MCA #0, Tuesday afternoon

[grenadesandohana]

So Danny was in Baltimore seeing his therapist and that was fine. It was healthy and fine and Steve didn't need to shadow him to make sure he wasn't going to get kidnapped by Romanian mobsters who smuggle illegal lizards.

Again. The chances of that happening twice were ridiculous.

So Steve stayed home and fretted cleaned, and then bought a bunch of unnecessary Christmas decorations (including a lit-up palm tree to make Danny roll his eyes), cranked the thermostat to stupidly hot to a more comfortable temperature and started decorating the tree with blinking lights (he didn't want them to be blinking but after an hour of swearing at them, he gave up), balls, and...he actually had no idea what else was going on the tree? Bows? A tasteful selection of small knives?

He'd glitter cannon the whole thing when he was done.

The inflatable reindeer were now in from the lanai, wearing Santa hats, and flanking the sofa. One of them had the Christmas Cattle Prod duct-taped to its front leg.

It was so freaking festive. Danny would love it.

[OOC: Open, sure!]

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[hatesparadise]

Today was his normal, non-emergency session. Which meant that nothing weird would happen.

Not without plot related purposes.

And Danny thought he was being nice in picking up some decent (meaning really good, but he was picky) Italian food on his way back from the mainland, but immediately regretted that when he saw the reindeer. "Did you get replaced by a Christmas pod person?"

[grenadesandohana]

"Of course not," Steve said. "I like Christmas. And the rest of the room needed to match the reindeer."

It arguably did not.

[hatesparadise]

"Uh huh." Danny was just going to pretend that made sense. "Did you steal the lights from the party?"

Apparently they had extras.

[grenadesandohana]

"I am a law enforcement officer," Steve said airily.

Which did not, as such, answer the question.

[hatesparadise]

Danny's expression let it be known that the side-step wasn't nearly as good as Steve might believe it to be. But let it go because he was pretty sure they'd be glad to get rid of the spares.

"Did you duct tape a cattle prod to one of the reindeer?"

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, it didn't duct tape it to itself," Steve said, "so yes. It looks good that way!"

[hatesparadise]

"Explain to me the logic of this festivity," Danny said, gesturing from Steve to the reindeer in question.

[grenadesandohana]

"It's obviously to show Santa how much I appreciate the gift," Steve said, nodding.

[hatesparadise]

"You don't think it's a mite... threatening?" Because it was. It very much was.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve tilted his head to look at the terrifying reindeer. "I don't think so."

[hatesparadise]

"If Grace shows up, it's going in your room." That was as accepting as Danny could get here.

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, she can't play with my Christmas Cattle Prod, so that's fair," Steve said.

[hatesparadise]

"Yeah, that's the concern," Danny said, rolling his eyes as he dug into the bag of food to distribute between the two of them. "How high did you set the thermostat? The patio door is fogging up."

He was going to have to buy Steve slippers for cold winter mornings, wasn't he? Real slippers. Not slippahs.

[grenadesandohana]

"Seventy-something," Steve said, shrugging.

76, Danny.

[hatesparadise]

"Alright," Danny said, already starting to feel warm. Because he was appropriately dressed for the weather. Unlike some. "You're gonna end up sweating if you keep it like this."

[grenadesandohana]

"But then I'm warm," Steve countered.

[hatesparadise]

"I'm gonna end up sweating then. And I don't find that pleasant. Sit." He had pasta to eat in order to finish dealing with stuff from therapy. Carbs always helped. "Eat."

[grenadesandohana]

"It smells good," Steve said, peering into the containers optimistically. "What'd you get?"

[hatesparadise]

"You can have baked ziti or lasagna with bolognese." Because it was cold out and hearty food was best diring this time. "And garlic bread."

Mmm. Carbs.

He was gonna teach Steve how to survive an East Coast winter somehow.

[grenadesandohana]

"Which did you want more?" Steve asked. Since he'd been out and bought it feel better and all.

[hatesparadise]

He bought it for both of them to feel better, really.

"We can split 'em. Best of both worlds, right? You grab beers and I'll do that."

He wanted to make sure Steve didn't think he was upset with him. Honestly upset, not the normal level of annoyed.

"No raccoon beer!"

[grenadesandohana]

"Think we drank it all!" Steve called back, already heading to the fridge.

Teenaged them did not know better.

[hatesparadise]

"Ugh, teenagers," Danny grumbled, splitting their portions up as he left. "The secretary at my shrink's office suggested this place."

[thatwaslucky]

At some point, Rey might have ended up leaning over her lanai to very carefully use the Force to set a reindeer on the one below. It also had a Santa hat, because she had so many Santa hats. Maybe they would not notice?

[grenadesandohana]

Steve noticed, but Steve had weird affection for these things, so reindeer could stay.