Living Dangerously (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Danny/Matt)

This was their year of living dangerously. Or at least that’s what they’d promised each other when they’d taken this job. It didn’t count, really, in the path towards their life ambitions. All that was on hold until Danny’s probation was up and there was no way Matt was going to give up Danny just so he could get a stupid script out in the public.

Okay, it wasn’t a stupid script. It was a brilliant script but it would be even more brilliant with Danny directing it.

Still, that whole living dangerously pact didn’t mean they were going to go out and wrestle bears or swim with sharks or anything like that. They’d said dangerously, not stupidly. Instead he just reminded himself of their pact whenever the network execs got riled over a script or Jack was threatening to fire them for some off color joke. While it was great to be back at Studio 60, a dream even, the studio needed them more than they needed the studio.

Matt was beginning to think that wasn’t quite true. While he couldn’t say that coming to work here was the best thing that had ever happened to him, it wasn’t the worst and a few good things had come from it.