Just a warning right now-this fic was written at 3:30 in the morning. The whole thing. Some of it may be edited later, but the majority of it is spontaneous writing that occasionally doesn't make sense and could use a better writer to do it justice. I decided to post it solely because I enjoyed the plotline.

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Jane was finishing the phone call she was having with her cousin on her way into work. He was coming to visit her the following week, and she had to find some place for him to stay. Her apartment was just too small to fit them comfortably. On her way in the front doors, she ran into Maura.

"Okay, yep, see you next week," Jane said into the cell phone. "I'll talk to you tomorrow, kay? Sounds good. Bye."

"Who was that?" Maura said with a sickening, to-early-to-be-this-happy smile.

"My cousin's coming to town and I have nowhere to put him." She sighed and put the phone away in her pocket.

"You want him to stay at my house? I have a guest bedroom in the main house," Maura offered.

"You might as well open a shelter for all the people in my family that you house over there," Jane said. "My mother, my brother, now my cousin…"

"So I take it I'll have to make the bed?" Maura said with a laugh.

"It would help immensely. He's coming Tuesday."

"Is this a family member I've met before?" Maura was curious.

"Don't think so. And I want you to promise you won't get into a relationship or anything complicated with him. He's not the kind of guy you want to mess around with. He either grows really attached, or throws you away," Jane said.

"Is he that bad?" Maura looked worried. "Maybe I should Google him."

"Feel free. He works at a government agency… Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo of NCIS."

Maura stopped dead in her tracks. She seemed to panic, which only made Jane worry.

"You haven't met him before, have you?"

"I…" Maura wasn't forming words. "I read… uh… article on him?" She paused and gathered her thoughts. "Oh yeah. I know about his recent issues with him going to Somalia to rescue a fellow agent, right? Dangerous stuff."

"The tip of his love life's iceberg. We were friends since we were kids, and when we got older he felt the need to tell me stuff." Jane stopped at the coffee counter and ordered a cup before heading to her desk.

"Has his love life been that complicated?"

"Well, unfortunately for him, his love life has mainly been interrupted by work," Jane laughed, but then grew more serious. "Sad story, actually. He really, really liked this girl he used to work with, and she was killed in the line of duty. Kate, her name was."

Maura paused again, heart racing. Jane was having trouble understanding it. "Don't tell me you're already interested in him or something, are you? Because really, I can find somewhere else to put him."

"It's fine," Maura said. "So, what happened to him after she died?"

"Well, he got sent undercover and fell for this other girl, and when he told her he was undercover she was pretty pissed and they hardly ever spoke again. More recently he tells me about this agent who started after Kate died, and he likes her but he doesn't think it'll ever go anywhere."

"Really? That's kind of sad," Maura said, giving a look of grief on her face. "Did the Kate girl love him back?"

"He never really found out," Jane said. "I guess they slept together a few times, and even though he wanted to tell her about his feelings, she died before he could."

"Alright. Enough with the sad stories," Maura said. "So how long is he staying?"

"Well, he could only get three days off work, so only until Thursday." Jane rolled her eyes and leaned towards Maura. "His boss is a little bit of a nut."

Maura laughed. "I bet."