Summary: A collection of prompts covering a wide range of genres focusing mainly on McKono as well as other pairings upon request.
Summary of Prompt: Steve and Kono attempt to work together following a breakup and they succeed...for a while.
A/N: So I've decided to go ahead with this prompts fic and voila here is the first prompt. This one is my own idea but I will be writing for other people's prompts as well, you just have to leave the prompt in a review, pm me or send it via my tumblr. The prompts are "stand alones" and not connected to each other and also they don't have to all be McKono even if the fic is McKono-centric, I'm willing to write for other pairings upon request...in fact, I have a few ideas for prompts that will include Danny being paired up with Mary, Lori and Gabby (not all at once, of course). Also on a side note I just want to say thank you to all those who reviewed/favourited my previous fics as well as to those who have followed me!
Many thanks to teenycee for her help with beta reading this (p.s- you should definitely read her fanfic works because they're excellent!).
I hope you enjoy this and feel free to leave a review to let me know what you thought and/or to leave a prompt!
"I don't think we should be doing this anymore." Kono says quietly.
Steve has just woken up in his bed and Kono is currently sitting beside him, now fully dressed.
"What?" Steve replies. He is still not fully awake and he's not quite sure what she is even talking about.
"Us. I just- I think we should stop." Kono replies, her eyes refusing to meet his gaze.
"What's brought this on?" Steve asks, sitting up in the bed because he realises the seriousness of the situation.
"People are talking Steve." Kono says. Her whole body deflates, like this has been on her mind for some time and she was itching to finally say it aloud.
"So?" Steve asks, still in denial.
"So? Are you fucking kidding me?" Kono's voice starts to raise, her tone getting angrier but she pauses and takes a deep breath; she doesn't want to make this harder than it has to be. "My whole career is being ridiculed. All the HPD officers don't even treat me the same and you can't say you haven't noticed it when we're at a crime scene or when we stop by the HPD offices."
"I thought we knew what we were getting into Kono." Steve replies as he moves closer to her so that he can force her to meet his gaze.
"You may have but I didn't. Look Steve, we never really thought this through. It's been a tornado of emotions and attraction that we just got sucked into without really considering the consequences of our actions."
"So that's it? After everything, that's it?" Steve asks angrily. They both know it's not really anger he feels right now, it is pain and hurt.
"You don't get it do you?" Kono shouts at him, getting off the bed so she that she is now standing. "They are not talking about you! It's always about the rookie who got into her boss' pants in order to make it as a police officer or the cousin of that dirty cop who's using her sexuality to get by. None of them ever mention you and when they do it's along the lines of: "That leader of 5-0 totally fucked his smoking hot rookie". I'm the one suffering, not you; you don't get to tell me that I'm giving up too easily!" Kono shouted.
"Kono, in a week's time they'll all have something new to talk about. You can't just walk out now because of a few rumours." Steve says calmly. He gets it, the other officers are already slightly apprehensive because of her association with Chin; their relationship is not helping with that.
"I don't care if it stops. I've worked so hard to prove myself as a cop and all my work is slowly being destroyed following a few days of rumours, one more week will shatter my reputation. Also, what happens when we break up?" Kono says, her voice calmer than before.
"Fine." Steve says; he doesn't know what to say in this situation. He has no past experience with such a situation and they never taught him how to deal with it when he was being trained to be in the Navy.
"Fine." Kono says brokenly. "I'll see you at work." She says as she grabs her shoes. "Boss." She adds that almost as an afterthought.
After she leaves, Steve is left sitting alone in his bed unsure of what to do now. His body won't will him to move or react emotionally to what has just escalated so he just sits there for the next couple of hours.
He finally gets his body to move and when he does, he goes for a run then goes swimming and keeps swimming until all the muscles in his body ache and he hopes to get himself tired enough so he can sleep regardless of her absence in his bed.
He finishes working out and goes to shower but the feeling of emptiness returns with a vengeance when he sees all her things mixed in with his own on the bathroom counter. When he opens the cupboard, he finds it exactly the same. He showers quickly out of desperation to leave the bathroom which smells of her shower gel as she was the last one in there.
He grabs a fresh pair of boxer briefs once he is done and collapses into his bed and he doesn't even care that it's only 6pm and he hasn't eaten.
He's restless and unable to sleep. Her scent is all over the sheets and it's an overwhelming reminder to him of how she won't be in this bed any longer.
He sits up in the bed and looks around and this is when he truly starts to notice what a significant presence she's become in his life. Miscellaneous, fairly useless items belonging to her are scattered all over his bedroom, like the hair-tie on his bedside table along with a chap stick.
He has enough and gets up to go into his guest bedroom. He settles there for the night and decides that he'll sleep here for the next week whilst he slowly gets rid of any remnants of her in his own bedroom, and his whole house now that he thinks of it.
As soon as Kono arrives home she collapses on her couch, tears streaming down her face. She lies there crying for a while, probably soaking her couch but she doesn't care.
When her cries subside she gets up and grabs her board. The ocean has always offered her comfort during tough times throughout her life so she escapes to it.
She surfs until the sun sets, tiring her body out in hopes that she'll be able to fall asleep without his comforting warmth and weight in the bed with her.
Once her body is exhausted enough she gets back to her house and showers to wash away the salt from her skin then she goes to her bed to sleep.
The bed still smells of him though; he had spent a couple of nights at her place a few days back whilst his sister was in town. She can't sleep in it as hard as she tries to so instead she chooses the couch.
She fleetingly realises that she may have to sleep on the couch whilst she gets rid of the remnants of him in her house.
The next few weeks are much easier than they had both anticipated. They manage to behave in a professional manner and they act as normal as they possibly can although the usual meaning glances and flirtatious quips are no longer exchanged between the two of them.
They mainly talk about work-related things and sometimes joke around just to appear as normal as possible to their nosy and suspicious team mates, who had no idea about their relationship to begin with and thus did not know of it ending.
Steve mainly works with Danny as he usually does, and Kono mainly works with Chin; there is nothing at all suspicious about their dynamics. Occasionally they will mix up the partners but somehow Steve and Kono never end up working alone together.
When they perform raids sometimes Steve and Kono work together but the tension is drowned out by adrenaline and action of the situation so it's not a huge deal.
Sometimes however, Kono will catch Steve watching her from his office when they are doing paperwork, and also when the team is being briefed around the smart table or they are informing each other of possible leads on a case they'll be working on. His intense gaze will linger on her, following all her movements and it's quite unnerving but she never flinches or shows a reaction of any kind.
Sometimes, Steve will catch Kono watching him intently. She mainly looks at him this way when he's been injured or he's about to go through with one of his ridiculously dangerous plans. She'll watch him, her eyes filled with worry and knowing as well as understanding.
They continue with their strange routine and it's all going well and they may even be finally moving on from it until something that shakes them both happens.
Kono is taking a cuffed suspect to the interrogation room along with Danny. When they get to the entrance of the room, Danny is stopped by Steve who wants to briefly discuss something with him.
"Go on Kono, I'll be there in a sec." Danny says to her.
Kono goes in with the suspect and sits him down in the chair at the centre of the room. She un-cuffs one of his hands so that she can cuff him to the chair and all of a sudden the guy pulls out a small knife from his jean pocket which he drives into Kono lower abdomen.
Kono fights the sudden pain and she just manages to knock the knife out of his hand and cuff him to the chair so he can't hurt her any further.
The pain of her wound and the effort of disarming the suspect tires Kono out and she tries to stumble towards the door, so she can get one of the guys to call an ambulance.
Kono is about to collapse on the floor of the interrogation room right by the door when it swings open to reveal Steve.
"Kono!" Steve exclaims and he catches her in his arms as she stumbles forward. "Danny, get an ambulance!"
Steve removes his button-up shirt he's wearing over his t-shirt and uses it to apply pressure to her wound in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding.
"I made a stupid mistake, I'm sorry." Kono says as she stares up at him. "Can you believe it? Nearly 4 years as a cop and I am still making stupid rookie mistakes."
"Everyone makes mistakes Kono." Steve says as he still desperately tries to stop her bleeding. "Danny!"
"They'll be here real soon, okay?" Danny replies agitatedly. "You're gonna be just fine Kono." Danny says in a much calmer and soothing tone to Kono.
"I love you guys." Kono says all of sudden. "I just want you to know that."
"Shut up Kono, you're not dying. You'll just have a little scar that's all." Steve says to her. "When will that damn bus get here?" Steve shouts to Danny, getting increasingly impatient.
"I'm sorry for everything Steve." Kono says brokenly.
"It's here, it's here!" Danny shouts.
Suddenly, two medics are forcing Steve to let Kono go so they can help her and before he knows it he's sitting in the Camaro with Danny following after the ambulance towards the hospital.
"Call Chin." Steve says. He'd forgotten all about the older man.
They arrive at the hospital immediately after the ambulance and Steve rushes to catch up with a nurse to ask about Kono whilst Danny hangs back to talk to Chin on the phone.
"Officer Kalakaua?" Steve asks the nurse simply without elaborating but he hopes his tone is enough to warn her of the urgency of the situation.
"You have to wait in the waiting room. A Doctor Wilson will approach you soon enough." The nurse replies before walking away to attend to her duties.
Danny finally joins him in the waiting and they sit there for about a quarter of an hour before Chin joins them as well.
"What the hell happened?" He asks urgently.
"Suspect had a knife." Steve says absently.
Noticing the expression on both men's faces, Chin decides to drop it for now.
Not long after, Dr. Wilson comes to see them. "Are you the family of Miss Kalakaua?" He asks; he was told to look for impatient men who are also law enforcement.
"Yes." They all reply simultaneously, standing up to attention.
"Well good news: the wound wasn't particularly deep and the knife didn't cause much damage. We've treated the wound and given her some pain medications, she'll be just fine."
"Can we go to her?" Danny asks eagerly.
"You may; it's the last room on the right." The doctor informs them before walking away.
Chin and Danny are all over Kono asking her all sorts of questions as soon they are in her room whilst Steve just hangs back, with his eyes roaming over her as if he's double checking that she's definitely okay.
"I'm fine! Stop your obsessive worrying, okay?" Kono says when she's had enough.
"Is there anything I can do for you cous?" Chin asks.
"Can you go and grab me some clean clothes from my locker at the precinct, please?" Kono asks. "My other top has a hole in it, it's ruined now."
Chin laughs at her whining before he turns to go and get her a fresh pair of clothes.
Danny sits around with Kono talking non-stop for a few minutes until he notices Steve standing in the corner of the room, watching Kono intently and she is watching him also, apparently not paying much attention to him.
"Do you want some food or something, babe?" Danny asks, trying to excuse himself.
"Yeah, I'm quite hungry. Thanks Danno."
"Stop with the Danno thing." Danny complains even though they all know he doesn't mind.
Once Danny has left the room, they just stare at each for a while without any words being spoken.
"You scared me." Steve eventually says.
"Sorry." Kono looks sheepish.
"Look Kono, I-uh…I miss you. There, I miss you. I can't stop thinking about you and the possibility of losing you is the only reason I'm saying this out loud." Steve says.
"I miss you too." Kono says quietly as if confessing something she's quite embarrassed about. "I was so stupid Steve; I'm sorry."
"Can we try again?" Steve asks.
"What about people in HPD?"
"They've stopped talking about us; just like I said."
"Is that your way of saying, 'I told you so'?" Kono asks amusedly.
"Maybe." Steve replies in a bemused tone before he changes back to a serious one and says, "Look, people talk and there's not much we can do about it but ignore them."
"I know. I'm willing to give us a try." Kono says smiling, the usual brightness in her eyes when she smiles restored. "It'll take some work for us but I'm willing to do it."
"Good." Steve steps closer to her hospital bed a presses his lips chastely against her. "To us." He says smiling down at her.
"To us." Kono says smiling back at him.