How's he supposed to do anything but just look at him, feeling like all the boards of his ribcage have been ripped out and replaced with sliding, melting walls of honeycomb, because Steve is a stupid selfless bastard and Danny is absolutely helpless in the face of his self-sacrificial idiocy.
Because Steve thinks this is necessary. Steve thinks he needs to give this up to give Danny a fighting chance, and that's -- it's not something Danny knows how to compute. Being more important. Being important, at all. Important enough that Steve's willing to do this just so Danny's chances will get minorly less slim. So, really, just what the hell is he supposed to do, when Steve's saying anything but that he doesn't care, because caring about Danny's chances with the court is about as far from changing his mind as it's possible to get while still staying in the same zip code?
He wants to cup Steve's face in his hands, draw him down. Nudge his forehead up against Steve's granite wall of a head, and make sure he hears, understands. Is close enough for Steve to feel words as breath against his lips, because maybe then he'll get it.
"Hey. Listen to me."
It's accompanied by a tug of Steve's wrist, and Danny peering up at him, flummoxed and feeling more than a little like he's trying to keep his feet after having the rug pulled out from under his feet. "There is no world in which you could take Grace away from me. Okay? Are you getting this? The only person who could do that is Rachel. Not you. Not even the judge. Rachel. Hey. Listen to me."
His free hand goes to Steve's other arm, but it's not a breaking grip, isn't tight; just firm fingers curling over his bicep before he lifts it, moves it to the side of Steve's neck.
"You are a major reason why I still have Grace at all. Okay? If Rachel and her evil, soul-sucking lawyers want to use you against me, if they've got a problem with this, if they find out, then we will deal with it. But I'm not letting you make the sacrifice play because my ex-wife decided to duke it out, okay, it's not an option, so try again."
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Date: 2013-05-03 02:25 pm (UTC)How's he supposed to do anything but just look at him, feeling like all the boards of his ribcage have been ripped out and replaced with sliding, melting walls of honeycomb, because Steve is a stupid selfless bastard and Danny is absolutely helpless in the face of his self-sacrificial idiocy.
Because Steve thinks this is necessary. Steve thinks he needs to give this up to give Danny a fighting chance, and that's -- it's not something Danny knows how to compute. Being more important. Being important, at all. Important enough that Steve's willing to do this just so Danny's chances will get minorly less slim. So, really, just what the hell is he supposed to do, when Steve's saying anything but that he doesn't care, because caring about Danny's chances with the court is about as far from changing his mind as it's possible to get while still staying in the same zip code?
He wants to cup Steve's face in his hands, draw him down. Nudge his forehead up against Steve's granite wall of a head, and make sure he hears, understands. Is close enough for Steve to feel words as breath against his lips, because maybe then he'll get it.
"Hey. Listen to me."
It's accompanied by a tug of Steve's wrist, and Danny peering up at him, flummoxed and feeling more than a little like he's trying to keep his feet after having the rug pulled out from under his feet. "There is no world in which you could take Grace away from me. Okay? Are you getting this? The only person who could do that is Rachel. Not you. Not even the judge. Rachel. Hey. Listen to me."
His free hand goes to Steve's other arm, but it's not a breaking grip, isn't tight; just firm fingers curling over his bicep before he lifts it, moves it to the side of Steve's neck.
"You are a major reason why I still have Grace at all. Okay? If Rachel and her evil, soul-sucking lawyers want to use you against me, if they've got a problem with this, if they find out, then we will deal with it. But I'm not letting you make the sacrifice play because my ex-wife decided to duke it out, okay, it's not an option, so try again."