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Elizabeth Rollins arrives on the Island, but Steve's still waiting for Catherine to come home in this chapter. Danny gets to have a talk with Mom Rollins and gets to see a few things from a different angle.
I don't own any of them because if I did, Steve and Cath would already be endgame. I'm just taking them all out to play.
Hope you enjoy the update.
Wendy x
Honolulu International airport.
Danny leaned against the side of the Camaro as he waited for Elizabeth Rollins to arrive. Her flight had landed 30 minutes ago and a quick call to Steve had confirmed that she knew where Danny would be waiting for her. He scanned the crowds looking for her, Steve's only description of the woman; Catherine takes after her you won't be able to miss her.
Danny spotted a woman that could certainly be no one else but the mother of Catherine Rollins. Her hair was brown speckled with grey and cut into a short stylish bob. Her face bore the same chiselled features of her daughter. "Mrs Rollins?" Danny called out as he stepped away from the curb to great the older woman.
"Yes." Elizabeth confirmed as she came to a stop in front of the blond-haired man with the Jersey accent.
"Detective Danny Williams, Five-0 task force." Danny greeted pleasantly as he held his hand out to shake. "I work with…"
"Steven." She finished for him with a small smile. "He told you would be waiting outside for me. Catherine has mentioned you a lot when we've spoken. It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Detective Williams." She told him as she took his offered hand.
"Please call me Danny, and I'm sorry that it's under these circumstances." Danny told her as he took the bags from her and placed them into the trunk of his car before opening the passenger door for her.
"Thank you." She said as she climbed into the car and fastened her seat belt. "Would you mind taking me to the hospital?"
"Steve's meeting us there, he told Catherine he'd stay with him till you arrived." Danny said trying not to let his bitterness show through in his words.
"And I'm very grateful for that." Elizabeth replied as she studied the man beside her. "You resent my daughter?"
"What?" Danny stammered as the question took him by surprise.
"Do you?" She asked more firmly.
"I'm angry with the way she's treated Steve." Danny explained without looking at her.
"You know it's easy for you to blame Catherine for everything that's gone on, have you ever thought about all the times Steven left Catherine while he was working in the teams." She pointed out. "All those years they were together, the lack of commitment on his part."
"That's different." Danny managed to get out before Elizabeth cut him of once again.
"Steven has spent many years putting his work before Catherine, and my daughter always has understood his need to be there for his team. The job has always come first for him, is it wrong that Catherine felt the need to build something on her own." Elizabeth snapped.
"She just upped and left after spending a whole year away, Steve was going to propose." Danny snapped back at her.
Elizabeth gasped at the small bit of news. She took a deep breath and let it out as she calmed her breathing. "Maybe he should have asked sooner, that way she might not have left in the first place."
Danny opened his mouth and closed it several times, not a sound coming out as he mulled over Elizabeth's final words. He himself had told Steve the morning of Catherine's departure to just put the ring on her finger.
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Tripler Army medical centre.
Steve was still sat in the same uncomfortable chair he'd been occupying on and off for the last four hours as he listened to the machines beep and hiss around him. He checked his cell in case Catherine had texted him, sighing in frustration when he found none. He'd spent a lot of time re-playing his conversation with Catherine, his heart had begun to beat faster the minute he'd seen her face pop up on the caller display. He could hear the tiredness in her voice as they had talked and wanted nothing more than to have her home safe where she could sleep.
He glanced at Patrick laying in the bed. "You need to keep fighting, Patrick. Catherine's on her way home to see you." Steve whispered into the quiet of the room. "I don't want to see her hurting the way I did when my dad died."
There was no response from the older man and Steve sighed, glancing at his phone once again. A smile lit inside him as he noticed he'd received a text from Catherine. He quickly opened the text eager to see when she was arriving.
"My flight lands at 1800 hrs. I can take a cab from the airport if you can't make it. How is he?"
Dam the woman could be stubborn, Steve thought to himself as he typed his reply. "I'll be there. Your moms on her way from the airport, I've just spoken to her half hour ago. Your dads still unconscious, no change either way. That's a good thing, right? Don't worry about booking a hotel, I've got it covered."
He hit send and waited hoping she would reply to his text. The ringing of his cell surprised him as he saw Catherine's face appear on his caller display. He answered the call bringing the phone to his ear as he heard her voice. "Hey Cath."
"Hey Sailor." She greeted making him smile at her words.
"I'll meet you at the baggage reclaim." He assured her.
"So where have you booked me in to?" She asked him curiously.
"Don't worry it's all arranged." He told her cryptically.
"Steve?" She urged wondering exactly what he had planned.
"How soon till you board?" He asked, as he heard a final boarding call echoing in the back ground.
"As soon as I hang up." She told him, reluctant to end the conversation.
"Hey Patrick, you want to wake up and say hello to your daughter?" Steve called out so Catherine could hear his words. "She's ready to board her flight."
"Tell him I love him and I'll see him real soon." Catherine said as she sniffed back a few tears.
"I will do, have a good flight." Steve urged her. "Try to get some shut eye, I'm sure you need it." He was all too familiar with the lack of sleep during a mission.
"It's on the top of my list, along with food. I have to go there waiting to close the gate." She got out quickly, the sounds of rustling indicating she was gathering her belongings.
"Aloha." He told her softly as he ended the call. He held the phone in his hands a moment longer as he stared at the photo. Steve smiled as he remembered the photo being taken at Kono's wedding, Catherine had looked sensational in that blue dress. He'd been going through some old files on his laptop when he'd come across the file Kono had sent him a short while after the wedding. Steve had not even opened the file, a part of him not wanting to pull the scab of the wound that had been Catherine.
"Catherine says to tell you she loves you and will be here soon." Steve told Patrick, the man who Steve felt should have been his father-in-law.
A noise in the corridor drew his attention away from bed as he turned to see Danny showing Elizabeth into the ICU cubicle her husband was in. He slipped his phone into his pocket as he stood up and greeted Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth." He said as he embraced her and gave her a quick squeeze. "It's good to see you again.
"You too Steven, Is there any change?" She asked as she stepped back from his embrace and moved towards the bed to lean over and gently kiss her husband.
"No, no change. I'll go and get his Doctor so he can update you, he's been a little vague with me because I'm not next of kin." Steve explained as he moved towards the door.
"Thank you." She called out to him before he could leave the cubicle. "Have you heard from Catherine yet?"
Steve stopped and turned around to answer her. "Yeah, she was just about to board. She's coming in on a flight this evening."
Elizabeth nodded her head to indicate she'd heard him as she sank into the chair Steve had been occupying when she had entered.
Danny followed Steve out of the cubicle as he made his way towards the nurse's station to request a visit from the Doctor for Elizabeth.
"Everything okay?" Steve asked Danny who was unusually quiet.
"Yeah. She's pretty vocal." Danny said as he indicated to where Elizabeth was sat with her husband.
"Yeah." Steve agreed as he thought about all the questions Catherine and himself had fielded from Elizabeth over the years.
"I'm wondering what Lyn will think about all this." Danny voiced his concerns as he gestured around him.
"It doesn't concern her." Steve's head snapped up to look at Danny as growled out the words before he turned back to speak to the nurse behind the desk and ignoring the puzzled expression on his friend's face.
"Of course it does, you idiot." Danny snapped at Steve. "Your ex is back on the Island with her parents and your running around playing happy families."
"Lyn and I are over, okay." Steve told him before turning and walking away from his stunned friend.
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