A/N: This story is my attempt at the wipeout prompt from LisaG16, I hope you all like it. If you are looking for a plot, there isn't one, unless whumping Danny big time, and Steve a little, can be called a plot. A big thanks to rewob17 for the beta, and Topazicatzbeth for the encouragement.

Summary: Danny doesn't get it, if Steve wiped out, how come he's the one that's hurt?

Chapter One

Danny, Steve, and Kono had decided that surfing was a good way to spend their day off so they drove out to a quiet beach that only the locals knew about, evidenced by the fact that it was deserted when they arrived at, to Danny, the ungodly hour of 6 am.

The surfing was great for the first hour or so, until Steve wiped out. Danny couldn't understand what had happened. One minute Steve was up on his board, riding the wave, the next he was gone.

Kono had been watching and filming from the beach, as she'd already ridden in on the wave ahead of Steve. Danny was sitting on his board waiting for the next wave.

Danny made it to Steve before Kono was even in the water. There was blood on the side of Steve's head, and he was unresponsive. With a superhuman effort, Danny managed to pull Steve onto his board in front of him. A quick check showed that Steve was still breathing, but his pulse was slow.

Kono stopped on seeing Danny pull Steve onto his board, but now she was waving frantically and yelling. Danny couldn't hear above the roar of the surf. It was then he realised that they'd drifted towards the rocks at the side of the beach, and the roar was the waves hitting the rocks.

Danny removed his board's strap from his leg and slid into the water, where he also removed Steve's leg strap allowing that board to float away. He then got behind his board and frenetically kicked to propel the board towards the shore, away from the rocks.

Kono was swimming as fast as she could towards her two teammates, she knew the danger the rocks represented.

They'd almost made it to Kono when Danny felt the undertow grab him. He just had time to give the surf board a final push before he was pulled under.

Kono lunged forward and managed to grab Danny's board, pulling Steve to the safety of the beach. She checked Steve quickly to assure herself that he was breathing then ran back to the water's edge to find Danny.

Danny flipped over and over with no control as the undertow drove him towards the rocks. He managed to surface and suck in some much needed air before the water literally threw him onto the rocks, then dragged him back out again.

The impact caused him to expel the air he'd managed to drag in and his next breath was a mouth full of water. Spluttering he managed to surface again and this time when he hit the rocks he held on for dear life. He thought he heard a voice yelling at him; it sounded like his friend Billy but that couldn't be. His grip on the rock tightened, he didn't want to die like Billy. He had too much to live for.

Kono saw Danny surface and hit the rocks, then be dragged back out. She knew that the sea would bring him in again, so instead of swimming out into the water she ran around the rocks yelling at Danny to grab on to the rocks and hold on.

Danny's grip on the rock was just failing when Kono, now waist deep in water, reached him. It took all her strength to pull Danny over to the beach. She had to fight to keep the water from pounding, a now limp, Danny back into the rocks again. Finally, she managed to drag Danny out of the water and lay him next to Steve.

Their packs and towels were not far, so Kono ran and grabbed them, hoping that Steve, the ever ready SEAL, had brought an extensive first aid kit.

Danny was her main concern. She could see that Steve was breathing fine and even showing signs of waking. But Danny was battered and scraped by the rocks; his breathing was labored and fairly shallow.

Kono placed a rolled up towel under Danny's head, the elevation seemed to help with his breathing. Her fingers flew over Danny's body checking for breaks. Definitely some broken ribs, maybe his left arm and lots of scrapes, Kono knew Danny needed help, fast.

Her cell phone was where she'd dropped it on the beach, but when she opened it there was no service. "Damn it." Kono looked over at Steve and realised that he was looking up at her through half closed lids. "Hey boss, how you feeling?"

"My head hurts, everything's a little blurry, and I feel sick." Steve replied.

"Yeah, well you have a pretty nasty bump on your head from where your surf board hit you when you wiped out." Kono stuck a couple of Steri-Strips over the cut on Steve's head before continuing. "I have to go back to the car to call for help, Steve. There's no cell service here."

"What? Where's Danny?"

"He's right here, Steve." Kono indicated the prone figure of Danny just besides her. "He got caught in an undertow and pushed into the rocks. I think he's hurt bad. I have to go for help. You stay put. I'll only be a few minutes."

This should not be happening. He was not supposed to die out here on a secluded beach especially on his day off. Somehow he knew that his partner was the cause of this, but at the moment he couldn't remember why.

There was a voice close by that he managed to identify as Kono's but he couldn't understand the words. Another voice, Steve's, murmured a reply then silence.

Every part of his body hurt, and he found it difficult to breathe. He had to remember what had happened, why he was lying here, but his mind was foggy. Then he remembered and it all played out in his head like a dream. Steve! But if Steve wiped out, how come he's the one that's hurt?

Steve gave Kono the barest of nods as he looked past her at his partner. Kono didn't wait for anything else as she took off running up the beach towards where the cars were parked. Once there she checked her phone again, one bar. Praying that was enough of a signal Kono called 911 and asked for an ambulance. Then she called Chin and filled him in before she raced back to Danny and Steve.

As soon as Kono left, Steve closed the short distance to his partner. "Danny, can you hear me?" When there was no response he tapped Danny's right cheek and tried again. "Come on Danny, time to wake up."

Danny finally managed to open his eyes and slowly focus on Steve. "You okay?" he croaked then gave a wet cough.

"Yeah, I'm good." Steve replied as he rolled Danny slightly towards him. He didn't like the sound of Danny's cough and wanted Danny more on his side just in case he coughed up any water. "You don't look so good though, buddy."

"I don't feel so good, Steve. It's really hard to breathe."

"Hang in there, Danny. Kono's gone to get help, it shouldn't be too long." Steve could see the bruising along Danny's left side and figured there might be broken ribs in there. "Don't move around too much, I think you have some broken ribs."

Kono returned just as Danny started coughing again. "Kono help me lift him up, he's lying too flat, and that's not helping him breathe."

Steve, with Kono's help managed to raise Danny to a reclined position, against Steve's chest. It eased his breathing somewhat.

As they sat waiting for the ambulance to arrive, Kono used some of the antiseptic wipes from the medical kit to clean the abrasions on Danny's body. The coughing spells were becoming more frequent and lasted longer. Steve and Kono shared a concerned look when Danny finally succeeded in expelling some water. "He must have inhaled some water, Steve." Kono said worriedly.

Before Steve could reply, Danny started coughing again, this time he couldn't stop and he curled in on himself as the pain in his ribs doubled. Suddenly he couldn't breathe at all. No air would reach his lungs no matter how hard he tried and the world started to grey out.

TBC