THAT WENT WELL (Danny, Zoe, Rachel, Liz, Emma and Thomas)

[daniel_marlow]

After a long day messing around in the park, Zoe had invited everyone around to her place for dinner. While Dylan couldn't go, Danny realised he could. And though he didn't usually go around to other people's houses, especially not if he didn't know them that well, he decided it would be okay. Especially since Zoe's mothers were lesbians. They wouldn't look twice at him!

He jogged home to drop off Wolf, for a shower and to change his clothes. Then he returned to the park where one of Zoe's mothers was going to pick them up. Their car was impressive and he lapsed into silence as Rachel chattered to the woman who had been introduced to him as Liz.

Once they arrived at Zoe's house, Danny stared up at it in awe. "It's huge," he whispered to Rachel as they exited the car.

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[lightningseed.insanejournal.com]

Zoe had been having a weird day with Rachel and Danny and Dylan, kind of a suddenly-in-the-deep-end day. She had made the first comment, suggesting that Danny could go for a run, but only because Danny had already said that he wouldn't! Then all of a sudden, everyone had taken her seriously, and Rachel had pulled Dylan into it too, and there was four of them!

It hadn't been too bad. She liked Dylan, he was little, clever and had been through crap. They didn't talk much, but they were part of the same thing.

And Zoe felt very protective over Danny and Rachel. She hadn't meant to do that. It was an accident. But she felt somewhere in her guilty gut that something bad was going to happen if she turned her back on them.

And running around being ridiculous in the park had been fun. Actually fun. Fun enough that she hadn't invited them back to her house to keep an eye on them. Besides, the moment she mentioned Liz's name Rachel had lit up, and Zoe couldn't shoot the look on her face down.

"Isn't it?" Rachel grinned at Danny, grabbing his arm in excitement. "You should see inside, it just goes on forever."