All in a Weekend

By

Landon Richardson and TealRose

Official Disclaimer

The characters of Steve McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Adam 'Toast' Charles and anyone else within the story who might sound familiar do not belong to me in any shape or form, I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes.

The character of Danni McGarrett could probably be considered mine by now. Although the character was originally based on male Danny Williams I think it's probably to say that she is now her own individual character. She has her own story and her own individual background now, a background and story which is different from male Danny's story. This also means that Grace is different as well since not only does she live full time with her mother but also because Danni and Duncan have a fairly civil relationship with each other. Grace's surname is also Taylor in this saga as Williams is Danni's maiden name while Taylor was her married name.

The characters of Rowan McGarrett, Oliver McGarrett and David Williams do belong to me though.

I should also add that if a character is mentioned who you don't recognise from the show then they probably belong to me as well.

Author Note

Welcome to 'All in a weekend'

Please note that this story is written with the talented TealRose. Please go and check out her NCIS stories if you haven't already done so.

I'll try and update the story as often as I can so I apologise in advance if there is sometimes long waits between chapters.

This story shall be rated M though if that isn't your cup of then you should be able to skip that bit without missing too much of the story. I shall place a warning up at the beginning of those chapters so you know what to expect.

Please note that for the sake of this one story we have said that Steve and Danni live on a different island than the one where Pearl Harbour is based.

Please enjoy the chapter.

Overall Summary

Sometimes a weekend away with the family is all that is needed especially when the McGarrett family is involved. (Part of the McDanni Universe, female Danni)

Chapter Summary

Steve McGarrett blinked slowly as he stared across the table towards his wife, his half-filled spoon of oatmeal frozen in place between his mouth and bowl, he was vaguely aware of some of it sliding off the spoon and landing just shy of the bowl onto the edge of the table but dismissed it as unimportant in scale of the bombshell Danni had just dropped on him.

Overall Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni McGarrett (McDanni)

Riley King / Rosie Lange (Rilsie)

Other note

Nearly all the places I have stated within this story are either made up or have been gotten from google so I'm sorry in advance if I've got anything wrong or anything.

Other, other note

There are plenty of other McDanni stories exploring different saga and different ways of how things happened. If you're interest in any of them then please check them out. I'm regularly updating so you shouldn't be waiting too long.

Please also note that this story is an 'M' rating story.


Chapter One

Thursday Morning – The McGarrett house


Steve McGarrett blinked slowly as he stared across the table towards his wife, his half filled spoon of oatmeal frozen in place between his mouth and bowl, he was vaguely aware of some of it sliding off the spoon and landing just shy of the bowl onto the edge of the table but dismissed it as unimportant in scale of the bombshell Danni had just dropped on him.

A bombshell which he couldn't quite wrap his head around.

He became aware of the silence around the table and forced himself to relax, placing his spoon carefully back into his bowl before he spoke, his voice coming out slightly rougher than usual, a fact Danni picked up on if the way her eyebrow rose was any indication for him to go by.

"You care to repeat what you just said to me again Danielle because for a moment there I thought you told me that you and Grace haven't been to Pearl Harbour before"

Danni stared at him for a moment longer before her mouth curled up into an amused smile as she nodded.

"No you heard right" She confirmed with a nod of her head, sharing a quick look with their thirteen year old daughter Grace before focusing back on Steve again. "It's always been on our list of things to do Steve but we never quite got round to doing it. Life and other commitments kept getting in the way and I guess after a time..." Her voice trailed off as she shrugged.

"After a time what?" He prompted.

"After a time Uncle Steve we just decided that if it happened then it happened" Grace stated, answering for Danni who nodded in agreement.

"We still plan to go there one day so it's not a big deal Steven" Danni added, giving him a long look as though she was trying to bury herself into his head to see exactly what he was thinking.

For a moment he allowed himself to be distracted as he looked back at her, still finding it hard to believe that the beautiful woman opposite was actually his, not only that but that she loved him enough to put up with him, marry him and give him two children of their own as well as an amazing stepdaughter in the form of Grace. Forcing the thought away, he considered her argument before suddenly smiling.

He supposed if he was being honest he could understand their reasoning behind not going. God only knew that how busy the past five years of Danni's life had been. She had left everything she knew behind to move to Hawaii for the sake of her daughter so that Grace could have a relationship with her Dad, she had worked six months in a place where the majority of the people working there had an issue with her and made her well aware of it. Then they had met and he had swooped in, kidnapped her for his taskforce, made her his partner and then spent the next five months seducing her and convincing her that they were meant to be. A marriage and two children had quickly followed. That added to their jobs which were extremely time consuming, both of them acting as a taxi service for Grace and still somehow seeing their friends had all added up to having little to no free time. He doubted that she had had the time to even think let along make arrangements for a trip to somewhere like Pearl Harbour.

Luckily for her, she had him and if there was one thing that Steve was good at it was organising things.

"Steve?"

He made a humming sound at the back of his throat, looking up at Danni with a questioning look, surprised to see her watching him with a half concerned, half uneasy look.

"Danni" He responded.

"You've got that look on your face Steve, I distinctively remember us having a conversation about you using that facial expression in front of our impressionable kids. I'm pretty sure that at the same time you promised that you would keep all craziness restricted to work as well." She reminded him before turning away from him and focusing her attention on their three year old daughter Rowan, who had clearly decided that she had had enough of her oatmeal and was now using it to create art "Rowan bean, we've spoken about this before, food is for eating not playing with" Danni scolded lightly, a soft smile on her face which grew when Rowan tilted her head back and grinned at Danni.

"I don't know what facial expression you're talking about Danni because I don't have a facial expression" Steve told her mildly, looking away from his wife to his step daughter when Grace made a choking sound, "Chew don't choke" Steve commented, keeping the grin off his face with difficulty at the look Grace shot him. He was a well known fact in their household that Steve had no manners when it came to eating food.

"Everyone knows about your look Uncle Steve" Grace stated once she had recovered from her coughing fit "Every time you get it on your face it means that you're planning something, something that Mamma or Uncle Riley have to save you from."

"From the mouth of babes" Danni commented with a smile as she reached behind her and snagged the packet of baby wipes they had from the counter top and pulled one out, clearly intent on cleaning up Rowan.

Steve pretended to look affronted for a moment before his expression eased into a grin.

"I promise that I'm not planning anything which will cause trouble" He assured them. "What I'm thinking is that the five of us should head over to Pearl Harbour this weekend. We could make a mini vacation of it. There are a lot of good deals happening at the moment especially family and local deals"

Danni looked up at him for a moment, a fond look on her face before she shrugged, mentally going through her timetable for the next few days and figuring out what she could get rearranged.

"A vacation is never a bad idea" She agreed, her smile growing when Steve's face lit up at her words, looking as though all his Christmas and birthdays had come at once. "But let's not go overboard okay, we still have a budget we need to adhere to" She reminded him softly, sighing softly when he merely made a humming sound at her, a faraway look in his blue eyes which told Danni that Steve was already in planning mode and that very little she said now would make an impact. She turned her attention to Rowan, cleaning the small girl's face and hand and ignoring her sounds of complaints.

She turned as she heard a little grunting sound behind them, her eyes landing on the Moses basket which held their five week old son Oliver in it, or more specifically landed on the small fist waving about telling her that their baby boy had woken from his nap and now wanted attention from them. She turned to Steve and Grace and spoke.

"Could one of you grab Ollie from his basket while I finish up with this messy pup here?" She asked them, rolling her eyes when Steve merely nodded absently at her, eating his oatmeal and barely paying attention to anything going on around him. Danni waited patiently, tilting her head to the side, unsurprised when Steve suddenly looked up at her, an eager look in his eyes as he began talking, picking up the thread of conversation as though they had been having a discussion together about it for the whole time rather than other topic making it into the conversation between then and now.

"It should be easy for us to plan this in a short time period Danni, all we need to do is make sure that we have everything which we need for Ollie and Rowan, just in case we stay later than we originally plan to. I think it's safe to say that we've earned this break and it's what the Governor wants as well, at last I assume that was the point behind his visit to us yesterday insisting what we took some time off work." Steve commented.

Danni smiled at the comment, her mind switching back to the evening before when the Governor had turned up at their doorstep on his way to a black tie event and insisted that Steve and his team took at least four days off so that they didn't end up burning out. Steve had argued the order half-heartedly but it didn't take a rocket scientist to know that his heart hadn't been in it. Danni made a mental note to upgrade the present they were going to give the Governor at Christmas, the man had been nothing but supportive of her and Steve regardless of the fact that they had broken the rules about fraternisation.

"I can make sure that we have everything which we need for the holiday" She promised him before she nodded again towards the basket. "But this conversation can wait until later because your son is about to…" She winced as the rest of her sentence was drowned out by Oliver's extremely loud, extremely demanding roar. The same roar which set off every maternal instinct she possessed telling her that her youngest child needed her.

She made a movement to come to her feet, stopping when Steve made a motion with his hand at her and instead found herself sinking back down onto her seat, watching as Steve bounded to his feet and crossed the room, stopping in front of the basket and reaching in, extracting their red faced, furious baby and grinning down at him as Oliver managed to glare at him through the tears streaking down his face.

"There's my boy" Steve crooned lovingly, holding Oliver close to him, one hand resting against him and spanning the width of his entire back as he tilted his head down so he could still see into Oliver's face. "You've inherited your Daddy's glare which makes bad guys really scared, keep practicing and you'll soon be better than all of us. The bad guys won't know what hit them when you take over Five-0 from your Daddy." He told the small baby before he leaned in and kissed Oliver's hot cheek.

Danni couldn't help the small smile which came to her face when Oliver's cries lessened until he was quiet, simply staring up at Steve with big pale blue eyes which Danni was beginning to think would turn grey as he aged, an expression on his face which looked a great deal like confusion to her. It was a look which Danni was more than used to seeing being directed at her husband though seeing their youngest do it pulled at her heart strings, making her want to laugh at how sweet a picture they made together was. It was no secret that Steve was completely and utterly smitten with his son.

"So Mamma, if we are heading over to Pearl Harbour, then do you think that you and I could go and look at some shops together, there's a dance coming up at school and I need to get something for it. We could look together, just the two of us maybe?" Grace suggested hopefully, attracting Danni's attention from her husband and youngest baby.

"And by shop together you mean me buying your new dress for you right?" Danni questioned with a smile, making a show of rolling her eyes when Grace shot her an innocent look. "The answer is yes though Gracie, once Steve has finished showing us his home away from home, you and I will go and see whether any of the dresses speak to you in the shops over there."

"Thank you Mamma" Grace squealed happily, moving round the table and throwing her arms around Danni, giving her a resounding kiss on the cheek before she moved back. Danni grinned at her as she came to her feet and lifted Rowan out of her chair, resting the small girl against her hip.

"You're welcome Gracie, now do you need a lift to school because if you were planning on walking then you probably should have left five minutes ago to make it on time." Danni remarked, tiling her head and kissing Rowan on top of her dark hair when the small girl nuzzled closer to Danni.

"No I'm all good thanks Mamma, Jamie's mum is taking us in today because we have to bring our science project in. I did tell you about it, do you remember?" Grace queried as she crossed her arms. Danni frowned for a moment, searching her memory before she slowly nodded.

"I remember now Gracie" She remarked with a nod. "She was going to drop you off as well tonight from school?" Danni asked curiously as she placed Rowan on the floor when the small girl began wriggling against her.

"That's right" Grace agreed, tilting her head to the side when they heard a faint, single beep of a horn. "Oh my gosh that must be them now" The young girl said, a look of alarm coming to her face. "I haven't even got my bag yet, Bye Mamma, bye Ro, Bye Ollie, bye Uncle Steve" She stated, quickly giving them all a kiss on the cheek before she ran out of the kitchen as though the hounds of hell were after them.

Danni shook her head with a smile. If there was one thing her daughter had inherited from her, it was her horror at being late or keeping anyone waiting for anything.

Steve grinned towards the doorway, cuddling a now content Oliver to him while Rowan attempted to clamber up his leg for her hug in their normal morning ritual which had been ongoing since Rowan had started walking. Danni glanced towards him.

"Teenagers" she said on a sigh, her grey eyes twinkling with amusement before her gaze dropped to Oliver who was resting his head against Steve's shoulder looking as though there was nowhere else which he wanted to be. "Speaking of people leaving isn't it time that you should be heading off to work bearing in mind the fact that you're meant to be in the office by nine at the latest." She reminded him, crossing the room towards the kettle as a sudden desire for a cup of tea came over her. She had rarely drank the stuff before her pregnancy with Oliver preferring coffee, but during it she had developed a craving for it. A craving which had remained even after her pregnancy had ended.

"Riley is swinging round on his way into work to pick me up" Steve answered, adjusting Oliver's slight weight as he watched Danni select her mug from their large, ever growing collection. She glanced over her shoulder at him as she picked up the kettle, a questioning look on her face.

"How is it going being partnered with Riley, I'm guessing it's a different dynamic then you and I when we work together as partners?" She asked.

"Well I have no desire to push Riley against a wall and ravish him every time I see him if that's what you mean" Steve replied seriously, keeping the façade up until Danni started to laugh. He joined her, grinning widely at her. If he had his way then he would hear Danni laugh more often.

"That's always good to know" She said after a moment, once she had herself under control. "I'm guessing you're enjoying it then?"

"If I say I am will you be peeved with me?" He asked, reaching down and resting his hand on Rowan's dark head. Danni remained quiet for a moment, a thoughtful look on her face as though she was considering his question before she shook her head.

"No I wouldn't be Steve, I'd be more relieved if anything. We both know that you don't have the greatest track record when it comes to keeping partners for longer than a short period of time." She pointed out mildly, walking over to the sink and flipping the lid of the kettle to fill it with water from the tap.

"Except with you" Steve pointed out, the comment causing her to look back at him with a fond, gentle smile as she nodded.

"Except with me" She conceded.

"Riley and I are doing fine though, we've worked together before back when we were both SEALs, it took a couple of days for us to gel again but things have been fine since then and don't worry Danni, he's more inclined to sit back and wait then I am so he is restraining me though obviously not as much as you did" Steve told her

"Well that's good to know" Danni replied, switching the kettle on before she twisted round and moved across the room, coming to a stop in front of Steve. "As long as you try and be a bit careful then that's all I ask for. You have a family now who would be heartbroken if anything happened to you. I would be devastated if I lost you" She reminded him softly, her eyes flickering to Rowan and Oliver before she reached up, gripping the back of his neck lightly and pulled him down into a kiss, lingering over the contact. Steve pulled back slightly, blinking down at her, listening as she continued to speak. "I'm glad Riley is back in your life. I know you have us and I know what you and I have is special but what you have with him is special as well. He's been in your life so long that it's good he's back."

"Yeah" Steve said with a nod. "I didn't realise how much I missed him until he here in Hawaii and back on my team. Apart from you and perhaps Chin and Jack, he's my closest friend." Steve admitted before he leaned down and kissed her again, this time with more pressure, his tongue running over her bottom lip until she parted her mouth on a soft sigh, giving the access he was craving. Reluctantly he forced himself back. "But you're right though Danno, what you and I have is beyond special. You know I love you right?" He asked, the question causing her to smile since it was a question Steve asked her every day since they had first embarked on a relationship together, as though he was worried his words and actions didn't prove it enough to her.

"I know and I love you too" She said.

"Good" Steve said, going to lean down again for another kiss when a small hand smacked him hard against the cheek blindsiding him for a moment. Blinking he turned to look at Oliver with a look of disbelief before he looked at Danni. "I'm guessing Ollie doesn't like to see us kiss" He remarked with a bemused expression, reaching up and catching Oliver's flailing hand in his own when it came dangerously close to his face again.

"I told you he took after you beloved, your son does not like to share" Danni told him, sounding amused as she reached down and picked up Rowan who had abandoned her attempt at climbing up Steve's leg and was now instead trying to get Danni to hug her again.

"Why do you immediately assume he got that aspect of his personality from me?" Steve asked with a raised eyebrow, ignoring the pointed look Danni gave him before she changed the subject.

"You know I was thinking that maybe once the little ones are in bed tonight you and I could do something… couplie together" She suggested, hesitating for a moment before choosing her words, her eyes flickering to their two present children.

"Oh?" Steve said, a look of interest coming to his face. "Is that what your trip to the Doctors was about yesterday evening?" He asked, smiling when she nodded at him. "Well that is good news then, what do you want to do?"

"I'm thinking that we use that Jacuzzi bath you insisted on getting in our en-suite and then see where the night will take us" She suggested casually, using the same tone that she would use when she was asking him what he wanted for dinner.

"I'm pretty sure you were the one who begged me to get the Jacuzzi in the en-suite when we did it up" Steve remarked dryly. "But I'm more than happy to use it and to see where the night take us" He said, quoting her as he wriggled his eyebrows at her. The action causing her to laugh at how silly he looked doing it.

"It's a date then beloved, maybe we'll get lucky and be able to put the kids to bed early for once" She said hopefully, watching as he nodded before he bent down and kissed Oliver's head, nuzzling his nose into the fine blonde hair for a moment, his eyes drifting close before they snapped open and he looked towards Danni. "Swapsies?" He asked.

"Swapsies" She agreed, reaching out and passing Rowan to Steve, making sure the small girl was secure in his hold before she took Oliver from him.

"Da!" Rowan said happily, throwing her arms around him and hugging him as tightly as she could. He held her back, his heart flipping in his chest at the sheer, unconditional love his little girl gave him. She had been his first miracle, something which he had always dreamed of but never actually believed would happen. His past relationship had proven to him that there was something about him which people couldn't love or at least they couldn't love him in the way he needed and craved for. Women loved him in their bed, loved using him for his connections and his body but when it came to anything deeper they had kept him at arm's length, Catherine Rollins being a prime example of that. That had all changed when Danni had entered his life and changed his entire world with her first, reluctant smile at him.

He could still remember the night they brought Rowan home for the first time, his beautiful, tiny, fragile girl who had wrapped her hand round his finger, blinking up at him with big blue eyes and had stolen his heart. He had watched her grow from that tiny baby into a tiny rough and tumble three year old who had his hair and eyes but looked so much like her mother. Personality wise she was more like him, something which concerned him more than he liked to let on. Forcing his attention back to the here and now he spoke to her.

"My little Rowan bean" He murmured back, kissing the side of her head, smiling at the term of affection she used for him. From the moment she could talk she had called him Da with the occasionally Daddy thrown him though neither he nor Danni had been able to figure out where she had picked the term up from. "Now remember to be good for your mamma today and behave when you're at kindergarten" He told her, making a sound of approval at her when she nodded, a serious look on her face before throwing herself forward again and giving him a resounding kiss on his cheek.

"Yes Da" She told him with a nod. "Love you."

"I love you too Rowan bean" He said with another kiss on the top of his head before he looked back towards Danni who had taken the opportunity to make herself a cup of tea.

"Do you want Ollie and me to come and visit you while you're at work? We could bring you some lunch in, something healthy" She said pointedly.

"I always want you to visit me Danni, if I could install you and Ollie into your old office just so you'd be there with me then I would" He told her, a possessive look in his eyes which caused her to shiver. "Will you have time to meet me if you're packing for tomorrow though?"

"This is me Steve, I'll have us packed and ready before Ollie's even finished with his next nap of the day." She said confidently, bouncing the small boy in her arms.

"Well in that case how about you meet me at Kamekona's at twelve thirty for lunch instead. The big guy has been bugging me for the past four and a half weeks to be able to see Ollie again, apparently seeing him once at the hospital isn't enough for him. He's been a good friend to us so…"

"Ollie and I will be there" Danni promised with a nod at him, her mind drifting back to their old friend who they had met on the first day of their partnership together. The other man was like a big teddy bear, gruff with strangers and people who is saw as potential business rivals but gentle and sweet to those people he considered his friends. He had taken an instant shine to all of Danni's children, insisting that they call him Uncle Shamu and always available to babysit them even if it was at short notice. Danni had been hesitant to leave Rowan with the former confidential informer the first time but she had been out of options so had allowed Steve to make the call. Kamekona had arrived within fifteen minutes and had made such an impression on Rowan even as a small baby that she had cried when Steve had taken her back.

Steve opened his mouth to speak, closing it when for the second time that morning they heard a beep from a car outside their house. Steve glanced to the clock on the wall and pulled a face.

"That would be Riley" He told them. "Which means that I have to go, I'll see you later. If anything changes about lunch Danni then I'll call you" He promised, kissing Rowan before he placed her on the ground and moved towards the other two, kissing Oliver on top of his head before kissing Danni on the lips again. "I love you" He called out to them, heading out of the room, a smile coming to his face when he heard them call out their own declarations of love to him.

He made his way through the house, glancing around him with a slight frown and made a mental note in his mind to sit Danni down during their holiday to discuss their living arrangements. At the moment Oliver was sleeping in their room which had been fine as a short term arrangement but which couldn't go on, especially not after the Doctor had now given Danni the all clear to resume their sex life. He wanted his son in his own nursery, the same way he wanted both Grace and Rowan to have their own rooms as well, something which wasn't possible at present time. The last conversation they had had about it was just after Rowan had been born. Danni had listened to what he had to say but had disagreed saying the house was perfect for the four of them. Now that there was five he was hoping she would be more open to his idea of moving.

Steve grabbed his badge and keys from the bowl and exited through the front door, making his way down the garden path towards the kerb where he could see Riley's black SUV, he could just about make out Riley through the tinted window, the younger man tapping his hand against the wheel in a beat. He couldn't hear any music which meant that Riley must have been listening to something via earphones. It was a well know secret that Riley loved music.

"Hey King" Steve said once he was settled in his seat, he pulled on his seatbelt, glancing towards the dark haired man as the other man reached out and pulled out his earphones looking towards him.

"Hey McG, how was your evening? Danni girl and the younglings okay?" Riley asked.

"Evening was long because Ollie wouldn't settle until eleven when he was suddenly out like a night and slept through until three, for us that's almost a full night sleep" Steve remarked ruefully, his mouth curling up into a smile. "I don't know how Danni does it"

"Really?" Riley said, sounding surprised. "She does it because she Danielle McGarrett, if they gave her a day in charge of the country she would probably iron out most of the issues we had. Your wife my friend is a problem solver, she always has been."

Steve nodded as Riley pulled the vehicle from the SUV, heading towards the road which would lead them to their headquarters.

"That reminds me" Steve said after a pause. "Danni, I and the kids are going away for the weekend to Pearl, I might need to ask a favour from you"

"A favour" Riley repeated, looking towards Steve for a moment, searching his eyes before his own widened. "Oh, yeah of course buddy. You know you can"

"Thanks, what about you? Any plans for the long weekend? Spending time with Red?" Steve asked, changing the subject.

"That's the plan" Riley said with a smile of his own, he opened his mouth to speak, closing it when Steve's cell phone went off. Steve fished it out of his pocket and glanced down at the screen.

"That's the Governor, I hope you've had a good breakfast Riley, knowing our luck we're going to need it." He said with a smirk at Riley before he answered the phone with a brisk. "McGarrett here, what have you got for us Governor?"


Author Note

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