"I still can't believe you're making me meet your team," Bridget said after helping her father make dinner.
"Well, they're not too happy that they still haven't met you. Chin, Kono and I met Grace after about 3 weeks of working with Danny, and it's been two months since they've known about you," Steve explained.
"Couldn't you have brought me into work with you instead of having dinner with them?" She said curtly.
"First, drop the attitude," He started, "Second; we have dinner together every week, just so we can talk outside of work. Lastly, do you really want to go to work with me?" He lifted an eyebrow inquisitively.
"No," She mumbled, walking toward the couch. He sat down next to her and started to talk.
"They're good people who I trust with my life every day. Don't worry; I know they will like you and you'll like them." Bridget looked up at him with a look that told him she was highly doubtful of it.
"Okay fine, I know you'll like Kono for sure, Danny and Chin, probably." Steve said when he heard the doorbell ring. Steve got up to answer the door and heard Bridget turn on the TV.
"Aloha!" He said when he saw his whole team at the door.
"Hey brah, how's it going?" Chin asked as everyone entered the house.
"I can't believe it's taken over two months for us to meet your daughter. Just saying, but I was starting to think you were lying about her," Danny said before Steve had a chance to answer Chin.
"Now why would I lie about having a kid?"
"How should I know? I have no clue what goes on in your super SEAL brain."
"Where's Bridget?" Kono asked, trying to stop an argument between the two older men.
"She's in the living room." He led his teammates though the house until they spotted Bridget sitting on the couch in front of the TV.
"Bridget," Steve said, causing her to turn around and look at the adults.
"Hi," She said softly, offering a small wavy.
"Hi, I'm Kono." Kono walked around and sat next to her.
"Bridget, but I think you knew that already."
"Yeah I knew that," Kono said laughing.
"And I'm Chin." He introduced himself, offering his hand. Bridget shook it, and studied him for a minute.
"You look familiar, but I don't know where from." She said. Chin thought of where he might have seen the girl before.
"Sorry, I don't know." Chin replied.
"Hey, I'm Danny. It's nice to finally meet you."
"Nice to meet you too. Steve's told me a lot about you," Bridget smiled.
"He has?" Danny said looking at Steve sceptically.
"You commiserate with Grace, I bond with Bridget." Steve responded, reminding him of what he said when Grace stated that Danno talked about Steve a lot.
Danny glared at him before turning to Bridget and saying, "Your Dad is an ass."
"Good to know... I think." Bridget replied, not sure how to respond.
"Now that's uncalled for. I could have said the same thing to Grace, but I didn't," Steve argued.
"Yeah, but Grace is nine and Bridget is fourteen, so Bridget probably already knows what it means."
"Julia and Ryan call each other an ass all the time." Bridget added.
"Not helping kid," Steve replied.
"Do they argue like this a lot?" Bridget asked Kono, while Danny and Steve walked around to sit on the other sofa and Chin pulled up a chair.
"Yeah, they fight more than an old married couple." Bridget thought for a second about what Kono said for a minute.
"The only reason I couldn't see that is because Steve is dating my mom," Bridget said, making Kono and Chin crack up.
"I've known her five minutes and I already like her." Kono said between laughs.
"I don't! She just said she could imagine me as gay! How is that possibly funny," Danny said, flailing his arms for emphases.
"In all fairness, she also said she can imagine Steve being gay," Chin pointed out.
"I'm gonna check on dinner," Steve said getting himself out of the conversation.
"I'm getting a beer," Danny said following his partner. When they were both in the kitchen, it could be heard from the living room that they were arguing. Chin decided to go and make sure they don't kill each other.
"It is going to kill me, not knowing where I recognise Chin," Bridget said to Kono after he left.
"Don't worry, it'll come to you. So what are you watching?"
"The Big Bang Theory."
"Oh, I love this show!" Kono said laughing.
"How can you not?" Bridget replied, which sparked conversation between the two. Twenty minutes later Steve came in and told them that it was time for dinner. Everyone sat around the table and started eating, talking about their lives.
"So wait, I have a question." Bridget said after Danny and Steve finished another argument.
"Shoot kid," Chin replied.
"How did you two become partners if all you ever seem to do is fight?" She asked.
"I needed someone with fresh eyes on the team, and Danny here had only just moved from New Jersey six months earlier."
"Then how did you two join the team then?" Bridget pointed to Chin and Kono.
"Your dad wanted someone who knew the island pretty well, and it was better than working as security for the USS Missouri. Plus I knew-"
"Wait, you worked on the Missouri? For how long?" Bridget interrupted.
"Ummm... I think I started 5 and a half years ago and quit about a year ago when your dad asked me to join 5-0."
"I know where I know you from now." Bridget said, embarrassed from the memory.
"Where?" The four adults asked simultaneously. Bridget groaned, but knew she wasn't gonna be able to get out of telling the story.
"Well, in 4th grade my class went to the USS Missouri for a field trip. After lunch, my friends and I were really bored, so we snuck away. Meli found the security room. We went in and saw that there was no one watching, so we started to goof off. After about an hour we figured out how to work all the cameras, or so we thought. Twenty minutes later, Chin here finds us and we are get busted. You looked like you could have killed us right then and there."
"I remember that. I had only been on the job 2 weeks and thought that the first problem I was gonna have to deal with was teenagers, not a group of 9 and 10 year olds." Chin said, recalling his thoughts of that day.
"You should expect the unexpected when it comes to my friends." Bridget sighed, thinking of all the dumb things they have done.
"Didn't you think that would be a bad idea?" Danny asked.
"Well, I'm kind of a push over and I have a bad tendency to act first and ask questions later."
"Just what we need. Another 'shoot first, ask questions later' McGarrett." Danny said sarcastically. Chin and Kono laughed hard at the statement that got Danny a glare from Steve.
"I don't get it," Bridget said, looking for an answer.
"Good!" Steve and Danny said simultaneously, only causing Kono and Chin to laugh harder.
"Wait, what happened after you and your friends got caught?" Kono asked.
"Chin lectured us about what we did was wrong, we got lunch detention for a month and I was grounded."
"That sucks." Kono said.
"Yup!"
"So what grade are you gonna be in the fall?" Danny asked changing the subject.
"I'm gonna be a freshman in high school."
"What school?" Chin asked.
"Kikui high," Bridget replied as she finished her dinner.
"Awesome! That where I went." Kono said.
"So did Chin and I," Steve responded.
"Well, I went to school in Jersey, so there is no way I went there. Any clubs or sports you're planning on joining?" Danny asked as he helped everyone clean off the table.
"Not really. I've never really been one to join clubs. Maybe if one of my friends joins one I might." Everyone walked back to the living room as they continued to talk.
"I thought Ali said you were going to join a study group?" Steve said.
"No, she wants me to join a study group so I can bring my grades up this year."
"You get bad grades?" Steve questioned.
"They aren't horrible, just not great. Usually C's with the occasional B."
"That's good! I usually got the lowest possible passing grade so I didn't have to repeat a grade or have summer school." Danny smiled.
"The only reason I wasn't that way is because my parents said I wasn't allowed to surf unless I maintained a 3.0 GPA." Kono added.
They continued to talk for a while when until they heard a knock at the door.
"I got it," Steve said, getting up to answer it. He opened the door and saw his girlfriend standing at the door looking exhausted.
"Hey Ali, are you ok? You look like you're going to pass out any second."
"It was a long day. Now I have to go to the Big Island for this case I'm working on and I have to find someone who will take care of Bridget by tomorrow morning and-"
"Ali! Calm down, you're gonna hurt yourself," Steve interrupted. Ali stopped talking and took a couple of deep breaths. "Good, now why doesn't Bridget just stay here? I have no problem having my daughter stay at my house." Steve pointed out. Ali groaned, feeling like an ass for not thinking about that in the first place.
"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I'm just not thinking straight. Well, my plane leaves tomorrow morning at 10:30, and I need to go into work for a bit before I go to the airport, so can I drop her off at 7:30?"
"Sure. Why don't you come in for a couple of minutes and meet the team?" Steve asked.
"Why the hell not." Ali walked into the house, heading toward the kitchen. Steve noticed this and called to her.
"Everyone is in the living room you know, not the kitchen."
"I'll be out in a minute. I just haven't eaten for about nine hours," Ali said.
"Okay. There is some leftover casserole in the fridge from tonight if you want." He told her as he walked toward the living room. He heard his girlfriend yell a thank you and he smiled.
"You're back! Who was at the door?" Danny questioned Steve when he walked back into the room.
"It was Ali. She's just in the kitchen getting something to eat."
"So we finally get to meet the mother of your child," Chin teased Steve.
"You do remember that the child you are referring to is the room?" Kono pointed out.
"And she doesn't like being called child," Bridget added softly, making everyone in the room laugh.
"What's so funny?" Ali asked as she entered the room.
"Hi mom. It was nothing," Bridget said when she saw Ali.
"Hey sweetheart." She walked up behind Bridget and kissed her on the head. Ali noticed someone she assumed was from 5-0 next to Bridget, so she introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Ali."
"I'm Kono, nice to meet you." Kono responded, shaking Ali's hand.
"And you two also work with Steve I assume." Ali directed the statement towards Danny and Chin
"Yes, I'm Chin Ho," He said getting up from his spot to shake Ali's hand.
"And I'm Danny. Let me just warn you of something. If one day Bridget hangs a person off a building, or throws them in a shark tank for information, don't be surprised."
"Ummm... Why?" Ali asked, a bit concerned about why he would say that.
"Because she is a 'shoot first, questions later' McGarrett and her father has done both, plus numerous other things," Danny elaborated.
"You did what?" Ali and Bridget both said simultaneously.
"It's another story for another time," Steve replied right as Bridget yawned loudly.
"I think we should go. We need to get up early in the morning and we both need to pack." Ali said talking mostly to Bridget.
"Why do we need to pack?" Bridget asked.
"You're staying with me while your mom goes to the Big Island for a case she's working on." Steve answered for Ali.
"Okay," Bridget said getting up. She went to her dad, giving him a hug goodbye and said goodnight to everyone else.
"I like Bridget. She seems like a really cool kid," Kono said after Bridget and Ali left, "And Ali seemed really nice too."
"Yeah, they both seem sweet, but I would definitely keep an eye on Bridget. Her and her friends are without a doubt, trouble makers from what I've heard." Chin added.
"She's a teenager with a bit of McGarrett. It's just the personality, she'll be fine." Steve said.
"I think she's more like her mom than you," Danny replied.
"That's more of a hope then an actual assumption isn't it Danno." Steve said knowing Bridget was actually more like him than her mother.
"So what if it's a hope and not a legit guess. We don't need two McGarretts running around getting me shot at. And what have I told you a million times about calling me Danno?" He said with lots of hand guestures.