Title: Not a very happy birthday.
Pairing: Steve/Kono, McKono.
Disclaimer: not mine so whatever brah
Spoiler: none.

A/N: I thought about this when I saw the new epi, with Steve celebrating his birthday. I thought "well, Kono deserves a celebrating something type of episode" so here it is! My take on how she would celebrate her birthday.

ENJOY!

kuddos to Martha Smith-Jones for being my beta. You totally rock!

Fran


I knew this was would be special from the moment I woke up. The sun was shining so brightly, the waves higher than I've ever seen them, even the air felt different. I could not, even for a second, erase the smile from my face. Everything seemed to be going in the right direction. Even I felt different. Well it is kind of normal when you get one year older, right?

"Good morning ku`uipo, happy birthday my ray of sunshine"

I smiled at the sweet message my mother left me on the phone. One of many to come. My mother is usually the first one to greet me on my birthday, even at 8 o'clock she manages to get up and leave something special on my phone. Like many others, obviously.

"Sup! Happy birthday to my coolest, awesomest best friend ever! I wish I could be there to personally give you a hug, but damn this life of mine right? Don't forget that I adore you and I will see you soon so we can CELEBRATE! Love you, bye. Oh and don't you even dare going to work, enjoy your day HOME,ok? No matter how much you'll miss McGorgeous"

I've always wondered why Maggie insisted she should stay home, all the time. I have the greatest time working, my job is awesome and so are the people I work with. Besides, she was right about one thing (a very important one), she would miss Steve like crazy.

Steven McGorgeous like she called him.


When I get to work the first one to greet me with a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek was my cousin. Later Danny catches up with a hug and a kiss too. What I was hoping though, kind of girlish and teenager-ish for me to say it, was the same welcome from Steve. Yeah, I was hoping he would give a kiss on the cheek, or a smile or something remotely similar to…something different. But I didn't, because he wasn't in the HQ when I got there, and when I asked Danny he said he had no idea where he was.

I didn't want to ask any further afraid I might give away how excited I was to see him. Told you I felt like a teenager.

"You should have stayed home," Chin told me as I shake my head "I'm pretty sure the boss would have understood"

"Yeah but no thank you. I like working"

"Spend your birthday at work?" Danny frowned as I shrugged "You're weird, you know that?"

"That I do"

"You should do something special" Chin suggested

"I am doing something special. I am spending my day with the people I love"

"You mean the man you love" Danny spoke, Chin and I snapping our heads towards him.

"What?"

"What?"

"Nothing, never mind."

Chin stares at me, and I look away afraid he might actually see how right Danny is.

"Well, I gotta do something before the boss arrives" I speak, taking my bag from the chair and moving towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Chin asks

"To the bank. I'll be back soon"

"Now that's a perfect way to celebrate your birthday" Danny said "waiting in line forever."


I hate when Danny is right. Hate it.

The line at the bank was long. Scratch that, it was insanely long. But I'm here already, right? So there was no use to walk away now.

Then, for a fraction of a second, everything turned into slow motion. People were running towards the door, woman grabbing their children and practically pushing everyone who stepped in their way, desperate to get out. I could barely process what was going on, with the yelling around me, but I as turned around I saw the reason for the commotion.

There was a man, wearing a dark sweater and balaclava hat, holding a gun to us. The young woman next to me held my hand tight, her eyes watering with each passing moment.

"Get down on the floor" the man yelled, "You move and I'll shoot you"

We got down, I pulled the young woman with me, she cried and the man walked towards us. Pushing us with his gun, ready to hit.

"Shut her up" he told me and I nodded slowly. Calming the woman as much as I could but at this point nothing worked. She was freaking out. "Shut her up or I'll shoot her!"

The woman stopped crying, she covered her mouth with her hands trying to stop the sobs from coming louder. Tears ran down her cheeks. The room turned silent, people stared at one another while the man walked frantically around the room.

I closed my eyes, cursing the minute I decided to leave the office.

Once again I thought how much I hated Danny for being right.


Steve walked inside the HQ with fast pace, holding a mediums size velvet box in his hands. Danny and Chin approached him with quick steps, he stopped on his tracks.

"Where have you been?" Danny asked a little bit desperate "I've been calling you none stop"

"Yeah, sorry about that" Steve apologized "What's going on? Where's Kono?"

He looked around the room with no sign of her. Danny and Chin exchanged worried looks and that did not seem unnoticed to Steve.

"What?" he asked again. He had the feeling something was not going right.

"We got a call from the HPD. There's a hostage situation at the bank, an arm robbery."

"What's that had to do with us?" Steve asked.

"Kono is one of the hostages" Chin explained.

Steve's heart stopped. He holds the box in his hands tight, his knuckles turning white. He had plans for today; he wanted to do something special for her just because this was her day. Now things went on a different track, not precisely the way he wanted.

TBC

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