The cave
By
Landon Richardson and TealRose
Disclaimer
The character of Steve McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Adam 'Toast' Charles and Amy Hanamoa do not belong to me in any shape or form, I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes
The character of Danni Williams is probably mine by now. Even though she was originally based on male Danny Williams I think it's probably safe to say that's she her own individual character by now, especially since I've created a back ground for her which is different to male Danny's background in the show. This also affects Grace who is different from the show as well in ways.
The characters of Jack O'Connor. Riley King, Rosie Lange. Ryan Moore and Lily Nichols also belong to me. I should also add that if a character is mentioned who you are not instantly aware of then that character belong to me as well
Author Note
First thing I should say is that this particular story was actually co-written with Tealrose who is an incredible writer so you should so check her work out if you haven't already done so.
Sometimes you got to go where the Muse takes you and the Muse has taken me to this story which has been sitting there for months now waiting for me to put it up. Before you all panic this story is completed and so far it's over 20,000 words so you're definitely getting your McDanni feel from it.
This story is the story about how the two of them get together in this 'What could have happened' saga. A lot of the story which we write where they are a couple come from this story.
This will definitely be an M rating within a couple of chapters so all I can say is enjoy!
Overall summary
Steve and Danni have been dancing around their attraction since they met but neither of them have taken the first step. Could a weekend alone together finally change all that? (Part of the McDanni world, female Danni)
Chapter Summary
Danni Williams closed the movie magazine she had been reading with a sigh, dropping it on the coffee table as her eyes flickered around her living room. There was no way around it. She was completely bored out of her mind with nothing to do and no one to elevate her boredom.
Overall romance
Steve McGarrett/Danni Williams (McDanni)
Chapter Romance
Steve McGarrett/Danni Williams (McDanni)
Other note
All locations are made up or at least the cave is
Other, other note
This will be the last new story up until I have completed at least three others so if you're looking for a particular story to be finished then trust me when I say it's on the cards. Just waiting for the pesky muses to stop playing games and to focus!
Chapter One
Danni Williams closed the movie magazine she had been reading with a sigh, dropping it on the coffee table as her eyes flickered around her living room. There was no way around it. She was completely bored out of her mind with nothing to do and no one to elevate her boredom.
Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua were both at a family wedding for the whole of the weekend on one of the smaller island. Jack had taken his two young daughters to Pearl Harbour and was planning on making the most of it. Toast was on the mainland until Sunday night visiting his relatives. Amy Hanamoa had family over while Ryan Moore and Lily Nichols were both at work.
She leaned forward and picked her cell phone up from the coffee table, swiping her thumb across the screen, opening it up. She casually scrolled through the names in her contact books before she stopped on Steve McGarrett's name, staring down at his picture. Somehow he had gotten a hold of her phone and taken a picture of himself so she would know instantly that it was him calling. She had tried to explain to him that he had his own ring tone but he had simply ignored her.
Steve had been the only one out of the members of 50 who hadn't mentioned any plans for the weekend when they had been discussing it which meant that he either wanted to keep them secret from the rest of the team or he hadn't any.
Danni hesitated for a moment, biting down on her lower lip, her finger hovering over the connect button before she gave in and pressed down on it, bringing the phone to her ear, her eyes moving over the pictures on the mantel piece while she waited for him to pick up.
God she was bored, she just wanted to scream the words out at the top of her lungs but she hadn't been able to do something like that since she was a teenager. She smiled remembering all the times she would lie across her bed, head hanging over the side as though she could get a brand new perspective from the new angle. When her phone started speaking to her, she blinked coming out of her memories.
"Hello?" She said, her breathe catching when a sexy chuckle answered her.
"You were the one who called me Danni not the other way round, I've already said hello to you" Danni closed her eyes in embarrassment before she spoke.
"Yeah sorry about that, my mind was somewhere else for a moment. I was erm… I was wondering whether you were up to anything today." She asked him.
Steve blinked looking down at the phone before his gaze went to the ocean outside his house, a smile coming to her face at her words. He had just climbed out of the water for the second time that day, trying desperately to distract himself from his thoughts, it was just luck that the one which had been haunting him the most was now on the phone asking for company.
"Yeah I'm free this weekend" He answered her, running his beach towel over his hair, drying it. "What do you want to do?" He questioned trying to picture exactly what she was doing in his mind. He already knew that Grace was with her father this weekend because Danni had been down about it for the past two days though she had tried to hide it beneath a smile.
"There's nothing I want to do and that right there my friend is the problem. I'm still getting used to all the tourists on the island coming and going." She admitted with a sigh, the sound making Steve smile softly, he was well aware that his partner was more a home body than a party girl.
"You could come round to mine if you want?" He offered her. Danni tilted her head for a moment considering the offer before she shook her head.
"I appreciate the offer but I want to go out, I just really want to go somewhere where there is no…" She stopped for a second, her voice softening as she continued. "Look you're the expert on Hawaii right? Is there somewhere we could go where it beautiful and quiet. Something where I can get some peace without a tourist stopping me every two seconds asking for directions or asking me for my picture or just leering at me?" She begged.
Steve raised an eyebrow at her remark, picking up on the undercurrent of desperation on her voice before he spoke.
"How long do you want to be gone?" He questioned, an idea forming in his mind.
"Honestly?" She asked, continuing when Steve made a sound at the back of his throat. "I want to go for as long as possible."
Steve grinned, closing his eyes for a moment before he spoke.
"Let me get dressed and then I'll swing by and pick you up from your house. Pack an overnight bag Danno and make sure that you have a swimsuit with you." He told her. Danni raised her eyebrow.
"Wait did you say get dressed?" She asked, her mind fixing on a picture of a half-naked Steve dripping with water. She swallowed, her mouth going dry at the image.
"Yes Danno I just said that I need to get dress, why what are you wearing?" He questioned, wondering whether she would answer him or not.
"Me? Oh I'm in shorts and a tank top with a bikini underneath, it's too hot for anything else at the moment" She answered him, closing her eyes as she mentally kicked herself for answering him. He rolled his eyes when he laughed down the phone, the sound sending a chill down her spine.
"Well it is hot here" He said lowly "I'll dry off and get dressed, I'll be there to pick you up in thirty minutes"
"Yeah okay then" She answered, hanging up the phone before she did anything more to embarrass herself "I am an idiot" She murmured to herself before she moved gathering things she would need on an outing and putting them in her rucksack. She slipped off her shorts replacing it them with a pair of black combat pants, putting her shorts into the bag for later on and zipped it up. She had just finished plaiting her hair out of the way when she heard a knock on her door. Bracing herself she headed to it and pulled it open.
Steve stood on the other side wearing his usual cargo pants and t-shirt.
"Hey" she said with a smile at him, he grinned back at her, his eyes flickering down to her feet.
"So you figured it out did you?" He questioned her, Danni blinked, looking down. A smile coming to her face when she realised that they were both wearing the same type of boots as each other. Steve had given her a pair in her size a couple of months ago, she had though originally that he had picked them up for her at a shop but according to Chin, boots like that were made to order and expensive which meant that for some reason Steve had decided she needed a pair.
She had, had the vague inkling that they would be going hiking and the wide smile on his face and the fact he held a rucksack in his hand pointed to her being right. She smiled back at him.
"Well I've got to admit it Steve, they are really comfortable even though they aren't my favourite type of shoes," She leaned down and picked up her rucksack, stepping out of the house and closing the door behind her making sure she locked it, looking up at Steve. "So how far away is the place we're going to and where is it exactly?" She questioned, a suspicious look coming to her face at the smile that Steve gave her.
"It's closer than you think Danni but it will take an hour or two for us to walk to depending on the state of the path" He told her causing her to frown at him.
"So it's a secret place we're going to?" She questioned, sighing when he ignored her questions. She rolled her eyes, if he wanted it to be a surprise then that was fine. Danni could wait a couple of hours to find out. Especially as this was what she had wanted when she rang him, a chance to go somewhere secluded where she could just take a moment to catch her breath and recover from the stressful two weeks they had just experience. "Am I at least allowed to ask which car we're taking with us?" She asked him, unsurprised when he nodded towards her Camaro, what she was surprised by was the fact that Steve wrapped his arm around her shoulder, using the hold to steer her towards the car.
"And yes Danno it is a secret place but I promise you that it will be worth it when we get there" He told her, tilting her head back slightly so he could meet her gaze with his own. Danni nodded at him, fighting the urge not to melt against him, instead she made herself move away from him, holding out the keys to him and smiling at his surprised look.
"You did say it was a surprise so I can hardly drive if I don't know where we're going can I?" She pointed out. He grinned at her, heading to his truck and opening the trunk and pulling out his bags. He dropped them on the floor and closed the lid and locked it, picking the bags up and dumping them in the back of the car. Danni smiled to herself as she opened the passenger door and slid in, pulling her seatbelt on, glancing to the side when the door opened and Steve joined her, adjusting the seat until it was comfortable before he started the engine and reversed out of her driveway.
Danni stared out of the window for a moment watching the scenery and cars passing by. The knowledge that she finally had Steve alone for a weekend causing her to smile again. A weekend of just the two of them when for once she wouldn't have to worry about how she acted with him. No one would be there to watch them or judge them. She could just act natural with him. Twisting in her seat, she turned so she could watch him, her eyes tracing his strong profile taking everything in. As far as she was concerned Steve was the most attractive man she had come across since Duncan. She closed her eyes briefly, shaking her head at her thoughts.
Man she had it bad for him.
Steve felt her gaze one him and smirked, his eyes flickering away from the road briefly towards her.
"Have I got something on my face?" He asked her lazily, even though he knew he didn't. The remark caused her cheeks to turn pink as though she was embarrassed but all she did was shake her head at him, still smiling before she spoke.
"No, nothing like that. I just like looking at your face." She admitted.
Steve blinked, his smile widening when he realised that Danni was actually flirting with him for once. Deciding to take her lead, he spoke.
"Well I like looking at your face as well Danni not to mention the fact that I like the smell of your hair, I don't know what shampoo you wear but it's my favourite scent."
"It is?" Danni answered sounding surprised, her grey eyes wide as she stared at him before she slowly smiled, dropping her eyes from his. "It's nice to know that you like the scent. I had been thinking about switching it but maybe I'll keep it now" She stated, her eyes coming back up, casually tracing the shape of his lips when he grinned at her, his eyes hidden behind his sunglasses.
"That's good to know" He commented well aware of her watching his mouth. If they weren't on a busy road, surrounded by traffic then he would consider pulling the car over, dragging her over to him and kissing her senseless like he had been wanted to do within two weeks of knowing her, hell if he was being honest with himself he probably had wanted her from the minute he had seen her in his garage pointing a gun at him. Even know he could close his eyes and recapture the scene perfectly in his mind. He doubted she had any idea how gorgeous she had looked at that moment in time. His feelings had simply grown and grown until he had realised one day, sitting across her in a team meeting, that he had fallen head over heels in love with her. It hadn't been a difficult decision to end his arrangement with Catherine, the other woman had been disappointed before she had shrugged it off, wishing him well and promising that they would remain friends. After that all his attention had been focused on Danni and it looked like his hard work was finally going to pay off.
Breathing out slowly he forced himself to look away from her. He was determined that their first kiss together would be when they were alone, not when anyone could look out of their window and gawk at them as though they were a show.
Ten minutes later saw him pulling the car into a less used road which was generally used by locals who knew the secrets the islands had to offer, the secrets that no tourist ever saw. He pulled the car over in an empty area and killed the engine, glancing towards Danni from the corner of her eyes to see her staring out the window screen, an eager look on her face before she reached to the side and pushed her door open stepping out of the car. Steve followed, breathing in the clear air before he headed to the back of the car and opened the trunk grabbing their bags out of it, he placed them on the ground as he closed the trunk before he picked up the larger of the two and shouldered it, passing the smaller one to Danni when she held her hand out for it. Steve watched as she added another small bag to it before she looked at him.
"Shall we?" She queried, her grin causing him to grin back at her.
"We shall" He replied with a wink before he turned and began leading the way to the opening which was the beginning of the path they needed to go.
Whatever happened Steve was determined that this was going to be a weekend that they never forgot.
Author Note
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