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Part 760 of Dictionary.Com Word of the Day Drabbles , Part 68 of One shots - Gibbs centric: bastard , Part 51 of One shots - Tony centric: Hurt
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Pervicacious

Summary:

Gibbs is still a bastard. Tony waits for it to change.

Notes:

Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 05/31/2001 for the word pervicacious.

pervicacious
Refusing to change one's ideas, behavior, etc.; stubborn; obstinate.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #411 What's the point?.

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Pervicacious

Tony loved and had loved Gibbs for years, but he didn’t see the point in telling Gibbs. It wouldn’t change anything. There was no point because of rule 12. Tony personally wondered what the point of rule 12 really was, but despite the fact that he never personally followed rule 12 and Gibbs hadn’t done anything about it he knew that pervicacious Gibbs would never break that rule himself.

Gibbs had been stubbornly clinging to all the bad things that had happened to him as if he wasn’t worthy of being happy. Rule 12 was just another example of how he clung to the way his relationship with Jenny ended. It was actually a terrible rule. A lot of people met through work and made it work, but you’d never convince Gibbs of that, so Tony kept silent.

If Gibbs ever changed enough to consider breaking rule 12, Tony would be there. In the meantime, Tony did whatever he had to to survive.

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