This is the last part! Once again thank you so much for all the reviews, favorites, and alerts. You are the best ever. This might also be the last fic, for now. As you might know I haven't been feeling so well lately, which means my plot bunnie ranaway and is nowhere to be found. If I get better (hopefully soon) I write whatever comes, but I can't promise you anything though.

Anyways enough with the drama! off to read all of you :)

Love you all!

Fran


He threw the car keys on his desk, paced around the room and kicked at everything that had the misfortune of being in front of him. He didn't want to think, he didn't even want to say the words inside his brain but somehow they slowly crept into his head. Kono was at home, alone, with another man and apparently they had a great night. He just couldn't picture her as the type of woman who would cheat but everything was pointing directly towards that.

God, he felt terrible.

"Things didn't go very well?" Danny asked. He had impeccable timing.

"No, not at all."

"Don't tell me she didn't open the door?"

"Oh, no she didn't. It was a man who did it. An attractive man I might ad."

"What?"

"Yeah. My girlfriend was with another man, alone, in her house," Steve spoke, pacing around the room a little. "Another man! And I've been missing her like crazy this entire week, thinking of a thousand ways to apologize when she was having fun with some blonde dude, drinking wine and doing God knows what!"

"Man, are you even listening to yourself?" Danny interrupted, "Kono is not the type of woman who would do that, not to mention she loves you beyond reason. How can you possibly think she would do something like that to you?"

"I know what I saw Danny. She was with another man."

"A man who could very well be her friend."

"Yeah, right…"

"Did you even give her a chance to explain?"

"No, she was in the shower when I got there. You see? In the shower. And the guy told me she was tired because they had a long night."

"Maybe they talked…"

"I saw the empty bottle of wine. They did not just talk."

"Why are you saying then, she cheated?"

He sighed, taking a seat at his desk, rubbing his temple over and over again to stop the headache that was starting to show up.

"I… wish I didn't think that, Danny. But I can't help it," he explained. "She didn't answer my calls for days…"

"Yeah, because she was mad at you. Not because she was cheating on you."

"I hope so, I really do. I don't think I could handle it."

"Which is why I'm here now."

Both men turned around. Kono was standing behind Danny, breathing heavily. Standing next to her was Rick, to who Steve had recognized as the blonde man. He felt the urge to kick the man's ass right there but first he wanted to hear what she wanted to say, give her the benefit of the doubt. He wanted to be mistaken about the other man so bad.

"Steve, this is Rick," she introduced the blonde man politely, to which he waved. Steve stood there motionless.

"Did you come all the way here to tell me his name?" Steve asked harshly "You could have called me on the phone."

"Steve, I came here to explain."

"Oh, there's nothing to explain. Your friend already did."

"I didn't," Rick interfered, "I wanted to but you didn't give me a chance."

"I'm really not talking to you," Steve spoke directly to Rick. "And I would appreciate it if you'd leave my office right now."

"No, he has to stay," Kono spoke and Steve frowned at her words. "We have to explain, both of us."

"Fine. Make it quick, I have work to do."

Kono sighed heavily, seeing how pissed off he was. He was right to be, for now, giving the big misunderstanding.

"Rick is a friend from the police force," she spoke. "We've been friends for three years now, and last night he came to visit, knowing how upset I was about what happened…"

"Oh, so this is my fault now?" Steve interrupted angrily.

"I never… will you just shut up?" she yelled. "Nothing happened. Nothing at all."

"Really? What about the bottle of wine? What about the 'long night we had'?"

"Yeah, so we drank a little and we stayed up late but that's about it."

"What was he doing at your house then?"

"We drank. I couldn't let him drive like that so he stayed home."

"Did you happen to mention you had a boyfriend by any chance?"

"Of course I did. I also happened to mention about our little argument…"

"So you ARE blaming me."

"I'm not!" she protested."God can you just stop! I didn't do anything wrong, anything at all."

"We could but we didn't," Rick interfered, "I mean I won't and I'm pretty sure she won't either. Not because I can't, it's because I don't want to and she doesn't want to. I mean no. Not at all. She's not my type. .."

"Fantastic, makes me feel better already," Steve said ironically. "Are you finished?" He stood up and made his way out, Kono followed suit and so did Rick.

"Steve stop, please."

"I already listened to everything you had to say. Now can you please leave?" he spoke, not facing them.

"I'm gay," Rick spoke quickly. Steve turned around in a harsh motion, watching as Rick blushed profusely.

"What?"

"I'm gay," he spoke again more confident. "Kono is the only one who knows, and now you obviously."

"Why… why didn't you say so before?"

"Because you didn't give me the chance!" Rick protested "You were so focused on thinking Kono might have cheated on you with me that you never listened to the real truth!"

"I don't know what to say…" Steve whispered, slowly making his way towards Kono. He felt like an idiot. Once again, he couldn't blame her if she wanted to slap him. "Kono I…"

"No, don't say a word," she spoke walking towards him, their bodies inches apart. "I should have told you about Rick before; I should have answered your phone calls…"

"I shouldn't have sent you home. I was stupid and worried and I panicked a little when I saw you bleeding," he spoke, removing a rebel hair from her face, "If I hadn't sent you home this would have never happened."

"Can we not talk about this right now? I missed you so much these last few days, I was driving myself crazy."

"I know. Me too," he moved closer, breaking the distance between them, stealing a quick kiss.

"Let's never fight again, okay?" she whispered against his lips.

"Never…"

They kissed, sweet and passionate, ignoring Danny's death glare and ramblings. They were tight in each other's embrace, lost in each other's lips and touch. Though Kono could have sworn, in the distance, she heard a soft sob coming from somewhere.

FINITO!