You don't remember? part 2
Danny looked over at Kono's office for the fifth time that morning. Something was obviously wrong with her. For the past week she had been frequently fidgety, sometimes it just seemed she wasn't even there, and the others she just plain simple ignored them. Steve and Chin had already asked her if something was wrong, but she just waved them off brusquely. He had not yet had the chance to question her about her little "adventure" because that week they had been filled with cases until their elbows, but alas, today was one of the few slow ones and that only meant one thing to Danny. Interrogation time!
He lifted himself off his desk chair and walked the small distance between his office and Kono's, knocking once he got there.
"Come in." he heard Kono saying.
He opened the door and sat in the chair across from her, staring intently at her for about 10 seconds.
"Is there something I can help you with Danny?" Kono asked.
Danny smirked at that. Never the one to do the small talk, he went straight to the point.
"So what happened to you 5 days ago?" Danny bluntly asked.
Kono visible tensed at that as once again the memories of that night flooded her head. They had been there every single waking minute since the "incident" and she couldn't concentrate nearly as much as she used to. But she was determinate to put that behind her.
"What do you mean Danny?" Kono decided to play dumb.
Danny squinted his eyes at her. She was obviously playing dumb with him. Nah, he wouldn't bite that.
"Kono, it's me. What happened that night that's gotten you all fidgety?" Danny insisted.
"What night Danny?"
"You know damb well what night. The night at the bar! What happened?"
Kono squared her jaw. She was not going to tell anyone what happened, not even Danny.
"Danny, nothing happened! Stop stressing!" Kono told him.
Different approach it is. Danny thought.
"Okay then, let's try something else. Was it something we did?" Danny asked.
He saw Kono straightening and knew he had hit close to home.
"Okay then, did we do something wrong?" Danny continued.
"Danny, stop it. I already told you a million times, I'M FINE!" Kono almost shouted, because at the pace they were going he was going to find out the truth very soon.
"Okay, so we didn't do something wrong. Was it me?" Danny was actually getting a kick out of this.
As he didn't see any reaction from Kono he assumed it wasn't him that he was supposed to be focusing on.
"Hmmm…. Steve?" Danny asked with a growing suspicion.
"Okay, that's it, I'm out of here!" Kono said as she got up from her desk.
"Oh my God! This had something to do with Steve?" Danny almost shouted.
"What has something to do with me?" came Steve's voice from the hallway.
Kono's eyes immediately widened and she turned to Danny, focusing her gaze on him.
"Kono's-"
"Nothing! It has nothing to do with you!" Kono rushed to say.
Steve looked confused at both of them from the hallway and then shrugged his shoulders and left to his office.
Danny turned his chair to look at her again and then asked.
"So, are you going to tell me or am I gonna have to call Steve in here and make you tell us?"
Kono looked horrified at Danny and thought about her choices. She could just lie to Danny, but she doubted he would misinterpret her body language, which would only make him call Steve in there and that she did NOT want. She supposed she could tell him the truth, but on one condition.
"You have to swear not to tell this to any other living soul until the day you die do you hear me Danny Williams?" Kono asked with a death glare.
"Kono you're kind of scaring me…" Danny said in all truthfulness.
"Danny…" Kono warned.
"Ok, ok, fine, I won't tell anyone, jeez, what the hell happened?" Danny asked.
Kono took the sit behind her desk again and began fidgeting with her hands.
"Ok. Well, the night at the club, I kind of had too many drinks to… well drink! And from what I saw, so did Steve. And when you dropped him at home, I went there to check on him." Kono said.
Danny leaned in. He did not like where this was headed.
"Yes…" Danny urged her to go on.
"And… uh… he offered me another beer, and I took it, and we went inside and we… sort of… uh…" Kono couldn't seem to spill it out.
"Oh no." Danny said in a disbelieving tone.
Kono took a deep breath and finally found her voice again.
"We had sex." Kono said in less than a second.
Danny was now standing up, mouth open and looking at Kono with eyes as wide as saucers.
"OH MY GOD!" Danny exclaimed.
"Keep it down will you?" Kono growled.
Danny couldn't believe what he was hearing. They what?
"You two…"
"Slept together. Yeah." Kono provided.
"Wait, wait, why didn't he tell me?" Danny asked confused.
At this Kono ducked her head. Right…
"Kono?" Danny asked.
"He… uh, we were both drunk out of our minds, and I left before he woke up, so he… doesn't remember…" Kono said.
"WHAT? YOU HAVEN'T TOLD HIM?" Danny asked outraged.
"I'm not gonna tell him, ever, and neither are you, and I swear if you keep yelling like that I'm gonna knock you out!" Kono shouted.
"Kono…" Danny's tone of voice was softer now. "He deserves to know. "
"No." Kono stated. "It was a mistake from both of us and he doesn't need to know anything."
"It was a what?" Danny asked, clearly surprised. "Kono, you two might have been drunk off your asses, but that was no mistake! You have both wanted it for much longer than a week and you know that!"
Kono gave a breathy chuckle.
"You know…" she started. "When I woke up at his house that morning, I thought, just for a second, that maybe this wasn't so bad, maybe this was just meant to happen, meant to give us a window to something more. But guess what Danny? I come here the next day and he doesn't remember! That had got to mean something! It has a bright red sign saying "do not tell him!" written everywhere."
"Oh so you see invisible things now? Well I didn't know that superwoman"" Danny replied ironically.
"Danny…" she warned once more.
"Don't Danny me! You are freaking perfect for each other! And it's not his fault that he doesn't remember a thing! You are both head over heels for each other. Now that had got to mean something!" Danny said with a reprimanding tone.
"Danny…" Kono said as she got out from behind her desk, and walked past Danny who was already seating on the chair again. "It was a mistake. It's gonna remain between you and me and you are not going to tell him anything. Copy that?" Kono asked and didn't give him time to answer as she was already walking out the door.
Danny stood sited in his chair for a minute, thinking about all the things that Kono had told him. How the hell did this get so screwed up? But then, an idea made its way across his mind. So, he couldn't tell him anything, didn't mean he couldn't do anything…