Very good story.

Love the way you wrote your characterizations here. I am not a Ziva or Abby fan after their behavior during Hiatus, so I adored this. :)

Lovely read. Thank you for sharing :)

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WOW, can't believe how much I love this story. It has all the elements that I love in a story, and I love that you redeemed Timothy. I like his character too much to like it when Tim is just trusted out of the scene altogether. Love the father/son relationship you have figured out between Tony/Gibbs. The story was real and down to earth, and I sometimes hate how Canon have done the whole show, but I like it too much for any criticism.

Excellent story. Really, really good. David deserved everything you gave her and more.

Great story.
However good you are there is always more to learn, but Ziva refuses to consider that.

FYI in canon, McGee is already known to have a masters degree - I think he has a masters on biomechanical engineering and his bacherlors is in computer forensics - or is that the other way around? Even if McGee's masters is not in the right subjects, he does still have a masters degree.

Damn kinda think it would of been better if tony was the one who got hurt because of ziva not mcger

Interesting story. Great Ziva Bashing.

I am pleased that McGee saw the light and changed his attitude. I am only sorry that McGee was easily lead astray in the first place, but he was somewhat naive and sometimes one has to learn the hard lessons and grow up fast!

Wow. How could anyone possibly be so ignorant? That's just stupidity. Everyone knows you can't go against your direct superior. Even if Tony pulls rank far more often then is strictly necessary, at least he doesn't flat out disobey a direct order from Gibbs or the director. Wow Ziva. I guess she assumed that because she wan't a citizen, she was above the law. Insubordination is a serious thing. Especially in their line of work. It could be punished by jail time. Fornell could've gotten involved! That would've been fun to watch. Although, Eli will probably do unspeakable things to his out-of-line daughter. And don't even get me started on Abby. Seriously, I don't want to go there. And now I have to go because my kid sister is begging me to lightsaber duel her. We're both huge Star Wars fans. Wish me luck, last time we dueled, I almost broke a bone.

Abby is the most ridiculous character that exists. When she screams "Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs" I want to strangle her.

For your third asterisk, from the Navy Yard (where it would be assumed NCIS HQ is) to Quantico is about an hour if traffic's good, and that's on a good day. I live in Southern Maryland, about 15-30 minutes south of Pax River (also mentioned in-show) and it takes about three hours for my dad to drive to Quantico for work, which he's done on more than one occasion. The time-cuts in-show, as they're taking a case that would most likely take anywhere from four days to a week or more to solve and cutting it down to a single hour, are understandable if unrealistic. Just thought I'd mention it. My mom used to live in Alexandria/Fairfax County when she was a kid, so that's where I'm getting this from. Nice one!

I read this story mainly because I am not a huge fan of Ziva and because father/son family friendship aspect. You said in the warnings that it was Ziva and Tim bashing but after reading it I realized that it was Ziva and Abby bashing with a dash of Tim bashing thrown in. There was more Abby bashing than Tim bashing in the story. I think you should include Abby bashing in the summary.

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I like it.