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Category: NCIS pre-slash angst hurt/comfort fic

Rating: NC-17 overall

Characters: Gibbs/Dinozzo

Series: Yes 3/?

Spoilers: Assume all of Season One

Summary: Gibbs lives dangerously in cyberspace.

Archive: Just tell me where it’s going

Additional ‘stuff’: Inspired by the idea in ‘Immortals’ that two people can communicate each not knowing who the other really is. For a while anyway. Also inspired by a fic I read in another fandom where two characters chatted in a D/s themed chat room.

 

Mostly a transcript of an online conversation in a chat room and (…) represent silent gaps in the conversations. I made the email address up!!

 

Title: Assumed names – Three

 

Some months later…

 

Tony sat at the table wearing a blue toweling robe, the thick fabric drying his shower-damp skin where it touched. He connected to the chat room and sighed when he didn’t see their room – he had long ago considered it ‘their’ room – his and Gunny’s. A message popped up and he clicked on it

 

//TonyD has entered the room//

 

StrongMan: Hey TD

 

TonyD: Hey SM

 

StrongMan: Long time no speak

 

TonyD: Been kinda busy. Kidnapped, drugged, locked up underground, that kind of thing

 

StrongMan: Your Gunnery Sergeant into that kind of thing?

 

TonyD: No way! He’s straight. Married. Kids

 

StrongMan: And you don’t mind? Not exactly what this room is about

 

TonyD: He’s a good listener

 

StrongMan: He hears good too. He just arrived. Get outta here

 

TonyD: Thanks

 

Tony’s fingers moved more quickly over the keyboard than they had a few months earlier and he waited for his request to be invited to chat with Gunny. He smiled as the invite came and entered the room.

 

//Tony D enters the room//

 

Gunny: Hey

 

TonyD: Didn’t think you were coming

 

Gunny: Busy day

 

TonyD: Me too

 

Gunny: Doing what?

 

TonyD: Drugged, kidnapped, escaping from a maniac

 

Gunny: Investigating sounds fun

 

TonyD: She was mad. Shot a guy

 

Gunny: You?

 

TonyD: Nah

 

Gunny: Good

 

TonyD: You’d miss me?

 

Gunny: Yes

 

TonyD: Thanks. Can I ask you something?

 

Gunny: Sure

 

TonyD: You ever been so scared you weren’t scared any more?

 

Gunny: Once or twice

 

TonyD: When?

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Gunny: One time my third wife hit me with a baseball bat

 

TonyD: Why??

 

Gunny: She was upset with me

 

TonyD: You think? Wow! What happened?

 

Gunny: A friend fixed me up

 

TonyD: With the wife

 

Gunny: We got divorced

 

TonyD: Figures

 

Gunny: Your boyfriend hit you as I recall

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TonyD: That’s different

 

Gunny: How?

 

TonyD: Your wife hit you because you did something. Michael hit me because he wanted to

 

Gunny: Ex-wife

 

TonyD: You get married again?

 

Gunny: Nah. I figured after third time lucky didn’t turn out lucky I should stop trying

 

TonyD: Not too smart are you? Three times

 

Gunny: Watch your mouth!

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TonyD: Sorry

 

Gunny: Change of subject. Aside from today how’s the job?

 

TonyD: Great. The boss is a caffeine addict and you don’t want to get on the wrong side of him, but he’s okay if you’re in trouble or something

 

Gunny: Are you?

 

TonyD: Nah, he came and got me.

 

Gunny: From the armed woman

 

TonyD: Yeah. How’s the boat?

 

Gunny: Coming along

 

TonyD: You work on it every day?

 

Gunny: Mostly

 

TonyD: You were gonna send me a picture

 

Gunny: Tomorrow. It’s late and you’ve had a tough day

 

TonyD: Yes Dad!

 

Gunny: Yours is the kind of mouth soap was invented for

 

TonyD: You have to imagine my face right now

 

Gunny: Can you picture mine?

 

TonyD: Don’t forget the pictures – cutetonyd@boyztalk.com

 

Gunny: I won’t. What’s that?

 

TonyD: My email – you’re gonna send the pictures, right?

 

Gunny: Yeah. Now go to bed

 

TonyD: Bye

 

Gunny: Goodnight

 

//TonyD leaves the room//

 

//Gunny leaves the room//

 

The following day…

 

‘Abs, I need to send these to someone. I have their email address.’

 

Abby took the pictures from Gibbs and flicked through them. ‘Your boat?’

 

‘Yeah.’

 

‘You have them on disk?’ Abby saw Gibbs’ expression and sighed. ‘I’ll scan them and send them to your desk. You got the email address?’

 

Gibbs nodded, patting his pocket. ‘Yup.’

 

‘Okay. By the time you get back upstairs, they’ll be in your inbox. You okay with the person knowing where you work?’ She rolled her eyes at his puzzled expression. ‘I’ll set you up a hotmail address. What do you want your name to be? Boatbuilder?’

 

Gibbs nodded. ‘That’ll do.’

 

‘Someone might have used it. I’ll email you when I’ve set it up.’

 

‘Thanks Abs.’ Gibbs smiled and lifted the paper bag he had been holding. ‘Breakfast.’

 

Abby investigated the contents and grinned. ‘You are my hero Gibbs.’

 

Gibbs laughed. ‘Does McGee know what you’ll do for caffeine?’

 

Abbey nodded, grinning wickedly. ‘Oh yeah.’

 

Gibbs decided the conversation was taking a turn he wasn’t comfortable with and walked out.

 

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Tony waited until Gibbs was walking from the room then connected to his email account. He opened his inbox and smiled at the pictures of the half-finished boat.

 

Watching Tony’s screen as he walked back to his desk, suddenly remembering he needed a file folder he didn’t have with him, Gibbs felt the color drain from his face. He took a deep breath and walked to the desk, smiling inwardly as Tony clicked the mouse, clearing the pictures away, a half-finished report filling the screen an instant later.

 

‘I’m gonna be an hour max Tony. I want that report on my desk when I get back.’

 

‘Yes boss.’ Tony groaned, beginning to type.

 

As soon as Gibbs was gone, Tony re-opened the email and typed his reply.

 

Continued in Part Four...

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