kaylashay81: (NCIS - Tony Hug)
kaylashay81 ([personal profile] kaylashay81) wrote2008-05-21 12:33 am

Fic: End Of It All (NCIS) - SPOILERS FOR 05x18 Judgement Day

Title: End Of It All
Author: [livejournal.com profile] kaylashay81
Rating: FR13
Disclaimer: I'm not Bellesario or CBS, so I don't claim to own them.
Warnings: Slash
Word Count: 5x100
Challenge: [livejournal.com profile] ncisdrabble100; Challenge #87 - Endings

Crossposted: [livejournal.com profile] ncisdrabble100; [livejournal.com profile] gibbs_dinozzo; [livejournal.com profile] ncis_slash; [livejournal.com profile] ncisfanfic; [livejournal.com profile] tonydinozzo

Summary: I could only see the end, but Gibbs saw something different.

Gibbs had stayed in Jen- no, Vance’s office so I took the opportunity to slip away while McGee was heading for Abby’s lab and Ziva was using the phone to call in some favors. I knew it was coming; had known since the whole Le Grounille mess went to hell in a hand basket. I screwed up and it cost a case with an arms dealer and the heart of an innocent woman. I screwed up this time and it cost Jenny her life. Now I have a choice to make, leave on Vance’s terms or my own. It’s over.

When I got to my apartment, I sunk on my couch and stared mindlessly at the place I had lived in for seven years. Outside of the boarding school, it was the longest I had ever stayed in one place in my life. Now I was being forced to leave, forced to lose everything. Then again, the looks that Gibbs had given me since he arrived at that diner made me think I had lost everything before Vance’s announcement. Perhaps it was best to cut ties completely and get out. No one would miss me if I just slipped away.

It was a testament to how far out of it I was that I didn’t register Gibbs standing beside the couch until I felt the slap to my head. I couldn’t bring myself to look him in the eye. I didn’t want to see the disappointment written on his face. Not only had I screwed up, but now I was running away from my mistakes. I felt a finger tipping my chin up and I didn’t have the strength the fight it. When our eyes met, I didn’t know what to make of the look. “I think I’ll just quit.”

The expected slap didn’t come. Instead I was greeted with a hand sliding through my hair and coming to rest on the back of the neck. It grounded me in a way that I hadn’t felt grounded since that explosion on the boat. “You’re not quitting, DiNozzo. You don’t quit my team.” I almost laughed, as I pointed out, “Not on your team anymore, Boss, or did you miss that part?” Gibbs just smiled and pulled me in for a hug. “You’re on my team until I say otherwise and no wanna-be director can do a thing to stop us.”

“But he signs the paperwork and last I checked they don’t send two senior agents afloat on the same ship.” I trembled as I felt Gibbs’ mouth trace down my neck and along my jaw line. “Especially if said agents are male and sleeping together,” I added quietly as Gibbs brought his mouth to meet mine. I was lost in the sensations that Gibbs provided and welcomed every touch. Sometime later, lying in bed with Gibbs’ arms wrapped around me, I heard his low voice. “It’s not over Tony, not by a long shot. I’ll put an end to Vance.”

[identity profile] burningchaos.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
*sighs* Exactly what I needed.

[identity profile] justhuman.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Nice tag. There's a lot of potential ground to cover this summer and this is a natural place to start.

[identity profile] silverfox2620.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes. All of the season finals have had me twitching with worry and annoyance. I think I all most had a heart attack when That...that... Not going to say it. Ordered them to separate places. Hopefully it would be something closer to what you wrote. Very good.

[identity profile] ihugtreesforfun.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. This is just right after watching that episode :)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
*sigh* poor Tony. He seemed so broken in the second half of the finale.
rainne: (NCIS - Tony - Wibble)

[personal profile] rainne 2008-05-21 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not much of a slasher, but this was a good tag. Poor Tony.

I'm pondering this morning how to begin writing after this episode. It's tough for me because I usually write Kate-centric, so writing a current-season story is short-circuiting my brain, but I have An Idea and I really want to run with it (before someone else does LOL)

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Go Gibbs!
spikedluv: (ncis: gibbs&dinozzo_plus_wackygirlgrafix)

[personal profile] spikedluv 2008-05-21 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! I knew (hoped) that this ep would generate lots of fic. Loved this take on it, and I'd look forward to seeing just how Gibbs takes care of Vance. *g*

[identity profile] beckytheelf.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
This is EXACTLY what I needed after that season finale. You go Gibbs! The next season better start off with something like this =D

[identity profile] psyko-kittie.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful ending. Just what I wanted to read!

[identity profile] meluvstony.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that's an ending I like :) my poor Tony it broke my heart to see him blame himself thru the whole 2nd hour

[identity profile] nienna-surion18.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Just want to say I Love your Icon. ^_^ If only Gibbs and Tony would really do that.

[identity profile] tearful-eye.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
aw.

yes, gibbs, you do that! that stuipd *grumble* toothpick chewing wanna-be *mumblemumble* director!

sorry, lol. i adore this little ficlet & it was exactly what i needed to read after the finale... & like someone already said, poor tony really looked like he needed to be kissed & hugged, he looked so lost & broken in this ep - especially in the last scene, where he couldn't hold eyecontact with anyone... *huggles tony & this little fic tight*

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I needed it to... Thanks!

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I've got several ideas bouncing around... this just wanted an out to get over it. :-)

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
That... that... not going to say it entity will die a horrible death involving thousands of toothpicks... yup...

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Very much so... Gibbs has some work to do to set things right in the NCIS world.

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
I've got plans to use that broken-ness for upcoming fics... summer will likely be angst filled for poor Tony.

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
And I saw you started! Hee!

Tony needs lots o' TLC after this and that Vance guy just ripped him away from all the ones that could give it to him.

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Gibbs will take care of the boy... yup... he will...

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I bet the summer will be full of fics about the fallout... so many ways to go with it...

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
They better do something to get them back together by at least the 3rd or 4th ep or I'll go crazy...

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent!!! I mean, aww, poor Tony.

[identity profile] kaylashay.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Tony will see much angst over the summer me thinks...

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