Background Information

I know it's a little unusual to devote an entire "Chapter" to background and notes, but I wanted to make a few things clear:

This story is set post S6 'Knockout' and is rated M for language and violent content. Real police curse almost as bad as sailors.

For most NCIS fans, some of the Homicide: Life on the Street lingo may seem a little foreign. I've tried to get the point across as best as possible without having to get overly wordy in exposition and explanations, while remaining as true as possible to the dialogue and spirit of the two separate shows.

Any minor racial slurs are used in character and not intended to offend the reader. One of the H:LOTS guys has a tendency to use them as "terms of endearment".

Also, this will not be slash, because I want to keep as close to canon as possible (so I may do subtext). Any references to homosexual or bisexual characters will have existed in the original series (Homicide, anyway – I can't think of any from NCIS).