plot-bunny: NCIS / Sentinel

[marbleglove]

The Sentinel is a fun show with the basic premise that some people (Sentinels) have hyperactive senses (sight, hearing, etc, including psychic visions) that let them do all sorts of impressive things but also come with weaknesses that require someone else (a Guide) to help them control.

Canonically, the existence of Sentinels and Guides are not widely known although there are some shadowy government types who have a clue. However, there's a significant subset of the fandom that writes AU stories in which the phenomenon is well known and well documented. I like this variation.

And given that I'm still neck deep in my obsession with NCIS, of course I have an idea for a crossover.

I have this idea that Gibbs is a Sentinel: after all he always seems to know what people are saying, even when they're across the room, knows when people are lying to him, and gets "gut feelings" which are generally dead accurate. So I have this idea that Gibbs is a Sentinel and he knows it. He has always known it and was perfectly fine with it. In fact, Shannon, his first wife, was his Guide.

Then she dies and he suppresses most of his abilities. He attempts to replace her every so often looking for a red-headed woman to marry and it generally goes poorly for all concerned. (That's canon.) But he doesn't tell anyone about his first marriage (again: canon) or being a suppressed Sentinel.

Then Tony DiNozzo arrives.

Tony may or may not know he's a Guide, but it's not a flashy thing, and in canon mostly means he likes people and gets along well with most people. But he is a Guide and he while he doesn't know that Gibbs is a Sentinel, Gibbs certainly knows that Tony is a Guide.

When Gibbs hired Tony, he didn't think it would matter. As time passes however, Gibbs discovers that his senses are beginning to present themselves again. Because he won't actively seek Tony's assistance with them, Gibbs can't use them to their fullest extent, but they're still better than before. Plus, Tony and Gibbs are each able to do things like successfully order and/or beg each other not to die. (Both Sentinel and NCIS canon) So Gibbs is trying to deal with his senses and Tony's presence and having a Guide again without telling Tony that he's been co-opted as Gibbs' Guide in the first place.

It would be oodles of fun and I really want to read this story. If someone knows something similar or writes it up, please let me know.

Comments

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

it sounds really promising and well
it wouldn't even have to be slash... thought likely where
one of theses would go!

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Both shows have all this intense emotion and connection and most writers assume it's sexual because what else could it be?

But I like the definition of three types of love: eros (sexual), philos (friendship), and agape (religious). (And wow is that over-simplified)

Looking at the canon of both shows I see the love between the main characters as philos or possibly agape but decidedly not eros. All the characters have these short-lived sexual love affairs with women that don't really go anywhere, possibly because all of their emotional needs are already being met with their partner.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

I see that, and its kind of what I see in Highlander too, not matter how pan sexual methos might be I see him and Duncan as only friends who love eachother in a non sexual way.

Though I can see them both with Hugh or Amanda with no problem, with each other despite what most of the fandom thinks doesn't work for me.

and the same happens in NCIS especially with regards to Gibbs because he is almost a father figure sometimes it seems, especially to Abby and Tony (at least that is the vide I get) and for Tony he is at the very least mentor and unlike with some other shows, I just can't see that developing in a sexual way....

To me Tony, Abby and Gibbs are almost as a father and his two kids, or at least the dad, his girl and the neighbours kid who is pratically family with the wacky uncle/grandfather being Ducky.

Mcgee does fit there but those three are for me the core... Mcgee is the daughters best friend who gets adopted in and who the older brother likes to tease but will protect no matter what.

Do you see it? Or is it just me?

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree. I get a definite family type vibe from them. There's love, but it's not sexual. And as much as Tony likes sexual humor, I think it would weird him out to actually be in a sexual relationship with any of them. Even Abby would probably avoid anything truly sexual even if, as far as I can tell, she finds sex a fun activity without particular meaning.

On the other hand, I think the fandom version of the characters can be 'ship'd. I've read some great Gibbs/Tony stories that work for me because the stories are well-written and the characters well-rounded even if they don't match my idea of the canonical characters. They're still fun characters.

I have more issues with Methos/Duncan stories. The authors will use a different interpretation on the characters than I see, which is fine and good, but they tend to take the characters in a direction that I don't care for. (There is no way Methos would have survived if he were secretly weepy and vulnerable and all that crap. I can see Duncan with either Hugh or Amanda, but I can't see Methos with any immortal other than one of his brothers.)

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Well good written fic can always be enjoyable and some people could make even barney slash seem good, so I am not oposed to the occasional Ncis slash but its not how I see it.

and I agree, how Methos is portrayed is what ruined most of the slash in HL for me. and while i can't see Methos ever being commited to nay immortal, especially now that his brothers are gone I can see him having a few friends with benefits in the immortal circle, especially from the older ages where people didn't take sex so seriously, and many of them likely don't know he is Methos, just know him by the name he had at the time they first met.

but a lovey dovey relationship? I think he would only risk it with mortals and if he was getting seirous with an immortal he would disappear into a monastery for a few hundred years until he got over it.

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

The idea of Methos in a "lovey-dovey" relationship makes me laugh. I can imagine him deeply in love, but I can't imagine him being sentimental.

But I think he could get in over his head in an emotional relationship with another immortal. But I don't think he'd have a casual sexual one, just because he would never trust them enough to be completely disarmed.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

well I magine him and Alexa were sentimental, but not the way he would be everytime he is in love... I think it would depend on who he was when has in love as he is so much of a method actor that he takes over each personality.

I can see him having a casual relationship with Fitz, Rebecca or even with Ramirez who he is likely the only one to remember the real name.... sort of like friends with some benefits... but not totally trusted that no never...

not even with Byron and I am sure that he and Doc were at one time an item before Methos decided that he needed out.

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

You're right about Methos being a method actor, so his character might well be lovey-dovey, but I don't think he would be to the extent that when he changed characters the lovey-dovey aspect would not be carried through to his next persona even though the love itself is. Does that make sense?

And I had forgotten about Byron, but I agree that he and Doc had almost certainly been getting it on.

I just still have trouble seeing Methos casually go unarmed with any immortal, especially one of the older ones, even if they are friends. Although maybe I just need to adjust my image of Methos. Hmm...

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Oh I can see it, I also don't think it would carry, rather that every new persona is always somewhat opposite of the last one so the degree of tenderness and fluff he is capable varies, but deep down he is not for that.... being something to new for him.

they were totally getting it on... and as for doing it unarmed with other immies, that is why there are so many great holy ground homes in the immortal comunities...

old temples and abbeys and monasteries, andd any other place which is still holy.

but if he has some control of the situation it wouldn't necessarily be on HG as long as he could be reasonably confident that he could subdue the other if anything happened....

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

And all of those monks and priests who have taken vows of chastity grinding their teeth at the fact that immortals are constantly stopping by the sole purpose of having a tryst on holy ground. Hee. That just makes me laugh.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Makes us wonder who actually started those sex temples in ancient greece where one could go to worship love... old immortales must have hated when vows of chasity became the norm in monasteries and convents...

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

And then there's Methos' history as a temple prostitute...

(Duncan doesn't know. Joe does.)

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

of course... he has likely tried every religion on the world that offers holy ground at one point or another and repeated those he liked more when he could!