Disclaimer:
Not mine, except for the innuendo.
Notes:
Remember that scene where there's a cave-in on Willie and Danny gets
him out and they then declare that they need to shore up the tunnel?
This is a little drabble from that.
Someday I need to be more original and write, I dunno,
Hindley/Colin or Roger/Mac or Hilts/Ives, because EVERYBODY writes
Danny/Willie.
Reassurance
Danny comes crawling up the step ladder to stand beside Willie's bunk in the darkness.
"You are safe," he says, reaching out to touch Willie and arresting the gesture in midair.
"Yes," Willie says, eyes shadowed but voice warm. "I'm all right, Danny."
"I worried, when you had been buried, that we would not get to you in time." Willie can hear, now, the fading panic left from that afternoon's cave-in.
"But you did," Willie says, capturing Danny's hand and resting it against his chest so Danny can feel his heartbeat.
"I know," Danny says, and does not pull away.