A/n: Wow you guys! What a response to this! You're all amazing!

When you love someone, you'll do anything. You'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain….you'll deny the truth, believe a lie….when you love someone.-Bryan Adams, When You Love Someone

No good deed goes unpunished. All helpful urges should be circumvented. No good deed goes unpunished. Sure I meant well, well look at what well meant did. –Idina Menzel, No Good Deed

Steve

I don't know whether to kiss Kono or yell at her. She's definitely been the most level-headed of all of us and because of that she's come up with the most information. She's the one who figured out that Rick McGuire was really Rick Petersen and now she's the one to tell me that Danny has ditched his phone and weapon. The only useful thing that I've managed to do is make sure Rachel and the baby are safe and get Lori to track the police GPS in the Camaro. Which is a total crap shoot to begin with. If Petersen is a cop, it's only a matter of time before he finds it and disables it. So now I've got to find them before they go off the grid or switch cars.

I take Chin with me in the truck. God knows someone needs to be thinking clearly in this situation and I'm not sure I qualify for that job at the moment. I've managed to pull myself together on the outside but on the inside I'm slowly falling apart. This could change everything. If anything happens to Grace then Danny is gone and I lose my partner, my best friend and the man I love. That last one is supposed to be a secret but I get the feeling it's not going to stay that way much longer.

Danny and I have been together since I was cleared of murdering the governor and released from prison. I just couldn't understand why he would have stayed behind in Hawaii to be with me when Rachel was offering him his family back on a silver platter. And then after a few late nights and a lot beer I finally got the answer out of him. Yes, he loved Rachel but he was in love with me and that scared him. He said he realized around the time that his brother disappeared that I meant more to him than just his friend and partner. But he didn't think I shared his feelings so he ran back to Rachel, convinced that the feelings would go away. They didn't.

Apparently the whole almost-dying-from-Sarin and me going to prison made him realize that his feelings weren't going away but actually intensifying. He needed me in his life in every aspect. To say I was surprised is an understatement. I had had feelings for him long before Matt showed up but didn't dare act upon them. Until, like him, everything got screwed up and I realized that we can't always wait for fate to step in, something we have to take things into our own hands. So we've been together almost five months and haven't really gotten around to telling anyone that fact. I'm pretty sure that Chin and Kono suspect it but they haven't said anything about it. Though I'm pretty sure they'll have something to say after this is all over.

I'm trying to navigate the truck through traffic as Chin tracks the Camaro's GPS when Kono calls with more information. She and Fong have been working on the laptop to try to get something useful off of it and they've found something interesting.

"Petersen cloned Danny's phone and hacked into the voicemail system. We found this one downloaded onto his computer. Listen." Kono says and once the message starts I wish I hadn't put the phone on speaker.

"Danny look, I know I said we could try things again but this just isn't going to work" Rachel's accented voice rang out over the speaker. "I can't keep coming in second to Steve McGarrett. It's clear-at least to me and everyone else- that he's the one you really love. I'm sorry Danny." The clip ends and Chin just looks over at me. I throw my head back against the head rest.

Oh. Shit.

Danny

I get a bad feeling on my way to Diamondhead. Like Petersen is got one more surprise for me and this one just might kill me. I wish Steve were here with me. I don't like being alone through all of this. Without my partner to talk me off the ledge, I'm liable to do something stupid and regrettable.

"Hey Danny, what are you doing?"

"I'm not doing anything, alright?"

"Listen to me, you say I have a face? You, my friend, you have a tone and it says I'm going to hit somebody…."

"….I'm a father!'

"Yeah and you're also a cop with a gun and when those two worlds cross it can get messy."

"Yeah well I'm not the one who crossed them."

A knock on the hood shakes me out of my memory and I turn to see Petersen pointing a gun at my head. Fabulous.

He tells me to cuff myself to the wheel and I bite back a laugh. I'm so mad right now I could rip the damn steering wheel off and beat the bastard with it until he tells me where Grace is. But knowing him, he'd just stay quiet until he was dead. So I'm force to sit there and listen as he explains himself. He wants his life back, the life I supposedly stole from him. He says he wants his wife and son back and I get a sick feeling I know where this is going.

"I don't understand what's wrong with you D. Rachel was willing to give you a second chance and you threw it away for some faggot?" I wince at the word and resist the urge to yell at Rick not to talk about Steve like that. "Do you know what I would do for a second chance with Kim?" Rick asks. He's getting agitated now.

"Rick listen-"

"No, you listen to me!" He shouts. "Uncuff yourself and start driving." He commands. I just look at him. He knows. Somehow he knows and now the second most important person in my life may be in danger. "I said drive!" I swallow hard and do as he's told. As I pull out of the parking space I see Rick sending a message on the cell phone.

"What are you doing?" I question.

"I'm making things different."