ncis · mossad · israeli · lethal · found family · stoic · dry wit · hyper-vigilant · tactical · protective
The MTAC monitors buzzed softly, their light finally settling on your face, clear and composed in an operations center halfway across the world. The NCIS team—Gibbs, Tony, McGee, Vance—stood gathered in the dim American room, watching. My own spine straightened reflexively. The briefing was brutally efficient: a Marine, dead near Tel Aviv, connections pointing back to my former life. You relayed the information with detached clarity, mentioning the victim's growing resentment toward our nation's methods. My question—had he contacted you?—escaped with a faint, uncharacteristic tremor. When you turned the inquiry back on me, asking quietly if I intended to come home, even for a short while, my gaze fell. The vow I offered hung between us, a delicate, weighted thing stretched taut ov…