NCIS:

LAST GOODBYE TO THE BEST TEAM OF NCIS...

DISCLAIMER:

NCIS and characters do not belong to me.

WARNING:

Get a kleenex, because I'm sure you will be crying by the end! :(

SUMMARY:

This is just a bunch of one shots that popped into my head. In each chapter a memember of the team dies.

Tiva/ McAbby/ Breena & Palmer couples

CHAPTER 1: GOOD-BYE, DR. DONALD 'DUCKY' MALLARD...

Dr. Donald (Ducky) Mallard was just past ninety and had almost ten years ago now retired from NCIS.

Passing the job as the ME for NCIS on to Mr. Palmer after teaching the eager and ready to learn, lad everything he knew.

He thought back on his life now and all that he had done many things and yes...

He like everyone had regrets of some things that had happened in his youth.

He had many stories:

From the times when he was a lad to years after.

A story for almost every occasion or cases that he had worked at NCIS.

Ducky, in his time at NCIS had seen many agents come in day after day. Working hard and some of them having their lives cut short.

It had been many years ago now that Mr. Palmer and Ms. Breena Slater had been married.

Ducky had been there at the birth of Amanda Rose and her twin sister, Crystal Justine (CJ) Palmer. Now they were eight years old.

Eight years ago, young Abigail had finally told Timothy she hoped he would give her another chance for them to be happy together.

It was clear both of them had been afraid of rejection and if things did not work out between them. In the end, they took the step and started to date.

Ducky himself, Jethro and many others who worked with Abigail and Timothy, they had not been surprised about hearing the two had gotten back together.

Not long after Abigail and Timothy had started, dating Anthony and Ziva had gone to talk to Jethro.

Then after that...

Rule 12: Never date a co-worker

...was changed.

Finally, the two couples were allowed to be together and their work was greatly improved.

Then six months after they started to date, Timothy asked Abigail to marry him and she had responded by saying:

'Yes.'

Just four months after Abigail and Timothy's wedding Ziva and Anthony got married.

It turned out at the time of Anthony and Ziva's wedding that Abigail was pregnant and just a little less then five months later had been blessed with a very handsome young lad. They had named him:

Ryley Frank McGee

Giving the middle name Frank in honor of Mike Franks.

Then eleven months after Anthony and Ziva had been married...

They were blessed with:

Michael 'Mike' Anthony DiNozzo

After Mike Franks

Both boys growing up together became as had been predicted from the day that Mike was born...

Best friends, but they acted more like brothers.

Ryley six and Mike five and would be six in just a few months.

Jethro was often seen with his usual attitude. It wasn't hard to see the man was still in so much pain.

He had lost and seen so much.

Now feeling tired and after remembering so much from the long life, he had led Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard laid down in bed.

Closing his eyes...he took a final breath.

LATE THE NEXT DAY...

No one had heard anything from Ducky and Leroy Jethro Gibbs decided to check on his friend of many years.

He found him and realized that...Duck was dead.

Pulling out his phone, he made phone calls.

First to begin making arrangements and then after he was sure that Ducky would be taken care of here.

He would head home, call the team and tell them the sad news of Ducky's death.

HOURS LATER...GIBBS LIVING ROOM...

Leroy Jethro Gibbs now sat in his living room waiting for the three couples...

Abby and Tim, with Ryley...

Tony and Ziva with Mike...

James and Breena Palmer with CJ and Amanda to show up.

Finally, the door opens and they find him in the living room.

"Hey, Gibbs." Abby greeted with a smile, but her smile faded at the look on Gibbs face.

"What is wrong, Gibbs?" Ziva asked.

"Duck." Gibbs said the single name and everyone knew.

"Is he..." Tony couldn't finish already knowing the answer, but needing to hear it at the same time.

"Yup, went to check on him a few hours ago and he died last night." Gibbs said.

Abby fell onto the couch crying as Tim sat down beside her and Ryley came to stand beside his parents unsure of what was going on.

Breena turned to Jimmy and leaned into him as tears started to fall down both their faces. Jimmy taking it pretty hard, because he had looked up to Ducky and had learned many things from the man.

Ziva tried to be strong and hold back tears. Then she couldn't anymore, because Ducky had been like a grandfather to her and she to began to cry, Tony put his arm around her as she turned wrapping her arms around him.

Both boys looked at each other not really understanding what had happened.

Someone had died and Grandpa Gibbs said it had been Grandpa Ducky.

The kids knew what it meant when someone died, because they had been to funerals of NCIS agents before.

Ryley had just a year before been to the funeral of his great grandmother, Penny. Who had been Grandpa McGee's mom.

Everyone was crying and for a long time not a word was said as everyone found a place to sit.

"Wh-when is the funeral?" Abby finally asked.

"Day after tomorrow." Came Gibbs reply.

"I can't believe he's gone." Abby whispered leaning her head against Tim's shoulder and he put his arm around her.

Abby and Tim the moved a little apart and Ryley sat down between them.

Ryley was crying because he had enjoyed Grandpa Ducky's stories, so had the other kids. He looked at CJ, Amanda and Mike...they looked back at him.

A look of sadness and not a dry eye in the room...

Gibbs was also crying, while also trying to stay strong for everyone else.

Ducky had a huge NCIS family that would miss him.

A FEW DAYS LATER...

"Ashes to ashes...Dust to dust..." The service continued, but after a few minutes, it was over.

Gibbs, Tony, Ziva, Mike, Abby, Tim, Ryley, Jimmy, Breena, Amanda and CJ were the only ones to remain at the grave after everyone else had left.

This was the last goodbye of:

Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard

A man who had been a like a grandfather and wonderful friend.

Soon everyone left, knowing the stories of what Ducky had told...

Would never be heard again.

Memories of stories they had heard from Ducky for so many years were forever engraved in their minds, as Ducky's name was now engraved in stone.