One for Sorrow

Pairing: McRoll

Spoilers for season 10 - Episode 7

Chapter - 30

Part of the tour included rendition, it was lucky that no one was in rendition today because Mary and Joan had wanted to go downstairs to the basement level to see what it looked like. Steve even let Mary and Joan sit on the sit where criminals usually sit and chuckled softly as Catherine took a photo of the two of them. "I have no idea what you two are going to do with that photo and I'm not sure I want to know either".

As Mary got up off the chair, she too laughed, adjusting Joan on her hip, "I think Joanie wants to show her friends when we get back to L.A to to move our life over her that she was in a real rendition room where her badass Uncles and Aunts interrogate bad guys".

Joanie nodded her head enthusiastically, "Mmm hmmm, Mommy's right, I think It will be so rad to show my friends". A lot of her school friends knew that her Uncle was a police officer and a former Navy SEAL, and they always had questions for Joan whenever she had visited her Uncle in Hawaii, though this was the first time she had ever gone down to rendition to look for herself what it was like and she was so excited to tell her friends all about it.

Catherine patted Joan's back softly as they walked out of room and nodded, "I think they will be excited to see your photos too, they will all be so jealous", she added as she gave her niece a high five.

Once they finished in rendition, Mary let her daughter down and she ran into a room where she knew her Uncle Jerry worked in, but was frowning when she got to the door way. It was empty and had none of Uncle Jerry's things in it. "Where's Uncle Jerry's things?", she asked, turning to look at her Uncle with a confused face. Steve looked at both Mary and Catherine, he had talked to them about how Jerry had been shot the year before and had decided to take a break from the job to pursue other things.

He got down on his knee in front of Joan and began to speak softly, "Joanie, Your Uncle Jerry decided to take a little time off from crime fighting. He has some other things he wants to do and we didn't want to keep him from doing what he truly felt was right for him". His hands were on her shoulder and he never let his eyes deviate from hers, he wanted to be honest with her without going through the emotions of saying why he had made that decision because he didn't want to scare her. He knew she had already been scared when he nearly died during that moment he was shot and had to have a liver transplant.

She was smart, and she understood and was fine with that answer, though she had more question, "He will be here for the funeral though right?", this time it was Catherine to kneel down beside Steve and she nodded her head, "I've already spoken with Uncle Jerry on the phone and he is on his way back to the island to be here for it, plus he wanted to be able to see you again". She had missed her Uncle Jerry and she leaned in and hugged Catherine and then pulled away, doing the same with her Uncle.

Once she had pulled away from Steve, she began to skip away to the elevator that would take them back upstairs. "She is something else isn't she", Steve whispered to Catherine as they helped each other up from the ground. "Let's go bro, Joan still wants to see your office, even though she has been in there many times before, she wants a photo on your chair though I do think we might need to prop her up on something so we can see her over the desk". Mary chuckled as she began to follow Joan, Catherine and Steve behind her.

Before they moved on, Steve stopped and turned to face Catherine, and smiled at her, his hands resting on her shoulders, "One day Cath, I promise we are going to have a family of our own and a daughter or son, maybe even both", he chuckled, his eyes tearing up, lump forming in his throat. "It's always been you and it will always be you, I think that's why I've never been able to settle down before with anyone else". It was freaky in a way to Catherine but at the same time, felt right that both of them had that thought watching their little niece, hoping one day it would be their daughter or son running and skipping their way through the five-o HQ.

She smiled softly, leaning in to him and kissed his lips gently, "I'm certain it's why I have never let myself settle down because I knew that I always belonged right here with you.. I can't wait for our journey to start. Once we say our final farewells to Doris, we can truly begin to heal from everything and start anew and I can't wait to be apart of the next chapter of your life". He returned the kiss and let his nose rub against hers, "Our chapter Lieutenant, we'll closing one book and opening another together and I'm excited".

This had been a long time coming for the two of them and it took his father figure being killed, his niece almost dying in an accident and then his mother being killed to bring them back together. Ever since Joe had been killed, and Catherine stepped up and stood by him, they had begun to get closer and each tragic event that had happened since, they had been brought closer. Catherine hadn't hesitated in coming back to Hawaii when Gracie was in that car accident and stayed longer than she should have. He knew she got reprimanded for that but she had told him it was all worth it.

Now that his mother had been killed, it really felt like the time to start to settle down. He wasn't getting any younger and he really did want to experience being married and having a family, screw what Greer thought of him, a man that just wasn't a man to commit to a relationship. He had always known the thing with Greer wasn't permanent because even then, Catherine had always been at the centre of his heart and mind. Smiling and chuckling when he heard Joanie's voice telling them to hurry, the two of them kissed once more and then hand in hand, walked down the hallway to meet Mary and Joan just as the elevator doors opened.

Author Notes

I really hope you guys enjoy these next two chapters, Chapter 31 one is a bit angsty and sad. I wasn't intending to go this way when I began writing it, but I hope you guys enjoy it. It shows the grieving process even though they are all moving forward slowly one day at a time. Thanks to all my followers and supporters for appreciating my work. It means so much. I'll be updating Right here waiting either most likely over the weekend at some point.

SteveMcGarrettLover

Thank you so much. I am glad you liked the chapter with Kamekona in it, I tried to think about what he would say and then hear his voice saying the words I wanted him to say to try to help understand his voice. It really means so much that you say that, your reviews do make the difference in helping me stay motivated to keep a story going. It's all good. She isn't on fan fiction. I doubt she knows I even post stories on here. It was just a role play thing on a site called mewe. She isn't even worth the energy honestly but I appreciate you wanting to stick up for me xx Means a lot you consider me a friend.