Don/Ian Plot Bunny for Adoption

Yep, as I said, lots of ideas but no writing potential at all!!!

There aren't a lot of fics out there with this pairing, but I'd love to see more Don and Edgerton fics.

Background: Don and Ian don't know each other. Although I like fics where they've met before, I just didn't really get that impression in Sniper Zero. So for this fic, their meeting at the top of the hill with Charlie would be their first meeting. Don has clearly heard of Edgerton before and you may say Ian has heard of Eppes, but no actual meeting has ever taken place.
Both Don and Ian are clearly alpha-males and I can easily see both of them being different as seen by the choices they made within the FBI. Don did Fugitive Recovery for a while and was clearly good at it, while Ian's sniper work is clearly also in the hunter area not to mention the man hunting he does with his tracking. They were both hunters at one point, the main difference being Ian did it before the criminal had been caught while Don did it if they escaped after being sentenced.
To me there's a definite spark between the two of them, though I would think that Don might hold back more initially simply because he is in the more vulnerable position due to the fact that his position provides him with much less room to maneuver than Edgerton's does. His co-workers stay the same and are always around not to mention that his family lives close by and knows a lot of what's going on in his life [before, when this wasn't the case, he would have acted as he did with Coop back in the day]. Edgerton doesn't really have to worry about any of these things and his superb reputation probably allows him more room to maneuver, especially since his current job lets him be different as he isn't a 'normal' FBI agent to begin with.

Fic: When they meet in Sniper Zero both Don and Ian are intrigued by the other and interested. They are drawn to the primal, dangerous edge each of them possesses though Don's has been tuned down due to the position he now holds, but Ian can still clearly detect it underneath Don's current professionalism (he can feel it frothing beneath the surface just waiting to be unleashed). Don, however, doesn't act on it for the above reasons while Ian definitely thinks of it and makes some overtures but doesn't push as he doesn't know Eppes well enough to know how he'll react.
When they meet again in Toxin, I can imagine Ian pushing a little more and realizing that Don is interested in him too. He is much better at reading people than the average person. But with Charlie being there the whole time with them, there is no good opportunity to act and Edgerton knows Don well enough at this point to know that to do anything near Charlie would not be a good idea despite the fact that he may really want to. Don, meanwhile, is still very interested and realizes that Ian is on to him. The overtures feel odd as he is used to the one doing the persuing instead of being persued. The only other time where dominance was so closely fought over with him was with Coop and they'd already had a well established work relationship to fall back on and knew each other much better.
By the time Spree rolls around, Edgerton is determined to make his move and it may well have been factored into his decision to call Don's team out to the scene of the robbery at the beginning of the episode [not that it wasn't also necessary but it did factor into it]. The fact that this case also forces Don to start crossing lines only adds to the tension that their encounter will have as it lets out Don's darker side and gives him more need of tension relief.
Any meeting of these two would result in a struggle for dominance but I think ultimately both would benefit from giving it up from time to time, especially now that they have learned that they can trust the other. And they know that the other understands them in a way even other FBI agents like David and Megan can't as they've seen the grittier, more dangerous and primal side of their work, namely the man hunting. The first time might have Don submitting simply due to the circumstances hitting him so hard, but after that he'd definitely fight to make Ian submit.
I'd really like to see something lasting come out of it, but I could see it go the other way too. More of a 'when you're in town' type of relationship.

Please, please let this inspire at least one person??? Pretty please???
Let me know if it does. Thankie!!!