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Dianalee Rode asked, "What if Jethro was Kavon's boss"?  They are from different agencies, but if the Talent team from the FBI was called in to help the MCRT, Kavon would have to work for Gibbs during the joint investigation. NCIS is on the tail of The Calling, but this time the terrorists have used magic, and that has brought the Talent team into play.

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Darren leaned against an empty desk and watched as Kavon and Gibbs faced off against each other. Tony moved to stand next to him. “Five dollars on Gibbs,” he whispered.

“If our Director hadn’t given NCIS lead, Kavon would wipe the floor with him,” Darren said. And if Gibbs played fast and loose with anymore rules, Kavon would arrest the damn lead agent and let the two directors sort it out after.

“Our case, our lead,” Gibbs snapped.

“You can’t counter the high level Talent these people have used to reinforce their cybersecurity walls. We can. Let us do our jobs.”

“So use your magic to get us into the damn chat room and then get out of our case,” Gibbs snapped. He whirled around and stomped out of the conference room. At least this confrontation had been slightly more private. Agents Bishop and DiNozzo had front row seats, but the rest of the bull pen hadn’t. The second the door drifted closed behind Gibbs’ furious exit, DiNozzo’s wolf guide made his appearance. When Darren had first seen the guide, he’d been horribly wounded and emaciated, but now his coat was thick and full and he had the powerful stance of a wolf in his prime.

“Is he always this annoying?” Kavon asked.

“Yep,” DiNozzo easily answered. Because he was a powerful shaman with relatively little training, Darren felt the roiling emotions just under the affable mask. “Any time kids are involved, he’s going to react like… well, you saw.” He ended with a shrug.

“Putting Jake Malloy in a position to mishandle evidence is not acceptable,” Kavon said, and then he followed Gibbs out of the room, slower but no less angry.

“That was…” Bishop blew out a breath. “Tense.”

Darren shrugged. “He doesn’t like people working around official channels and getting Korkmaz’s laptop by doing an end run around interagency procedures is going to lead to an official complaint or two.” Darren liked the NCIS team. He trusted they were good people. However, they played fast with the rules, and that was one flaw Kavon would not forgive. 

“Jake understands the importance. If someone is radicalizing kids, we have to stop them.” Bishop still had an earnest desperation to her that Darren didn’t normally see in law enforcement, much less experienced agents who had worked at multiple federal agencies. 

“I get that, but a problem of this size requires more cooperation, not less. And I’m not sure the NSA is going to be in the mood to cooperate now. And the FBI has far greater cyber resources, so why is the Talent team the only one who’s gotten a call asking for a consult?” Darren asked. As far as he was concerned, NCIS with their little brother mentality was trying too hard to prove they could do everything as well as the bigger agencies. As long as Kavon was in the building, Gibbs had better feign inter-agency cooperation.

“We can handle this,” DiNozzo said, but his wolf whined low in his throat, like an animal trying to invite another to make friends. Whether Gibbs wanted it or not, whether DiNozzo would admit it or not, it looked like they needed to work together, and that meant Darren had to find Kavon before the man started filing formal complaints by the truckload. 

Kavon and Gibbs in the same space. Lord save them all.