Hi :) This is a story involving Danny, Grace and Steve and what happens when you pick on Danny's kid...
I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS THEY ALL BELONG TO CBS ANS WHOEVER ELSE THEY BELONG TO
P.S. I apologize if there are any spelling or grammar errors...Enjoy :)
Grace Williams tried to concentrate on her homework as she sat on her noisy school bus. She knew that today she got to be with her Danno, so she wanted to get her homework done as quick as possible. Too bad that the high schoolers on her bus didn't exactly have the same idea.
"Hey, little twerp." One of the boys leaned over the back of the seat she was sitting in. She looked up from her math paper, her brown eyes scanning his older face. She was currently sitting alone in her seat, her pink backpack sitting next to her.
"Hey," Another boy spoke beside her. Grace's head snapped up to look at him. Both of these boys looked very similar, dark eyes and dark hair. "My brother is talking to you." The boy spoke again. This time as he spoke, he knocked Grace s backpack onto the floor, causing some of her other notebooks to spilling out.
"What are you doing?" Grace asked, but both boys ignored her question.
The boy beside her leaned over her, looking at what she was working on. Grace scrunched her nose up and moved to the side, as far away from both of the boys as possible. But also, she failed to realized she had backed herself into a corner.
"What'cha got here, girl?" The boy asked beside her, snatching the notebook right out of her tiny fists.
"Hey, give that back!" Grace demanded, her dark eyes flashing with anger.
"Give it back!" The boy behind her mocked her. "Give it back, Randy!" Randy, the boy beside her apparently, laughed with the boy behind him. They laughed like it was the funniest thing since her Uncle Steve threw a guy in a shark tank. Grace smiled on the inside at the memory, but knitted her eyebrows together on the outside.
"I said give it back." Grace spoke again, her voice a bit stronger this time.
"Ohh, Joey, should we give back?" Randy spoke.
"Nahh." Joey shook his head.
"Well, what should we do with it?" Randy asked, though Grace had a feeling they already knew what they were gonna do with it.
"Maybe we should rip it up?" Joey suggested as he smiled devilishly at Grace.
"No, I need that!" Grace exclaimed, her hands darting out to grab her notebook. She grabbed a firm grip on her notebook and held on tight. "Please, give it back!" Randy looked over and Joey and they both laughed. Grace knew she had to get her homework back if she didn't want Danno to worry about anything and if she wanted to continue to keep her good grades in school. As the boys were distracted by laughing at her, she ripped the two pages out of the notebook that had her homework on it. The boys stopped laughing and looked at her.
"What do you think you re doing?" Randy asked.
"I'm getting my homework back." She answered as she folded her homework up neatly and held in in the palm of her hand.
"I don't like your attitude." Joey commented, putting a hand in her long brown hair-which she had decided to wear down today-and pulled her hair up and back.
Grace cried out in pain loudly as her hair was pulled up and her bottom left the sat, but her scream was lost in the others of the children on the bus.
"I don t either." Randy agreed.
"Let me go!" Grace cried.
"Come on, Joey." Randy said as he stood. "This is our stop anyway." Joey roughly threw Grace into the side of the bus. Her back slammed into the side out the bus and she winced out in pain. Randy threw Grace's notebook at her and in landed on her stomach. She looked up at the two as their dark hair bobbed off the bus.
Grace sniffled as she tried not to cry. She bent down and picked up her backpack, sliding the items that spilled out back in and zipped it up. She put the notebook that she had been doing her homework in back on her lap and unfolded her homework and continued on it. She stilled had a few more stops before hers and she still had to get her homework done so she could spend time with Danno. It was harder this time to concentrate though because of the growing pain in her back and the already fully present pain in the top of her skull.
Right after Grace had finished and put away her homework, her stop was the next one. Lightly setting her heavy backpack on, she stood as the bus stopped. She winced slightly, her back not liking the feel of the backpack on her recently pained back. Even through the pain, Grace still smiled because she was happy she got to spend the day with her Danno.
Grace walked down the bus alley quickly, smiling at her bus driver as she hopped down the stairs. Grace walked down the street carefully, trying not to let her backpack bounce on her back too much. She made it to her Danno's driveway quick enough, smiling as she saw him walk out of the door just in time to see her emerge.
"Danno!" She smiled as she walked slowly up to him.
His eyebrows furrowed at her as he kneeled down to her eye level. "You okay, Monkey?" He asked, concern filling his blue eyes.
Grace smiled. "I'm okay, Danno." She reached her small arms up around his neck and pulled herself to him, hugging him tightly.
Danny wrapped his arms around her back immediately and hugged her tightly as well. Grace winced softly in his ear and he pulled back to look at her.
"Grace, what's wrong?" The look in Danny s eyes told Grace she needed to tell him what was going on, no matter what it was.
Grace took a shaky breath. "Well, uhm, these boys in high school on the bus took my homework."
A brief look of anger flashed in Danny's eyes. "Took your-what do you mean?"
Grace sighed and moved out of his grasp. She grabbed his hand as she stood up. "They took my homework while I was working on it. It s okay Danno, I got it back."
Grace led him to the house and while she was walking in front of him Danny noticed a small rats nest in her hair. "What happened to your hair?"
Grace stopped and looked up at him with her big brown eyes. "Uhm...one of them...grabbed me." Grace spoke quietly, looking down at her feet.
Danny's eyes widened. Grabbed her? What did she mean someone grabbed her? "Grabbed you? By your hair?"
Grace just nodded slowly.
"Did they do anything else?" Danny tried to push down his anger and be comforting to his daughter as he gathered all the information he could.
Grace didn't say anything, still looking down at her suddenly fascinating shoes.
"Grace, please tell me." He spoke, his patience running thin. Not with her, but with trying to contain his anger.
"The one that grabbed me...when he let me go he kind of...threw me." She admitted quietly as she tried to keep her tears in her eyes.
Danny's eyebrows shot up. "He threw you?"
"Into the side of the bus." Her voice continued to grow quieter and quieter as she spoke.
"The side-okay." Danny shook his head. "Okay, Grace. Let's go inside." Danny said as he led his daughter in his house. He closed the door behind his as he led her into the living room.
"Let me see your back, honey." Danny spoke softly to her as he got down on his knees.
Grace held her breath and pulled the hem of her baby blue shirt upward just high enough to Danny could see her back. She turned her back to him to let him see what she knew would probably be there.
Danny's eyes raked over her back. They darkened at what they saw. There, on his daughters slim body, was a big forming purple bruise. Danny closed his eyes and let out a heavy breath. "Okay honey, you can put your shirt down now." Danny said quietly.
Grace put her shirt down and then walked over to the couch and sat down.
Danny sighed heavily as he whipped his phone out of his pocket. He held down speed dial number 2 and in two rings a familiar voice spoke out on the other end of the line. "McGarrett."
"Hey, Steve." Danny started, pinching the bridge of his nose and letting his eyes flutter shut. "Do you think you can drop by real quick?"
"Drop bye? What for?" Steve asked, though he was already grabbing his keys and heading out the door.
"I need you to watch Grace while I step out."
Grace looked up at her dad at the sound of her name.
"What do you need to step out for, Danny?" Steve asked yet another question.
"There's something I have to take care of." Danny answered simply, glancing down at a worried Grace as he spoke.
"Danny, you're starting to sound like me with all of these answers that mean nothing. What s going on?"
Danny let out a long, shaky sigh and then continued to talk to his partner. "Someone is picking on Grace."
"'Picking on Grace', what do you mean 'picking on Grace'?" Danny could hear the concern mixed with a bit of anger in Steve's voice.
"Some kids on her bus."
"I'll be there in five." Steve said quickly then hung up.
Danny took the phone away from his face and looked at it for a second before he put it back in his pocket.
"What are you gonna do, Danno?" Grace asked from her seat on the couch.
"I'm going to make sure they don't bother you again." He answered and she nodded. "What are their names?" He asked, his light eyes darting into her dark.
"Randy and Joey, I think." Grace responded as Danny took a seat beside her. "They also look alike, so they might be brothers. I think I heard one of them mention they were..."
Danny nodded, taking it in. "Do you know where they live?"
"They get off of the bus at Makani Drive." Grace answered. "I think." She looked down, her eyebrows furrowed in thought.
"Okay." Danny nodded and wrapped his arms lightly around Grace's shoulders. He leaned over a placed a kiss to the top of her head. "Danno's gonna take care of it." Grace nodded and leaned into him. She finally let some of her tears out. He held her closer under his arm as more tears rolled down her cheeks.
True to his word, a few minutes later Steve came through the door and into the house.
"Uncle Steve!" Grace smiled as she sprang off the couch and over to her Navy SEAL uncle.
"Hey, Gracie." He smiled as he bent down to hug her. He picked her up and set her on his hip. After whipping a few tears away from her pretty little face, he placed a quick kiss to her temple before looking over at Danny-who was now making his way to the door.
"I'll be back soon." Danny looked back at the two before leaving them in his house.