Hey! I have a two-shot for all you lovely people out there and this is rated M. Hope you enjoy the first part!

KONO'S POV

She walks up the steps to the house slowly debating on whether or not to actually knock.

To her surprise, the door swings open before she even raises her hand.

"Kono?" Steve asks in surprise.

"Yeah, I'm back," I say quietly looking into his eyes.

His face breaks out in a wide smile as he pulls me into his arms.

"I kept my promise," I whisper into his ear.

Steve chuckles and pulls away looking me over as if he's searching for any injuries that might have occurred before coming to his doorstep. Grabbing my hand, he leads me into his house.

"Sit down," he commands. "Want anything to drink?"

"I could use a beer."

"Two beers coming right up."

He returns a few moments later with two beers in tow.

Handing one to me, Steve takes a seat next to me opening his own bottle and taking a drink.

"So, Chin called me, but I didn't get all the details. When did you get back, and why didn't I know about it?" Steve asks turning to look at me.

I pick at the label on my bottle keeping my eyes downcast.

"Um, I got back this afternoon around two and spent some time with Chin. I thought it would be safer not to let anyone back here know I was coming."

Steve nods his head and sets his bottle on the coffee table in front of us. "Well, I'm glad you're okay. Can I ask why you decided to come home now?"

I nod my head smiling. "Missed the island. Missed surfing everyday. Missed my job. Missed my family. Missed my friends. Missed Chin's calmness. Missed Danny's rants. Missed Kamekona's shrimp and shaved ice. Missed Max's terrible jokes. Missed girl days with Catherine. I think that's about all..."

"Oh really?" Steve says smirking. "I think you're forgetting a very important person in all of that."

I tap my chin in fake thought my eyes trained on the ceiling. "Oh yeah! I forgot to mention Charlie! I missed all of his awkwardness."

He nods his head but gets that evil look on his face. Taking the bottle out of my hand and placing it next to his, he turns back to me looking me up and down.

The next thing I know, I'm on the floor with Steve on top of me tickling me mercilessly.

"Steve!" I yelp trying to break free. "Stop!"

"Tell me you missed me," Steve commands smiling down at me.

I snap my mouth shut shaking my head and trying not to laugh.

"Tell me..." He repeats.

I still don't say anything until he finds that certain spot and I burst out laughing. "Fine, fine! Okay! Steve, I missed you!"

His hands still on my hips as his face brightens again. "Awww, I'm flattered."

Rolling my eyes, I push him off me. "You're so bossy, and you could at least say it back you know."

"I thought it was obvious when I made you promise you'd come back," Steve states pulling me onto my feet.

"It was," I say. "But saying it again wouldn't hurt. Since I'm back."

"Kono Kalakaua," Steve starts bringing me back against his chest. "I missed you so much; don't you dare leave like that again."

"Okay," I simply reply holding him close.

"Promise?"

I lift my head from Steve's shoulder looking into his eyes. "I find myself promising more to you in the last couple of months than I have to anyone in my whole life."

His eyebrows rise as he looks at me expectantly.

"I promise."

"Good," he states pulling me close again placing a kiss on the top of my head. "I really did miss you."

"I know. Don't worry; I missed you, too."

We stand like that for what feels like hours.

"Oh my God! Kono?" We hear from behind us.

"Cath!" I say breaking away from Steve to hug Catherine.

"What are you doing back?" She asks looking me over.

"I missed this place," I reply. "How are you?"

"Good, how are you?"

"I'm better now that I'm home," I say turning to smile at Steve.

He smiles back and makes his way over to us standing beside Catherine.

"Can I ask about Adam?" She asks watching my reaction.

I give her a reassuring smile. "Nothing to really tell. I just got tired of running. He understood. That's why he didn't ask me to go with him in the first place. He knew I wouldn't last long away from my family and friends and Five-0. "

"So you just left?" Steve asks now.

I look at him and nod my head. "I woke up one morning and realized that I was just going through the motions. Sure, I love Adam, and part of me always will. I feel terrible because the person you love should be the one who keeps you where you are even if its away from everyone and everything you love, but Adam didn't do that for me."

Catherine is looking at me sympathetically, and Steve is just staring at me with a blank expression.

Finally, Steve breaks the silence. "I'm going to go swimming," he says pulling out his wallet handing Cath a couple of bills.

"Steve, it's almost dark out."

"I know, Babe. I'll be fine. You two go out, have fun, and catch up. I'll see you later," he says to me giving me a small smile. "Glad to have you back."

He walks upstairs, I assume to change into more appropriate swimming apparel, as Catherine turns toward me. "Well, I guess we should go then."

I nod my head and smile turning towards the door. "We can take my car since its already been in use recently."

K & S

We go to a diner a couple miles away and order some pie and coffee. Who even cares that it's almost nine-thirty at night.

"You know he missed you a lot right?" Cath says once our food comes.

I nod my head. "So did half the island according to Chin."

Catherine smiles softly. "That's not what I meant. He missed you more than a lot."

She stops for a second picking at her piece of pie. "He missed you more than he should have for just being your boss.

"Cath-" I start, but she interrupts me.

"Kono, he's not just your boss. You and I both know that. And you're not just a coworker to him. I don't think you know that. When he made you promise to come back someday, you weren't promising to come back to the islands, to your family, or even to Five-0. You were promising to come back to him."

I sit silently taking in what she just said.

"He deserves to be happy, Kono. And if you make him happy, then I can't stand by and see him completely unhappy with his current life. Okay, so he's not completely unhappy, but he needs to live a life without regrets. He loves you, Kono, whether he admits it or not."

I chuckle lightly maybe even nervously. "How did you come up with this, Cath?"

Catherine takes a drink from her mug and looks at me before continuing. "There were a couple of things that led up to this conclusion," she explains.

"Enlighten me," I tell Catherine urging her to continue.

"Well, I didn't really pay attention before you left so I'm just guessing he must have been a little overprotective when going into missions?" Catherine says in a questioning voice hinting at me to confirm or deny her analysis.

"Mostly just when I went undercover, but all three of the guys act like that."

She nods her head. "Okay, what about after a takedown? He asks if you're okay, sometimes even looks you over to make sure you're telling the truth."

"Yeah..." I say furrowing my brows. "...but again, we all make sure the others are okay."

"Those were just my observations to prove he cares about you. Which he should," Catherine hurriedly finishes. "That's not what I'm saying. My point is, that when you left that night, the look in Steve's eyes was... I don't even know what. The best way I can describe it, is broken, but there was more to it than just that. They were also lost like if he had no idea how to even move forward from that moment."

I stop her there. "Catherine, all of you guys looked like you wanted to jump onto that boat with me."

She smiles and grabs my hand giving it a light squeeze. "That is also not the only thing that got me thinking. When I figured this all out, there were things that I looked back on just to prove that I was, am, right."

Letting go of my hand, she takes a bite of pie and gestures to mine. "Eat."

I look down and suddenly don't feel so hungry.

"Look, I know you're appetite probably isn't as strong as it was when we first got here, but Steve is paying for this."

I sigh and roll my eyes at her smiling. "Why to make a girl feel guilty."

Cath shrugs her shoulders. "It's a gift."

We finish off our pie in silence as a waitress comes around with a coffee pot. Catherine nods her head at both of our cups, and the waitress fills them.

Nodding her head with thanks, Catherine picks up her cup, takes a drink, and moves her eyes back to mine. "Is this finally all sinking in?"

I look down at my mug playing with the handle. "What happened that caused you to put all these pieces together?" I ask softly.

She takes a deep breath. "There was a case that Five-0 worked while you were gone that I helped with. It included local surfers being taken from the water of private or deserted beaches. All of the surfers were of literal Hawaiian descent. No mainlanders or people that have just lived here all their lives like Steve. Anyway, all the victims were also female. First, we thought it was a human trafficker. Then, we expected it to be a serial killer. All of these possibilities that we had on this case, though they were good and logical, were always proven wrong. The guys found the girls in a cave in the jungle after one of them "dropped" their wedding ring near the entrance to a trail. How the guys found it or were even looking for something at that exact spot is beyond me, but these girls, women, I guess, were all on the same circuit as you. When Chin mentioned this to Steve, he went irate saying that we had to find this son of a bitch or you would never be safe here. That's when I realized that he was practically counting the days until you finally decided to call, or text, or e-mail, maybe even show your face. We caught the guy who was behind all of this. He tried to be on the circuit himself but never made it. Once he was denied the spot, his girlfriend, a Hawaiian beauty too, left him. The man claims he wasn't going to kill them, just make them suffer through the rest of their lives. Then we asked, if there were so many of them, why didn't they just attack him all at once? He obviously couldn't fight off all of them. The answer came from the women themselves. They said, that if they were to get out of this alive without the help of police, they would be completely different from before. Their families would have to go through not only them being gone, but what it did and how it changed their personalities. These women were more concerned about their families and putting them through hell twice instead of their own safety. We all know you would do the exact same thing if it came down to it. Having faith in the cops to get you out unharmed. You would choose that option over getting hurt and having your family see you beaten and bloody. And that killed Steve. The stupid things you would, and will do, to save family are possibilities these women were just throwing in his face. They reminded him of you. Their looks and their logic. He was terrified, Kono. Steve was terrified. He looked at the photos of the battered women for weeks with this seriousness in his eyes that said he would never be the one to put you in that kind of danger. Then, he realized, he already has. All of the undercover stints he put you in could have ended in a snap of a finger. The outcome: You being dead. That killed him all over again."

I sat in silence through all of this just letting it sink in.

I don't know what to say.

"Plus, he practically kissed you tonight when you came over. Chin told him you would probably be making an appearance sometime soon so he sat next to that door for an hour until your car door slammed. He watched you walk up those steps and hesitate. I think Steve was actually surprised he opened the door before you knocked."

I shake my head. "He hugged me. He didn't even come close to kissing me."

Catherine just laughs. "Honey, when he was looking you over for injuries, he was also debating on whether or not to kiss you. Obviously, he settled for just holding your hand."

"You watched all of that?" I ask stunned.

"Not totally. I watched some of it. I left when he went to go get beers and came back when I heard the rumble of voices beneath my feet stop for like ten minutes. Figured it was a safe bet that the talk was over."

I nod my head. "I should get home. I've got a lot of unpacking to do."

"Just, please, remember what I said. Steve deserves to be happy and so do you."

"I will," I reply as we collect our things.

After taking Cath home, I head to my house.

"Well that was emotionally draining," I sigh to myself pulling into the driveway.

Trust me.

I will never forget what Catherine just told me.

The next part will be up soon!