Thursday: Vacation
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comment_ficWe've reached Thursday, which means it's my last day as your host. I've had a blast and I hope you have too. We're going to finish the week off by going on vacation. All-inclusive 5-star resorts or dumps with cockroaches? Relaxing by the pool or sight-seeing?
Please just remember:
And, as ever, the correct format for prompts is as follows
Criminal Minds, Rossi & Hotch, you do remember what a vacation is, don't you?
Quantum Leap/Chuck, Sam Beckett, family vacation with the Bartowskis
If today's round of h/c doesn't take your fancy, please remember there's always the Lonely Prompts
Please just remember:
- Only three prompts for the same fandom & only five prompts in a row (though if one of your prompts is filled, you can prompt again).
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- Take the monkeys into consideration when writing your prompt. If the prompt is too long, it becomes very hard to record it properly in the archive. Fics are also meant to be comment sized! If you get very inspired, that's ok, but long detailed prompts deserve long detailed stories, and that's not what we're about. Thank you!
And, as ever, the correct format for prompts is as follows
Criminal Minds, Rossi & Hotch, you do remember what a vacation is, don't you?
Quantum Leap/Chuck, Sam Beckett, family vacation with the Bartowskis
If today's round of h/c doesn't take your fancy, please remember there's always the Lonely Prompts
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Date: 2011-02-24 09:45 pm (UTC)Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 12:01 am (UTC)"Okay, what gives?"
Steve blinks, and his expression shifts into Stoic SEAL Face #4: I Feel Nothing. "Nothing," he says, predictably.
Danny congratulates himself on properly naming the face as he turns towards Steve. "Not nothing," he contradicts. "No, my friend, not nothing, because you've been moody and quiet since we got on the plane, and that's weird. You haven't made fun of me for my tie, my shoes, nothing." He pokes Steve's chest. "What gives?"
Steve shrugs uncomfortably. "I don't like going into unfamiliar situations."
"Unfamiliar situ-" Danny stops, takes a breath, changes tactics. "Look, babe, this isn't a hostile situation. There are no bombs, no guns, no knives coming your way, so you really gotta unclench those shoulders of yours and breathe." He turns back to the wheel and starts the ignition. "I have no idea why you're freaking out about this more than I am."
"Not like I have to worry about about telling my parents that I'm marrying my gay lover," Steve says blandly, stretching out in the seat.
Danny can feel the shock on his face as he whips back around to face Steve. "Marrying my - is that why you're flipping shit? You think I'm gonna have some big gay freakout in front of my family and they're gonna have some big my-kid-is-gay freakout and you're gonna be-"
Steve's non-answer is enough. "Jesus," Danny swears, unbuckling his seat belt so he can lean over into Steve's space. "Look at me, you idiot," he says with more fondness than anger, and isn't that telling enough? "My youngest sister is living with a girl. You know this. My family isn't gonna care. And if I haven't flipped out before now, what makes you think I will after this?"
"They're your family," Steve says, and Danny has a sudden vision of McGarrett Senior giving a teenaged Steve disappointed glances, of Steve joining the SEALs to impress his dad, and he shuts it away firmly as he reaches to take Steve's face in his hand.
"I wouldn't have agreed to marry you if I wasn't sure about you, babe," he says softly. "I love you. My family's going to adore you, and even if they don't, I'm still gonna marry you, okay?"
Steve's shoulders finally, finally relax, and he smiles against Danny's palm. "You're sure?"
Danny rolls his eyes. "You're stuck with me," he informs Steve as he leans over to brush their lips together.
"Good," Steve says when Danny moves away, and Danny can't help the way a smile curves his own lips as he repeats, "Good."
Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 12:15 am (UTC)I'd love to see the sequel to this where they do meet the family! You're a great writer!
Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 01:22 am (UTC)There's tense and then there's Steve, Danny thinks that night at dinner. It seems like his mother has called in every Williams family member she could think of to visit while Danny's home, and they're currently jammed around the table with Danny's sisters and their families as well as a few cousins. There's Emily and her husband Joe, Ginny and her husband Steve (which his Steve had pulled a face at, one Danny didn't even have to name to know it means awkward), his cousins Sarah and Pete and Luke, and then his sister Lindsey and her partner Janey right next to Danny and Steve. His mom and dad are there, too, and Em and Gin's kids are running around like they've been in the sugarbowl for a week.
Danny settles back into his family like he'd never left, though it's been almost two years since he's been back. He's involved in three different conversations before he can blink, laughing with Pete about something while he teases Gin and Joe and asks Luke about college. Over it all, he can hear various family members trying to draw Steve into conversation with varying levels of success. Steve's shoulders are back on high alert, and Danny doesn't even blink as he loops his arm around Steve's waist and rubs his thumb lightly over the skin where Steve's shirt has pulled up from his pants. He turns and says something back to Pete as Steve absolutely freezes under his hand.
"Calm down," Danny says softly as he turns his face back to Steve. "Breathe, babe."
"He's not worried, is he?" Lindsey's voice comes from Steve's other side, and Danny grins at his baby sister.
"He doesn't feel right if he's not worrying about something," Danny informs her, and Steve huffs out a breath and crosses his arms. Lindsey laughs, a light, carefree sound, and throws her arm around Steve in a one-armed sideways hug.
"Don't be ridiculous," she tells him. "Nobody cares." She leans away from Steve and grabs Janey's face in both hands, leaning in to plant a big, sloppy kiss on her lips.
"Lindsey, that's why you have a bedroom," Em calls from the other end of the table. Gin laughs and Lindsey grins and flips her off and nobody says anything else, not a word, and Danny can feel Steve relax under his arm.
"They really don't care," he says wonderingly, low in Danny's ear. Danny grins and shakes his head as he brushes his lips along Steve's temple.
"They really don't care," he agrees, and feels Steve let go of the last of his tension.
Dinner is good. It's fun and familiar and the food is excellent, and the conversation has died down to a dull roar by the time the coffee mugs come out. Danny grabs one with a liquor store logo on it and another from his dad's fire company and fills them for himself and Steve.
Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 01:23 am (UTC)"No," Steve says, and that's Determined Face and Concerned Face at the same time, so Danny smiles and leans in to kiss him quickly before pulling away.
"So, Ma," he says casually, reaching for the cream and sugar in the middle of the table. "What's on the calendar for next January?"
"It's this February, Daniel," she responds calmly. "How should I know?"
Danny shrugs like it's no big deal. "Thought you might want to come visit us in Hawaii."
He hears Janey gasp and squeal, and of course she'd put it together first; she works at a law firm that deals with a lot of civil rights cases. He grins in her direction as his mother opens her mouth.
"Why next January? If you want us to visit, why wait until-" And then her jaw snaps shut and she rolls her eyes. "You're so dramatic," she informs him with a sigh that's pure Williams, exasperated and fond. "Congratulations."
Janey leaps out of her seat and wraps one arm around Steve's neck and the other around Danny's as she talks at a million miles an hour about civil unions and courthouses and paperwork and how she wants to help. Lindsey just stares at them for a second with a happy little smile on her face before she turns to the rest of the table.
"Hawaii just legalised civil unions," she informs the rest of the family. "They're getting married."
There's a flurry of excited cheers and catcalls and thumps on the back from around the table, and through the whole thing, Steve sits there with a kind of awestruck look on his face, happy and confused and maybe a little afraid. Danny squeezes the hip he's got under his hand, and Steve looks at him with a dazed expression.
"They don't care," he says again. "They're - happy for us."
"I'm happy for us, too, babe," Danny smiles, leaning in to plant a kiss on Steve's lips that's just as big and sloppy as the one Lindsey had given Janey before.
"Yeah," Steve says with a genuine smile against his lips, "so am I."
Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 02:44 am (UTC)Essentially you're now on my list of people I want to send plot bunnies too and have write for me ;)
Would you mind if I friended you? I write Steve/Danny too and am always looking for new Steve/Danny friends (also you just seem really cool in general :) )
Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 04:36 am (UTC)Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Stuck With Me: Steve/Danny, they go to Jersey to tell Danny's family they're engaged
Date: 2011-02-25 04:36 am (UTC)