One for Sorrow
Pairing: McRoll
Spoilers for season 10 - Episode 7
Chapter - 14
Joanie McGarrett was in her element, she had two of her three favourite people with her, her mother Mary McGarrett was holding onto her left hand and on her right, holding her right hand was her Aunt Catherine only person missing from the equation was her Uncle Steve McGarrett, however both her mother and her uncle had told her the reason why her uncle couldn't be with them.. For Joanie she understood why her Uncle needed to miss out, it was all for her Nanna Doris.
Her Grandmother and her Mother had talked a few times, Nanna Doris had even visited a a couple of times as well. Every time she visited, she made sure she had a present for Joan as well. For her young age, she could sense some tension whenever her name was brought up and even some pain in her Momma's eyes, however her mother never let it interfere with her mother wanting to see her granddaughter.
Her grandfather was already gone and her mother had explained it to her that she couldn't bear the thought of her own mother not seeing her granddaughter when and if she wanted to. For Mary, she knew that Steve might not have understood fully the reason why Mary had allowed her mother back into his sister and niece's lives, but for Mary, she was her mother and she was a grandmother to her own daughter. She couldn't visit John's grave in Hawaii when she visited knowing she wasn't prepared to grant access to her mother.
"Okay munchkin, we can go see the National Zoo, the Natural History Museum, the Air and Space Museum, Discovery theatre, the Washington Monument, what do you think?", Mary asked her daughter smiling softly as they waited for a taxi to take them to their destination. "Well, the zoo is probably like most Zoo's, how about the Air and Space Museum, and maybe when Uncle Steve is finished, he can take us to see the Washington Monument". She answered in perfect clarity about what she wanted to do and see.
For Mary, it was hard to be upbeat when her mother had just died, but she knew that making memories with her daughter and hopefully one day her sister in law was what matter. Her mother might be gone, but she was always going to be in their hearts, and Mary didn't really want to look back on these memories and see herself upset and close to tears all day so she took a breath and nodded her head.. "I think that is a great idea munchkin, I think Uncle Steve will be happy you decided to wait for him to see the Washington Monument.
Cath chimed in with a smile and a squeeze of Joanie's hand, "I also think your Uncle will be thrilled you decided to go see the Air and Space Museum, you know how your Uncle loves aviation and looking at the stars way out in space as well". Joan smiled with a huge grin that both Catherine and Mary took as pride in doing something that her Uncle would approve of as well. "So what are we waiting for, let's go", Joan declared in a loud voice filled with excitement.
Luck had it, just at that moment, a taxi stopped right in front of them, "Well if that is not a sign to get going, I don't know what is", Mary chuckled softly as she opened the back door to let her daughter in, Catherine getting into the front passenger seat with the driver, watching as Joan scooted along the seat to let Mary in next to her. "Air and Space museum please", Catherine spoke to the driver, letting him know their destination for the morning, smiling upon the big grin still sporting Joan's face.
It was a hard decision, leaving Steve to deal with the fallout of what happened, but she knew he could handle himself, and though she had been in the CIA for some time now, her loyalty would always be to Steve. It was why she was getting herself out. It wasn't quite like she had expected it to be and while she had been forced to become part of the CIA so they would stop hunting down five-o, she knew that she couldn't do it any longer. She had lied to Steve when she had said she was happy doing what she was doing when they rescued his mother from the CIA black site where they were holding Wo Fat's father.
She had said that as a way of helping him to move on with Lyn, however it was clear to her now that wasn't the case and that ever since he lost Joe White, they had kept in contact more regularly, even the close call with Grace and her car accident, she had dropped everything to be there for Steve, Danny and his family. Hawaii might not have been where she was born and raised, however it was where she wanted to put down roots and settle down. She never wanted to leave Steve after Kono's wedding and ever since she learnt that Steve had been about to propose, all she could think about was going back to Hawaii on a more permanent basis.
The trip took about fifteen minutes from their hotel room and once there, Catherine paid the taxi driver and the three of them got out to have a few hours in the Air and Space Museum before meeting Steve for some lunch, Joan taking both of their hands once more as soon as the three of them were out of the cab.
Author Notes:
Thank you all so much for all of your patience. I haven't really written anything for this since late November so I appreciate you all sticking by and waiting for the next chapters to come. I hope this is a lovely belated Christmas gift to you all. I wasn't aware where I began this journey on this story that it would turn out the way it has but I am really enjoying writing it and really enjoying going through this journey as well. Getting back home after our holidays, December just became quite busy but finally I have had a bit of downtime to get these next ones done.
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Again, thank you for all of your support, advise and suggestions. I do love putting in as many suggestions as I can when I have someone mention something specifically to write about. I hope you really enjoy these next chapters. I have enjoyed writing them. I am glad you liked the last two chapters before this one. I do think that is a really sweet gesture, in my eyes Joe White was the first McRoll shipper, he is the one that told Steve to ask Catherine out. He could see they would be great together so I do think he might have done that, put it in his will that he was giving them the ranch. I may use it in this one or another one but I will use it somewhere along the lines.