Fics like Probies and Conceptual Conservatism

When Leroy Jethro Gibbs informed the NCIS director he had offered former Secret Service Agent, Caitlin Todd a place on his team after her resignation from the Presidential protection team following a close call with an assassin and her professional failures had come to light, Tom Morrow had some serious concerns. Having foreseen the likelihood that the former Secret Service Agent would struggle to accept her position as a rookie investigator on the agency's premier MCRT Tom worried she would try ignoring the chain of command. This was why he made it clear to the senior supervisory agent and team leader that he needed to be particularly duteous, rigorously enforcing the chain of command. to the new probationary agent, insisting there was no room for complacency. Tom already threatened to fire her, should his fears prove correct and now a month into her joining NCIS, his beta noire was coming true. What the director had failed to predict though, was that Gibbs would give her carte blanche to do so.