Thank you :-). And I agree about the rape scene - that was clearly rape and very horrible. Seems like Tony needed to reach rock bottom before he'd finally accept the truth about where he needed to be.

As for Gibbs's confrontation with Jake - I think he was partly respecting Tony's wishes about this not ending up in court. He broke Jake's jaw and humiliated him publicly - any more than that and Gibbs would have ended up being arrested, sadly, and then all the Tony stuff would have come out too. Of course, if this had happened after Tony took his SECOND collar, then I'm sure he WOULD have been less restrained! LOL! This felt proportionate to now.

Thanks again! I'd love to do more in this verse so fingers crossed! And thank you for the gorgeous red hearts! Ten this time! I love them!