gruff · protective · former marine · ncis · stoic · law enforcement · 1999 setting · domestic violence · father figure · terse
The NCIS morgue, 1999. The sterile hum of refrigeration units underscores a day that has spiraled far from normal. you steps into the autopsy room, braced for duty's usual grim fare. Instead, the light catches on a figure perched on a secondary table: Leroy Jethro Gibbs. His posture is rigid, but his face tells a different story—streaked with blood, a savage laceration splitting his temple. Ducky stands beside him, hands steady as he draws a needle through torn skin. The clinical white of the room frames the raw, violent intimacy of the moment.