The world immolates down without so much as whisper when Danny 's first reaction isn't even words. His first reaction is to pull away, and maybe he deserves that. Maybe he does. But it does not keep his skin from feeling like every finger was a hook and his scream is ripping itself, without moving, to go in the same direction of that hand that is moving. When his hand is in the air.
Leaves him having nothing better to do, nothing other to do than cross his arms. While the beer gets set down and Danny comes back, hands already up, words already pouring out and getting everywhere. Filling up his living room with voice. Agreement as much as denial. Reasons that run into excuses that bleed out as words so thin and fast it's like they are trying to get out before the emotion in that town can even get it's slippery hands on them.
"Do the math?" Seriously? It's a snap. "I don't have to. I was here, and so was she. Pretty much for the moment you left."
Which is punctured down, but it's not a point. Because that he has nothing against. He made Danny go. Knew he had to. No matter what was going on in the space behind his own eyes. And Cath being here kept the entire place from being empty, too. If not in the same way.
Not when he went to bed alone and woke up alone. With no words chasing out the ones repeating in him still. With little rest.
"And all of that time? Any of it that wasn't spent checking up on the rest of the team--" Steve added on, because it was true, of his last two days. Both of them. All three of them. "She spent it, at arms length, trying her level best at every single direction to figure out more about you."
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Leaves him having nothing better to do, nothing other to do than cross his arms. While the beer gets set down and Danny comes back, hands already up, words already pouring out and getting everywhere. Filling up his living room with voice. Agreement as much as denial. Reasons that run into excuses that bleed out as words so thin and fast it's like they are trying to get out before the emotion in that town can even get it's slippery hands on them.
"Do the math?" Seriously? It's a snap. "I don't have to. I was here, and so was she. Pretty much for the moment you left."
Which is punctured down, but it's not a point. Because that he has nothing against. He made Danny go. Knew he had to. No matter what was going on in the space behind his own eyes. And Cath being here kept the entire place from being empty, too. If not in the same way.
Not when he went to bed alone and woke up alone. With no words chasing out the ones repeating in him still. With little rest.
"And all of that time? Any of it that wasn't spent checking up on the rest of the team--" Steve added on, because it was true, of his last two days. Both of them. All three of them. "She spent it, at arms length, trying her level best at every single direction to figure out more about you."