Disclaimer: I don't own Hawaii 5 0 and regrettably I don't own the Oceans trilogy, if I did there would be a lot more Malloy brothers especially Virgil as I love Casey Affleck.

He was staring numbly down at the invitation, debating. The invitation itself wasn't what was making him numb, the hand written not on the back of the over the top invitation however was.

Bring your team along? Simple as that, written in Reuben's unmistakable handwriting, simple question, not so simple response to said question however. He knew he would go, he always went, the invitation was more formality and the fact that it was printed and then hand delivered by a service was more of a case of extravagance for the sake of extravagance.

But bringing his team? He couldn't, they had no idea of his life before he was Danny Williams and he had no intention of telling them. Hell he had never told his "family" back home about his team or the task force other than he worked with three other people and was in law enforcement. He wasn't surprised they found out though, his "family" had a knack for finding out whatever information they wanted to know. But his team, they would probably arrest both him and his "family" as soon as they found out never mind enjoying the 4th of July weekend with them. Chin would be likely to kill him, the man was accused of being a dirty cop and stealing money from a bust and here he was a former member of the best heist team in the northern hemisphere, never mind that all the money went back to Benedict plus interest, he was still running around with a badge and gun when Chin had been forced off the force and shunned by his family. That was something he could relate to, since Benedict and his goons decided to show up at Virge's rehearsal dinner and thus ending not only Virgil's engagement but also any relationship they had with their family as they obviously weren't "the boys they had raised". It was both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because they were able to be themselves, no secrets, with a "family" that didn't judge them or the decisions they made. Sure they could all rip into one another but that how the "family" worked and they were always there of you got into a tough spot. A curse cause let's face it who wants to be disowned by their parents.

But he was getting carried away with himself; he simply wouldn't invite his team and tell Reuben that they didn't know about his past and therefore didn't bring them. Besides what good would bringing them to Vegas do, they were only allowed in two casinos; Reuben's, Benedict had made sure that they were persona no grata in all the others and it wasn't as much fun when all you did was loose money to a friend. No he wouldn't invite them, that was the only solution.

"What's that Danno's got?" Steve McGarrett questioned Kono and Chin as he walked past Danny's office seeing him staring at a bright pink and orange piece of paper, looking as though he was five minutes away from having a stroke. Chin shook his head glancing at his teammate through the window.

"No idea, an expensive looking messenger delivered it about 20 minutes ago. He took it into his office and has been staring at it ever since. You don't think anything bad has happened do you?" Kono answered her boss; she had started wondering if Danny was okay after him staring at the piece of paper for five minutes straight without blinking. Now she was getting worried.

"I'm sure it just something from Grace that Step Stan had messaged over." But seeing the look of concern on Kono's face and the growing curiosity on her cousins he decided to check it out.

Danny was so engrossed in his inner wonderings that he didn't even hear Steve walk through the door. "Danny?" Steve tried when his partner didn't look up as he entered, still no response. Deciding that the only way of getting his attention was to remove the distraction he swiped the invitation away from him.

Danny broke from his stupor jumping to his feet, "Hey give it back! Personal business, something you clearly have no understanding of." Danny glared at the taller man attempting to force into returning the invitation without reading it with looks alone. If he read it Danny would have to invite the team and that would likely end with him in prison and unable to see Grace until she was eighteen and that was if she decided that she wanted to see him, which she likely wouldn't if she found out the truth without him telling her. That and Rachel would have a field day, knowing her she would likely demand half of the thirteen million he no longer has.

Steve startled by the panic in his partner's eyes looked at the invitation. "What? A family weekend, that's what has you freaking out? I though you missed Jersey, I'd have thought you would have been thrilled to be going home." By this point Chin and Kono had joined them having seen Danny jump up and shout at Steve.

"That's what has made you catatonic for the past twenty minutes, a family reunion? Wait what's.." Kono trailed off having seen the scrawl on the back of the invite. Taking the invite from the dark haired man, she read the back. "Or is it cause we were invited as well?" This caused the two men not in the know to look at her then to Danny.

"You know, just because your family said we could come doesn't mean you have to invite us kaikaina. If you wanna spend time with your family we understand." Chin told him looking Danny straight in the eyes. Danny looked down feeling guilty, it wasn't that he didn't want the team to met his "family" it was that he was afraid of the result of them meeting. Other than the fact that he would lose Grace he didn't care much if he went to jail, though he's prefer not to, but what about the others, her couldn't damn them as well, what about Saul, every time you saw him there was something new wrong with him and prison doesn't have great medical care. Looking back up at his team he made a decision.

"No it's not that, you're welcome to come, but you know they might not be who you are expecting. It's sort of" He trailed off attempting to come up with an appropriate word for what it was. "Complicated" he settled. He looked up at his team half hoping they would say no that they didn't want to go to the mainland or that they already had plans for the holiday weekend.

"I'm in; the family don't want to see me anyway so I won't be missed." Chin accepted.

"Me too. No plans may as well go to the mainland for a vacation." Steve also decided, leaving Kono as the last to make her decision.

"Well I was invited to spend the fourth with the ohana, but I've already told them that I will not be going to anymore family functions unless Chin is invited also. So I'm game, plus I'd love to see the amazing New Jersey you always go on about!" Kono replied enthused about going somewhere different, where not everyone knew her or her family.

"You don't need to do that for me cousin. They're your family as well you should spend time with them."

"It's a matter of principle I don't want to be a member of a family that abandons one of its own and besides it will be fun to spend time with the people who were in Danny's life before he moved here." Kono beamed at both her cousin and the shorter blond man, before smirking and adding "Plus I want to see if people in New Jersey really talk like the people off of Jersey Shore"

"Sorry to disappoint Kono, but were not going to Jersey" Danny interrupted then mentally kicked himself as his team looked at him curiously. Idiot, the invitation says about family get together. Of course they think it's in Jersey. How am I supposed to explain that it's not my biological family and in Vegas and that even if it was my biological family it wouldn't be in Jersey but in Utah?

"Aren't your family in Jersey?" Steve questioned, confused he thought if Danny was going to go back to the mainland that he'd go to Jersey; he never shuts up about the place.

"I never said it was my biological family, my brother and I don't quite see eye to eye with my parents, we haven't spoken in about nine years. So we made our own, is that a problem?" Danny replied getting defensive, he wasn't ready to tell them everything yet. He would figure it out when he had time to plan his words and how he would tell them.

"No brah, no problem here. Just you never talk about your family, biological or otherwise. We didn't know." Chin placated the obviously agitated man.

"Right sorry, well I better go call Reuben and tell him there'll be four for the weekend." Danny sighed, grabbed his cell and left to call his friend privately.

"What the hell was that about? I mean that was weird right?" Kono broke the silence after Danny had left the room, leaving behind three very confused islanders.

"Yea, but now that I think about it I have heard him mention any family outside of Grace before, have you? He has a brother?" Chin continued asking questions none of them could answer and didn't feel that they could ask Danny about.

"Never mentioned it to me, didn't see it in his file either. Well I guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks. We'll just have to tough it out till then." Steve declared, attempting to stress not to ask Danny without saying it.

"Got it boss"

"I guess we all family things we don't talk about."

Please R & R. There will be more, how many chapters I cannot say I know where I'm wanting to go with this, just don't know how long it will take me to get there.