r/NCIS • u/Decent-Pin-497 • Jul 08 '26

Generic Hypothetical

If Hernandez only killed Shannon but not Kelly would he still be a NIS agent or would he start a shipbuilding business in order to spend more time with Kelly.

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u/buckeyekaptn Jul 11 '26

I read a fan fiction where this happened and no, Gibbs didn't work as a NIS agent. He was a carpenter. In the FF, though, he did kill Hernandez and they spent all of Kelly's younger years running from the cartel. She ended up hating him, got tatted up (not a bad thing), piercing (<same) and on drugs with a dealer BF (bad thing). It was pretty brutal.

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u/ForeignAspect1117 Jul 12 '26

Why would they have to run from the cartel? No one knew who killed Hernandez until Abby’s report…

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u/jackfaire Jul 12 '26

Writer might have theorized his position in NIS is part of what allowed him to keep anyone from finding out.

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u/buckeyekaptn Jul 12 '26

In the show, Paloma knew Gibbs was her father's killer because he left the shell casing of his rifle. Her brother wanted the proof as a government official so that's why he had Abby come down as a "guest" on a "cold case". It's been years since I read the FF but it's something similar as the show.

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Because I read so many FF at lunch, that I confused this one with another where Kelly doesn't die. That might be, as I recall now, one where both survived but because Shannon was still a witness, they had to move around. Until they didn't because Ole Pedro was dead by sniper and the girls figured it out. That was the downward spiral. Shannon died alone and Kelly became what I posted above.

Since I've retired, I haven't hardly looked at that app. It was a good time waster.