Part Two, Zero, Five

The clock in Danny's room had just struck twelve noon when a flood of visitors entered the room.

"Danno!" Grace charged into her father's room ahead of Chin and Kono.

"Monkey!" Danny, startled, held out his good arm to hug his daughter. "Why aren't you in school?" He asked her.

"Because your ex-wife gave her permission to leave." Chin said.

Danny looked at Chin.

"Don't give me that look." Chin replied. "Like I would've been able to take Grace if she hadn't."

"Danno...Sister Mary Francis wouldn't have let me go if Mom hadn't said so." Grace replied. "We brought you clothes."

Danny's face lit up. "Thank you."

He took the bag of clothes from Grace and went into the bathroom. "You need any help, just holler." Chin called after him.

Danny emerged a few minutes later, looking a bit worn but dressed properly.

"Hey, good job, man. Took me a while to figure it out." Chin said.

Danny smiled and sat down on the bed. He held out his good arm to Grace. She came over and hugged him.

"Oh, good, you're still here." A new voice from the doorway said.

"Dr. Brown, I wondered if I would see you before I left." Danny said.

Dr. Brown, wearing ceil blue scrubs and a lab coat over them came into the room. "I wanted to make sure I saw you before you left." She looked at Chin. "I've met Agent Kelly." She looked down at Kono, seated in a wheelchair. "But I haven't met you. Dr. Julia Brown." She held out her hand.

Kono shook hands with the doctor. "Kono Kalakaua."

Dr. Brown nodded. She looked over and spied Grace. "Or you. What's your name?"

"Grace Williams. I'm Detective Williams daughter." Grace said.

Danny couldn't help but smile.

Dr. Brown nodded and held out her hand. "Dr. Julia Brown. How old are you Grace?"

"Eleven." Grace shook hands with her. "You're the doctor who fixed my dad's shoulder."

"I am." A crafty look appeared on Dr. Brown's face. "Grace, could I possibly get you to help me on something?"

"What is it?" Grace asked.

Dr. Brown crouched down in front of Grace. "It's going to take a while for your dad's shoulder to heal properly. In order to make sure it does, some things need to happen and that's where you come in."

Danny listened with growing horror.

"Okay." Grace nodded. "What needs to happen?"

"The most important thing of all is to make sure your dad takes the medicine I prescribed for him. It'll help him heal." She shot a look at Danny. "Don't let him tell you he doesn't need to."

Grace nodded. "What else?"

"He also needs to go to physical therapy. That'll make sure he can use his shoulder and arm properly. One more thing, make sure he's not trying to use his arm and shoulder before that sling comes off, okay?"

Grace angled her head upward to see the sling her father was wearing. She looked back at Dr. Brown and nodded.

"Good. Thank you." She stood up, pulled a business card from a pocket and handed it to Grace. "This is my business card. If ever you think there's a problem with your dad and his shoulder, you call me, okay?"

Grace studied the card and nodded again.

"That's low, Dr. Brown. Using my child to keeps tabs on me?" Danny said.

Dr. Brown smiled and said "I don't want to see you again, Detective. So, I'll use any means necessary." She pulled a prescription from her pocket and handed it to Chin. "This can be filled at the pharmacy here."

"Can you change the dressing yourself, Detective?" She asked Danny.

At Danny's nod, she said "The orderly will have extra bandages and tape for you." She paused, thinking. "Make an appointment for a follow up with your personal doctor in a week." Over her shoulder she saw an aide arriving with the wheelchair. "Your ride is here, Detective." She held out her hand to Danny. "I never want to see you in my ER again."

"The feeling is mutual." He said, shaking hands.

With a smile and a wave, Dr. Brown was gone. The aide pushed the wheelchair into the room. "Detective Williams?"

Danny held up his hand.

She handed him a sheaf of papers and a small paper bag.

"I can carry those." Grace said.

The aide smiled at Grace. "Just as soon as he's done signing them, you can."

A few minutes later, Danny was in the wheelchair with Grace at his side and Chin and Kono bringing up the rear.

"There will be a small detour before we take Detective Williams home, miss." Chin said to the aide.

"Oh?" The aide asked.

"Yeah," Kono replied. "Our team leader is up in ICU and...we need to check on him before we leave. Right, Kalaki?"

Grace nodded. "I want to see Uncle Steve."

The aide nodded. "Certainly."

"You can go in but you have to be absolutely quiet. Uncle Steve needs his sleep, okay?" Danny told Grace.

"I understand, Danno. I'll be very quiet."

"I can go in with her, Danny. You can sit down if you want." Chin offered.

"We're not going to be that long. Are we, Monkey?"

"No. I just want to see Uncle Steve."

"All right. I'll keep Kono company." Chin said, sitting down.

"Take my hand, Monkey." Danny told her.

Grace did and together the two of them walked into the ICU unit.

"We're here to see Commander McGarrett." Danny told the first nurse he saw.

She nodded, then looked over the counter at Grace. "Hello there, what's your name?"

"Grace."

"How old are you Grace?"

"I'm eleven."

The nurse nodded. "You're a very polite young lady. Room#3." The nurse looked at Danny. "Don't stay too long."

"No, ma'am."

Steve was fast asleep when Danny and Grace walked into his room. Grace looked at the machines around Steve, then focused on him. When they came closer to the bed, she noticed the canula under Steve's nose.

"Danno?"

"Yes, Monkey?"

"What's that thing under Uncle Steve's nose?"

"It's an oxygen tube, Monkey. Something to help make sure Uncle Steve's oxygen levels are good so he can heal."

Grace frowned for a moment, thinking, then said "So, it's helping?"

"Yes."

She nodded. "And the machines? They're helping too?"

Danny nodded.

Lowering her voice to a whisper, Grace said "Uncle Steve, I hope you get better soon. I miss you."

At the sound of her voice, Steve stirred. "Kalaki?" He mumbled, using Grace's Hawaiian nickname.

"Uncle Steve?" Grace asked.

"Steve? You wakin' up?" Danny asked.

Steve opened his eyes, saw Grace standing there and smiled. "Thought I heard you."

"Uncle Steve, you're really sick. The nuns at my school said they were going to pray for you." Grace replied.

Steve's smile got wider. "Thank them for me." He blinked, looked at Danny and said, "What happened to you?"

Danny rubbed a hand across his forehead. "Same thing that happened to you. You can't warn a guy when you go bolting out of the house?"

Steve blinked several times. "I didn't?"

"Uncle Steve?" Grace asked.

"Yeah, Kalaki?" Steve said.

"We're going to go now, so you can sleep some more. Daddy says the more you sleep, the faster you'll heal."

"Okay, glad to see you." Steve said, dropping off before Grace and Danny had even reached the door.

"Bye, Uncle Steve."

Out in the hallway, Grace asked Danny "Is Uncle Steve going to be okay?"

Chin, who had clearly overheard the young Williams' query, snorted and caught her attention. Once he had it, he knew he had to answer. "Kalaki, Uncle Steve comes from a very strong family. I doubt he'll stay here much longer than he has to and that's because his father was the same way."

Grace looked at Chin. "You know Uncle Steve's dad?"

"I did, Kalaki. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us."

"He died?"

"Yeah, he did." Chin looked up at Danny and nodded at him. "That's how your dad and Uncle Steve met in the first place."

"Really?" Grace looked at her father. "Wow. Danno can solve anything."

"Not all the time, Monkey, but I try." He wasn't about to tell her that Steve's father had been killed and that the scumbag had done it within Steve's hearing. There was some . . . ugliness in life that he didn't want Grace facing just yet.

"Grace, I think you and your Dad should probably head for home." Chin said to her.

"Okay. Is Mr. Thomas going to drive?" Grace asked, mentioning the Governor's driver by name.

Chin nodded. "He is. I'm sure he'd let you but your feet can't reach the pedals yet."

Grace giggled.