#mcdanno kismet

[trickster-archangel]

No but listen to me for a moment. Humour me. Obviously, in this fundamental exchange here, we tend to focus mainly on Steve’s heartbroken face: Danny is speculating a different ending for his marriage, and Steve immediately jumps to the conclusion that he would've never come to Oahu in the first place thus never meeting Steve. And saving him from himself.

(Funny how this lucid, awake Steve, who probably has imagined lots of these scenarios in the best homage to Danny Williams’s negative thinking, can only see a world where happily married Danny never had a reason to come to Hawai'i....while just a year before, tortured, drugged, hallucinating, not lucidly reasoning anymore, he imagined a whole different world, a parallel universe, where Danny and Rachel were a beautifully in love couple yet Danny HAD CHOSEN to move to Hawai'i, sort of like Lou had done, because what kind of idiot wouldn't grab the chance to live and work in paradise?! Hm...hot stuff for your therapist, Steven....)

But what I tend to focus more onto, here, is Danny’s attitude. We all know very well that Danny’s trademark coping mechanism, when forced to confront his REAL feelings (see the aborted confession in 8x09), is snark and sarcasm. It's inexorable, it's almost uncontrollable, his need to deflect, defuse, disarm, and he does it in a way that most of the times will irritate people, or at least exasperate them, to the point of starting a whole new argument and sneakily move away from thorny topics and dangerous answers.

It's exactly what's happening here, and not just because of his tiny smile and almost bashful eyes, so very not in tune with his sassy words, but especially because they're both still brittle and vulnerable after the night they've spent fighting and accusing and crying and breaking into pieces, because of their fucking inability to communicate instead of biting each other to chase the pain away. They're still raw and exposed, enjoying this sweet truce they signed and trying to build their intimacy back.

If Danny just gives into Steve’s coaxing, if he surrenders to the puppy eyes, there's no way he won't end up spilling six years of pent-up longing and yearning and loving and wanting. And he can’t allow this. They're too ruined and mangled, now, and they'd ruin everything.

Or at least, this is what Danny Williams’s trademark negativity is whispering him.

Idiots in love.