As the title implies this is a continuation of "Impressed" This part is what actually took me so long, you won't believe how often I wrote and rewrote it… I'm still not quite satisfied with the end, but before I take another month…

Thanks to Bee and tvj12 and a guest for their reviews to "Impressed". To answer the guest's question: Yes, Danny will surely get a get well card from Deeks…

Not impressed

Danny stared at the TV on the wall in front of him without seeing anything. The thing wasn't even on. He was alone in the room right now, Steve wheeled away for some physicals that would take a while. Danny felt exhausted and jittery; yesterday's farce of a get well party had taken a toll on him though he had tried not to let it show with his kids in the room. Steve's harsh angry words about Charlie and how his son was going to hate him some day hadn't helped either.

From the corner of his eye he saw someone linger in the door, probably a man judging by how tall the figure was, and without looking or thinking growled "Whoever you are, go away, leave me alone."

Danny heard a snort and light steps, the man seemed to take those words as an invitation instead, coming closer and making himself comfortable right next to Danny on his bed. Still glaring at the wall Danny ranted.

"What the hell is the matter with you, huh? What do you think you're doing?"

"Invading your personal space if you really need me to spell it out for you."

Danny's gaze swiveled from the wall to the grinning man right next to him. It couldn't be, could it? Carefully he reached out, surprised when his hand was gripped back.

"You're here, you're really here. Why are you here?"

"Yep, I'm really here, you're still not hallucinating. And again, where else would I be, idiot."

"Yeah, well… I mean, how could you afford…?" Danny stopped with a click of his teeth. That was just a rude thing to ask his friend.

Deeks suddenly looked a bit embarrassed "Let's just say an old friend of mine heard what happened and decided to change my vacation plans with Kensi without consulting me first. Thanks to his generosity we can spend a few days for free at his vacation home. I'm still confused as hell about it, let me tell you. But also, here I am."

"So here you are." Danny wanted to give him a hug and opened his arms invitingly. Deeks snorted again, but went willingly and embraced Danny, mindful of any injury the other man had.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but I have a tight schedule and would like a minute, please."

The two men looked at the door to see who was standing there. Danny had recognized the voice though.

"Good morning, Governor. I'm sorry, but Commander McGarrett isn't here right now, he…"

Dennings interrupted Danny with a raised hand. "Actually, I'm not here for the Commander, but for you."

Danny nodded bemusedly and Deeks made to stand and leave, but Dennings gestured for him to stay, giving the room a cursory glance while doing so. His lips pressed in a thin line clearly not impressed with what he saw before his gaze settled on Danny with a warm smile.

"It was brought to my attention that my get well card for you seems to have been lost. I'm a busy man, but I thought it prudent to take a small window in my agenda and come by personally to talk to you."

Danny squirmed and took a breath to interrupt the governor. A stern look from the man prevented the attempt.

"It was never my intent or the intent of my staff to give the impression that we don't know the meaning of the word team. And I know for sure that Five-0 right now consists of six official members with badges and one 'consultant' without one. Two members of this team are hospitalized right now, but only one of them got the card I sent. I have no idea what made your ohana think it would be a good prank to deprive you of yours. You earned it."

Danny saw Deeks suppress a grin when the man noticed his blush. Deeks' gentle squeeze of his shoulder anchored Danny. The governor continued.

"I know that you're not someone looking for fame or attention, detective, just someone who does his job, but this took it too far. As I'm not willing to go and hunt down the original card I wrote it again." With those words Denning came closer to Danny's bed and handed him a heavy cream colored envelope.

Danny turned the envelope over in his hands without opening it before his gaze fixed on the governor. "But the plane, the beach?" he blurted. His overanxious mind had been busy with that thought when not fretting about the love or lack thereof of his children.

Dennings raised an eyebrow. "What about it? We are insured and your landing caused less damage than expected. Believe me, it's covered and none of your concern. Your only concern right now is getting better. I'm grateful that both of you survived that crash and in case you haven't been told yet: the instructor was impressed with your landing. He still thinks it was utterly foolish, but he's kind of awed nevertheless and would like to meet you in person once you feel up to it. Well, that said I have to go." He shook Danny's hand, nodded to Deeks and left the room to some stunned silence.

Before either men could say something a nurse peeked into the room. "I'm sorry, but now that the governor is gone I have to take care of some things." She smiled apologetically.

"Say no more, I'm out. I'll be back though. Fifteen minutes OK?"

The nurse nodded and watched Deeks leave. When she turned around and looked at him Danny could feel an amused smile on his face. She blushed and he couldn't help the chuckle. She didn't seem to mind; instead she seemed glad about his improved mood.


Deeks strolled along the hospital halls aiming for the cafeteria in the basement. Settling down with a coffee he called Kensi.

"Hey, you saw him?"

"Yeah, but only for a few moments, we kept getting interrupted. Right now a nurse is with him so I fled to the cafeteria. Soooo, how's Kip's house?"

Deeks had been so eager to see Danny that Kensi had practically thrown him out of the car at the entrance of Tripler telling him she would bring their stuff to the house and pick him up again later. She wanted Deeks to have a moment alone with his friend before she joined them.

Kensi looked around and breathed in deeply. "It's beautiful. I wish you could see the view right now." she muttered, gazing out at the blue sea sparkling in the sun beyond the lush green of blooming bushes and the black lava fields tinted with red. The view was framed by several palm trees. She still couldn't believe that she was here and thought back to how that had happened.

Deeks and she had visited Kip Brigham. When Deeks went to the bathroom Kip turned to Kensi.

"What's the matter with him?"

Kensi was surprised. Kip really was a good old friend if he could tell Deeks' behavior was off.

"A friend of him underwent surgery two days ago. He's better now, but…"

"Ray or Danny?" Kip interrupted urgently.

"No, not Ray. You know Danny?" Kensi asked disbelievingly.

Kip shrugged unconcerned.

"I don't know Danny personally, but I'm one of Marty's oldest friends, sure he told me about Danny. The first time after a game that could have gone better to lift my mood. It was hilarious so naturally I wanted to hear more. Marty also said he was going to tell you, but didn't cause you told him no. What happened to change your mind?"

So Kensi told him about what they learned in the middle of the night two days ago. Kip looked thoughtful for a moment, but before he could say anything Deeks came back. Kensi was astounded that Kip didn't mention what he had been told, instead he winked at her and mouthed "later" when Deeks wasn't looking.

Turns out Kip took it in his own hands to change their plans for a short trip to Las Vegas. That's how a few days later instead of flying for a long weekend to the gambler's paradise they found themselves at the airport with tickets to another paradise altogether as well as an invitation to Kips' holiday home on Oahu. There was a letter waiting at the desk of the airline and Deeks was close to tears after reading it. The gist was him being an idiot for not asking his friend for help. Kip knew Marty wasn't one to hog the fame or asking for favors beyond maybe tickets to a game or some autographs. That's why Kip created facts and didn't discuss his offer with Marty, but just rebooked the flights.

"Hey, you still with me or are you overwhelmed by the view?" Deeks' amused voice interrupted Kensi in her musings.

Kensi laughed. "Sorry, I got lost thinking about how lucky we are. The reason for being here could admittedly be better, but still…"

"Yeah, we should really enjoy our time despite the reason. Hey, I think I can go back to Danny now. You'll swing by now that you got a look at our humble abode for the next days?"

"Humble abode, my… Uh, I'm on my way, give me half an hour."


When Deeks came back he noticed some other visitors: Chin, Kono and Grace. The latter seems to be miffed with the cousins and after his initial look at the room Deeks could take an educated guess about the reason. Letting his arms hang loose he shook his hands, took a fortifying breath and entered the room with a huge grin.

"Hi there." Deeks stopped and made a show of looking around the room. "Wow, I have to say, I'm…" Deeks paused and gestured at the balloons occupying only half of the room "not impressed. I thought you on Hawaii are all about ohana, so, he…" now Deeks pointed at Danny "doesn't belong anymore? Not that I would blame you…."

"Will you stop it, whoever you are? I didn't think it was funny yesterday and I still don't think so today." Grace's voice wobbled slightly, but her gaze was firm. She rounded in on Chin and Kono who seemed utterly surprised.

"He's right though, I'm not impressed either. What were you even thinking yesterday? I know that my dad is humble, not seeking attention or fame, but just doing his job to make this island safe for me and Charlie and all the other people. And I know that you like to poke fun at him because sometimes he is annoying and always speaks his mind and you think he can take it. But yesterday? That wasn't funny, that was mean. Making him think no one cared? And even worse, making my little brother think that none of you cared? Believe me, it wasn't easy to try and explain to him that you weren't serious, that it was all just something you thought to be funny. Well, I can really only hope you just meant this to be a stupid prank and in reality some of those cards and balloons are actually for my dad, too. Otherwise I'm not sure I will ever talk to any of you ever again."

Grace had started crying. Kono wanted to comfort her, but the teen turned away and sat down on the bed right next her suspiciously quiet dad instead. Danny rubbed her back in soothing circles, not looking at his team mates which seemed to tell them enough judging by their somewhat shamefaced expressions.

Deeks slowly went to stand beside Grace. When she looked up at him he smiled apologetically.

"I am very sorry that I upset you, too. That never was my intention. It's not much, but, uh, I'm sure there has to be a card from my team for your dad, cause I know we all signed and sent one right after we saw what happened on TV. I'll look for it in a moment, but before…"

Deeks produced a tissue like performing a magic trick which made Grace smile. He not only sent a card together with the team, but one of his own respectively one signed by Hetty, Nell and him. There had even been a paw print from Monty. Deeks wished he could give Grace the hug she clearly needed. Before he could decide to throw secrets to the wind Chin chimed in.

"We have to apologize, too." Chin went to Danny's bed and tried to catch his team mate's gaze. Only after he finally succeeded Chin said earnestly "Danny. I'm very sorry. It looks that in our…" Chin faltered, not really sure where he wanted to go with this.

"You needed some laughter after the scare Steve gave you." Danny stated in such a resigned voice it made Chin wince.

"Not only Steve, Danny. We were scared about you as well, never doubt that."

"Yeah, whatever."

Kono had been busy sorting through cards and balloons up to that point, arranging them appropriate to their intended recipient. Now she turned with a slump in her shoulders.

"Danny, let's be honest. Sometimes you're not an easy person to love, but we do love you. You're a valuable member of our ohana. I'm so so sorry our prank backfired so spectacularly and that it took someone from the outside for us to realize it." At her last words she gave Deeks a curious look, trying to place him.

Chin took over again.

"Deeks, nice to see you again. I don't think you have met my cousin Kono yet. Kono, this is Marty Deeks, detective with LAPD, Deeks, this is my cousin Kono Kalakaua, member of Hawaii Five-0. And as you might have guessed, the young lady sitting by Danny is his daughter Grace."

"I think I know the name, but …" Kono mumbled. Deeks could feel her eyes on him, but he winked at Grace before turning to Chin who had started talking again.

"Do you remember the case where we joined forces with NCIS LA several years back? Deeks is their liaison."

"Oh, yes, I remember. What brings you to Hawaii, detective?"

"Call me Deeks, everyone does. I'm here for a long weekend with my partner, Kensi, and thought I should say hello to the ailing colleagues. It made nationwide news after all. That said, where's McGarrett?"

"Physicals." Danny finally joined the conversation again. "He should be back any moment now, than you can tell him how great he is." Danny flinched at his bitter words and tone, but it was too late to take them back.

Deeks turned from Kono to face Danny and gave his friend a hard stare.

"Seriously? What did he do besides getting shot at? Looks to me like you did all the work: landing a plane, at even greater risk with opting for the beach instead of the ocean, catching crucial members of a drug cartel and last but not least donating part of your liver. In my humble opinion that makes you a great person."

Danny opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"Just take the compliment, Danno." Grace carefully nudged her Dad's side and grinned.

With impeccable timing Steve was wheeled back into the room that moment and the accompanying nurse made clear he needed his rest and to come back later which cut any greetings rather short. Deeks internally cursed his fate while on the outside he smiled.

His smile grew more honest when he noticed Kensi waiting for him as promised. Kono, Chin and Grace greeted her warmly. They exchanged numbers and arranged to meet later for dinner.

Later in the car Kensi smiled at Deeks.

"Come on, Deeks, cheer up! We still have some days. You'll get your chance to really talk to Danny. Until then, let's enjoy our time here."

Deeks leaned over when they stopped at a red light and stole a kiss.

"You're right Fern, and mahalo."

Kensi just laughed.