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Tony couldn’t believe this. Why was he always the one captured by the bad people? At least, this time they were crappy criminals.
Tony was pretty sure he could take them down on his own without needing an actual rescue, but it was still exceedingly annoying. The two who’d kidnapped him were now in an argument over what to do about him. Apparently, they hadn’t counted on him being a federal agent and now we’re debating how to unscrew themselves.
Tony considered telling them not to bother, but he knew they wouldn’t listen to him. He was mostly waiting for them to get to the good part now, either that or for Gibbs to appear. Tony knew it was only a matter of time before his boss showed up.
He hoped to have escaped before that happened, but it all depended on how long these knuckleheads argued. He needed one of them to come close enough to him that he could knock them out. He snickered as he heard them start arguing about tmesis and whether it was a valid phrase or not.
Tony shouldn’t know what tmesis meant, but he’d had one of his English instructors yell at him about it when he was younger and it had kind of stuck with him. “You’re both using it wrong,” he yelled at his captors.
“You stay out of this. What do you know?”
“I know it means the interpolation of one or more words in between the parts of a compound word like abso-freaking-lutely or un-freaking-believable.”
Tony grinned as he quickly gained the attention of both of his captors and they both came within striking distance. He waited until they were close enough to use against each other before taking one of them and slamming him into the other one. He was still in the middle of taking the two of them down when the MCRT showed up.
“I see you haven’t lost your touch, DiNozzo.”
“What can I say, boss? Everyone loves me.”
Gibbs grinned. He knew the truth of that all too well. With Ziva, McGee, and Gibbs, there was no contest as to who would win and the captors surrendered. They were quickly arrested and booked for kidnapping a federal agent and assault on one and various other crimes that Fornell was happy to tack on.
It was basically the end of the day, so once they returned to headquarters, everyone split to their own vehicles. Well, except for Tony and Gibbs. Gibbs placed his arm around Tony’s shoulder and led Tony to his car.
As they climbed in the car, Gibbs asked, “So was it worthwhile?”
“Nah. They didn’t have anything of importance. Certainly, nothing that appropriately reflected how timeless our relationship is.”
“You know you don’t have to go crazy. I’m just a simple man.”
”I know. That’s part of what makes you so worthwhile. That and I know you’ll always do whatever it takes to find me.”
“You know you mean the world to me.”
“I do.” Tony smiled at Gibbs.
They headed into Gibbs’ house, well really their house. Tony had moved in a long time ago. Despite the ups and downs at work, their relationship outside of work had been steady for years.
Unlike work, where it was sometimes hard to remember why he stayed, at home Gibbs made the good things so obvious that Tony couldn’t imagine a life without him anymore. They had a huge entertainment system and it wasn’t uncommon for them to curl up on the couch together and watch a movie. Tonight, though, they were skipping that and going straight to bed and kissing.
Tomorrow was their anniversary and they had a full day planned. Tony couldn’t wait. He knew Gibbs was planning on going all out. Despite being a simple man, he didn’t settle for a simple dinner when it came to spoiling Tony. It was going to be great.