AU Gibbs/DiNozzo: The Meeting

[cackymn_lj]

Title: The Meeting
Author: cackymn_lj
Fandom: NCIS
Category: AU, slash
Characters: Jethro Gibbs, Anthony DiNozzo
Challenge: ncis_drabble Challenge #119: Beginnings
Rating: Adult
Words: 500
Disclaimer: don't get me started
Shout-outs: laiajambalaya and k9lasko

This follows my last drabble-length fic, Flame. I'm trying to write something backwards. I think. Link to Flame:Read more... )

Comments

[amy_0127]

Woman - I am undone. This is a masterpiece. Not much more I can say, really. I am in awe.

[cackymn_lj]

OMG, Thank you!!!
Flame sparked some ideas.
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment!

[ncisvu_lj]

First of all, can I just say that I love your 'location'. LOL Is that really a place or a masterful way to state your frame of mind? Just curious

[cackymn_lj]

Oh, Liz thank you so much for the breakdown. It's better than crack. I really appreciate what you got. And the way you got it. Tony, yeah. He's pretty much everything, isn't he?
And yes this will get worse before it gets better...
Thank you, my friend!

[cackymn_lj]

My frame of mind... I try never to go in there alone. JK. Or not. :-)

[joss80]

Oh gosh. I pretty much echo what Liz said... the way you have with words is just amazing, totally undoing and building at the same time (if that makes any sort of sense?). The imagery too was phenomenal - the beach, the house in hills. The shower. Mmmm.

[cackymn_lj]

Thank you! I'm honestly not sure where this is coming from and definitely not sure where it is going! The new comm tibbs_bunnies and therefore the notorious laiajambalaya and rose_malmaison ensnared me with prompts. That is how they roll.

[tonysmel]

Like NCISVU said, your talent with words always amazes. Every sentence has some little gem I could pluck out and praise. This has always been a strong point in your writing, but these drabbles bring you to a new level. I think I've told you before how much I love bare bones writing, and you have a real talent for saying so much with just a few words. And that economy works so well here, with Anthony and Jethro speaking to each other with looks and gestures.
I adore your Anthony. How could Jethro *not* fall in love with him? And this Jethro, so adoring and taken with his young lover...I just want to scurry them far away from the looming darkness!
I also like the "lost cause" and "friend of God" mentions.
I love this, even knowing heartbreak awaits.

[cackymn_lj]

OMG, thank you!!!
I had to write this first, and can hopefully pepper the tale with happier glimpses, as the muse permits. I am fond of this Anthony. laiajambalaya gave him to me, in her original prompt. In a stunning display of heart that said so much in almost no words. "Anthony" not Tony, and then "who loved the light." it was so very suggestive of someone fine, tender, and almost mystical, and that is what lit the fire. she sees him as I do, and I was blown away, even tho my go-to POV had to be Jethro.
Thank you my dear friend, and the next one, well... It isn't the end.

[laiajambalaya]

ru going to switch POV or keep it Jethro?

i think it's amazing how u ate my bunny & pooped out ALL THIS MAGIC. but u kept it all there, in that world! like u saw it too! it's all urs but u totally get the spirit of the bunny & i'm so glad

[cackymn_lj]

I'm excited that you think so, he was our mystical Tony and I recognized him right away in the prompt. I consider it an honor to be working with him, and with you!
His POV will appear some, I think.
Thank you fir the amazing comment!
LLAP.

[k9lasko]

Yay Cacky! I'm so glad you've written another one. And I just saw this morning that there's a THIRD??

But first, this one. So few words, but they speak volumes. Love their simple meeting, these two who seem so weirdly made for each other.

"You a marine biologist or something?"

"Or something."

Guh. And Tony (correction, Anthony) checking out Jethro's stuff, liked how you described that. No wasted conversation. An economy of words THAT I LOVE. Really quite beautiful, Cacky. Liz did a great job picking out the wonderful bits (is that even possible? I'd quote the whole thing) but my own favorites...

He'd never imagined a smile so shy and indulgent at once, or eyes as open and curious. They had simply begun walking.

Instead of making foolish noises about his rustic good taste, the younger man had touched the things he was shown, introducing them to his senses, possessing without shame.

conversing through eyes and gesture until enough had been said, until the silence between them tightened and sang.

on top of summer sheets and the

[cackymn_lj]

You make me very happy. :-)