Black Wolf
Chapter 1: Silver Eyes
Danny Williams would call himself a reasonable man, with normal wishes and dream. Who believes in simple thinks, loves his daughter and his job at Five-0. He had seen many thinks in his life, he had seen men do impossible (and reckless) things, mostly Steve´s doing but nothing could have prepared him for that. In the middle of the North Korean jungle after shooting down the people who had kidnapped his friend and partner to find a creature he hadn´t thought would exist. The product of fairy tales and stories and at first it wasn't even that.
As Danny looks in the last of the trucks form the convoy (Steve had to be inside this one) he found a huge, dark wolf, looking with cloudy-silvery eyes at him. The animal was hurt, the blood was leaking out of several wounds all over his body and the creature looked tired. It´s eyes caught Danny off guard and he got chained to them. Something intelligent was looking back at him, something that shows … Danny didn't have a better word for it but recognizing.
The animal starts to move or better tries to, small whining and painted noises hit Danny´s ears. Instinct let him lift his weapon. Hurt, trapped and cornered animals are the dangerous ones but something holds him back. Something in the beast´s eyes told him that it wouldn't hurt him.
Suddenly Chin and Joe appear next to him, fearing the worst for Steve because Danny wasn't answering their questions until their eyes catch the wolf in the truck. Chin had a similar reaction to it like Danny but Joe surprises them. "Steve." The man nearly jumps into the truck and crawls over to the wolf who let itself be touched and checked out from the older man. Danny and Chin were starring and their eyeballs played tennis between Joe and the wolf. "What are you waiting for, this is Steve, I will explain later, hurry up and help me." The order showed a great impact to the solders form the SEAL Team who starts lift the cover to make the opening bigger so the wolf could walk out and jump to the ground next to Danny who was still looking at the wolf.
"Steve I guess you won´t be able to turn back until you healed up, right?" The wolf was looking at Joe and nods once as if he was a human, understanding the question and answering it.
Danny was slowly waking up from his shock and knees down to be at the height of the wolf. With him kneeing was the wolf´s eyes above him as the animal sits. The Detective studies the eyes of the animal while everyone else around him got ready to move back to the helicopter. "Are you really my Steve?"
The black wolf moves his head a bit to the side and was looking at Danny with a curies look in the silver eyes that start to lose the smoky look that must have come from something Danny would later call hopelessness. The wolf nods again like before for Joe but also moves his head a bit closer to Danny and touches his cheek with the wet nose shortly. Only a short contact but somehow inside Danny´s heart changed, he could see his partner behind this eyes.
Determent to trust his gut Danny gets up. He would get this wolf home and find out what that all is meaning. The whole way back to the helicopter was the wolf right next to him and Chin, who also believed in Joe´s word. The rest of the Team was protecting them, more concentrated then the two human members of Five-0 who were still looking far too often down to the limping wolf.
The wolf had his problems with walking, he was exhausted and they could see how painful every step had to be. But they couldn't help him in this form. "Hold on just a bit further, then you can rest buddy." The wolf gives him a soft growl and continues to limp through the jungle.
As they reach the helicopter the wolf climbs on board with the last remain of his strength and broke down on the ground while the other members of the rescue team sat down on the side and the seats ready to take off. Danny´s hand was resting on Steve´s head after his first freak out that his partner had fell down dead right in front of him. It took Joe and Chin to calm him down and the contact with the warm but dirty fur was helping Danny. Joe said that Steve was healing faster while asleep. Danny stopped himself form asking question. A flight over North Korea was not the best place to talk about the fact that Steve McGarrett could apparently change into a giant black wolf.