It wasn't something he really told anyone, but Daniel was a little bit of a romantic. She'd kissed the other him before, so this wasn't her first kiss, but it was his, and he wanted to get it right for both of them. He wasn't gonna push too fast or too hard.

He wasn't sure which of them actually closed the gap, maybe both of them, but the first moment they were actually kissing he thought he might have felt it down to his remaining toes. He kept the kiss fairly chaste and focused on the feeling of her in his arms, her fingers on his face, and even the little bit of wax from her lipstick.

Kissing was something he knew how to do, something he enjoyed doing. Some of the other fellas had kind of felt like it was something to be dealt with to get to the main event, and he'd had those moments, but he liked it for what it was by itself too.