Look, for a man who claims his unending annoyance at Steve on a hourly basis, it’s waaaaay telling how needy Danny’s You miss me, don’t you? sounds, and hell, he does grow six inches every time he understands how much Steve appreciates and needs him. Danny needs to be needed and adored like Steve does. And he KNOWS what he’s doing, because he fucking checks behind his back that Chin IS NOT within earshot, because he KNOWS what his question, with that words, with that tone (you, my friend, have a tone) sounds like: he’s openly flirting, testing the waters, doing it from the safety of a phone because god knows where they’ll end up doing what, if he flirted in person…
But I’ll never stop cracking at my dumbass goofy baby, who starts flirting with the Governor on the phone believing it’s Danny again (do I remember correctly and Catherine was still around and about to take off from the bullpen? Yeah she’s still there and Steve doesn’t even check she’s within earshot before flirting with Danny, obviously….), and when he notices his mistake, he panics and totally thinks IT’S A PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE JUSTIFICATION FOR HIS FLIRTING to tell him he believed it was Detective Williams???? How, pray tell me, does this implication make the whole mistake better?!?
So, Danny wants to keep the flirting low when in presence of their colleagues because he’s a professional, beside being a needy pillow princess, while Steve broadcasts his lust and infatuation before colleagues, not-girlfriends, employers and the fucking universe.
They’re both idiots. Who need to bone.
