Just like he's better but not quite graceful, Daniel hasn't perfectly gotten the hang of precisely how he's supposed to express how he feels, when he connects with Louis like this. As usual, happy to hear from him, happy to be answered, relieved to be answered— there's a cellphoneish quality to the immediacy of telepathic communication he doesn't love, but when it's Louis, he's happy about it, and he forgets to do things like ask 'are you busy' when he starts throwing pebbles at his window.

So: affection, a stupid amount of it, the care he's always had and that something extra more, since Louis talked him into believing any of it.

(He's still pretty fucking sure he's going to get his heart broken. But he's made peace with it.)

'Hi, Louis. I have a little bit so I thought I'd check in.'

Obvious how he feels. He just misses him.