The best and the worst of times Tdelicot Summary: The story takes during the 18th season with the final episode of Doctor Jacqueline Sloane...THE TRUE BELIEVER Notes:

Chapter One

The marines and Colonel Stan Burley were there when Jack was shot in the back three times by the Afghanistan rebels. Special Agent Gibbs and his friend hollowed out for him to let him know what was going on. Sloane and Gibbs were running away from the firing in the square of the small village.

They had been almost a week having been sent by Vance with evidence found with Sloane's name. As it had turned out a number of small refugee children had been taken by a shelter five miles away.

There had been so much going on with the Pandemic at NCIS. If it wasn't for Leroy Jethro Gibbs to help with talking to Doctor Jimmy Palmer about having to lose his wife Breena from the virus.

Though things had calmed down a little. Accept for the fact that Jacqueline Sloane had been acting strange telling Gibbs that she was considering leaving NCIS. What Gibbs didn't know was the fact that she had already submitted her papers to Director Vance that she was heading to Costa Rica with her daughter Faith and her husband Jack before starting to work at the New York Naval medical center for the Navy.

While this was happening. Director Leon Vance had called Special Agent Gibbs to his office to be introduced to two new members of NCIS and the Naval Yards.

He had just arrived with his usual coffee in his hand. When McGee alone in the bullpen when he had noticed that Gibbs arrived. He was wondering just where were Bishop and Torres.

"Where are Bishop and Torres?" he asked in his usual sour tone for the past two weeks.

"I don't have a clue boss. Though I can ping Torres phone as with Bishops?" With McGee thinking too much like Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Bringing up the special software program onto the screen. McGee was able to see that they both were together at his apartment it had shown. "Boss come over here and see this?" he said with a tone that he was not liking at all.

He walked slowly over. "They're together? Tim check each of their calendars?" Gibbs needed to know just what was going on.

McGee had gotten up from his seat to head on over to his computer station using the backup password in order to get into his calendar. Today's date...Nicholas Torres's 41st birthday...Off today with permission from Vance.

"And what about Bishop?" Gibbs didn't like this at all with the entire episode with the both of them. He was able to see that Nick would put in for his birthday.

"Okay let's see Boss." He was able to do the same by seeing on her calendar that she had a personal day one often left to take. As well authorized by Vance.

"Now the mystery has been solved even though it was going to leave us short today?" he said to his Senior Field Agent.

"Not necessary Boss with Sloane to leave in four days. Can always have her work on the three cases we have today? Or you can always ask Lt. James Brown and Agent Victoria Tyler?"

"True. But in the meantime Tim, I have to speak with Director Vance? Did you happened to see anybody head into the direction of his office?" He was curious for the most part.

"Yeah, I did boss with a male older and a woman having in be in her early fifties with dark black hair. Otherwise, I don't know anything else at the moment?" he had gone back to his seat to start working on one of the files.

Director Vance had been waiting for Gibbs to arrive with his visitors joining NCIS and with Doctor Anthony Sterling to be official to be taking the place from Doctor Jacqueline Sloane.

While the other a woman from the Navy Evergreen safe house, D.O.D., and other communications organization.

There was a knock on his door since his secretary Melissa hasn't arrived as yet since she wasn't due until Ten o'clock a.m.

Director Vance told whoever was knocking to please come it. As it had turned out to be Special Agent Gibbs...

Right away Gibbs had noticed both of the visitors including the woman wearing a Naval uniform.

"Special Agent Gibbs I am still waiting for Doctor Jacqueline Sloane to arrive. She had told me she was running late after helping out her daughter for the Costa Rica vacation. But for now, I like for you to meet Doctor Anthony Sterling a therapist to take the place of Sloane for when she finally leaves. Otherwise, the woman is Lt. Loreile Ann Baskins. She is going to be on your team working on a number of cases involving Paraguay and other countries Cartel regimes. She is mainly a communications specialist with a number of sources. And right now she has given us a case that will involve yourself, Lt. Baskins, Sloane, and Colonel Stan Burley to work with you with trying to find a number of children taken from a shelter for which Sloane was involved years ago before getting captured."

"Special Agent Gibbs I have a file along with two satellite photos that indicate in Afghanistan that the rebels are involved with taking them to a village hiding them until they are ready to be sold. I must tell you that this mission is extremely dangerous. So you've been forewarned?" She had said with a smile that Gibbs loved along with her green eyes.

"I understand Lt. Baskins. When do we leave?" he asked with the importance of the question.