"I'm the experienced one here, Danny. I should have known better but I was too focused on the short-term. I did think..." Steve snaps his jaw shut and clenches his teeth, his knuckles on the steering wheel going white. "We've both gotten too attached!" He had become too attached. He needed Danny now, craved for his company when he wasn't around and was better, so much better, when Danny was near. "Catherine is going to figure out that I have my abilities back and I'll be going back to active duty. It's only a matter of time." He wasn't sure how he was going to manage that loss, especially while pretending it wasn't there. If Catherine found out about Danny... That didn't even bear thinking about.
"Besides, you have no idea how you smell. We aren't bonded or in that kind of a relationship and I..." His voice cuts off, he had to keep this about them, not himself. "For Eliot that will be so much worse. Having another non-familial scent all over you, let alone another sentinel, will be enough to drive him feral. We're possessive by nature, Danny. Sentinels don't share their mates with others, especially other sentinels."
Danny had hit too close to the head of the underlying fear that was fueling his decisions and actions. That fear flashes in his eyes and he quickly turns his head and attempts to swallow it down. He's not ready to address it though so he lashes out slightly off topic. "You think that's going to matter when your instincts fully kick in? You have a fully functioning sentinel now Danny, one who you've already committed to on some levels. Was that a choice you made or did the lust and want drive your actions before you fully knew what was happening? He is going to want to bond if he doesn't already. You are going to want to bond." Steve assumed they hadn't encountered that because he simply wasn't capable of it, now that Danny was intimately involved with one who could... Steve didn't see how he could resist. From his experience it wasn't expected that many did.
Picking Danny up at the Airport
"Besides, you have no idea how you smell. We aren't bonded or in that kind of a relationship and I..." His voice cuts off, he had to keep this about them, not himself. "For Eliot that will be so much worse. Having another non-familial scent all over you, let alone another sentinel, will be enough to drive him feral. We're possessive by nature, Danny. Sentinels don't share their mates with others, especially other sentinels."
Danny had hit too close to the head of the underlying fear that was fueling his decisions and actions. That fear flashes in his eyes and he quickly turns his head and attempts to swallow it down. He's not ready to address it though so he lashes out slightly off topic. "You think that's going to matter when your instincts fully kick in? You have a fully functioning sentinel now Danny, one who you've already committed to on some levels. Was that a choice you made or did the lust and want drive your actions before you fully knew what was happening? He is going to want to bond if he doesn't already. You are going to want to bond." Steve assumed they hadn't encountered that because he simply wasn't capable of it, now that Danny was intimately involved with one who could... Steve didn't see how he could resist. From his experience it wasn't expected that many did.