Something else, different than friendship. Daniel hasn't realized yet. But is there a word for it, if he does?
"I don't know what you need. I don't know if I'd be able to give it to you, if I did."
As touched on earlier, he has limited applications. An aggressive investigator, a sharp-edged conversationalist, an elusive off button. He did puzzles when he was sick, to try and make his hands work. Before that he mostly did drugs and went to bars. What hobbies. What social life.
But there is still that instinct. Pulling Alice against him, annoying the shit out of her until she laughed. (Out of everyone, he loved her best, and losing her hurt the worst; she is remarried now, and Louis does not need to see if she thinks of him, because Daniel knows she doesn't, she is remarried and she does not see any dream versions of him, just frowns when their daughter says something mean in a particular way she knows to be inherited, and tries not to regret her choices.)
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"I don't know what you need. I don't know if I'd be able to give it to you, if I did."
As touched on earlier, he has limited applications. An aggressive investigator, a sharp-edged conversationalist, an elusive off button. He did puzzles when he was sick, to try and make his hands work. Before that he mostly did drugs and went to bars. What hobbies. What social life.
But there is still that instinct. Pulling Alice against him, annoying the shit out of her until she laughed. (Out of everyone, he loved her best, and losing her hurt the worst; she is remarried now, and Louis does not need to see if she thinks of him, because Daniel knows she doesn't, she is remarried and she does not see any dream versions of him, just frowns when their daughter says something mean in a particular way she knows to be inherited, and tries not to regret her choices.)