crack_van | Therapy by Waldo (T/PG-13)

Fandom: SPORTS NIGHT
Pairing: None – Dan & Casey friendship
Author on LJ:

kwaldo12
Author Website: Fiction By Waldo
Why this must be read: I think what I love most about this story is that Danny finally allows himself to properly grieve his brother, and he does it with Casey. It only further cements the fact that the two are there for each other through everything and the author does a great job of showing us that, without hitting us over the head with it.

Casey reached up and grabbed his arm, pulling him around to sit on the couch near him. "You know what I've always noticed?" he asked, avoiding directly answering Dan's questions. "In the ten years that I've known you, your...default...for lack of a better word has been...sad." Casey found it a bit ironic that with all his vocabulary he was back to first grade vocabulary for the best way to describe Danny. It reminded him of the papers Charlie used to bring home from school where he had to read the sentence and then color in the face that matched the emotion the sentence evoked. Happy, sad, mad, confused...He tried to come up with something more descriptive, more specific. Morose evoked a sense of bitterness that he generally didn't associate with Danny. Despondent was too severe to be right most days. Bummed wasn't severe enough and always seemed to imply a temporary state. No...Danny was sad more often than anything else.

So go read, enjoy, and let the author know - Therapy