Shut Out
Tony was hurt. He thought he had finally found a family where he was welcomed and belonged but he was obviously wrong. Kate had willingly welcomed in a Suzanne without even knowing her just so she wouldn't have to offer Tony her spare room, Abby knew he had nowhere to go yet she had ignored him and Ducky had told him that he didn't want Tony to know where his house was. It hurt him that they weren't willing to help him when he would always be happy to offer them a place to stay but Gibbs' comment cut the deepest.
Gibbs knew Tony idolised him yet he told him that he couldn't stay with him as though he couldn't bear to be around him any longer than a working day finding him so bad that even when Tony needed help, he couldn't offer it as he didn't want to be around Tony longer than he had to be. Tony though of Gibbs as the father he never had and was willing to break his limit of two years to stay with him but he had turned him away when he needed it the most. Thankfully Tony had other friends on other teams and Chris Pacci offered him a place to stay but Tony still felt hurt.
Gibbs didn't even know he was staying with Chris and assumed he was still sleeping in the bullpen. Was his personality really so bad that none of his team would offer him a place to stay he wondered. After Suzanne dropped the bomb, Gibbs and Tony were watching Kate be treated. Tony blamed himself for the fact that Kate felt she needed to take in Suzanne to avoid him and have an excuse as to why he couldn't stay with her so he almost missed Gibbs' comment as he turned to leave. The backhanded offer of a place to stay felt almost laughable after his previous brush off and, if he was being honest, only hurt Tony more really. It had taken Gibbs this long to offer, where did he think Tony had been staying in the meantime. He only now felt worried or sympathetic towards his agent. Tony knew that he probably didn't even mean it but was just saying it because he felt like he had to.
Tony had begun to think that it was his personality that was driving people away but Chris had noticed and brought it up with him. It had taken a long time and many one sided conversations with Tony ignoring him and refusing to believe what Chris was telling him but Chris finally managed to convince Tony that he wasn't unbearable and that the problem lay with his team that maybe once he would have considered his family. That had been before they had all gone out of their way to avoid him being near them for longer than he had to be though.
Chris was very disappointed in Gibbs. He had felt that Gibbs was a friend but the way he had snubbed Tony and made him feel made Chris think that maybe he didn't know the man at all. When Tony had come to him that evening telling him he felt it was time to move on again, Chris was sad that he was loosing a friend but he had witnessed first hand the behaviour Tony had been subjected to and had to agree with him. This time, however, Tony wanted to stay with NCIS as the agency had treated him well generally, apart from a couple of their agents, and Chris told him to go and see the director, Tom Morrow, the next day. Both Tony and Chris went to bed wondering what the outcome of this meeting was and hoping that Tony would find a team that treated him well.
SORRY THIS IS SO SHORT. I AM NOT SURE IF THIS IS A GOOD STORY OR NOT.