Tony decided he'd had enough. Enough of being inexplicably benched and being demeaned. Gibbs was cold, distant, and perpetually angry but only with him; no one else. It had gone like this for months. Gibbs refused to explain, to allow him to understand what he'd done. And he'd tried to so many times.
He stopped denying the distance that had grown between them was now a chasm that couldn't be bridged. He was tired…so tired of trying. Gibbs was…implacable. He didn't understand it, couldn't change it, and it wasn't in him to keep pretending all of it didn't cut deeply.
The only choice left to him now was leaving, and he resolved to do exactly that. Until he'd decided where to go next, when it came to Gibbs he'd be implacable too.