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Fop - Hurt

Summary:

Gibbs tries to convince Tony to give the new MCRT a chance after Tony has left NCIS.

Notes:

Another dictionary.com word of the day drabble. This time from 01/17/2003 for the word fop.

fop[ fop ]
noun
a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners.

This is for the ncis-drabble community on LJ's challenge: #645 Suffer.

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“Come on, Tony. What’s it going to hurt? Aren’t they your friends?”

“I thought they were once,” Tony murmured as he remembered the suffering he’d experienced due to Ziva attempting to drive a wedge between him and the rest of the team. She’d almost succeeded too. Would have, if it wasn’t for Gibbs’ first priority being Tony.

Tony knew he wasn’t being fair to Jethro by forcing him to keep their relationship out of the workplace, but no matter how much Gibbs trusted McGee, Bishop, Torres, and the others on the MCRT now; Tony still felt hurt from the way things ended with Ziva. Even the way he left NCIS bothered him, but he couldn’t change it now.

Still he supposed he should give them a chance. Maybe with him no longer working at NCIS they could actually be friends this time. Gibbs certainly seemed to think so. He’d have to play the fop just to be safe and make sure they couldn’t hurt him, but that wouldn’t be hard to do and it would make Gibbs happy.

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