Before Danny knew it, Kono's wedding day had arrived. Originally he had planned to spend the morning getting ready with Steve at home, but then he'd gotten a call from the rest of Five-0 saying that Bennett – the guy who led the robbery of a nuclear bomb from a military plane – wants to set off the bomb in Hawaii to incite a war – today of all days - and needed all the help they could get. So Danny frantically phoned Steve's day-centre and got them to pick him up, apologizing for the sudden change of plans.

"But why, Danno?" Steve asked as Danny rushed to help him get dressed in a t-shirt and trousers. He'd bring Steve's tuxedo with him to the palace and Danny, who had already put his on and would just have to try not to crease it, would have to somehow get it on him later.

"Because Danno has to go to work to catch a bad guy, babe." He sighed when he saw the sad look on Steve's face as he sat in his wheelchair, and paused to squeeze his hand. "I know it's not the plan we had in mind for this morning, but I'll try and pick you up as soon as possible, okay? I promise. Then we'll go to Kono's wedding!"

"Okay…" Steve relented as Danny buckled him in.

"The bus will be here soon, alright? Try and cheer up, buddy – you always have fun when you go to your school." Danny tried to win him over, but he realised that he was fighting a loosing battle. So he gave up and left Steve to it while he got his rucksack ready, and then took him outside to meet the bus as it pulled up.

"Hey, look at me." Danny bent down so he was eye level with Steve. He cupped the side of his face and waited until the other man met his gaze. "Danno loves you, don't forget that – and before you know it we'll be at the wedding with everyone." Steve let out a small smile, which Danny gladly returned.

"I be good for you. Steve loves Danno." Danny pressed a kiss to his cheek, and said goodbye as he helped the driver strap Steve's wheelchair into the bus. Danny watched the bus drive off before running back inside to finish getting ready.


Steve found it hard to concentrate for the rest of the morning, and it took the staff a long time to persuade him to participate in the activities.

"Come on, Steve, I know how much you enjoy the painting sessions!" Alani tried to persuade him to join in.

"Miss Danno." Steve shied away from her hand on his arm and continued to stare out of the window he was sitting by.

"You could paint something for him?"

Steve slowly turned his head to look at her. "For Danno?" Alani nodded and smiled. Steve bit his lip. "He likes giraffes." He whispered.

"Great! Shall we go and paint him one?"

"Okay." Steve let Alani wheel him over to the table where there were a few other people already painting, but he didn't make eye contact with them. Steve watched as Alani drew the outline of the animal in pencil on a large piece of paper, before she handed him the paints and brushes. Steve shakily painted the colours on the giraffe, ignoring when one of the other clients kept on trying to engage him in conversation.

"Hey, what are you drawing?" Steve shook his head at the repeated question, before carrying on painting. Please go away… "Hey come on, I just wanna see what you're drawing!" The younger man then tried to reach for the piece of paper, and Steve's eyes went wide.

"No!" He shouted, leaning over as far as he could in his wheelchair - which wasn't a lot - and trying to cover the paper with his arms. "No! Not for you!"

"What's going on here? Steve?" Alani came rushing over at Steve's shouting.

"Bad man. Not for him." Steve muttered, eyes screwed shut and not moving from his guarding position. Alani sighed and rubbed his shoulder.

"George, we've been over this before. Not everybody wants to let you see what they're making. Now leave him alone." She said firmly at the man next to Steve, who sighed before getting up and joining another table. "There, he's gone now! Are you okay, Steve?"

"Yes… Thank you." He whispered. "Done for Danno." Steve leant back in his chair and revealed his finished painting.

"That's really nice, Steve! I'll leave it over here to finish drying while we have some lunch." Alani moved it aside and handed Steve his sandwich. He was enjoying the programme about dolphins that was on the television when it suddenly cut to the local news channel.

"We interrupt this programme for a special bulletin. It would appear that a nuclear bomb has been stolen and was hidden on a tram that is now speeding through downtown Waikiki. The Five 0 task force are on the tram and appear to be trying to steer it away from the city." The news then cut to a close up photo that a passer-by had taken, and Danny was clearly visible on the tram. Steve's face fell.

"Danno!" Steve exclaimed, and tugged on Alani's sleeve to get her attention. She turned to look at him, and he pointed at the screen that still had the photo on. "Danno in trouble!" Alani listened as they repeated the situation with the bomb. Steve started to panic, eyes glued to the screen as they showed the photo of Danny on the tram.

"Oh shit… okay Steve, you need to calm down, buddy." Alani focused on the now crying man next to her.

"Want to help Danno!"

"I know you do, Steve, but there's nothing you could do to help him. Five 0 will handle it!"

"No! Steve be with Danno!" Steve was practically shouting through his tears. Alani ran her hands through her hair and reached for the company phone, scrolling through until she saw Danny's name and hit 'call'. Her heart sank when he didn't pick up, even on the second or third try. She tried the next name on the list of Steve's friends, which was Kono.

"Hello? Is this Kono Kalakaua?"

"Yeah… Who is this?"

"This is Alani, I work at Steve's day centre." She sat next to the man in question as he started rubbing his eyes.

"Oh, hi. Is Steve okay? Now's not… really a good time." Kono said as they arrived at Kamekonas shrimp truck and Danny and Chin loaded the bomb onto his helicopter. She listened as Alani explained what had just happened and Steve's reaction.

"I know it's a lot to ask, but Steve's really upset and wants to be with you guys, we can't get him to calm down." Kono cringed; she could hear Steve crying over the phone and could make out Danny's name in there too.

"Oh, man…" Kono looked around, before her eyes drifted back to the helicopter in the distance. "I guess you could bring him to where I'm at." She gave Alani the location of the shrimp truck and accepted her many thanks before hanging up.

"Okay, Steve – let's go and see Danno." Alani said, and breathed a sigh of relief when he eventually stopped crying as she turned his chair around and began to wheel him out.

"Wait!" Steve flung his arm out to the side causing Alani to quickly stop. "Giraffe for Danno." She sighed, but couldn't stop the small smile on her face as she carefully placed the painting in Steve's rucksack, before carrying on wheeling him out to the bus.


The ride to the shrimp truck was short, and Alani was very grateful when the bus finally stopped; Steve was getting so impatient to see Danny that he was pulling on his shoulder straps to try to see out of the window. She got Steve off of the bus and wheeled him over to where Kono was standing by the hut, and Alani thanked her again for letting her bring Steve out here, before bidding them both goodbye.

"Kono, where's Danno?" Steve looked up and asked her, clutching his rucksack on his lap.

"Steve, can you, uh… can you see the helicopter out there?" The woman pointed out to the distance, where the chopper was. Steve followed her gaze and nodded. "Danno's on there, with Chin." His eyes widened.

"With the bomb?"

"Yeah… see, they have to drop it far away from here so it doesn't hurt anybody." Kono tried to explain, and then as if to help her an almighty explosion went off in the distance, and they both watched helplessly as the helicopter came racing back towards them, narrowly escaping the giant wave of water that threatened to engulf it. Steve didn't take his eyes off of the chopper as it finally landed on the beach, and saw Kono out of the corner of his eye run towards Chin. But he didn't pay them any attention as he saw the man who was his whole world climb out of the cockpit.

"Danno!" Steve whispered to himself. He put his rucksack on the ground before frantically unbuckling himself and eventually getting to his feet. "Danno!" He shouted as he stumbled in Danny's direction.

"Steve?!" The blonde turned around at the sound of his name and his breath caught in his throat when he saw Steve coming towards him. Danny ran towards him and caught the taller man just as his leg was about to give way. He held Steve close to him and both men let their emotions from what just happened fall out. "I'm so happy to see you, baby." Danny whispered, not caring that Steve was getting his collar wet with his tears. He shot a grateful look at Chin and Kono as they brought Steve's wheelchair forward and Danny carefully lowered the other man down once he managed to get Steve to let go. Then he seemed to realise that Steve was there.

"Babe… how did you even get here?" Danny asked him, a panicked look on his face.

"Bus." Steve replied, smiling when Danny brushed the last of his tears away with his thumb. "Had to come back, Danno promised." Steve smiled up at him, Danny's hand still on his face.

"Huh?"

"Danno promised to see Steve later." Steve said. "For wedding!" Danny smiled back, getting what Steve meant. Then his eyes went wide. The wedding!

"Shit!" Danny looked up at the two cousins. "Kono, your wedding! We need to go!" The two cousins headed off to the venue in Chin's car, while Danny phoned a cab that would take him and Steve to the palace, and Steve's tux.


"Hey come on, babe, hold still! I know you don't like it but it's only for this evening… There!" Danny raised his arms in success as he finally managed to tie the bow tie around Steve's neck, trying to ignore the sour look on his face.

"Danno, too tight!" The blonde sighed and gave Steve a look of his own, but still loosened the black tie.

"That better?" Steve nodded, and Danny sighed in relief before bending down to put the taller mans shoes on, having already gotten Steve dressed in his suit and back in his wheelchair.

"Sorry, Danno." Steve mumbled as he fiddled with his shirt with a downcast look. Danny finished tying his second shoelace and pulled his desk chair over so he could sit in front of him.

"Hey… It's okay, buddy." Danny took his larger hands in his own and squeezed them. "I'm sorry too, it's been a… a long day, and we've still got the wedding to go." Danny ran a hand through Steve's short hair in an attempt to style it, and couldn't hold back his smile when he sat back and looked at him.

"You okay, Danno?" Steve asked, confused as to why he was smiling. Danny cupped the side of his face.

"You still look amazing, Steve." His fingers lightly traced the scar on the side of Steve's head from when they had to drain the swelling on his brain. "Even now, after everything." Danny whispered.

Steve just smiled back at him. "Danno looks beautiful." He said quietly. "Always." Danny bowed his head and forced himself not to cry, at least not until later.

"Thank you, babe. Danno loves you so much."

"Steve loves Danno lots too." Danny kissed his forehead, and held still so that Steve could return the favour. "Oh! Present for you." Steve pulled his rucksack off the desk and carefully pulled out the painting from earlier before handing it to Danny with a grin plastered on his face.

"Oh babe, you know I like giraffes, thank you so much! I think I'll put it up here in my office so I can see it when I'm working." Danny put it on his desk for now. "Right, come on babe. We've got a wedding to go to! Let's go and wait for the cab outside."


True to his word Danny didn't cry until the ceremony. Kono looked so beautiful, you wouldn't think that just a few hours earlier she and the rest of Five 0 had saved Hawaii from a nuclear bomb.

Danny wasn't surprised when Steve dozed off towards the end of the ceremony; he'd seen him out of the corner of his eye fighting to stay awake, but the lack of an afternoon nap plus the day's events had clearly proven too much. Danny tipped his wheelchair back slightly so he could tip his head back and kept the hand that Steve had grabbed as soon as he'd sat down where it was.

Afterwards everyone piled inside for the after-party and food. Steve was still asleep, so Danny parked him next to his chair at the table he was sharing with Grace, Chin, Lou, Renee and Max and grabbed some food. Eventually Steve woke up, so Danny handed him the plate of food that Kono asked the caterer to make especially for him and helped him with it so that his crisp white shirt stayed clean. He wiped Steve's face with a napkin and was about to ask him if he wanted a drink, but a prod in his arm from Grace caught his attention and he turned around and saw the woman standing by their table.

"Oh. Hi, Catherine."

"Hey guys… Hi, Steve." She said nervously, looking at the man in question. Steve glanced at Danny, who squeezed his knee in reassurance - even though inside his heart was pounding.

"Hi." He said quietly, frowning at Catherine, trying to remember who she was. The DJ suddenly starting playing music, and everyone else at the table took the cue and left the three of them to it, Grace kissing her father and Steve on the cheek as she left.

"Do you remember me, Steve?" Catherine asked, sitting down on Danny's other side. Steve continued to stare at her, one hand grasping Danny's where it remained on his knee for comfort. Danny could tell the answer to her question when the expression on Steve's face changed.

"I... Yes... No... Maybe?" He bit his lip and screwed his face up in frustration, and Danny was quick to jump in.

"You almost remember Catherine, don't you babe?" Steve nodded, so Danny asked the woman for her phone which she gave over. He scrolled through until he found a photo of the team with Catherine in it and showed it to Steve. "There, buddy. Does this help?"

Steve studied the photo hard, before eventually nodding. "Yeah, Danno." He looked at Catherine and a small smile crept onto his face. "Navy!"

"That's right Steve, we were in the Navy together!" Catherine exclaimed, and Danny held his breath and prayed that this didn't trigger him to have another flashback. Fortunately it didn't, and he sat back and relaxed as the two of them talked for a bit; he would have given them some privacy but Steve refused to let go of his hand. Danny could sense that Catherine seemed to have run out of things to say to Steve, and so didn't mind when she said goodbye and went to join the others.

"You okay, Steve? After seeing Catherine? You two have been friends for years." Danny hesitantly asked, not know how much Steve actually remembered.

"Hmm... Steve and her... together?" He asked, a worried look on his face.

"Yeah, a long time ago though, buddy. Before you and I got together." Danny explained, giving Steve what he hoped was a comforting smile.

"But no more. 'Cause Steve loves Danno." Steve had a determined look on his face, and Danny realised that it wasn't a question - it was a statement, it was Steve remembering that he and Catherine used to be together, before his and Danny's relationship. Danny knew that Steve knew that they weren't together anymore, but they still loved each other and that was all that mattered to him.

"Yeah, babe. That's right!" Danny breathed a sigh of relief internally, and handed Steve his beaker of drink before looking around. Danny could see that Max was doing some crazy dance move and laughed. The music then changed to a much slower beat, which brought the couples out onto the dance floor.

"Danno?" The blonde turned back to the other man.

"Yeah, buddy?"

"Steve dance with Danno?" Steve said with a smile, and the blonde felt his heart stop at the hopeful look on his face. He bit his lip, before nodding.

"Of course, babe." Danny watched as Steve unbuckled himself, and stepped in to help him stand up and supported him to walk over to the dance floor. Steve wrapped his arms around Danny's waist and let his head rest on the smaller man's shoulder, the smile having never left his face. Danny held him close and slowly began to sway them along with the gentle music.

Closing his eyes, he let his mind wander and thought everything that has happened over the last few months. He thought about how far Steve has come, from effectively being a vegetable in a hospital bed to this amazing man in his arms who'd just asked him for a dance. Danny knew that what everyone has said was right - that he'd put his whole life on hold to look after Steve until he was physically unable to. But after everything that the two of them had been through together before the accident, how could he not? He knew that this was his life now, looking after Steve every day and that it wouldn't be an easy ride - they'd already had a few bumps in the road.

But as Steve happily sighed into his neck and Danny held him closer, he knew that he couldn't wait for whatever came next.