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francis2: I was aiming for some similiarited ;) glad some caught on.

MadisonBellows: I know what you mean. I am trying to add more team and cases here and there but I need to continue watching Season 1 lol maybe next chapter I'll add another case. Oh and that Danny/OC fic? You should give it a try! I wrote a one-shot and hopefully I'll come back to it once I am done with these stories.

Rheadoe: Am i ever glad for pointing that out! Exactly why I debated on whether or not I could manage two stories at the same time lol I fixed it and hope I got them all. Thank you!

msgemgem: I know a lot of readers are not Cath fans but I just like to throw here in here and there even if I personally have nothing against her character. I like the flashbacks too, we might see more in the future, so watch out for those. Thank you for reading and reviewing! I love all reviews, whether good or bad as long as they're always respectful of course ;)

I am not sure if I answered all of you but thank you for reading/reviewing/ or adding to your alerts. Keep them coming!

Chapter 4

"When you pick up the pieces of your broken dreams, it all gets better in time. Just keep believing…" ~Kaci Brown

Steve was in his office finishing his paperwork, not wanting to leave it behind since he was trying to clear as much time to be with his daughter, when Danny walked into his office.

"What's up Danny?" Steve asked without looking up from his paperwork.

Danny waved a small piece of paper in his hand and looked at Steve. "I got the number you asked for," Danny said.

Steve stopped and looked up at Danny holding a small paper in the air. "Thanks Danny," Steve said as he took the paper and looked at the number written on it.

"Are you sure about this Steve?" Danny asked as he took a seat across from Steve.

"No but if it's the only way that will guarantee I won't lose my daughter then I have no other option," Steve said looking Danny in the eye.

Danny nodded understanding where Steve was coming from. "I went ahead and gave her a call so if you're still sure and want to go ahead with it as soon as possible she'll be expecting you in her office. I know it's Saturday but she said she'll be there all weekend working on some case. She's there until six."

"Yeah I think I'll go right now," Steve said looking at his watch and checking it was five in the afternoon. He put his papers away and shut down everything as he got ready to leave until he remembered he didn't have his truck. "Hey Danny, would you mind giving me a ride? Jade has my truck."

"You mean let you drive my car while I sit on the passenger's side watching you as you drive my car?" Danny stated sarcastically.

Steve rolled his eyes before walking out of his office. "Come on Danny, let's go."

Steve was dropped off in front of his house two hours later immediately spotting his truck in the drive. His first thought was that Jade had probably dropped it off on her way to the hotel. Steve ran to the door trying to avoid getting soaked in the heavy rain that had suddenly started pouring down on his way home. He sighed as he thought about Jade and hoped her and Rosie had gotten to the hotel without any incident. As he walked into his house he spotted the lights on and instantly took his gun out ready to attack the intruders. He dropped his bag silently by the door and walked slowly to where he heard the noises coming from in the kitchen. As he rounded the corner he came face to face with Jade.

"Oh my god!" she gasped dropping the glass of water she was holding causing it to shatter in the process.

"Jade? What are you doing here?" he asked confused as he put his gun away and then went to pick up the broken glass.

"I'm sorry, I'll get that," as she bent down to help Steve.

"Don't worry about it, I got it," Steve said taking the pieces of glass to the trash and coming back with a cloth to dry the floor. "What are you doing here? How did you even get in?"

Jade followed Steve back into the kitchen. "I came by to drop off your truck, thanks by the way, after taking Grace home. Rosie was telling me about how you had promised her a day at the beach in your backyard and well I thought sure why not? I'll just take her for a bit but before I knew it, it began raining and I remembered your dad would leave a spare key under a loose floorboard under the mat in the porch so I got it and let ourselves in. I'm sorry for intruding like this but I didn't want to risk Rosie getting sick and it was just going to be for a bit until the rain stopped but it seems like it's just growing stronger. Don't worry, we'll get out of your hairs as soon as it lets up," she said.

"Okay, that's fine, don't worry about it," Steve said. "Where's Rosie?"

"Yeah about that," she began. "She fell asleep and I placed her in what I assumed was your room. I hope you don't mind."

"Of course not," Steve said looking at Jade. "This is Rosie's house too."

"Right," Jade said avoiding Steve's gaze by turning around and walking back to the living room but knowing Steve was following right behind. "I've been doing some thinking all afternoon." She paused by the arm chair and turned to look at Steve who was looking at her expectantly with his arms crossed. "I want to apologize for the way I've been towards you. I know how much you love and missed Rosie and I haven't been fair to you or her. I've just been acting like a total bitch and I'm really sorry."

Steve studied Jade and noticed she was nervous. She always played with her hands and used a lot of hand gestures when it happened. "I understand your concern for her safety, I really do, but what happened today was out of my control. I cannot predict when something like a shooting at what I thought would be another foot ball game might happen. I did everything I could to keep her out of harms way."

"I know that now," Jade said softly dropping her gaze to the floor. "I was just terrified of something happening to Rosie and then with your father's murder and the man responsible for it on the run, I'm scared for Rosie's safety. But like I told you, I've been doing some thinking since then and I've made a decision." Jade looked at Steve in the eye.

Steve held his breath as he waited for Jade to tell him she was leaving the island and taking Rosie with her. "A decision, what decision did you make?" he asked.

"I want Rosie to spend more time with her father so I've decided to stay for the remainder of the summer in Hawaii," she stated. "I called my father to see if we could borrow his apartment so we'll be staying in his vacation apartment which is really close to your house."

Steve's heart dropped.

"I also know that you have every right to make decisions regarding Rosie so I think we should definitely work together. I'll fill you in on the rules she already knows, what she likes, what she doesn't like, and stuff like that," Jade said shrugging a shoulder. "When the time comes for Rosie and me to go back to California we'll come up with something so you two can continue keeping in touch. I just want you and Rosie to have a father/daughter relationship, Steve."

Steve's heart continued to drop but he managed to hide it well. Just two hours ago he had met with Danny's lawyer to file for joint custody of Rosie. He had acted out of fear of losing completely his daughter but now he regretted doing so. Jade had just given him what he wanted, the opportunity to see his daughter when he wanted to. Steve cleared his throat. "Do you really mean it, Jade? You won't change your mind if something like what happened today happens again?" he asked wanting to make sure he understood.

"I really mean it, Steve. I know you would never intentionally put Rosie in danger and if anything like today happens again I know you will do whatever you can to keep her safe and unharmed. Let's just hope nothing like that happens," Jade said giving him a small smile.

Steve smiled widely at Jade feeling ecstatic at the news he had received. "Thank you, thank you, Jade," Steve said as he rushed to her and engulfed her in his arms squeezing her tightly. He pulled away slightly cupping her head in his hands. "This really means a lot." Then he leaned in and kissed her softly at first feeling her surprise in the sharp intake of breath and deepening the kiss when he felt her arms entwined around his neck allowing his tongue to explore her mouth.

Jade was allowing herself to fall into the moment but the reminder of a certain someone brought her to a halt. "Steve, please don't do that again," as she tried to step away from his embrace.

"Why not?" he asked knowing how much she had enjoyed it too.

"Did you forget about someone, Catherine? Besides if you keep doing that, one of these days Rosie will see us and she will get the wrong idea. She will start thinking we're together again and think we're a family again," Jade said turning away from Steve and folding her arms across her chest.

"Can you please forget about Catherine?" he said in a hard voice. "Catherine and I are not together. We never were. What happened between her and me was a mistake and one I never made again. I love you Jade. I never stopped loving you and I should have fought harder to win you back."

"You love me? If you really loved me you would have never run to her arms," Jade said harshly as she pointed a finger in Steve's direction.

"I was furious okay? I was furious at you for hurting me, for not trusting me and not believing in me. I wanted you to hurt as much as I was hurting so I ran to Catherine knowing how much that would hurt you. Yes I admit I used to her to get back at you and I regret it so much but I regret hurting you the most," Steve confessed. "That's why after it happened, I let you belief there was something between us."

"You wanted to hurt me? You used her to hurt me?" she asked incredulously with unshed tears in her eyes. She used her fists to try to push him but he was stronger than her and he didn't even move an inch. "How could you do something like that?" She continued to try to push him but when that didn't help she started pounding on his chest, getting her anger out and letting the tears fall down freely.

"I was hurting! I know nothing justifies running to Cat and I'm sorry," he said holding onto her fists. "I wanted to get you back but I knew you had found out about Catherine and I and then I got called on another mission."

"What about all those other times when you were back, huh, what about then?" Jade countered.

"By then I thought it was too late and that was when you were going out with that professor at your school," Steve said not letting her go.

"I was trying to forget about you but failed miserably and knew I was just fooling myself because either way you were still Rosie's father and you were going to be around forever," Jade choked out.

"Do you still love me, Jade?" Steve asked knowing he was putting his heart on the line once again. "Do you still love me enough to try to forget what happened and try again?"

"I don't think I can ever forget what you did," Jade confessed looking at Steve's chest instead of his eyes.

Steve sighed looking away for a brief moment but returning his gaze immediately to Jade. He placed a finger under her chin and gently lifted her head to meet his eyes. "I love you Jade and I know a million apologies will not erase what happened but I want to be with you. I want to fight for us, for our family. I know you cannot forget what happened but all I'm asking you is for a chance to move on from that and try to build something new. Do you think you love me enough to be able to do that?"

Jade knew Steve was putting his heart on the line for her and she knew he was one to never really show his emotions. She had been lucky enough to get to know this side of Steve, his soft side, and knew this was what she had dreamed about since the day she kicked him out. Jade brought her hands up to Steve's face and gently caressed it feeling the stubble tickling the tips of her fingers. "I love you Steve," she whispered. "I never stopped loving you. I would really want to try and fight for us but I'm scared. I'm scared of making the same mistakes again and losing you."

Steve breathed a sigh of relief feeling his heart swell at Jade's words. He had longed to hear those three words come out of her mouth for so long. "That's why we'll both work together on it," he promised as he tried to reassure her.

"I don't -"

Steve stopped her with a kiss not wanting her to over think things too much.

"You don't play fair," Jade said in between kisses.

"I don't want you to change your mind," he said trailing kisses down her neck.

"I haven't even made up my mind yet," Jade said smiling.

Steve stopped and straightened as he looked at Jade. "I thought," he trailed off feeling his heart drop at the possibility of having misunderstood Jade.

Jade closed the distance between them and leaned up on her toes t o place a small kiss on Steve's lips. "I love you Steve," she whispered against his lips. "I want to make this work."

Steve smiled and kissed her fully leading her towards the couch without breaking contact. When Jade hit the couch he gently laid them down continuing to kiss her.

"Steve," Jade said her voice coming out husky. "Steve, Rosie's upstairs. She can wake up and see us."

"You said she was sleeping," he whispered against her neck continuing to trace kisses.

"Yes, but -"

"I don't remember you talking this much before when I was trying to show you how much I love you," Steve said bracing his body weight on his forearms.

"I just don't want to scar Rosie forever," Jade said running her fingers over his cheeks. "Plus, I think maybe we should take things a bit slower."

"Slower?" he asked with a raised eyebrow in disbelief. "Jade, we have a daughter. I think we passed the 'slower' phase a long time ago."

Jade rolled her eyes. "We haven't been together in over five years, Steve. I just don't want to rush into things."

Steve dropped his head to the crook of her neck knowing Jade was right. "Fine," he said his voice coming out muffled from hiding in her neck. Steve began to pull away but Jade pulled him back when she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"I didn't say we couldn't kiss," she said bring his lips to hers and engulfing him in another mind blowing kiss.

"Mmm," Steve moaned. He pulled slightly away and said, "You're killing me here, Jade."

Steve continued to kiss Jade until they heard a small voice coming from the room upstairs causing both Steve and Jade to jump apart.

"Mommy?" Rosie called again continuing to come down the stairs.

"Right here, honey," Jade said waving a hand in Rosie's direction smirking when Steve stood up and turned away from Rosie knowing what he was trying to hide or better yet, get rid of. Rosie joined Jade on the couch. "What's wrong honey?"

"I'm thirsty," Rosie said looking at her mother.

"Well we can fix that then," Jade said smiling at her daughter. "Steve can you get Rosie some water, please?" Jade gave Steve a knowing smile.

Steve didn't have to be told twice. He rushed to the kitchen happy to get a few minutes to him self.

Jade turned back to Rosie and smiled down at her. "Are you ready to go home sweetie?"

Rosie shook her head no. "Can we stay with daddy, please mommy?" Rosie pleaded.

"I don't think that's such a good idea sweetie," Jade said. "Your daddy has to work tomorrow and -"

"I don't mind, Jade," Steve interrupted coming back with a glass of water for Rosie. He handed it to Rosie and sat on the coffee table facing them. "Plus, it's still pouring outside and I don't think the rain is going away anytime soon."

"You're not helping the situation, Steve," Jade said under her breath.

Steve smiled at Jade. "We have a situation?" he asked feigning ignorance.

Jade rolled her eyes.

"What's a situation mommy?" Rosie asked looking from Steve to Jade.

"Yeah, what's a situation mommy?" Steve asked in a teasing manner.

"Mommy, are you hot? You're cheeks are pink," Rosie said scrunching her nose having already forgotten her first question.

Jade blushed even more trying to find a way to explain to her daughter without telling her things she shouldn't know at such a young age. "You know what sweetie. Your daddy is right. Let's go put you back to bed and tomorrow I have a surprise for you," Jade said trying to find an escape route instead of explaining such things to her daughter. Jade stood up and took Rosie's hand as they walked back up the stairs.

"Jade?" Steve called.

Jade stopped at the first step and turned to face Steve. "Yeah?"

"Would you mind if I tucked her in?" Steve asked a bit unsure of him self.

Jade's heart melted. She smiled at Steve and nodded. "Of course, you don't even have to ask," she said in a choked voice.

Once Steve had tucked Rosie in and both, Steve and Jade, were standing up to leave, Rosie called out to them. "Mommy? Daddy?" she said in a soft innocent voice.

"What's wrong honey?" Jade asked sitting again on the edge of the bed while Steve sat on the other side of Rosie.

"Can you and daddy sleep with me tonight? There's a lot of room," Rosie said scooting towards the middle of the bed and patting both sides.

"Honey, I -"

"Of course we can," Steve said smiling down at Rosie interrupting Jade before she could protest. "I'm just going to make sure everything is locked downstairs and I'll be right back to join you two lovely ladies." Steve placed a small kiss on Rosie's forehead before walking back to the living room.

"I'll be right back honey," Jade said kissing Rosie as well and following Steve downstairs.

"Steve," she whispered loud enough for him to hear her as she came rushing down the stairs and catching up to him at the bottom.

"What's up?" Steve asked turning to look at her.

Jade widen her eyes and splayed her hands. "What's up, really?" she asked in disbelief.

Steve nodded crossing his arms in front of him not understanding what was going on.

"Seriously Steve, sometimes you're very obtuse," she whispered back trying to keep her voice low so Rosie wouldn't hear them. "Makes me wonder how you graduated with the highest honors."

Steve cracked up after hearing Jade but she was quick and covered his mouth with her hand.

"Shh," she hushed. "Rosie can hear us."

Steve raised his hands in surrender. "What's going on Jade?" he asked wrapping an arm around her waist and brought her closer to him after she removed her hand.

"We can't sleep on the same bed, Steve," Jade said trying to stay focused on what she wanted to say but proving a bit difficult having Steve placing small kisses on her neck.

"Why not?" he asked in between kisses on Jade's neck.

"I don't want Rosie to get the wrong idea, that's why," Jade said feeling Steve tense right away before pulling away from her.

"The wrong idea?" he asked disbelief covering his words. "Jade, I thought we agreed to try and work on us?"

"Yes we did but I just don't think it's a good idea to tell Rosie at the moment. I don't want to get her hopes up in case this," she said pointing to both of them, "doesn't work out."

Steve shook his head and walked towards to kitchen to prevent him self from saying something stupid.

"Steve, please understand," Jade said following after Steve.

"Oh I understand Jade," Steve said turning abruptly to look at Jade causing her to almost bump into him. "I understand that we've barely just began to give things a chance and you're already thinking the worse will happen."

"What? No, no, of course not. It's not like that, Steve," Jade said urgently. "I just don't want to cause Rosie any pain in case things don't work out."

"Jade, listen to me," he said running a hand through her hair while placing his other free hand on her waist. "I love you and I love Rosie. We're a family and I want the whole world to be aware of that, even Rosie."

"I'm scared," Jade admitted softly.

"You think I'm not?" he returned just as softly. "But we have to get over our fear. Besides, it's not like we can do much with Rosie right in the middle."

Jade chuckled as she playfully slapped Steve on the chest. "Oh gawd, Steve, get your mind out of the gutter."

"Hey, I don't know what you were thinking. I was talking about sleep, Jade, sleep."

"We both know you weren't," Jade said smiling up at him.

Steve smiled and kissed her. "Come on, let's go to bed. Rosie is waiting for us," Steve said grabbing her hand and leading her towards the stairs. "Hold on, let me just check I locked up everything."

Jade nodded and hugged herself sighing as she watched Steve check the doors. She couldn't believe coming to Hawaii would mean coming back to Steve. She knew they still a lot of issues to resolve, especially her, but she sincerely hoped and prayed she wouldn't ruin things this time around. Having Steve was the most amazing thing along with her daughter and she wouldn't change it for anything.

"There, all set," Steve said placing an arm around Jade's shoulders and kissing her temple before leading them up the stairs.

Steve laid in bed fully awake watching his daughter and Jade while they slept trying to engrave this image in his mind. Luck was definitely on his side or maybe it was destiny that was helping him. He knew the real reason why couldn't sleep was because of what he had done earlier out of desperation. Steve had gone to a lawyer to draw up the custody papers and she had promised to file them first thing Monday morning but now that wouldn't be necessary. He hoped Jade never found out about what he had done but if she ever did he prayed she would understand why he had done it.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Jade whispered half asleep.

"Can't sleep but go on and go back to sleep," he whispered back reaching over Rosie and running a hand up Jade's shoulder in a small caress.

"You need to sleep. Rosie has so much energy and you're going to need yours to keep up with her," Jade said before closing her eyes and giving into sleep once again.

Steve smiled and let out a content sigh before finally trying to get some sleep and hope for the best.

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