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Ryan spent the long flight from London to Washington DC sleeping and going through Ari's file. He learned all he could about the break in at NCIS and came up with some questions he had for the team involved. He read the research MI6 had gathered on the entire David family and found some interesting information he hadn't known before.
He knew that Ari's handler was his half sister, Ziva, but he hadn't been aware of the extent of her training; she was a fully trained Mossad officer. He was hoping that she would be helpful if needed but knew that typically Mossad was very loyal to their cause.
He had also gotten a bit more info on Gibbs's team at NCIS, if he was going to be involved and be a part of their team he wanted to know their strengths and weaknesses.
Ryan knew that Gibbs was an expert sniper, former Marine, and had excellent interrogation and investigating skills. He also knew about the man's personality from their interactions and knew that although he was hard on his team, he cared for them like family. They had discussed his team over the years so it gave Ryan a bit of extra insight on the others as well.
His senior agent was Tony DiNozzo, a former cop with a physical education degree. At first glance, Tony didn't have a lot to offer, but he had proved he had excellent insight and street smarts as well as a way with people. He had guts and kept the atmosphere light when things got too tough, but he was efficient and knew the ins and outs of the job. He was Gibbs's right hand man and Ryan knew that Gibbs also saw him as a son or nephew.
Kate Todd, former Secret Service detail for the President was another story. She had many accolades in her files and a lot of knowledge from her time in the Secret Service. She was a devout Catholic and her main skill on the team was her ability to profile people.
Timothy McGee was the probie on the team. He was a genius, but also the youngest member of the team. He had a lot to learn, but Ryan could already see the potential. He graduated early from MIT and also graduated from John's Hopkins. Of any of the members of the team, he definitely had the most book smarts and Ryan knew his real talent was with his computers. He was interested in getting to know Tim as he was interested in computers as well.
"We are starting our descent into the DC area, please make sure your seats and tray tables are in the upright position. If you will be continuing on to another destination please see the attendant outside of the gate. If you do not possess a valid United States Passport, please continue on to our customs area before entering baggage claim."
Ryan tuned out the rest of the flight attendant's message as he packed up the files into his bag and made sure his laptop was secure. He straightened his seat and handed his trash to the attendant as she walked past.
After a somewhat bumpy landing the co-pilot came on the speaker to announce their arrival.
"Please bear with us as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal. If you would please stay in your seats until we arrive at the gate we should be ready to disembark in about 15 minutes."
Ryan laughed at the Captain Kangaroo comment, and waited patiently until the plane came to a stop before grabbing his bags and exiting the plane.
Clearing customs easily with his credentials, Ryan finally arrived at baggage claim. While he gathered his luggage, he had a lot since he was moving to a new country, he kept an eye out for the agent that was supposed to be taking him to NCIS.
When he had gathered his four bags, he finally spotted Ducky waiting for him. He smiled, apparently his boss knew about his interaction with the man.
"Hey Doctor Mallard, how are you?"
"Ryan my boy, are you who I am waiting for? I was told by my director to come and bring an MI6 agent to NCIS headquarters and that it was a surprise for Jethro. I have to say, I'd like to see his face. He does talk about you when we have our little chats."
"So nobody told you anything about me being here? Huh, well this should be an interesting day. It's still pretty early here and I tried to get some sleep on the flight so I should be ready for whatever comes today."
"Well then young man, let us get moving. Can I assist you with your bags?"
"Sure, why don't you take the one with wheels and I'll get the others."
Ryan decided that he liked Ducky and was definitely impressed with the man's car. They made their way to the Navy Yard where Ducky escorted Ryan up to the Director's office.
He was briefed on the case by director Morrow and then sent down to the bull pen to await the return of his new team.
Deciding to be a little cheeky with Gibbs, he pulled out his laptop and got to work, sitting at the man's desk. He checked in with MI6 and Hermione, telling her he'd be over as soon as he was done at work.
Soon enough he heard the elevator ding and heard Jethro talking to his agents.
"Kate, follow up on the alibi and run this stuff down to Abby. Tony put out a BOLO for the blue SUV and find more on the neighbor, I have a bad feeling about him. McGee, search the financial records and then go and help Abby look in the lieutenant's computer."
Gibbs came around the corner of his desk and paused, his agents almost running into him.
Still looking down and away from his friend, Ryan smirked to himself and stood up.
"Who are you and why are you at my desk? Did Fornell send you?" Gibbs demanded, not being able to get a good look at the man but knowing that Tobias usually sat at his desk when he was in the office, just to annoy him.
"Nope, Fornell didn't send me, wrong agency Jethro." Ryan answered turning to face his friend.
He was glad he'd turned his laptop on and set the webcam to record this moment, he doubted many people had ever seen the look currently on Leroy Jethro Gibbs's face. His team seemed frozen, not sure what was happening but trying to be prepared in the case that this unknown man was a threat.
Gibbs broke into a smile once his brain started working again, "Ryan! What are you doing here? Are you just visiting or are you working?"
"Meet your new liaison from MI6. Our directors have decided that it will be mutually beneficial for us to work together as a team. I'll be mostly working with your team and from this office, however I'll have to still go on missions and assignments for my own agency and gather intelligence for them as well." Ryan gave a brief explanation.
Gibbs turned to his frozen team.
"What are you all staring at? Get back to work! Tony, show agent Evans here how to put out a BOLO on the American system and then brief him on the case, I assume I'm expected in the director's office. Oh and everyone, this is Special Agent Ryan Evans, from England, he'll be helping us out apparently."
"This is totally awesome, are you like James Bond?" Tony said, about three seconds before he got a slap to the back of the head.
"Evans, Ryan Evans." Harry answered quickly with a smile, also receiving a slap to the back of the head.
Gibbs just smiled at his team and headed up the stairs.
"Well? You waiting for an invitation? Get back to work!"
Ryan spent the next few hours learning the systems and ended up going with McGee to interview witnesses. They met Tony at the crime scene later in the day to look for something they might have missed. Tim ended up spotting a laptop that was under the couch and they recovered it to take back to Abby's lab.
Jethro had talked about Abby before but Ryan was still surprised to see the goth that was blaring heavy metal music. She twirled around and gave hugs to McGee and Tony before latching on to Ryan. As she hugged him, he felt her freeze and whatever she had been babbling about suddenly cut off.
"You're not Gibbs." She said pulling away and looking at him closely.
"No, I'm special agent Ryan Evans, new liaison from MI6. Nice to meet you Abby, sorry to disappoint, we were just bringing in a bit more evidence on Lieutenant Marsing's case." He said with his most winning smile. He could tell that Abby would be a fun person and wanted her to like him.
"Well then, special agent Ryan Evans, welcome to NCIS, and America apparently. Where's my evidence?" He smiled and handed the laptop over, making sure to have her sign the chain of evidence log since Tony and Tim had both reminded him.
A few hours later and the case had been solved. The neighbor had in fact committed the gruesome murder in revenge for a financial deal gone wrong.
As everyone wrote up their reports, Gibbs sat down at his computer and looked at the search that was still running on the terrorist. McGee had figured out a new program that would scan his face through school photos and they had narrowed the search down to British medical schools but hadn't figured out how old the man was so the search was still taking a while. He felt Ryan come up behind him and lean over his desk.
"His name is Ari Haswari. He graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1994 and has been trained as a mole inside Hamas since he was young. He is Eli David's son and his half sister is his control agent. Mother was killed in a bombing a few years ago and it seems as though the CIA and FBI want to keep him safe as they think he'll give them information on Hamas. I don't agree and neither does my director at MI6."
Gibbs had turned around and given Ryan his full attention as he started talking and the other agents had migrated closer to the desk as well.
"Oh and Tim, good job on that search program, if the FBI wasn't blocking all of the facial recognition for the US and Mossad wasn't blocking you as well, you would have found Ari Haswari as soon as you tried that search algorithm. It could definitely come in handy later, I don't think we have anything like that at MI6." Ryan complimented knowing that McGee must have spent a lot of time and effort creating the program.
"Ok we've all had a long day and I'm sure Evans here has been up for at least 20 hours at this point, let's plan to read Ryan in on what we have on Ari tomorrow, show him around autopsy, have him talk to Ducky and Kate. Tonight, get some sleep." Gibbs said, dismissing his team after Ryan's explanation. One look at his friend and he could see the exhaustion he was hiding from everyone else.
"Ryan, you got a place to stay?" Gibbs turned to his younger friend.
"Yeah, staying with Hermione. She's in Silver Springs, oh and Ducky has my luggage in his Morgan."
"Let's go get your stuff and I'll drive you over." Gibbs said, moving toward the elevator.
They caught up on their way to Hermione's house and Gibbs seemed excited to have his friend joining his team. Ryan explained what else he knew about Ari as well as what would probably be his schedule as far as working for NCIS versus MI6.
As they pulled up to Hermione's house, Gibbs turned to Ryan.
"It's good to have you here Ryan. I always knew you'd be a probie one day, although you're not really a probie. You know my door is always open, now you might actually get a chance to take advantage of that. Now, go see your girl and I'll see you tomorrow."
Ryan just laughed, thanked him and pulled his bags out before making his way up to Hermione's front porch.
Knocking on the door, he smiled when he heard her call out for him to hang on a second. Then suddenly the door was opening and there she was, more beautiful than he remembered. Wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt, she had grown her hair since last time he saw her and now it hung in smooth curls.
"RYAN! YOU'RE HERE! I just finished getting your room ready, I'm so glad you're here! Was your flight ok? How was work? Was Gibbs happy to have you there? Are your new teammates nice?" She hurled questions at him like heat seeking missiles while throwing herself at him for a hug.
He just opened his arms to her and picked her up, twirling her around and laughing at his best friend's questions.
"My flight was fine, work was interesting but good, Gibbs was happy, teammates are nice… I think that answers everything…" He said, slowly setting her down and holding her close. He pulled back to look at her face and saw the familiar sparkle in her eyes that he loved so much.
He took a deep breath and stepped back, "We should grab my stuff and get it inside; your neighbors might think you're crazy if we just stand out here hugging."
She laughed and together they got all of his stuff and took it inside before closing and locking the door.
He watched her put up her security wards and he added his own as well. Even though it had been a long day, he still walked over and gathered her in his arms. She leaned into him, just seeking his presence.
"So I'm here."
"Yes, you are."
"I missed you." Harry answered honestly, thinking to himself that what he really wanted to say was that he wanted to kiss her.
"I missed you too, I don't know if I'll ever let you leave again." Hermione answered
"Haha, well I'm not going to be trying to leave any time soon." Ryan continued, still holding her in his arms.
"I bet you're exhausted." Hermione answered, leaning away from him to really look at his face. She could see the lines of exhaustion around his eyes and the bone deep weariness hidden behind his excitement at seeing her.
Harry pulled her even closer and rested his chin on her head, finally feeling the day's events catching up to him.
"You're right, as always, I'm exhausted. I was at MI6 this morning at 7 in London and it's almost 2am here, I've been up for… a really long time." The math was beyond him at this point.
"Oh Ryan, it's ok we can talk more tomorrow, your room is ready, you can just fall into bed. Don't worry about your stuff, just take what you need upstairs and we can get you settled in this weekend. What time do you need to be at work tomorrow?" Hermione said with a smile, leading him toward the stairs.
"7am, which is far too soon. How should I get there?" As he asked his phone started to buzz. It was a text from McGee offering to pick him up at 6:30 the next morning, apparently McGee also lived in Silver Springs.
"Nevermind, one of my new teammates is gonna give me a ride in." He told her while he answered the text.
"Get to sleep Ryan, tomorrow will come far too soon."
They shared another hug and Ryan leaned down and left a lingering kiss on her forehead before turning back into his room thinking about how lucky he was. The last thought he had as his head hit the pillow was that he hoped Ari didn't make his life difficult tomorrow because he really wanted to come home to Hermione by dinner time.
