It was a typical Hawaiian day, sunny and warm, and Danny had quite been enjoying his day on the Island, although he wouldn't admit it, that was until him and Steve were involved in a car chase. It had all started after they'd pulled up to an apartment to question a suspect in a kidnapping case. It should have been an easy pick-up, but when Danny was with Steve he knew nothing was ever simple or easy. The man who they had been wanting to question was at his apartment door when Steve had pulled the car onto the gravel stones outside the apartment, the noise alerting the suspect to their presence. Both Danny and Steve reached for their guns, but before they had time to shout at him to stop the suspect had bolted to his banged up old car green, which was outside his apartment and had gone racing pass them.
Steve had turned the car around at breakneck speed and sped after him. "Call for back-up", he said to Danny as he turned on the blue lights and weaved around a parked car.
"Oh yeah great, I'll call for back up whilst you try to get us killed in another stupid car chase", muttered Danny. He pulled out his cell phone and called HPD. "HPD are going to try and cut him off when he gets to the junction for the beach", Danny said reaching down and holding onto the edge of his seat.
"Ok", said Steve, "we're lucky it's quiet out he's weaving all over the place, wouldn't surprise me if he's drunk".
Danny looked up at the car, it was weaving over both lanes of traffic and narrowly avoiding parked cars and lampposts. "The sting should get him in a minute" he said trying not to sound as uncomfortable as he felt, he hated car chases, even when they were on a road with asphalt and clearly marked lanes, not that the suspect was obeying the laws of the road very well anyway.
They saw the flashing lights up ahead and the suspect slammed on his brakes but it was too late, his tyres met the sting and instantly deflated, the car weaving all over the place, before ending up slowly crashing into a lamppost, the bonnet was dented and there was smoke coming out of it. Steve pulled the car up to the side of the green car so that the suspect couldn't open his door, Danny had wound down his window and had his gun drawn, the suspect looked dazed and had a blood on his forehead but wasn't armed as far as Danny could see. He motioned for HPD to come over and they climbed over the passenger seat and cuffed the clearly drunk man.
"Well that was one of your more sedate car chases," remarked Danny as Steve reversed the car slightly so he could get out and they could search the car.
"Yeah I guess it was", smiled Steve, knowing how much his partner hated car chases always made him enjoy them that little bit more.
They got out the car and walked over to the banged up green car "I'm surprised this thing even made it here", commented Steve. Danny had opened the back doors and was removing pizza boxes and burger boxes, "at least it had company he said holding up a mouldy sandwich and throwing it as far away from his as possible, "it doesn't look like there is anything interesting in here", Danny shouted to Steve who was now over talking to HPD about the suspect, "I don't even think I'm as gross as this guy, there's mould growing on mould in here", he'd seen enough and feeling like he'd never been clean again headed over to where Steve was talking to HPD.
Steve looked up from talking to HPD to see Danny walking over trying to wipe his hands on his shirt; he smiled glad he hadn't had to touch anything in the car. Danny walked up and seeing his smile decided to wipe his hands down the sleeve of Steve's t-shirt. "Hey cut it out," Steve said hitting Danny's hand away.
"Oh sorry partner didn't see you there", Danny smirked. "So has the owner of that disgusting car gone over to HPD?" Danny said still trying to get pizza sauce off his hands.
"Yeah he's over there now so we'll go back and question him and Chin and Kono are in the office trying to find out any connections he has" Steve said looking down at his t-shirt in disgust.
They headed over to Danny's car. Danny got in the passenger seat as he always seemed to now, but this time he wasn't too annoyed it meant he could hunt in the glove box for some wipes or something, his hands and now shirt stank and he wasn't happy about it. "I just got this shirt last week he mumbled"; trying to open a pack of dashboard wipes he's found at the back of the glove box.
"Well at least we'll always know when you're around today", Steve said trying to hide his smile by looking out the window.
"Very funny", said Danny pulling out a lemon scented wipe knowing it was useless and he would have to change when they got back to headquarters. Just then they saw a car go speeding straight in front of them at a crossroads. "What the hell was that idiot doing?" shouted Danny about to go into another of his rants when he looked to see another car come hurtling towards them.