The Beach, Friday Afternoon

[hatesparadise]

Danny was not by nature a beach person. But it was hot out and he really didn't feel like being alone with his thoughts in the apartment.

Also, Hawaii had made him enjoy it far more than he'd willingly admit out loud. Ever. Upon pain of death.

The beach here wasn't quite the same as those ones, but it was still pretty nice as he shooed away the weird little porgs that had made their homes on the beach chairs that had been inadvertently brought along here to relax a little bit.

[open beach!]

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[grenadesandohana]

Steve didn't even notice Danny for a second because he was so intent on sprinting into the water to get rid of all of the mud and paint from class. He dove into the waves completely clothed.

[hatesparadise]

"Jesus Christ!" Because what even was with the mud monster thing??

[grenadesandohana]

Steve's head popped up out of the water. "Hi!"

[hatesparadise]

"Hi," Danny ground out now that it wasn't getting attacked by something ridiculous here.

[grenadesandohana]

"Paintball got kind of messy," Steve explained, stripping out of his shirt.

[hatesparadise]

"You don't say," Danny said as the water around Steve got muddy and kinda colorful.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve took his boots off and tossed them towards the sand. "They are all jealous of my skill, Danno."

[hatesparadise]

Danny just glanced over at the boots, knocking them over with his foot so water could drain out. "Oh, is that it? How'd you do?"

[grenadesandohana]

"Better than Diego, Skywalker, and Rogers," Steve said. "Not as good as Cara or Five."

[hatesparadise]

"Well, I guess congratulations for beating those three," Danny said, eyeing him for a moment more. "And the mud? Was that your camo thing again?"

[grenadesandohana]

"Of course," Steve said, grinning. "I had to blend into my surroundings."

Did you really have to, Steve?

[hatesparadise]

"By doing your best impression of a mud monster?" Danny was doubting the validity of this for paint ball.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve beamed at him. "Yep. I brought my ghillie suit one week."

For paintball.

[betterthanaplan]

"Look at you, all enjoying sunshine out here." Duke ambled up, grinning. "You get hit by something Fandom-y, or are you just in a rare good mood?"

[hatesparadise]

"Ha, ha, ha," Danny replied dryly. "It's one of the few places not covered in cicadas and also not my apartment or work."

Sure. That was it.

[betterthanaplan]

"That's what that noise is." Duke hadn't really spent much time around the preserve in the last month, sticking more to the harbor, which was rather less full of the giant insects. And those that were around the harbor tended to get eaten by porgs or other scavengers pretty quick. "It didn't seem to be anything attacking, so I wasn't really worrying about it."

[hatesparadise]

"Oh, no, they're too dumb for that," Danny replied. "One saving grace about Hawaii is none of these things. Just spiders, centipedes, and flying roaches."

[betterthanaplan]

". . . Yeah, cicadas don't bite so I'm going to say these things are better than those."

[hatesparadise]

"Louder and the number of 'em," Danny countered.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke shook his head and shrugged, still unbothered, and came over to sit on the sand near Danny.

"So, other than being plagued by insects, how you been? I hear there was Nazi punching of late."

[hatesparadise]

"That was all Annie." He just shot one in a vain attempt to distract her. "And it was definitely a new one."

[betterthanaplan]

“Yeah, I guess Steve was a little jealous he didn’t get to punch one himself. Though from what you’ve told me about your Hawaii, I’m surprised he hasn’t had the chance already.”

[hatesparadise]

"Oh, I'm sure he's punched a Neo-Nazi, but he wanted an OG Nazi apparently," Danny said with an eyeroll.

[betterthanaplan]

“One who hadn’t already been punched in the face by old age, I guess,” Duke agreed. “So, uh, how’s the rest of things? How’s the kid?”

[hatesparadise]

Danny's expression went tight for a moment there. "Grace's hitting that pre-teen point where she's deeply embarrassed by the existence of adults in her life," he said, picking the safer topic.