A/N: You guys are amazing with the reviews. Someone asked me for more Danny/Steve bugging and I promise you will get it soon. I am very flattered by many reviews I get and I just want to tell you I really appreciate them! Once again, I do not own Five-O or it's scenes. ;) So enjoy and review. (In case no one has noticed, the small quotes I put on each chapter are all part of a song called "Keep Believing" by Kaci Brown, whom unfortunately got dropped from her record label. I love the song and it has a very deep meaning for me, but the reason I decided to use it for this story was completely different.)

Chapter 3

"Just keep believing, oh, oh, oh, keep believing…" –Kaci Brown

Around six that afternoon, Jade woke up after a thirty minute nap she'd taken right after arriving from the beach. She'd thought her daughter was sleeping too but her bouncing on the bed was what had woken her up. Apparently someone was really excited over their dinner plans.

"Mommy, mommy wake up. Daddy will be here soon," her over excited five year old daughter said as she continued her jumping on the bed.

"All right Rosie, settle down. I'm awake," Jade said as she sat up on the bed. "Come on let's get you ready."

Jade went about getting Rosie ready in a pale pink sundress and strapped sandals and leaving her short wavy brown hair down with just a simple pink hair clip on each side of her head. Then Jade went and dressed in a blue knee-length sundress and white wedges to match her dress. She decided to do her hair in a sideways braid and just when she was finishing there was a knock on the door.

"Is that daddy?" Rosie asked anxiously.

"We'll see Rosie. Are you ready?" Jade asked her daughter as she went to check who was at the door.

"Yes mommy. You look really pretty," Rosie said.

"Thank you Rosie. You look just like a princess sweetheart," Jade said smiling at her daughter. Then she checked through the peek hole and saw that it was in fact Steve on the other side. "Hi Steve."

"Hey," he said smiling as he came into the room. "Are you girls ready?"

"Daddy!" Rosie exclaimed as she came running into Steve's arms. "Doesn't mommy look really pretty?"

Jade blushed. "Rosie," she gently admonished.

Steve took in Jade and had to agree with his daughter but he was sure his thoughts weren't as pure and innocent as those of his daughter. "She's right. You look great Jade," he told her.

"Thank you," she said avoiding his piercing gaze.

"Are you girls ready?" Steve asked.

Rosie nodded and then Jade led the way out of the hotel room.

The ride to the restaurant was awkward. Neither knew what to talk about since all they ever talked about was Rosie and that was through the phone or e-mails. They hadn't really seen each other face to face in a while.

Once they arrived, they were quickly led to a booth and Rosie immediately went to sit next to her father which didn't surprise Jade at all. The girl had terribly missed her father and didn't want to waste a single minute when she was with him causing a pang in Jade because she felt like she was the only one to blame for the situation Rosie was in.

"Penny for your thoughts," Steve said interrupting her thoughts as he looked at her from across the table.

"I'm sorry, I was just distracted thinking about how Rosie is really happy to be here," Jade said as she looked at her daughter as Rosie was looking at the menu.

"I'm really happy about that too," Steve said. "I can't thank you enough."

"You don't have to thank me Steve," Jade said with a small smile as she turned her gaze down onto her menu.

The waitress came and took their orders and removed the menu from the table after placing their drinks on the table.

"How long are you staying for?" Steve asked hoping they would stay for longer than just a few days or a week.

"The plan was two weeks but I guess that depends on how busy you are," Jade said looking into Steve's eyes.

"My job is very unpredictable Jade. I could get called at any time but I'll try to spend any free time I have with Rosie and see if maybe I can get a few days off," Steve said.

"I don't want you to change your routine Steve. I understand how busy you are," Jade said.

"I haven't seen Rosie in over a year Jade. My daughter deserves more than just a few days off and I will try to make it up to her," Steve insisted.

"Look Steve you don't owe me any explanations. All I want is for Rosie to spend time with her father," Jade said.

Rosie looked up from the paper she was coloring that the waitress had given to her and turned to her father. "Daddy, why do you have to live so far away?" Rosie innocently asked.

Steve looked into Jade's eyes but Jade turned her gaze away from him looking anywhere but at him. Then he looked down at his daughter and smiled. "I have a special mission here sweetheart. I have a job in which I had to make sure I keep the bad people away and not let them hurt the good ones," Steve tried as best as he could to explain to his daughter.

"Why can't mommy and me live with you?" she asked.

"Rosie, I already explained this to you," Jade said firmly looking at her daughter.

"But mommy, I want to live with daddy too," Rosie said in a pleading whisper.

"Look Rosie, your mommy has her job in California and you have your home and your friends and your school there too. Your grandparents are there too, wouldn't you miss them?" Steve said trying to help Jade out.

"But I miss you more. I can go to school here too," she said looking into her father's eyes with tears threatening to fall reminding Steve so much of Jade.

Steve sighed. "Look, your mommy and I will talk about this and then we'll see what we can come up with okay? For now I want you to eat all your food once it gets here," Steve gentle told her and suddenly the food arrived.

It broke Jade's heart seeing her daughter hurting but there was no way they could move to Hawaii or let Rosie move in with Steve. Jade felt like it wasn't safe, his father's murder being a perfect reason why.

"So how is Rosie doing in school?" Steve asked as they ate interrupting the silence that had fallen in between.

"She's doing great. Her teacher was really happy and proud with how smart she is and how easily she grasps the new things they learned," Jade said beaming with pride for her daughter.

"That's great. I mean she does have you as an example and having a mother that is a teacher is a big plus," Steve said.

"I think she has her intelligence in her genes. Her father did excel in academics," Jade said forgetting for a moment everything that had happened between them and gave Steve a genuine dimpled smile.

They continued eating, Rosie and Steve talking trying to catch up after a long time of not seeing each other. Jade loved seeing Steve and Rosie interacting, they were so much alike sometimes Jade could swear she had a mini-Steve running around her house. Jade studied Steve for a minute taking him in and noticing the subtle changes in him.

Steve felt Jade's gaze on him and turned to look at her giving her a curious look. "Are you alright?"

Jade blushed after being caught staring at Steve. She really needed to learn to be more subtle. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," she said avoiding his gaze and turning her attention to Rosie instead. "Rosie, are you all done with that?" Jade motioned with her head to Rosie's plate.

"Yes mommy, can we get ice cream now?" Rosie asked looking from Jade to Steve.

"It's already late for ice cream Rosie, you know that," Jade reminded Rosie.

"Maybe we can make an exception tonight? You know as a celebration that you two are here," Steve suggested but immediately regretted it when he saw Jades eyes turn to stone.

"Rosie knows the rules Steve, no ice cream before bedtime. If we start bending them now she will want to do the same thing with everything else and before you know it we'll have an insubordinate child," Jade responded in a frosty tone.

Steve balled his fist on top of the table and turned away for a second to control his temper and then returned his gaze to Jade. He looked her square in the eye and said, "I haven't seen my daughter in over a year, Jade. The least you could do is be a bit flexible."

Jade straightened up in her seat. "Flexible? You want to talk about being flexible? If you haven't seen your daughter in over a year that is your own fault but I am not going to get into this with you in front of my daughter," she said in a cool tone.

"Our daughter but you're right, not in front of Rosie," Steve conceded. Turning to Rosie he said, "I'm sorry honey but your mommy is right. Ice cream before bedtime is a bad idea. I'll make you a deal though."

Rosie looked intently at her father waiting for whatever he was going to offer.

"How about I pick you up tomorrow for lunch and then after we can go get some ice cream. That way we'll give your mommy some alone time so she can relax," Steve said.

Rosie loved the idea of spending some alone time with her daddy so she immediately nodded agreeing to her father's idea. She loved her mommy but she had really missed her daddy and thought it was okay to finally go out with him like other girls did with their daddies.

"Alright then," he said turning to Jade, giving her a questioning look. "Will that be a problem?"

"Absolutely not, you two deserve some quality time together but right now it is getting late and Rosie needs to get some sleep," Jade said grabbing her purse and getting ready to stand up.

Steve paid the bill and drove Jade and Rosie back to the hotel. Rosie fell asleep on their way back to the hotel so Steve parked his truck and carried her in his arms. Walking into their room, Jade helped Steve settle Rosie in her bed and then they both walked out back to the small living room.

She turned around and found Steve leaning against the island in the small kitchenette. "Thank you for dinner Steve," she managed to say finding it a bit awkward once they were alone.

Steve nodded in acknowledgement. "We need to talk Jade. I think there's a lot I need to know regarding our daughter. I apologize for the way I tried to revoke authority when I suggested the ice cream but you have to understand where I'm coming from. I haven't seen my daughter in a long time so I don't know what rules you have imposed on her and I think that is something we need to work on together."

"Look Steve, I don't mind you spending time with your daughter. I would never take that away from you but if you really want to be a part in how she is raised then you have to try harder to be there," Jade said.

"Try harder? Dammit Jade, you know how demanding my job was when I was in the Navy. You think I don't regret all the birthdays and special moments I have missed out on in Rosie's life? I love Rosie. She means everything to me," Steve said furious for how unreasonable Jade was being.

"But your job means more. I get it Steve but there's only one thing I am going to have to ask of you," Jade said meeting Steve's burning gaze. "I don't want Rosie anywhere near Catherine."

"Excuse me?" asked an incredulous Steve.

"I know you've been seeing Catherine for a while now but Rosie doesn't and I want it to stay that way. At least for now until we can both sit down together with her and explain to her that the three of us will never form a family together. I'm well aware that Rosie might be getting these ideas of how now that we're all in Hawaii we can form this happy family but you and I know that will never happen and she has to know it too."

Steve chuckled at the incredulity of the whole situation. He paced the small space in between the kitchenette and living room. "Just to be clear on something, Catherine and I don't live together so having Rosie over will not be a problem. She isn't even currently on the island so you can relax on the possibility of running into her."

"So you're not denying that you two are together," Jade stated as she watched Steve pace.

Steve stopped and turned to look at Jade. "Catherine and I, it's complicated Jade," Steve said trying to explain his relationship with Catherine.

Jade raised her hands to stop Steve. "Hey, I'm not asking for any explanations on the complications or not of your relationship. Just tell me something Steve," she said walking closer to where Steve was standing. "How long had you and Catherine been laughing behind my back?"

"Jade, there was never anything between me and Cat when we were together and deep down somewhere you know I'm telling you the truth. There was always one woman for me and that was you. I loved you and I -"

"It didn't take you long to run straight into her arms did it? I mean if you really loved me you wouldn't have done just that but you did so tell me Steve, how am I supposed to believe you when everything, all your actions, just prove what I always thought," Jade said.

"Maybe going to Catherine was a bad idea and I know I probably hurt you," he said.

"You have no idea," she said in a soft tone turning her head away from him.

Steve turned Jade to look at him and held her head in his hands to keep her from turning away. "I am sorry Jade, I am so sorry for all the pain I caused you. If I could go back and do something differently I would in a heartbeat because you were everything to me. The day I lost you I felt like I had lost something in me and it hurt so much to think that I would not be able to wake up with you right next to me or with Rosie sleeping in the room down the hall. I loved you so much sometimes I think I still," he whispered leaning in closer to Jade feeling her breath graze his lips. "Sometimes I think I still -"

"I think you should go," Jade said clearing her throat. Jade pushed herself away from Steve's hold and turned to get as much space between them as possible. She knew Steve was going to kiss her if she had let him finish what he was about to say and he couldn't let him do that to her, not again.

"Jade," Steve began trying to get her to look at him.

"Rosie will be ready by noon," Jade said going to stand by the windows.

"Jade, come on, talk to me," Steve said walking towards Jade.

Jade turned to look at Steve. "There's nothing left to talk about. I'm sorry for even bringing it up. What happened is in the past and you're free to be with whomever you like now I want you to go, please," Jade said managing to hide her true feelings.

Steve wasn't fooled by the tough exterior Jade was trying to put. He knew her better than she thought and he knew she still felt something for him. Unfortunately their problem boiled down to the same thing, Catherine. Steve resigned himself for now but sooner or later Jade and he would have to talk about them. "Alright," he finally said. "I'll pick her up around noon."

Jade nodded and watched as Steve walked out of her hotel room.

The next day Steve picked up Rosie as planned and took her to lunch while Jade used that time to do some of her own sightseeing. He took Rosie to Kamakona's shrimp and shaved ice truck and just enjoyed spending some quality time with his five-year old.

"Daddy, can we get in the water?" Rosie asked looking towards the water from where they were sitting on the bench.

Steve turned to look in the direction his daughter was looking and saw how crowded the beach was at the moment. "You know, I have my own beach right on the backyard of my home," he said turning to his daughter and smiling at her.

"Really?" she asked her eyes shining with excitement. "Can we go, can we, please?"

"I've got a plan. A few friends of mine are dying to meet you and we decided to meet up at a football game in the high school I went to. Why don't we go watch the game and then we can go back to my house and get in the water. We'll even call your mom and ask her if she wants to join us," Steve proposed.

Rosie thought about it and she was a bit uncomfortable with the idea of being surrounded with people she didn't know even if her daddy was going to be right next to her. "Can mommy come to the game with us too?" she asked.

"Sure, I don't see why not. Let me give her a call," Steve said taking out his phone.

Steve called Jade and invited her to the game, to which she agreed. She said she would join them as soon as she was out of the spa and would probably be a few minutes late. Steve ended the call and shared with Rosie the news. This seemed to put Rosie at ease and soon they were both on their way to the football game.

Steve and Rosie arrived about ten minutes before the game started and noticed Chin and Kono were already there except Danny. "Hey guys, I'd like you to meet Rosie. Rosie this Kono and that's Uncle Chin," Steve said.

"Hey sweetie, you're a very beautiful young gal," Kono said playfully twirling a one of Rosie's pigtails.

"Thank you, you're very pretty too," Rosie said smiling at Kono.

"Aww thank you," Kono said back.

"Where's Danny," Steve asked. "I thought he was bringing Grace."

"Yeah, he called me five minutes ago said he was on his way," Chin said right before the game started and then everyone turned their attention towards the field.

Steve watched Kono get into the game and was surprised at how much she really got into it. He turned to Chin and said, "I'm glad she's on our team."

"No brah, she's just getting warmed up," Chin said never turning his attention from the field.

"Sorry we're late," they heard Danny said as he walked towards the team on the bleachers.

Steve smiled seeing Danny arrive with Grace. "Hey Gracie, I'm Steve. It's great to finally meet you. Your daddy talks about you all the time."

Grace turned to look up at Steve and gave him a big smile. "He talks a lot about you too," she said causing the rest to laugh.

Steve laughed at that comment. "Really?"

Danny smiling at the team says, "We, uh, we commiserate, it's a father daughter thing."

"Hi I'm Kono," Kono said as a form of introduction.

"And I'm Uncle Chin," Chin said continuing with the introductions.

"Are you a football player?" Grace asked Chin.

"I used to be. I used to play quarterback for that red team," Chin replied pointing towards the red football team out on the field.

"He's a legend too," Steve said. Then he leaned closer to Gracie and whispered loud enough for everyone to hear, "Until I came along and shattered all his records. BY the way, this is my daughter Rosie. Rosie this is Danny's daughter, Grace."

"Hello," Rosie said shyly holding onto her father's arm.

"Hi Rosie," Grace said waving at Rosie and giving her a friendly smile so the young girl wouldn't be shy or afraid.

"That's a really pretty tennis outfit," Kono said pointing to Grace's outfit.

Danny looked at the team waving his hands around. "Yeah I had to pick her up at a country club," he said and then used his hands to cover Grace's ears to prevent her from hearing what he was about to say next. "Step-Stan thinks that she should start taking tennis lessons."

"What's wrong with tennis, Danny?" Steve asked not seeing the problem.

"I'll tell you what's wrong with tennis. It can be played on a table, which makes it an activity not a sport. You throw the ball. I catch the ball. That is a sport. It's my duty as a father to teach my daughter the difference," Danny explained. He then turned to look at Steve and said, "Maybe you'll learn something."

"Dad I can still hear you," Grace said looking at her dad.

"Well you're not supposed to be listening to me, you're supposed to be paying attention to the game because it's football, it's a sport," Danny said uncovering Grace's ears.

"Danno, I'm hungry," Grace said after a moment of silence.

Danny turned to look at Grace with raised eyebrows. "How can you be hungry when we ate an hour ago?" he asked her.

"We didn't eat nachos an hour ago," she replied smiling.

"What was I thinking about, of course we didn't nachos. Come on let's go," he said standing up and taking Grace's hand. He turned to Rosie and asked her, "You want to come to Rosie?"

Rosie had taken an instant liking to Danny. She thought he was very funny and his daughter seemed very nice. Rosie turned to look at her Daddy and asked, "Can I go daddy?"

"Of course you can go," Steve said helping her stand up. "Bring me nachos."

Danny walked towards the food vendors with one girl on each side of him. "We got hot dogs, popcorn. They don't have this stuff at country clubs do they?" he asked looking down at Grace.

"Well they have hot dogs but not on a stick," she said.

"My mommy always buys me hot dogs on a stick when we go to the movies," Rosie said to Grace.

While Grace and Rosie talked about hot dogs Danny spotted two suspicious men walk towards the football field and then he noticed the guns on their belts. He immediately knew these men were not here to enjoy the football game and they meant trouble. He turned to the girls and said, "Come here."

Danny leads both girls to a lady that's coming out of restroom with her daughter. "Excuse me, I'm a police officer," he says to the lady showing her his badge. "I need you to do me a favor. This is my daughter Grace and my partner's daughter Rosie. I want you to take them and your daughter back into the restroom and wait until I get back, okay?"

The lady concerned about not knowing what's going on but deciding to trust the fact that Danny is a cop says, "Okay."

Danny turns to Gracie, "Monkey, listen to me, I need you to go with this nice lady, she's going to watch you for a little bit okay? Rosie and you will be just fine."

Grace looked at Danny afraid of going with a strange lady. "Daddy…"

"Hey, I'm just going to go make sure there are no bad guys, that's all," he says. When he sees Grace nod he says, "Alright, I'll be right back. Help this nice lady keep an eye on Rosie."

Danny walked away once he saw them go into the restroom and turned to walk back towards the field calling Steve in the process.

Steve's phone started ringing and when he checked the caller ID he noticed it was Danny calling him. "Where are my nachos?" he asked.

"Hey I'm right in front of you, I got two guys headed to the field, strapped, I think something's about to go down," Danny said in a rushed voice not taking his eyes off the suspects.

Steve stands up to look and when he spots Danny he turns to Chin and Kono. "We've got trouble. Kono call HPD for back up," he orders as all three move at once towards the field.

Right when Steve is close behind Danny, Danny sees one of the suspects take out gun and shouts, "Gun! Gun!"

"Put it down! Put it down!" Steve yells to the suspects as all hell breaks lose and shots are being fired.

Steve orders Chin to get the man in the black shirt that is running away.

Steve approaches one of the men with his gun pointing at him. "Hands behind your back, right now!" he orders him. He turns to Danny and says, "I've got him. Go, go, go get Grace and Rosie."

Danny runs to look for Grace and Rosie. "Grace! Rosie!" he yells into the restroom but receives no response causing him to panic. Danny runs back outside and continues yelling for Gracie and Rosie.

"Daddy! Daddy!" he hears Grace shout and spots her a few second later as she, along with Rosie, come running towards him. Danny hugs Grace and Rosie feeling very relieved that nothing happened to either one of them. "Come here baby. Are you okay?" He looks at both girls and lets out a breath full of relief when they nod at him even though Rosie has tears in her eyes. Danny instantly tries to soothe her. "Hey sweetie, everything is okay, alright? No more bad guys."

Rosie nodded but she still wanted her daddy and Danny understood as he led them towards a safer are where there was cops.

Back in the crime scene, Kono lifts the cover on one of the dead victims and tells an HPD to ask around and see if someone recognized him since there was no ID on him. She spots Steve on the other side and calls him. "Hey boss, over here," she said loud enough for Steve to hear her. When Steve is standing right next to her, she shows him the body of the shooter. "This is one of the shooters. Recognize the art?"

Steve studies the tattoos on the man's arm and immediately recognizes them. "That's a fourteen-k tattoo, this guy's a triad."

Kono nods and points to the other dead body. "The other guy is Samoan. These guys are from two different gangs."

Steve looks at the other dead guy.

"So what are we looking at here, a gang war?" she asks him.

"The Triads and Samoans have coexisted on this island for as long as I can remember. They never brought their wars into the public, especially in front of their families," Steve explained not understanding why they would do so now.

Jade arrived about twenty minutes late to a scene of pure chaos. Instead of staying back she walked looking around towards the mass of people that were running in her direction wondering what was going. Then she spotted the cops everywhere directing people out of the field. Jade didn't waste any time panicking and her first thought was her daughter, Rosie. She pushed through the multitude of people towards the field and that's when she saw Steve and people injured. Jade checked the area surrounding Steve and then the bleachers looking for her daughter. That's when she began to panic. There was no sign of Rosie anywhere.

"Steve!" she yelled to get his attention as she rushed to where he was talking to Kono.

At the sound of someone calling his name, Steve turned around and found Jade running towards him. His heart immediately dropped at the sight of her completely forgetting she was supposed to join them. "Jade, listen, I can explain," he began but was interrupted by Jade.

"Rosie, where's Rosie!" she demanded as she clutched his arms. "Where's Rosie!"

"Rosie's fine. She's with Danny's daughter. An officer is keeping an eye on them while we clear the area," Steve explained in an attempt to calm Jade.

"Thank God, what happened?" she asked looking around and seeing the dead bodies covered.

Before Steve could begin to explain the situation, Danny's loud voice arguing with someone on the phone interrupted them.

"That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life, violence follows me! I mean how do you even come up with something like that? No what happened here has nothing to do with my job. It's just the opposite okay. She is safe because I am a cop. You know what I can't even do this right now," he argued into the phone.

Steve and Kono exchanged a look while they heard Danny argue with whom appeared to be his ex-wife on the phone. Jade watched along with Kono and Steve the whole situation until Danny hung up and approached them.

"I can't wait to meet your ex," Steve stated dryly. "If you want, Jade can take Gracie home, of course, if you don't mind Jade." He looked at Jade hoping she would agree.

Jade was a bit surprised by this request but she quickly nodded. "Umm, sure, I don't mind. The only problem is I came in a cab. So if you don't mind me taking her in a cab I don't see the problem."

"You can take my truck," Steve said handing Jade his keys. "I'll catch a ride with Danny."

"That would be great. Maybe Rachel will lay off my back a little if she sees Grace arrive with your girlfriend," a preoccupied Danny said.

"Ex," Steve and Jade said at the same time causing a minute of awkward silence.

"Right, sorry about that," Danny said distractedly. Pointing in the direction of the officer keeping an eye on the girls, he said, "I'm going to talk to Grace and explain the situation."

"Alright, I guess I'll see you later," Jade said starting to walk right behind Danny.

"Jade, hold up," he said walking after her and placing a hand on her arm to stop her. "Listen I'm sorry about this whole mess. I promise I'll explain everything as soon as I'm done here."

"I'm just glad Rosie is fine, Steve," Jade said. "I'm seriously starting to reconsider this whole trip. I'm beginning to think it was a very bad idea."

"Jade come one, this wasn't my fault," Steve said.

"Maybe not but I've been thinking all afternoon on something very important. As long as there is someone trying to hurt everyone in your family I think it would be best if you stayed away from Rosie," Jade said in a serious tone looking deeply into Steve's eyes. "I don't want anything to happen to my daughter because of something I am not even aware of."

"Jade, that's not fair. What happened today had nothing to do with my parent's murders. You can't keep me from seeing my daughter," Steve said becoming angry with Jade.

"Goodbye Steve," Jade said and turned to walk away from Steve.

Steve debated going after Jade but he knew he was needed at the moment and he hated the spot Jade was putting him in. He balled his fists in frustration at the whole situation with Jade. Steve was about to catch up to Jade but he was stopped by an officer calling for him. His conversation with Jade would have to wait for now but he hoped it wouldn't be too late when the case was solved.

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