New NCIS Fic: After Corporeal Punishment
Title: After Corporeal Punishment
Fandom: NCIS
Series: The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer
Characters: Tony DiNozzo and Maddie Tyler
Prompts:For 12_stories#2 Comfort
Word Count: 385
Rating: K+
Summary: “I ran into the Incredible Hulk and he was really, really pissed off.”
Author's Notes: The fourth in a series of post-eps from Requiem to Judgment Day focusing on a budding relationship between Tony (the bachelor) and Maddie (the bobbysoxer)
Why, you may well ask. 1.) The first time I watched “Requiem” I was struck by Tony’s line about wanting to get to know Maddie. The line was supposed to be leering and obnoxious, but Tony has grown a lot the last year and I thought it would be interesting if there was a relationship between them. By the next morning, I’d talked myself into being a huge Tony/Maddie shipper. Granted it is a dingy surrounded by aircraft carriers in the NCIS shipper’s ocean, but I’m always up for a challenge. 2.) My parents had nearly twenty year age difference and were the happiest couple I even knew, so I believe it works and like to explore it in fics.
“What the hell happened to you?”
Tony flinched and took a step back as Maddie reached for the large white bandage across his nose, “Watch it. The painkillers have sadly worn off.”
“Sorry,” Maddie dropped her hand and tilted her head as she looked at him. “Seriously, though, what happened?”
“I ran into the Incredible Hulk and he was really, really pissed off.”
She winced in sympathy, “Anything else hurt?”
“Well, since he nearly wiped out our whole team, my ego is still okay, but my stomach’s rather bruised.”
“Oh, poor Tony,” she moved to hug him, but then thought better of it and stepped back, “why don’t you go get a nice hot shower? By the time you’re done, I’ll have dinner ready.”
Tony’s eyes widened in panic, “You’re cooking?”
Maddie rolled her eyes, “No, heating up your frozen spaghetti sauce and boiling water to make pasta, but I really resent the implication that I can’t cook.”
“You gave me food poisoning when you cooked that ‘thank you for saving my life’ dinner for me,” Tony gave her one of his incredulous looks. “I was sick for three days!”
“Well, yeah, but that wasn’t my fault! I didn’t know that canned vegetable could go bad. Besides, we may never have become friends if I hadn’t had to take care of you.”
“Mads, I’m pretty sure that poisoning isn’t a way to ‘make friends and influence people.’”
Maddie stuck her tongue out at him, “Do you find it wise to make fun of me when all I’d have to do to cause you immense pain would be tweek your nose?”
“True,” he gave her a slight smile as he started from his kitchen. “I’m going to take a quick shower and lie down till dinner, okay?”
“Sure. Do you have more pain pills?”
“In my backpack.”
Already moving towards the front hall where she knew he dropped the bag, she called out, “You’re taking a pill with dinner, so it will work better, and I’m staying on your couch tonight in case you need anything.”
Tony smiled as he made his way to the bedroom in the back of the apartment. Until he met Maddie Taylor he’d never considered food poisoning a good thing, but sometimes it did have its benefits like someone who cared.
Fandom: NCIS
Series: The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer
Characters: Tony DiNozzo and Maddie Tyler
Prompts:For 12_stories#2 Comfort
Word Count: 385
Rating: K+
Summary: “I ran into the Incredible Hulk and he was really, really pissed off.”
Author's Notes: The fourth in a series of post-eps from Requiem to Judgment Day focusing on a budding relationship between Tony (the bachelor) and Maddie (the bobbysoxer)
Why, you may well ask. 1.) The first time I watched “Requiem” I was struck by Tony’s line about wanting to get to know Maddie. The line was supposed to be leering and obnoxious, but Tony has grown a lot the last year and I thought it would be interesting if there was a relationship between them. By the next morning, I’d talked myself into being a huge Tony/Maddie shipper. Granted it is a dingy surrounded by aircraft carriers in the NCIS shipper’s ocean, but I’m always up for a challenge. 2.) My parents had nearly twenty year age difference and were the happiest couple I even knew, so I believe it works and like to explore it in fics.
“What the hell happened to you?”
Tony flinched and took a step back as Maddie reached for the large white bandage across his nose, “Watch it. The painkillers have sadly worn off.”
“Sorry,” Maddie dropped her hand and tilted her head as she looked at him. “Seriously, though, what happened?”
“I ran into the Incredible Hulk and he was really, really pissed off.”
She winced in sympathy, “Anything else hurt?”
“Well, since he nearly wiped out our whole team, my ego is still okay, but my stomach’s rather bruised.”
“Oh, poor Tony,” she moved to hug him, but then thought better of it and stepped back, “why don’t you go get a nice hot shower? By the time you’re done, I’ll have dinner ready.”
Tony’s eyes widened in panic, “You’re cooking?”
Maddie rolled her eyes, “No, heating up your frozen spaghetti sauce and boiling water to make pasta, but I really resent the implication that I can’t cook.”
“You gave me food poisoning when you cooked that ‘thank you for saving my life’ dinner for me,” Tony gave her one of his incredulous looks. “I was sick for three days!”
“Well, yeah, but that wasn’t my fault! I didn’t know that canned vegetable could go bad. Besides, we may never have become friends if I hadn’t had to take care of you.”
“Mads, I’m pretty sure that poisoning isn’t a way to ‘make friends and influence people.’”
Maddie stuck her tongue out at him, “Do you find it wise to make fun of me when all I’d have to do to cause you immense pain would be tweek your nose?”
“True,” he gave her a slight smile as he started from his kitchen. “I’m going to take a quick shower and lie down till dinner, okay?”
“Sure. Do you have more pain pills?”
“In my backpack.”
Already moving towards the front hall where she knew he dropped the bag, she called out, “You’re taking a pill with dinner, so it will work better, and I’m staying on your couch tonight in case you need anything.”
Tony smiled as he made his way to the bedroom in the back of the apartment. Until he met Maddie Taylor he’d never considered food poisoning a good thing, but sometimes it did have its benefits like someone who cared.