Mixed Feelings part 10

Authors note: Wow! Wait a minute, we're in chapter ten? Oh My God, but I still have so much to write! Well, I guess this will just be a loooooooong story! Hope you don't mind!

So, in this chapter, we have the rest of the Steve/Danny conversation, and to be truthful here, I don't really know what I'm gonna do next. Oh well, I'll just have to figure it out as I go.

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(For those of you who didn't read the changes in chapter 9, the deal is back in place. I am really sorry, but at this point in my life, I have been having some serious problems at home, and your reviews are apparently the only thing that can get me through my day. Hope you understand my lovely readers, so please, review! Remember, 9 reviews!

Chapter 10

Danny put on his "I'm about to catch you in the act" smirk and raised one hand directed at him.

"And you wouldn't happen to have fucked her against the wall before you left would you?"

Steve was left staring at Danny. He didn't even realize about the blush slowly appearing on his cheeks, or that his mouth now hung slightly opened, the only thing on his mind right now were Danny's still to be registered words.

He tried to say something, anything, just a little sound, but nothing came out. Well, it's not like he actually knew what to say. Yeah, because if anyone knows how to respond to something like this, please do give me a call!

"What… wh… are…" Steve stuttered. The all mighty Navy SEAL actually stuttered.

"Oh please!" Danny said before Steve could continue. "You are not gonna ask me what I'm talking about, are you?"

Well I was, but forget about it now.

"You see…" Danny continued, not giving him a chance to talk back. "… when you do have sex with a girl and then leave the next morning in a hurry, just a little piece of advice, don't forget your shirt!" Danny shouted in his face, coming to a stand in front of him.

Oh, so that's where it went!

Danny bit back a chuckle as Steve's eyes widened even more at every word he said.

"Ok, Danny. I only have one question." Steve finally got out.

Silence. One second. Two seconds. Three seconds. Until…

"Well?" Danny asked, trying to get Steve to talk.

"Did I by any chance leave my Iphone there too? Because I've searched everywhere and I still can't- AW!" Steve shrieked in pain as Danny hit him in the back of the head.

"Jeez Danny, calm down! What was that for?" Steve asked while rubbing the spot where Danny had hit him.

It was Danny's time to stare open mouthed at him.

"What was that for- Are you kidding me?" Danny yelled again. "Do you have any idea what you have done? Do you have any idea what Chin will do to you?" Danny continued to yell, hitting him once again in the head. "Listen to me; you are literally going to be chopped to little pieces and then dumped on God knows where by Chin! And you know what, I seriously can't blame him!"

"Hey Danny! Now come on man, you don't know what happened-"

"Oh I know plenty well what happened Steven! Or at least, I know enough to realize that you should probably start trying to get off this island and find another job before Chin kills you!"

Another silence, a little longer this time. Steve relaxed his shoulders a bit and Danny interrupted the silence. Again.

"Kono?" Danny asked in disbelief. "Reeeeeally Steve? KONO?" Danny's tone of voice went up, as if he was trying to get her name inside Steve's head and make him see what he had done.

"Danny, what do you want me to say?" Steve asked, because he really didn't need some more ranting from Danny.

Danny gave him another slap in the back of the head with as much force as he could muster. Steve didn't resist anymore, he knew he deserved it anyway.

Although he had to say… he didn't regret it. Even if Chin Ho killed him, he would die with no regrets.

"Look, Steve…" Danny said as he took a calming breath. "What were you thinking? I mean, you had to know-"

"Know what, Danny?" It was Steve's time to interrupt. "Know what, uh? Know that there would be consequences? Know that this may jeopardize our friendship? Know that if she ever comes back, things will never be the same? Know that Chin will get so pissed… that I seriously don't even know what he's going to do to me? Is that what I had to know?"

"Well, yeah-"

"Don't you think I knew that already Danny?" It was also Steve's time to yell! "Don't you think I knew the consequences back and forth because of the endless times I analyzed them? Because of the endless times I tried to make them smaller, more insignificant, but in the end I couldn't? Do you really think I would do this without thinking about it first?"

"Well apparently you didn't because, guess what? It was just a one time thing!" Danny yelled in his face. "A one time thing that you two are gonna regret for the rest of your lives, you know why? Because every time you look back at your lives you are gonna wonder what it could have been, if anyone of you would have taken the next step, what could come out of it? You are gonna regret with every piece of your soul doing what you did, because now… you will both be miserable without each other."

Steve remained silent. Danny huffed heavily.

This was worst than interrogating a non-cooperative suspect.

"Look… you are both in love with the other!" Danny tried a second time to get to his head. "In love, as in, you don't want a one time thing, you want each other. Now, do you really think you will be able to just forget about this? Do you?" Danny asked, hoping that his friend would finally come to his senses.

Steve didn't say anything. But that didn't mean that he didn't have anything to say, because the fact it that, in his head, there was a turmoil of thoughts that just gave him the worst headache known to man.

Did he want to do it? Hell yes.

Did he enjoy it? It was something amazing.

Could he just forget about it? Never in a million years.

Did he want to be with her? Yes.

Could he be with her? ...

"Danny." Steve started. "I can't do this to her. I just can't. I'm not what she wants; I'm not what she needs. I'm not what's best for her, I mean for God's sake Danny, practically everyone I know keeps dying around me!"

"No, you do not get to say that!" Danny shouted at him. "You know damn well that's not true! You are not some… curse… that makes people die! And don't you dare say you can't be with her just because she is in danger that way! We are all in danger, not because of you, but because of our jobs! You are not the one who gets to decide what we do or don't do, stop acting like you are some misfortune here and do the right thing!"

Steve heard Danny carefully.

Nodding, he started to step out of his office. Just as he was about to reach the door, he turned around to face Danny again.

"I do want to do the right thing here Danny." He said, and opened the door. "That's why it will never happen again."

Authors note: Hi again! Don't really know how I feel about this chapter, but anyway, I hope you liked it.

Don't worry though; next chapter we will jump a little bit ahead in time and things will get a bit more interesting…