As so many of you, I loved the 2 episode finale but I really wished two things about the episode were different. 1) I wish Steve was conscious a little longer on the plane and 2) At the end of the episode, aside from Steve getting all the attention, I didn't like how Steve acted towards Danny. I understand at that scene they had already been in the hospital a week so maybe they had already had the "thanks for saving my life, I love you" chat, but it would have been nice for the viewers to see. So here is my version. I've split it into two parts. Part 1 will be when they're still in the air and Part 2 will be the hospital room scene. Hope you guys enjoy it :)

Part 1

Once Honolulu International Control answered his mayday call he knew he was going to have to give up their cover, he also knew that giving up their cover meant that Dae Won may just shoot him right then and there; a risk he was willing to take. He needed to land this plane to get Steve help before he bled out – nothing else mattered right now.

"This is, this is Detective Danny Williams with the Five 0 task force, I need help landing this plane."

"You're a cop?!"

Just as Danny expected he was now staring down the barrel of Dae Won's gun.

"Hey, put down the gun!" Danny yelled as his sharp movement to grab his own gun elicited a moan from Steve. Danny felt sick at the thought that he had caused his friend anymore pain but he had to get Dae Won to stand down. "Put down the gun I'm not going to ask you again."

"It's not goin'a happen."

The fear in Dae Won's face would have been comical if it weren't for their current predicament.

"Shoot him Danny," Steve insisted, barely able to keep his eyes open.

"I got him, I got him, I got him," Danny's voice shook, a slight quiver escaping with every word he spoke to his deteriorating partner. He placed a hand on Steve's arm, trying to reassure him that everything would soon be okay. As he swallowed the lump in his throat he noticed the deathly pale skin of his partner. Danny knew he didn't have much time – he had to convince Dae Won to let him land this plane, or die trying.

After some back and forth with Dae Won, he finally came around, realizing that Danny was their best bet at coming out of this alive.

"Switching to channel 17," Danny breathed the tiniest sigh of relief once the gun was no longer trained on his head. "You're alright Steve."

"I'm goin'a die Danny."

Danny's heart sank; those were words he had never wanted to hear come out of his partner's mouth and it just confirmed his initial assessment of Steve's injuries – he was bleeding out – fast.

"No you're not, just hang in there, you're goin'a be alright, alright," Danny said, trying to keep his composure as he scratched the back of his head anxiously.

"Again this is Detective Danny Williams, I'm in a Cessna aircraft, I'm headed your way. The pilot, my colleague, he's been shot, he has multiple gunshot wounds, I need EMTs standing by right when we get this thing on the ground, which I have no clue, zero clue, how to do, over."

Danny couldn't help the quiver in his voice; it didn't help that he could practically feel his heart beating out of his chest – he'd never been so scared in his entire life. As terrified as he was of dying in a horrific plane crash in the middle of the ocean, it was nothing compared to the gut wrenching fear of losing his best friend.

Danny spent the next few seconds following step by step instructions from air control, trying to keep his breathing under control, holding back the panic attack that was threatening to make an untimely appearance. Once he had followed all of air control's momentary instructions, he looked over at Steve.

"Buddy," he nudged Steve's arm to make sure he was still conscious.

"M'still here," Steve slightly opened his eyes as he stared blankly at the roof of the aircraft.

Danny exhaled the breath he had been holding in. He had been so afraid that Steve would've already lost consciousness with the amount of blood he had lost.

"That's good, that's good babe, just keep talking to me okay."

"'Bout w- 'bout what?"

"Anything babe, anything you want."

"M'tired Danno."

Danny looked from the gauges back to his partner. Steve looked so fragile, so un-Steve like that it made Danny want to cry.

"I know buddy, I know you are but you have to stay awake for me please, okay? Please babe," he knew it wasn't fair to beg, he knew how hard Steve was fighting to stay awake, how tired he had to be, but he couldn't let Steve close his eyes. Closing his eyes meant that he may never open them again and that was something Danny couldn't, no, something Danny wouldn't, come to terms with.

A few seconds later…

"You jumped," Steve said as he turned his head slightly to look at Danny.

"Huh?"

"That building, y-ou you jumped, can cross off y-your bucket list now right?"

Danny let out a laugh, god it felt nice to laugh, as he shook his head. Steve was definitely talking about them jumping the building when they were trying to save Gabriel's life.

"Pretty sure you're the only person on the planet who would have that on a bucket list Steve."

Steve smiled as he closed his eyes.

"M'sorry Danny."

Danny looked over at his partner with confusion plastered all over his face.

"For what?"

"We've be- been fightin' a lot late-lately."

Danny sighed, he had wondered when this conversation would take place.

"I wouldn't call it fighting per se, more like friendly arguments," Danny countered.

"St-still, been m-more, not like," Steve closed his eyes as a wave of pain coursed through his body and Danny instinctively reached out, squeezing Steve's arm in support.

"Not like before," Steve continued as he felt Danny's arm ground him. "M'sorry if I've m-made it worse lately."

Danny shook his head.

"It's not really you babe, I've had so much going on with Charlie. Everything he has had to go through really upsets me and you're the one person I spend the most of my time with so my anger and frustration is sometimes misdirected at you. You know that saying? The one about how the ones you love the most are the ones you hurt the most? I think this is something like that."

Steve was watching Danny intently, listening to every word and letting it sink in.

"You've been the same person you've always been Steve. Yeah you're a control freak and you drive me crazy a lot, but I love you for it and I wouldn't change you. So I should be the one apologizing, not you."

"S'okay Danno, you can take it out on me."

"No babe, it's not okay, it's not. It's not fair to you. But I promise once we make it out of this, that'll change okay," Danny smiled as he reached over and grabbed Steve's hand. This was a conversation that was a long time coming, and although the circumstances were less than ideal, he was glad they finally had it.

"I'll t-try not t'be as controlling too," Steve said as he squeezed Danny's hand back.

This elicited a laugh from both partners.

"Okay may-maybe not."

"Yeah, pretty sure that's impossible for you babe."

Danny smiled as he looked back at the gauges to make sure that everything air control had told him earlier was still intact. The levels were still above the horizon line, and the compass heading was still between North and the number 3. He closed his eyes as he took a deep breath – trying to settle the uneasy feeling he had in the pit of his stomach. As much as he loved that Steve was talking, he could hear Steve's condition deteriorating with every word he spoke and Danny knew that they still had a long ways to go before he landed this thing, IF he could even land it.

Danny opened his eyes as Steve's voice, barely above a whisper now, cut through the eerie silence of the tiny aircraft.

"I-I love you Danno, you're the be-best partner and best fr-friend I could have ever asked for."

Danny froze, completely shell-shocked and devastatingly terrified. He literally felt sick to his stomach as his heart broke into a million pieces at the realization of what Steve was doing – he was saying goodbye.

"Stop it Steve," Danny's voice quivered as tears filled his eyes. With a few words Steve was able to completely strip Danny of any resolve he had left; it was taking everything in him not to completely break down and cry.

"Dan-"

"NO! No Steve, just no. You're not saying bye right now okay, do you hear me? You can't! You don't get to force your way into my life, get me to love you as if you were my own flesh and blood, and then leave me alone on that pineapple infested island. This is NOT how this ends…" Danny closed his eyes and continued, much quieter, "…this is not how we end." He then turned to his partner, locking eyes with the man he had grown to love so fiercely, so deeply, that they had become more than partners, more than friends; they were brothers. "You're going to be fine and then you're going to keep being my annoying-ass, controlling, overly-protective, loyal-to-a-fault partner okay. Because I can't imagine my life without you in it; I can't lose you Steve, I can't lose another brother."

Steve choked back the sob that had lodged itself in his throat somewhere during Danny's heartbreaking rant. He had never known the kind of loyalty and love that Danny had given him in the 6 years that they had been partners. He knew this was killing Danny because if the roles were reversed, Steve would feel the same way. Steve closed his eyes; he could feel himself slipping away and it broke his heart to think about how Danny was going to deal with his death.

Steve used the last of his energy to reach out his hand and place it on Danny's arm. He wasn't sure if it was more to console Danny or himself, but he needed to feel his partner's warmth; needed to feel their physical bond one last time before he closed his eyes for good.

The instant he felt the hand on his arm, Danny closed his eyes. When he opened them again he took his best friend's hand in his, squeezing it as he locked eyes with Steve; both partners finally allowing the tears to fall as the pain they felt for each other was so overwhelming that it superseded any desire they had of staying strong.

Dae Won looked on as, even he, found himself getting teary eyed at the scene unfolding before him. He hadn't known these two men for long but he could tell that they shared a special bond from the minute he met them. He had lost his fair share of friends throughout his life but he had never had anyone who meant as much to him as these two clearly meant to each other. So when Steve's hand went limp, and his eyes shut, he saw Danny's face morph; instantly filling with fear and heartbreak

"Buddy," Danny tried to nudge Steve, panic setting in when it elicited no reaction. Danny's eyes immediately darted downwards at the pool of blood that was growing under Steve's seat.

"Oh no, oh no, Steve…I…I…alright you, I need you to do something for me alright," Danny was now speaking to Dae Won.

"Focus on getting the plane down, instead of talking to me!"

"Listen, do what I tell you to do or I'm going to drop this thing in the water you understand?"

Knowing Danny was dead serious, Dae Won knew he had to do as he was told, but he didn't have to like it.

"What do you want?"

Danny lowered his head and swallowed the lump in his throat. He was about to ask Dae Won to do something he had hoped he'd never have to ask anyone to do - check if his partner's heart was still beating. That thought alone terrified him like nothing else ever had because if it wasn't, if Steve's heart was no longer pumping, Danny didn't know what he would do.

"I want you to put your hand on his neck and tell me if you feel a pulse okay." Please have a pulse Steve.

Dae Won feebly tried to find a pulse, getting frustrated as he had no idea what he was doing or where to even feel for it.

"I- I don't know…"

"What do you mean you don't know, keep your hand on his neck, either you feel a pulse or you don't!" Danny yelled, his fear momentarily taking a back seat to the anger he felt that someone didn't know something as basic as finding a pulse on another human being.

As Dae Won was about to make a second feeble attempt at finding a pulse, alarms started to go off in the plane.

End of Part 1 - I thought the rest of this scene was really well done so I don't feel a need to redo it :). Part 2 coming soon!