Title: The Silence
Summary: Random Tony/Gibbs slash.
Rating: K+ ish
Disclaimer: I don't own. If I did…
POV: Tony
Author's note: I have probably have a dozen other stories I could be working on, but I'm have a major depressive! Tony/Gibbs week.
The Silence
I know it can never happen. Not now anyways.
But it doesn't make me want him any less.
He told me once, that he loved me. I don't think he meant to say it, it just came out.
I think, at first, he was scared. Afraid that I would quit.
But I never would.
And even if I wanted to, Director Sheppard would never let me.
But I didn't want to.
So one day I told him. That he was the reason I kept this job for seven years. That's five years longer than I'd spent at any other jobs.
He just smiled sadly.
I think he knew, even before then. He knows I try the hardest, mostly to impress him, to get him to notice.
I stayed even after he let everyone else go, because I liked being there, with him.
"I wish…" I begin, but I don't have the heart to finish.
We are sitting in the silence of the half darkness of the bullpen. Everyone else has left (accept a few technicians and the team or two stuck on the night shift, but they are on another floor), so we sit alone.
It's not an uncomfortable silence. WE are both happy, just in each others company.
It seems like hours later that he says, "I know. Me too."
I smile sadly and look up at him.
He is smiling back at me, the glint of a tear in his eyes.
I don't think I've ever seen him cry before. And I hate that is because of me.
"Maybe soon," I say.
"Maybe soon," he repeats.
For now, we can never have anything. Nothing but the silence we share.
And that will have to be enough for now.
Tell me what you think.
-Ella-the-crash-test-dummy-