[NCIS: Drabble] "Home Care" [G]
Title: Home Care
Prompt: writerverse challenge #02 September table of doom
Line Used: “The paperwork was endless.” (The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, page 42)
Word Count: 235
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: NCIS (tag to the end of 2x22 “SWAK”)
Summary: There was a lot of paperwork involved in signing someone out of the hospital.
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Home Care
Twenty pages in, Gibbs sighed loudly and put on his reading glasses. He was tempted to get Ducky to read through all of this gobbledygook for him- or, better yet, get the hospital to release Tony without all of this legal crap.
But he was stubborn enough to want to do it himself.
Tony was well enough, now, plague bugs dead and breathing on his own, not to need the constant monitoring of the hospital, but nowhere near enough to be sent back to his apartment alone. And when the hospital had finally gotten around to looking in Tony’s records for his next-of-kin, they’d found that the name belonged to an old partner from two police departments ago, who’d been killed in the line of duty before Tony had even heard of NCIS.
So, Gibbs was filling out paperwork, signing his name to page after page of medical and legal mumbo-jumbo he only half understood. But it was well worth the effort, to be able to sweep into Tony’s room, to drop a clipboard and a change of clothes on Tony’s bed, to snap “Sign that, DiNozzo, and get dressed,” just to hear the surprised happiness in Tony’s voice when he said, “You taking me home, boss?”
“If you get a move on,” said Gibbs, and he almost cracked a smile at how fast Tony scrawled his name at the bottom of the release form.
THE END
Current Mood:
exhausted
Prompt: writerverse challenge #02 September table of doom
Line Used: “The paperwork was endless.” (The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, page 42)
Word Count: 235
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: NCIS (tag to the end of 2x22 “SWAK”)
Summary: There was a lot of paperwork involved in signing someone out of the hospital.
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Home Care
Twenty pages in, Gibbs sighed loudly and put on his reading glasses. He was tempted to get Ducky to read through all of this gobbledygook for him- or, better yet, get the hospital to release Tony without all of this legal crap.
But he was stubborn enough to want to do it himself.
Tony was well enough, now, plague bugs dead and breathing on his own, not to need the constant monitoring of the hospital, but nowhere near enough to be sent back to his apartment alone. And when the hospital had finally gotten around to looking in Tony’s records for his next-of-kin, they’d found that the name belonged to an old partner from two police departments ago, who’d been killed in the line of duty before Tony had even heard of NCIS.
So, Gibbs was filling out paperwork, signing his name to page after page of medical and legal mumbo-jumbo he only half understood. But it was well worth the effort, to be able to sweep into Tony’s room, to drop a clipboard and a change of clothes on Tony’s bed, to snap “Sign that, DiNozzo, and get dressed,” just to hear the surprised happiness in Tony’s voice when he said, “You taking me home, boss?”
“If you get a move on,” said Gibbs, and he almost cracked a smile at how fast Tony scrawled his name at the bottom of the release form.
THE END
Current Mood:
exhausted