A/N: I know this is a short chapter BUT I already have the next chapter done and will post it later. This is a look into Steve's thoughts about everything that's happen and I have to say that Steve can be really hard to write! lol

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends. Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been. Then you come crashing in like the realest things. Trying my best to understand what your love can bring.

-John Mayer, Half of My Heart

Steve takes Danny to the airport and it's the most awkward moment they've ever had. Which Steve thinks can't be possible considering their first meeting consisted of a standoff in his garage but even pointing pistols at each other felt more comfortable than standing outside of the security checkpoint not knowing how to properly say goodbye to each other.

They could kiss (because lord knows it wouldn't be the first time) but that feels like a gesture reserved for couples further along in their relationships than them. The two men could hug but there's something about it that just doesn't seem right either. Unsure of any other move to make, Steve simply holds out a hand to his partner which Danny takes. Steve holds his hand firmly for a minute before giving it a squeeze.

"Call me when you get there?"

He meant for it to sound more like an order than a request but Steve is incapable of demanding anything from Danny right now. Whatever the detective wants to give him, the SEAL will take without question or complaint. Danny nods and then looks towards the gates.

"I better get going." He informs and it's Steve turn to nod. Danny can see the hesitation in his partner's eyes to let him go and he wants to reassure him that it'll be fine-that they'll be fine-but he is uncharacteristically lost for words. So he squeezes Steve's hand again before letting go.

Steve stays and watches until he can no longer see Danny's blonde head anymore before he turns to leave the airport. Danny told him that he could use the Camaro while he was gone (under threat that if he totaled it he was buying Danny a new one) and there's a certain kind of trust that goes along with the action that Steve isn't sure he's earned yet. It's that and the feeling like Danny is giving away prized possessions because he's not coming back that makes Steve take the car back to his house and pick up his truck.

Of course Steve knows that Danny is coming back to Hawaii. Grace is here and wherever she goes so does Danny. But there's a feeling that Danny isn't coming back to him that leaves the SEAL feeling restless and unnerved. It's these feelings that have Steve reviewing the last six months with Danny in detail to make sure that he didn't miss a sign. And the one thing that Steve keeps coming back to is the beginning.

Danny never had a choice. Steve had barreled his way onto Danny's case, took it over and never once asked the haole detective whether or not he wanted to be his partner. It was just an automatic assumption that Danny would take the job-and he had-but it wasn't like Steve had given him a whole lot of say in the matter.

Sure Danny could have told Steve to go screw himself and gone back to HPD and onto another case but it would have been a kind of career suicide for him. Danny had enough problems as it was being a mainlander in the department, so to have to go back to the bull pen where everybody would have known he had gotten pushed around by the Governor's pet? Danny never would have heard the end of it.

It was the same with Steve going and changing everything about their relationship. He never asked if Danny was ready to take this next step. Steve had just assumed like always. Unlike his partner who was all about using his words, Steve was a tactile kind of person. Words didn't hold much meaning to him. Not like actions did. Actions didn't get lost in translation and were fairly permanent. So when Danny had come to him, Steve didn't have comforting phrases or soothing promises to offer his partner. All he had was his touch. And stupid Steve had never once stop to think that maybe that wasn't what Danny really needed.

And now there was no going back for either of them.

A feeling of uncertainty settles in and for the first time since he met Danny, Steve begins to wonder if he's done the right thing.