A/N: Hey guys! So I got this idea in my head and couldn't get it out, so here I am...writing it down. I have only watched through the beginning of season 3, so I'm sorry if this scenario is covered in an episode or somehow otherwise fulfilled. ON TO THE STORY! p.s. I don't own anything recognizable here. It all belongs to CBS. Otherwise Steve would be shirtless even more than he already is.

Chapter 1

It was a running joke between them, that Steve had no idea what to do with a child and that children seemed to run the other way when they saw him coming. Danny and Kono were usually the ones who dealt with whatever children they came across.

However nothing about this case has been normal. It started a few days ago when a seemingly random couple was carjacked from their driveway. Thankfully, they had sent their newest foster child, an autistic girl named Ava, inside already to make sure they didn't get behind on her daily schedule. It was the disruption to this schedule that led to the crime being found out.

*8 hours ago*

"Danno, it just isn't that funny! I don't see why you keep laughing. You sound like a hyena!" Steve kept grumping. After the latest attempt to talk to a child, which ended with the young boy bursting into tears and running back to his mom, Danny couldn't help himself from teasing the Navy SEAL. "I do perfectly fine with Gracie!"

"Gracie is just a one-of-a-kind child," Danny retorted giving Steve a look that said 'you really think that I'll give up that easy?'

"So I guess she gets her "uniqueness" from you?" Steve shot back, putting air quotes around the word uniqueness.

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Nothing, just that differentness must be in her genes, and since Rachel is a perfectly normal human being, anything weird must come from you," Steve smirked, sure that Danny couldn't come up with a response to that.

"In what world would you call my ex-wife, who left the continental United States for a place surrounded by the ocean and covered in pineapples, normal?!" Steve burst out laughing at Danny's offended look.

"Hey, Boss! We just got a case," The call came from Kono, the youngest and only girl on the team. "It appears that a couple was robbed and subsequently abducted. No sign yet if the couple is still alive, but there is a potential witness. However, HPD hasn't talked to the witness yet,"

"Well, why not? The longer they wait, the less chance we have of finding our missing couple alive," Steve interrupted.

"If you would let me finish," Kono stared hard at Steve, who looked away and waved his hand in a 'go on' sort of motion, "The potential witness is an eight year old girl with autism. According to her caseworker, she is non-verbal and sensitive to touch and sounds. There is no telling if she saw, heard, or understood anything that was going on. HPD was only notified because an older woman who was walking her dog heard screaming coming from the house. Apparently, the girl was in the midst of a meltdown since her schedule was interrupted. Her caseworker said that even the slightest variation can cause a meltdown to happen, and it usually involves lots of screaming and thrashing. This will be fun," Kono finished the SitRep on the phone in the car, since Steve and Danny rushed out of HQ at the first mention of a child.

Kono sighed when she hung up her phone. Obviously, this was going to be one of those cases that, no matter what happened, would hit close to home for the two men. She glanced at her cousin, Chin, and reevaluated her thought. Make that three men.

A/N2: hey all! I'm back. Sorry this is so short. Hopefully the chapters get longer the deeper I get in to the story and the more depth the characters get. I have no idea how often I will be able to update, but probably more often than I've updated my other stories :) Just bear with me and keep in mind: reviews make the world go round and me smile.