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I think Gibbs' theme song for most of (Un)Covered is "You Love Me To Hate You" by KISS --

-- right up until that record scratch moment when DiNozzo makes it plain that, NO, they aren't on the same page at ALL, really...

(Except in a backwards sort of way where she does do things to piss him off on purpose in order to amuse him, but unlike the girl in the song, she doesn't think she's getting anywhere or has a chance and furthermore, being DiNozzo, just desperately wants Gibbs' love and approval.)

First of all, Abby Scuito bobblehead debuts at Comic Con.

Second, ( click here for SGA genfic recs (a votre attention, Kiffie!) )

Now I'm taking a nap so that I can (hopefully) get up and go watch the Pride Parade (if I don't sleep through my alarm).

"Gibbs!" Abby called exuberantly as he walked into her lab. She accepted the piece of carrot cake he'd brought her with one lace-enmeshed hand, asking, "How many times have you seen Tony naked?"

( He made a pained face at her )

NCIS' Leroy Jethro Gibbs? Same age as Aurora and Northstar.

Yeeeeeeeep.

Unrequited Brad Pitt/Tony DiNozzo! eta: Actually, it works as gen. It can just be admiration and not lust -- see below.

No, not the actor. If you're an NCIS fan, you know I mean the doctor who treated Tony for the plague and who ALSO played against him in the football game where Tony sustained the injury that scuttled his sports career.

I want Brad POV starting before that game. I want him impressed as hell by Tony as a peer-and-rival, and looking forward to meeting him on the field of battle. I want him woobily horrified at being a party to ruining Tony's chances at making it pro. I want details of the game! I want Brad eyeballing the medics because oh god they'd better do it right. I want him, as a pre-med student, to have a friend working in the hospital who gets him in to see Tony -- but he chickens out at the last minute.

And then, years later, he is surprised to have Tony as a patient. He hasn't been stalking him after all -- he didn't know he'd gone into law enforcement, much less joined NCIS -- but he remembers him, oh yes. (Remember, it was Brad who brought up the game and gave Tony a copy of a recording he had. It makes sense that Brad would have mementoes of a great victory for his team, of course -- but he recognised Tony!)

I want to read this. Caring!Dr. Pitt.

I suspect I'll have to write it myself. *sigh*

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Melancholy and regretful and occasionally snarky, so far. Apparently some of these have been used in the NCIS soundtrack? As have a song or two from Pauley's band?

I lovelovelove Bitter & Blue.

Great moments, good quotes, nice editing!

Ziva David: We are not here to eat, Tony.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I mourn, I eat. I'm Italian.
Ziva David: Jews and Italians are similar that way.

Title: The (Im)Pertinent Question Here
Fandom: NCIS
Author's note: I don't really do ratings, but I promise it's fluffier than the show. :D Takes place pre-series.

( other agents kept walking by and shooting Tony looks like he was taking his life in his hands )

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

a_trill gave me:

1. Iceman Probably one of my favourite comic book characters. I like the dichotomy of his ice powers and form with his hothead and warm heart. And I like that he's the class clown without being mean about it. Every class clown I ever met was a bully; Bobby isn't. He would do anything for his friends.

2. NCIS I like cop shows. NCIS is an awesome and generally well-written example of the genre. I like most of the ensemble cast.

3. Aurion I like genderswap. And, as I said above, I like Iceman -- Aurion is a published genderswapped version of Iceman! And she's adorable, and more confident in her powers than the adult male version is these days.

4. Star Trek Baby's First Fandom. I was raised by Trekkies. I met my best friend because of Star Trek. I'm currently in an active fannish phase, but even when I'm not, Star Trek is entwined with my grey matter. I could wax philosophic about Roddenbury's vision here, but I shan't. ;3

5. Boostle Two superheroes I might not like nearly as much apart, but who just go great together.

Okay, so apparently I wanted to try my hand at the "how did Tony get hired" thing myself after all. This is just a short ficlet.

Title: When He Smiles
Fandom: NCIS
Rating: E for everyone

( He has very good dental work. )

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The first actual episode of NCIS is basically about how Gibbs hired Kate. As the series goes on, we see him hire McGee and Ziva. We know that Abby is like a daughter to him, that Ducky is like a brother. Gibbs makes his team.

But we don't know how Tony got there.

In an early episode, Kate actually asks him directly, "How did you get into NCIS?" and Tony answers, "I smiled."

In another early episode, there's this exchange:

Tony: I didn't become an NCIS agent yesterday Kate. As a matter of fact tomorrow...
Gibbs: ...is going to be two years.
Tony: That's kind of touching Gibbs. Remembering the day you hired me.
Gibbs: Yeah, well it seemed like a good idea at the time.

So, Gibbs obviously picked Tony up like he does his other agents. Tony was working with the Baltimore PD at the time. This is the extent of our canonical knowledge.

Naturally, I went looking for fic. Most of what I found was crap. Like, really crap. Not even just the stuff that threw them into bed.

Then I found Rictus, and now I never need to look for a story about this particular thing again. It's long, it's a case story, it has emphasis on the emotions and building of connections tied up in this first meeting, and I love it. But the first two paragraphs slap you in the face with how ugly this case will be, and if you can't deal with them, you won't survive this fic. If you can deal, it's totally worth every word.
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The problem with trying to watch anything at work is that I always seem to get interrupted right at the dramatic climax of whatever I'm watching. Take NCIS for example: I watched the episodes "Chained" and "Boxed In" at work, and in both cases, ten minutes before the end, I get called away to do work things. Which, being at work, I have to do. It's just a little frustrating. X3

Speaking of NCIS, apparently it's getting a spin-off! Yeah, in February there's going to be an episode which will introduce the cast of a new series, much the same way NCIS was spun-off from JAG. Here's hoping it doesn't tank like First Monday did. From what little information has been leaked, it sounds a little like "What if The Pretender had worked for the Man?"

rookie: How's Gibbs to work for?
Tony: What've you heard? That -- bad guys would rather confess than be interrogated by him? That his steely gaze could cool a room by five degrees, that he can only be killed by a silver bullet, like a werewolf?
rookie: *chuckles*
Tony: They're all true, except for the silver bullet part. Might give him indigestion or heartburn, but -- I don't think it'd kill him. Any other questions?

I'm watching the JAG eps that intro'd the NCIS for spin-off, and I'm wondering what'll be happening to the two team members who didn't become regulars in the show (so far as I know -- maybe they were in the early NCIS eps). Gibbs is already made of love, good with kids, hard-assed about investigation and all that fun stuff.

But Tony, now -- TONY WEARS GLASSES. :D Reading glasses, I think. And his hair is longer and slicked back, and he has this ugly brown zip-up hoodie that makes him seem geek chic. It is to LULZ, sir!

I'm glad that, to the best of my knowledge, they cut out this "from the pov of the dead body" crap. It's creepy, and it puts an inappropriately supernatural slant on the show.

...I'm guessing Ducky doesn't think Viv has been fully broken in yet, or he wouldn't be being so mean/nice to her. He doesn't seem to dislike her, exactly. *ponders*

Woooow, Harm is not looking terribly good in this ep. I forgot how much of a jerk he is when his back is up. Granted, I had stopped watching JAG by this point.

AJ! *hugs him* Damn, I missed AJ.

Poor Tony, stuck checking every bridge on the Potomac upriver of the body all by himself, with a spray bottle and blue light.

Aaaand now I have to stop and go to work. Phooey!

Oh hi, Tony's glasses, nice to see you aga-- Hee! X3
Gibbs: C'mon, loverboy.
Tony: What -- where we going?

Okay, I was reading Ducky wrong -- he's trying to get into Viv's pants. XD

"Ice Queen" aired April, 2003. In it, Harmon Rabb asks Gibbs how long he'd been "doing this", and Gibbs said 19 years. That would be 1984. That's also the year his daughter was born. The popular estimated DOB for Gibbs hovers around 1959-1961, which puts him at 23-25 in 1984.

Eee eee Tony in glasses again. :D (I'm informed that the glasses will make an appearance again a few times in season 1.)

Gibbs: Tony -- nail this guy fast. I need your ass out here.
Tony: Alone?
Gibbs: *pause* Bring whoever you need.

Awww, I like jet-lagged Tony with his hair all floppy and his eyes all heavy-lidded and bright. *pets* He's like a 6'2" puppy.

Hm. Gibbs asked Tony how good his Spanish his, but he himself is speaking Spanish here. I know he gets Tony to translate things from Spanish and the like during the series and some people have speculated that Gibbs isn't as good with the language. *shrugs* In this episode, Gibbs shops for fish whereas Tony gets into an argument about how he has a delivery order to this boat. It seems more involved, but I don't speak the language.

Aw, the little relieved faces Tony and Viv make when Gibbs lets them know he's okay~ So cute. :3

Hm. That's once an episode that Viv screwed up, pissed Gibbs off, and Tony said something to try to make her feel better.

Well, that's it for these episodes!