AN: Thanks to feckle for one crucial idea behind this.
Réponse à Anon : Merci pour ta review, je suis contente que ma fic te plaise et j'espère que la suite te plaira toujours autant!
Danny Reyes belongs to Judas Kiss and Carlos Pedraza.
Excavation and Extrapolation
Peer pressure only works on those with the possibility of acceptance into the fold. For the outsider, it's meaningless. If the system shuts you out, you reject it wholesale.
Danny was born different – poor, unwanted, manifestly abused. He might have sought out his own kind but even they shied away from his extreme circumstances. No one willingly enters a volatile situation. He was ignored at school and on the streets and formed tenuous temporary alliances with those equally undesirable based on need rather than any genuine sense of solidarity.
Other parents pitied him and held their own children closer to keep the danger at bay. His teachers simply wished he would disappear; he was a reminder of everything that could and did go wrong. His peers just didn't understand. He was too angry, too dangerous and much too smart.
What did Ivo see in him, that first fated day? An irresistibly pretty face? There was no sweetness to Danny. A passionate being, then, a live wire like himself? Ivo's as human as the rest of us. But it was much more than that. He could have had that anywhere. No, it had to have been the fact that Danny was an enigma, a locked box. Something to study and learn from. A scientific exploration, reconstruction.
Dig, find, clean, identify, catalogue, display.
And then celebrate.
Discreetly, of course.