Everything had started to unravel very fast all of a sudden for Tony and he just couldn't accept it and before it all came spilling out he just knew that it was coming and there was nothing he could do to avoid it.
First of all there had been the episode with Martin, as just after determining that with having informed him that night of the dreadful date that he actually wasn't interested in him, Tony hadn't realised that Martin's feelings over the matter weren't the same and that Martin had become infatuated over him. Not that he'd done anything like leaving notes or messages for him or even that he'd tried calling and texting him. No he had just been observing him as close as he could get to Tony without him managing to actually see him. So he had seen him that night he'd been to Gibbs and all the other times following that night where Tony had been out with the rest of the team or had had nights with friends or just with Steve. Things had subsequently come to a head when he had been on a night out with Steve and few more of their friends along with fellow frat brothers Tim and Jason, the two of them had been wed about a month before, but because of them residing in Ohio not everyone of their friends from the DC area had managed to get to the wedding, so as their honeymoon activities were coming to a conclusion they had decided on coming to DC to have a party with those that hadn't been able to get to the wedding. Once again Martin had been checking out the events from afar as best he could, because he hadn't been able to have got into the bars private room with it being a private function and he not having any invites to the event.
As the night had started to wind down he had then got himself positioned outside of the main exit to the bar and in his infatuation for Tony he had convinced himself that it was actually Tony and Steve that had been really seeing each other, which had been why Tony wasn't interested in him, that Steve had a wife and children didn't matter he was only with her and they had then had the children because of Steve's high powered job and in that world he was in being gay was very much frowned upon, which was why they had that cover to keep them safe. So as they stepped out of the bar together Martin had flown straight at Tony yelling at him about the lie they had been telling and that was why Tony had lied to him about not wishing to date him.
Strangely for once that night Tony hadn't really drunk much that night, he supposed later on after the event with Martin it was because his 'Gibbs gut' had been churning away before he had even left for the night out and so he had remained reasonably sober that night. Which as Martin had flown at him and had sought to seriously beat him up, Tony had been prepared to keep his own and had very promptly got him under control and in handcuffs. During the struggle itself Steve had got onto the phone to Gibbs and by the time he'd got there it was the moment that Tony had got everything under control, at first because of knowing that Tony couldn't be anywhere near the investigation because of being the casualty of it, he was going to take Martin back to the Navy Yard himself and then get Steve to drive Tony back to there as well so that he could then make his report. But then once he got close enough he could perceive that even though he had taken good care of himself Tony had already got a spectacular bruise coming out on his cheek, not only that he had further noticed him trying to disguise the fact that he was getting pains in his wrist. So with that he called McGee and Ziva out to remove Martin back to the Navy Yard instead, while under some protest as invariably did, he was going to take Tony to the emergency room. Although he was still glad that it took place before they got there to pick up anything because it was just as he was trying to examine Tony's cheek and wrist that Martin yelled out from the position Gibbs had placed him in with Steve and a couple of others keeping an eye on him as they waited "I got it all wrong, it's not Steve and you together is it? The two of you are the ones that are in love with each other, how could I not have known that?!" As Gibbs gulped hard and turned to face Tony and saw the panicked expression on his face, he had just told him everything that he needed to know.
At the emergency room it was lucky in some respects that it was somewhat good news as Tony's cheek was just severely bruised and there was nothing broken, but for his wrist there were some severely torn ligaments, which even though they would improve, it would still mean that he would be on desk duty only for a limited period. Even though his injuries didn't warrant it to his mind, Gibbs still asserted that Tony came to stay with him that night and he did end up accepting it.
In the end though that night seemed to end up being one of discoveries and even though the two headstrong idiots still didn't admit to one another how they felt about each other, but it did bring out the stories of how they had realised that they were both bi and how they had found out about it. For Gibbs it had been some experimentation while at the end of high school, but accepted when he had his first meaningful relationship with a man before he had met Shannon. For Tony it had been an initial experimentation while at school, but strangely he'd found out the truth about himself when he'd had a brief relationship with Tim the man who's wedding that they had been celebrating that night.
Somehow after that night Tony likewise didn't end up leaving Gibbs home, as after observing him trying to struggle out of his clothes and into sweats to sleep in, then the next morning trying to struggle into his suit, although with it resulting in being more troublesome getting into it he did end up going into his more informal wear for a few days, but Gibbs still ended up taking pity on him and ended up helping him with it all. Over those few days or so even if they had still ended up being too stubborn to admit to anything towards their feelings for one another, the two of them had started to recognize that their relationship was leading to evolve all over again and the two of them were becoming even closer.