One Step at a Time, by Nix

[crimsonquills]

This is probably the most obvious possible interpretation of this challenge, but I just couldn't help myself

Comments

[magnifica7]

Yep! Getting there is as much fun as claiming the prize. And with Gibbs and Tony, the game will never end! :)

[crimsonquills]

And with Gibbs and Tony, the game will never end! :)

Nope. *g* They might think it will, but somehow there will always be something more, something worth sticking around for, just a little ways ahead...

Thank for commenting!

[rednetra]

LOL and he is right dateing is a game and not a very easy one but gibbs is so worth the time and effert. since the pirze at that end of the game will last a lifetime.

[crimsonquills]

*grins* Thanks for the feedback!

[crimsonquills]

*grins* I'm glad you enjoyed the story so much! I admit, I thought it might suck just because it was so exposition heavy. Almost nothing happened in "real time", if you know what I mean.

Also, somehow it never occurred to me to have Tony describe what kind of player Abby would be. Maybe he just takes for granted that she'd be a lot like him. *grins* I think those two have a lot in common, actually.

[twoweevils]

They both have such a sense of fun, don't they? Tony has referred to dating/flirting as a game more than once, so it was fun to see how you explored that thread.

This bit was a wonderful description of the private vocabulary of gestures and behaviours that Gibbs and DiNozzo share:

A pizza, a slap on the back of the head, an arch grin, a flaunted date. Then there were the oblique things, things that one or the other of them were suddenly allowed to know or see or hear when they'd been off limits a moment before. And the obvious things: invitations tendered and accepted, or not; requests made and granted, or refused.

And the end --with the tantalizing prospect of the game changing again-- so very, very hot!

M.

[crimsonquills]

Thanks so much for all your comments!

And yeah, their complimentary sense of fun was definitely the motivation for a lot of this fic. *grins* I really don't get the people who write Gibbs as grim. The man frequently hides this little grin he gets. And I swear he and Tony have the same sense of humour. Couldn't point to a specific instance, but I can definitely see them playing together. *g*

[fiia]

Wow, really cool interpretation of Tony and Gibbs. I love the sense of both history and potential. It's giving me thoughts.

Now if only I was any good at writing fiction...

Thanks for the smile :)

[crimsonquills]

Now if only I was any good at writing fiction...

Here is where you either (a) practice lots and get good, (b) give the ideas to someone else (other than me!), or (c) just write it anyway. *g*

*would kill for fic not written by self*

Thanks for the feedback!