Holding Hands
By
Landon Richardson
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 Williams 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 Special Agent Jack O'Connor, Riley King, David Williams and Louisa Palakiko-Cowan 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 'Holding hands'
This story could be considered 'McDanni' canon though I haven't decided if the story will fit into it yet. I'll probably decide when I get closer to this time period in the rewrite saga whether it will fit in or not.
Anyway, please enjoy
Overall Summary
He should have listened to Chin and Danni when they had warned him to step back and look at the situation at hand carefully, instead he hadn't and now both of them were in hospital and it was his fault.
Chapter Summary
They were fucked
Overall Romance
Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)
Chapter Romance
Hints of Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)
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
Chapter One
They were fucked
Completely and utterly fucked and perhaps for the first time since Five-O had been assembled out of their depth when it came to a situation.
It was something which Jack O'Connor had never thought he would say to himself, at least not recently, though if he was being honest with himself then it was something which he may have thought it at the very beginning, back when they were all still new and trying to adjust their different style of working so they could gel together in the taskforce which Steve McGarrett had put together. There had been more than one occasion when Jack had thought that they would fail and end up self-combusting. Instead they had begun to work until they were a flawless unit who managed to solve nearly all the cases which came across their desks, relying on the very skills which had threatened to dismantle the team in the beginning.
Solving cases was what they were known for and why so many people wanted to join the Five-O ranks, not only that but they were known for being a tight, almost unbreakable unit whose loyalty to each other proceeded everything else. They were an Ohana and Jack was proud to be part of that knowing that his own family; his two daughters, his two nephews and his older sister who were with him in Hawaii, would be protected if anything ever happened to him. The others would make sure of that.
Perhaps that had been their downfall when it had come to their latest case.
They had been so use to being on top of things that to find themselves on the back foot from the beginning had been disconcerting and as time had crept on, frustrating. The suspect had started leaving them clues, all of each had been case related until suddenly out of the blue they had changed and become personal to the team. It had concerned them all but they had kept calm right until their leader Steve McGarrett had received one of the envelopes which contained a picture of Steve, his work partner Danni Williams and Danni's eight year old daughter Grace. It was just a simple picture of the three of them shopping together in the supermarket. Something which was normal since Steve tended to always tag along on Danni's trips out with Grace, even the simple ones.
That one picture had set Steve off, a suddenly franticness to him which they hadn't seen before from him. His sudden frenzy had set off both Jack and Kono Kalakaua into a similar mood. Danni and Chin Ho Kelly had remained focused, trying to calm the others down though that had failed. Even Danni had failed at calming Steve which was an extremely rare occurrence and should have sent off warning bells to the rest of them.
They had been working round the clock for seven days straight when they had finally had caught a break, some stray hairs which had been found at one of the latest crime scenes, they had been analysed by their CSU Unit who had been able to provide a name which had led them to an address.
Looking back at it now Jack could see how it had been too easy for them.
Chin and Danni had tried to defuse the situation, telling them that they had to slow down and look at all the information which they had, information which pointed to this new break being a ploy to get them all together in one area. It had been too easy to ignore the pair of them and focus on Steve who had clearly wanted this over and done with one way or another. Seeing the picture of Steve with Danni and Grace had clearly unsettled the man more than they had realised.
Steve had been fired up with a look in his eyes which Jack hadn't seen since those early days of the team when their leader had still been in a navy Seal mentality. A look which told them all without words that Steve would be taking no prisoners. He had overruled Chin and Danni's objections leaving them with no choice but to follow them into the field though Jack had not missed the look of resignation the two had shared with each other before they had gone to their respective offices to get their guns.
The house the suspect owned was large and appeared deserted which had sent alarm bells ringing through Jack's mind especially when he had realised that all the alarm systems were turned off, something which no one who was running a crime syndicate would do unless they were expecting something to happen there and didn't want there to be any evidence of it.
He had added his voice to Chin's and Danni's at that moment, trying to defer Steve from their present course but it had been too late by then, by the time Jack had realised his mistake Steve and Kono had been out of their cars and had disappeared in opposite directions round the perimeter, Danni and Chin had followed their respective partners to provide them with backup while Jack after a brief moment of hesitation had radioed the situation through to Toast who had been left back at headquarters, telling him to send backup and EMTs to their location urgently. He had left his car at that point, taking the same route that Steve and Danni had gone.
Everything was quiet as they had penetrated the house, the door swinging silently behind them. They had one moment to survey the large living room before all hell broke loose. One minute the room had been empty apart from the five of them, Chin and Kono having entered from the opposite side of the room, the next it was filled with men, all wearing black masks which obscured their face and all holding guns, the looks in their eyes making their intent abundantly clear.
Danni was the first one of them to fall.
She had been standing slightly to the side of them, gun held in her hand as her grey eyes looked around the room closely. She had been the one who had spotted the first of the men and had turned to the rest of them, a sharp warning to get to cover spilling out of her mouth. Whatever else she might had been about to say to them was lost when a bullet had whizzed through the air, smacking into her shoulder, the impact from the bullet sending her sprawling to the floor with a cry of pain which ended abruptly when the back of her head collided with the marble fireplace positioned behind her with a sickening crack before she lay still.
There had been a pause before the other members of the team had reacted, diving behind cover as bullets began exploding out of the guns they were faced with.
Steve had bridged the gap between him and Danni with one leap, gathering her up in his arms before rolling them to safety behind the sofa. One look at Steve's face when he looked down at Danni told Jack that Danni's wound wasn't a simple through and through. Jack doubted the head wound was simply either, the lack of movement from her as well indicated she was out cold. A fact which wasn't good considering the fact that they were currently into a fight for their life and needed every gun and person they had.
Chin had been the next one of them down, ending up with a bullet in his leg which from the look of the blood had hit something vital. He had continued fighting, no doubt the adrenaline rushing through his system pushing him though the final stages of the fight as he provided them cover so they could move into better positions to take out the diminishing ranks of gun men.
Jack had no idea how long that gun battle had raged on, it felt as though it had been hours but he knew that it was more likely to have been less than five minutes.
Somehow the rest of them had managed, though god only knew how, to get out of that room unscathed though the same couldn't be said about the room or their attackers, at least fifteen bodies littered across the marble flooring the painted white wall sprayed with blood and material which Jack had assumed was brain matter.
It was no surprise since Steve had shown them no mercy.
None of them had.
None of them had cared about the dead on the floor, instead their attention had been fixed on their own wounded. Chin had tried to wave them off saying that he was fine though his pale face, gritted teeth and the sweat moving down his skin indication he was far from fine. Kono had ignored what he had said, tying off the injury with her belt, applying steady pressure to the bleeding wound. That had been easier to watch then the scene behind them. Danni was still silent, her eyes closed as Steve gathered her up again in his arms, his attempts at reaching her becoming more and more desperate with each utterance of her name.
Jack had turned away, searching the room, his gun in hand to make sure that they were alone in the place, to give Steve the time to compose himself before their back up appeared.
The EMTs had arrived first, swooping into the scene, their eyes moving around the carnage before they had focused on Chin and Danni, stabilising them and whisking them away into the waiting ambulances.
Steve had gone in Danni's ambulance, telling Jack and Kono before he had left to stay at the scene and secure it, brushing off Kono's argument that she wanted to go with Chin as if she had remained silent. They had both remained frozen to the spot until they could no longer hear the sirens from the ambulances before they had shared a look with each other and gotten to the job of running the crime scene, both trying to comfort themselves with the knowledge that the quicker they finished up at the scene, the quicker they could join Steve at the hospital and get an update on Chin and Danni.
Jack remembered to call Toast to fill in the young man on what had happened and had tried unsuccessfully to calm the younger man, staring at his cell phone in bemusement when an almost hysterical Toast had hung up on him. It was no surprise since Danni was like an older sister to Toast which meant that he was probably already on route to the hospital.
The afternoon dragged on longer than Jack wanted, the Medical Examiners and CSU agents had arrived quickly, asking questions which Jack had done his best to answer. The only satisfaction he had was that their suspect, the mastermind behind it all who was responsible for his team mate's injuries, was dead on the floor. A shot directly though the eye which had Steve written all over it. It was little satisfaction though.
He and Kono had worked silently before they had finally been able to leave the scene and head over to the hospital. They had driven separately to the hospital, Jack taking the moment to call his sister Natasha and ask her to look after his two small daughters Poppy and Bella until he returned from the emergency room. She had quickly agreed, her voice becoming worried when Jack told her about Chin and Danni's condition. He had reassured her the best he could before he had hung up the phone, placing his foot on the accelerator until he was at the hospital. He parked the car in the space next to where Kono parked and followed her towards the main entrance of the hospital.
He had met Kono at the front of the hospital before they had gone to the reception desk and had been directed into a private waiting area by a nurse who had appeared to be waiting for them. He had been unsurprised to see Steve was already in the room, sitting in a chair staring straight ahead of him or that Toast was on another chair, his leg bouncing up and down as he bit his fingernails, his dark eyes moving around the room anxiously. What he had been surprised about was that fact that Chin's younger sister Nyla who he had met once or twice was also in the room sitting opposite Toast. She had spotted their expressions and quickly explained that she had just been finishing up her twelve hour shift when Chin and Danni had been brought in and had decided to stick around for news on her brother and her friend.
The update they had received hadn't been good.
Chin had a shattered femur and was already in surgery to reset it while Danni was still unconscious getting tests done.
Now all they had to do was wait.
He swallowed taking the seat next to Steve and leaned back against it, his eyes closing for a moment.
They were fucked.
Author Note
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