"That Ste you know who he reminds me of?" Brendan's eyes narrowed as he poured more whiskey into his and Danny's glass. He didn't answer just sipped his drink waiting for Danny to carry on. "That bartender from Liverpool. What was his name? Vance?"

"Vinnie."

"Right, right. Vinnie. It's like seeing doubles."

Next Morning

Ste silently thanked his lucky stars that he wasn't working until that evening; the last thing he wanted was Danny to corner him again. He had heard about Danny when he first moved to Hollyoaks but never thought he would meet the guy personally. Hell he thought the same about Brendan but he never thought that Brendan and Danny would be in business together. According to Amy from what she had heard gossip wise. Danny was more behind the scenes never front of house.

He thought it best to keep what had happened between him and Danny a secret the last thing he wanted was Amy to freak out she was paranoid enough as it was because he was know working for Brendan. Still money was money and he had kids to support. He had hoped to have a quiet day in the flat and spend sometime with Leah and Lucas but his hopes were dashed when he received a message from Brendan.

Brendan:

Need you to pull a double shift. Short staffed. Be at Chez Chez in 45 minutes.

So he had 45 minutes to pull himself together, first he needed to show that Danny wasn't getting to him. Second he had to figure out a way of stopping Brendan was coming to his rescue, it was like whenever something bad was happening he just appeared to sort the situation out. He wasn't going to anywhere with people fighting his battles for him. And he knew exactly how he was going to answer Brendan's question. Whether it was rhetorical or not.

He arrived five minutes early for his shift to find the club completely dead and the only person there being Brendan. "Err, where is everyone?" Brendan looked up from his clipboard. "Got a couple things you need to do Steven." He handed him a list of jobs, most of which were stocking up on alcohol and bringing the crates up. He carefully read each one he didn't want to tell Brendan that reading wasn't his strongest attribute. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah, I'll just go them crates."

He referred to the list only several times as he carefully filled each crates with an extra bottle or two to be sure and save time running up and down to the basement if they ran out, he tried to occupy his thoughts to his work since he had lost the nerve to question what Brendan had asked him last night about trouble following him.

It probably was just one of those questions which didn't even need an answer. He thought to himself, no point getting himself worked up about it. Brendan probably had his own reason for why he seemed to be there when anything bad happened to him. "Steven, when you're done with that…" the sound of Brendan's voice collided with the smash of a bottle he turned around as the mixture of shock and surprise passed as quickly as it came. Brendan looked down at the broken pieces of bottle and back to Ste. "Oops." That was all he said as Ste knelt down picking up the larger shards of glass.

He could feel his gaze as he cleaned up his mess he tried to push the stare aside but he still managed to cut his hand on one of the larger shards. Brendan in which seemed to be his style, pulled Ste up by his hoodie and took his hand. Examining the cut closely before pulling him towards the sink.

In those moments of contact, Ste couldn't help but notice strange warmth running through his body, his breathing became shallow. His skin seemed to heat up like he had a fever. "Doesn't look like you're going to need stitches."

Ste bit his lip in an effort to repress any sound, which might escape his lips, he watched as Brendan carefully cleaned the cut. His body so close to his he could feel Brendan's body heat.

A/N: Thought it would give the story a little twist to mention Vinnie (Wasn't sure how to spell the name.. It could have been 'Vinnie' or 'Vinny'
Also if I do a little of POV (point of view) from Brendan's side he'll be in italics cos this is mostly Ste's (POV). Thanks for the reviews :)