It's not something you do. Have this conversation. Consider the idea there's a different way of looking at the box. The small space this room is, that feels like it's getting smaller, the more Danny stares him, the more Danny says. Like it's absolutely logical. Like this is anything at all like everything else he's done in his life. Like it all lines up and there won't be problems. Wouldn't be repercussions.
That some things are better not talked about, simply because that's the whole truth of the matter. That's how you handle them. Silently.
Steve's face isn't doing him any favors, turning over and over it all too fast, watching him, close, but further without even moving. The way Danny's talking about this like somehow this part is any more simple, and not epically worse to even consider, no less discuss, than whatever started this. Danny thinking Steve could hate him made more sense than considering announcing this.
To anyone. Especially to Dennings. He didn't even have a handle yet on what he was going to tell Cath, or when that was.
"Because you managed to figure any of this out so easily?" Which might be a little low, but it's a holding point, too. Danny didn't figure it out and he'd been at Steve's side nearly every time he wasn't sleeping, or with Grace. Didn't know. Sputtered at Steve like this was beyond impossible the first minute after being kissed. How. How was it even possible. That Steve would be interested. In him. In anything like this. Had ever looked at a man, no less his partner, in that way.
Hadn't figured out that it had been so long. Hadn't even known about other people Steve might have seen during the time they'd known each other.
It's not that he enjoyed lying to Danny. It's not that pressed to put it into words, he'd ever even agree he did lie to Danny. He didn't. He never once negated it wasn't there. It didn't come up. It didn't need to. He managed it. It wasn't like he wanted to lie to Chin or Kono, or well, he could give a rat's ass about Denning's opinion, so long as Denning's wasn't stripping Danny of his position, or dragging him from Five-0, for this, but sometimes people didn't need to know.
Hadn't Danny just been pointing it wasn't even two weeks and it beyond fast. What if it burned out in less than another two? Cath. Cath was a badly timed accident. He hadn't known Danny would be coming. If he had, she wouldn't have still been here.
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That some things are better not talked about, simply because that's the whole truth of the matter. That's how you handle them. Silently.
Steve's face isn't doing him any favors, turning over and over it all too fast, watching him, close, but further without even moving. The way Danny's talking about this like somehow this part is any more simple, and not epically worse to even consider, no less discuss, than whatever started this. Danny thinking Steve could hate him made more sense than considering announcing this.
To anyone. Especially to Dennings. He didn't even have a handle yet on what he was going to tell Cath, or when that was.
"Because you managed to figure any of this out so easily?" Which might be a little low, but it's a holding point, too. Danny didn't figure it out and he'd been at Steve's side nearly every time he wasn't sleeping, or with Grace. Didn't know. Sputtered at Steve like this was beyond impossible the first minute after being kissed. How. How was it even possible. That Steve would be interested. In him. In anything like this. Had ever looked at a man, no less his partner, in that way.
Hadn't figured out that it had been so long. Hadn't even known about other people Steve might have seen during the time they'd known each other.
It's not that he enjoyed lying to Danny. It's not that pressed to put it into words, he'd ever even agree he did lie to Danny. He didn't. He never once negated it wasn't there. It didn't come up. It didn't need to. He managed it. It wasn't like he wanted to lie to Chin or Kono, or well, he could give a rat's ass about Denning's opinion, so long as Denning's wasn't stripping Danny of his position, or dragging him from Five-0, for this, but sometimes people didn't need to know.
Hadn't Danny just been pointing it wasn't even two weeks and it beyond fast. What if it burned out in less than another two?
Cath. Cath was a badly timed accident. He hadn't known Danny would be coming. If he had, she wouldn't have still been here.