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Part 573 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 43 of One shots - Gibbs centric: bastard
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Sine Qua Non

Summary:

After Vance split up his team, Gibbs worked hard to get them back. But where is DiNozzo? Why is he still not back?

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Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 11/25/2000 for the word sine qua non.

sine qua non
An essential condition or element; an indispensable thing.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #258 Why?.

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Sine Qua Non

“Give me my agent back!” Leroy Jethro Gibbs demanded, storming into Vance's office.

“Why? You have McGee and David already. McGee can be your SFA and we can get a new Probie for your team to bring the numbers back up.” Vance retorted.

“None of them have the people reading skills DiNozzo has. Do your want our solve rate to drop drastically?” Gibbs snarled.

“Surely, you're exaggerating.” Vance protested.

“I'm not. DiNozzo is sine qua non to this team. Ziva's interrogation skills are good, but her ego gets in the way of her evaluating people without torturing them. McGee's skills on the computer are unrivaled, but he's still too timid to stand up to me and he's worse than Ziva at reading people. Now give me back my agent.” Gibbs roared, thoroughly irritated with the roadblocks Vance kept putting up and wanting this over and done with now.

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