More depth into the relationship between Tony and Gibbs, and I love to see it's evolution every time you write their relationship. Here, of course, the environment that feeds it is very different from anything else you've ever written. Here, they need each other, and yet the stability they'll each provide for the other through this ordeal is exactly what will make it that much stronger on the other side of this terror. Glad to see they both had it out with each other, each in their own way, and I do think it would have to come out in a confrontation with these two. They'd each need to be pushed to some sort of limit in order to finally break the chains they each wrap their true feelings in. Tony hides just as much as Gibbs does, just with very different methods.
Glad to see Gibbs doesn't see his finally emerging feelings for Tony as a weakness, but as a source of strength and a way back to himself, a way to clarity through the haze of the anger he fed off of to keep himself going up until now. Tony has always been far stronger than any one knows, and, of course, Gibbs knows that but needs TONY to know it, too. The faith he has in Tony doesn't do any good unless Tony knows he has it.
They each remind me of yin/yang in their own way. Each, now containing an element of the other that makes them strong enough to do whatever it takes to remain locked in that constant state of balance between them. If they can each harness that balance, they can end all this, and of course, together they are far more than anything Walid or anyone else has ever come up against. Does that make any sense?
*heh* I tend to get rambly when I respond to your fics, Xan. :P
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on Jun. 9th, 2011 09:04 am (UTC)Glad to see Gibbs doesn't see his finally emerging feelings for Tony as a weakness, but as a source of strength and a way back to himself, a way to clarity through the haze of the anger he fed off of to keep himself going up until now. Tony has always been far stronger than any one knows, and, of course, Gibbs knows that but needs TONY to know it, too. The faith he has in Tony doesn't do any good unless Tony knows he has it.
They each remind me of yin/yang in their own way. Each, now containing an element of the other that makes them strong enough to do whatever it takes to remain locked in that constant state of balance between them. If they can each harness that balance, they can end all this, and of course, together they are far more than anything Walid or anyone else has ever come up against. Does that make any sense?
*heh* I tend to get rambly when I respond to your fics, Xan. :P