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Part 346 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 17 of One shots - Gibbs centric: bastard
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Arcane

Summary:

A look at the team's skills.

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Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 04/12/2000 for the word arcane.

arcane
Understood or known by only a few.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #065 Team.

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Arcane

The team respected Gibbs. Not all of them respected the others on the team, but they all respected Gibbs. He was the one that kept the team together. Gibbs was good at gathering experts to him, but that tended to result in weird blindnesses due to their beliefs that they were better than everyone else in their field.

Each member of the team had their own set of arcane knowledge. Tony’s arcane knowledge was from the field of undercover and had been stretched to include people reading a skill that was somewhat necessary for undercover work. Tim’s arcane knowledge, of course, was related to computers. Kate’s arcane knowledge was around profiling and Ziva demonstrated arcane knowledge in the ways of torture and assassination.

Both Tim and Ziva looked down on Tony believing that their arcane knowledge was greater than his. They never saw the danger of an undercover specialist. Kate at least acknowledged that there were some things Tony was better at than her. Still Tony was used to being underestimated and used it to his advantage to help solve their cases. Just like the rest of the team used their skills to do so.

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