"Andy" - Master Post & Author's Notes

[xanthefic]

Title: "Andy"

Author: Xanthe

Fandom: NCIS

Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo

Rating: NC17

Keywords: Wall to wall angst, a dollop of hurt/comfort, and a massive side order of daddy issues.

Spoilers: Specifically “Requiem” and “Heartland”.

Status: Complete

Timeline and canon: In this story I’ve based Tony’s age being 36 in 2008 on the fact that it’s explicitly stated by both him and Kate that he’s 32 in the episode “Split Decision” which aired in 2004, and he mentions playing college basketball in 1992 in “Swak” which ties in with this dating. Other canon facts are not entirely consistent on this subject (surprise!) but that’s what I’ve used for this story.
I found Gibbs’s timeline and canon inconsistent and confusing so I’ve put my own spin on it here – trying to stay as accurate a possible while steering a middle path. If this bothers you, then you might want to consider it an AU – which it pretty much is really anyway *g*.

Note: I was deliberately trying to explore some Daddy issues here as it seems to me that both Gibbs and Tony have them in very different ways - I've tried hard not to make it squicky though. This is not an incest fic in any way.

Wordcount: Around 47,000.

Thanks to bluespirit_star for being so supportive, encouraging and all-round fabulous; also, and very importantly, for beta-reading and for the stunningly beautiful graphic. Thanks also to Rachelle, for helping out with the US beta and the many cool details. Any mistakes are, of course, mine.

Summary: When Tony receives some bad news, it forces him and Gibbs to go on an emotional journey and face up to the events of a time long past.

Extract: Gibbs had been waiting for a dead body to turn up, and it seemed one just had - only not the way he'd expected. This was one of those bodies that had been hidden for seventeen years, and those kinds of corpses always stank to high heaven when they finally rose to the surface.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five