A/N: More stuff that I wanted to add to the last chapter but felt the AN was too long: This is my take of the Events of Europe four years prior to the show's debut. The Episode suggested that this op came first and led to other ops throughout Europe, but I thought that maybe they would have a few others before to establish their cover, and I wanted to add the bit about the boat and fleeing to England. I am guessing that this will turn out to be a 5 chapter story with maybe and epilogue, but I'm not sure. Now without further ado; Chapter 2!

Corruption 2

Jenny pulled all the strings she could pull, and eventually after a week she was able to get Eli, Decker and Whitney Sharp to come to DC. The third day Jess stopped in after a round of sparring with Ziva to say that it was done. She had shot Svetlana and her bodyguards as they planned her kidnapping to lure out her lover's killer. They were planning on killing Decker to lure her out to his funeral and either kill her or kidnap her. Jess brought Polaroid photos if the three bodies as proof. She took the photos before tossing the body into the ocean, weighed down with metal chains. Jess left the photos with Jenny along with a piece of paper for a hotel room where she would be staying until after the meeting. Jenny burned the photos in her private bathroom's sink.

She felt relieved that her mission was finally over, even as she felt guilty for not taking the target out herself. She avoided Jethro as much as possible, only dealing with him as he turned in his team's case reports as they finished them, he didn't push her, though she could see what looked like concern in his eyes when they did see each other. She knew that he would know eventually and was trying to prepare herself for his anger and hatred of her.

A week after she managed to get everyone over here they all were sitting down at the conference table in Jenny's office.

Jenny started by thanking everyone for being there and that she knew that having all of them there was important to whatever they were to talk about. At that point she admitted to not taking out Svetlana. Decker already knew, while Gibbs' eyes widened. Whitney was disappointed and let everyone know it. Eli nodded knowing why she couldn't do it at the time; though he was surprised that she didn't' go back and finish the job before taking up the Director's position. At this point Jess jumped in a told the story that she told Jenny two weeks previously and then she told about how she took out the target and what she did with the body.

"But the reason I wanted all of you here today, is to clear the air and address the issue of a potential threat to the agency. One of the founding Agents of this agency has been doing some really freaky stuff since 1993 and a mission in Amsterdam." Jess told the audience. Whitney, Eli and Vance all leaned forward at this. "Yes, I know all about that mission." Jess told them. She then turned to Whitney.

"Former Agent Sharp, why did you pick Leon Vance for that mission? He didn't fit your typical pick." Jess asked and the woman looked down before answering.

"I picked him because I could bully him into accepting."

"But why did you need him, why not someone else?" Jess pressed.

"Because there was the extreme risk that whoever we picked would die and Vance at that point would not be missed." She said softly looking at the table. Jess, Jen and Gibbs both watched as Eli and Vance nodded; she had confirmed something that they knew."

"What was the mission?" Jess pressed.

"To take out a Russian arms dealer with the code name: The Russian." She answered, not looking at anyone.

"Assistant Director Vance, tell me about the mission." She asked him in a polite command.

"My job was to lure The Russian at first. Then I had orders to kill him." Vance answered.

"Where did Eli fit into this?"

"I met him on the second day of the mission. We bonded and he gave me hints and pointers about what to do. A few days later I overheard him and The Russian discussing me. Later he came to my little flat where I was staying. I confronted him and he told me that The Russian already knew about me." Jess looked to Eli who picked up the tale.

"A 'leak' inside NCIS had already told The Russian about Vance. He gave me the order to return to Israel. Instead I went to Vance and told him that by morning he would be dead if he didn't help me. We made a Claymore mine and rigged it before taking cover. The trio of assassins triggered the blast and because of our cover we survived. After Vance and I returned to our homes the Russian vanished." Eli told them.

In the Bullpen:

Tony, Ziva, Abby and two of Eli security team were watching the feed from the security camera that Tim hacked from Tim's desk.

"He knows how to make a claymore mine! Who else knows how to make one?" Abby asked astonished.

"In this room?" Malachy, head of the Kidon unit, Ziva's old unit, asked. Malachy and Liat, who took Ziva's place of the team, raised their hands, as did Ziva and eventually Abby.

Back in Jenny's office:

"Now after I got to this part in my research; I did a check on Vance and saw a weird entry to his personal file. I logged who this entry and then moved on to search for The Russian. I discovered his name and the Paris op. But I won't say more on that. But who here knows the name of The Russian?" Jess asked.

Eli raised his hand, and Whitney kind of did. Jess turned to her, not really surprised.

"I read it in Agent Riley McCallister's field notes, but I don't remember it all. I know it was Z something: Zuko or something. . ." She trailed off. Jethro looked at her with wide eyes, as did Decker and Jenny.

"Was it Zukov, Anatoly Zukov?" He asked in a tight voice.

Jess doesn't let Whitney answer, but looks at Eli.

"That was his name Anatoly Zukov." Eli said, starting to piece together what Jess was telling them.

"This brings me to my point. Who was in charge of the Amsterdam op?" Jess asked.

"McCallister." Came the answer from Vance, Sharp and Eli.

"Next question: Who set up the Paris mission?"

"McCallister." Everyone at the table answered.

"Okay back to the research I did. McCallister alter Vance's file, causing him to be sent on another mission. He made it look like Vance was a pilot. That sent Vance on a mission that should have killed him. Leon Vance was never supposed to live to see the new millennium, let alone become Assistant Director of NCIS. Neither were you, Director Shepard. That was why he sent a green agent, even one who was being groomed to become Director after Morrow; he wanted to get you out of the way, in a permanent kind of way. McCallister wanted the job for himself." Jess finished and everyone could see her disgust for the man who abused the system for his own selfish goals that risked so many people's lives.

The table was silent as they all processed what they had learned. Jenny found herself feeling a little less guilty; she wasn't supposed to have made the hit, she was supposed to have died. So she felt a bit of satisfaction at how she ended up, but then she remembered that her failure cost her, a future with the man she loved and then she felt anger at McCallister.

Decker stood up and everyone looked at him.

"I have to say that I am not surprised by McCallister. After Paris I returned and worked under him for a few more years before I was promoted; I kept getting a weird gut feeling around him and I started to watch my back and check my file. He tried to mess with it, but I deleted it before it could be printed. A week later I was promoted to my own team. But I am no longer NCIS; I retired last year. So I can testify against him, but that is it." He told them and left. Whitney was next.

"If you need help arresting him or something, let me know, I still have a few favors I can call in. But I am also retired so I'll leave you current members to figure it out." With that she left and Eli too, left the room after shaking everyone's hand.

Once the door shut behind Eli, Gibbs turned to Jess.

"I see life has treated you well kid. You're not the same trigger happy young agent you were in Moscow." He told her and Jess smiled.

"Oh, I'm still trigger happy; I've just learned to control it since we worked together in Moscow." Jess smirked at him.

"I can see that. Those kids' are okay?"

"Yeah, they're fine. James took a sabbatical leave and took them to the states. They're in Disneyland and California Adventure this week." Jess told them.

"And I bet you wish you were with them." Jethro smirked.

"You'd be right; I do. But they have a list of characters I want autographs from and pins I'm looking for. I gave them my pin trades to get them and money to buy some of them. Then I plan on joining them when they head to San Diego before we skip to Florida and Universal Studios and Disney World."

Jenny was watched the conversation between them with fascination while Vance called his wife.

"You two know each other?" She asked during a lull in their conversation.

"We were partners in Moscow the year after Paris." Jethro answered. "So I'm worried now about our targets for that mission, did it all go according to plan?" He asked, turning back to Jess.

"Yes, I double checked that after I found all of this. I knew I did and I knew you did, as our hits were together when we hit them. And the other three were found on security video cameras, though they were deleted, we kept a copy for the file. Moscow op is clear." Jess told them and sighed. Gibbs did too and he ran his hands through his hair and Jenny and Jess rubbed their temples. Vance finished on the phone and came back to the table.

"What the four of us need to do is go through every mission McCallister was a part of, or was in charge of. If it's clean we put in one pile, a failure in another for a closer look, and anything hinky or off goes into a third pile. After wards, we'll go through that second pile and put it into any of the other two piles." Jess suggested, knowing that if there were two files, there could be more. The others nodded and Jenny moved to pull the file locations of each one.

"If you can't access some of them, let me know and I can get them." Jess told her boss. Jenny looked confused. "You don't have black ops clearance; I do." Jess clarified. Jenny nodded and looked up the files. Ten minutes later she printed out a list of each mission and it unredacted copy's location. She sent Gibbs and Vance to retrieve them and had Jess get the four that she didn't have access to. Jess found those locations and retrieved them. When all three of them meet back up in Jenny's office they put the stack in the middle of the table and Jess flicked through the four black ones and found that they all were clean. She put them in a pile and grabbed another stack off the main pile and dove into work. They were meticulous going through the files. Spending 45 minutes to an hour on each file. They stopped when Cynthia asked if she could pick up lunch for them. Jenny asked for a chicken salad, Vance asked for a cheeseburger with all the works and Gibbs asked for a burger with green chilies.

"Is there a Thai food place around here?" Jess asked and Cynthia told her that that was where she was going. Jess asked for Red and Yellow Curry. Cynthia repeated each order and when confirmed said that she would be back in an hour. The group went back to work, stopping only when Cynthia came back with their food. They ate their food before Vance stepped out to call his wife and Gibbs checked on his team.

The rest of the day was spent going through the files. It was six in the evening when they finished the first files. Gibbs had already dismissed his team and went home himself. Vance and his detail headed to the Hotel they were staying at and Jenny and Jess put the clean files away before storing the other two piles. The clean pile was the smallest with the iffy pile and hinky pile being tied. Jenny and her detail headed to her townhouse and Jess headed to Ziva's where she was staying in the guest bedroom instead of a hotel.

All four of them were too restless to sleep and when they did finally sleep; it was restless.