Superb going, Abby!

Most excellent!

Good stuff!

I would point out that standard Marine training includes some knowledge of celestial navigation since they occasionally do night maneuvers. Finding the North Star is not that difficult and orientates you well. since they are off the East Coast swim West to run into Land.

Ack! Oh no!

Well done!

Oops! Good fight scene.

Way to go, Abby!

Oh no! Jeffries is a mole!

Awesome start!

Another really great story. Thank you. xo

:( that was a great story. Didn't cry till the end but lost it then :)

One thing I don't get on this story is, didn't Burgess help beat Tony at the beginning? So, regardless of whether or not the other charges stuck, shouldn't kidnapping/unlawful detention and assault on a federal officer have been enough to hold him? Even as a last ditch effort to just keep him pinned down while they looked for clean evidence of everything else?

Thanks for leaving a great story up so the newbies can have something good to read.

You hit it out of the ballpark again with this story: Vibbs, Tony, McGee, Ziva, Abby, Ducky, Palmer, Fornell and Jenny captured so perfectly that I felt like I was watching an episode of the show unfold... and villainous OCs so vividly drawn that I wanted to jump through the screen and throttle them myself!

The secondary story of Tony thinking about leaving NCIS was so believable; he's my favorite character due to the glimpses we've been given of the depth of the man behind the mask, and I can easily picture him becoming despondent in the face of the situation you created here. I loved the resolution, with Gibbs creating the list of all the people whose lives he'd impacted in a positive way... and Gibbs including himself on that list. What a gratifying and heartwarming finish!

Thanks for another wonderful read!