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Steve watched her for a couple of seconds struggling with the box before he decided to help her. He knew how stubborn Catherine could be. Back in Coronado she got injured once during a sparring session and couldn't walk properly for three weeks. He was there and tried to help her, but every now and then as he helped her Catherine started to complain and told him, she could do it on her own. Well, she wasn`t complaining about breakfast, lunch and dinner in bed, Steve smiled to himself.
"Do you need help?" Steve asked carefully. Catherine nodded with a smile, grateful that he had asked, by that time, she was already feeling the frustration inside of her growing. "Here you go, Baby." Steve said sitting down on one edge of the bed beside her before he reached over and opened up the box. "I hope you like it, I picked it out all by myself. When I saw it, I thought of you right away." He said looking at her to see her reaction. Catherine looked at it for a couple of seconds before she slowly placed it on to the blanket to touch it. Carefully she reached with her left hand for the small heart pendant and traced her index finger over it. Slowly her finger traced the line of the heart and then she stopped when she had reached the little clip on the side. Questioningly she looked up at Steve to meet his eyes.
"It's a medallion, you know, a locket." He explained softly. Looking at her with quiet anticipation in his eyes and voice. "Here, let me, I'll open it for you." Steve took the pendant out of the box and carefully he opened the small heart up. "You, Me and our future." His index finger pointed from picture to picture and then he looked at her with a smile.
This is….oh my god, the cutest thing ever! Catherine thought to herself as she took the heart out of his hand to get a better look at the pictures. There were a picture of each of them in its own heart; they were the most recent ones they had of each other. Each was from the night they had dinner at the Hilton when Mary announced that she was pregnant. And in the middle of the locket, was the third photo which was their ultrasound picture of their child, the first one of their baby ever taken. Catherine swallowed hard as she stared at the small framed pictures. The soft smile that she had on her lips grew bigger and bigger.
"With each new ultrasound picture we can change it." He told her running a hand through her long, soft, dark brown hair. "I didn't know if the doctor showed you the ultrasound you had after you came in, showing that everything was great with Junior. He's growing right on schedule and the ordeal you two endured didn't hurt him one bit. You did a really great job protecting him Catherine, just like any mother would."
"Thank you." She whispered and Steve could feel her head relax against his hand. "I love it. It's so cute and…." Catherine stopped and looked back at the pendant in her hand. She wanted to say something louder then she had before. She felt the urge to go above a whisper, but it felt too hard. She was trying to remember what her therapist had told her to do when she needed to find her voice. After she had taken a couple of comforting deep breaths she turned her head and looked him straight in the eyes.
Somehow she managed to take a bit of his strength out of the look of love he had for her in his eyes. A love she only hoped that he could see when he looked into hers. "I love you." She said out loud, her voice shaking with emotions and then she felt tears running down her cheeks.
"Hey Cath." Steve said calmly as he brushed a couple of long brown strands of hair out of her face. "It's okay, honey." He added cupping her face in his hands. Catherine shut her eyes for a couple of seconds feeling the warmth of his hands on her skin. It felt so wonderful and comforting. "You don't have to cry. I love you too, more than anything in the world." Steve replied trying to calm her down, but the second he had finished his sentence her tears came out harder.
"I'm not sad….Steve." Catherine replied her voice still shaking. "I'm just so happy. I was so scared when the test came back and it said I was pregnant, I didn't know what you would say. We haven't talked about marriage or kids in awhile. I was afraid you would think I was rushing you, or pushing you into something you didn't want yet. But Mary was there holding my hand, and she gave me the best sister-in-law type talk. She told me that she had read some of the letters you wrote to me and she knew that you loved me and always would. I'm so glad that you want the three of us and see us as your future." She added after another long pause, but she didn't leave his eyes for a second. She was lost in his amazing blue eyes. She could see all the love and support she needed to work through this traumatizing event. She knew he was there for her and "Junior" and that was all she needed to know. She would be okay, they were a family, and they would get through this together.
For Steve it was different, along with the love she had in her eyes, he could also still see the fear too. That something like this could happen to her again. The fear that she wouldn't be able to move on from this but he could see that there was hope and faith right next to the fear. "We will make it through this, all of it. The good, the bad, and the poopy diapers. I promise you Cath. We are a family now, and family is everything." Steve whispered before he leaned in to kiss the tears on both of her cheeks away and then he finally moved on to her lips. He stayed with her for a couple of hours more. Holding her in his arms, feeling their child as it grows in her body, and knowing how much he loves this woman, and always will. He stayed until it was time to leave, he had plans. Earlier that day Danny and Steve had agreed to go out for a beer.
When Steve was out to pick up something for lunch, Danny had called the hospital to check on Catherine. The nurse that was with her spoke to him for Catherine relaying what she was saying. Cath asked him to take Steve out tonight, he needed to have his own time to deal with all of this. He had been with her and looking for her for the last five day and Catherine knew he could use this. Catherine knew Steve was going through his own kind of hell and fears. His fear that he would be a good enough father, a good enough partner to her, and most of all, keep them both safe from the terrible things that his job could bring. Even though Michael wasn't someone who hated Steve because of his job, this whole thing was because of him. In his eyes, it was Steve's stupidity and his being afraid to admit to everyone how much he loved this woman that was the reason for all of this. She knew Steve too well after 7 years, and he was blaming himself for the way Michael had come into her life.
Steve waited for one of the elevators to arrive when he suddenly heard someone next to him say his name. "Commander McGarrett, I hope you still remember? I'm Miss Rollins…"
"Doctor I know." Steve nodded looking at him. "Is something wrong with the baby or is she…?" Steve stopped when the doctor lifted his hand up.
"No." he shook his head. "I can assure you both of them are fine. But there is something else I wanted to ask you." Doctor Abrahams continued as one of the elevator doors opened.
"Sure, please go ahead, ask." Steve replied after he looked at the elevator and let it pass.
"We started with her therapy session yesterday and from what I've been told, she's all ready made a great deal of progress. She allowed you to stay for the night, in her bed no less, which is a very good sign at this stage. So her therapist and I believe that it would be a enormous help to her if you could be there during her therapy sessions' just for support, as her partner and the baby's father. I don't mean you have to come in for every single session. It's just a couple of them we want you to be part of."
Steve didn't have to think about it as he heard the doctor's explanations. "Yes, of course, anything she needs, just ask. There's nothing in the world that would keep me from being there for Catherine and our child." He nodded. "Just let me know when her sessions are so can make sure I'll be free." One of the pros of being the head of Five-O, he thought to himself. He was sure that the governor would allow him to leave work for Catherine's sessions. He wrote me that letter, right? And he knows that I was serious when I told him that my family and their safety come first.
"I'll get you her full schedule tomorrow morning, if that works for you?"
"That's fine." Steve replied and they say their goodbyes and Steve leaves the hospital to head home, shower and then off for his night out with his partner.