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"Before we start, Danny how are you doing?" Steve asked concerned looking at Danny.
Danny didn't even hesitate before answering, "Fine."
Steve could see that Danny was preoccupied by trying to get Steve's electric blanket to work and cover them both and was not really paying attention.
"Danny..." Steve tried again. Danny dropped the blanket and looked at him.
"Are you okay?" Steve asked again slower.
"Huh? Oh." Danny said looking at his side. He lifted up his shirt to show Steve and they were both able to see the white bandage covering the wound. The bleeding had stopped, and Steve was relieved to see that it looked good. Steve also leaned forward to examine the bump on Danny's head, and saw that besides the small bump and obvious bruise, it too looked okay.
"That looks great, Danny. It's healing nice."
Danny gave Steve a smile and then continued fiddling with the electric blanket. Danny gave a cry of triumph when he was able to untangle the cord, plug it in and get it to work.
"Victory!" He said excited.
Steve rolled his eyes and got closer to Danny so they could share the blanket.
"Now that we're comfy, the next one on the list is nature." Steve said.
Danny looked at him. "Well that one is simple, I don't like the," Danny held up his hands in quotation marks, "nature" here in Hawaii."
"Why the fingers Danny?" Steve asked.
"Because, where I'm from, nature is the fallen concrete building that you get to play in and Central Park. Not the five million miles of forest, jungle, and mountains you have here." Danny said gesturing to the door with the wind blowing outside.
"The New Jersey nature is fake nature. We have real nature." Steve said.
Danny shrugged. "Still don't like it."
"But we went hiking together that one time..."
"And we found a body..." Danny countered.
Steve frowned. "Those were extenuating circumstances."
"Actually now that I think about it, almost everytime I do something in nature with you, one of us gets hurt or we find a body, or almost get blown up or shot."
"That's not true." Steve said trying to provide Danny with an example but not finding one.
"For example, me, you, Grace and the Aloha Girls were supposed to have a nice and peaceful camping trip but then I got shot. In front of Grace and all her little friends. You know I am still known at the school as 'the dad that got shot'. That's me, Grace and Charlie William's dad, bullet magnet!" Danny finished.
"That wasn't my fault though!" Steve protested.
"I am not saying it was your fault. I am simply saying that you, babe," he said pointing to Steve, "are bad luck."
Steve rolled his eyes. "Danny, aren't you being over dramatic?"
"No, no I'm not. Somehow you managed to piss off Mother Nature."
"What? Danny you're being ridiculous."
"Oh I'm sorry," Danny said putting up his hands. " No, not Mother Nature. You, my good friend, pissed off Father Nature. You managed to piss off the Missus's husband."
Steve just looked at him and laughed, knowing there was no way he was going to win this one. It was hard to argue, Steve realized, when he had no example disproving Danny's point. And then he thought of one...
"I've never been hurt in nature without you, Danny. And you have never been outside without me. So how do we know that you are not the one who has the bad luck?"
Danny looked at him, pointed at him, opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again, shut it again, and then just stared at him. "You're stupid, Steven." Danny said crossing his arms.
Steve laughed at him. "Okay Mr. Grumpy. Let's move onto the next one."
Danny looked at him. "I am mad at you right now, Steven, and it has been a rather rough two days so I am going to attempt to sleep. We can continue your childish game later." Danny took the electric blanket with him as he laid down on the cold bathroom floor, leaving Steve sitting up and laughing.
"You are such a child." He said.
"Goodnight, Steven!" Danny said.
"Night, Danno!" Steve said back causing Danny to throw a rolled up washcloth at him.
"Love you too!" Steve said blocking the projectile.
And with that, Steve settled himself into his own corner of the bathroom and tried to sleep out the storm.
Preview for 'Chapter 12: The Falling of the Rain':
"That actually makes sense." Steve said. "All these years I just thought you were trying to annoy me."
"Well," Danny smiled, "I do that all the time, but this time I actually had a reason."
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