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Muse Magic #3.1.G Blood and Water
Blood is thicker than water, and twice as hard to get out in the wash...

...and that went double for the metaphorical kind. Danny had punched in the code for Cody to leave, and as soon as she vanished he regretted telling her he didn't want her to stay. Why the hell had he done that? Now he was never going to see her again because she would be halfway across the galaxy getting herself killed. He grabbed hold of the console and kicked it hard, and then again. Another well-placed kick and the whole stand broke. Great.

He went back into his suite and saw the barely eaten dinner still on the table, now cold. Eyes fell on his snowboard that Cody had bought him. He was an idiot, sent her off to confront his father. If he had taken her suggestion of chess, TV, and just sleeping together...and it would have been just sleep, maybe he would have been able to talk her out of that suicide mission to Grucin, it would've been better. She would be able to deal with Hsu, and still be here for them. He flopped on the couch, eyes closed. For a few moments her relived that weekend they had spent together. It was one of his fondest memories, if not the most. Charged by a double Quickening the entire weekend had been one never-ending bout of sex. Except that it did end. But now there was something new to the memory...know he knew that weekend he had become a father.

Roma.

She had grown up around him, a bratty, spoiled, reckless and rebellious, and on the rare occasion, sweet. Cody's daughter. She was fun to have around...to fool around with...and that was how Danny had ever thought about her, but now he knew. She was his daughter too. And every time he thought about that, he thought about the last time he had seen Roma, pleasuring each other orally. It made him want to throw up. How could he ever look at Roma again? He had nearly fucked his own daughter. Would she ever want to look at him? How could he even begin to be her father with that there. At least one thing he knew was that no one would know, and he hoped that Roma would keep her mouth shut. Bad choice of words.

Danny opened his eyes, rubbing his hand across his face and sat there in the quiet. It didn't take long before the silence and the emptiness of his suite started to get at him. He was alone. He hated being alone. To the point of being phobic. Already he was starting to shake and his breathing grew more rapid, but if there was one thing, and one thing only, that Danny was good at that was hiding his fears. He got onto the commlink to his security detail outside, ordering one in. When he arrived, Danny informed him that he was going to one of the clubs at the resort. There he would hopefully catch up with Pirne and the rest of his gang, and if not there were plenty of others happy to hang out with the Prince of Boukun and Governor of its moon, Tabar. Telling the bodyguard to wait, he grabbed his jacket and sunglasses and then left with his escort, for once happy with Andy insisting on such close protection.