Hey hope you liked the last chapter!!! Deciding whether or not I'm going to keep up with the Pinterest page- LMK if you guys like the idea or if I should continue!!! And why no reviews???!!!
Anyhow – still continuing because I like Luna and Steve so much!!!
Luna woke up bright and early the next morning, despite having been up so late with Steve the night before, she got up and went about her usual morning routine of workout, breakfast and walking the dogs, making sure to add in enough time to clean and ready her home for a teenager and a four year old.
Despite opposite ends of the spectrum, most of her things would accommodate Grace, Danny's eldest, however when it came to Charlie, she would have to make a list to go to the grocery store.
After cleaning her house to the level of cleanliness that her mother would deem appropriate for guests, she made a quick dash to the market to gather groceries for the weeks to come, including some extras that would any four year old and teenager would appreciate, texting Danny as she wandered through the aisles making sure that she was aware of any allergies or dislikes.
It wasn't after lunch that she had received a heads up text from Danny saying that he and Steve were on their way to drop off the kids, rather than spend her time waiting around on her phone, she took her pups into the back yard for a couple of rounds of fetch.
All the while Luna's house was all fun and games, across town on Danny and Steve's car ride wasn't so pleasant, what with having to deal with loud noises from Charlie's iPad and whines from Grace, who didn't believe she needed a babysitter.
"Uncle Steve would you please tell dad that I'm too old for a babysitter, I mean I'm gonna be 16 soon." Grace started whining again all the while still glued to her phone.
"Grace, it's not like a date night or something small, we're going out of the country." Steve explained, earning himself a deep sigh and eye roll from Gracie in the backseat.
"Okay first off you aren't turning 16 until next year and besides, Uncle Steve wants to know what you and your brother think of his future girlfriend." Danny said that last but with a taunting voice, earning himself a chuckle from Grace as Steve glared daggers at him for saying the g-word.
They arrived at Luna's house at about half past twelve, where she was in the middle of running around with Dax and Bebe, but the minute the doorbell rang, any thoughts they made towards the rope toy in Luna's hand; switched to making a barking mad dash to the front door, and that's exactly what they did.
Doggy treats in hand, Luna gave the her two furry babies stern directions to stay sitting and quiet as she opened the door to her guests.
"Hey guys, come in." She said happily, smiling at a shy looking Charlie and an annoyed looking Grace.
"Have I told you how much I appreciate you doin' this?" Danny asked, causing Luna to smirk in amusement as it was the complete opposite.
"Not at all, but no time like the present." She said happily as she, rewarded her well trained pooches with the treats in her hand, calm as they may have been as soon as Charlie went in to pet the two, their tails wagged furiously as they gladly gladly accepted a new friends ear scratches, retaliating their happiness by attacking Charlie's face with kisses.
"Well in any case, thank you….Luna, this is my daughter Grace, and my son Charlie." Luna smiled at the two children before her, Charlie was absolutely adorable, Grace however had a look of annoyance on her face as she greeted her babysitter for the next week, that is until she took a look into the back patio and saw Luna's backyard.
"You didn't tell me she has a pool." She said scurrying towards the sliding doors to get a better view, tossing her duffle on couch as she ran.
"I didn't know she had a pool." Danny said with a tone of worry in his voice, walking over to take a look himself.
"Hey you." Steve called out to Luna before she headed towards the backyard, ever so rudely forgetting to greet him.
"Hey yourself." She said turning back to look at the man trying to get her attention.
Seeing an opportunity to lure her into the laundry hallway while Danny and the kids were distracted with inspecting the backyard, Luna couldn't help but roll her eyes at his attempt to make the most of her other house guests distractions.
"What- someone needs a goodbye kiss or something?" She asked curiously as she leaned up against her dryer, Steve chuckled as he stepped closer towards her, putting his hands on her hips.
"More like one for good luck." He whispered with a husky tone that sent shivers down Luna's spine, the hold he had on her hips gripped tighter as he picked her up and sat her on the dryer, earning a school girl giggle from Luna.
He immediately hushed her amusement as he leaned down and pressed his lips to hers, she melted right into his warm embrace, snaking her arms around his neck, pulling him closer so she could deepen the kiss.
Not wanting to get too carried away Luna slowly pulled away and simply stayed comfortably in Steve's arms for a moment as she heard Danny and the kids playing with Dax and Bebe out on the patio.
"We should probably get back out there." He whispered.
"McGarrett you are one big fucking tease." Luna huffed and promptly hopped off the dryer and made her way into the kitchen, Steve followed after her chuckling at her abrupt use of profanity.
They joined Danny and the kids out on the patio as he was saying his goodbyes.
"Oh lovely for you guys to join us…. Done making out already?" Luna smirked at him and decided rather than to tell him off, to go along with poking fun.
"Well you guys are gonna be gone a while, I needed my fix." She said as she crossed her arms and wiggled her eyebrows, Grace couldn't help but bust out in a fit of chuckles at the woman who was biting back at her dad's comments, Luna smiled at Grace with a little wink, all Danny could do to rebuttal at this point was to laugh sarcastically at her sense of humor.
"C'mon Romeo, we gotta go save the world." Luna rolled her eyes and chuckled at the little nickname Danny gave to Steve, Steve merely ignored the little comment and went over to say goodbye to his niece and nephew.
Luna couldn't help but smile at the sweet scene unfolding before her, Steve saying goodbye to his niece and nephew, seeing this sweet paternal side of him only added to the butterflies fluttering in her stomach, subtly blushing her cheeks.
"You've got it bad." Luna rolled her eyes and bit down on her lip hard, shaking her head trying to calm the smile threatening to spread on her face.
"Did they pack swimsuits?" She said quickly changed the subject as Steve finished saying his 'see you laters', and headed towards where they were standing.
"Nice save, and no- didn't really think they'd be necessary."
"Really? You live in Hawaii and you don't have your children pack swimsuits when they're staying over?" She crosses her arms and shook her head at Danny, noticing that he was getting agitated with her tedious teasing about the necessary articles of clothing, she decided to extend an olive branch rather than irritate him any further.
"Alright alright, I'm done, Charlie can use my nephews swimming trunks and I'm sure Roxy left something behind that Grace can use." She put her hands up in surrender of any further comments, deciding to be helpful rather than be annoying.
"I packed my suit." Grace came up behind her dad and hugged him again quickly before he and Steve made their exit.
"Be safe you two." Luna said as Grace gave Danny and Steve another quick hug, they then moved to share a side hug between the three before finally setting off on another dangerous mission, but not before bickering on the way out in true Danno, Steve style.
In the middle of their bickering, Danny's phone started to ring, Harry had started to wonder why it was taking so long for them to get to the airport hanger.
"What on earth is taking you lot so long? Might I remind you that this is a time sensitive mission?" Danny rolled his eyes as he was clearly not in the mood for another lecture, his day had been frustrating enough without having to add anything else to his already full plate.
"Calm down 007, we'll be there in a few minutes, just dropping off the kids at Luna's."
"It takes that long to drop them off?" Danny let out a frustrated sigh and before he could think before opening his mouth.
"Hey don't blame me - you can thank Steven here who just had to sneak in a quicky." Danny blurted out, earning himself a light punch in the arm from Steve.
"Danny!" Steve yelled as he peeled out of Luna's driveway, scaring the absolute hell out of Danny in the process.
"See you in a few minutes Harry." And with that Danny quickly hung up the phone, not even arguing with Steve on his driving.
"Sorry - couldn't help myself." Steve rolled his eyes and shook his head as he continued with his erratic driving.
"Yeah yeah, go on and tell everyone my personal business why don't you." Steve said sarcastically.
"Look I'm sorry, word vomit..." As Danny tried another apology he realized that Steve hadn't denied his allegations.
"But did you two really ... you know?" Danny wiggled his eyebrows.
"No we did not. Cmon Danny we haven't even been out on a date yet and you think I'm just gonna show up at her house like that and... while you and the kids are outside." Danny nodded as he felt bad for not giving his best friend a little more credit in his ability to control his sexual desires towards Luna.
"Alright alright. I didn't give you enough credit and I apologize for that...so when are you gonna ask her out?" Danny paused deciding whether or not it was safe to ask this next question after assuming and asking on details of a more intimate level, and then his curiosity got the better of him so he asked anyway.
Steve just shook his head and chuckled at his meddling friend.
"Don't know." He kept his eyes on the road trying to keep a serious demeanor, even the slightest smirk on his face would have given away to Danny that he was lying through his teeth.
From the moment she mentioned him owing her a surf lesson, he had already made a mental note to ask Danny to cover for her the day after they got back so he'd be able to take her out.
With Steve's crazy driving it didn't take long for them to finally arrive at the private airport where Harry was impatiently waiting for them inside the jet.
Rather than continue with comments about their tardiness or the reasoning for them being so late, Harry thought it best to just fire up the jet and take off as soon as everyone was settled in. Like clockwork Steve started with giving directions on how to get to their destination faster, something about lowering altitude and speeding up as he was clearly not liking sitting in the passengers seat.
"What's the matter Steven?" Danny asked with an amused tone, further irritating Steve.
"Nothing."
"See he only seems to like taking the passenger seat when his girlfriend is driving." Danny said happily poking fun at an already very irritated Steve, rather than let himself get heated with the situation he chose to remain silent, only adding to Danny's amusement.
Before he could continue his little shenanigans, his phone started to buzz with Snapchats from Grace, letting him know how things were going so far, he opened up the little notification emojis to find a cluster of videos and photos of Luna keeping the kids occupied throughout the day, so far they just stuck to their pool party out in her backyard.
He couldn't help but smile and occasionally at the the pictures and videos that varied from Charlie laying on a inflatable pizza slice being guarded by the two dogs in the shallow end of the pool, Grace taking her endless selfies with her new bestie; and a video of Luna doing some sort of flip off of the diving board, Grace cheering for her behind the camera.
Steve heard heard all the commotion coming from Danny's phone, leaning over to sneak a peak he caught the video of Luna doing some sort of flip into the pool, followed by endless photos of the three enjoying their pool party.
A small smile formed on Steve's face, heart warming more and more as his feelings started to grow stronger for Luna, suddenly that little annoying voice in his head telling him to be cautious was shut down by the heart strings playing music that clouded his mind.
The rest of the plane ride was riddled with seriousness after a warning from Chin giving sensitive information about the case had them racing to save the world.
Back in a less dramatic part of the world, Luna was knee deep in her kitchen tacos for dinner, while Grace and Charlie flipped through the many family albums throughout the house, getting to know the newest member of the five -0 crew.
"You were a cheerleader?" Grace asked excitedly as she flipped the page that held Luna's cheerleading memories.
"Yeah, high-school and part of college." Grace continued flipping through the many pages of group photos of Luna's old teams.
"Were you any good?" Grace asked curiously.
"Well I don't mean to brag but yes ma'am I was, captain in high school and co captain in college." Luna said proudly.
"Really?"
"After dinner I'll dig out some of my dads home videos."
All throughout dinner questions continued, all of them directed towards Luna, but she happily answered all of them honestly, Grace and Charlie found out that she had five brothers and sisters, two of them from her parents second marriage, that answer seemed to peak the interest of Grace as she knew the struggle of having divorced parents.
"How does everyone get along so well?" Grace asked upon hearing something completely foreign to her, ie, Luna's entire blended family dynamics.
"It wasn't always like that, it took everyone a long while to adjust to the new reality but, thankfully my step- mom and step-dad are both really patient people, we got really lucky." Grace smiled, feeling happy for Luna but also feeling a little down considering she missed the days when her mom and dad were together- yeah she really liked Melissa and her step dad, but it just wasn't the same.
"Do you ever wish things were different?" Grace asked, Luna was taken back by this question as she hadn't thought like that in a long long time,
"Back then - yes now no, without the whole divorce I wouldn't have my little brother and sister, Tony and Roxy. But I get where your coming from, being a kid from a divorced family can really suck sometimes but think of it this way... it can be a kind of weird family expansion." Grace nodded and continued to eat her dinner.
After dinner the trio settled into the living room as Luna was in search for her dads old home videos which were later burned into dvds for easier access.
Charlie was busy cuddling with Dax and Bebe on the loveseat smooshed in between the two, while Luna and Grace sprawled out on the ground- pillows underneath for comfort.
Grace watched in amazement as she saw Luna on camera doing moves that she had really only see competitive cheerleaders do on TV, Charlie was rather bored with the girly-ness of the situation so he opted for playing Angry Birds on his iPad.
"Wow, you really are that good." Grace exclaimed as Luna in the video pulled off a toss up scorpion, followed by a twist flip into her partners arms flawlessly, she watched closely as she saw the once dark brown haired girl flipped and danced around the mats, and had to do a double take as she thought she was seeing double for a moment.
"Wait - are you a twin?" Grace asked when she realized there was two of them.
"Yep- thats my sister Solei." Luna expression turned into a bewildered smile as, memories flooded back into her mind, taking her completely off guard, the the videos including her sister soon turned into just ones with Luna as she got older and certain events unexpected made them that way.
"Did she quit?" Grace asked curiously, against Luna's silent hopes for her not to notice.
"She passed away when we were in high school, if she hadn't we'd have gone all the way through college cheering together." Luna said trying not to show any kind of sorrow in her voice, once she got to that last statement, her tone seemed a bit more optimistic.
"I'm sorry... were you guys close?" Luna smiled and ran through many memories through her head.
"The closest." Luna said happily, not wanting to ruin the night with any tears.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay, it happened a long time ago." The rest of the night was filled with watching the rest of Luna's old videos, putting Charlie to bed at a decent time, and Luna introducing Grace to a plethora of amazing 90's chickflicks; like Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Bring It On.
The rest of the week flew by rather quickly for Luna and the kids, and the same for Steve and Danny who were running all over the other side of the world chasing the evil that was currently in their target.
After having saved the world...or well more like most of Europe and the Middle East, eliminating a terrorist, the time finally came to make their last stop in Europe to be knighted by the Queen of England.
Out in a small cemetery, Harry spent his time waiting for the Queen visiting his wife's grave, slowly being approached by Steve who was as well dressed up appropriately for the occasion.
"She was the only one I ever really let in." Harry said still facing the headstone.
"I thought I had one of those." Harry turned around to see Steve with an expression on his face that sorrow and bitterness.
"Where is she now?"
"I don't know."
"You and your teammate seem to have it pretty bad for one another...any chance of that going anywhere?" Steve shrugged.
"Luna's ...different...I like her but...I can't really compare it to what I had with..." Harry smiled.
"Maybe that's the point mate." Steve nodded, not wanting to admit that Harry was right, as much as he wanted to move on from Catherine period, he just couldn't seem to shake it.
When he really thought about his current dating life, he also realized that he had never given Luna much of a proper chance….well other than treating her like a complete sex object by letting his lust for her looks completely take over.
"Yeah...maybe." Harry chuckled at Steve's reluctance, he knew what he saw when he was back in the states, it was obvious to him that Steve was down playing everything now that someone was calling him out.
"Wise up now yank, otherwise someone else'll swoop in." He gave Steve a light pat on the back, before Steve could give any type of response, Danny came and approached the two.
"Hey- uh I don't want to be insensitive or anything but….. do you think she'll have fish and chips?" Harry chuckled as they headed towards the ceremony being held for them.
Sorry mate, I don't think that's really her thing." Danny scrunched his face in disappointment, Steve in tow shaking his head his head at him.
Another couple days later it was finally time for the kids to pack up their stuff, Steve and Danny had already landed and were on their way over to pick them up, Luna was helping Charlie pack up all of his stuff when Grace walked into the living room with a sad look on her face.
"I don't want to go home."lol Grace moaned, dramatically throwing herself on the couch, Luna giggled at the drama princess and continued to pack Charlie's things as he lost interest in helping and ran into the back yard to play with the dogs.
"Vacations gotta end at some point girl, besides we'll have get together like this every once in a while." Luna finished up and nodded her head for Grace to follow into the back yard so they hang out and keep watch of Charlie while they waited for the guys to get there.
Luna sent a quick message to Steve and Danny letting them know that the door was unlocked and to let themselves in when they got there.
"I really don't want to go back to school." Grace said plopping down on the lawn chair next to Luna.
"Think of it this way- the sooner you go back...the sooner you will be done with it." Luna offered up a sunny disposition to the girls frustration.
"I guess." She sat back and crossed her arms huffing in annoyance as she watched on at her brother chasing Dax and Bebe, then she remembered something that her father had said to her before they had dropped her off and she got a scheming little smile on her face.
"Can I ask you something?" Grace continued cautiously when approaching such a personal subject, Luna caught on right away as she was using the same tone as every other person in Steve's life who had questions about their relationship status.
"Does it have anything to do with your Uncle Steve?" Luna turned to Grace as she asked her question with a question.
"Yeah...Are you his girlfriend?" Luna rolled her eyes and smiled at her curiosity.
"No... we're just friends... and co-workers." Grace raised an eyebrow, not believing the BS she was being fed.
"Well do you want to be his girlfriend?" Luna rolled her eyes again, completely unable to conceal the smile from her face.
"I don't know yet." She kept it cryptic, but to her dismay Grace was pretty determined when it came to prying for answers.
"Would you go on a date with him if he asked." Luna laid back on the lawn chair wondering what to say.
"I think the only person I should give my answer to is your Uncle Steve." Luna said with a sly smirk on her face, Grace rolled her eyes and smiled knowing full well that her answer to the question would be a yes, but before she could say anything else, Danny and Steve walked into the back yard.
"Daddy!" Charlie exclaimed as he caught a glimpse of his dad walking out, Grace did the same only with less excitement, but sheer gratitude to God that he had brought her father home safe.
"Hey you two." Luna said as she approached the heartwarming scene before her, not wanting to just outright attack Steve with a hug that would let him know that she thought of him all week and that she was glad that he made it out of Europe unscathed; she held herself back.
"Thank you, thank you and a million more times thank you." Danny approached Luna with much gratitude, leaning in for a hug while Grace and Charlie were busy hugging on their Uncle.
"Don't worry about it- we had a good time." Luna said as they pulled away.
"Alright guys go and get your things- we're exhausted." Danny pointed towards the house, following his kids inside to retrieve their things...and to subtly - or at least in his interpretation of subtlety give Luna and Steve a moment alone.
"So you made it out alive?" Steve said as he walked over to give Luna a hug now that they had a little more privacy.
"Shouldn't that be my line? All I did was babysit for a week and here you, Danny and James Bond are running around Europe saving the world and getting knighted by the Queen of England." She happily accepted the embrace.
"Well...when you put it that way." He appreciated the way that she was modest on her small but necessary part of this mission and focus on what he and the team had accomplished, rather than gloat having to care for two kids for an entire week.
They kept the hug light and free of any lip action for fear of being surveyed by the three possible prying eyes that were still inside the house, then headed inside as well - so that Luna would be able to say goodbye to the kids before they left.
"What are you doing tomorrow?" He asked casually before she opened the door to get back into the house.
"Working probably...I've been off for a week you know." He smiled.
"Technically you Have been working, considering Danny wouldn't have been able to come on the mission if you hadn't have stepped in." She rolled her eyes and smiled as Steve grasped at straws with his statement.
"Get to the point Steve." She demanded playfully, leaning her body against the door frame, waiting to see what Steve had to say.
"Tomorrow I'm teaching you how to surf." She shook her head and beamed up at Steve, a blush threatening to creep onto her face.
"You're the boss." She shrugged and turned to walk into the house, not wanting him to see her flushed expression., but it was too late, Steve was bearing a very amused smirk on his face as he shut the door and followed her.
"And you're being bashful again." He sneaked up right behind her and whispered into her ear.
A shiver went down Luna's spine as she felt his hot breath on her neck, he knew exactly what he was doing to her and what was worse... she was melting right into it, not holding back the answer with her body language, and not to mention the way she hitched her breath in was a dead give away.
Her bashful expression quickly turned to an evil smirk as she continue to walk towards the door as she spoke her response to Steve's teasing.
"Just wait till tomorrow….." She the turned around to face Steve in a motion so graceful that her hair flipped from laying on her shoulder to flowing behind her as she turned.
Taking her time she let her eyes roam, starting at his feet and working her way up with an lust gaze, devouring his whole body with a single stare until her eye traveling finally landed; meeting Steve's gaze.
"Then we'll see whose bashful." Now that the tables were turned, it was Steve's turn to feel the shivers that came along with Luna's teasing, the way that she stared at him; the lust in her eyes- well let's just say that she was lucky that there were three distractions outside deterring him from pushing her up against the wall and kissing her wits away.
He didn't really know what to make of what had just happened, he had only meant to tease her a bit but he saw how he walked himself right into that one, seeing as Luna wasn't one to shy away when teased.
Satisfied with with the results of her payback, she chuckled and shook her head not able hold her poker face any longer.
"Cmon, I better say goodbye to the kids." Steve followed after her, only this time keeping his distance, trying not to rouse suspicion like he did before.
"So you'll do my make up for the dance?" Grace asked reminding her that it would be in just a couple months.
"And your hair too." Grace giggled and clapped her hands.
"Thank you!" Luna smiled.
"Your welcome."
"Should I be worried that you and my daughter get along so well?" Luna rolled her eyes.
"Despite the quirks, I do make a good role model Danny." He chuckled as he strapped Charlie into his car seat.
"See you tomorrow?" Steve asked turning back to look at Luna before getting into the drivers seat of the Camaro.
"Yep."
"I'll pick you up at ten." Luna nodded, noticing the smirk on Grace's face:
"So you said yes?" She asked excitedly.
Luna shook her head and waved off walking back to the house.
"Why don't you ask your uncle what my answer was." Grace turned to look at Steve.
"She said yes."
"Good. I like her."
And with that they strapped in and headed home.
