when danny moved closer hook didn't push him away, but he froze all the same. there was a time danny managed to make him feel at ease in moments like that, when they exchanged innocent moments of direct contact and affection, but that time seemed far now, and hook had fallen back into his old habits all too easily, pretending to be something he wasn't and to like what everyone expected him to like. everything as far on the other side of the spectrum from the damn pretty doed eye boy he had under his arm right now. he stood too close and smelled too good for hook to think straight. "what are you doing?" hook mumbled, pushing his head back to look at danny, though, despite his words, his body did not move. an arm was dangerously close to wrap around his side, in fact, fingers itching to grab on his clothes and pull him closer. "we shouldn't," he warned, though doing nothing to place any distance between them. "if they see us..." they. the death riders? the opps? his dad? fans? it went unsaid that hook meant them all. everyone. everyone who could misunderstand. everyone who could threaten their current, precarious balance. everyone who could never understand... and it did not matter, deep down, all of the fears hook was projecting on others came straight from within. from that terrible flaw he still struggled to accept, although his preference was painfully clear. especially when he held danny so close.
he relaxed, though; the more danny remained close, the easier it was for hook to forget that there could be anything wrong at all with that situation. he hesitated a moment before dragging a hand to wrap around danny's. hook's fingers were tentative while curling over the other's, but he squeezed all the same and pushed danny's palm against his own chest, as if to press him into himself. as if to etch that moment in time. "thank you for saying that," he offered with a nod. it may not appear much, but danny's words truly made the burden he carried a little lighter. "yeah," he chuckled softly, shaking his head. "I do not recall you following orders so well, but maybe that was just around me." it slipped, and it marked his face with the hint of a smile curling his lips, brown eyes betraying everything that hid between the lines, though hook riled it back very quickly with a shrug, breaking eye contact, desperately hooking himself on whatever conversation they were having that could distract him from thinking about their past together.
"a few months," he finally said. "I am a little worried about bowens. I don't think he will be easy to manage, but we'll see." like a saving grace, hook's attention got dragged off danny to the car pulling nearby. he cleared his voice, suggesting to the other to move with a soft push. "this must be us, where do you want to go? we could..." words died in his throat as the thought formed and his gaze crossed danny's cute face. eyes lingering a little too heavily on the boy's full lips. "we shouldn't," he tried, "but we could go back to mine and get late-night pizza delivered like good old times?" after all, what did he have to lose? it wasn't like they had the chance to make that a commitment that would last any longer than a few hours. he was certain he had danny to himself already for longer than expected. mox was bound to pull the leash sooner rather than later. in a way, that made him feel safe to be bold.
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