Danny grimaced as he was jostled about in his seat thanks to another bout of turbulence. Sure, he wasn't enjoying it, but he was more keen for it to stop for Sarah's sake than his own. She was currently screaming blue murder each time the plane bumped up and down, and Steve was at his wits end with trying to calm her down.

"Sshh, please baby. It'll be all over soon." Steve was close to crying himself as he held his daughter to his chest and gently bounced her. He'd offered Sarah her pacifier, but she'd spat it God-only-knows-where, and he'd already changed her (that was not an easy feat in an aeroplane bathroom). "Daddy's trying to make it better, I promise."

"I know it's hard to accept, but you might just need to let her get it all out, babe." Danny said, ignoring the glare from his partner. "Babies hate flying, they can't handle when their ears pop."

Steve sighed as he looked down at his baby, before an idea appeared into his head and he handed her to Danny. "Here, hold her for a sec." he said, resisting the urge to take her back when her cries got even louder as they were separated.

"Christ, I wish that kid would shut up!" A passenger a few rows behind them said to the person next to him, and Danny had to quickly latch onto Steve when his face darkened and he made to vault over his seat.

"No, Steve!"

"But he said-"

"I know, but do you really think you killing a man is going to help matters?" Danny breathed a sigh of relief when Steve slumped back into his seat, but raised an eyebrow when he pulled his shirt off. "What are you-"

Steve took Sarah and her blankets out of Danny's arms and settled her in his, before rummaging around in a bag and pulling out a bottle. He didn't think that she'd drink any of it, but was pleasantly surprised when she took half of the bottle with very little complaints.

He burped her, and then settled her against his bare chest. Much to Steve and Danny's relief, Sarah's loud cries had dwindled down to hiccups, and after some shuffling around as Steve covered the majority of her with her blankets to block out the light and gave her a fresh pacifier, she finally fell asleep.

"See, princess? Told you Daddy would make it better." Steve brushed his lips against the top of her head, the only part of her that was visible. His own eyelids were beginning to droop, and he smiled lazily at Danny when the blonde man lifted up the armrest that separated them, before shuffling over to rest his head against his.

Danny rolled his eyes at the sudden invasion of his personal space, but said nothing as he pulled Sarah's blankets up from where they'd slipped down. "I suppose you're gonna sleep now, too?"

Steve nodded. "Read that when baby sleeps, it's good for mom to sleep too." He mumbled.

"Even though you're not her mom?"

"I've gotta be both, Danny." Steve briefly glanced at him before looking down at Sarah. He nuzzled her head through her tiny knitted hat. "Cath doesn't wanna know, so I'm gonna have to be two people at once."

Danny knew that Steve was going to be torn up about Catherine and her plans for their baby for a long time; as a parent himself he couldn't even fathom the idea of giving up either of his children.

"Well you've got me now, babe. And I'll make you a deal." Steve raised an eyebrow at Danny, his cheek resting on Sarah's head. "You can be her dad and be wrapped round her little finger, and I'll be the mom who never let's her do anything fun."

"Happy to be wrapped round her finger if it means you talk to her about puberty." Danny shook his head at Steve as his partner gave him the puppy dog eyes. "But I call dibs on standing by the door with a shotgun when she brings her first boyfriend home."

"Well, even though I may join you by the door… deal."

Steve chuckled as his eyelids closed. He held his precious bundle close to his chest as he got comfortable against Danny's side, subtly stealing his body heat at the same time. Steve was starting to feel the chill that came with being on a plane, but he wasn't cold enough to wake his sleeping daughter and get his shirt back from where it was tangled with her blankets.

It was late by the time they finally got back to Steve's house. Danny thanked Chin for picking them up from the airport before going inside to find his partner, and found Steve staring in awe at everything in Sarah's room.

"You okay, babe?" Danny asked.

"Yeah, it's just… I dunno if I'm ready to leave her to sleep on her own yet." Steve said, his grip tightening on the car seat that Sarah was in. "What if she needs me during the night?"

Danny smiled and placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Trust me, I get it. You're still a new dad, and especially with everything that's happened you're bound to get a bit of separation anxiety - both of you." Steve sheepishly averted his eyes, taking a great interest in the ornaments arranged on top of the chest of drawers. "But as much as you want to be with her all the time, you do need your own time as well, buddy. And we're only just round the corner if Sarah needs anything, aren't we?"

"I guess…" Steve scratched an itch on his jaw. "What if she starts crying and we don't hear her?"

"Got the baby monitor all set up in here and your room." Danny winked, and squeezed Steve's shoulder when he eventually nodded. He watched fondly as Steve lifted his sleeping daughter out of the car seat and settled her into the crib, hesitating slightly when Sarah stirred but she'd settled again once he'd swaddled her in blankets.

"Goodnight baby girl," Steve sighed in contentment as he ran his fingers through her full head of dark hair, before leaning down to press a kiss to each cheek. "Daddy loves you so much, and we're home now."

He made sure that the baby monitor was on before heading down the corridor to his bedroom, but doubled back just to get one more look at his baby, plus he realised that he forgot to switch on Sarah's nightlight. But when Steve made it to his bedroom, the sight he was met with brought him to a standstill.

Danny was plugging his phone into the charger from where he was in Steve's bed. It wasn't a dramatic event, but for Steve it symbolised the start of a new chapter in his life. His heart skipped a beat as he realised that he could have this every night, and frantically stripped down to his boxers and threw his clothes in the general direction of the laundry basket before crawling into bed.

Steve sighed in relief as he all but sank into the mattress, giving himself a few minutes to come to terms with being in an actual bed for the first time in three months before rolling over to Danny's side with a grin.

"Hey, give a guy warning would ya!" Danny sighed as Steve plastered himself to his back and held him tight against his chest.

"Nope." Steve nuzzled the back of Danny's head and pressed kisses to the warm skin at the back of his neck.

"Figured, I mean why change the habit of a lifetime?"

Steve chuckled, and the vibrations sent shivers down Danny's spine and he felt his cock twitch in his boxers. But as much as he wanted to roll over and climb on top of Steve, he was just too tired. And judging by the way that Steve had settled behind him and his breathing had now evened out, he wasn't the only one.

Danny craned his head back and smiled as he saw that Steve was blissfully asleep, and he hoped that those worry and stress lines that had appeared on his face after months of sleeping in various chairs would fade now that they were home.

"Danny." Steve whispered, his larger frame still wrapped around Danny's smaller one. "Danno."

Danny moaned and batted Steve's hands away where they were tugging on his shirt. He shook his head and kept his eyes shut. "Too early, Steve."

Steve lifted his head to check Danny's phone on the nightstand and okay, it was the middle of the night and they'd only been in bed for a few hours. But he couldn't help that. He needed Danny awake. "C'mon, please just wake up!"

"What?!" Danny rolled onto his back to glare up at Steve and was more than ready to rant and rave about how this was not acceptable bedroom decorum, Steven, but was taken aback by the expression on his face. The curtains were open, and moonlight illuminated the majority of their bed - and therefore Steve's raw look was plain to see.

"I want… I want you." He admitted, briefly glancing down to where one of his legs was in between Danny's, his thigh brushing against the blonde man's boxer-clad groin. "Please, Danno."

Danny sighed as he ran a hand down Steve's back, carrying on until he reached the base of his spine. Clearly he'd found a sensitive spot there as Steve bucked his hips and thrust against his side, hiding his groan in Danny's neck. The action also had an effect on Danny, as Steve's thigh caused amazing friction as it rubbed against his cock.

"Jesus, babe. Fuck." Danny pressed Steve closer to him using that spot on his back in an attempt to get more pressure on himself. Steve rocked against Danny's side for a few minutes as they traded kisses, until Danny had had enough and all-but dragged Steve until he was flush on top of him, sandwiched snugly between Danny's spread legs. "Yeah. You sure?"

Steve made a quiet noise of confirmation as he nodded, before rutting against the man below him as Danny's hand snuck under the waistband of his boxers and squeezed his asscheeks. He gasped as Danny's hands roamed over his sizeable behind, scratching the coarse hairs at the start of his thighs and in the crease of his ass.

"Yeah, Danno," Steve pushed back into Danny's hands as he mouthed up Danny's neck until he could nip at the other man's lips. "Want you there."

Steve winked before sliding off to the side of Danny and kicking his boxers off, arching his back as he stretched his body. Not once did he break his gaze, and seeing Steve so relaxed made it even more hot.

"I see you've done this before." Danny asked as he turned onto his side and lightly brushed the fingertips of one hand across Steve's ass, relishing in the goosebumps his actions caused.

"Oh yeeaahh," The tone of his voice and the way the word was drawn out told Danny that Steve clearly liked it, and he suddenly felt all of his blood supply rush to his cock as he pictured Steve getting fucked by someone else. Danny quickly shucked his boxers as Steve reached over and rummaged in the bedside table's drawer before dropping a half-empty bottle of lube and a condom on the bed.

Danny ignored his shaking hands as he grabbed the bottle and squeezed some lube onto his fingers (and he absolutely wasn't thinking about why it was half empty), before kneeling between Steve's spread legs. He bent down and pressed a kiss at that spot at the base of Steve's spine and chuckled when he whined and bucked against the pillow under his hips.

The first finger slipped inside, and Danny raised an eyebrow when Steve already started pushing back, but shrugged and quickly added a second finger.

"Shit," Steve grunted into the pillow. "Feels good."

"Looks good too." Danny smirked at Steve's groan as he started working him open, slower than what he knows the man beneath him wants.

Two fingers soon became three, and Steve was practically melting. Satisfied that he was open enough Danny withdrew his fingers and grabbed the condom, tearing the foil open with his teeth. He rolled the latex down his aching cock and bit his lip as he stared at Steve's ass, all ready for him.

"On your side, babe." Danny whispered. An eager Steve complied, and his heart hammered against his ribcage as he felt Danny press against him from behind. Steve craned his head back and moaned into the kiss that Danny gave him, still impatiently pushing his ass back into the blonde man's cock. "Yeah yeah, I know."

Danny lathered his cock in more lube before slipping it between Steve's ass cheeks and nudging against his hole, before finally pushing forward. Steve muffled his groan in his pillow as Danny entered him in one long movement, not wanting to wake his daughter who was sleeping down the hall.

"You feel so good, Steve, and tight." Danny nipped at his shoulder as he started a gentle rhythm of thrusting into him, one hand splayed over Steve's heart.

"More, please," Steve begged as Danny rearranged their legs and they each planted a foot on the bed. This caused Danny to go slightly deeper with his dick, and Steve sucked in a breath. "I need… I need-"

Danny shushed him by taking his earlobe between his teeth and sucking, while the hand on Steve's chest migrated down until he found the man's neglected cock. It twitched as soon as Danny wrapped his fingers around the shaft and started tugging in time with his thrusts. Steve whispered at the extra stimulation, and didn't know which one to focus on.

"It's okay babe, I've got you." Danny's other arm snaked under to hold Steve flush against him, and in the dead of night with only the moonlight illuminating their conjoined bodies and the creaking of the bedsprings joining their soft moans of pleasure as the only sounds in the room, Danny made love to Steve in ways that both of them had only dreamed of. Steve felt like every nerve in his body was on fire, with Danny around and inside him.

Steve was so far gone, so high on the release of endorphins that came with Danny now hitting his prostate with each thrust, that he probably didn't realise that he was saying "Fuck me" under his breath over and over again. But Danny could hear him, and was all too happy to oblige. Steve whined as Danny drilled into him faster, harder, and lost the battle to hold himself still. He ended up on his front, Danny moving with him to plaster himself to his back and slide inside him again.

"Guh, Danny! Getting close!" Steve could feel that familiar heat pooling in his belly. Danny circled the tip of his cock with his thumb, spreading pre-cum down the shaft as he started to jack him off in earnest.

Danny panted in Steve's ear as he continued his ministrations, and his hand was slipping on Steve's sweat-slick chest. Steve's knuckles were white as he gripped his pillow, pushing back and forth between Danny's dick and his hand.

Suddenly Steve's eyes went wide and his mouth opened in a silent scream as he came, hot stripes of his come coating Danny's fingers and his chest.

"That's it babe," Danny whispered as he fucked Steve through his orgasm, "So fucking hot."

Steve shuddered as the aftershocks hit and Danny slowly withdrew his hands and his cock from his body. He stayed still, absolutely deflated of all energy, until Danny gently rolled him onto his back. Steve glanced down and could see that Danny's own cock was still rock solid and almost purple with need, and the man himself who was currently brushing his hair back with his clean hand was by far the most beautiful man he'd ever seen.

"Come on." Steve bent his knees and spread his legs, his arms splayed above his head.

"Fuck, Steve…" Danny smiled and dived down to claim Steve's lips in a bruising kiss. He watched Steve's face as he re-entered his body in one swift motion, and loved how the man's eyes rolled into the back of his head and the smile spread across his face. Danny gasped as Steve clenched his muscles tight around his dick, and dragged his lips down to suck on a spot in the crook of Steve's neck.

With Steve's hands now gripping his ass so hard he was sure the man's fingernails would leave marks, Danny started pounding into him, Steve's softening cock bouncing against his thigh with each thrust. But then Steve tightened around him again, and Danny grunted as he emptied his load into the condom, freezing on top of Steve as his balls were drained.

Danny opened his mouth to speak, but couldn't catch his breath enough to form words. All he could do was kiss every inch of Steve's skin that he could as he gently pulled out of him, before tying a knot in the condom and throwing it in the trash bin by the bed. Danny lowered himself down and sighed into the kiss that Steve was quick to offer.

"Beautiful. Y'know that?" Danny whispered as he kissed the tip of Steve's nose. "Beautiful."

Steve ran his hands down Danny's back as he tangled their legs together, clearly in no hurry to go anywhere or clean up their mess. "Love you, Danno." he said, nipping Danny's bottom lip with his teeth.

"Love you too, baby." Danny breathed against the other man's lips. Reluctantly he left the warmth of their bed to stagger to the bathroom, coming back with a damp washcloth which he used to clean his hands and the mess on Steve's chest. He even washed the leftover lube before it dried and stuck his asscheeks together. Steve lazily watched as his boyfriend cleaned him up, his heart beating a steady rhythm against his ribcage at the intimate act.

Danny then threw the cloth in the general direction of the bathroom before all but sinking down onto the mattress next to his lover, a hand running through Steve's sparse chest hair. As he lay on his side and traded soft kisses with him, Danny could already feel his eyelids drooping. He grabbed the covers up from where they'd been kicked down and was about to pull Steve into his arms, when the baby monitor's lights came on and Sarah's sobs could be heard through the speaker.

Both men sighed at the interruption, but Danny shook his head and smirked when Steve slowly made to get up. "I'll go, babe." he said, grabbing the first pair of shorts he could find. "You need to catch up on about three months worth of sleep."

"M'kay," Steve mumbled, his eyes following Danny as he left the room.

Steve turned over and buried his face in his pillow, finally closing his eyes as his breathing returned to normal. He grinned as he stretched his body from his head down to his toes, and although the post-coital bliss had been cut short after their first time, Steve truly felt like the luckiest man alive as he laid there and listened to Danny soothing his baby girl through the baby monitor.