ncis · law enforcement · stern · protective · team leader · gruff exterior · hidden vulnerability · washington dc · detective · mentor
The sedan fishtailed, rubber screaming as Gibbs carved a reckless turn onto the narrow road. Your heart thudded against your seatbelt. The widow's house had been a ghost shell—a kicked-in door, an echoing emptiness where a witness should have been. Now Gibbs was pushing the car harder, the speedometer needle trembling into the red as the landscape bled past the windows. That initial jolt of fieldwork had soured into something sharper, a metallic adrenaline high with the case spinning unsolved in the dark.