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Two days later Danny was heading to the marina to meet up with Kono and their fearless leader. He thought about how productive his previous day had been. He was the one on call but thankfully the Governor had not contacted him. He had caught up on some paper work at HQ, enjoying the peace and quiet of his office. He had also cleaned and tidied his entire apartment, not that it took very long, after all it wasn't very big. Then he rang Steve to check in on him, all set to drop by but Steve just said he had some errands to run and didn't know what time he would be back but that he would see him bright and early next morning.
As he pulled his car into a space he spotted Steve's Silverado with Kono leaning against the side. She waved over. Danny grabbed his backpack, locked the Camaro and walked over to the others.
Steve's voice came out of the back of the truck, "Hey, I thought you'd never get here."
Danny looked at his watch, "It's eight o'clock, you said eight o'clock. What's the problem?"
Steve jumped down out of the truck, "I said leaving at 0800 not arriving and only starting to get ready at eight o'clock."
"Well then you should have said meet at 7:30, shouldn't you. I'm here now anyway so let's get this show on the road."
Kono just grinned and wondered, not for the first time why she agreed to come along without her cousin's calming effect. She grabbed her bag and followed her two, still bickering team mates.
Once they were settled and had headed out into open water, Danny noticed two things. The first being the only actual piece of fishing equipment on board was a rather old looking fishing rod and second, Steve had once again become very quiet.
They were about an hour out when Steve cut the engine.
"I think this is as good a spot as any to stop," he mused more to himself that anybody else. He then fixed up the old fishing rod and settled himself down looking out across the expansive ocean.
Kono and Danny were sitting on the wooden bench that ran the length of each side of the boat. Kono tossed Danny a quizzical look, but he just shrugged.
"Kono, see what superSEAL has brought for breakfast, would ya. I'm famished."
"Will do Danny," came the reply from the rookie as she headed towards the two cool boxes.
She set to work on the items of food she found making up a plate each of breakfast meats, cheese and fruit, taking her time and leaving Danny chat to Steve and maybe see what was going on with him. Danny gave her a wink and settled down beside his friend.
"Hey man, what's going on? And don't say nothing. You've been very quiet, even by your standards. I know the ladies like men to be dark and broody but seriously. Come on, tell me what's bugging you."
Steve lifted his eyes and looked at Danny as if he hadn't even heard him, "Huh?"
"Look Grace told me about it being your Dad's birthday sometime this week. Is that what this fishing trip is about?"
Steve nodded and then added, "We used to do it every year around his birthday. I promised before his last birthday we'd do it again when I got back. Then, well everything else happened. So I just thought maybe I'd do it as a sort of memorial or something…"
Danny gave him a sad smile," Well I think it's a great idea. Grace was really worried about you the other night. She even made me promise to make sure you didn't stay sad cos I'm a dad and that's my job." At this he bumped shoulders with Steve who grinned back.
"Yeah she told me if I ever felt I need a dad I could always share hers." He paused for a minute then his grin grew even more, sticking out his hand he said, "Any chance of an advance on my allowance."
Danny just slapped it, happy to see Steve smiling and replied, "There's more chance of me putting you on time out. That'd at least give me over half an hour of peace and quiet."
They were both laughing when Kono handed them a plate each.
They spent on enjoyable morning together, chatting, laughing, with the two men getting into a few squabbles over silly things. The fishing pole long forgotten. Lunch time arrived and saw Kono lying off in a bikini reading a book. The guys sorted lunch, Steve working on the drinks which basically involved taking the caps of two Longboards and mango iced tea. Danny tackled the subs, putting a bit of everything into each one and adding some chips to each plate.
A couple of hours later, with still no bite on the fishing line, Steve decided to call it a day. "I don't know why I thought we'd catch anything this time. We never did before."
Kono and Danny burst into laughter and started to working on stowing everything away.
They were only minutes away from heading back to land when two things happened. Kono looked out over the ocean and saw a large speed boat cutting through the water towards them and the satellite phone rang and Steve answered hearing Chine at the other end.
"Steve, I just got a call from the Governor to say some Tongan pirates have been spotted in the area South West of Honolulu. Keep your eyes peeled. The last time this gang hit, they left two people seriously injured and their boat was destroyed."
Steve had listened to all Chin had to say but could only reply with two words, "Too late!"