Family
Fandom: Sports Night
Pairing: Dan/Natalie
Spoilers: The Apology, general for everything else.
Word Count: 173
Notes: For Medie’s first lines challenge.
There was a time when he would have welcomed his father’s affections, perhaps even returned them. When he was in college, certainly, when he was trying to deal with his guilt over Sam’s death, guilt that was only compounded by the fact that he knew his father blamed him too.
There was a time when Dan would have welcomed his father’s affections, but not any more. Not when he has a new family that means the world to him.
Isaac, who has been more of a father to him in the last few years than his own ever was.
He’s found siblings in Dana, in Casey and Jeremy, and to a lesser extent, in the various other technicians.
And when Natalie slips her hand into his, smiles up at him with that way of hers, he knows he’s found the other half of his soul
There was a time when he would have welcomed his father’s affections, perhaps even returned them, but not any more.
Not when he has everything he ever wanted.