You're Doing This Now?

tags: kidnapped, marriage proposal

Danny sighs as Steve works at the ropes tying them together. He can feel the blood dripping from his partner's wrists, and knows Steve's been cut pretty badly.

"Danny."

"Yeah babe?"

"I've been thinking."

Danny has to actively prevent himself from making a sarcastic comment about that. "About what?"

"About us."

Oh dear. Suddenly the ropes jerk around Danny's hands, and then fall loose. He flexes his fingers and wrists. "Anything specific about us?" He asks, trying not to let his nerves show.

There's a grunt from Steve, and Danny waits patiently. He knows better than to hurry his partner in a situation like this. Another grunt, and he can hear Steve moving around. Seeing the blonde Detective, Steve gives Danny a lopsided grin past the blood on his face, and he smiles back.

"In a manner of speaking." Steve leans forward and Danny holds still as his partner unties him completely. He's about to stand when Steve's hand on his shoulder stops him. The blonde Detective instantly holds still, waiting for instructions. So he's a little surprised when Steve slowly goes down on one knee. What… ?

"Danny. Will you marry me?"

Danny blinks. "What?" He can't have hardly heard that correctly.

"Marry me."

The blonde Detective's gaze flicks around the room. Is this a Navy code or something? He gives his partner a searching look.

Steve sighs. "Danny. I'm asking… I'm really genuinely asking. Marry me. Be mine for ever."

It's beginning to sink in. His partner is asking him, to marry him. "Now?" Danny asks. "You're doing this now?"

Steve shrugs, still half smiling. "I'd been planning it for a while. And they unfortunately took the ring. Should I go and get it back from them?"

The blonde Detective hears the question being asked under that, and realises he hasn't given Steve an answer.

Danny licks his lips. "All right."

Steve's eyebrows lift. "Pardon?"

"Yes babe. Of course I will marry you."

Steve blinks. And then smiles. Properly this time, not the somewhat terrifying smile of earlier. He moves forward to press a kiss to Danny's mouth, and then offers him a hand up.

"I should go and get that ring then."

"You should," agrees Danny.