Danny entered the Iolani Palace later that morning. He looked exhausted and rumpled with dark circles under his eyes. He had sent a quick text to Chin before he got to Steve's, letting Chin know what had happened and that he was going to get Steve onto a flight to LA, and Danny would be in directly afterward.

Danny would have to call the Governor. The paperwork was in place for Danny to assume control of Five-0 in the event of Steve's absence for any reason, although they had always assumed it would be due to a deployment.

Danny desperately wanted to go with Steve to LA, but he knew that right now what his friend needed most was for Danny to hold down the fort at home, so Steve could concentrate on his family. Danny and Steve had talked about having some sort of memorial service for Mary when Steve returned. Mary still had a lot of friends on the island and their Five-0 Ohana would want a chance to say good-bye as well.

Chin, Kono and Lou were drinking coffee around the smart table when Danny pushed open the glass doors to the office.

"We got a case?" Danny asked.

The three looked up, faces grim, and Danny could tell Kono had been crying.

"No, brah" Chin responded, "we're just reminiscing about Mary. I can't believe she's gone. How's poor Steve going to cope with all of that? What about Joan?"

"I dunno, but the last thing I wanted to do this morning was drop him at the airport. He looked more beat up then he did after Wo Fat got done with him."

"Ouch, other boss" came from Kono. "That sounds pretty bad."

Before they could continue the conversation about Steve, Danny's cell phone started up with "I'm a Bitch, I'm a Lover" by Meredith Brooks. Danny smirked at the other three, pressed the accept button and put the phone to his ear

"What's up Rachel?" His face settled into a grimace of displeasure and he immediately started spluttering into the phone.

"You're here? On the island? You aren't supposed to be back for another two weeks! I am NOT giving up my time with Grace! You can't just WALTZ in and …. What ?" Oh."

Danny was halted in mid-rant and it looked to the others like that might have hurt. He listened for a while, and started looking very puzzled, and finally responded to what his caller had said.

"Well, I can't get away right now, McGarrett's not here. I mean not on the island. No, I'll tell you when I see you. Yeah, I'll meet you at the Hilton Hawaiian for lunch at 2:30. Okay, see you then."

Danny hung up the phone and stood there looking at it for a moment, and then looked up to see the other three task force members eyeing him.

"Don't give me that look, I have no idea what that's about. Rachel is back here two weeks early and says she needs to talk to me. Without Grace. Or Charlie. She wants us to have lunch together. I haven't spent two minutes with my ex since she dragged me back to court, and she lost, on that last custody case, and now she wants to go to lunch. I wonder what fresh hell she's bringing?"

The others stayed silent, not sure how to respond. Sometimes with Danny, it was best to remain silent just to avoid starting up a rant.

"Anyway, forget that, I'm going to take a couple of hours for lunch, okay."

"Sure, Danny" put in Chin, "there isn't much going on right now anyway. We're working a couple cold cases with HPD and Lou is putting the finishing touches on the paperwork from our last case. He got elected so he could learn the ropes of how to ….finesse…the reports before they're submitted."

Danny laughed at that, but it sounded a little hollow, even to his ears.