I don't think the fact that I've become addicited to Tetris since researching it for my last daemon story is helping my productivity at all. Research is dangerous.

I'm not sure if it's straightforward angst if the nice thing Steve gets also makes him kind of sad.

Sounds like a Scribbler story to me. "Even the happy things are sad!'

In my case, the nice things make him happy. And Sam is being very protective, which is a bit adorable.