Great to see a story on this site that isn't all about how DiNozzo isn't treated fairly, or about the 'tough but fair' Gibbs. Someone else already said that the Washington team is dysfunctional and they were right on the button. Thanks for writing this.

Great work! Honestly, the team is so dysfunctional. They seemed to work a lot better before Kate died and after that everything got worse. I used to rewatch the show a lot but now it bugs me and I prefer LA to the original. Glad Tim got out and found a real team, not that his actions in the show were always better, he had moments too. Wonder if Tony and Abby ever learnt better?

I really enjoyed this story.

I found this story after reading your more recent work. This past winter I started watching NCIS for the first time and this story encapsulated so much of what annoys me about it. Thank you! It’s such a relief to know I’m not imagining things. In addition to capturing the characters and feel of the two shows, this story has a good plot.

Greatly enjoyable story.

I love that you had Tim at the start stand up for himself, and want to leave NCIS after all the abuse he gets put under. McGee really is a underused character on the show

Also I love how the NCIS LA team all becomes Tim's friends, and help him out with actually giving him respect.

Not playing never ending pranks and jokes on him that go way to far, like what Tony does. Glad that Tony got taken down a few pegs along with all of McGee's former team

Regarding Tony, well I recently watched the JAG back door pilot episodes a few weeks back and it struck me at how well mature Dinozzo was for not being a clown since you look at the series itself, and yeah Tony really does act pretty immature a lot of the time or well nearly all the time.

Nice to see Gibbs eventually wise up for realizing his screw ups, and no sympathy for having it be literally beat into him once or twice, along with how Ziva came to realize the error of her ways.

Also after this story I think you've actually got me interested in NCIS LA for checking them out and seeing how well, if not better they act like a responsible team then what goes on in Gibbs's unit.

Regardless love how in this story Tim came into his own and found a team actually willing to have his back and who actually are his friends

Great story!

Good story

would have loved to seen Ziva get transferred to OSP with Tim. Ziva belongs there as former Mossad, and who knows, maybe she can repair her relationship with Tim and become McGiva.

You know I've always felt that Ziva would've been more at home in OSP than MCRT. Hell, she was trained as a spy, and assassin, by Mossad, and they're some of the best, and most ruthless spies in the world.

Well, that was a well told story. A more satisfying story, too.

Hard to imagine Tim being really vengeful, although leaving sooner than six years I could certainly see.

ah, those books - I found it hard to imagine a character meant to be intelligent would have written them that way, but the quotes we got never showed how the team treated the McGee character. Clever Kensi!

Kensi, naughty question! I have seen little of NCIS LA but I do like the characters.

So what happens, I wonder, when Callen, Gibbs' friend, mentions McGee.? Gibbs can't really chew Callen's head off.

They must get well paid or have cheap phones to be able to discard one so readily. This story reads a little differently to other ones with Tim leaving. Tim is angrier - not that anger is any surprise.