A/N: Just something I thought up that I wanted to share with everyone for the holidays. Let me know if you guys want some sort of response or anything... Merry Christmas!
Disclaimer: Don't own it.
Mele Kalikimaka, Haole
It wasn't until after everyone had left and Rachel had picked up Grace that Danny noticed it. There, half-hidden beneath the branches of the tree, was a small box wrapped meticulously in shiny metallic red paper, a simple golden thread trimming the box with a bow tied at one end.
He furrowed his brow, and with a little half-smile somewhere between amused and confused bent to gather up the box in his hands. There was no tag or card indicating who the gift was from, and he slowly quirked one brow as he turned it over in his hands, for a split second wondering if he should throw it outside lest it detonate in his apartment.
Reconsidering, simply on the whim that SuperSEAL McGarrett would have reacted if he had detected any whiff of explosives, Danny sighed in a dramatically put-upon way and unwound the bow before tearing the paper from the gift—which turned out to be a small, black box with a lid.
Tossing the trash to the floor with the rest of what remained from the gift exchange earlier, Danny carefully lifted the lid from the box and peered at its contents.
It was a tie.
Not just any tie, but a bright blue tie, streaked with various shades of white and lighter blues to resemble water and covered with white-pink and yellow tropical flowers folded impeccably and lying like a bold trophy against white tissue paper.
A Hawaiian tie.
Danny picked it up with his thumb and forefinger and dangled it in front of his eyes as if it were made of filth from a sewer. His expression as he continued to stare at the offensive accessory rivaled the one he typically reserved for rants about Hawaii with its abominable pineapple-topped pizza and masses of water and surf-speak…
In his daze, it took another moment for Danny to notice the card that had been lying beneath the tie, and he looked down into the box to read the familiar handwriting there.
It's still a tie, but at least it fits.
Mele Kalikimaka, Haole.