Guilt - Bury Your Dead, part 2 (written after episode aired)
Title: Guilt
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing/Characters: Tony, Gibbs, appearances by most others
Summary: Gibbs feels guilty about how he's treated Tony. Gibbs thoughts. Chapter 1 is all of S4 and future chapters will be each episode of S5, basically I'll do a chapter for the episodes I have inspiration for (which, seeing how the season has been going, isn't too many. Plus my NCIS muse seems to be on Hiatus. Oh, that was a bad pun...)It's kind of hard to explain. Not Slash.
Rating: PG-13
Big thanks to my beta, VanishingP2000 over on fanfiction.net!
Part 2
When Ducky came into the bullpen all excited, I just knew that DiNozzo was alive. Or, at least that he wasn’t the body in the morgue. I never actually believed that he was dead; this was just actual evidence for my theory, really. But there was no way I was going to tell Abby that he wasn’t dead when I didn’t know for sure. I wasn’t going to take the chance that he actually was dead and encourage her denial. Because if I had told her that he wasn’t dead she would have never believed it no matter what the evidence said, because if my gut said Tony wasn’t dead then there was no way he was dead in her mind. I wasn’t going to let her suffer with the denial if it turned out to be him. I doubted that I would have ever truly believed that he was dead no matter what evidence told me, but I wasn’t going to drag her down that pit with me.
When Jen’s first thought had been that it might lead us to the frog, it took all my effort not to kill her right there. Somehow I managed to keep my voice relatively calm as I added that it could lead us to Tony. Her main concern should have been finding the missing, possibly injured and/or in mortal peril NCIS Special Agent, not continuing her ridiculous vendetta, that, incidentally, was the reason that Tony was missing.
Seeing Tony standing there in the elevator of NCIS, apparently unharmed and most definitely alive, was quite possibly the most wonderful thing that I have ever seen. We finally knew that he was alive and safe for sure. I was more than willing to put a few rounds through Trent Kort’s head for attacking DiNozzo at that point. And I think that the CIA had left him just enough brain cells to come to that conclusion as well. Ziva’s gun pointed at him along with his familiarity with Mossad couldn’t have hurt, either.
Tony just shut Jen down when she asked about his conversation with Jeanne. Words cannot express how proud I was that he had learned the fine art of subtly telling his superiors to shove it. I’ve taught him well.
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing/Characters: Tony, Gibbs, appearances by most others
Summary: Gibbs feels guilty about how he's treated Tony. Gibbs thoughts. Chapter 1 is all of S4 and future chapters will be each episode of S5, basically I'll do a chapter for the episodes I have inspiration for (which, seeing how the season has been going, isn't too many. Plus my NCIS muse seems to be on Hiatus. Oh, that was a bad pun...)It's kind of hard to explain. Not Slash.
Rating: PG-13
Big thanks to my beta, VanishingP2000 over on fanfiction.net!
Part 2
When Ducky came into the bullpen all excited, I just knew that DiNozzo was alive. Or, at least that he wasn’t the body in the morgue. I never actually believed that he was dead; this was just actual evidence for my theory, really. But there was no way I was going to tell Abby that he wasn’t dead when I didn’t know for sure. I wasn’t going to take the chance that he actually was dead and encourage her denial. Because if I had told her that he wasn’t dead she would have never believed it no matter what the evidence said, because if my gut said Tony wasn’t dead then there was no way he was dead in her mind. I wasn’t going to let her suffer with the denial if it turned out to be him. I doubted that I would have ever truly believed that he was dead no matter what evidence told me, but I wasn’t going to drag her down that pit with me.
When Jen’s first thought had been that it might lead us to the frog, it took all my effort not to kill her right there. Somehow I managed to keep my voice relatively calm as I added that it could lead us to Tony. Her main concern should have been finding the missing, possibly injured and/or in mortal peril NCIS Special Agent, not continuing her ridiculous vendetta, that, incidentally, was the reason that Tony was missing.
Seeing Tony standing there in the elevator of NCIS, apparently unharmed and most definitely alive, was quite possibly the most wonderful thing that I have ever seen. We finally knew that he was alive and safe for sure. I was more than willing to put a few rounds through Trent Kort’s head for attacking DiNozzo at that point. And I think that the CIA had left him just enough brain cells to come to that conclusion as well. Ziva’s gun pointed at him along with his familiarity with Mossad couldn’t have hurt, either.
Tony just shut Jen down when she asked about his conversation with Jeanne. Words cannot express how proud I was that he had learned the fine art of subtly telling his superiors to shove it. I’ve taught him well.