"Well, if you do, can you at least open it first? It's a sturdy piece of wood, and I'd hate to cause any damage to your house. Not to mention my head, which is obviously already a lost cause."
He's sort of testing the waters here, with those words, and with the fingers at Steve's side, with the careful shift a little closer. Close enough that those fingers can flatten, spread wide against tense muscle and warm skin through light cotton. Like he's, who knows. Calming a wild animal. Because Steve is dangerous, and he's never not dangerous, but right now he's tense and wire-tight and thrumming with coiled energy.
Not quite trying a smile, because he's sort of concerned Steve might snap any second and, who knows, actually throw him through the door. He doesn't think so, but it's never really a complete impossibility.
But they seem to be coming to some kind of wary truce, with that last statement, like he's testing Danny, like Danny has been so wrong this whole time he should just stop talking altogether, and Danny can't say Steve is wrong to think that, he often thinks it himself. Trouble is, he never can seem to actually stop
And maybe he's not quite sure he's able to drop all the old certainties and truths that he's known, but Steve's right, he should get a say. "I will at the very least be open to other interpretations aside from my own, which, I think we've established, can be inaccurate, to say the least."
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Date: 2013-02-08 01:22 am (UTC)He's sort of testing the waters here, with those words, and with the fingers at Steve's side, with the careful shift a little closer. Close enough that those fingers can flatten, spread wide against tense muscle and warm skin through light cotton. Like he's, who knows. Calming a wild animal. Because Steve is dangerous, and he's never not dangerous, but right now he's tense and wire-tight and thrumming with coiled energy.
Not quite trying a smile, because he's sort of concerned Steve might snap any second and, who knows, actually throw him through the door. He doesn't think so, but it's never really a complete impossibility.
But they seem to be coming to some kind of wary truce, with that last statement, like he's testing Danny, like Danny has been so wrong this whole time he should just stop talking altogether, and Danny can't say Steve is wrong to think that, he often thinks it himself. Trouble is, he never can seem to actually stop
And maybe he's not quite sure he's able to drop all the old certainties and truths that he's known, but Steve's right, he should get a say. "I will at the very least be open to other interpretations aside from my own, which, I think we've established, can be inaccurate, to say the least."