New Beginnings

Summary: Twilight never happened but newly appointed Director Shepard wants to add another member to Gibbs' team in the form of Ziva David. Will Tony bite off more than he can chew with these two women? Tate. Jibbs. Hints of Tiva, McAbby and McGiva.

Yes, I know, another new fic! This time I promise to update regularly! I've been having issues with my muse recently so when this idea hit me I just had to go with it really! I really hope you enjoy it and that you review and leave any ideas you have. I don't have an actual plan for this story, but I have a general direction it's heading it, hopefully!

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Chapter 1: New Director

Special Agent Caitlin Todd nodded politely in greeting to Cynthia as she passed by her desk on the way to Director Shepard's office. Being a woman of the twenty first century, Kate had been pleased to learn that the vacant position for Director of NCIS was going to be taken by a woman. Kate had yet to meet Jenny Shepard but already she had a good feeling about this and was willing to help her new boss to settle in anyway that she could. She had been surprised to learn that she and Gibbs had been requested to the Director's office first thing that Monday morning.

Now, Kate knocked tentatively on Director Shepard's office door, a detail Jethro Gibbs' had negated. She swallowed as she felt a slight rush of nerves in her stomach. The meeting was supposed to have started at 0900 and it was now 0907. Kate hoped that her being late to the meeting wouldn't put her in Jenny Shepard's bad books right away. She was usually so prompt to everything and it was DiNozzo who turned up late but then everything had been against her that morning.

When she had awoken as usual at 0500 and headed out for her usual run around the block, she came back to find that the power was off. This meant she had to rush her shower when the power did eventually come back on, which made her late and she met all of the traffic on her way to work.

"Sorry I'm late, ma'am." Kate apologised as soon as she stepped through the door and found the new Director and Gibbs sat opposite each other, their hands stretched out across the desk but not quite touching. Kate suddenly wondered if she was interrupting something between them but then chiding herself for letting her sometimes-overactive imagination get the better of her.

"Good morning, Agent Todd." Director Shepard greeted her, standing up and walking towards the brunette woman. She shook hands with Kate. "I'm Director Jenny Shepard."

"Pleased to meet you, Director." Kate said, smiling at the redheaded woman whilst being grateful that she hadn't mentioned the fact that she was late, yet anyway.

"Agent Gibbs has been telling me a lot about you, Kate." Jenny said, sitting down and motioning for Kate to take the available seat next to Gibbs.

Kate exchanged a look with him and he smiled noncommittally. She still had no idea what she had been called in for. She was aware that after being an NCIS agent for only two years that she was not ready for her own team but she also could think of nothing she had done wrong which would warrant a visit to the Director's office. She nodded politely, not knowing quite how to replied to Jenny's comment.

"I'm sure both of you are eager to know why I've called you both to my office." She said and Kate nodded but Gibbs remained impassive. "I think it's about time you had an addition to your team. You work very well together and you've solved an outstanding number of cases but I think it's time you had changed the dynamics of the group."

Gibbs looked angry. "Jen, you have no right…not without my permission."

Kate looked up in surprise. He had had a seven-minute head start at getting to know the new Director but surely that wasn't time enough for her to allow him to call her Jen, was it? There was certainly something else going on here.

"Agent Gibbs, remember that I am your superior and if I make a decision and you don't like it, it's too bad."

Kate suddenly felt very uncomfortable, as if witnessing an domestic argument between a husband and wife. That was when it hit her, had something more gone on between Jenny and Gibbs in the past or was she just forming premature conclusions? There was a pause before Gibbs nodded, and Jenny continued.

"In my recent anti-terrorism missions I've worked with a young Mossad Officer named Ziva David and she is interested in becoming a liaison officer with NCIS. I assigned her to your teams because I know she will learn a lot and you will all make her very welcome." The last part was targeted at Gibbs and he knew it.

Kate was the first to speak up though.

"If this is your decision why does it affect me, Director Shepard?" She asked.

"Well Kate, as the only woman in your team I thought you would be able to welcome Officer David and welcome her to the team." Jenny replied, and then she smiled. "Us women have got to stick together in this male dominated world, haven't we?"

"Absolutely." Kate agreed with a smile, she was beginning to like this woman already.

"Officer David will be arriving in time to start work next week, I'd like to two of you to get to know each other first though." Jenny told Kate.

She nodded. "Yes, ma'am."

Jenny smiled. "You can go now, Kate."

The brunette agent nodded and got up, making eye contact with Gibbs before she left but as usual he was impossible to read. As she made her way back downstairs to the bullpen she thought about her mission, if you could call it that, a smile played across her lips as wondered: how was Tony going to cope with having two women on his team?