Work Text:
In Relation to the Center Line 2: Dynamic
by pari
"Is that the best you can do, Stan? After working under me five years."
Oh yeah. It is starting to come back to me now.
The tightness in my chest, the constant strive to please. The continuous failure.
Three years of working together - side by side - just to get you to remember my name. A year of sleeping together to get you to say it in the light of day.
Watching someone else get a bigger piece of you than I could hope for - your wives, your work.
This kid.
What's DiNozzo got that I never had, Gibbs?
Besides you.
[end.]