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Concomitant
Tony used to think that if you spent a lot of time with your co-workers you were bound to care for them. Then he spent 8 years at NCIS. The first few years he still felt that way, but after the third or so year Tony started to feel like he was the only one of his co-workers who cared. McGee, Ziva, and Gibbs did not seem to care about him anymore if they ever did.
By this point in time it felt like the hours he’d spent working with Gibbs had stretched to an infinite number, but it didn’t matter. At least it didn’t seem to. In Tony’s eye the lack of concomitant care completely eradicated anything that might have been gained by spending infinite hours together. Where he would have been completely loyal in the past, he now couldn’t help wondering if he would be better off cutting loose and sailing on.
