OK - hope everyone is still enjoying it. I have only a few more chapters written then I have to decide what I want to do so enjoy the next few and then we'll see...


"You told me your knee was OK! What the hell happened? That does not look OK to me." Steve said angrily as he was trying to get a better look at Danny's knee. He was furious that not 5 minutes ago Danny had said that he wouldn't hide his injuries from him.

"My knee was fine yesterday when you asked. I hurt it when I fell down the stairs this morning. I haven't moved it since you got here and the pain meds were keeping the pain at bay." Danny admitted regretfully.

"Is it your ACL again?" Steve asked with sympathy as he gently put his hand on the swollen leg.

"I don't know. I am still waiting for the test results." Danny said.

With perfect timing, just then the doctor walked in. I have your results Detective Williams. Would you like to speak in private?" she asked gesturing toward Steve and making sure it was ok to talk in front of him.

"No, this is Leiutenant Comander Steven J. McGarrett. He is my partner on the 5-0 task force?" Danny said apprehensively unsure if they were indeed still partners. Danny said looking toward Steve with a questioning grin.

"Nice to meet you Leiutenant." the doctor said to Steve then looked at Danny and continued. "You have a moderate whiplash that will be painful for a while. You will have to wear the collar for a while to prevent you from moving your neck while it is healing. You may experience headaches and muscles spasms at times."

The men shared a look as they remembered the spasm Danny had a little while ago that had brought Steve back to his side. Although painful, Danny didn't mind too much as it had brought Steve back to him just as he thought he may have lost his closest friend.

The doctor continued,"Within a week or so you can ween the brace and start some gentle range of motion exercises. You can expect neck and shoulder pain with activity for a while. You also have a mild concussion, but not too serious as long as someone can keep an eye on you. Your knee faired OK with minimal damage. You appear to have sprained it and it should be fine if you take it easy and stay off it for a while." she said. "There's also some extensive bruising to your right shoulder where you must have banged it pretty good on something. Not much to be done for that, just take the pain medication. I will send you home with a written explanation of all of this as well as things to watch for from the concussion and pain control alternatives to medication that may help as well" she finished.

"Is there anything else Doctor?" Steve asked shooting Danny a look as he was annoyed that there was yet another injury that Danny hadn't mentioned.

"No he was lucky. No major damage. He should make a full recovery." she said.

"So when can I get out of here doc?" Danny asked.

"I would like you to stay over night. Your neurological checks since you have been here have been good. I believe that the nausea and headache were more from the whiplash than the concussion, but the symptoms still warrant some observation. As long as the neurological checks continue to be good, I don't have any reason that you couldn't leave in the morning. At that point someone could continue your observation at home with you if they would agree to it. You will need a ride home as you will not be able to drive until the collar comes off and you can move your neck better and I will warn you that you are going to need physical help at home once you get there as well." she said simply.

Although Danny didn't really like the idea of staying overnight. It was only one night and he didn't think that he was in any shape to go anywhere right now.

"He will have plenty of help and I will personally monitor his condition at home. Don't worry doc." Steve said. There was no way that he or any of the 5-0 ohana was going to let Danny go home without help.

"I meant it when I said take it easy. You will prolong your recovery if you do too much too soon. We don't want you to stiffen up, but we also don't want you to aggravate your injury. You need to let the pain guide you." the doctor said. Then she turned to Steve and said "You 5-0 have a reputation. Please take my advice and make sure that he rests." she said.

"Thank you doctor we will." Steve said and flashed her one of his best smiles as she left.

As she left the nurse walked in with his pain medicine. She helped him put the bed more upright and then shook the pill into his mouth and lifted the cup with the straw to his mouth for him to take a sip. "Anything else that you need?" she asked as she lowered the bed a little and fixed the pillows and blanket for him.

"Nope, think I'm ok for now." Danny answered.

Steve put his hand on Danny's right shoulder carefully trying to move Danny's shirt to get a look at the bruising. He was probing it gently to see where Danny was hurt. Danny tensed at Steve's touch. "That looks...colorful. How does it feel?" The hurt and betrayal in Steve's voice was killing Danny.

"My neck hurts so much that I can't feel past that right now. Both of my shoulders and my back hurt too. I haven't really been moving too much to notice if that shoulder was hurting more than the other. I wasn't hiding it. Seriously Steve if there is anything else wrong with me it will be news to me too" Danny said quietly.

"Oh there is plenty of other things wrong with you. Too many to list, as a matter of fact. Hopefully no more physical injuries though." Steve said with a smirk.

"One good thing did come out of all this." Steve said with a mischevious grin.

"Really? Please enlighten me. I'm finding it a little hard to think anything good came from this." Danny groaned.

"That neck brace means no more ties for a while and the doc said you couldn't drive while you had it on so I get to drive without your bitching." Steve laughed.

"Yeah figures you would think those things were good and by the way Steven, that was two reasons, not one. I thought you could count better than that. I figured that the Army would have at least taught you to count to 3 for blowing stuff up and such." Danny shot back at him trying his best to smirk.

"Ha ha Danno, and it was the NAVY." Steve said with a grin. He knew that Danny knew, but he appreciated the effort that his partner was putting in to try to make things normal between them again.

"So did the shoulder happen on the stairs too?" Steve asked.

"Not sure..." Danny hesitated. "It may have gotten worse then. I don't really know what I hit after I blacked out. I think that I originally bruised it on the first quick turn in the car. I banged it pretty hard on the door I think." he finished. He had wanted to spare Steve any more guilt, but if he found out later it would be worse.

Steve shut his eyes and ran his fingers through his hair. Steve was unsure how much more guilt he could possible handle.

"We should call Kono and Chin and let them know what is going on." Steve said.

"Sure. Would you mind? I'd like to rest a little if I can. You don't have to stay. I'll be fine. You can come back in the morning to pick me up if you don't mind. I'm sure that you have something else to do tonight." Danny said.

"I'll call Chin and Kono. Do you want me to call Rachel too?" Steve asked. Letting Rachel in on Danny's injuries was always a tricky thing.

"No, she can wait until later. No need to worry her and I would rather not have Gracie see me in the hospital again." Danny sighed.

Steve could see that he was struggling to keep his eyes open. "Alright. I am going to call Chin and you should get some sleep." Steve said as he walked out of the room so he wouldn't disturb Danny and could talk in private.