I have a few scenarios of how Steve could've found out about Alyx and Kai. If I wrote them, would you read them?

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Chapter Twenty-One

"Why blue raspberry?"

"I like the color blue."

"You're weird."

"Mm, so I've been told."

Danny smiled as she got a cute face on, as though she was remembering something.

"You know, even though it was cold as snot in Chicago, we got some pretty warm summers. Sometimes I would volunteer during summer school, and if my dad was in town he would come and pick me up, and we would go to this little ice cream shop nearby. He would always get chocolate and vanilla swirl in a waffle cone and I would get cookie dough in a waffle cone." She poked her shave ice sadly. "I mean, this isn't quite the same, but... It's similar." It was clear she was wishing that Steve would take up on it, and Danny could tell by just looking at her face.

"Have you tried reaching out to him?" She shook her head.

"He needs space. I'm giving him that." Danny nodded.

"I respect that." They were silent while they finished off their shave ice before Alyx cleared her throat.

"Why'd you let me tag along? I mean, you do have to pick up your kids from school, right? And... I didn't think you wanted me to meet them." Danny shrugged.

"I trust you."

"You... You do?" Danny sighed a bit, guilt filling his voice as he spoke.

"I really did not like you at first."

"That was very obvious."

"I'm sorry. When Steve was shot, and we found out that his own daughter shot him, it hit us hard. Then when he wasn't really affected by it, we were confused and angry. Then when you protected him after getting kidnapped from prison, he snapped at me, and that's when we knew it was because he felt responsible for leaving your mother and you behind all those years ago." Danny paused. "I also think he's trying to make up for all the time he lost. If... If he can forgive you, then I can too." Alyx blushed, looking down at her empty bowl and sighing.

"Thanks, Danny." He poked her leg with his shoe underneath the table.

"Don't worry about it." Then he checked the time. "Come on, let's go pick up Grace and Charlie from school."

They picked up Charlie first. He was ecstatic to see Danny, holding up a picture as he came down the steps to greet them.

"Look what I made today, Danno!" He said excitedly as Danny picked him up. Alyx raised her eyebrow at the nickname, and watched Danny take the picture.

"Oh, this is a masterpiece." Charlie pointed at a figure.

"That's you, and that's Uncle Steve!"

"I like how you gave him unusually large biceps." Charlie beamed at him before finally noticing Alyx smiling at them.

"Who's that?" Danny set Charlie down, setting his picture in the car and then facing them.

"Do you remember what I told you about Uncle Steve? How he was in a similar situation like us a few years ago?" Charlie pondered over it for a moment before perking up.

"This is Auntie Alyx?" Danny seemed flabberghasted at the nickname but nodded.

"Yes. This is Auntie Alyx." Charlie grinned up at her before hugging her legs.

"I like your tattoos!" Alyx smiled, kneeling down to his height.

"Thank you. It's nice to meet you, Charlie." He giggled excitedly.

"Can you flip people?" Dannyy choked at the question. "Uncle Steve can't, so can you?" Alyx smirked.

"Sure. Maybe I'll show you and your sister later." She winked at him then smirked at Danny, who immediately caught the look, his face flushing red in irritation. Alyx stood up and took Charlie's backpack for him, leading him to her side of the car and helping him in.

"What's your sister like?" Danny smiled and chuckled as Charlie begin to tell her all about Grace.

As always, Grace was very iffy about meeting new people. She eyed Alyx carefully when they were introduced to each other, said hi and then went onto her phone. Danny rolled his eyes and made a motion of typing with his thumbs.

When they got back to the house, Grace went straight to her room, but Charlie went to the couch and started to get his homework out. Alyx took a seat next to him, watching him pull out some math and language arts homework. She picked up some addition worksheets and looked them over.

"Danny, quick, what's thirty-two plus seventy-six?" Danny looked stunned at the sudden question before counting in his head.

"Uh, one hundred and eight." Alyx poked Charlie, handing him the worksheet.

"Write that down." Charlie happily obeyed, writing the numbers in a delicate style. Danny set the laundry basket on the edge of the couch, watching them carefully.

"Alyx, what's four-thousand times three ninety-five?" Alyx was quiet for a second before replying.

"One million, five hundred, eighty thousand." She replied. Danny stared at her, saying "holy shit' very quietly, and she blushed.

"Did... Did you just do that in your head?" They looked up to see Grace standing in the hallway entrance, her eyebrows raised.

"Uh... Yeah?"

"Okay... What's ninety-five twenty times forty-five hundred?" Grace asked.

"Forty three million, four hundred, eleven thousand, two hundred." Alyx said immediately and Grace and Danny stared at her wide-eyed before looking at each other.

"How?" He asked quietly. Alyx blushed.

"I was always pretty efficent in education. I was fluently speaking at a year old. And if I was in first grade, I would be in third in a normal level. But my parents never put me ahead, and I was glad because I never wanted to show off that I was smart in the first place." Danny held up his hand.

"Okay, there is smart, and then there is high intelligence. McGarretts and their abnormal spawns."

Alyx simply grinned at him.

"So, I was thinking of... Maybe hanging up some pictures that we've taken over the years. There is a ton of wall space, and Steve agrees that it'd look good. What do you think?"

Alyx hummed, trying to picture it in her head, before nodding.

"I like it." She smiled. "Like of Chin Ho and Kono?" Danny nodded.

"Of all of the memories we've made in the past eight years." He paused. "Damn, I'm old." Alyx laughed.

"Yeah, you are." She patted his arm. "But it's a good kind of old." He smiled. The kitchen door opened and Grace and Charlie came in with two bowls in each hand.

"Ice cream is served." Grace handed Alyx one of the bowls, and Charlie handed Danny one of his bowls that he was balancing.

"Thank you, Grace." Alyx said and she smiled, taking a seat in one of the armchairs. Charlie crawled up and sat in between Alyx's legs, making her look at him surprised.

"So, any interesting stories of Danny?" Danny choked on his ice cream, covering his mouth to avoid spraying everywhere. Grace kind of smiled.

"Not really. He's always been a good dad and cop. He has his awkward moments, but he's pretty cool."

"Well, gee, add that to the list I never thought Grace would say." His daughter simply rolled her eyes at him.

"Whatever."

"What's the story behind Danno?" Grace turned red.

"Do not tell her that story!" She yelped. Danny simply grinned.

"When she was a baby, she was trying to learn how to say mommy and daddy, but since my name is very close to daddy, all she could say was Danno. Since then, I have let her call me that, and Charlie picked up on it." Charlie nodded happily. Grace rubbed her face with her hand, making Alyx grin.

"What about you? Did you call your dad any nicknames?" Alyx giggled.

"Mom and I used to call him Dadchi, or Thighchi, since his name was Daichi." They laughed.

"Dadchi. Okay, I like that one." Grace said.

"Why Thighchi, though?"

"Because he had unusually large and muscular thighs. Not that I was complaining, because he could hold me up even as a twelve year old with just his feet." She frowned at her ice cream, suddenly going quiet. Danny and Grace looked at each other, before Alyx shook her head.

"Sorry, I don't mean to get all nostalgic."

As they talked, Alyx saw her phone light up with Junior's face on it, but she turned it over and returned to the conversation.

Laughter filled the Williams home as they welcomed a new member.