tingreca ([personal profile] tingreca) wrote2010-07-23 09:30 am
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A Four Letter Word


Title: A Four Letter Word
Author: Sarah B. Leonard
Fandom: NCIS 
Characters: DiNozzo and DiNardo 
Rating: gen
Wordcount: still the traditional 100
Spoilers: that arc with the French father and daughter 
Warning:  none
Summary:  Challenge #197:  Work (for [info]ncisdrabble100 )
Disclaimer: These characters belong to DPB, CBS, Paramount, et al. No copyright infringement is intended.
Authors notes:  This bunny hit me while I was at work.  And you get to decide what the four letter word is.

 

A Four Letter Word

By Sarah B. Leonard

 

Sometimes work wasn’t really work. It was waving guns and chasing suspects. It was taking pictures and tag and bags. It was getting the answers, in Interrogation or elsewhere. It was researching whos and whys, whens and wheres. It was fun.

Sometimes work was scary. It was undercover, or undercovers. It was thriving on who you were. It was sometimes being someone who you weren’t.

Sometimes work was hard. Sometimes work was pretending. And sometimes work hurt.

As he raised his hand to knock on her apartment door, he became a different Tony.

And work became a four letter word.

 


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[identity profile] cnine.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny point about four letter swear words. I didn't know that, so I've learned something new today :) After a day spent watching Tour de France that's not a half bad way to end the day (I've been telling my self I should go to bed for the last hour or so ;))

I think you have a point, but I also think that partly Tony sees it as a game of sorts to begin with, before he starts to really care about her. I think even though he is not a liar, he like to work undercover because he is good at it and he likes to show of his skills to Gibbs and the rest of the world, but specially Gibbs.
I think the closer they get the more he wishes to be able to show her who he really is, and I think part of him is hopping that he will be able to tell her in the end and that she will still love him afterwards. But I think you are right that after he starts to care for her swear words would fit in very well.

(Sorry if not all of this makes sense, but it's after midnight here now and I really should be going to bed)
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