear yourself away from the videogame, Abbs?"

"Sorry, Gibbs," she murmured, trying to suppress a smile.

Gibbs turned and headed for the door, pausing only to give Tony one of his trademark headslaps. "Geez, Boss, what was that for?" DiNozzo called after him.

"Imagining Abby naked."

"Oh," Tony muttered, rubbing the back of his head. "That."