PSL: Sentinel AU

[dann_0]

Danny is Steve's guide. He is still pretty new at it and working with a Sentinel who has some bad experiences. To top if off, while working a case in Portland he finds out that a guide can have more than one Sentinel who is their perfect match.

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Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[dann_0]

"And you suddenly leaving Hawaii to follow me won't raise suspicion? No Steve we're staying here. Besides I am done traveling around the world just because Stan wants to move." He frowns at that Steve doesn't get a say. "They can't take me, Steve. I am a civilian. I never signed up, they can't just grab me."

He forces himself to let go and stroke Steve's back instead of holding him far too tight. "Alright. I won't talk to her. Nothing that can make them come after you." He tries to calm back down, even if it is hard and just holds Steve. "What do you need? How do I do this?"

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[super_seal]

Lowering his eyes, Steve shakes his head. "I wasn't going to follow, Danny. You being too close to me, it's not safe. It doesn't matter if your not military. Most of the sentinels I met were drafted in. I... I'm sure it's different with the guides but they have ways..." He shudders. "It's not a choice."

Steve knows he should pull completely away. That he shouldn't get attached to Danny, but truthfully he already was. Long before he'd come back online.

"You're... you're doing it." He relaxes back into Danny for the moment. Resisting Danny when he's gone without for so long, and the trust that's already there - trusting a guide isn't something Steve ever remembers having, right now he's not strong enough to pull away. "I dialed everything down so Cath wouldn't know, but she was here so long..." He pushes his nose into the crock of Danny's neck and takes a deep breath. The scent is heavenly and Steve floats for a moment on the endorphins that it released. "My senses are all over the place." As are his emotions.

"I uh... I think we might be a match. I'm sorry, Danny"

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[dann_0]

"I am not leaving you." The way Danny says it makes it clear he is not willing to discuss it. "I won't tell her. I'll stay away until I learn to control it. But I need you." He smiles softly as Steve inhales his scent. He turns his head to lean on Steve's hair for a moment, tucking him in under his chin.

"What does it mean we're a match?"

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[super_seal]

Danny moving his head just encourages Steve. The open expansive of skin at Danny's neck, right at Steve's mouth... He can't resist and his tongue darts out for a taste and Steve moans at the flavor.

"It means... It means I can't resist." He whimpers and pushes his nose into Danny's neck again. Taking another deep breath and his body goes boneless, relaxing totally into Danny. When Steve's speaks next, it's more a mumble into the other mans neck. "Guides feel good to sentinels. We crave them. Calm in the storm. Peace. Tranquility. I... I've never had such a strong reaction before."

Steve brings his finger up to play with Danny's top done-up shirt button. He wants the skin on skin connection, but he can't just take it. Not from Danny. Pulling his head up he searches out the other mans eyes. Steve's pupils are blown and he's not seeing quite right. Everything is brighter, more alive. He can see the heat lifting off Danny and his breath in the air. It fascinates him for a moment but he's still playing with his shirt button. "Want to touch. To feel." He pulls on the button, asking permission. "Need to feel you, Danny."

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[dann_0]

"Me? Peace and Tranquility?" He chuckles a little but then he hesitates at Steve's playing with his shirt. Steve seems drunk or high and Danny swallows. He bites his lip. Yeah he likes the way Steve looks at him, the want and need there is nothing he's ever felt before and damn he feels the same way too. But this is a little too much like taking advantage of someone drunk.

"Steve..." He tries to form some sort of reasonable way of saying no, but damn it he wants it too. "How about this, just the shirt." That is nothing Steve hasn't seen before and while being touched and .. licked is something very different at least it isn't taking advantage. besides, he can keep his hands to himself. He reaches down and undoes a few buttons for Steve.

"So you've been with someone else like this?"

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[super_seal]

Once he has access to Danny's chest, Steve puts his head over the other man's heart and sighs in contentment. He slips his hand inside the shirt and holds Danny's side just under the ribcage. He can feel the other man breath, hear his heart and his scent is all around him. A knot Steve hadn't realized was bunched tight inside him starts to relax and he closes his eyes to just be.

It's not long before his breathing and heartbeat synchs to Danny's and while Steve is still feeling high he's not as desperate. "No," he replies to Danny's question, "not without help and even then it wasn't like this." Meaning they had tried drugging him. Tried to force him to connect and to need their chosen guides more than he was able to do on his own.

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[dann_0]

Danny makes a sound of anger and frustration. But he pushes it back down and the reaches up to let his fingers play in Steve's hair. "Bastards." He sighs and holds Steve. "Relax Steve, I am not going anywhere for a while." It feels good to just hold Steve like this, for once be the big strong protector.

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[super_seal]

With the hand moving through his hair, and the permission to just relax, he does exactly that. It feels so much different than anything he's experienced before. A calmness that he's not found in any other way.

He doesn't know how long he lays cuddled on top of Danny, but after a while he starts to talk. "For sentinels, our senses are enhanced. We can adjust our senses as we need but control can be an issue. A guide can help us go further and pick up more detail. But we can also become overwhelmed with our senses and zone. I was zoned when you came in. Everything is out of whack and nothing makes sense. A guide can pull us back and help us reset." He smiles. "So yes, Danny, you bring me a sense of peace and tranquility. The sound of your voice is settling and your presence reassuring. Your scent is better high than any drug I've ever experienced and you taste amazing. Your touch instantly calms me down."

Moving his head he looks up at Danny. "But I've never had a good who I was so in synch with. Someone who I needed and had to experience. That's never happened to me before." He rubs his chin into Danny heart. "The sound of your heart beating is a lullaby and mine wants to be in tune with yours."

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[dann_0]

Danny's breath is almost starting to even out when Steve speaks. There is something about this that just feels so damn right. The only thing even close had been when he'd been head over heels for Rachel and they'd cuddled like this. But that had been just being in love, this is more. He loves Steve yes, the man has managed to become family in less time than anyone else had before.

But he blinks his eyes open and looks down at Steve. "And that is what I did? Helped you get back?" But the flattery has him off kilter. He wants to respond with something witty but he has nothing. All he has is warm, comforting sappiness for the guy on top him. "I am not going anywhere, I am staying here with you. If you need me to keep you grounded that is what I am going to do. Alright? You need to show me how to do it but I'll do it."

Re: Steve and Danny, Backstory: first time.

[super_seal]

Humming, Steve nods in response to Danny's questions. "Yeah. I could hear your voice but it sounded far away and the words were muffled. But then I felt warmth and I assume you must have been hugging me because your words got louder and I followed them back to you."

Steve puts his head back down on Danny's chest so he can hear Danny's heart right in his ear. He rubs his cheek against the other man's chest and sighs in contentment. His hand is in Danny's shirt, gently stroking the line of his bottom rib. "Thank you, Danny. We'll need to talk later. There's lots you need to know but..." But right now he just needs this. "Just keep doing what you're doing. All of it. It's exactly what I need."