One night is all it took

By

Landon Richardson

Disclaimer

The characters of Steve McGarrett and anyone else who might sound familiar do not belong to me in any shape or form, I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes

The character of Danni Williams is probably mine by now. Even though she was originally based on male Danny Williams I think it's probably safe to say that's she turned into her own individual character with her own set of beliefs and personality, especially since I've created a back ground for her which is different to male Danny's background in the show. This also affects Grace who is different from the show as well in ways.

The characters of Mikhail Donovan, Chris Donovan, Michael Reed, Robin Blake and Spencer Parker belong to me as well

I should also add that if a character is mentioned who you are not instantly aware of then that character belong to me as well

Author Note

Here's is the next chapter for you all.

I finding this way of writing, focusing completely one story only really working for me, I'm already four chapters ahead at the moment and even better is the fact I know how I want this story to end and where I want it to end. There is also an one shot which I'll place up directly after this is finished.

There's a good chance as well that I'll revisit this world as well in the future once I've cleared some of my backlog.

I find this version of Steve and Danni surprisingly sweet and this chapter was certainly interesting to write as well so I hope you like it as well.

Anyway please enjoy the chapter!

Overall summary

It was meant to be just one night of fun, just one simple night of pleasure before they went their separate ways, neither of them knew just how much that one night would change everything for them. (McDanni, part of the Danni Saga world)

Chapter Summary

"How do you want to do thisthen Danni?Hard and fast or the slow and steady approach because I'm think in this case, hard and fast is the way for us to go."

Overall romance

Steve McGarrett/Danni Williams

Eventual mentions of other romances as we go.

Chapter Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams

Chapter Ten

What were you thinking?

"How do you want to do this then Danni? Hard and fast or the slow and steady approach because I'm think in this case, hard and fast is the way for us to go."

Danni blinked at the question, turning her gaze away from the warehouse in front of her to focus on Mikhail who stood next to her, already secure in his tactical vest. She bit the inside of her cheek, her eyes moving back to the building in front of her as she focused on the different entry points they could use. The main thing was the fact that they still had the element of surprise and she planned to use it. This was after all the closest they had come to be able to shut down the human trafficking ring which they had been looking into over the last month.

She breathed out slowly, looking back at Mikhail and the rest of her team who had come in close to hear her instructions. For a moment the pressure weighed down on her but she pushed it away, she was more then used to shouldering the responsibility of her team.

"Parker, has the guys we sent to scout the perimeter returned yet?" She queried, pitching her voice low to eliminate any chance that they were overheard, it was unlikely but she didn't want to tempt fate. Parker nodded his head, his dark eyes focused on Danni as he answered her.

"Yeah, they got back about two minutes ago boss. From what they could see there are about fifteen people in there with guns, a small crowd of civilians as well but they've been shoved in one corner of the room like they were cattle. They are probably the next shipment"

"If we take the West entrance then we can distract the traffickers long enough for a smaller team to get the victims out of there. If we're lucky then we might even get them all out alive with no additional injuries." Mikhail added, checking his gun. His face was set in a grim expression with no sign of his usual cheeky grin.

"Have SWAT arrived?" Danni asked her second in command.

"SWAT team one arrived three minutes ago." Chris Donovan stated, waving his hand behind him towards a plain black van. Danni nodded, moving past them towards the back of the van, her eyes landing on a familiar looking dark haired man who was silently preparing.

"Are we expecting any more of your team Reed?" She asked when she was close enough for him to hear her without her having to raise her voice at him, her eyes flickering across the various men and women who were strapping themselves into their vest, getting ready for the upcoming battle, all of them with the same intense look on their faces which told Danni that all of them were well aware on exactly what was at stake with this raid. Michael Reed, head of the New Jersey SWAT department, glanced up at her, his mouth curling into a half smile which quickly disappeared as he spoke.

"No, just team one for you today Danni. We're spread thin today. Team two and three are downtown providing support to the robbery division in a bank robbery which is going down and Swat four are with the DEA at the moment about to take down a drug den. Swat five and six are out of action with training. How many are there in there or are we going in blind?" He questioned.

"According to the scouts who got close enough there are fifteen unfriendlies plus the victims, the number of the victims is unconfirmed but we can assume that there are women and children in there." She told him, reaching up with one hand to squeeze the back of her neck as she turned to look at the warehouse again. "We've probably got about fifteen minutes tops before they start moving the victims out, once they do that then we'll lose them for good."

"There are ten of us and nine in your own team, that gives us the advantage and it's one we'll use" He commented before a rueful smile came to his face as he corrected himself. "Or rather eight in your team. I'm assuming you're not coming in with us with all things considered." He said, nodding towards her bump. Danni automatically placed her hand on it, soothing a hand across the active baby within and shook her head.

"I'm six months now, I don't think me heading into a human trafficking nest is necessarily the best idea I could have, not to mention what the baby's father would do if he found out. I'll be providing support from out here with Blake and some plain clothed officers covering the exits. The last thing we want is for any of them escaping after all" She told him before she focused her mind back on the case, thoughts of Steve could wait until later once the danger was over with and the victims were safe.

"Any idea how you want to do this?" Reed asked. Danni nodded, waving her team over quickly. Once they were there she began to speak.

"We don't have much time. Reed, I think you and your team should head to the west entrance and provide a distraction while my team head through the East entrance, your main goal is to get the victims out. Reed, if you keep some of them alive long enough that we can talk to them, then that would be good but we get if you can't. The main object is to take this ring down. Blake, you are with me, as are Costello and Matthews. We're going to stay out here and cover the entrances. Mikhail, you're in charge of team B, Reed, I'll leave you to decide who is best suited to lead your team in if you aren't doing it yourself. Any questions because now is the time to ask?" She asked, searching all their face closely before she nodded. "Good, then get this show on the road." She stated heading away from the group and headed into position, her eyes already fixed on the door which her own team would bust through. She focused on her breathing, wishing briefly that she was going in with them even though she knew it was impossible. She would never put hers and Steve's child at such risk. They were far back enough here on the verge that Danni has picked that they could take out anyone from their perch without ever being seen. Blake would be the sniper while Danni was her eyes.

She glanced to the side as Robin Blake lay down next to her, flashing Danni a smile. The other woman had been on the team for two years having moved over from vice and her contacts had proved invaluable, the fact that Danni genuinely like the other woman was merely an added bonus in her eyes. The fact she was an extremely skilled sniper helped matters as well.

"Costello and Matthews are covering the West entrance. Jordan, Baker, Santana and Tegally have arrived as well so Reed sent Jordan and Santana to cover the North exit and Baker and Tegally to cover the south, according to the blueprints which Russell unearthed those are the only other two exits." Blake reported, quietly. Danni nodded, breathing out as she lifted her hand and turned her ear piece on.

"Team A and B do you copy? She queried, waiting until she heard the grunts and words of acknowledgement. She brought up her binoculars and held them against her eyes, watching until everyone was in position before she spoke "In that case we are ago"

She winced when there were two simultaneous explosions indicating that both team had breached the building followed by screams and the sound of gunfire. She watched closely from the ledge, her gaze fixed on the door, her eyes narrowing as a man dressed in a ratty shirt and jeans stumbled out, still firing into the building.

"Blake, we've got one trying to make a run for it" Danni said to her, ducking down as the man turned and began running. She glanced towards Blake with a raised eyebrow who nodded at her before she pulled the trigger and shot. Danni watched as the man dropped as though he was a sack of potatoes and remained still

"You got him?" Danni told the other woman, smiling at the grin Blake shot her

"Put it this way, he won't be running anywhere any time soon." Blake answered with a grin. Danni nodded, returning her gaze to the scene. adrenaline pumping through her body as she looked down to see a flare suddenly going off telling them both that the room was now clear.

"Let's go" She called to Blake, leading the way down from their perch and towards the building. She stopped next to the dead man and kicked the gun back to the side of him towards Blake. She glanced up when the door opened, her gun automatically coming up, finger on the trigger, ready to blow whoever it was away.

"It's me Danni" Mikhail said, holding his hands up. "We've got them all. Looks like you've got one for yourself as well. Should have known that you and Blake wouldn't be able to just sit back without getting into the fun yourself. Your SEAL will kill you!" He said cheerfully, ignoring the Danni's eye roll.

"What he doesn't know what hurt him and besides, he asked me not to be the first one in the building and I'm not. I didn't even enter the building, I wasn't anywhere near the building when the real action went down." She pointed out, grinning when Mikhail snorted.

"I don't think that logic will work on him and he'll find out. You see."

Danni shook her head, standing up, brushing her clothes down.

"Is you say so fella" She said before looking at the building again, her attention flickering to Mikhail, moving towards him, patting his arm as she brushed past him. "Okay, show me what we got."

Danni stared through the glass watching as Mikhail went after Dominick Perez, the head of the trafficking ring. A small smile on her face, sometimes it was nice being able to take a step back and watch her partner do what he did best. Get scumbags to confess for their crimes.

She had placed Blake in with him. Danni had told her partner that it was because Blake fitted the type of woman who Carter went after but the truth of the matter was that she wanted to see how Mikhail and Blake would interact with each other. It was Danni's job to pick her replacement for when she went on maternity leave and although she had already chosen Mikhail to lead the team in her absence she still had to pick a new partner for him. Someone he could trust and get on with. Blake was the first one Danni was trying with him but there would be other trials first before she made her final decision. She had to know that she left her partner in the best hands possible.

She blinked when her cell phone went off, fishing it out of her pocket and answered without bothering to look at the screen.

"Detective Williams."

"Please tell me that this report is wrong and you didn't personally lead a takedown of a human trafficking ring with only the bare minimum when it came to back up?"

"Steve?" Danni said in shock, her heart flipping at the sound of his voice, ever since his surprise visit the month before when he had spent the weekend with her, making love to her and helping decorate their baby's side of the bedroom he or she was to share with Evie, turning it into the ocean, they had begun speaking on the phone as well as constantly texting. She knew he was somewhere in a different country which meant that he was up extremely late. "Wait a minute, let me go to my office quickly" She told him, she moved to the door and opened it, glancing outside before her eyes landed on Parker, waving him over. "I need you to watch from in here while I take this call. Come and get me instantly if something happens." She told the other man who nodded at her, slipping past and into the surveillance room. Danni closed the door behind her, heading down the corridor and spoke into her cell. "Steve, you still there?" She asked him, trying to hide her surprise that he had called her.

"Of course I'm still here" He answered.

"How on earth do you know about the take down Steve? The whole operation was meant to be on a need to know basis within the PD" Danni demanded as she headed into the main homicide bulpen holding up a hand at her team to indicate she would be with them shortly before she entered her office, closing the door behind her.

"Because I'm naval intelligence Danni and you are the mother of my child and you're in an extremely dangerous job so it's my right to know what you're doing especially if what you're doing is risky to you and the baby." He answered, an undercurrent of rage and concern to his voice which she hadn't heard before.

"So you're having me watched?" She queried, shaking her head in disbelief.

"Only because I'm concerned Danni because of the job you have. The report said that you and someone called Blake were engaged in a close range gun fight. Damn it Danni, you're six months pregnant, you shouldn't be anywhere near the front lines. What if you had been hit? What if something had happened to you and the baby? Jesus Danielle, I can't… I just can't okay. You need to be more careful"

Danni opened her mouth to rip him a new one when she stopped, taking a moment to calm herself before she spoke.

"Steve your info is wrong okay?" She told him softly. "Blake and I were just covering the exit in case one of them tried to get away from two hundred yards away in a perch. Blake is a sniper and I was her eyes, we didn't get close to the action and I didn't go near the building until SWAT sent up a flare to let us know it was completely safe. That was the limit of our participation in the take down. You need to trust me okay, I'm not going to put our baby at risk" She assured him.

"It doesn't matter if you were two hundred yards away or 5 yards away you shouldn't have been anywhere near anywhere where you could be shot at. Our baby is due in three months, if you went into labour now… you need to transfer to desk duty now." He told her, the commanding tone to his voice sending her own temper soaring.

"Oh I need to do I?" She repeated. "I'm the head of my team Steven and I'll run it the way I see fit. I am not placing our baby in any danger" She said, raising her voice at the sound of rage he made. "This is my job and my life so don't you dare call me and tell me what I should do as though I'm just going to roll over and do it because you tell me to. That's not what this relationship is." She snapped.

"Transfer to desk duty or…"

"Or what?" Danni demanded.

"Or" he said a tone of finality to his voice.

"OR" She repeated. "That's it, just or." She snorted, looking up when there was a knock on her door and Parker opened it.

"He's about to break boss, I think you're going to want to see this" He told her. She nodded at him.

"I got to go Steve, my case is about to blow wide open" She told him, her grip on the handset tightening when Steve spoke, a growl to his voice.

"This isn't over Danni."

"I think you'll find it is Steve" She responded before she hung up the phone, staring down at it, feeling surprisingly shaky as she realised that she and Steve had just had their first fight.

"Boss?"

Danni looked up surprised to see Parker still in the doorway.

"I'm coming" She told him, putting the cell into her bag and heading towards the door, her stomach churning.

That certainly could have gone better.

Author Note

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