Fic: Six Profiles and a Decision (NCIS)

[kaylashay]

Title: Six Profiles and a Decision
Author: kaylashay81
Rating: FR13
Disclaimer: I'm not Bellesario or CBS, so I don't claim to own them.
Word Count: 8 x 100
Challenge: ncisdrabble100; Past Challenge #97 - Profile

Note: Internet woes kept me out of action, but I'm making up for it with many drabbles.

Crossposted: ncisdrabble100; ncisfanfic

Summary: As he looked through all the profiles of

Comments

[donutsweeper]

sorry for your internet problems, and welcome back!

Excellent way of interpreting the prompt, a very interesting look at the different characters through Ari's eyes

[kaylashay]

Internet still isn't 100% (curses to Comcast) as it cuts out randomly on me.

But I'm caught up on my drabbles now! :-)

Why he picked Kate has always intrigued me. I think that Abby, Tony or Ducky would have made more of an impact that Kate did on Gibbs. So I think that Kate was picked more because Ari had interacted with her and that made her more personal to him in his connection to Gibbs.

[donutsweeper]

Ugh, comcast. *shakes fist at them for you*

very good point! Maybe a touch of sexism too- Kate being a girl and Ari being more 'old school' about those sorts of things

[kaylashay]

The girl thing was why Abby was next in line... Because he knew that Gibbs had lost a wife and daughter. I still think Abby should have been first in that case, because she was the daughter-substitute.

Of course, taking out Kate also meant that Gibbs lost an agent on his watch, something that he had never had happened according to what he told Kate when Tony was awol with Jeffrey.

That was a bit personal to Gibbs. I think taking out Tony in action would have hit Gibbs' harder than Kate though... but then I'm glad Tony wasn't taken out because I love my Tony.

[ksl2025]

I always like these 'outsider' looks at the team. :-)

I figured Ari picked Kate because he knew her the best---killing her was less about Gibbs and more about Ari in some ways, at least in my head. Ari knew targeting the people Gibbs thought of as more vulnerable would get to him, and he'd try to protect them---leaving everyone else that much more vulnerable. Was a classic misdirection. He got to Gerald because Gibbs was focused on keeping Abby safe. He could have just as easily gotten Tony given that Gibbs had him trailing Ziva.

[anonymous]

I think i know why ari chose cate. i think that if he had chose Tony, Gibbs would have gone off the reservation and ari wanted him sane enuff to suffer.