NCIS Daily Drabble
Prompt: ncis_drabble challenge #186 - 'Episode Related'
Episode 9.10 – Sins of the Father
Original Airdate: November 22, 2011
WARNING: SPOILERS!
Title: 'The Real Deal'
Characters/Pairings: Anthony DiNozzo Sr., Gibbs, Tony
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Money can't buy love. It's just as well...because he's broke.
Beta by Karaokegal
"I didn't do it for you. I did it for your son."
Such gestures are a foreign concept to the man standing barefoot and confused in Gibbs' kitchen. It's slowly beginning to dawn on him that he's a fraud – and not merely in the strict legal sense of the word.
He's not only grown tired of hustling; pretending to be something he's not takes more energy than he can muster on a consistent basis. The cracks in the armor are beginning to show.
There's a terrible irony in all of this...evidently, his son knows him better than he knows himself.