MCA #0, Friday Evening

[hatesparadise]

Well, it was Friday, but more importantly, it was Friday and there was a new episode of one of the shows that Danny and Steve could watch and get just too invested in.

Which also meant date night.

"I'm starting it if you don't hurry your ass up!" Danny warned from the living room.

[for the fellow!]

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"It's not even live!" Steve called back, hustling in with beer and pizza.

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"So? You would spent forever in there, cleaning up nonexistent crumbs from the pizza boxes."

Five minutes, max.

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"I would not," Steve protested. "You're just impatient."

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"I want to be able to look at my texts without being spoiled!" Oh yeah, that was likely.

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"Who on earth is texting you baking show spoilers?" Steve demanded, handing Danny a beer.

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"...Grace," Danny said, taking the beer.

She most decidedly was not.

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Steve flopped onto the sofa, not taking particular care not to squish Danny on his way down. "I will not embarrass you and your terrible lie by doing the conversion from East Coast to Hawaiian time out loud, but I know it, and I know you know I know it."

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"Maybe she watched it live with one of those... thingies. The ones that change your location."

A VPN, Daniel.

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"She cares that much about a cooking show," Steve said, sounding very dubious.

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"She's half British, babe." That was not an answer at all.

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"And that makes her culturally disposed to caring deeply about baking shows."

Steve didn't sound convinced because he wasn't convinced, Danno.

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"Yes," Danny insisted, grabbing the remote. "I'm starting it. Or do you want to continue to debate this?"

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"I do not want to continue debating this but not because you have won," Steve declared.

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"Uh huh," Danny said, settling back as the ridiculous opening sketch of the season began.

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Steve was ridiculously excited about this starting, but he was trying to play it cool. "We're starting with cakes, right?"

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"That's how it normally starts," Danny agreed. "...we shoulda picked up a cake."

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"Well, too late now," Steve said. "If I leave, you'll watch without me and then I'll have to break off the engagement."

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Danny considered that. Because was it worth the engagement?

"Next time we'll remember."

They would not.

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"Of course we will."

Absolutely will not.

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"We could also make something for these." Oh yeah, just what Steve wanted to deal with. Danny threatening to hit him with a spoon to stop eating whatever batter.

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"After the show, you mean?" Steve asked. "We can make a loaf cake. That's easy."

Steve could make banana bread.

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"Sure." They were missing a single key ingredient that they wouldn't realize until halfway into mixing.

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It was going to be the bananas, wasn't it? "I can definitely make something following a recipe," Steve said, judging the contestant who was just winging it.

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Danny swore they had an overripe one in the freezer. Somewhere in the freezer, Steven!

"Oh, she's goin' home," Danny said, leaning against Steve.

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"Maybe not this week, but in the first three," Steve agreed.