Fics like Agent Anthony Afloat

I've always wondered what purpose was served sending Tony away as Agent Afloat if it wasn't punishment. Vance said he split up the team to find the mole. Seems a pretty clumsy way to go about it but it sort of makes sense for the other team members. Leaves a big black hole in terms of the purpose of Tony's deployment. Gibbs was assigned to work with the suspects even if he didn’t know (and how dumb was that not to tell him). McGee was sent down to cyber-crimes to crack code and Ziva sent to chase a lead when she returned to Israel. Tony was the only one who had no role in tracking the mole and no, hacking into the Pentagon computer doesn’t count since there's no way Vance intended to use him like that. It was just a spur-of-the-moment plan McGee come up with. Furthermore, when Langer was wrongly identified as the mole, Vance immediately agreed to McGee and Ziva returning to resume their positions on the MCRT even though Ziva wasn't even an NCIS agent. Yet he stubbornly refused to recall Tony and tried to have his position filled by another agent. Thus the comment that his deployment not being punitive then begs the very real question...what heck was it then? A series of AU vignettes

Fics like Agent Anthony Afloat

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