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Damage
NCIS Fanfic
When Gibbs investigates a minor robbery, he uncovers something much more sinister. The resulting investigation has unexpected and far-reaching consequences.
Word count: 134,931 complete
Author's Warning: Darkness, Disintegration, Demons, and Daylight contain flashback/memory scenes of child sexual abuse. The entire story deals with the theme of child sexual abuse. This is NOT an incest fic. I’ve tried to deal with the scenes sensitively and they are relatively light of explicit detail, but they do need to be there as they are an important part of the psychology of the character involved.
Spoilers: This story is set during or beyond season six and Vance is director. However, it is not generally spoilery for season six beyond a couple of very tiny references.
When Gibbs investigates a minor robbery, he uncovers something much more sinister. The resulting investigation has unexpected and far-reaching consequences.
Word count: 134,931 complete
Author's Warning: Darkness, Disintegration, Demons, and Daylight contain flashback/memory scenes of child sexual abuse. The entire story deals with the theme of child sexual abuse. This is NOT an incest fic. I’ve tried to deal with the scenes sensitively and they are relatively light of explicit detail, but they do need to be there as they are an important part of the psychology of the character involved.
Spoilers: This story is set during or beyond season six and Vance is director. However, it is not generally spoilery for season six beyond a couple of very tiny references.
- GenresM M RomanceFan Fiction
405 pages, ebook
First published March 30, 2009
2 people are currently reading
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About the author
Xanthe Walter
35 books225 followersXanthe has been writing for most of her life, creating hundreds of short stories, novellas, and novels. Born in London, England, she puts her drama degree to good use by creating dramatic adventures about gorgeous men!
She had a day job for many moons, but when she discovered the wonderful world of MM fanfiction, she knew she'd found her tribe!
She wrote in fandom for over a decade, winning many awards, before transitioning to professional writing in 2012 with the BDSM romp, Ricochet.
Xanthe writes genre-defying MM romances, skilfully weaving murder mysteries, sci-fi, and fantasy into compelling love stories. Her books often contain plenty of spice, as well as the occasional sprinkling of BDSM.
If you enjoy MM romance and relish engaging novels with well-written characters, then jump on board her emotional rollercoaster!
Sometimes she goes to dark places, but you're guaranteed payoffs that hit the sweet spot and make the journey truly memorable.
When she's not writing, Xanthe is a musical theatre fan, geeks out on Tudor history, and never says no to a proper cream tea! She splits her time between London and Somerset with her two beautiful cats.
Come and join her on her friendly Facebook group Xanthology.
She had a day job for many moons, but when she discovered the wonderful world of MM fanfiction, she knew she'd found her tribe!
She wrote in fandom for over a decade, winning many awards, before transitioning to professional writing in 2012 with the BDSM romp, Ricochet.
Xanthe writes genre-defying MM romances, skilfully weaving murder mysteries, sci-fi, and fantasy into compelling love stories. Her books often contain plenty of spice, as well as the occasional sprinkling of BDSM.
If you enjoy MM romance and relish engaging novels with well-written characters, then jump on board her emotional rollercoaster!
Sometimes she goes to dark places, but you're guaranteed payoffs that hit the sweet spot and make the journey truly memorable.
When she's not writing, Xanthe is a musical theatre fan, geeks out on Tudor history, and never says no to a proper cream tea! She splits her time between London and Somerset with her two beautiful cats.
Come and join her on her friendly Facebook group Xanthology.
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August 23, 2024
N.b., this was written before Robert Wagner ever appeared as Senior, so other than being neglectful and dismissive of young Tony, this Mr. DiNozzo is a very different man... though even not being (frequently) physically or (ever) sexually abusive himself, he still managed to contribute to Tony's psychological *damage*.
Not all of Xanthe's works are for me, and I'll admit Tony/Gibbs is far from my OTP (I read more team-bashing stuff and Tony-leaves [crossovers], and tend to favor more level relationship dynamics), but this was gripping, intense, well-written, emotional, and ultimately hopeful and satisfying. It was nice for a change to read a longfic with the whole team being supportive as they each came to find out about Tony's secret[s] (even if it did require a bit of wearing canon-blinders).
Not all of Xanthe's works are for me, and I'll admit Tony/Gibbs is far from my OTP (I read more team-bashing stuff and Tony-leaves [crossovers], and tend to favor more level relationship dynamics), but this was gripping, intense, well-written, emotional, and ultimately hopeful and satisfying. It was nice for a change to read a longfic with the whole team being supportive as they each came to find out about Tony's secret[s] (even if it did require a bit of wearing canon-blinders).
May 7, 2012
Xanthe's love of over-the-top angst was a little too much for me here. I didn't mind it in The First Collar but in Damage I was antsy for the book to come to an end.
Damage deals with Tony's childhood sexual abuse and his Daddy issues. I don't know if the former is alluded to in the actual tv series but I've read enough of the fanfic summaries to conclude the tv series version does have him with a troubled relationship with his father. I've collected a lot of this fanfic but have bypassed the Daddy-issue ones if that's the main theme and after Damage, I can see that was the right decision. But then, with Tony as the MC and Gibbs being Gibbs, 'Daddy' is never far away. A bit icky for some (like FW2) but it doesn't bother me at all. I like May-December romances in the first place and these DiNozzo/Gibbs romances are even better than what I've already read.
The story, briefly - a teen, Justin, is caught stealing an Admiral's laptop and the housekeeper calls NCIS. She explains why she did this to Gibbs cos he, too, wants to know. Long story short, Justin has pics of him on the Addy's laptop and no guesses allowed as to what type of pics they are. So now, Gibbs is interested because it looks much bigger than just a few dirty pics.
It gets even bigger than this. In fact, it explodes, sending Gibbs and his entire team into a daze, wondering if anything will ever be the same again. Because not only does it involve under-aged boys raped over several years by the Admiral and his pedophile buddies; not just because Justin is Boy # 1 out of at least 50, but because DiNozzo, one of Gibbs' own, is Boy #43. If you've read any of this fanfic, you'd know Gibbs is usually portrayed as having been in love with DiNozzo since the latter joined the team. If you watch this series regularly, you'd know Gibbs isn't a man who does anything in half-measures.
So Gibbs and his team, minus Tony, swings into action and this is the part that has made this fanfic so addictive for me - most stories have some action/suspense balanced well with the developing romance and now I've got a load of these with the hottest pairing I could find, all for free. Still, my Gibbs/DiNozzo obsession wasn't enough to enable me to go through 454 reader pages without feeling surfeited. If the author had trimmed this down by a hundred pages, this would have been a 5-star story. As it is, I don't think I could survive Two Wolves because Kate warned that it's very violent.
Now, off for some fluff...
Damage deals with Tony's childhood sexual abuse and his Daddy issues. I don't know if the former is alluded to in the actual tv series but I've read enough of the fanfic summaries to conclude the tv series version does have him with a troubled relationship with his father. I've collected a lot of this fanfic but have bypassed the Daddy-issue ones if that's the main theme and after Damage, I can see that was the right decision. But then, with Tony as the MC and Gibbs being Gibbs, 'Daddy' is never far away. A bit icky for some (like FW2) but it doesn't bother me at all. I like May-December romances in the first place and these DiNozzo/Gibbs romances are even better than what I've already read.
The story, briefly - a teen, Justin, is caught stealing an Admiral's laptop and the housekeeper calls NCIS. She explains why she did this to Gibbs cos he, too, wants to know. Long story short, Justin has pics of him on the Addy's laptop and no guesses allowed as to what type of pics they are. So now, Gibbs is interested because it looks much bigger than just a few dirty pics.
It gets even bigger than this. In fact, it explodes, sending Gibbs and his entire team into a daze, wondering if anything will ever be the same again. Because not only does it involve under-aged boys raped over several years by the Admiral and his pedophile buddies; not just because Justin is Boy # 1 out of at least 50, but because DiNozzo, one of Gibbs' own, is Boy #43. If you've read any of this fanfic, you'd know Gibbs is usually portrayed as having been in love with DiNozzo since the latter joined the team. If you watch this series regularly, you'd know Gibbs isn't a man who does anything in half-measures.
So Gibbs and his team, minus Tony, swings into action and this is the part that has made this fanfic so addictive for me - most stories have some action/suspense balanced well with the developing romance and now I've got a load of these with the hottest pairing I could find, all for free. Still, my Gibbs/DiNozzo obsession wasn't enough to enable me to go through 454 reader pages without feeling surfeited. If the author had trimmed this down by a hundred pages, this would have been a 5-star story. As it is, I don't think I could survive Two Wolves because Kate warned that it's very violent.
Now, off for some fluff...
April 3, 2017
after reading, I was only a sobbing mess. Yes, this is Xanthe's charisma. Falling in love with her words from head to toe since 24/7!!!!!!!!!!! STRONG RECOMMENDATION of this one, and I always need to read it again! always insatiable about her unique bittersweetness!and she's always a wonderful fairy godmother for Tony and Gibbs!!!!!!!!
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