Danny might not have just been surprised, but she is, briefly, minorly taken aback in a way that makes her straighten in her seat, coming to attention as she blinks. "Just because I was there?"
It's not like she and Steve had anything defined that should cause other people to worry. She knows that. He knows that. It's simple enough to understand.
And yet she's run into this wall of confusion before, when explaining what she has with Steve to people who want something else with, or from, her. That it's easy. That it's fun. That he's usually on the other side of the world, and they have to pick conversations up after months of radio silence, so half the time it's not really worth trying to figure out where they were and where they are and try to force it to make some kind of cohesion. Sex is recreational. It doesn't mean she doesn't care, it just means Steve isn't competition.
Neither is she, but Danny seems to have missed that memo.
Which leads her to shrugging admittance, because, okay. It probably looked bad, from a position outside the understanding the two of them have, that just because they're not sleeping together, it doesn't mean she's not going to claim half to two-thirds of his couch and possibly steal his clothes.
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Danny might not have just been surprised, but she is, briefly, minorly taken aback in a way that makes her straighten in her seat, coming to attention as she blinks. "Just because I was there?"
It's not like she and Steve had anything defined that should cause other people to worry. She knows that. He knows that. It's simple enough to understand.
And yet she's run into this wall of confusion before, when explaining what she has with Steve to people who want something else with, or from, her. That it's easy. That it's fun. That he's usually on the other side of the world, and they have to pick conversations up after months of radio silence, so half the time it's not really worth trying to figure out where they were and where they are and try to force it to make some kind of cohesion. Sex is recreational. It doesn't mean she doesn't care, it just means Steve isn't competition.
Neither is she, but Danny seems to have missed that memo.
Which leads her to shrugging admittance, because, okay. It probably looked bad, from a position outside the understanding the two of them have, that just because they're not sleeping together, it doesn't mean she's not going to claim half to two-thirds of his couch and possibly steal his clothes.
"I hope you cleared that up for him."