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Morrow’s anger was much more than Gibbs currant one as Gibbs and his team came back from their trial duty after the case was thrown out due to problems with the lab and Kate’s being Non-Compos-Menus due to her “trauma” she never sought therapy for even if she had been ordered to by the team’s xo.
Gibbs had forgotten that his direct boss had been a captain on a carrier before retiring from that to go into the service of NIS long before his own tenure but was quickly reminded of it when the sea bellow overrode his tantrum and demanded he attend him in his office. Shit, Tom was pissed. So much so, that he had security on the floor “force” Gibbs’ female member on the team to march off to see the mandatory therapist he had ready for her and was bellowing at her that she would be fired for cause if she did not attend EVERY SINGLE SESSION AND DO SO IN AN ATTENTIVE FASHION! Until then, she was on leave. And then order that his probie be relieved of duty until he could pass the FLETC classes on lab protocol…. This time.
Yup, pissed, as Gibbs headed up to his doom knowing he was about to be properly reamed as only one service member leader to a lesser member could do. And was currently slowing his feet as he actually wondered if this time, he would actually get fired from the only thing in his life that mattered to him.
All the while, the emergency lab audit was in the middle of happening with Abby being sent back to school to re-certify everything and get it into her head that she wasn’t a goddess who could get away with everything.
Ducky was also having to re-certify for the same exact reasons with the memo stuck to his forehead by the director of the agency he worked for, who reminded him that HE not GIBBS was who he WORKED FOR, and as such, HE WOULD DO HIS JOB AND MONITOR THE LABS TO MAKE SURE THEY STAYED WITHIN THE LAWS!
Nope, no one would forget the day that Gibbs pushed things too far and got the director pissed.
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2/12/2026