Disclaimer: "NCIS" and its characters don't belong to me they belong to CBS and are being used without permission. Please don't sue because I have no money.

Author's Note: They started as four and they left as four. What I think the last episode should be like.

The Core Four

It started when he had tackled Gibbs trying to catch the bad guy, but later found out that he was an NCIS Agent. The first case they had was when Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr was accused of killing someone. He remembered spending a long time on the bridge trying to find blood splatter and finally found out that he wasn't the killer. That was the same time that he had met Faith Coleman when he teased her about missing a pencil that wasn't sharpened. It was only Gibbs, him, Ducky and even Abby. They were the four that was on the team right then.

It changed when Vivian decided to join their team. Gibbs had told him that they had needed another person on the team and Tom Morrow wasn't giving up. That sure changed when Vivian about killed Gibbs. She was thrown out and never thought, or mentioned again. There were times when he wondered where she had gone, but was afraid at that time to ask. Time went by and he had forgotten about her.

Then there was Kate who was Secret Service who died by the hand of Ari and who was Ziva David's half-brother. It was nice to have her on their team and she was a good friend. A good friend that stayed with him when he came down with the plague. Would it have led to more if she wouldn't have died? He didn't know.

During her time on the team they picked up Tim McGee who was our computer guy. He was a little naïve when he joined the team, but with the teasing that I gave him he grew a backbone.

After Kate died we took on Mossed Officer Ziva David. At that time I didn't know that Ari was her half-brother, or that her father was the Director of Mossed. I really didn't understand why we would have a Mossed Officer on the team, but I didn't say anything.

When Ziva left we took on NSA Agent Ellie Bishop who had a husband named Jake. We met him once when he came into the building. He seemed like a nice guy.

A few years had passed and Jimmy Palmer got another job at another place. McGee quit to be with his parents and said that he wouldn't be back. Ellie left to start a family with her husband and quit too.

It was just the four of them and Vance left them that way for a while. Abby and Ducky were up in the bullpen talking about what happened yesterday.

The phone rang on Gibbs desk and he saw him pick it up. "Grab your gear we have a dead marine." Tony clipped his gun on his belt, grabbed his badge and his backpack and walked behind Gibbs. Abby and Ducky made their way with them. Ducky to autopsy to get his things and get the van and Abby to her lab to wait for evidence.

The End