#and frank is NOT upset that danny yelled at him that would be so CRINGE and STUPID and LAME--

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We all know Frank's a seething ball of attachment issues, I occasionally ponder him as a Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria posterchild, particularly to people he looks up to (not naming names...Danny). Has Danny ever been too harsh in shooing him off, and felt bad--I mean *inconvenienced*--enough to do something about it?

Oh absolutely 1000000%. There's plenty of times Danny shoves Frank off of him or tells him to go the fuck away, but it's never done with enough heat for Frank to do anything more but pout or sulk for a bit before he's back to nipping at Danny's heels five minutes later. After all, there's plenty of stretches of time when Frank is off with any of the other Legion brats or annoying someone else, so it's not like Danny is being constantly smothered by this kid for it to ever truly fray his last nerve.

But the thing is that Danny has patience, not tolerance. He can tune things out, he can ignore Frank long enough until he gets bored and leaves, he can play along with whatever stupidity the kid is up to if he has nothing better to do. But the times Danny genuinely doesn't want to be bothered, do not fucking bother him, his neurotic ass cannot handle people relentlessly prodding him when he's in a bitchy headspace. Frank learns that lesson once the hard way, and of course being a hardheaded teenager, he had to make the interaction way worse because he couldn't help getting defensive and wanting the last word.

And then Danny doesn't see him around for an abnormally long time and honestly he's definitely using that as a brat-break. Taking advantage of the peace and quiet for once...then fine, fine, since the other Legion members are telling him that Frank's being extra mopey and reclusive, he'll go find him to smack him on the back of the head and tell him to get over it already.

Well, you know, they're both emotionally stunted freaks with daddy issues, so actually it's more like Danny tossing a pack of cigarettes at Frank's face and 20 minutes later the little shit is already back in his personal space asking what species of dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth when Danny was a kid.