I have messed with the timeline a bit because I just felt Eric got away with way too much while he was there. So, this is my version of what happened in addition to the show.

/ / / Eric \ \ \ s03e12 - Kapu

Grace was bouncing next to Danny as they stood at the arrivals gate.

"Why are you so excited, Monkey?"

Grace turned to him with wide eyes. "Eric's coming."

"Eric's in trouble."

Grace rolled her eyes and she reminded him of Hannah suddenly. "He's excellent."

"No," Danny said, crouching down next to her. "He's not the same as he was when you were living in Jersey. He's a juvenile delinquent."

Grace tilted her head at him.

"Gracie!" Grace turned and ran at Eric who was standing a few feet away from them. Eric caught her up in a hug. "When did you get so big?"

"It's been years, Eric."

"E-train."

"It's been years, E-train," Grace corrected, smiling at him.

"Come on," Danny said, "let's go and get your bag. I need to get Grace to school."

"But it's okay," Grace said, grabbing Eric's hand and yanking him along. "I'm at Dad and Steve's this weekend so we'll be able to hang out."

"We can go to the beach." Eric offered.

Danny sighed; Eric apparently didn't remember that he was here because he was in trouble. It was not going to be a holiday.

They collected Eric's bag and stowed it in, the recently weapon free, boot. Then Danny's phone rang.

"Williams." Danny listened to the dispatch officer. He hung up his phone and turned to Eric. "We have to go on a call. You will be staying in the car."

Eric huffed at him.

"Are you dropping me at school first?" Grace asked.

"No, you're going to be my partner on this case. I've decided to bench Steve. I think you'll be a good cop."

Grace laughed at him and let herself into the backseat of his car. "I wouldn't do that to Steve."

"You like Steve, short stack?" Eric asked.

"I'm not short," Grace informed him. "Of course I like Steve; he's going to be my step-dad."

Danny smiled at Grace in the rear-view mirror and drove out of the airport. As soon as he'd dropped her off he turned for the campus.

"Right," Danny said. "This is a crime scene. That means, you will not leave this car. You will not make a nuisance of yourself to my colleagues or anyone else and when I come back you will still be sitting here in this car."

"Are you going to be a hard arse the whole time I'm here?"

"Are you going to keep being a dumb arse?"

"What have I done wrong? Gracie and I were-"

"This isn't about how you act now, Eric. This is about how you've been acting and what you've been doing. You are not here on holiday you are here so I can knock some sense into your dumb head."

Eric threw himself back into the chair.

"Stay in the car."

Danny walked into the building and up to the lab where the body had been found.

"He get here okay?" Steve asked, when he walked in.

Danny nodded. "He's in the car."

"Max have an ID yet?"

"No, he's still fishing out body parts. I think he's enjoying it too."

"I can't believe that was a person." Danny wanted to slap Eric as he turned to look at his nephew. "Crispy."

"Hey, Steve." Eric held out his fist for a bump.

Steve stared at him.

"Put your hand down. Please, go wait in the car like I asked you to."

"Can I at least have the keys; you didn't even crack a window. Please."

"Then wait outside; anywhere but my crime scene. Please." Eric looked at him with disbelief. "Don't look at me like that. Just go."

Eric rolled his eyes and walked away.

"So. You brought him on a homicide call." Steve asked. Danny could almost feel the smug amusement coming off Steve.

"Yeah. I wasn't going to leave him alone while he's acting like a juvenile delinquent. But, Gracie is happy to see him."

"How do you think this is going to work out?" Steve asked, eyes flicking over to check on Max's progress.

"Well he's just seen his first dead body and he's still acting like a complete idiot. So, I guess I have my work cut out for me."

"Or we do," Steve said.

"Yeah." Danny conceded, smiling at Steve.

"Alright, what do we know?"

Danny led Steve over to the body.

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Chin laughed. "It's our own Danny Williams as Mr. November in the 1998 Newark Police Academy Calendar."

Steve laughed and turned his phone around. "How have I never seen this?"

Danny closed his eyes with a sigh.

"Your Nana never showed me this." Steve said, digging gout his own phone.

"Should she have?" Danny asked.

"She did want to know if I'd been in a Navy calendar but she didn't tell me about your police one?"

Danny shrugged. "Apparently she does love me."

"Look at you," Steve said, handing it over.

"I was young. This was for charity."

Steve told him everyone in his address book had received the photo. Danny wanted to strangle him. Eric still hadn't worked out that he was here and in trouble and doing this stupid shit was only going to end up with him being handed over to Steve and his extreme SEAL version of setting a kid straight. Danny was tempted to do it regardless of what Hannah would say, especially after this stupid move.

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"He has no concept of how much trouble he's in," Danny hissed angrily.

Steve didn't move from his place stretched out on the beach chair – looking much too relaxed. It annoyed Danny even more.

"It was just a glamour photo shoot," Steve said.

"I had Gracie's teacher in my contacts, I had her friend's parents. I had to call all of them and explain what happened, and that's nothing on the professional contacts that received that image."

"The HPD do a calendar every year too, it's a great way to raise funds for widows, orphans, and injured personnel."

Danny glared at Steve. "Why are you defending him?"

"He's acting out."

"I'm aware of that," Danny growled.

"He's trying to make you angry."

"Well then, he's succeeded, hasn't he?"

"Have you tried just talking to him?"

"His mother talks to him and he's ignoring her. He was thrown in lock-up and he still doesn't get it. I should have just left him there."

"Danny."

"No, Steven, I agreed to let him come here and I went to that police station and called in favours to ensure that he didn't end up with a record that would follow him forever and he's never been thankful."

Steve didn't say anything, just watched Danny as he paced on the soft sand.

"He just keeps pulling stupid shit," Danny said, throwing him hands up.

Steve sat up and scooted forward on the chair. "You want me to talk to him?"

"After he insulted you last time?"

Steve shrugged.

"No, I'm going in to talk to him."

"Danny," Steve said, darting up and grabbing Danny's wrist. "Just think about what you might say to Grace."

Danny grimaced.

"I mean," Steve continued, stroking the skin of Danny's wrist, "just be a little less loud and angry than you want to be."

"Are you telling me how to talk to him?" Danny asked.

"I'm…" Danny could see Steve rethink what he was about to say, "yes, because obviously yelling at him isn't working."

"And Hannah has proven that coddling doesn't work either."

"Something in the middle?"

"So, I shouldn't slap him upside the head?"

"Is that what your dad did when you were in a band?"

Danny glared at Steve and turned around to walk back to the house where Eric had been calling him mother to tell her all about his first day.

"I'll be in soon," Steve called out to his back, but Danny didn't bother to acknowledge him.

Danny walked into the house and found Eric sitting on the couch in silence.

"I want to know more about being a cop," Eric said, cutting off everything Danny was about to say.

"Why would I take you back to work after today?" Danny finally said.

Eric looked apologetic and shoved his hands into his pockets and stood up. "Mum yelled at me about that."

"It was an incredibly stupid prank and you aren't stupid enough or young enough to have any defence, not only were there professional contacts on that list, Grace was on there, her teacher, her friends' parents. That photo shoot might be funny among the family, and your mother might still have the damned thing but that doesn't mean that you had any right to share that with anyone else."

"Uncle Danny."

"No," Danny said, holding his hand up. "You fucked up, you fucked up today when you didn't listen and when you tried to get revenge and you fucked up when you stopped thinking about the consequences of your actions. You might be looking at this time in Hawaii as a holiday but that isn't what it is, Eric. This is your only chance to think about how stupid you've been and what you are going to do to fix it. You don't get rewarded for stupid moves, Eric. I'm not taking you out on the case until you can prove yourself sensible enough not to do anything else stupid."

Eric looked annoyed and Danny couldn't help but be pleased he was finally making an impact.

"Tomorrow you can spend the day at HPD, they always have extra work that can be done by someone like you. If Duke tells me you have managed to be helpful and not completely stupid I'll think about letting you help us the day after."

Danny could see how much Eric wanted to argue but he just shrugged, deliberately nonchalant, and then he disappeared out of the room and into the spare room.

"That was much calmer than I was expecting," Steve said, coming out of the laundry.

Danny sighed. "I stole almost all of it from the talk my father gave me."

Steve smiled smugly and Danny couldn't be bothered calling him on it.

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"Kelly, your dads are here to pick you up."

A blonde walked into the room. "Those aren't my dads."

"I'm sorry. You think I look old enough to be her father?"

"Nah," Eric threw in. "Grace won't be living in a sorority for another seven years."

Danny turned on Eric. "Grace will not be living in a sorority. And seriously," he turned to Steve. "That's, that's the part you got stuck on?"

Steve shrugged and returned to the reason they were here.

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Danny walked into Steve's office at the end of the day. "Eric and I are going to pick up Grace."

Steve smiled at him. "He's not so bad."

"He's still an idiot. But at least he knows what he wants to do now. I told Hannah he could stay for a little while. Sort out what he needs to do to actually get into a decent university. He's been such an idiot even state might be a stretch."

Steve nodded. "That sounds good."

Danny rolled his eyes at Steve. "You're such a soft touch."

Steve nodded and sat back in his chair. "I'll grab some steaks for dinner."

"Grace is going to want to go surfing this weekend to show off to Eric."

"Already planned, brah," Kono said, walking past and slapping him on the shoulder.

"I'll see you at home then," Danny said, turning and walking out of the door. He decided not to say anything about the printout of his photo from the calendar which was pinned to Steve's desk. He would let the SEAL think he'd slipped that past Danny.

/ / /

Next up is that lovely custody case episode.

I've just re-read and given A Touch of Exhaustion which gave me a push to get back to this.