Author Note: Wow it's been a while since I wrote anything for Steve and Kono! I decided to write this storyline with Joan. What if Steve's fear that Mary would leave her daughter in his care? Will he and Kono be able to make it work with his niece? If Mary comes back, will Steve and Kono be able to let her go?

Character Summary

Steve: Married to Kono. Not ready to be a father but what happens when he doesn't have a choice after his sister leaves.

Kono: Married to Steve. She's waiting for Steve to be ready to have their first child. She know that Mary is having a hard time raising her daughter and leaves the baby in their care.

Mary: She needed a small break from being a mother.

Joan: She's almost two years old and forced to live with her uncle and aunt after her mother leaves her.

Chapter One

Steve had sent everyone home from work since they had a long day of the case. Steve knew that Kono was probuarly going to wait for him until he got home. He sent her a text that he was on the way home when his sister came walking into the office.

"Hey Mary. What are you doing here?" Steve asked his sister. He was shocked to see her and Joan there.

"I am going to catch a fight and I can't bring Joan with me. I need you and Kono to take care of her while I am gone." Mary revealed to her brother as he took her out of her arms.

"how long are you going to be gone?" Steve asked her.

"I don't know but please take care of her for me until I come back." Mary said as she gave Joan a kiss and then walked out of the headquarters.

"Are you ready to go see aunt Kono?" He said as they walked out of headquarters. Steve could not understand what was going on with his sister but he needed to focus on Joan right now and worry about his sister later on.

Steve finally pulled into the driveway and noticed that the house had the living room light on. He knew that Kono was still awake. He was happy that they keep a playpen in their house for Joan but he did not know how she would react to his news about them taking care of Joan. He got Joan of the truck and headed into the house.

"Steve, what's going on? Why do you have Joan? Where's Mary?" Kono asked her husband all at once.

"Okay, Mary came to headquarters right before I left and told me that she was leaving town and leaving her daughter. I knew that this was going to happen. I don't know how long Mary is going to be gone for. If you are not okay with this then just tell me and I will take her to my mom's house." Steve revealed to his wife

"No. we can take care of her." She said as she got out of her chair and give him a kiss. Steve took her out of the carseat and put her in the playpen.

"I am gonna sleep down here tonight so that way she's not scared if she wakes up in the middle of the night. Mary left her things in the back of my truck but I am just too worn out to get it right now." Steve told her as he locked the door and headed upstairs to get his night clothes on. Kono walked over turned on the light above the sink to make sure that he could see when he came downstairs.

Steve came downstairs and laid down on the couch. He noticed that Kono was already sleeping on the other couch. He wasn't expecting her to be sleeping on the couch since it would mean that she would have the bed by herself.

The next morning

Steve woke up at his normal time and looked around at both of the girls that are still sleeping away. He got up and went to go get ready for his run. Before he left, he check on Joan who was just waking up.

"good morning, baby girl." He said gave her back her bottle. He went over to Kono to start waking her up. Normally he would just let her sleep. "Honey, Joan's going to wake up soon."

She started to wake up so he lean down and gave her a good morning kiss. She loved waking up to this. She opened her eyes the minute that he pulled away.

"I am going for my run." he said as she sit up and Joan started to cry. Steve moved over and picked up the little girl to hand her to Kono.

"Go enjoy your run." She responded to him. They watched as he left the house. They were trying to settle into their new life. Steve got back in about an hour to find the girls sitting and eating breakfast.

"I can't believe that you started breakfast without me." Steve told her as he gave them both kisses on their forehead.

"Sorry but a little girl got hungry and there was not anything, I could do to keep her happy until you got back" Kono responded to him as he went into the kitchen and made his breakfast. They heard a knocked on the door and in came Danny.

"There better not be any funny business." Danny revealed to them.

"There's not Danny. You can calm down." Steve told his friend as he sat down at the table. Danny noticed that Joan was here.

"Where's Mary?" He asked them.

"We don't know. She came to headquarters last night and left Joan in our care until she comes back." Kono responded to him. She knew that Danny was upset that she left her daughter.

"So what are you guy going to do?" Danny asked them.

Author Note: I know that this is different then what I have been doing for the past couple of months on Mondays but I am trying to get a lot of long storylines before hand. I hope that you will tune in next week for the new chapter. I haven't decided how many chapters this is going to be. I will see you on Wednesday for another storyline to be posted. Don't forget to follow me on twitter as Carson34ff where I update all the time. I hope that you all had a good week and I will see you next week.