MCA #0, Sunday Afternoon

[hatesparadise]

Danny had done a perfectly normal, reasonable thing for a coworker and friend and purchased that new X-Box thing for Steve's Christmas gift. And now he was being dragged into playing a game with him.

It wasn't going terrible well for him.

"I don't understand the controller," he grumbled. "Arcade games were better, you know."

That was loser talk there.

[For the housemate!]

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[grenadesandohana]

"I'm sorry," Steve said sincerely.

[hatesparadise]

"That's not--that's not the problem here, babe."

[grenadesandohana]

"It's not?"

Steven. Steven.

[hatesparadise]

"It's really not," Danny confirmed. "Think if you were in my shoes and I was in yours."

[grenadesandohana]

Steve swallowed hard. "I would've gotten there in time, too," he said.

[hatesparadise]

"Yeah, I know you would," he replied softly. With complete confidence in Steve.

[grenadesandohana]

If Steve's hand was hovering a little closer to Danny's knee than strictly necessary, well. These things happened.

"Even banged up like this," Steve added.

[hatesparadise]

Danny sighed and nodded. "But it still pains me to see you get hurt. Gonna be like that, babe. Part of the relationship."

Partnership. Work partnership.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve sighed. That was why he wasn't ever going to mention that his shoulder got rejacked subduing Danny during the whole brainwashed-by-reindeer thing.

"I'm getting better," he insisted.

[hatesparadise]

Oh, the guilt Danny would feel. The guilt.

"Yeah. Just don't be shocked about it," he teased gently.

[grenadesandohana]

"I'm gonna be a little shocked," Steve admitted, smiling back.

[hatesparadise]

"That is because you're a hyena in human form," Danny informed him, putting his hand on Steve's in a totally normal bro way.

[grenadesandohana]

It was as normal as whatever sprawling thing Steve was doing into what was left of Danny's personal space.

"A hyena gets a bad rap anyway," Steve said.

[hatesparadise]

Danny snorted, getting comfortable in that sprawl. He was a cuddler, sue him.

"You're gonna tell me what your doc says, right?"

[grenadesandohana]

"Yes," Steve said, making a face. "You'd probably call and ask if I didn't."

[hatesparadise]

"Learned it from you, babe."

[grenadesandohana]

"It's expedient," Steve said.

[hatesparadise]

"It's expedient, he says," Danny chuckled.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve beamed at him. "I'm a big fan of fast."

Like this was maybe news to Danny or something.

[hatesparadise]

"Oh, really? Since when?" DANNY KNEW THIS FROM THE MOMENT THE IDIOT GOT HIM SHOT.

[grenadesandohana]

"Couple of weeks or so," Steve teased.

[hatesparadise]

Danny rolled his eyes and give him an elbow to the ribs without any pressure behind it. Because injured person there.

[grenadesandohana]

"Love you too," Steve teased, slinging his non-broken arm around Danny's shoulder.

[hatesparadise]

"I'm not playing this game with you again, though." Boundaries!

[grenadesandohana]

Boundaries were for other people!

"Which game?" Steve asked.

They were generally playing several on different levels.