AN: Alright… so, while slash isn’t my cup of tea, I honestly couldn’t think of any way to make this work otherwise. Well, I could, but it wouldn’t have worked in my head that way. I like thinking that Tony’s play boy image is a mask, but what if there was a different dynamic to Tony and Gibbs besides just Gibbs seeing past the mask? That’s what basically started this plot bunny. Also, when I started thinking about it, it eventually wormed its way into canon inside my head. Like, how when Ducky tells Tony that Gibbs used to be a lot like him when he was younger, that was something that Tony should’ve been excited about, yet he didn’t really dwell on it. And the fact that I don’t like Gibbs putting Tony down all the time in the show, I had to come up for a reason for that! So uh… please… read so you can make sense of this before I start babbling, lol. Don’t mind my grammar mistakes; I’m fond of my commas. D: