A/N: Wow, two updates in two days? I'm on a roll. Thanks for all your kind review, you guys rock!
Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS. My birthday isn't for another 6 months.
Leon Vance shook his head and set his phone down. If Mossad, an agency of assassins, couldn't take down DiNozzo, who could? It was time for a drastic change of plans.
The director sat down and sighed. All he'd ever wanted was a way to get at the legend. An opportunity to take down Leroy Jethro Gibbs. And he had tried everything- everything!
Getting rid of his team in hope of weakening him had completely backfired.
All the subtle threats had done nothing.
Getting on his good side turned out to be a total waste of time.
Finally he had approached a woman with ambition: Orli Elbaz. She wanted the position of Director of Mossad, but two things stood in her way. Eli, and Bodnar.
Together, they had planted seeds of doubt in Ilan Bodnar. They convinced him that Eli was planning to choose a new deputy director, and he would be sidelined. The best way to regain Eli David's attention, the pair told him, was to save his life. Bodnar had to come up with the details and methods alone. He wasn't to contact them again.
Needless to say, that proved to be a tragic mistake.
Not only was Eli killed, Jackie was caught in the crossfire, leaving him a widower and his children motherless. All because Leon hadn't bothered to find out when Bodnar planned on pulling off the plan.
It didn't take Leon and Orli long to figure out that Bodnar had another target: Ziva. He was focusing on the one person who would follow him to the ends of the earth to avenge the death of a man who hadn't been anything like a father to her in years. His daughter.
It seemed like their problems were solved when Bodnar was killed. At that point, a rather murderous Vance and an extremely reluctant Orli hatched a new plan.
Vance told a little white lie about Eli having given him a new copy of his will at the Shabbat dinner to convince Orli to help him. The 'new' will stated that Ziva was to be returned to Mossad or killed. Vance suggested that she should have DiNozzo find Ziva, and then take him out.
Mossad does the dirty work, and I get to find Gibbs a senior field agent who will kill him on my say-so, Vance had thought. Perfect.
Except, once again, he had gravely underestimated Gibbs and his team.
He needed a new plan.
"Okay, what just happened?" Abby was completely freaking out.
"I have no idea." McGee responded, distracted. "So do you think the rule 12 thing will apply all around?"
"I don't- wait, Timmy, did you forget to mention something to me?"
"Yeah. Delilah broke up with me." Tim sat down and ran a hand through his hair. "And we were doing so well, too."
"What happened?" Abby asked as she sat down beside him and looked him in the eyes.
"I… don't want to talk about it. I really don't." Tim closed his eyes and sighed.
"Oh Tim." Abby put her head on his shoulder and he wrapped an arm around her. "I'm so sorry."
I actually love Delilah on the show, she just didn't fit with my story. Also, I hope you liked the insight into Vance's frame of mind.
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-Tiger