A/N: Here we go, another Hawaii Five-O story! I recently learned a valuable lesson about only writing stories your heart is into writing or it'll turn out like junk! No worries, my heart was in this one. Hope you like it!

Chapter 1

When Grace was invited for a playdate at Amy's he hadn't thought twice. He'd been reluctant to share his little girl but he'd agreed readily hearing that pleading tone he'd couldn't refuse. He'd met Amy's parents and seen the home. They were nice people and he was comfortable with them so he agreed she could just go straight from school to her house but when he'd agreed he hadn't known the parents were out of town and he hadn't known about her adult brother.

"Thank you Danno." She'd chimed.

"Yeah, I love you too Monkey." He hung up and tossed the phone to the seat and thumped his head to the car headrest. He couldn't push back the disappointment, his heart sinking to the pit of his gut. He'd been sidelined again. The phone rang further perturbing his mood. "What?!" He snapped viciously.

"Uh oh, are you sensitive today babe? What happened?" Danny gritted his teeth able to hear Steve's smirk through the phone.

"No I am not sensitive today," Danno growled, "did you just call to irritate me?"

"I'm going to figure out what's bothering you eventually. You may as well tell me now." Steve disregarded him. He heard Danny sigh heavily knowing he'd won. He didn't have the gumption to resist the Seal today.

"It's Grace, she's spending today at a friend's instead of with me. I'm going to stack bricks on her head. Girl has to stop growing. Now did you really call just to pester me?" It was believable.

"No, we've got a case meet you in fifteen." Danny drove away muttering not suspecting what lay ahead.

Grace's knee bobbed up and down eager for the school bell to ring. She didn't mind school but she was excited to go to Amy's. She hadn't hung out with her in over a month. She'd missed her friend but now she could hang out for a whole afternoon and she couldn't wait. She gave a small squeal of excitement when class finally dismissed, bell blaring, and jumped up throwing all her books into her bag.

"Your Dad said you could come right?" Amy skipped up to her.

"Yup! I can stay overnight as long as I still do my homework and call him goodnight before we go to bed."

"Great! We can pick up shave ice there's a booth on the walk home to my place with the best shave ice!"

"Mmm, I love shave ice!" They left the school and started home stopping by the shave ice stand first, sitting at a bench in the shade to eat it and giggle about what they were going to do that night. They had hair braiding and hair chalk planned so far. Grace knew Danno would be so shocked to see streaks of blue and maybe a little pink in her hair. She wondered how long he'd rant before she was able to tell him hair chalked washed out in two or three shampoos. They got home barely throwing their bags out of the walkway by the door and thundered upstairs in a riot of snickering.n They pulled up a playlist of music videos on her laptop then pulled out the boxes of hair chalk. After seeing the colors she decided on the bright red and shocking purple with a bit of blue while Amy when with the neon green and yellow. Grace helped Amy with her hair first and then they switched and Amy did Grace's hair.

"I love it!" They squealed simultaneously about an hour later, just finishing blow drying their freshly washed hair. She were still admiring themselves in the mirror when they heard the front door open and Amy sprinted down the stairs followed by a slower moving Grace.

"Reid!" Amy shoutedn leaping into a hug with a man Grace didn't recognize.

"Hey kiddo, love the hair! How long's that gonna last?"

"Just a few washes."

"Oh good we don't have to tell Mom and Dad then."

"Nope!"

"Amy who is he?" Grace asked frowning.

"This is Reid, he's my big brother! He's back for a few weeks from college until Mom and Dad get back."

"Your parents aren't just at work? Where are they?"

"On a trip. A romantic getaway they said, whatever that is." Grace fished through her pocket feeling nervous.

"I should text my Dad. He doesn't know your parents are out of town."

"Hey don't worry about it. I'm sure your Dad will be fine with it. You can tell him after dinner if you want. I just had a hit and I've got some serious munchies. You want a cup of noodles? I want a cup of noodles." They followed him into the kitchen.

"A hit? You don't look like you've been in a fight." Grace asked perplexed. Reid gave a knowing laugh and prepared three cups of noodles. They sat at the kitchen table slurping noodles and Gracie slowly relaxed forgetting the half written text about Reid on her phone. In the time it took the girls to finish half their noodles he'd had two cups and a bag of cheetos gradually breaking into a sweat.

"Why are you chopping powder sugar?" Amy inquired baffled watching him vigorously cut at the white power with a razor blade. Her brother laughed again with a strange edge. They both watched curious as he pulled out a straw stuffing one end up his nose and the other into the powder and inhaled sharply for each nostril until the powder was gone.

"Not powdered shhhugar. 'S the good shtuff." He slurred a little and suddenly Grace remembered her anxiety.

"Can I try?" Amy asked eager to try seeing him enjoy it so much. She'd never seen him with this white stuff before. He giggled and pulled out a stubby rolled thing and lit it with a lighter. Grace scrunched her nose not liking the smell looking for her phone again. She didn't like Reid but she couldn't remember where she set down her phone. It only took a minute before her head started to buzz and suddenly she felt good, really good, her thoughts all fuzzy and her message to Danny forgotten again.

"No, it's all for me babe." Amy quirked an eyebrow unused to her brother calling her babe. "Hey you wanna see something cool?" He went into the hall and both followed watching as he went to the closet in the hall containing a full size cabinet and beat the padlock off. The girls didn't know what was in it except that they were told never to touch the cabinet. Reid was sniggering as he proudly brandished the shotgun.