Fic: The Secondhand Agent

[snowdarkred]

Title: The Secondhand Agent
Author: snowdarkred
Pairings: more than hinted at Gibbs/DiNozzo
Rating/Warnings: PG, angst
A/N: I don't know where this came from.... Crossposted all over the place.

Summery: It's what he didn't say that mattered. Tony reaches his second anniversary at NCIS.

The Secondhand Agent

 

The day snuck up on him. At least, that's what he told himself. That's what he said, the lie burning on his tongue, when Kate brought it up in the squad room that morning. That's what he said when Abby bounced up and demanded to know what he was doing that night. Sorry, I forgot all about it. Don't mind the man behind the curtain, just pout and bounce.

 

She pouted and bounced out of the room, shouting over her shoulder that he was going out to lunch with her to make up for forgetting his own anniversary. For beating the odds. Thanks Abby.

 

He said it to Ducky when the man said it, happy anniversary over a pale corpse. He said it to stuttering McGee when the probie tripped over his own question, an ill advised inquiry based off of the snickering comments made by the other teams in the squad room.

 

Is it true that you've never made it to the two year mark before?

 

It's what he smiled in the break room when the other agents laughed, jabbing him with their elbows and joking about how he wouldn't dare leave because Gibbs would never give him permission to. As if he was a dog, not a Special Agent.

 

Woof woof.

 

It's what he grinned when the director pulled him aside as he was leaving the office that night. I'm having so much fun, I forgot the date. Heh, how stupid is that?

 

Pretty goddamn stupid.

 

It's what he told himself that night as he stared in the mirror, looking himself in the eye and repeating it, over and over. I didn't notice. I didn't notice. I didn't notice.

 

He ignored the countdown on the calender pinned to the back of his closet so that he would see it every time he reached for a suit. Because he didn't notice it numbered off in the bright red sharpie he'd stolen from Abby. Really.

 

It's what he didn't say when Gibbs showed up on his door step at midnight, a pizza in one hand and a case of beer in the other.

 

It's what he didn't say the next morning when he made them breakfast.

 

It's what he didn't say that mattered.

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Comments are loved! :D

Comments

[derrumtreiber.livejournal.com]

Love this. I love the juxtaposition between the Tony everyone sees, and what goes on behind the scenes in his own head, and, you know, that whole slash thing, too ;)

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This just popped into my head, and I had to jot it down. :D

[weird-fin.livejournal.com]

Loved it :)

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[cheekymice.livejournal.com]

I like!


xxx

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

thank you! It was just one of those things that comes out of left field....

[sinfulslasher]

Loved it! I can so see that happening! *pets poor Tony*

YAY to the ending - just perfect. Ah, if only this were canon... *wistful sigh* LOL!

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kateri-e.livejournal.com]

Lovely little short

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

thank you! I do a lot of shorts for my STXI fandom, and this one struck me. I love doing these and challenging people to tell me their thoughts. It's fun to see how different people interpret the same short. :D

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks.

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

No, that you!

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

*thank. typing fail

[laura-trekkie.livejournal.com]

I think you've got Tony spot on. It's what he doesn't say that's the interesting thing most of the time. He puts up the front that everyone expects to see, but those who bother to look beyond it get much more of Tony.

Laura.

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love writing Tony. He's just such an interesting character because he can be interpreted so many ways. It keeps things interesting when you're writing and you don't know which Tony is going to show up. :D

[dhh333.livejournal.com]

Uhhh?? Ok, don't get it.

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

Um. Okay. Do you want me to explain my thinking?

[theeverdream.livejournal.com]

The simplicity of this is very cool. So many fics touch on the same topics that to see something this... light and deep at the same time? I don't know how to describe it, but it's really refreshing.

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D