Agnes's Stakeout House of Porcelain Kitty Doom, Honolulu

[grenadesandohana]

So Steve and Danny had been in this doily-covered grandma nightmare for a couple of days now. They'd discovered a huge bag of weed in the kitchen cabinet that belonged to a brain trust named Ricky (who'd unlocked the door to take care of Mr. Pickles, seen Steve and Danny, and thought he'd let himself into the wrong apartment), watched their suspect do extremely boring at-home things, and sniped at each other.

Now Steve was putting away the remains of their Indian takeout dinner (that Danny was huffy about for reasons that completely escaped Steve's understanding) as the surveillance equipment picked up the sounds of conversation. "Isn't that the jewelry store owner?" he asked, frowning.

[OOC: For the partner!]

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[hatesparadise]

Because you ignored all of his suggestions and--okay, focus on the case, Daniel.

"Looks like," Danny said, frowning out the window to watch them. "Whoa!"

Watch them immediately kiss, looked like.

[grenadesandohana]

"Gotta say that I didn't see that coming," Steve said, tilting his head.

[hatesparadise]

"I don't think any of us had 'robber's girlfriend who shot him, having an affair with store clerk' on their bingo card," Danny replied, kinda surprised at how enthusiastic they were going at this.

Young love, probably.

[grenadesandohana]

Yeah, this was going to get awkward really fast if they didn't pull the curtains. "So that means the clerk's in on it, too. Insurance fraud?" Steve guessed.

[hatesparadise]

"We should get Chin on that," Danny agreed as the couple bumbled their way through the apartment, toward the bedroom where the blinds were closed.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve nodded, grabbing his phone to text Chin.

"Turn down the audio?" he added, wincing. The women really were quite enthusiastic.

[hatesparadise]

Danny blinked as they finally disappeared from sight. "Yeah, yeah. But we'll need to keep recording for pillow talk."

And he honestly meant it! In case they discussed the robbery and or attempted murder.

[grenadesandohana]

"Our job is great," Steve said with heavy sarcasm.

[hatesparadise]

"I'm going to just..." He held up the workbook. "Let me know if they surface to discuss anything."

Helpful, Daniel.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve made a face at the book. "Yeah. Enjoy."

He'd just...sit here on a sofa listening to amateur porn next to Danny. Very normal, very cool.

[hatesparadise]

Very normal!

"Look at this," Danny said after silence had settled in for a bit. "You're an Executive personality type."

[grenadesandohana]

"I'm a what?" Steve replied.

Ugh, the book.

[hatesparadise]

"Excutive," Danny said, enunciating harder for him. "It says here you're dedicated, strong-willed, direct, honest, loyal, patient, reliable, and enjoy creating order and organization."

Which all fit Steve pretty spot on.

[grenadesandohana]

"Okay," Steve said, still looking a little wary. "I sound awesome."

[hatesparadise]

"And your weaknesses are that you're stubborn, inflexible, uncomfortable with situations outside your norm, judgemental, too focused on how people see you, and have trouble both relaxing and expressing emotion." Danny gestured at him like he was presenting a textbook example of all those things.

[grenadesandohana]

"I am not judgmental!" Steve retorted. Stubbornly.

[hatesparadise]

"Oh, but the other ones fit?"

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, I'm not inflexible either," Steve said. "I have to think on my feet constantly."

That was training, Steven.

[hatesparadise]

"So, needing to always drive my car is... what?" Danny asked.

[grenadesandohana]

"Motion sickness," Steve lied.

[hatesparadise]

Danny shot him a deeply unimpressed look.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve pulled a face at him and pulled on the book. "Which one are you, then?" he asked, flipping pages.

[hatesparadise]

"Well, if you'd bothered to read any of this, you'd know," Danny shot back. "Defender, by the way. It's Defender. To save you from having to actually do any of this."

Oh, that wasn't passive aggressive at all. Or just flat out aggressive, really.

[grenadesandohana]

"Nah," Steve said, reading along. "It says you're patient and repress your feelings. You have never repressed a single feeling. Ever."

Oh, Steve. You're going to get a porcelain kitty chucked at your head.

[hatesparadise]

Danny grabbed his copy of the book to chuck at him instead, which missed wildly and smacked into the side of that weird cat shrine, causing one cat to topple over and break on the floor.