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Make a Move ('Cause I Ain't Got All Night) by stillane (NC-17)
Fandom: HAWAII FIVE-0 (new)
Pairing: Steve/Danny
Length: ~ 6006 words
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stillane
Author Website: Fic Tag on LJ; fictions and the like
Why this must be read: This story and my last rec literally were posted within a few days of each other. That was when I really knew H50 was going to be a solid fandom: when within three days I had two entertaining stories from two writers I'd admired and appreciated in other fandoms. The fandom really has a lot of terrific writers.
Stillane's story has Danny's parents coming to visit the island, and although Danny knows his parents will get to meet the crazy team he's been hanging out with, he doesn't give it a lot of thought. But Steve does. Steve dresses up. Steve puts on a tie (and to Danny's horror, looks like a junior accountant.) And you know, Danny's a detective ... he gets there eventually, realizing that Steve's pretty invested in having Danny stay in Hawaii and being a part of his life. The thing is ... Danny's pretty invested too - he just doesn't realize it yet.
This story has wonderful characterization, the trademark banter that really makes the show what it is, and a nice view of the team and Danny's family. It's a feel-good story. It's a dopey grin story. It's one that I go back to and reread when I want something fun and a little bit sweet.
“Alright, Detective Williams. Tell me why you need to requisition an SUV from the overextended depths of HPD? Wouldn’t a compact car be more fuel-efficient? Would you care to explain this to the taxpayers at the next budget review?”
Danny is ten seconds away from sticking his tongue out at him, swear to god. “My parents are flying in for Grace’s birthday next month and I’d like not to have to stuff them in the back of a sports car like aging sardines. “
Steve blinks up at him, and yeah, okay, surprise is always funny on him. “What about the truck?”
And now Danny can feel his eyebrows rise of their own accord. “You’re worse about that truck than I am about my child. You’d really hand over the keys?”
Steve shrugs. “So I’ll drive. There’s enough room.”
“Yeah, because that’s a good plan.” Danny snorts. “It’s bad enough you and my parents will be in the same zip code. You want to shrink that down to a five by five box?”
“You don’t want them to meet me?”
Danny’s anticipating a pissy squint. He gets that blank face instead, the one that makes Steve’s eyes look too damn big for the rest of him. He hates that one.
It’s in the category of the few expressions that Danny still has trouble translating. On the one hand, Steve can haul it out there deliberately just as fast as he does the rest. Danny has seen him play innocent and bewildered with gunrunners thirty seconds before going ninja on their asses.
On the other hand, he loses about ten years and a thousand levels of badass when he looks like that, and Danny’s not as immune as he’d like to be.
“Okay. Fine. They’re flying in on the 27th. You forget, and I make you listen to my dad’s lecture on his bunions one time for every minute we’re late.”
And that’s how it starts.
On LJ: Make a Move ('Cause I Ain't Got All Night)
On AO3: Make a Move ('Cause I Ain't Got All Night)
It doesn't matter how old or new or how popular a story is, authors love feedback!
Pairing: Steve/Danny
Length: ~ 6006 words
Author on LJ:
stillane Author Website: Fic Tag on LJ; fictions and the like
Why this must be read: This story and my last rec literally were posted within a few days of each other. That was when I really knew H50 was going to be a solid fandom: when within three days I had two entertaining stories from two writers I'd admired and appreciated in other fandoms. The fandom really has a lot of terrific writers.
Stillane's story has Danny's parents coming to visit the island, and although Danny knows his parents will get to meet the crazy team he's been hanging out with, he doesn't give it a lot of thought. But Steve does. Steve dresses up. Steve puts on a tie (and to Danny's horror, looks like a junior accountant.) And you know, Danny's a detective ... he gets there eventually, realizing that Steve's pretty invested in having Danny stay in Hawaii and being a part of his life. The thing is ... Danny's pretty invested too - he just doesn't realize it yet.
This story has wonderful characterization, the trademark banter that really makes the show what it is, and a nice view of the team and Danny's family. It's a feel-good story. It's a dopey grin story. It's one that I go back to and reread when I want something fun and a little bit sweet.
“Alright, Detective Williams. Tell me why you need to requisition an SUV from the overextended depths of HPD? Wouldn’t a compact car be more fuel-efficient? Would you care to explain this to the taxpayers at the next budget review?”
Danny is ten seconds away from sticking his tongue out at him, swear to god. “My parents are flying in for Grace’s birthday next month and I’d like not to have to stuff them in the back of a sports car like aging sardines. “
Steve blinks up at him, and yeah, okay, surprise is always funny on him. “What about the truck?”
And now Danny can feel his eyebrows rise of their own accord. “You’re worse about that truck than I am about my child. You’d really hand over the keys?”
Steve shrugs. “So I’ll drive. There’s enough room.”
“Yeah, because that’s a good plan.” Danny snorts. “It’s bad enough you and my parents will be in the same zip code. You want to shrink that down to a five by five box?”
“You don’t want them to meet me?”
Danny’s anticipating a pissy squint. He gets that blank face instead, the one that makes Steve’s eyes look too damn big for the rest of him. He hates that one.
It’s in the category of the few expressions that Danny still has trouble translating. On the one hand, Steve can haul it out there deliberately just as fast as he does the rest. Danny has seen him play innocent and bewildered with gunrunners thirty seconds before going ninja on their asses.
On the other hand, he loses about ten years and a thousand levels of badass when he looks like that, and Danny’s not as immune as he’d like to be.
“Okay. Fine. They’re flying in on the 27th. You forget, and I make you listen to my dad’s lecture on his bunions one time for every minute we’re late.”
And that’s how it starts.
On LJ: Make a Move ('Cause I Ain't Got All Night)
On AO3: Make a Move ('Cause I Ain't Got All Night)
It doesn't matter how old or new or how popular a story is, authors love feedback!