Flack is so damn obvious, I don't know why Danny tries to deny it. :lol: When Danny was like 'does that impress you?' the way Flack said 'yeah' kind of made my eyebrow quirk up. And hell, I'm a shipper! :lol:
I stand by my appraisal of the situation from earlier on--after the bombing, they both had a bit of a scare and started to pull away. Flack because he didn't want to put Danny under any more stress, and Danny because he didn't want to put himself in line for more pain. Maybe there might have been an issue with Danny leaving the hospital, etc, but I really think it was just something that happened during Flack's recovery. Flack was changed by what happened, and he's an internal person, and Danny is anything but. So Danny would take that as a rejection and it would give him the excuse to pull away. I'm thinking that Danny decided to fall on old ways and start dating women again, which hurt Flack a bit because, even if he was purposefully pulling away, on some level what he really wanted was an affirmation from Danny that he loved him. So Danny is dating again, Flack is just making it day by day, and then eventually Flack has to go back to work. And that's where it gets tricky. How can Danny avoid falling back on Don if they're working together all day again? Simple answer: be with someone else he spends a lot of time with. I don't doubt that Danny cares for Lindsay, but I also don't doubt that he cared for Aiden as well. Doesn't mean I think they were madly in love or anything like that. I think Danny felt a certain attraction to Aiden that was never returned, and this is similar to what he feels with Lindsay. Lindsay is someone who represents something so different from what he knows from the rest of his life, someone who doesn't know every one of his dark secrets, and that seems safe to him. Plus, unlike Aiden, Lindsay seems interested in return. So that just compounds Danny's confusion regarding his relationship with Don. And after Lindsay is put in danger with the hostage situation, Danny clings to the connection there and thinks 'maybe this is what I'm supposed to be looking for.' He cares about Lindsay, he has feelings for her, but he doesn't see it as a source of pain like he sees with Don. Because Don already knows Danny inside and out. Danny is just an open book to him. And that's not the way it is with Lindsay. Hell, to listen to Danny at the end of "Love Run Cold," you can tell he's trying to downplay the dating, to make it
safe for them so that they don't ruin their friendship. Going out to get something to eat and just 'sharing a few laughs' or something like that isn't getting on bended knee and proposing. Danny is still afraid of that. I think, deep down, he's afraid of what he felt for Don and he wants to avoid that.
Don, meanwhile, is still hoping for Danny to wake up, to realize that he can't replace what they have. Even if Danny has feelings for Lindsay, even if he thinks that's the kind of love he's
supposed to aim for (the nice girl, the white picket fence and that whole deal), it won't compare to his feelings for Don. People can have more than one love in their life, and it doesn't make it bad or wrong, but there's only one true love, and fuckitall, Danny, you already had it! Don is patient, he knows that eventually Danny will see the light, but the question then becomes how many hearts will get broken in the meantime?
So, er, thoughts? :lol:
