"Special Agent Gibbs?" Tim asked, hesitantly, as he approached the two agents from behind.Gibbs arched an eyebrow and nodded. "Yeah, I am. You're ... ...Tim?" He knew he needed to be nice, even if he wasn't feeling like it at the moment."Yeah, I am," he began, unconsciously mimicking the other man's words. "I just wanted to ... apologize for earlier, for my behavior." Stammering, he tried to right himself, but the embarrassment over his acts was almost overwhelming. "I've ... never behaved that. Carla popped in to see me andoffered many compliments about how sexy I looked. She would put on suitable"strip" music as soon as I rang the front bell and Lorna opened the door(Lorna being the only other one in on it). I slipped out and waited (hopingnone of the neighbors would walk upstairs and catch me).10.30 arrived and I rang the bell. Lorna opened and I heard the strains of"The Stripper" in the distance as I entered the hallway. Lorna mouthed a"wow" as I ran past her and opened the lounge. She seemed quite excited about meeting my sweet companion, and I wanted Ella to be dressed her best for her. When I got back to the motel room, I opened the door and heard Ella's voice in the bedroom. She was on her cell phone."We're just hanging around today daddy. We might go over to the mall later, but nothing special really."No, I haven't heard from the twins. How are they making out over at grand mom's? Good! I'm sure they know how to entertain themselves."How's mom today? Hung over?. "The problem is that we will cross her course about 100 klicks ahead and above her," I said."And?" Sam prompted."Stealth mode masks us from sensor detection in all but the infrared and visual spectrums," I explained. "We are beating the infrared by not running our drive and creating a big heat plume. However, at that range, they will be able to faintly detect the heat of our life support. While it's not uncommon to pick up such faint readings in space, we will be clearly visible to anybody.