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PART IV

Danny and Chin arrived at the beach within minutes and ran down to the sand where they saw Kono, knees to chest, hunched over. They fell to their knees beside her.

"Kono?"

"Just help me up," Kono whispered, swiping away the tears. With each man on either side of her, they pulled her from the sand. Danny grabbed her things and they led her to his car, which still sat running, flashing blue lights from the grill. Both doors hung wide open.

"You're just asking for a joy rider, Brah," Kono groaned as they helped her to the car.

"Are you kidding? Everyone on the island knows this car. Only an idiot would try to steal it."

Chin crawled in the backseat, leaving the passenger seat for Kono. Danny slammed the door shut, running around to the driver's side. "Danny, get my hospital bag. It's in my car." She tossed him the keys and took a deep breath.

Once the bag was retrieved and Danny was buckled in, he raced off toward the hospital "Should I be recording this?"

"I think Steve will be okay with missing this portion of the labor," Kono breathed. "Just concentrate on getting us there in one piece, Brah." She felt Chin place a hand on her shoulder and she reached up grasping his hand and squeezed as another contraction hit.

"Easy, Cuz," Chin told her quietly. "Breathe. That's it. Nice and easy."

It was a blur the moment they arrived at Hawaii Medical Center. Kono was taken by wheel chair with Chin by her side leaving Danny to park the car and grab the bags before joining them on the labor and delivery floor. When he got there, Chin was waiting outside a door.

"They are getting her undressed, hooked up to the monitors and checking, "Chin explained seeing Danny's confused expression. "They'll let us back in, in a minute."

Danny nodded and placed the bags on the floor before kneeling down and digging through one of the bags finding the video recorder. He turned it on, seeing the full battery and brand new CD already in place. Kono was on top of everything.

"Gentlemen," the both looked up to see a nurse coming from Kono's room. "You can come in now."

They walked into the room and Danny was hit with the memories of long ago being in a room not unlike this one, waiting for the birth of his Grace. It was hard to believe that that was twelve years ago.

Kono lay in the bed, in a hospital gown. Somewhere along the way, she had pulled her hair up into a ponytail. There was an IV coming from her forearm and a pulse ox in her pointer finger. A blood pressure cuff was wrapped around her upper arm. On one side of the bed sat a warming table where the baby was going to be placed after birth and on the other side, held the IV drip and other monitors. A nurse was working quietly at a computer next to the monitors. On the opposing wall, there was a television and a bathroom.

"How are you feeling?" Chin took Kono's hand.

"Sad. One of the happiest days of my life and I'm feeling sad because Steve's not here." She felt Chin squeeze her hand, reassuringly. "If it didn't hurt so much, I'd cross my legs and wait."

"I wouldn't advise that," Danny said as he angled the camera around the room, "Alright Daddy, since you couldn't be here, and we all know how much you wished you could be. So we are stepping in your place. You should be proud of your wife. She's doing real good." He swung the camera back on Kono who gave a dazzling smile and waved to the camera. "She hasn't threatened our lives yet, but that might change further along when the pain worsens." He grinned at Kono from behind the camera.

"I hate you right now." Kono glared at him.

"What a terrible thing to say to Steve," Danny admonished causing laughter to break out. He walked over to the monitors and spoke into the camera. "As you can see your wife's vitals are good. And this little graph is her contractions. As you can see no contraction right now."

The nurse's heart went out to the group in the room, obviously missing a vital part of their family. Pausing in her work, she hit a couple keys and soon a thwump-thwump filled the room. Laughter faded and talking ceased as the occupants listened to the heart beat. She met the blue eyes of the blonde man behind the camera. She smiled and nodded at his mouthed 'thank you'.

The afternoon hours waned. They passed the hours by surfing through the channels on the television, playing cards, napping and talking into the camera to Steve, even giving him a shot of Kono's full pregnancy belly. The camera now lay dark, waiting for the moment of actual delivery.

Danny and Chin were talking quietly when a swift intake of breath from the bed alerted them that Kono, who had been napping after getting an epidural, was awake. They both rose and moved to her side, each taking a hand.

"Kono? What's wrong?"

"I feel weird," Kono stated glancing at the monitor seeing a wave of contraction. But with the epidural she didn't feel anything. She had held out as long as she could, but the pain became unbearable. So she had broken down and requested the epidural.

"Just wait," Chin let go and left the room in search of a nurse.

"You're doing great, Kono," Danny told her, giving her hand a squeeze. "Steve would be real proud of you."

"I wish he was here," Kono murmured quietly her eyes filling with tears.

Danny used his free hand to press her head against his chest in a hug and kissed the top of her head. "I know you do. We all do."

"Alright, Mrs. McGarrett," the blonde nurse walked into the room, followed closely by Chin. "Let's see what's going on here."

Danny and Chin stayed at the top of the bedside beside Kono, keeping their eyes averted as the nurse lifted the blankets covering Kono's bottom half.

"I think we are ready to have a baby," the nurse stated with a grin, replacing the blankets.

"Show time," Danny grinned and he let go of Kono to grab the camera.

"He's so beautiful," Kono whispered the next morning. She cradled her baby to her breast as he lay sleeping swaddled in a standard hospital receiving blanket.

"You did great," Danny kept his voice soft so not to disturb the sleeping baby. "Sorry to say he looks exactly like Steve."

"Yeah," A smile played at her lips as she stared down at the little baby. She ran a finger down his check, causing him to release a squeak. "You wanna hold him?"

Danny shot Kono a wide grin. "You don't have to ask me twice." He greedily reached out and carefully took the baby from its mother's arms. He fidgeted beneath the blanket before settling back down.

"You okay, Cuz?" Chin asked watching the scene in front of him.

"Yeah, I just need to go to the bathroom." Kono moved in small movements to push herself into a fully sitting position.

"You need help?" Chin watched his cousin carefully ready to jump up and do whatever she needed done.

"Yeah, just," she trailed off reaching an arm out. In seconds Chin was standing by her side allowing Kono to use him as leverage and she carefully stood up from the bed. She slid her feet into the slippers on the floor.

Chin adjusted the hospital gown making sure the back was closed. He answered Kono's smile with one of his own and watched as she walked to the bathroom unassisted.

"Can you get my bag?" Kono pointed to the small duffle that held all the essentials that she thought she'd need for the hospital. "I want to get out of this gown and into my own clothes." She wanted to take a shower, but needed to wait until the nurse removed the capped off IV from her forearm. She hadn't been hooked up to anything since a couple hours after the birth, but the needle was still in her arm as a 'just in case' precautionary measure.

Chin grabbed the bag and took it into the bathroom himself, placing it the floor. "If you need something, just let us know okay? It's okay to ask for help. That's what we are here for."

Chin turned back to the room and grinned when he saw Danny sitting on the edge of the hospital bed, talking to the baby. He grabbed the video camera from the small table and turned it on zooming in on man and baby.

"Since your Daddy's not here," Danny told the sleeping baby. "Allow me to educate you on some things before he gets here to corrupt you. It is never okay to hang someone off a building to get them to talk or throw them in the shark tanks."

"How about placing a live grenade in a suspect's hands, Uncle Danny?" Chin called out with a grin on his face. It widened when he saw Danny look up and into the camera.

"Now that was still your Daddy's fault. You hang out with him long enough you're gonna find yourself doing things you normally shouldn't do. Like going into a building without backup. Now that, Little Man usually ends up getting your Uncle Danno shot."

Chin snorted but kept the camera trained on them.

"And you never drive at a ridiculous speed, weaving in and out of traffic, performing u-turns in intersections. That's not good for your Uncle Danno's heart." Danny continued to talk to his best friend's baby. "Most importantly though, you never ever put pineapple on pizza!"

"What are you teaching my baby?" Kono asked as she came out of the bathroom dressed in stretchy lounge pants and a navy blue t-shirt with a gold emblem over the right breast. She felt one hundred percent improved just being in her regular clothes alone.

"Nothing that he doesn't need to know," Danny grinned.

"Give me my baby," Kono rolled her eyes playfully and reached out to take her son from Danny's arms. His forehead crinkled at the jostling and she pressed a kiss against his soft skin. She nuzzled her baby as Chin captured it all. She opened her eyes and smiled seeing blue eyes gazing up at her.

"Hello baby," she smiled, keeping her face close to her son's. "Don't you listen to anything your Uncle Danny tells you. There is nothing wrong with your Daddy. He doesn't need to change a thing."

Danny scoffed, "He's gonna watch this video, don't encourage him." He couldn't keep the smile off his face.

"Say hi to Daddy," Kono encouraged as Chin moved closer with the camera. She pulled the blanket away from the baby, releasing his arm. His hand was clenched in a tiny fist. She worked her finger beneath his fingers and grinned when he clenched his own fingers again, trapping her finger. She gave her hand a little shake imitating a wave "Hi Daddy," she smiled at the camera before turning back to her son. "We miss you. We love you very much."

The adults broke out into laughter when the baby gave a tiny yawn and promptly closed his eyes again.

"Sir," Steve struggled to sit up in his hospital bed when he saw the officer walk into his hospital room only to stop when the captain raised his hand.

"Don't," The captain made his way to the Lieutenant Commander's bed. "I just talked to the Doc. You're gonna be fine, Son. Nothing a little R and R can't fix. You were mighty lucky though."

Steve nodded in agreement. He was lucky. If he had been a second too slow, if he had hesitated he wouldn't be lying in the hospital bed. He would have been on a much lower floor.

"From what I hear, these injuries are nothing compared to what you get yourself into in Hawaii." He smiled at the SEAL, patting his leg. "You've got some friends in mighty high places, McGarrett." He reached into his breast pocket and withdrew a piece of paper, folded three times. He opened up it, revealing a smaller picture nestled inside. "This came through from Hawaii and I thought I'd best deliver it myself. It's not often I get to be the barer of good news."

He held out the papers in his hand to the Lieutenant Commander. "Congratulations."

Steve grasped them, his eyes dropping from the smiling captain. His breath caught when he saw the printed off picture of a baby wrapped in a hospital issued blanket, a blue hat sitting on top of his head, hiding the dark tuffs of hair. His blue eyes staring wide into the camera.

The folded paper came from an e-mail printed off and he skipped over the heading to the message.

Please inform Lt. Cmdr. Steven J. McGarrett that it's a boy! John Daniel McGarrett was born at 6:39pm HST on October 8th, 2015 at Hawaii Medical Center. He weighed 6lbs 10oz. And was 19 inches long. Mother and baby are doing great but are missing him. Aloha.

The Commander slipped from the room as the SEAL clutched the photograph, a sob escaping as tears rolled down his cheeks.