Disclaimer: i do not own NCIS

A/N: this will be a collection of random 'teasers' from my 'NCIS rewrite' series I will explain what that is below but essentially this will be scenes from casefic style stories that are able to stand on their own even if they lack context these can range from heavy emotional conversations the characters have to just the setup for whatever conversations McGee/Ziva/Tony will have during a case or just random 'fun' scenes.

More on NCIS rewrite in the author's note below.

This is set right after Ziva joined the team.

She's so different

"She's so different." McGee said.

"Yes, she is." Tony answered curtly. Tony's answers being so short worried the junior agent, he'd never gone drinking with him before maybe he got less talkative when drunk?

"I mean she's just nothing like Kate."

"Indeed I'm aware she isn't."

"And that doesn't bother you?" McGee asked watching his senior agent intently.

Tony swirled around his drink, a long silence between them before he answered," it does, a lot actually." Tony said, "Not her fault though." he added.

"Yeah." Tim sighed, "it isn't, I just feel like I want to be angry though. She just came her and took her spot, just like that."

"I punched a wall."

"You punched a wall?" a slightly flustered McGee asked.

"Yep." said DiNozzo showing his bruised fist. "It helped."

Another long silence came between them, "I don't know how to do this." Tim sighed.

"Sit, drink, talk," Tony's responses grew shorter and shorter, almost Gibbs like. Maybe that's how it happened, everyone In this business got worn down until all that's left is Gibbs McGee thought.

"I don't really know how to talk about it." McGee said face down looking at his drink.

"Honestly Tim." Tony said indicating he was serious by calling his Probie Tim "No one does, we usually just drink until the pain numbs. When we say we're here to talk, we usually mean we're here to sit with you and drink if something comes out of your mouth we won't judge cause we feel the same way."

McGee took his advice and took his drink at a speed he hadn't drank at since MIT "So you've done this before?" McGee asked "I mean you lost a partner before." He clarified."

"Not really." Tony said swirling his drink before chugging it down in true frat boy style, "Not like Kate, anyhow I've been to a lot of cop funerals, too many really, some I would call acquaintances, some friends but I've never lost someone I spend 12 hour a day looking at, only to have them gone in a flash." Tony added some theatrics to the words flash only to reapply his solemn look and ask for another drink.

"So you've never lost a partner before?"

"Well I kinda did, when I was at Philly PD, they sent me undercover in the mafia." Tony said shocking his Probie who never heard the story before, Tony was usually someone to brag and as a lover of the godfather it surprised Tim he never talked about it.

"So they sent me in, I was young, cocky, arrogant, Italian and no one would care if I didn't survive the op, plus I wasn't from Philly so I couldn't be recognised but I wasn't the only one going undercover, there was another unfortunate bastard, Mark Russo. I only met him a couple of times to train together and a few times when we were undercover but I didn't really know him but his cover got blown and he got killed, brutally at that. And you get scared, scared shitlless, cause that could have been you and then you feel guilty cause he's dead and you're not."

"I know." Tim said his voice making it clear he understood and more words weren't necessary.

"So I didn't know the guy, I didn't see it happen but it still hit me like a brick wall."

"Oh god." McGee said, "I forgot, I'm so sorry you saw it happen right in front of you and I'm sitting here..."

"Don't." Tony said forcefully interrupting, "Don't think your grief is any less valid then anyone else's, it will eat you inside, just drink with me and remember Kate, Probie."

Tim did just that for the rest of the night and when he woke up the next morning on Tony's couch he felt better even with a raging headache from a terrible hangover.

And while Tim was swirling the DiNozzo defibrillator around, he found Tony's words helped, the pain wasn't gone it just felt easier to carry around as if he could move on now, life could move on now.

A/N: hope you enjoyed it, one of the things that is going to be drastically different between my NCIS rewrite series and the show is that emotions, feelings and stuff are going to be talked about a lot more even if it's against most people's personalities but whether with alcohol or other characters forcing them to open up it will happen cause let's be honest we don't care about the random suspects and victim's families we care about the great characters from the show. So I hope Tony didn't feel too ooc here by actually opening up a bit.

now more info on the NCIS rewrite.

What the hell is NCIS rewrite? It's my horrible name for a series of casefics that will resemble an episode of the show. it's a project I started after watching NCIS chronologically for the first time and ever since becoming a writer I deconstruct a story after watching/reading it and I ask myself the questions: what did I like? what did I dislike? What can I learn or steal from this for my own stuff? And what would I have done differently?

So this is basically my answer to the question what would I have done differently? Because I think there's a massive amount of missed potential in the show that could have made it really good in stead of just mediocre like it is now (just an opinion). So hopefully it will contain all the things we wanted to see in the show but never got to see like Tony and Ziva finally getting together or Jenny and Gibbs discussing Paris and what the hell happened there or McGee being torn between being a computer tech and a field agent, Ziva really standing up to her father for once or Tony in action as team lead but without the guidance of Gibbs.

How will it work exactly? This will be a series of casefic style stories that will resemble an episode of the show and will form their own canon so what happens in one fic might effect a following one but not in such a major way that you absolutely have to read them chronologically.

The rewrite canon diverts from the show after 'kill ari'(the first two episodes of season3) but includes some off the following episodes mainly for small things like: jethro the dog, McGee's sister and Deep Six, the nicknames from 'undercover' and other tiva banter that will be referenced. The things that are definetively not canon are the finales and first episodes of the season and all romantic interests those will all be OC's.

The series will be devided in 10 books each with 5 regular episodes/stories and 3 more intense ones at the beginning middle and end. Book1 and 2 will just be 4/5 regular stories since the finales and such will count as hype/intense stories. Each regular episode will be centered around one of the main characters (Gibbs,Ziva,Dinozzo,Kate,McGee) or once per book around one of the side characters (Abby, Fornell, Vance, etc...) This means the story was created from the idea of exploring/developing a side of that character this does not mean however it is solely from their pov or that others wont have interesting subplots in the story, you might even think it was more centered around another character then the one i intended.

If you think this whole project is mega ambitious and will never be finished then you are probably right but that's what this is mainly for, so that even if I never write the stories around these 'scenes' they can still find a home and be read here (there are already around 10-20 of these). That and I have already written a lot of BIG scenes/parts of stories that can become stories on their own like tiva finally happening and the actual ending (the emotional part not the plot part).