Disclaimer: Not mine. None of the characters or storylines from the show. Just for fun. :)
I hope you read and enjoy. I know there have been a million of these stories done already, but I thought that there was so much that was left out and I thought that Steve would have more pain then they were showing. Broken bones hurt. Also who would fall that far and only have a broken arm...I had to have a little more fun. Anyway hope you enjoy. There are 3 parts (Danny, Steve and then together). I wanted to get them out before tonight's episode so I apologize that proofreading was not as thorough. My other story is almost done as well. i am looking over the next chapter as we speak. Hopefully will be up tomorrow. Let me know what you think.
Danny
They were at the Hilton Friday Night Hawaiian Village. The team kicked back after the successful closing of the latest case with Jordan Rutherford being returned to Hawaii to face trial. They were enjoying their dinner and drinks. Danny had successfully chased away the attractive waitress who wanted to sign Steve's cast. He hadn't been allowed to sign it and would be damned if he was going to allow some strange girl who had the hots for Steve sign his cast. Not after he had been a big part of saving Steve's life. Of course he didn't mention the part where the rope slipped out of his hands before Steve plummeted. He wasn't really mad at Steve, well maybe he was. Well, maybe he wasn't mad as much as he was hurt.
Danny took a long sip of his beer and thought back over the events of the day. He had watched his partner fall down the cliff after being hit in the head with a boulder. Then he saw him hit the ground with a sickening thud. He had to watch helplessly as he thought that Steve was going to keep sliding right off the edge and plummet to his death. Being hopeful that he wasn't already dead from the fall. He screamed Steve's name over and over with his heart in his throat as he waited for a response, a movement or anything that would suggest that his partner had not just fallen to his death. His heart pounded out of his chest and his world stopped until he heard a soft voice. The voice that belonged to the man that he had come to care about. Steve softly said "I'm good."
Danny thought that was ridiculous. Steve had just fallen off a cliff after being hit in the head with a large rock for god's sake and now he was saying that he was good. The tone of Steve's voice made Danny think that he was in fact far from being good. It didn't really matter to Danny what Steve was saying at that point though. He heard his voice and he was alive and that was all that mattered. His partner was alive. Alive to pretend to be superhuman for another day. Danny's world started spinning and his heart started beating again. He knew that his partner would be OK.
Steve flipped himself onto his back with a groan. He cradled his left hand with his right and looked up at Danny and said, "Danny, I think I've broken my arm".
Danny let out a sigh of relief. Your arm, that's it. Leave it to super SEAL to take a fall that might have killed anyone else and come out with only a broken arm. Well hopefully that was it. Hopefully, Steve was being honest and not hiding something else Danny thought to himself.
Steve had wanted Danny to throw the rope down to him, but it was stuck on a branch. Danny was going to call for help, but Steve told him there was no reception except on the summit.
"Do NOT move Steve. Do you hear me? Do NOT move." he said. If you move, I may just have to find you and kill you myself, he thought to himself as he ran to the summit to call for help. He would probably run to the ends of the earth to make a call if it meant that he was going to get help to Steve. He kept going until he reached the summit and was able to get through to Chin who called the army medivac. He ran back to Steve. He hoped for once that Steve actually listened and stayed put.
He was relieved when he got back and looked over the cliff and saw Steve there. He had splinted his arm, and looked like he was in pain. The thunder rumbled again and Steve warned Danny that there could be real danger if there was a mud slide on the ledge. There was no way that Danny was going to let anything else happen to Steve. It was bad enough that he had let Steve fall. He knew that Steve wouldn't blame him, but it didn't matter. Danny blamed himself. He should have secured the rope to something else. He should have been stronger, more alert. He should have saved him. Danny knew that if it had been him climbing and Steve taking the slack that the fall wouldn't have happened like that. Steve would have pulled out one of his superninja moves and saved the day. Danny had let him down and he wasn't going to do it again. Danny knew there was only one thing to do. He had to get the rope off the branch and send it down to Steve. He made his way down the cliff and as his foot slipped Steve yelled at him to be careful and that he wasn't going to catch his ass if he fell. Danny shot back that he didn't want Steve to catch him. They both knew that it was just their normal banter because if it had come down to it, Danny knew that Steve would use himself as a human mattress to break his fall. But thankfully it didn't come to that. He got the rope loose and sent it to Steve. Danny was able to help pull Steve up with the rope and then finally he was able to reach him and pull him to safety. He couldn't remember when a touch was so meaningful. He touched his arm not wanting to break the contact as he saw for himself that he was alive. He wasn't in great shape, but he was alive. The chopper was there. He watched as Steve was loaded up and sent him a clear message of I love you by drawing it in the air with a heart. Steve saw and gave him a big toothy grin. They were going to be OK.
At the hospital, Steve had sent him and Chin away to finish the case. Danny was upset Steve didn't want him there. That hurt Danny, but he knew that he had to finish the case. He had wanted to know how Steve was and make sure that he was OK before he checked himself out of the hospital AMA or something. But the case was keeping him busy and when Steve called, he couldn't even answer. Danny listened to the message and decided not to call Steve back, instead he called Kamekona and asked him to pick Steve up because they he so busy with the case. Of course the big hawaiian agreed. Danny felt bad that he couldn't be there, but Steve would be pissed if Danny missed something in the case because he was worried about him.
Steve came back to headquarters and was pretty quiet. Danny assumed that he wasn't feeling great, but there was no sense asking the SEAL since he would deny it anyway. Danny knew there was something wrong, but figured that he would get to the bottom of it when the case was over.
They drove to Morimoto's to look at the fish. Danny tried to get Steve to deal with the fish, but Steve said something about not being able to get his cast wet and Danny knew he would be a SOB if he tried to push it. He told Steve it was low, but did it anyway. He rubbed his hands on Steve's shirt when he was done just to annoy him. They found the fish with the bullet in it, grabbed the evidence which the crazy SEAL dug out with a pair of chopsticks and headed out Danny dropped Steve off at headquarters and he went home to change his shirt.
As Danny was changing his shirt, he finally had 5 minutes to himself and found himself worried about Steve. Something was wrong and Steve wasn't offering much in the way of information. Danny was going to keep his eye on Steve and make sure that he was OK. He left and went back to pick up Steve when he called saying they had a lead at the High Blue Jet Charters. Danny continued to watch Steve as they worked the case. He saw the subtleties that gave Steve's pain away despite the commander's efforts to appear happy. Danny knew that was a facade. He knew that Steve was trying to hard to appear happy. He also knew Steve well enough that he knew he wouldn't take anything for the pain while he was working the case. Steve had said once before that it clouded his mind and he couldn't be compromised in any case or he could endanger the whole team's safety. Danny took the opportunity while Steve went back to headquarters with Chin and Kono to sneak away and make a phone call. He knew the pharmacy where Steve always sent his prescriptions. He knew that the hospital would send the scripts there electronically, but he didn't know if Steve had even picked them up. He called pretending to be Steve. Just as Danny thought. Steve hadn't gotten the prescription. Danny swung over to the pharmacy told them who he was and signed for Steve's prescriptions. He was going to make the commander take them as soon as he could. For now, he put them in his pocket and headed over to pick up Steve.
They were going to go check out Donald Rutherford's house. Steve had insisted that he should drive and they took his truck. Danny had wanted to drive so that Steve could rest, but of course the SEAL had other plans. When they got there, Steve pulled the sling off and threw it back in the truck. Danny shot him a look that told Steve that he strongly disagreed with his decision. Danny was pretty sure that it was a wasted gesture though as Steve had already walked away and toward the house. Danny wasn't surprised when Rutherford hid or that Steve had an infrared heat sensor in his truck. They finally found Rutherford in a hidden room under the floor and Steve attacked the guy. Fighting him with his broken arm in a cast. Yeah, I'm sure that is exactly what the doctor had prescribed Danny thought. After the fighting, Danny saw how Steve held his arm closer to his body and more elevated than he had since he was on the mountain. Serves him right for being such an ass Danny thought at the moment, but as the night went on he started to feel guilty. He really didn't wish pain on Steve. He didn't want Steve to be in pain at all. He also knew that Steve wouldn't appreciate him "mothering" him in front of the team so he just kept it to himself.
Danny was glad when Steve put the sling back on as soon as they got to the truck. He didn't say anything, just got in his seat and looked out the window. After Rutherford's house, they went back to HQ and took the camaro. Steve didn't object, he just got into the passenger side and started out the window. Later they were at the airport waiting for Jordan Rutherford to be transferred from the airplane to the awaiting squad car. Danny noticed Steve's stiff posturing and watched as Steve bit down on his bottom lip obviously trying to keep the pain at bay as he got in and out of the camaro. Danny had tried twice to start to ask him about his pain over the course of the night, but hadn't even gotten past the Steve part of the question before Steve shot him a look that said he didn't want to talk.
Now at the Hilton eating dinner, Danny watched Steve like a hawk. Sure, he was putting on a good show. He was flirting and everything. The truth was, Steve had drank 2 beers to each of Danny's and Danny hadn't actually seen Steve eat anything. That's when he was sure that Steve was in pain. Steve hated to take medication, but alcohol, now that he had no problem with. He knew no one would call him on it. After all he had a long day, but he had also had a head injury with a questionable loss of consciousness that Danny was sure that Steve forgot to mention at the hospital. Danny made up his mind and as soon as they were done here he was going to get Steve back to his house and make sure that he took care of himself. His plotting was interrupted when Chin's phone rang and he walked away to answer it. Kono followed behind him. Both knew what the call was about before it was even answered. They came back to the table and said their tear-filled goodbyes while everyone gave their sympathies and told them if there was anything that they needed to let them know and with that they were off. Chin drove the distraught Kono home. Steve had told them to take all the time that they needed.
Kamekona also bid goodnight to the partners as he decided he was going to give it another try with the waitress...or her friend. Steve and Danny were alone at the table. Steve finished his beer. Danny gave him the look. The one that Steve hated. The one that Steve knew that Danny was on to him and he was busted.
"OK, spill." Danny said.
"Nothing to spill. Time to head home I guess" Steve replied.
"Nothing my ass. I know you are hiding something. What is going on? Is it the pain? How bad is it? Where is it? Have you taken anything besides the beer that you are drinking like water?" he fired at Steve. Not even giving him a chance to answer.
Steve just waited. He hoped that maybe Danny would get on one of his rants and not even realize that he hadn't answered.
No such luck. "Well...I'm waiting. You may have everyone else fooled, but this is me McGarrett. We are partners. There are no secrets between partners. So for the second time. Spill" Danny said.
"Hey Danny. I'm tired. It's been a long day. Do you think we could just go home and have this fight tomorrow instead." Steve said looking defeated.
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