When I Touch You
Title: When I Touch You
Author: silmanumenel
Disclaimer: Nothing in here belongs to me, all is property of CBS. I’m also not making any money with this, I don't think anybody would pay me.
Rating: PG
Pairing: Danny/Steve
Word Count: 608
Summary: Steve is not an overly tactile person, but that might be about to change.
Notes: For shinysylver's prompt when I touch you I feel happy inside at her Beatlemania Prompt Fest.
Steve’s never been a touchy-feely kind of person, never felt compelled to hug his teammates after a football game, never felt the need to hold hands with his girlfriends - and okay, his boyfriend - in high school or to put his arms around them in the cinema, he didn’t miss anything in the Navy where the only touching maybe happened in a sparring match, and he certainly never felt a desire to cuddle something or someone.
But then, one day, something changed because Danny blew into his life and turned everything upside down. Now he gets touched all the time because Danny apparently can’t function without touching everyone around him. It starts in the morning when Danny comes to pick him up, barging into his house without knocking ever, hitting him over the head with the newspaper that he’s bringing in from the doorstep before handing him a cup of coffee with a pat to his shoulder, and it usually continues from there.
Danny touches his hand when he wants to get his attention, Danny pokes his chest when he’s ranting, Danny grabs his shirt when he’s explaining something, Danny tugs at his arm when he wants Steve to follow him, and, the newest thing, when Steve is doing paperwork - and no matter what Danny says he does know that he has to do his own - and needs help with a form, Danny comes up behind his chair and drapes himself all over his back to point out things on the computer screen. It surprises Steve that he doesn’t mind at all.
But what comes as an even bigger surprise to Steve is when he begins touching back. It starts easily enough with a hand on Danny’s back when they have to go talk to a difficult witness or an arm around Danny’s shoulders when they’re sitting on his couch after a long case with a Longboard and a game on TV, and it progresses from there until Steve barely even remembers what it was like not to be in Danny’s space all the time.
It takes him quite a long time to understand this new feeling, and it’s not before they’ve been together three months that Steve finally figures it out. He is lying in bed one morning, for once too lazy to get up for his morning swim, and watches Danny sleep, running careful fingers through his partner’s tousled hair, over his cheeks and lips and down to his chest before scooting closer and resting his head on Danny’s shoulder. Danny’s heart is beating steadily under his hand, and there’s this warm feeling inside of him, enveloping him like a blanket, and it’s then that it hits him. He is happy. He is happier than he’s likely ever been since his mom died, and it’s all because of Danny, because he can reach out and Danny’s there, pushing away the shadows and accepting Steve just as he is.
A smile spreads over Steve’s face and he cuddles Danny even closer, burying his head in his partner’s neck and ignoring the quiet grumbling that indicates Danny is slowly waking up, never wanting to let go again. And as Danny’s arm comes up around his back, his hand gently stroking Steve’s side, Steve suddenly remembers an old song his mom sometimes used to hum when his dad had done something particularly romantic. He doesn’t recall much of it, but there’s this one line that he never understood and that makes such perfect sense now, and Steve knows that he never wants to lose this feeling now that he’s found it.
And when I touch you I feel happy inside.
Author: silmanumenel
Disclaimer: Nothing in here belongs to me, all is property of CBS. I’m also not making any money with this, I don't think anybody would pay me.
Rating: PG
Pairing: Danny/Steve
Word Count: 608
Summary: Steve is not an overly tactile person, but that might be about to change.
Notes: For shinysylver's prompt when I touch you I feel happy inside at her Beatlemania Prompt Fest.
Steve’s never been a touchy-feely kind of person, never felt compelled to hug his teammates after a football game, never felt the need to hold hands with his girlfriends - and okay, his boyfriend - in high school or to put his arms around them in the cinema, he didn’t miss anything in the Navy where the only touching maybe happened in a sparring match, and he certainly never felt a desire to cuddle something or someone.
But then, one day, something changed because Danny blew into his life and turned everything upside down. Now he gets touched all the time because Danny apparently can’t function without touching everyone around him. It starts in the morning when Danny comes to pick him up, barging into his house without knocking ever, hitting him over the head with the newspaper that he’s bringing in from the doorstep before handing him a cup of coffee with a pat to his shoulder, and it usually continues from there.
Danny touches his hand when he wants to get his attention, Danny pokes his chest when he’s ranting, Danny grabs his shirt when he’s explaining something, Danny tugs at his arm when he wants Steve to follow him, and, the newest thing, when Steve is doing paperwork - and no matter what Danny says he does know that he has to do his own - and needs help with a form, Danny comes up behind his chair and drapes himself all over his back to point out things on the computer screen. It surprises Steve that he doesn’t mind at all.
But what comes as an even bigger surprise to Steve is when he begins touching back. It starts easily enough with a hand on Danny’s back when they have to go talk to a difficult witness or an arm around Danny’s shoulders when they’re sitting on his couch after a long case with a Longboard and a game on TV, and it progresses from there until Steve barely even remembers what it was like not to be in Danny’s space all the time.
It takes him quite a long time to understand this new feeling, and it’s not before they’ve been together three months that Steve finally figures it out. He is lying in bed one morning, for once too lazy to get up for his morning swim, and watches Danny sleep, running careful fingers through his partner’s tousled hair, over his cheeks and lips and down to his chest before scooting closer and resting his head on Danny’s shoulder. Danny’s heart is beating steadily under his hand, and there’s this warm feeling inside of him, enveloping him like a blanket, and it’s then that it hits him. He is happy. He is happier than he’s likely ever been since his mom died, and it’s all because of Danny, because he can reach out and Danny’s there, pushing away the shadows and accepting Steve just as he is.
A smile spreads over Steve’s face and he cuddles Danny even closer, burying his head in his partner’s neck and ignoring the quiet grumbling that indicates Danny is slowly waking up, never wanting to let go again. And as Danny’s arm comes up around his back, his hand gently stroking Steve’s side, Steve suddenly remembers an old song his mom sometimes used to hum when his dad had done something particularly romantic. He doesn’t recall much of it, but there’s this one line that he never understood and that makes such perfect sense now, and Steve knows that he never wants to lose this feeling now that he’s found it.
And when I touch you I feel happy inside.