Like the Dead, by Nixa Jane (PG)

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Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Tony/Kate or Tony/Ziva if you squint, but mostly Gen
Author on LJ: *shamed* Can't remember...
Author Website: ff.net page
Why this must be read: I find Kate a slightly odd character, because I only started watching the show in the fourth season, and went back to the Kate episodes later, so I don't have the same emotional attachment that some fic writers have. I loved this fic, where Tony compares his two partners - it's a fascinating character study, and very well written.


Sometimes he wakes up screaming, but this is not the status quo.
What usually happens is this:

Tony comes home and un-holsters his gun, then he places it beside his ID badge in a drawer. He turns on the TV, a movie maybe, starring Cary Grant or Tom Cruise or Steve McQueen. He'll fall asleep before it's over, but more likely than not, he's got it memorized already anyway.

He won't think at all, won't hardly move; not until the alarm wakes him and he starts again.

Ziva sometimes forgets the rules, lingers a little too long. It's a game, this flirting thing he does, but she smiles sometimes like she'll let him catch her if he tries.

Kate was never that careless.



Like the Dead