[-- share a song that you play for someone who's gone
inspired by this, some number of years in the future]

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Humans have an uncanny way of just accumulating stuff.  Some of it is junk, some of it is important, and some of it needs to be sorted through and categorized and put away forever.  Gibbs is no exception.  After three years, he came back to ( Read more... )

+ First female Director of NCIS

I should be able to count that one for all six.
However...

+ The death of renegade Moussad agent Ari Haswari
+ Successful destruction of a terrorist cell
+ Retrieval of a Soviet Cold War-era nuclear warhead
+ The death of René Benoit
+ The dissolution of La Grenouille's network

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[Follows this and immediately after this]

Les liens de la mort m'avaient environné, Et les angoisses du sépulcre m'avaient saisi; J'étais en proie à la détresse et à la douleur.
The cords of death compassed me, And the anguish of the grave before me, I was experiencing the distress and pain.

Following Ducky into the bedroom, Jen shuts the door with ( Read more... )

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

"I wouldn't have asked unless--"  Her eyes are closed, breaths are short.

"I know, Jen," soft words.  Her forehead brushes against your cheek.  She's burning up.  It feels like the flu, ( Read more... )

I'm watching a train wreck.  My hands aren't strong enough to stop it; my voice is too soft.

Nothing helps.

She's barreling fiercely down that track, trying to be unafraid and trying to be strong and trying to be who she used to be.

But she won't cut herself any slack.  Her standards are high and her expectations are high.

Too high.

I tell her ( Read more... )

[Part 2 for nycnoir.  Not binding on any Gibbseses]

( Him )

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Tell him.

FIVE things you love
- NCIS
- field work
- politics
- having power and authority
- my career

FOUR places you love
- Washington D.C
- Paris
- Copenhagen
- Georgetown

THREE people you love
- My father
- Gibbs  My mother
- My sister

TWO things you no longer love
- Gibbs my career
- politics

ONE thing you hate
- The Frog