A/N: Hello again!

This one is kind of an AU to what happened after the maze takedown in 4X18, and here is my version. Some spoilers for the episode!

Enjoy!

Taking care of the Ohana

Once they'd caught Bradley Richmond, Steve turned to Danny to tell him to 'book him', but the words died on his mouth at the sight of his partner.

Danny's right side was covered in mud, and the sight would have been very amusing if it wasn't for the awkward way in which he was holding his gun, the hunched posture and the pain on his face.

Steve frowned, moving closer to Danny. "Hey, what happened?" He asked, looking concerned.

Danny shrugged with one shoulder, wincing a bit. "Nothing, he just snuck up on me…" Danny grumbled, putting away his gun and pulling his sore left hand closer to his chest.

Steve frowned more, reaching to look at Danny's hand. His knuckles were scrapped and dirty, but Steve could see that at least the trigger finger and the thumb were starting to swell. On closer inspection, he could see that Danny's shirt was a bit torn on the back as well, and along with the mud there was a little bit of red peeking out. "Yeah, this doesn't look like nothing, Danno…"

Danny pulled away. "I'm fine… Can we just go?" He said with a roll of his eyes.

Steve studied him for a moment and nodded, knowing that arguing about it right now would get them nowhere. "Yeah, ok. Let's go." He said, moving towards the car.

Once they reached the hospital to arrest Alan Kim, Steve moved to take Bradley Richmond's arm and motioned for Chin to stay with Danny. "Ok, we'll deal with the arrest. You, take advantage of the fact we are in a hospital and get checked out, please? Chin can wait with you…" He told Danny.

Danny was about to say that he was fine, he didn't need to get checked out, but the truth was that his hand was really starting to hurt, and every time he turned, his back was giving him hell. Besides, Chin was already pulling him towards the ER, so with a groan, he followed, lifting his good hand to make a rude gesture to Steve's retreating back.

15 minutes later, Chin and Danny were waiting for Danny to be called inside. Chin had been nice enough to fill the paperwork and now they were stuck waiting.

"You know. I'm fine here. You can go upstairs and book Kim if you want…" Danny says, not wanting Chin to think that he's in any way obligated to stick around.

Chin just smiled. "Don't worry about it. I'm fine just knowing that we caught the murderer."

Danny shrugged, looking for a topic of conversation. "So… how was the reunion? Before the whole murder, that is…"

Chin's expression fell. "It was alright. It's strange to see how quickly time goes by…" He said with a sad smile.

Danny chuckled. "Yeah, I know what you mean… A friend convinced me to go to our 15 year reunion back in Jersey. It was about 3 weeks after Grace had left to move here and it sucked! Everyone would ask f I was single, if I had a wife and kids… I hated how everyone was married and happy, while I was…" He looks up at Chin in realization, his expression falling. "Damn…" He said apologetically.

Chin winced. "Yeah..." He said sadly.

"I'm sorry buddy…" Danny said, not sure on what to do to make things better.

Chin squeezed Danny's knee. "It's ok, brah… that's life and I've chosen to go on living it… I know there will come a time when Malia's memory won't be tainted by her absence, when I won't let the darkness taint the joy that was my life with her, and I look forward to that time." He said with a sad smile.

Danny couldn't find anything to say to that, so he just settled for patting Chin's back. Right then, a nurse showed up to call Danny's name.

"Listen, you don't need to stick around. I'll give Steve a call if I need a ride; after all he's probably still driving my car!" He says, waving at Chin to go already.

Chin shook his head with a chuckle and moved towards Alan Kim's room, wondering if Steve and Kono really need any help.

An hour later, they caught their murderers and while Chin and Kono were on the way to HQ to book Richmond, Steve was busy coordinating a police escort for Kim for what was left of his hospital stay. He was distracted by the buzzing of his phone in his pocket.

Not recognizing the number, Steve took the call. "McGarrett."

"Hello, I'm calling from Queen's Medical Center. You're listed as Detective Daniel Williams emergency contact?" A soft voice said.

Steve frowned, moving quickly to the ER. "Yes, I'm his emergency contact, and I'm actually in the hospital right now. What's going on with my partner?" He asked, concerned.

"Oh, you're here? Detective Williams said he was alone… Well, once you get here doctor Matthews will explain Detective Williams' situation to you… Goodbye." The voice said before hanging up.

Steve frowned at the phone, not liking the idea of something being wrong with Danny, so he hurried to the ER and asked for the doctor that treated his partner.

The doctor came out a minute later, shaking Steve's hand and directing him towards a curtained area. "Well, Detective Williams has a hairline fracture in two of his fingers, some deep bruising on his lower back and a couple of lacerations that were cleaned and bandaged. We checked for internal bleeding due to the location of the back injury, but fortunately there were no signs at all of any internal damage."He said with a smile.

"However, when we gave him a mild painkiller, Detective Williams crashed…" The doctor continued, growing serious.

Steve's eyes opened wide at the news, and he couldn't understand the doctor telling him this as if he was talking about the weather.

The doctor seemed to notice Steve's reaction, and hurried to reassure him. "Oh, no! I don't mean that kind of crash! His vitals were perfectly normal, but even with the mild painkiller, he fell asleep quite suddenly and we couldn't manage to wake him up again…" He says with a shrug. "We ran a few tests and as it turns out, he was dehydrated, had a low blood sugar level and by the looks of it, was basically exhausted." He finished with a nod.

Steve winced in sympathy. He hadn't really thought about it, but after a very long trip to Cambodia they'd had gone straight to work, and had not even stopped for lunch. Steve was used to that kind of pace, but by the sounds of it, it had caught up to Danny. "Yeah, we've had a long couple of days…" He said with a nod. "So… How bad is it? You don't have to keep him here, do you?" He asks, concerned.

The doctor smiled. "No, not at all. With the IV we have him on he should wake up soon, I just didn't think he was in any condition to get home on his own, and I would suggest that someone stays with him at least for tonight…" The doctor said with a nod, motioning for Steve to go into the room where Danny was sleeping.

Danny was sleeping peacefully, soft snores coming from his mouth. He had his casted arm on a sling and an IV attached to his other arm. Apparently he heard them come in, because he opened his eyes blearily and looked at Steve. "Can we please go home now?" He mumbled, before snuffling a bit and closing his eyes again.

It took a bit of effort and a lot of stumbling, but somehow Steve managed to help a half asleep Danny to out of the hospital and into the car, and from there back to Steve's place. He'd called Chin and Kono and asked them if they could change their initial plans and hang out at his place instead of at Kamekona's, so they were waiting for them when they got there.

The only thing Danny was aware of was some jostling around and after a while he was lying on a familiar couch. That was all the reassurance he needed to shift to a more comfortable position and go on sleeping.

He woke up some time later when the smell of food and the noise around him penetrated the fog on his head. He ate some food and tried to follow the conversations around him, but mostly he just sat there on a daze. He thought he saw some photos of Chin with big, horrible hair and Jerry wearing some strange kind of uniform, playing a trumpet and being abducted by aliens, so he figured it was all part of some strange dream.

He drifted for a while, but when he blinked the room back into focus only Jerry was still in the room. "Where'd everyone go?"

Jerry was looking at something on the coffee table, lost in thought, so he jumped when Danny spoke. "Wha? Oh! Steve had to go out for a bit, Chin is out with the shrimp guy, cooking something, and the girls are at the water I think…"

Danny nodded, wondering for a minute if Grace was with him today.

"Grace? That's your daughter, right? I think Steve said that she was with her mom this week…" Jerry said, making Danny wonder if the aliens had turned him into some kind of telepath.

Jerry frowned. "Hey! I've never been abducted by aliens! And you have to be very high not to notice that you're actually talking…"

"Oh…" Danny said, or thought, or both. He looked at Jerry again, noticing that he looked like someone had kicked his puppy.

"Come on! I'm right here! And I don't have a puppy, so nobody could kick it!" Jerry grumbled.

Danny lifted his eyebrows, still a bit confused by the whole situation. "Ok… Then why do you have that face?" He asked Jerry… At least he was pretty sure he did this time.

Jerry sighed, lifting what looked like an old yearbook and showing it to Danny. "Laura Richmond wrote this… I… Really liked her…" He said sadly.

Danny frowned, reaching out to clumsily pat Jerry's shoulder. "I'm sorry babe…" He said sadly.

He looked at the beer on Jerry's hand and his frown deepened. "Hey… You need something stronger today!" He muttered, standing unsteadily to move to the kitchen and find something more adequate to drink.

Jerry followed him worriedly, so he handed him the bottle of scotch while he picked up the two glasses, tucking one inside his sling. "Ok… This is much better!" He said, motioning Jerry to move back to the living room.

Jerry looked at the bottle unsure. "I'm not really good with this kind of stuff… I pretty much pass out after a couple of drinks…" He said.

Danny shrugged, taking the bottle from him and pouring generously for the both of them. "Don't worry about it… Steve has plenty of room!" He said with a nod, reaching to take his own glass.

Unfortunately Chin came back inside right then and took the drink away from Danny, sitting on the couch at his side and toasting with Jerry. Jerry shrugged with a small smile and started drinking.

A while later Jerry was snoring, sounding like freight train with a few loose parts and Danny was staring at him in surprise. "He literally took just two sips…" He muttered in awe.

Chin just chuckled. "Yeah, he's always been a bit of a lightweight… In that regard…" He said with a wink.

Just then Steve came back, stopping short at the sight of Jerry sleeping on his recliner. "What's going on?" He asked confusedly, turning to Danny and frowning at the drinks on the table. "Please don't tell me you were drinking, Danno…" He asked worriedly, giving both Chin and Danny accusing looks.

Before Chin could say anything, Danny stood up, swaying a bit on his feet. "Hey! For your information Chin here has been annoyingly helpful, getting me food, orange juice and those lovely painkillers… Jerry here just had a crappy day, and he's grieving, so I thought he could use something stronger than a beer… I had no idea that he would drop like a rock…" He said with a shrug. "Besides, Chin pro'lly needed a drink as well!" He said with a nod, stumbling to sit at Chin's side again.

By the looks of it, Chin hadn't even touched his glass, he stood up quickly anyway, clearing up the table and taking everything to the kitchen. "Well, yeah… It's been fun, but I should probably go… Kono and Cath cleaned up the kitchen and Kamekona said we could hang at his truck tomorrow if Danny was feeling better…" He said, moving to the door, waving and leaving before Steve could even suggest that he took Jerry with him.

Steve just sighed, turning to Danny, deciding to deal with Jerry's presence in the morning. "Ok… So how're you doing, Danno?"

Danny just smiled dopily from the couch. "I'm fine… 'm great actually… not feelin' any pain…" He said with a happy smile.

Steve shook his head with a chuckle. "That's great Danno, but maybe you should sleep in the spare room tonight, just to avoid any headaches later?" He says, pulling Danny to his feet and nodding in Jerry's direction.

Danny just shrugged, and didn't put up a fight when Steve steered him upstairs. "Sorry babe… I just figured he could use a friend, you know?" He said, looking at Steve, who was by now helping Danny to take off his shoes.

"Hey… Do you need a friend right now?" He asked, turning to Steve with a frown, just now noticing that his friend looked worried.

Steve looked up at Danny's face with a tired smile. "Don't worry about it Danno… It's nothing that can't wait, and you've done enough for one night…" He said, helping Danny to lie down under the blankets.

Danny snuffled a bit, shifting to get into a more comfortable position. "Ok… Just let me know, 'k? And thanks… Thanks for worrin' about the thing…" He said, lifting his casted arm.

Steve chuckled. "No worries... Someone had to look after you, after all, you've been busy looking out for everyone else, it seems… "

Danny just shrugged, half asleep already. "Tha's what we do… Take care of the Ohana…" He said before finally closing his eyes.

Steve stood up, tucking the blankets around Danny and moving to his own room. There was a reason why he'd asked Danny to go with him to Cambodia, and it was exactly that; there was no one he trusted more to have his back than Danny Williams, and so it was his job to watch Danny's back in return, after all, they were Ohana.

The end

A/N: I'm not sure if this one makes that much sense, or if it actually has a plot, but I still hope you liked it! And I'd love to hear what you think about it!

Thanks for reading and I'll see you around!