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{12th December, McGarrett Household}
"Come on dafty" Catherine held open the door as Steve slowly used Danny's old walking stick.
"Ha... Ha... Ha" Steve coughed between each step. Even though it had been three days after the event, his body had somehow gotten worse. He felt the pain more or maybe it just was the fact he had just got out the hospital after lying in the un-comfy bed for two nights.
"Don't know how you're going to manage being off work." Catherine smirked. Steve pulled out his pad and pen and began to write.
I'm back soon. I can still walk, kind of talk and slightly kiss my girl right. Cath read the note as she found herself giving him the kiss on his forehead. "What's wrong?" he breathed lightly as he whispered out the words through his wired jaw.
"My parents phoned. They want to meet you"
Have you told them about the… Steve got interrupted as she put her hand in the way of where he was writing.
"... No, not yet I can't tell them over the phone. But I thought about them coming over here. By that time I should be 3 months… ish" Cath smile contained nervous thoughts.
"Yea, sure" Steve mumbled with a nod to clarify what he had tried to say. He began to write again. Nice too meet them. Maybe not so soon okay?
"Yeah. Not getting them over till your better. Don't want them seeing my man like this!" She smiled giving him another kiss – this time gently grazing his lips. "Smoothie time" Cath giggled as Steve's face to disgust. Three days in and he hated the sight of them. But he ate them, not only because it was the only thing he could eat, but he wanted to see Cath's smile.
{27th December}
"How's it going out there?" Cath looked at the small screen.
"Fun actually, not a lot of people on-board as usual. The majority of people went home for Christmas and New Year." Stephanie replied. She was some of the few people who had decided to work over the holidays. "I spoke to Dad and Mom earlier... They aren't happy you haven't visited them in a while and don't see why you and Steve can't go out to the mainland for New Year's." Stephanie looked at Cath who seemed to pondering her mind, thinking of how to tell her sister.
"I'm Pregnant and I haven't even told them yet!" Cath had her head down avoiding eye contact.
"Oh my, Congratulations! How long are you?" Steph's face lit up in a state of surprise.
"12 weeks. I haven't had the chance to tell them yet, I phoned them after I got back and invited them out, so I am planning telling them then" Cath tried to reassure her sister she knew what she was doing.
"When they coming out?"
"This time, in 6 days" Cath smiled
"When I am back in Hawaii?"
"Nothing like support from my sister... And my brother maybe" Leon appeared out of nowhere as he placed a mug of tea in Steph's hand.
"Hey" he sat down next to Stephanie. "What am I getting dragged into now?" Stephanie laughed as he questioned his sister.
"Fancy staying over for a few days while mom and dad are here? Please, you've met Steve." she pleaded her brother.
"Heard you were knocked up" he laughed as Stephanie hit his arm at his insensitivity to the word pregnant. "Is that what the supports for?" he laughed as he remembered his own experience of meeting his wife's parents.
"Yea, he needs some male support" Cath pleaded
"No sorry can't. Steve okay with Mom and Dad coming?" he questioned with a concerned voice.
"Commander Leon Rollins" a voice appeared from nowhere.
"Best be off, see you later Steph, you too Cath" Leon rushed off with the disposable coffee in hand.
"I don't know. I get off tomorrow at Washington and going to Michigan for few days with Ryan, don't know if I feel up to seeing dad." Stephanie looked down at her cup.
"Please!"
"I'll text you later okay. Best be going too. I suppose. Love you" Steph stood up, waving as she
"Love you too, stay safe"
{2nd January, McGarrett Household}
Steve woke up to find Catherine resting on his shoulder, smiling as she dreamed. Her hand rested on his waist as he caressed her back gently, swirling his fingers delicately along her skin. It was going to be a big day for both of them. Catherine's parents were coming to the island and without Cath knowing, Steve's jaw was going to be free again after 3 weeks in the wire.
"Morning Darling" Steve whispered into Cath's hair as she stirred in his arms.
"Hi, honey." She lifted her head off of him, pulling her head up to his neck gently pecking it, before resting back into him. "How you feeling?"
"Good" he pointed to her.
"Brilliant" She looked into his eyes "You nervous?" she questioned. He nodded in response.
"We'll be okay" he mumbled holding her tight. She smiled into his shoulder praying her parents liked him. He looked over to the clock, 9:32. He gently patted her on the back before slowly picking himself up and heading over to get changed. He took back his note pad: I got to go into work till 11 I'll meet you back here okay?
"What Steve! You promised you would be here when they came!" Cath turned disappointedly.
"Sorry" He mumbled, "Work Left, I be back soon" He leant down waiting for her to kiss him before he left the house, leaving Cath to meet her parents herself.
{10:43am, Honolulu Airport}
"Hey Darling" Cath stood at the door of the airport.
"Mom" Her arms flung over Harriet Rollins, as Jonathan Rollins – Engineering Admiral Reservist of USS Navy – pulled too large suitcases behind him. "Dad" She squeezed the tall man with a mixture of Grey and Black hair.
"Hi Darling" she let go gently, recoiling back onto her feet. "So, where's the man then?" Her father looked around the crowded airport.
"He got called away this morning, but he's not going to be that late… he hopes" she laughed nervously at the thoughts going through her father's head. Jonathan was extremely protective over his family. One thing out of line he would react.
"Is your sister back in Hawaii yet?" Her mother asked putting her arm around her daughter.
"Ten minutes… She's coming in from Detroit. How was the flight anyways?" Cath tried to change the subject before her dad questioned why she was there.
"Rubbish as usual" John spat out after he started to rumble in his hand luggage.
"Stop moaning, John!" Harriet laughed at her husband's incompetence. He looked up with puppy dog eyes and pulled out a bag.
"Two bars of chocolate from duty free as you requested" he handed to Cath who stood grinning like a cheetah. "Let's go get a coffee, and wait for Steph! She'll be late anyways"
Catherine and her mother sat on the little bench facing the arrivals gate while her father ran for some drinks. Steve was texting her, telling her to breathe, calm, he would join her in a matter of seconds and help her bare the front of the lectures she knew was going to get from her father.
"Here you go" Jonathan appeared in front of the mother and daughter and handed them their drinks. "Where's Stephanie?" He quizzed as he stood anxiously.
"What have you got planned dad!" Cath had seen him nervous like this before.
"Nothing, a sparring match" he coughed the last bit trying to disguise his true intentions.
"She won't do it I told you, Jonathan and I am not for it either!" Harriet said pointing her finger at her husband. Cath agreed as she felt a little stroke on her shoulder.
"Hey Baby" Cath looked round to see Steve wide mouthed and smiling, his wire was off and Cath had the shock of her life. She stood up and walked round and collided with him, forgetting about his ribs making him cry slightly in pain.
"Sorry" She kissed his lips as his jaw moved a little bit. "Dad, Mom this is Steve." Her parents had been staring at them since he had joined them at the bench. He nodded shaking Jonathans hand and then Harriet's. Stephanie bundled over cuddling her mom from behind, scaring her vaguely.
"You miss me?" She laughed as her mom elbowed her in the stomach.
"Don't do that again missy!" She shouted as she readjusted herself.
"Sorry, Hey dad" Stephanie made on attempts to move closer to her dad, until he came up to her. He opened his mouth however Stephanie spoke first "No sparring match's dad!"
"But…"
"No." She bit back before he could get a chance to explain himself.
"Think about it…" he pointed at his daughter.
"Come on were going before this turns into a full scale public brawl!" Cath said trying to break the pair up.
{The Next Day, McGarrett Household}
"Faster movements, especially with your roundhouse kicks. There too slow." Cath sat on the Lanai, watching Jonathan putting Steph through her paces for her next taekwondo sparring match; only two days away.
Steph persisted on – taking her father's advice into account. Making her kicks: faster, stronger and more of a statement as the sound of the battered pad echoed.
"Axe kicks need to be more up and down" Cath was the always thought she was the expert in Taekwondo, even though she was a lower grade. She enjoyed the kicks and the patterns however Steph preferred the sparring; kicking people violently.
"Shut up. I'm doing it fine" Jonathan lightly hit the kicking pad over his daughters head at her disobedience to her elders.
"Listen to your sister." Cath laughed remembering how fun it was too annoy her sibling and how her dad felt about manners.
"Half, double half, spin half and… jump reverse crescent kick" Steph collapsed to the floor after failing to hit the last kick.
"I don't even want to do this match! I told you no more last time" Lifting herself up off the floor she wiped the sweat off her head and stood with her arms crossed. "I was off work for two weeks cause of my knee last time"
"Think of it as the best of three matches…"
"Would rather not Dad!" She kicked the pad out of his hand and walked back into the house. He was pushing her hard, practicing for 2 hours and a quarter had really drained her energy. Jonathan picked the pad off the grass and plonked himself down beside Catherine.
"Do you ever think about coming back?" Jonathan questioned his 35 year-old daughter.
"No, wouldn't be able to keep up!" She laughed but she was right. Catherine only thought of the humiliation she would feel knowing her younger sister – by 16 years – was a better fighter and at a higher grade than her and she couldn't exactly go back just now could she: being 13 weeks pregnant. "But Dad. You push her too much; you don't want her injured before the match even begins!"
"You're right, brainy" He heaved himself of the chair kissing her on top of her head. "My little group of Einstein's" Jonathan muttered before entering the house.
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