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crack_van2007-03-19 11:11 am
nakeisha.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2007-03-19 11:11 am
Ready by Silent Train Conductor (G)
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Leroy Jethro Gibbs/Donald 'Ducky' Mallard (note, that this story can actually be read as either slash or gen)
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
strainconductor
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:
Ready is a missing scene from 'The Meat Puzzle'. It is Ducky's thoughts whilst he is waiting to be rescued; but his thoughts are not of himself, but of those he loves. And he knows that if he dies, if Gibbs fails to rescue him, that Gibbs will blame himself and go on blaming himself for the rest of his life. As he waits for either death or rescue, he remembers his friendship, his relationship with Jethro, and how close and intense it is, and how nothing has ever shattered it. Then we get the intensity of the count down to Ducky's imminent death, and the build up of tension and fear and hope and hopelessness. It is a very powerful and moving story.
Jethro would come. That was a hope; he could always count on Jethro. Jethro would not give up on him, in fact while he is here frightened out of his mind, Jethro is thinking for a way to find him, planning on a way to rescue him.
Yes, Jethro had to find him.
What if he doesn’t?
What if…try as he might, he can’t find you? That you die, in that most horrible death, what then?
Then Jethro would be crushed.
He would consume himself with guilt; Jethro would find a way to blame this entire fiasco on himself. Ducky mentally shouted at him, knowing that perhaps that was what he was thinking at this very moment. Jethro always seemed to think everything was his fault. Not that Ducky could blame him; Jethro was in a world where a mistake cost an agent’s life, where if anything went wrong, there were almost always dire consequences.
Ready
Pairing: Leroy Jethro Gibbs/Donald 'Ducky' Mallard (note, that this story can actually be read as either slash or gen)
Author on LJ:
strainconductorAuthor Website: N/A
Why this must be read:
Ready is a missing scene from 'The Meat Puzzle'. It is Ducky's thoughts whilst he is waiting to be rescued; but his thoughts are not of himself, but of those he loves. And he knows that if he dies, if Gibbs fails to rescue him, that Gibbs will blame himself and go on blaming himself for the rest of his life. As he waits for either death or rescue, he remembers his friendship, his relationship with Jethro, and how close and intense it is, and how nothing has ever shattered it. Then we get the intensity of the count down to Ducky's imminent death, and the build up of tension and fear and hope and hopelessness. It is a very powerful and moving story.
Jethro would come. That was a hope; he could always count on Jethro. Jethro would not give up on him, in fact while he is here frightened out of his mind, Jethro is thinking for a way to find him, planning on a way to rescue him.
Yes, Jethro had to find him.
What if he doesn’t?
What if…try as he might, he can’t find you? That you die, in that most horrible death, what then?
Then Jethro would be crushed.
He would consume himself with guilt; Jethro would find a way to blame this entire fiasco on himself. Ducky mentally shouted at him, knowing that perhaps that was what he was thinking at this very moment. Jethro always seemed to think everything was his fault. Not that Ducky could blame him; Jethro was in a world where a mistake cost an agent’s life, where if anything went wrong, there were almost always dire consequences.
Ready