Personal Business part 11

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Enjoy the chapter. Spoiler alert: Steve and Kono heated confrontation… will she tell him the truth? Will she continue to hide it? What do you think? We'll see…

S&K

And she opened the door.

It was just like every other time she saw him, she was drawn to him like a magnet. His appearance, his smell, his heart, it all just made her fall… into him. But this time, something was oh-so-visibly different. He was looking at her in the eyes, but the spark in his was gone, instead replaced by what she could only identify as anger and betrayal. A twinge of guilt made its way up her throat and she swallowed thickly. He was there. Staring at her. She hadn't actually seen him in over a week and a half, but it was just like she had seen him five minutes ago.

This all went through her mind in less than a second. Because when Steve started talking, her mind shut down and her only focus was him.

"Are you insane?" Steve asked with a harsh face.

Well that one was easy. Of course she was insane; love could do that to you.

"What are you talking about?" she asked with big innocent eyes. It made his stomach tighten at the way she looked so relaxed when he was anything but.

"Low Kalakaua. Really low." He spat as he barged in right past her.

Kono took a shaky breath and closed the door behind her.

"So let me just ask you something; did you really think you were gonna get away with it?" he asked as a million emotions flashed through his eyes, none that Kono could pick up on though. Angriness, regret, betrayal, sadness, disappointment, yearning, protectiveness… love.

"Do you want the honest answer?" she asked with all seriousness. As he didn't even flinch, she continued. "Then no, I didn't think I was gonna get away with it, but I could damn well try."

"I don't even know what to say to you." Steve admitted. And it was true, but not because he couldn't think of anything, because he was thinking of too much.

"So don't say anything." She replied.

His nostrils flared as he shook his head.

"What the hell is the matter with you Kono?" Steve asked, his tone rising.

Kono's jaw clenched as she sensed his anger boiling up.

"Steve-"

"No! Just tell me! What were you thinking? Huh? What were you freaking thinking when you quit and LIED about leaving the country?" he demanded, the anger no longer disguised.

Kono straightened herself and replied in a tone that equaled his.

"I was thinking that I needed a fresh start. As simple as that." She said, and patted herself on the back mentally as she realized that actually sounded convincing.

"Oh really?" Or not. "Then why were you crying when you wrote the letter?"

Kono stiffened and her eyes widened imperceptibly when she heard the words coming out of his mouth. How the hell did he know that? No, there was no way he could know that she had been crying.

"What?"

"Don't play dumb with me Kono, you damn well know that doesn't work on me." He said through gritted teeth. "I took a second look at the letter, and guess what I found? Tear stains. Yours. So, if you really wanted a fresh start, why were you crying while you wrote your own freaking resignation letter? Because that sounds to me like you never wanted to leave in the first place!"

"You don't know that." she replied, stopping herself from getting any further.

"Actually I do know that, because I know you!"

If you knew me then you would know why I did what I did.

"No, you don't Steve. You don't know the first thing about me." She accused.

He took a step towards her and stared intently into her eyes.

"How can you even say that with a straight face?" he asked demandingly. "You love surfing. You love the water. You feel safe in it and so surfing relaxes you. When you blew out your knee you were devastated because you though your life would never make sense again, the one thing you could hold onto gone. And then you listened to Chin. You admired him like you never had before. He helped you. And so you became a cop. And you knew that you weren't going to be taken seriously, because of your cousin's history, but still you went for it, since the reason you wanted to be a cop was to help others. When you were giving the opportunity to join Five-0, you were thrilled to be around family and work with us, clean this island of the bad guys. And you loved it every single second of the day, don't you dare deny that because I know you did. I know everything about you, everything from what you like until what you hate. Everything from shave ice to being apart from your family. Everything from what you feel about love and what you feel about betrayal. I know why you put your life in danger every day. There's only one thing I don't know about you."

Kono stood slack jacked staring at Steve after his speech. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Even if they did, no words could explain what she was feeling right now. She had thought she was just another team member to him, but he knew everything about her. She couldn't believe it, and for just one second there, she considered the possibility that he understood her so well for the same reasons she understood him. But before she could make up her mind, without giving her time to recover, he started talking again.

"The one thing I don't know about you, is why you did what you did for this past week and a half. I don't know why you lied to us, why you felt like you had to push us away and live under the pretense that you weren't even in Hawaii anymore. I don't know why you don't trust us enough to tell us even if we trust you with our lives. No, you know what, scratch that, I don't know why you don't trust me enough to tell me, because apparently Danny and Chin have already figures it out. So, Kono, I'm not in the mood for games here. Why did you quit and why did you lie to me?" Steve asked the last sentence through gritted teeth.

"I can't tell you." Was her reply. Because honestly, she didn't trust herself to talk further than that.

"Kono, I'm warning you…" Steve said.

Okay, Kono had had enough.

"Fine, you want to know why I did it." Shut up, shut up! "I did it because I was in love with someone." Shut the fuck up before you say something you regret! "I was in love with someone at HPD." Like that! "I loved him and I couldn't stand to be around him anymore, and to see him every day and not do something!" Oh that's great, now you're telling the truth inside a lie! "I couldn't stand it anymore to put myself through that misery that I am pretty sure I didn't deserve! And so I quit! Yes, I quit! And I knew that you guys were gonna try to talk me out of it in a blink of an eye, and eventually I know I would have given in, and I would go back to everything that made me suffer" You do realize you are telling him the truth without actually telling him right? "And as desesperate as this may seem to you, or stupid or whatever, I needed to do this for myself, and you don't get to try and get me back on the team because I won't!" She half shouted.

It was Steve's time to be speechless. His heart sunk as the words she had spilled got to him. She loved someone. She had quit because of a guy? What? He had told himself over and over she didn't feel the same way, but the truth didn't hurt any less when thrown at his face. His entire mind was in overdrive although from the outside he was as straight faced as he always was. But he slapped himself mentally and forced himself to ask the question that he was certain would haunt him for the rest of his life.

"Who is he?"

Authors note: Another cliffhanger! O c'mon, I know you secretly love them!