Title: §2 One step at a time II [original tittle "Heat of the beach", originally aired November 23, 2011]
Collection: Heat of Hawaii
Author: xcsimisiax
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0
Characters/Pairings: Steve/Danny {but other characters regularly appear}
Notes: It's a reboot of my original story, it's time for changes.
Summary: "God, I act like a teen cheerleader waiting for a call from her boy! I just can't stop thinking about him..." [Steve's thought]
Content of Note: slash
Warinings: Hmmm english isn't my mother language, so remember about this, okay? lol
Rating: r
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't own'em, just borrowed'em to play with. No infringement is intended.
When Steve and Gracie reached the Kawika Surf School, they both like always in a sync looked at each other and covered their mouths by index fingers.
"That's our secret!" Gracie smirked and clapped Steve's open palm.
"Yes, ma'am." Steve answered and the biggest goofy smile ever appeared on his face, when he turned off the CD player in the Silverado and helped Gracie got out the car. He walked on the back of the Silverado and took from the trunk a yellow - pink board which belonged to Gracie.
He still remembered how something like a month back, they went down the shore to the surf shop to buy a special surfboard for Gracie. Danny didn't want to agree with Gracie about the coloring. If his daughter wanted to be a little surf-girl, with what he still didn't deal fully, she should at least have some boyish coloring on her board and bathing suit to show boys at the school that she's a tough one. Generally Danny would be the happiest man ever if Gracie could surf on some close part of the shore, and he'd be there with her all the time, watching if any young psychopath wasn't in the nearby of his little, beautiful daughter. The true was that Danny was a truly overprotected parent who would do absolutely everything to give his daughter best life ever, saving her from every kind of trouble or harm. He knew that time to time he really acted like a hysteric, but he couldn't care less. He's a father and that's enough excuse for him. Steve was in love with that hot head father in Danny, to be honest there's not a part of Danny's heart or soul, which Steve wouldn't admire with full affection, but the most he loved that father attitude of Danno. And even that, it never stopped him from laughing his ass off when Danny got crazy and started to act like he'd lose his mind.
Steve looked at him with an open mouth and he didn't know what he should do, burst in laughing or just kiss him. Gracie ran around them and jumped like a little ball, trying to convince both of them to buy the one, she dreamt about. Steve simple couldn't say "no", when Gracie grabbed his hand and she smiled at him the way that her blue eyes shone like two stars. And if he'd be absolutely honest with himself? He'd say that when she did this, she's such alike Danny, that he couldn't resist. And he lost it. He couldn't say no, he couldn't not give her even a star from the sky. Steve's busted and completely in love with Danny's daughter. Deeply inside his heart he treated Monkey as a his own kid and this what amazed him the most was a fact, that Danny sensed this, and approved this all the way. More, Steve's almost sure that Danny loved how it felt to the fullest. Steve smirked under his nose when he reminded himself a dialogue between father and daughter, when they left the store.
„I guess I know why you chose this one board, kiddo... Monkey, who's this boy I saw with you week ago, when we first arrived to the Uncle Kawika's school? Huh? You made a new friend or something? You know about whom I'm talking, right, Babe? That little dark hair one, he walked around you all the time, blue swim shorts, short hair, Caucasian, blue eyes..." Danny shouted words like a machine-gun. Steve just looked at him with an open mouth, blinking his eyes in a disbelief. Gracie just stood in front of her father and looked up at his face curious.
„No, that was Dylan from school. His mom works there, on a store next to the school." Gracie said innocent and brushed gently her brand new yellow-pink board, which Steve held at that moment, their eyes met, and happy smiles reached their faces.
„Dylan, huh?" Danny asked and his voice was colored by a surprise. Steve just rolled his eyes but he focused on their talk carefully. He had to know either who the hell Dylan was, but he'd never ever admit to this.
„Yeah, he's the funniest boy in school." Gracie said and fixed her gaze onto Danny's face again.
„I bet he's a regular Chris Rock." Danny mumbled and looked pissed at Steve, who at that moment trembled holding his laughter back. A power of Danny's sight simple took his breath away. The truth was that hot head Danny was like a trigger for Steve, he simple set him on a fire. Danny tilted his head and eyed Steve up and down, but then he stopped and looked back at Gracie.
„Who?" She asked and question marks popped up in her eyes, when she took Danny's hand.
„All right, listen to me, all right? I'm gonna tell you something, I want you to pay attention." Danny said with a serious voice, somehow both Steve and Gracie nodded in a sync.
„I've told you before you gotta be careful around boys, understand?"
„Danno..." Gracie mumbled confused.
„No, no, no, listen. You can't trust all boys. You just can't. They, uh, they have, uh..." Danny lost it and looked at Steve nervous. Steve shot his look back at Danny and shrugged his shoulders ashamed.
„What?" Gracie asked and stepped back a little, two wrinkles crossed her forehead, the same like it's always happened with Steve. It's also one of these things, which simple moved Steve.
„They have motives." Danny sighed. „They got motives. Now, listen, I don't want to scare you and make you think that all boys are evil, okay?" Danny said finally and Steve simple couldn't believe that he really did this. Gracie just tilted her head, put hands on her hips and sighed.
„But this kid... He's just a friend." She said ashamed.
„He's evil, all right? I said it. He's evil. All right? Understand me? That boy's not good. Nod your head if you understand." Danny shouted one sentence by another and again in a perfect sync Steve and Gracie nodded at him. Danny looked at them confused, then kneeled and opened his arms.
„I love you." He said and Gracie snuggled to him with a smile on her face.
„I love you too, Danno." She stated and Steve thought this at the same time.
Eventually they reached Silverado, and when Steve put Gracie's board into the trunk, Monkey held him close and kissed his cheek. "You're the best, Uncle Steve. I love you so so so so much." Steve still could recall her words and like always they warmed his heart. He's such a lucky guy. He not only found the love of his life in his best friend. But he also won a daughter in a draw. Steve closed the car and with the yellow - pink board under his arm, he grabbed Gracie's little hand into his own and they slowly walked down the shore to meet with Kawika and Kono. And he one more time lost himself in his thoughts. Steve still remembered the moment when Gracie jumped to the car and Danny came to him, on the back of the car and leant his body on the trunk.
„You want to talk about it?" Steve asked and leant on the car at the same way, like Danny did a minute before. He crossed his arms on a chest and fixed his glance onto Danny's gloomy face.
„No, I don't want to talk about it." Danny grouched and looked somewhere over the ocean. Wrinkles on his forehead became bigger with every passing second. When Danny sighed big, Steve rubbed his face impatiently and touched Danny's upper arm. They both trembled, but didn't say a word about that.
„Why don't you tell me why you acted like that with Gracie? Something happened today? Why are you so nervous?" Steve asked again and his heart squeezed in a pain, when he felt like shiver ran up and down his spine and settled down into his loins.
Danny bowed his head and then he looked straight into Steve's eyes.
„Nothing happened." He whispered and glanced again over the ocean. They both felt the tension between the two of them in the air. Danny just wanted to hide himself into Steve's arms, Steve just wanted to close him into them, if they could only know, that they thought about the same.
„'Cause you seem upset to me." Steve said with a low voice and again crossed his arms on chest. For a moment he looked back and through back window of the car he saw, like Gracie leant over the gear-box and suddenly music fulfilled the air. For his and Gracie's sake she chose this time local radio station, not their favorite One Direction CD. Steve blushed and rolled his eyes, when Gracie sensed his look and glanced back at him. He's sure, she knew exactly about what he's thinking, cuz she just put an index finger on her lips and gave him a wink. Then just burst in laughing and started to sing with the radio. Danny turned around and wrinkles almost tear sensitive skin on his forehead. But when he realized that Gracie had a really great fun and she's happy, he sighed big and looked again at Steve.
„You became a shrink all of a sudden?" He noticed that Steve was blushing and something in his eyes made Danny confused. „Is he amused now? He's laughing at me, or what?!" Danny got this thought and felt like his hot head attitude started to raise into his veins. Steve sensed that Danny immediately got pissed and he looked down into his beautiful blue eyes, which looked now more like the sky during the storm, than a calm ocean. And suddenly more than ever before Steve just wanted to pull Danny closer and closed him into his arms, reaching his lips by his own, outlined them and sucked on his lower lip, feeling how he trembled and wrapped his arms around Steve's neck. That view was so real, that Steve instinctively shook his head trying to push that view away.
„Yeah, and you can take a spot here inside the truck, uh, if you'd be more comfortable lying down. Or you can stay where you're and tell me what happened, because either way, I'm gonna keep asking you, so it's up to you." Steve said in a low voice, keeping eye contact with Danny.
„Okay, Sigmund, you want to know what's bothering me?" Danny asked with a big sigh.
„It's your hour." Steve said and leant closer to Danny, ready to listen to him carefully.
„Okay, I'll tell you. Week ago when I came to Kawika's School with Gracie, I walked to our man to ask how's Gracie doing over the ocean, cuz lately you're the one who picked her up there and took Monkey back."
„Yeah, right. If this is a problem..." Steve started nervously but Danny cut him off.
„Did I say it is? I know how much you love to spend time with Monkey, so chill out. Besides Governor can be a real pain in my ass, he makes this for purpose that he calls me every time I have a weekend with my daughter." Danny hissed and rubbed his face impatiently.
„Our girlie." Steve said without even realized that he said that loud.
„Our girlie." Danny repeated without even paying attention about that and continued his monolog. „Anyway when I looked back I saw Monkey with that boy, very creepy, creepy child."
Steve brushed his hair, then rubbed his neck and sighed.
„Okay." Danny didn't appreciate that sigh of Steve, but he ignored it. For now.
„I mean, real, real malcontent." Danny tried to convince Steve to his rights.
„Mm-hmm." Steve murmured and looked back one more time. Gracie already jumped on the back seat.
„Okay, and-and you should have seen Grace. I mean, she's giggling like a schoolgirl every time this kid opens his mouth.." Danny said, madness colored his voice when he started to wave his hands.
„Uh, Grace is a schoolgirl." Steve said and smirked. He simple couldn't stop himself. But Danny didn't notice this, completely lost in his monolog.
„And this guy's a stalker, okay? He's a stalker. He fits the profile." Danny said and Steve's afraid he'd boil his blood, if he'd rant like that any longer.
„Profile?" Steve asked and rolled his eyes.
„Called her five times in three days." Danny hissed.
„How do you know that?" Steve asked, but somehow he knew the answer.
„Because I dumped her phone." Danny said madly.
„You dumped your kid's phone?" Steve didn't know what he should do, burst in laughing or just clap Danny's forehead to wake him up from that craziness.
„Yes." Danny hissed and started to pacing around. Gracie looked outside the window.
„Daaaannoooo, can we go home? I'm hungry." She said and blinked her big blue eyes in a pleading way.
„Just give me a moment and I promise, we'd reach also Uncle Kame Shave Ice's place." Danny said and smile reached his face, including his eyes, what with a blink of Steve's ones, again looked more like ocean than the storm sky.
„And the stalker is... ten? Is he? What, ten years old?" Steve asked amused.
„Ted Bundy was ten once." Danny said and made his way to the shot gun seat.
„Yes, he was, Danny. Yes he was." Steve sighed with a smile and closed the trunk.
"You know Uncle Steve?" Gracie asked and looked up at him. Steve felt her sight and fixed his gaze onto her blue eyes. She immediately snapped him out of his thinking, even his eyes were still dreamy and full of love.
"I don't but I'm sure I'll soon." He smirked and gave her a wink. Gracie burst in carefree laughing and then she stood in front of Steve and put her little hands on her hips. Her yellow bathing suit shone like a little sun on the suntanned skin of her. "Our little Sunshine". Steve got this thought and then smiled at himself.
"I'm so happy that Danno can live with you, at your awesome house." Gracie said and something in her voice made that Steve kneeled to her and focused on her fully. He pulled the board into the sand and that way it made a shadow for them both.
"I'm happy to have him with me, into my awesome house." Steve said and brushed Gracie's hair with a smile.
„And you know Uncle Steve, that I don't... I mean it's not like I said „awesome house" cuz you can let me feel there like I'd be in my own house." Gracie said and took Steve's hand.
„Not, of course that's not the reason." Steve said with big goofy smile which like always reached also his hazel-blue eyes.
„Of course not." Gracie repeated and with a laugh she snuggled to Steve, wrapping her arms around his neck. Steve held her close and rested his chin on the top of her head. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the moment.
"You make Danno happy, Uncle Steve, like really happy." Monkey's calm, low voice caused two crossed wrinkles on Steve's forehead. He wasn't sure from where came these words and why Gracie came out with them now, at the day when he kissed her father. She didn't know, she couldn't know, but still, she said words, which he needed to hear more, than ever before.
„I-I..." Steve lost ability to talk for a moment. What he should tell her as an answer. That he's in love with her father? That he couldn't imagine his life without him? That Danny was the love of his life? Steve felt like a happiness mixed with a bittersweet pain, when he realized how much his life now depended on people important to them. What if no one would accept them? What if Gracie would be scared of their love and felt disgusted? It's still so fresh, they didn't even have a chance to talk about this what happened that morning but it didn't change the fact that they're in love. Steve didn't even try to let any kind of hesitation or second thought slip into his heart. He's in love. Amen. And now he was sure that Danny felt exactly the same. And even he hesitated, even Steve could sense how he fought with himself, he still made moves, took steps, he also kissed Steve, he said these words about not saying ever a goodbye to each other. And even Steve could feet how after Danny opened his heart, he immediately closed it again, still he proved him, that Steve's love was reciprocal, and that's only matter. Steve McGarrett was in love with his best friend and on a bare thought that Danny shared this feeling with him for real, Steve simple couldn't breathe completely overwhelmed.
Steve was too occupied by thinking about Danny, and too focused on Gracie into his arms to sense, that Kono noticed their presence down the shore, and she's bserving them carefully since some time already. If anyone would ask Kono, how she felt about her boss, she'd say that she didn't have any idea. That'd be her very first thought, like always was when things came to Steve. Now, when she looked at him with Danny's child into his strong arms, she simple felt like that view brought her to her knees. Every time when she had a chance to see Steve with Gracie her heart immediately melted into the biggest puddle cuz of a movement and then squeezed in a pain at the same time. Movement came from the beauty of that view; the pain came from an unrequited love. Because even Kono always had a problem with being honest at that topic, she's in love with her boss. At least she thought so. But she wasn't sure. Maybe it's not the biggest love of her life, maybe it's just a deep crush, but for sure she cared about Steve a lot.
The true was that Kono felt really lost in her feelings about him. She never had a chance to talk about that with anyone. And maybe that's the reason why she never could free herself from those feelings. They're hid deeply inside her heart and stayed with her since months now, even Steve never did anything to push her into that shape. But still no matter what, she simple fell for him, like she'd jump into the ocean straight from the rock, without thinking, just falling down with a hope that arms of the ocean would catch her and deliver into Steve's one. Yes, Kono was a bad ass girl who could take care of herself, and she could show to every single man where their place were. But she's also just a girl, with a big heart on the right place, longing for someone, who would love her the way she's for real. And since anyone right showed up on her way, she pulled all her yearning for a love into Steve. The man who would never be her. And that fact still hurt.
Not once she wanted just take few bottles of the beer, called for a pizza, and simple drove to her cousin, and talked about this, how she felt and asked him about an advice. Chin was not only her cousin, he's also her best friend, and she could talk with him about absolutely everything, all except Steve. Kono wasn't a naive girl; she's maybe young, but for sure not stupid one. She knew that Chin sniffed her affection toward McGarrett but he never said a word about that and Kono never was brave enough to state her affection loud. Besides they both knew that she's a truly private person, when things came to her heart problems. She's in love once, when she's in a high school. But when her career as a surf girl blew up along with her knee, the boy, she still couldn't even call him by his name, just left her. Like a broken toy, not worth for an attention, since she's never the same. Only Chin was by her side back then, Chin with Malia, his girlfriend at that time, and the closest family of Kono – her mother and another cousin, Kamekona. Friends didn't know how to react for her tragedy and how to act cuz of that. Most of them were surfers just like she's, so they chose to step back, instead of came to her and said how sorry they're and then backed on the beach, chasing waves like nothing happened. Kono understood them and never blamed about that, but still, it hurt, even now. She never backed to be a pro in surfing, but she's blessed by a chance to still do this, even if this was only for a pleasure. That miracle meant for her everything. And for that, she thanked God every single day, every single morning before work, when she could jump on her blue bike and with a board hung on it, drove down the shore, to spend another beginning of the day in the way, she loved the most.
Kono's also close with Danny, but since he's best friend of Steve, she couldn't imagine a situation, when she'd drive to his house, or she should say an imitation of the house where he lived for a long time, and she'd be able to talk with him about her feelings toward McGarrett. Now when Danny lived with Steve, it's even not possible at all. Besides maybe she's crazy, maybe she imagined some things but since a couple of months she could sense something in the air. Every time when Steve and Danny was in the nearby of each other, she'd swear the God that some sparkles ran between these two, and someone could say she's insane, but she felt some sexual tension between her boss and her friend. And to be honest? She didn't have any idea how she should feel or how she actually felt about that. For sure she needed something more, some proof that she's not going crazy and it's really going on, and somehow she'd sense, that sooner or later she'd get this. It's just matter of the time.
"God, my life is simple one big fucking mess…" Kono got this thought when again she pondered about her love life. "Only I can fall in love with a man, who would never ever feel the same about me, and more, if I'm right, he's in love with my friend. A man. Jesus Christ." Kono shrugged her shoulders and then just rolled her eyes with a smile. Why? Because no matter how tough and rough her life was, no matter how badly she suffered or what kind of pain fulfilled her heart, she still was an optimistic girl, that kind of person, who always tried to find a bright side of the life, even everything collapsed in front of her eyes. No matter what, she still tried to hold onto something, to move on and live, even if she made this wiping her tears away during the process.
But still she seized the day and fight, like a real fighter. That's also one of the reasons why she fell for Steve. Because they're such alike. He's a brave man, a real soldier, tough and strong one, but still, no matter how strong super SEAL he's, he's also a man with a heart of gold, what he always followed, even in the middle of the battle. And Kono truly respected him for that. For most of the people her boss was some kind of Superman, but for her, the same like for the rest of Five-0 Team, Steve's a human being, from a blood and a bone. An amazing and unique one. Kono sighed and brushed her hair impatiently and then she waved at Steve and Gracie, when they stood up from the sand and walked to her slowly with two big goofy smiles on their faces. "I'd literally pay to know, why they're so happy." Kono got that thought and smiled back at them.
When Gracie ran into Kono's open arms and snuggled to her tight, Steve nodded at his friend with a smile what reached also his hazel-blue eyes, and then he touched briefly her arm, saying "Aloha" and passed two girls by, going into Kawika's direction. Like always when Steve touched her, Kono closed her eyes with a big, girlish smile on her face and sighed. It's stronger than she's. Unfortunately. But thank God Gracie didn't sniff anything. She just freed herself from her auntie's arms and started to jump around her, truly excited about another lesson, which one would watch Steve.
"Kono! Kono! Kono!" Gracie looked more like a yellow basket ball, than a girl.
"Jesus, girlie, my head just started to spin around, thank you very much!" Kono said and burst in laughing.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! But Uncle Steve just told me he'd stay with me today and he would watch me! He would watch me!" Last part Gracie simple hummed. Kono couldn't resist that bunch of love and happiness and she joined Gracie with jumping and at the end when Steve and Kawika looked at them with tilted heads and open mouths, girls just made a high five and joined them with big smiles on their lit up faces.
Beginning of Steve's relationship with Kawika was a really hectic one; Kawika's people were suspects in one of their cases. But with a time they became closer to each other, respect still was a basic of that, what they shared as a buddies, and that's why Steve trusted Kawika with Gracie. Steve knew that he would look after her, taught her everything she needed to know to be a good surfer and he'd never let anything happen to her. Not once Steve sat his firm ass on the sand and watched them carefully over the ocean and he knew, that he's one more time right. Kawika's Surfing School was a really good idea and Steve's happy that he listened to Kawika, when he suggested Steve to bring Gracie over there. Besides Steve felt much better since he knew that in a free time from work, Kono helped Kawika with teaching. It's always a big pleasure for him, to just observe them together, having fun and enjoying this to the fullest. Not once he regretted that he didn't take his board and swimming shorts. When Kono and Gracie jumped and laughed together in front of their faces, Steve and Kawika glanced at each other with smiles and then fixed their gazes on the two of them.
"Sometimes it's really hard to say, who's bigger kid, brah." Kawika said and put hands on hips sighing with a smile.
"Yeah, I can see that." Steve followed his movements and did exactly the same. For a while no one said anything, they just admired the view and their thoughts flew to different directions. Kawika wondered if Kono would helped him for a whole day, and Steve like always dreamt about afternoon with Gracie and Danno, a dinner on the lanai, pizza, beer, orange juice and then watching cartoons on the carpet. Or making a bonfire. It's not matter as long, as he'd spend that time with his Ohana. Then Kawika looked at Steve and something gathered his attention. He rubbed his curly hair and sighed.
"Long night, brah?" He asked and gave McGarrett a wink with a knowing smile.
"Hell! No! Why?!" Steve answered quickly, too quickly, and without even thinking about what he's doing, he touched the bruise on his neck, what left Danny's teeth two hours back.
"Yeah exactly brah, this is what I'm talking about... Some Barry White night maybe?" Kawika coughed knowingly and looked back at Kono. Steve for a moment lost it considering if Kawika could really talk about him and Kono, and when he saw in friend's eyes, that he really meant it, Steve shrugged his shoulders impatiently.
"Hell! No! Are you out of your mind?!" He hissed and looked at Kono as well.
Even on a bare thought about having sex with Kono, Steve blushed and coughed with a wrinkled forehead. It's not like he didn't find her attractive – of course he did. He wasn't blind, he could see how beautiful she's. But not only Kono's physical look was important, first of all she's an amazing and interesting young woman, and a man who would have chance to be with her one day, would be also the most lucky man all over the world. Steve's aware of this and he could only hope that she'd choose a right guy, or he'd have to take care of him, arm to arm with Danny and Chin. They're her brothers, and that meant much for all and each of them. Even Danny and Steve weren't blood related to Kono, they still loved her and treated her as a sister, and Chin truly appreciated that. Steve lost himself into his thinking but still he could notice how Gracie burst in laughing and how she looked at him all the time, checking if Uncle Steve's still there, and watching her. "God, how can I be such a lucky man? What I've done that I deserve on this?" Steve asked silently himself and felt how the love from his heart spread all over his body, when Gracie waved her hand at him. He's in love with that kid, she's also his little girl and an awareness of the fact that Danny knew and accepted that amount of love which he had toward Gracie, simple took Steve's breath away.
Then he fixed his gaze onto Kono and his thinking switched back to her again. But even that, his senses were still on the highest level and focused on Monkey, giving him comfortable feeling that Gracie's safe and sound. Kono brushed her hair and it brought Steve's attention back to her one more time. He simple couldn't focus on her completely cuz his thoughts skipped all the time to Danny or Gracie for that matter. It's stronger than he was. They're his life, and his heart reached for them practically all the time. And if Steve wanted to be honest with himself, he loved how it felt. He finally had a family. And no matter what he's ready to keep it that way. That's the reason why he's a bit scared right now. He knew that everything depended on Gracie, if she'd not accept him as her father's lover, it'd be the end for his and Danny's future together.
She's just a little girl; she had all the rights to do not agree with that situation and the love what they both shared. Steve's aware of that fact and the only thing he could do it's kept on hoping that she'd be by their side. Gracie already could sense how happy they both were since their paths crossed. She felt how much they both meant for each other, she could detect the love in the air, Steve wasn't just sure, if she understood this. And that caused a big question mark into his heart right now. He loved that kid with all his might, the same and at the same time in a different way like he loved Danny, and cuz of that amount of love toward Gracie, he'd step back, if she'd say „no" for his and Danny's relationship. No matter how much Steve loved Danny, no matter that his heart simple ached for a bare thought about losing him now, when he finally got him into his life the way like he dreamt about all this time, during last months. It would not be matter, it could not be. Steve'd step back; he'd sacrifice his feelings toward Danny for Gracie's sake. He hid his love to Danny for such a long time, that it'd not be that hard to pull it back, closed deeply into his heart and acted like nothing ever happened. At least he tried to convince himself that's the true, when he looked at the happy and carefree Gracie with Kono. But if this was the true, why he was so terrified? Steve sighed big and this time he's the one, who brushed hair.
Kono's carefree laugh made that Steve's thinking came back to her for another time during last ten minutes and he was really surprised, that he couldn't for simple few minutes skipped from thinking about Danny and focused on something else. Kono, for that matter. She's not just a sexy girl, she could also take care of herself, she's a real kick ass woman who knew what she wanted and how got it. And to be honest it's one of the reasons why Steve had some kind of weakness for her. He still remembered the day when they met for the first time. It's the same day when he met also Danny. Who knew how his life could look like, if he'd meet her first? Steve never thought about that too much, but sometimes it popped up in his head and left him lost in his thinking for a while. But that's in a past. It didn't happen again for such a long time now, cuz he knew that his heart belonged only to Danny, and there's not exception from that.
For sure Kono had a special place into his heart; at the beginning he even had some kind of light crush about her. "But God, who wouldn't?!" Steve asked himself and rubbed his face impatiently. They both with Danny found themselves amazed by their Five-0 girlie one very drunk night on the lanai of his house. But there's only one "but" back then. Even they both found Kono attractive and admitted that they had some kind of crush on her, Steve still remembered, even in his drunk state, how he shivered when Danny accidentally brushed his hand, grabbing almost empty bottle of the whiskey from the wicker table. If he'd want to be honest here, he'd say that tension and famous "something" was in the air between him and Danny since the very beginning, no matter if they had a crush on Kono for a while, or not.
Kawika still didn't pay much attention about Steve's actions. Steve could sense that his friend was also lost in own thoughts so he looked back at Kono and Gracie and smiled amused. At that moment girls really got crazy and the way how they pulled their hands up to the sky and shook their hips to the music from the open window of the school building, made him laugh. He couldn't help but smirked.
For Steve wasn't matter how he felt about Kono in the past, for now she's just like a younger sister for him, the one about whom he should look after and care about. He never had a chance to make it with his own sister, Mary Ann, since they both were sent away by their father, just after their mother's funeral. Unfortunately they got into two different directions and cuz of that, they lost each other for a really long time. More than a year back Marry Ann showed up on the island, but she didn't manage to come on their father's funeral, they met few weeks after and that meeting changed their lives one more time. Mary almost got killed and an awareness of that fact almost drove Steve crazy. He did everything to save her life, and the only one who kept him sane and didn't let him freak out was Danny. "It's always Danny." Steve sighed and checked screen on his phone. "God, I act like a teen cheerleader waiting for a call from her boy! I just can't stop thinking about him..." Steve got this thought but instead of getting pissed off about that, he just smirked amused feeling like love what fulfilled his heart and lungs pumping happiness through his veins to every inch of his body.
Steve's aware of that how much he lost, how many important moments and events of his sister's life and now as an adult man, he promised himself that he'd always look after her, no matter how far she'd be from Hawaii. And he did this. He's in touch with her, he checked on her time to time, just to be sure she's not involved into something illegal, any kind of troubles, like she used to in the past. Drugs, alcohol, and constant problem with keeping her work place for longer time than just two weeks for example. For now it looked like she finally found her way of life and she's happy. She even called him a day before with a news that she got a new job and when they'd meet, she'd tell him all the important details about that. Steve's proud of Mary Ann that even there's a time when life simple slipped through her fingers, eventually she pulled herself together.
His history with Mary was also a reason, why Kono became such an important part of his life and with a time also part of his Ohana. He simple felt responsible for her, since the day their paths crossed and she became a part of his Five-0 team. He couldn't help this constant worry about her, she's so young, and so fresh, a real Rookie. But even that Steve knew how strong she's, a real fighter with a great right hook. But he couldn't help and care about her, like he'd always want to care about Mary. Besides Kono was only child. She lived only with her mother. Chin, her cousin along with the other one, Kamekona, were these who always cared about her and protected her. But not anymore. Since Kono came to Danny's and Steve's lives, they became responsible for her. Simple as that, without second thought or any kind of a hesitation. With time, along the way how his feelings grew up toward Danny and transformed into the biggest love of his life, at the same time his feelings toward Kono faded away. And now when he looked at her he didn't feel any sexual excitement anymore, there's only the pure love of an older brother, who would do anything for his „little" sister.
When Kono took a responsibility on her own shoulders, after Steve took money from HPD treasury to save Chin's life months back, Steve realized that he's not the only one, who would do everything for another one from the team. Kono without making a big thing about that, just bowed her head and took a hit straight into her heart and proud to save him and the rest of Five-0. Though it wasn't that matter anymore, since they both met in the jail, the moment when Steve got to Halawa being accused of murder of Governor Jameson and Five-0 stopped exist. But she didn't want to save a task force, she wanted to save her family. Steve still remembered how Kono held her head up and fixed her gaze onto his face. She's scared and completely broken, being afraid about her future and his for that matter. But still, she did what she's sure was right and she kept on it. Without stepping back or a regret. Steve promised himself that he'd get out from the jail and he'd make everything to clean his and also Kono's name. But with time he realized that's not that easy, how he assumed it'd be.
When Steve escaped from Halawa after a week, he got a help from whole suspended Five-0 team, but also from Joe, the man, who's always more like a father for him, than just a friend of the family. Kono was also one of them, one of saviors, and it didn't help Steve to deal with her situation. She made everything to help him, and he couldn't give this back. He felt helpless. New Governor didn't even want to hear about bringing Kono back to the team. But Steve didn't give up, he tried on and on, till he realized that during his fight for getting her back, he missed the moment when she got into real troubles. When Steve realized that Kono worked with an ex-cop Frank Delano, and that it looked like she went really astray, he immediately got pissed. Not at her, at himself. It looked like one more time he failed, and another „sister" got into troubles cuz of that, and cuz of him. He still remembered the moment, when they had to arrest Kono. Steve felt like a last bastard, he couldn't even look straight into Kono's eyes. It's enough that he looked at Danny and he saw how broken and simple shattered he's. Steve didn't know who he supposed to hold tight there, Kono or Danny. He just wanted to scream and hit something, but still, he had to pull himself together and went through an interrogation.
Seeing Kono on the chair, in the middle of an interrogation room, with hands pulled along her sides, with bowed head and eyes full of pain and guilt, it's simple too much for Steve. She looked more like a little girl, lost and broken, than an adult woman. "It's your fault! It's your fault!" These thought simple stuck to Steve's mind and made that he simple lost it. He yelled at Kono what the hell was she thinking, what the hell happened with her. As much he screamed at her, as much she bowed her head and crouched down. And it made that Steve felt even worse, especially that she didn't want to talk, kept saying that she couldn't. For their both sakes, Chin came across and took his turn with Kono. He talked to her with a calm voice, he assured her how much he loved her and how much she meant for him, but he also didn't get this, what they needed. An answer. Eventually it's all about the undercover job which Kono did for IA and captain Fryer. Steve and Chin were mad for different reasons. Chin yelled at Kono that she took a risk and she could die, and even she said, that she did this to protect them, he's not convinced. He's simple mad that she took a decision like that and didn't come to him for an advice. Steve for that matter was pissed cuz Fryer messed with his team, he risked Kono's life for his own business and that simple boiled Steve's blood. When an investigation in which one Kono's involved was closed, Steve punched Fryer's face, and warned him, that nobody should ever mess with his team again. Since then, Kono came back to Five-0, and they all could finally breathe with a relief.
But one thing bugged Steve and didn't leave him alone. He sensed that Kono did, what she did, cuz she loved him, more like a woman, than a sister. And it made him sad, guilty and awful about himself. Steve never made anything what could raise Kono's feelings toward him, he never gave her a hope, and he never showed her any kind of an affection, even in a time when he had that light crush about her. He hid that affection away from her and anyone besides. Steve's almost sure he never sent her any mixed sign. But still he could sense that she had some deeper feelings about him and that made him upset cuz Steve knew that he'd never be able to give her the same amount of love back. For sure not on that lovers level like she maybe wished for. Sometimes Steve felt like a bastard, cuz he never was brave enough to ask her about a talk and made this situation clear between the two of them. He could only hope that Kono knew that there's nothing between the two of them from his side and never could be. His heart beat for Danny, and only for him. Even neither of them was able to understand this and deal with this back then. It took a time for Steve to admit that he's in love with his best friend. It hit him bad on a day when he found himself behind the bars of Halawa. Steve realized that Danny stayed on the island only for him, to help him, to save him. He could start his life all over again with his ex-wife, he could back to New Jersey, but he didn't. Steve always wanted to ask him why he did this, why he stayed, what made him do this but he never was able to. He's so terrified that Danny would come with different reason, some kind of lame excuse and even Steve'd know that's not the true, it'd hurt him and left him speechless cuz of amount of the pain. That's why he never asked.
But fact was that Danny didn't leave O`ahu, he even checked Steve's files, found contact to Joe , and asked Joe for a help to get him out of the jail. Steve really missed Danny and he's longing for him all the time in the cell. He couldn't focus on this why he got in, and how he could get out. His thoughts came back to Danny like waves, on and on, kept crashing on the edge of his sanity. The moment when Danny came with visit for the first time to the Halawa, caused that Steve almost got crazy, he wanted so much just touch Danny, smell his unique scent, feel the heat of his body next to his own. But the only thing he got was Danny's voice and these two beautiful like ocean eyes, which simple screamed the same what probably his own did by then. It's not a first time when they stated their love only by their looks, but sometimes these looks told much more, than they would be able to say with words.
But that's the past and now Steve almost got crazy but cuz of completely different reason. He still couldn't believe that they really kissed. Not once even. He still could feel how Danny tensed when he pressed him with his loins to the sink. How Danny trembled when he kissed him, how he moaned when he licked his neck. Only on a bare thought about Danny into his arms, Steve felt like his dick hardened and that bittersweet pain into his loins simple dizzied him. He wanted him so badly at that moment, that he simple couldn't breathe properly, suffocating by the love and a desire.
"Ok man, not my business, right?" Kawika asked and touched Steve's arm. It caused that Steve almost jumped out of his feet. He's so deeply lost into his thoughts about Danny, that he zoned out for a moment and didn't realize where he was and with him. But still, he could hear Gracie's voice and he checked on her all the time, even subconsciously. Steve looked at his friend with dreamy eyes and it made that Kawika simple burst in laughing.
"God, seriously, you're so busted braddah." He said and nodded at Kono who just joined them with Gracie.
"Back off, man." Steve said and hit his arm playfully. They both exchanged amused looks; even the reason for happiness was completely different for each of them.
"Uncle Steve!" Gracie shouted and grabbed his hand, jumping in one place like a sunny ball.
"Yes, Kiddo?" Steve asked and kneeled in front of her, causing himself almost a headache cuz of jumping Gracie and faint cuz of his erection. It's not a best idea ever to take a position like that, when his hard rock cock almost tore his boxers along with cargo pants. Steve sighed and that sound made that Kono sent him a curious glare. "Oh God, please, no." Steve got this thought and moved his body the way, that Gracie's surf board covered his embarrassing secret.
"You will stay with me today, right? Am I right, or am I not? Uncle Steve?" Gracie shouted her questions one by one and by the tone of her voice, he felt that it's more like a statement than a real ask and his heart melted into the biggest puddle ever.
"I'm not going to go anywhere without you, Kiddo. I'm going to stay here and watch you, being proud like always." Steve didn't even end his sentence, when Gracie jumped into his arms and kissed him loudly into the right cheek.
"I love you! Love you! Love you! You're really the coolest ever!" Gracie smirked and before Steve could even react, she took her board, pulling it on the sand behind her back. With a help of amused Kono, she followed Kawika down the shore.
"I love you too, Princess!" Steve finally got himself together and yelled after them, making sure that Gracie heard him. She smiled and a happiness fulfilled her voice when she screamed back.
"But be careful, Uncle Steve! I don't want you to get another bite from a Vampire!" Steve clapped the side of his neck with a bruise and burst in laughing. He walked down a bit, his hard rock cock drove him crazy and caused that he wanted just to call Danny and hear his voice like right now, but he wasn't sure if this was really best idea ever, judging from the state in which one he's already. Steve sighed big and took of his shirt, like always enjoying the sun over him. He didn't even notice like almost every woman and even some men on the beach simple stopped and stared for a moment, when he laid on his side and leant oh his right lower arm, watching how Gracie joined the rest of kids from the class, including Dylan.
