The door of the interrogation room opened and Steve and Danny walked in. The man in the chair kept his head down, didn't even flinch.

"Do you know why you are here?" Danny asked, looking at the man. as Steve circled the room like a shark.

" I presume you think I did something." Came the reply.

"DC accent, your far from home aren't you." Danny looked up at Steve so he could signal to Chin and Kono to narrow the search.

"Yeah well the weather is a lot better here, pizza is shit though who puts pineapple on pizza."

Danny smirked a bit at Steve's offended expression.

"Yeah don't I know it, so what's your name ?" Danny thought might as well bite the bullet and just ask the worst he can do is lie.

"Anthony Dinozzo, look if you just give me the time this thing I've apparently done I can't try and give you an alibi I've been with people a lot since I got here."Danny and Steve looked at each other for a minute before nodding

" Fine" Steve spoke for the first time." Where were you between 9 and 10:30 this morning"

" I was having breakfast with a friend, you can ring to confirm his name is Lieutenant Commander Joe White " Steve and Danny looked at each other before walking out.

Steve paced up and down the room while he waited for Joe to turn up. Danny, Kono and Chin watched him worryingly.

"Do you think he is the guy he wants you to meet ?" Danny finally asked breaking the silence of the last 10 minutes.

"I don't know, when I rang him I asked him to come down he said he would come straight here and hung up that was it."

" Stupid SEALs why can't you talk to each other, why didn't you ask him?" Danny asked, waving his hands around.

"Steve what is going on I am busy" Joe said walking looking at the four of them standing around the room.

"Joe, who is Anthony Dinozzo" Steve asked frowning. Joe actually looked startled which surprised everyone, they didn't think it was possible to startle him.

" How did you hear that name?" he demanded.

"We have him in our interrogation room, he said he was with you today?" Danny said.

"You what. Yes he was with me this morning for breakfast from 9 till half 10 before he went back to the motel to sleep. Does that cover the time ?" Joe asked, looking very annoyed.

" Yes it does, but you still haven't told us who he is ?" Steve said standing up straight angry and being kept in the dark.

"I will tell you when let me take him out of the interrogation room,'' Joe replied, straightening up himself. Danny quickly got in between the two to try and defuse the situation.

" That's no problem Joe he isn't a suspect anymore, come on Steve lets go release him"

" I am coming in as well, let him see a friendly face" Joe said in a way that held no room for argument.

The door to the interrogation room opened again.

" Aj it's me Joe you're free, they are letting you go '' Joe announced as Steve Danny and himself walked in. The man on the chair, Anthony or Aj as Joe called him raised his head for the first time since he was brought in. His face almost took Steve's breath away, he was beautiful, but that beauty was marred by the bruises that covered one whole side of his face.

"Hey Joe I knew you'd come break me out" Anthony smiled making his amazing green eyes shine like emeralds, but the smile dropped quickly " but in all seriousness do you mind uncuffing me, my shoulder isn't healed properly and this really isn't helping" he winced trying to move into a more comfortable position.

"Come on uncuff him and let him get dressed into some proper clothes, he's not walking around a bunch of jacked up alpha men looking like that" Joe huffed annoyed Aj was seen by so many people like that.

" From what I heard he's well able to protect himself, he took out 7 guys before they arrested him" Steve replied, impressed someone so slight and half asleep could do so much damage.

" Why did he feel the need to take out 7 men, Steve." Joe asked, getting up in Steve's face.

"Hey Joe it's cool it wasn't his fault he wasn't part of the S.W.A.T. team, they never announced they were police. I was just after taking pain medication, but it's all fine." Anthony said, laying a hand on Joe's shoulder. "Now does anyone have some clothes I can borrow?" he smiled

While Aj as he told everyone to call home ways of having a shower and getting changed he gave Joe permission to tell the 5-0 team why he was in Hawaii.

"Right I suppose it starts from when I met Aj. I met him when he was just turned 18 and joined the marines. If you think he's small now you should have seen him then. He didn't have any family before he joined. He was disowned by his father at the age of 12 and his mother died when he was 6. I took him under my wing I suppose you could say, trained him. I was actually scared when he went for his first tour, I knew he was well trained but he had become like a son to me. He went on three more before he told me he was doing the BUD/S he passed like I knew he would and was placed on SEAL team 7 and if I was scared before I was terrified now. He worked his way up and went on countless missions that I can't tell you about some I didn't even know about until he became the leader of his unit. Lieutenant Commander Anthony Dinozzo. Then his last mission team 7 got captured, 4 months they were held before they managed to get free. All of them tortured for the whole time they were held. Aj got it the worst. He was in hospital for 6 months. They thought they were going to have to amputate his leg. The infection he had was so bad but he responded to the antibiotics. All of his team was honorably discharged. It was a waste of good soldiers. That was four years ago." Danny, Chin, and Kono sat there looking at Joe with their mouths open not quite sure what to say. Steve on the other hand just looked sad.

"Wait if it was 4 years ago why is he all beat up now? " Kono asked

"The reason why he is in Hawaii is because he is hiding. He called me up the other day begging for my help. In all the years I've known Aj I have never heard him beg so I knew it was serious. I booked a flight over to DC that night. When I got there he was staying in a hotel so I booked into the same hotel and went straight to see him and I can still picture it and my God it makes me want to punch something" everyone moved away from Joe slightly at this even Steve gave him a wary look " He opened the door and his eye was swollen shut his lip split face all bruised and his arm in a sling and he was holding his ribs. He let me in and just sat on the bed. I'd never seen him like this before. I asked him what had happened and he said that he had had enough and he left. I asked him what he meant and he explained. When he got discharged he started working at NCIS and was a supervisory secondary agent on the MCRT with Agent Gibbs as his boss. He said one thing led to another and next thing he knew they were dating. It was great but then things at work started going downhill. The other agents didn't respect him, his back up came late, he got no back up, they would refuse to do what he asked them to, these were the agents on his team. They told him that they only listen to Gibbs. So he went to gibbs, he agreed with them. That's when things at home started going bad. Aj was living with Gibbs at this point, the abuse started and Aj felt he had no one to turn to and he would have no job if he just left. Each time he convinced himself to forgive Gibbs until Gibbs did something Aj couldn't forgive." Kono gasped eyes wide.

"Please tell me he didn't, " she begged. Danny and Chin sat still jaws and fists clenched while Steve on the other hand just wanted to get up and punch something.

"He had dislocated his shoulder and was on heavy pain medication that almost knocked him out, Gibbs decided he wanted sex. Aj told him no Gibbs didn't listen. He raped my boy and if I ever get my hand on him I'll murder him" Joe ground out it pained him to say what happened to the man he thought of as a son. Steve jumped up, fist clenched and marched towards the door. Not looking where he is going he almost walks straight into Aj.

"Woah easy there tiger , you gotta watch where you're going we aren't all giants like you" Aj jokes patting Steve on the chest. instantly calming him down.

"I'm not a giant, you're just small." Steve mumbles, following behind Aj like a puppy when he walks into the room.

"I'm not small, tell him Joe '' Aj gives joe the most adorable puppy dog eyes ever seen probably helped by the fact he's wearing clothes that are too big and therefore make him look much younger than he actually is.

"Don't be mean Steve, I want you and Aj to get on. I would like him to stay with you for the near future."

The two in question looked at each other then back at Joe.

"What but I was meant to be staying with you Joe"

"Hey you can't just dump him on me all of a sudden, a bit of warning would of been nice"

Both of them stopped for a moment and then turned to face each other.

"Oh hear we go" Danny whispers in the back.

"Did you just say 'dump him'? Well I'm sorry I didn't realise I would be that big an inconvenience to you. We can't all be the amazing people you obviously expect to be staying in your home"

" Wait no, I didn't mean it like that. Of course you can stay in my home, I would love for you to stay with me." Steve panicked, not wanting to insult him.

"Wow, it's been what an hour? Steve, bro come on man." Chin patted Steve on the shoulder and walked past him. "Just got a hit on CCTV two blocks over from a hour before the stabbing, i'm gonna go take a look"

"I'll take you back to your room and you can grab your stuff and then to my house."

"Fine, let's go then"

Steve and Aj marched out, neither letting the other walk in front.

"What just happened?" Danny looked at Joe and Kono.

"Hah, they are both fully trained SEALs but still children at heart, idiots" Joe laughed, shaking his head as he walked away.

Danny and Kono looked at each other confused at what just happened.

_ Steve & AJ_

The surrounding looked like a blur as the car that Steve drove sped down the highway. He glanced over at Aj and looked back at the road again. He tightened his hands on the wheel, angry at what had happened to Aj. He couldn't understand why so much bad had happened to someone like him, from what Joe had said he was an amazing person. Joe didn't care for just anyone and to think of someone like family, like a son, meant he was something special.

"So, you have a good TV? I like my movies, please tell me you have a good system to watch them on?" Aj broke him out of his thoughts.

"Huh, oh yeah it's good enough I'd say"

"I'll check it out when we get to your place, you're not sounding too sure" he frowned, looking at him.

"Well it's not going to change if you think it's not good enough because it's fine for me"

"But you need it to do the movies justice, show them as good as possible"

"What are you on about, a film is a film"

"Wow okay, you just haven't seen the right ones then. We have to have a movie night when you can." Aj looked adamant

"I'm not doing that."

"Uh huh we shall see"

Steve didn't say anything in response. Five minutes later he turned into his drive, slowly pulling up to the front of his house.

"Come on, I'll show you around quick then I have to go back." He jumped out of the car and Aj quickly grabbed his bags and followed him.

He opened the door and stepped into his house, Aj behind him.