A coming home story - The Kelly's
Main Pairing: Chin Ho Kelly & Abby Dunn
Main characters: Chin Ho Kelly, Abby Dunn, and Sara Diaz-Waincroft.
Chapter one
"You ready Sara?", Chin Ho Kelly walked into the bedroom that had been his niece/adopted daughter's room since they moved to the mainland and watched as she took a last look, her bunny Norton in her arms, ready for the journey back to Hawaii.
Nodding her head, she smiled at him, turning towards him and holding her arms up so he could pick her up in his arms. She might be ten and a half years old, but that didn't stop her from wanting to picked up and held when she was a little nervous or excited about something.
"I'm ready Uncle Chin", whilst she had enjoyed living in San Francisco for the past two and a half, nearly three years, she was anxious to get back to the island where she felt like she belonged. "Will Aunt Abby be okay leaving her family again?"
Just as she spoke her name, Abby had come to check to see where Chin and Sara were and heard part of her conversation, smiling softly she tickled the little girls side and nodded her head. "I'll miss my family, but you and Uncle Chin and the rest of five-o are all my family as well so I think I'll be just fine sweetheart, thank you for thinking of me".
What Sara didn't know yet was that Chin and Abby had spoken about getting married and formally adopting the little girl as their own. Chin hadn't proposed yet, however they had talked about it as Chin wanted to make sure that though the actual proposal would be a surprise, he didn't want the intention to be. He wanted to be sure Abby wanted to be married before he went ahead and did it.
Sara was still currently using the Diaz-Waincroft name and whilst she loved being connected to her parents that way, she had expressed an interest in changing her name to Kelly after her uncle. She loved her parents and wished they were still here with her, however her Uncle had felt more like a father to her then an Uncle.
The fact that Chin was only her Uncle by marriage never bothered her, she loved him and her mother always spoke about her Aunt Malia, while her father talked about her Uncle Chin all the time as well. Sara never knew about her father's line of work, and it wasn't something Chin was prepared to talk about unless Sara specifically asked.
He might have had a complicated past with her father, including being the man that had killed his own father, but in the end Gabriel was his brother in law and the father of his beautiful niece and he couldn't cloud his nieces opinion of her father. To Sara, her father was a loving man that loved his wife and daughter and Chin just wasn't the kind of man that would take that away from her.
"You are welcome, I'm really glad you are coming with us Aunt Abby", the little girl had become quite attached to Inspector Abby Dunn over the time she had known her and loved her just as much as she did her Uncle. Sara could see that Abby made her Uncle happy and that was the most important thing to her.
Abby leaned in and kissed the little girls cheek, "I'm glad as well sweetheart". As much as Sara was taken with Abby, she was also taken with Sara as well. She didn't have any children of her own yet and Sara was a brilliantly smart girl, very inquisitive and was most likely going to have a career in law enforcement like her Uncle or in the medical field like her Aunt.
Living all her life in San Francisco, she wasn't sure how she would have adapted to living in Hawaii, having Chin and Sara to focus on and her work with five-o and HPD made it easier to transition and so when she moved back to the mainland with Chin and Sara in tow, it was harder then she realized to adjust to living back in San Francisco.
Her parents were amazing and took to Chin and Sara so well, so it was hard in that aspect to move away, and yet at the same time, easy because she knew that the three of them missed being on the island. She had to admit it was a more relaxing vibe on the island even with the career they had both chosen.
Coming from a family where she had an older sister and a younger brother, Abby loved the idea of giving Sara a sibling, even though any child she had with Chin would technically make them cousins, she could sense that Sara did view them as her parents rather than Uncle and Aunt and she was sure at some point would come the question of wanting to call Chin and Abby by Dad and Mom one day.
"Have you got everything you want to take on the plane?", Most of their belongings were being shipped to them and wouldn't get there for a few weeks, however they did a few suitcases each with clothes and some toys/games for Sara as well as their carry on luggage, Sara's bag having books and colouring books to keep herself occupied during the plane ride.
The plane ride was only around five hours and thirty minutes however he knew she would most likely get bored on the way there. "I've got some books, colouring books, some cards so we can play a card game plus I brought my ipod as well to listen to music".
Nodding his head, he smiled softly, "Looks like you are all set.. We're going to swing by Abby's parents, and they are going to drive us to the airport to see us off".
Though Sara was happy to be going back to Hawaii, she knew she would miss being in San Francisco as well. It was a nice neighbourhood where they lived and she really enjoyed spending time with Abby's parents as well.
Abby's Parents treated Sara like one of their grandchildren, and so she knew she would miss them, however they both promised they would come visit here in Hawaii, and Chin and Abby promised to let her visit them in San Francisco so she felt a little happier about that.
Nodding her head in agreement, she smiled softly, "Let's do this", she held her hand out in a fist so that Chin could give her a fist bump to which he promptly returned.
Carrying her out to the car, Abby locked the door to the house as she followed them out, Chin having already packed the car. The car was in Abby's name, however they were selling it to her sister, and the house was one of her mother's investment properties so now that Abby, Chin and Sara had moved out, Abby's sister and her family were going to move in.
Taking a moment to look at the house before they got in the car, Sara put her head on Chin's shoulder and snuggled her bunny Norton closer to her. She was excited to move back to Hawaii but also a little nervous at starting a new school again. Chin knew she would be fine when she got there, it was just the thought of the unknown.
Kono had gone back a few weeks prior and her and Adam were working through things, Steve and Catherine were engaged, there were three new members of five-o, and Chin was a little nervous himself as to how it was going to work, and if he, Abby and Kono would still fit into the taskforce. Steve had said when he left that they would always be welcomed back with open arms, but now with the additional members, he wasn't overly sure.
He didn't mind working with HPD again if it came down to it, he knew that Abby enjoyed working for HPD and had already put in a transfer to work there, and he had a couple of buddies that worked there, but he knew that Steve was aware that he and Kono were wanting to be back at five-o so he was sure he would be able to accommodate them all.
Author Notes:
Well, well, bet you didn't think this would happen so soon.. Neither did I, but I decided to start writing this one as well. This is the homecoming story of Chin, Abby and Sara, coming home to Hawaii.. It's a bit of a romance story involving Chin and Abby, yet also a family story as well because we have Sara as a main character in it.. We will have other characters making appearances here, and Chin, Abby and Sara will be making appearances in other stories I am doing as well.. I think this one has started off on a good note..
I wanted Chin and Abby to be an empathetic ear for Kono and Adam to talk to and listen to rather then Chin going off at Adam like he has done in the past.. I feel almost like Chin and Adam got closer over the years, him respecting that he would do anything for Kono, and proving that over and over so whilst Steve and particularly Lou might have issues with him still at the moment, Chin, Abby and Sara will be there for him..
I adored Abby in this show and I really love how all the women in the show come together, there is never any jealously or competition unless it's friendly competition between them, I also really adored Chin and Abby's relationship and think it was one of the most mature serious ones he had been in since his marriage to Malia.
Again let me know if you have any thoughts, any comments, any suggestions. Always happy to take them on board.. They are all kind of seperate stories in their own right, you can read any of them on their own, but they are kind of companions to each other, so they do go hand in hand as well. Things I add in one story might be referenced in another so for anyone that reads them all, that is a bit of a bonus for you guys, but they can be read on their one as well.
