Four months later, after Secretary of the Navy, Clayton Jarvis, was killed, Gibbs was released from detention, and he and Tony were ordered to return to NCIS, supposedly to find Jarvis' killer.

Once back at the NCIS, they were shocked to discover that they had lost 2 team members. Ziva had gone back to Israel and now could not be found. Timothy was working for another NCIS team in another state and would not be back at HQ. Tony booked himself a flight to Tel Aviv. Gibbs went on a rampage in Vance's office.

"You bring McGee back here now. He belongs to me. He is on MY team. I chose him and I want him back now!"

Vance sat at his desk as Gibbs rampaged around his office. He never understood just how much of an anger management problem Gibbs really had. No wonder McGee wanted out.

"No can do, Gibbs." he said, shaking his head. "Timothy requested a transfer before this whole business with the DOD and Richard Parsons blew up. And because you were arrested, your team resigned, and thus McGee was free to move to a new office. He is now a senior field agent on a new MCRT and I am not going to bring him back. He is very happy where he is, and he is very happy with his new team leader as well."

Gibbs leaned over the desk and glared at Vance. Vance did not react. He knew that what Gibbs was doing was all empty bluster.

"You will bring him back." Gibbs growled.

"No. I will not. McGee requested this transfer. He chose to leave your team. He said that he felt that you had not trained him sufficiently in all areas. Instead you-" and again Vance used his fingers to emphasise, " 'type cast' McGee as the computer nerd and he spent most of his time on the computer. NCIS Federal Agents should be acquiring many skills and be able to do many things. The most basic skills being - field work, undercover work, interrogation, basic forensic tests and all the paperwork. He is now receiving all the training that you did not give him."

"So tell me where he is. I want to go check on him and make sure his new leader is treating him right."

"No, Gibbs. You will not. Agent McGee has authorised me to advise you that if you show up at his new place of employment without a phone call and without being given approval BY TIMOTHY personally, to visit him, he will file a formal complaint against you for stalking and harrassment."

"Ducky will know where he is, or maybe Abby. I will find out. Noone takes one of my kids away from me without my permission." Gibbs was furious that the meek mild-mannered little nerd had had the gall to treat him like this.

Gibbs stomped out of Vance's office and went back downstairs.

"So, did you find out where the probie is?" Tony asked.

"No. He requested a transfer and now works on an MCRT somewhere else. Vance refuses to tell me where he is, But I will find out. I'm going down to see Abby and Ducky and I hope they know where he is."

"I'm coming with you, boss. I need my McGeek muse to keep me in a good mood. He is my release valve and him not being here, makes me nervous."

Down in Abby's Lab, the music was blaring away and Abby was dancing around the lab when Gibbs and Tony showed up.

"Gibbs, Gibbs, Timmy has gone. My Timmy left me and didn't tell me." she yelled.

Tony turned the music off and Gibbs spoke.

"Abby. Have you been in contact with McGee at all, these last few months?"

"Nope." she replied. "I am so not happy with him. I went by his apartment last week and there is a new person living there now. They said they moved in last month. This is not nice of Timmy to have moved away without telling us."

Abby continued without stopping to breathe.

"When did he leave?

"Why did he leave?

"Where did he go?

"I havent heard from him at all.

"No email, no letters, no phone calls, no tweets, no texts, no nothing.

"And he is not replying to any of my texts and tweets and emails. He is totally ignoring us.

"He is a bad McGee for not telling us where he was going. We are his friends. It is so not nice of him to treat us like this."

Gibbs interrupted. "Vance says he is still an NCIS agent, but refuses to tell me which office he is based at. Can you trace which office he might be at?"

Abby logged onto the NCIS intranet and did a search for Timothy's name. But nothing came up. Abby was most disappointed.

"Come on Tony, Lets go try Ducky." Said Gibbs, as they left the lab.

"Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs!" Abby called them back. "What about Sarah, Tim's sister. Wouldn't she know where Timmy is?"

"Good idea, Abs, thanks." Gibbs kissed her on the cheek, as he and Tony left the lab again for the elevator. Down at Autopsy, Ducky was just as oblivious of Timothy's whereabouts as Abby was.

"I haven't heard from Timothy for several months, Jethro." he calmly told Gibbs.

"What about the Autopsy Gremlin?" asked Tony. "I know he's pretty good friend with McGeek. Has he heard from the probie?"

"Dr Palmer is not here to answer that question, Agent DiNozzo. I will confer with him when he returns." Ducky's annoyance at being pressed was beginning to show.

Gibbs and Tony returned to the bullpen. Director Vance was standing on the upper level, clearly waiting for Gibbs to return. Gibbs glared at the director and then told Tony to start working on a cold case. He was not at all happy that two of his agents had disappeared without his knowledge or permission.

Vance returned to his office and picked up the phone. He made a long distance call to the NCIS Office in Newport, Rhode Island and asked the Special Agent in charge of that office, how Burley and McGee were settling in.

"Oh boy. Vance. You were right. I have just finished watching several hits on this office looking for the name of Timothy McGee. The ISPs all go back to the Navy yard, so someone at your office was just doing a search for young McGee. It was a good suggestion of his to put him in the system under a false name.

"Yes it was. Anyway, I called to see how they are doing? I just had Agent Gibbs breathing down my neck claiming that Tim was his kid and that he needed to check up on his kid just to make sure the new leader was treating him right..." Vance chuckled.

"Oh, They are doing just great. The whole team has already become a fine tuned machine and they are working very well together. You would think McGee and Burley had been together for years instead of just a few months.

"Agent McGee is unbelievable on the computers. He and Agent Burley are both teaching the two probies how to be federal agents. And even when they do cold cases, Tim has made more headway in the last few months, than any of our previous teams have in the last few years. Agent McGee has this uncanny ability to make connections between two supposedly unrelated items of information, and those items of information somehow create a third new item which he and the team then follow up - usually resulting in an arrest and a confession. They have already solved 10 cold cases in the three months that the team have been here, more than anyone else ever did in the last year. I think all this office needed were new and fresh eyes."

Vance finished out the call and hung up, very pleased that things had turned out so well for Agent McGee.

Even his sister Sarah could not be harangued by Gibbs. Vance was well aware that Gibbs would be beating down on Sarah's door later today. Well he would be most upset to learn that Sarah had left both her old job in Falls Church and her apartment and had moved to Boston for a new job. No forwarding address had been given to the post office.

Vance turned his attention to finding new agents for Gibbs's team.

The first 2 folders on his desk had the names Daniel Keating and Ned Dorneget neatly printed on them...

FIN

A/N

I never planned to write more than this when I decided to write a sequel. I just wanted to show that yes Timothy did leave the Boss from Hell, and I also wanted to be able to include Tim's official reasons for leaving, as well as the unofficial ones.

If you want more, I might write another sequel, but I need ideas and suggestions first - preferably cold cases involving or being set in Rhode Island. Please leave a comment or send me a PM if you have any ideas. Thanks.