While she's driving back to her apartment, her phone chimes, it's a message from Steve. She doesn't read it until she's parked.

"Please stay. I'm sorry I left, I needed to go. I still want to talk. I still need you so please just give me time."

It's not what she expected from him, and she's not sure how to respond. She thought she had lost him forever, that this had been their final goodbye.

"I am not leaving. I'll be here."

She keeps her response simple because their friendship-relationship-whatever was too fragile to rock the boat with more conversation. She's happy she told Scott to go home earlier, it would be too much for her to see him tonight. He would have comforted her and made love to her while she thought about Steve; it wouldn't be fair to him.

Catherine takes a long bubble bath accompanied by a bottle of wine and a blunt. Candles illuminate her bathroom and sad music blasts through her speaker. She's been on months long, classified missions that have taken less of a toll than the last six hours of conversations she's had with Danny and Steve.

A year ago, Catherine would have shown up to Steve's place and sought comfort from him. They would fuck, they would tell each other they loved one another during the sex, then the mask would be back up, and she'd be gone. That had been how they had dealt with all of their problems, but it was just a band-aid over a hemorrhage. But she's grown in the last year, and she knows that she and Steve need to talk to indeed gain closure.

She falls into bed and listens to podcasts to drown out the thoughts of Steve and the sadness. She knows she's still reeling from the conversation with Steve and seeing Scott anytime soon would hinder her progress. When she sees Scott's canceled their early morning breakfast plans for a work meeting, she's relieved.

Steve is a wreck after he pulls off from Kamekona's. The storm of emotions is literally overwhelming him. He can't focus and he sure as hell shouldn't be driving. He felt like a coward running away, but he felt like he couldn't breathe. He could not handle admitting the deepest parts of his heart to the only person who could rip that heart right out of him. He could not handle hearing and understanding Catherine's side. Steve was disgusted by how cowardly he'd acted by running away, but it was all too much.

He wanted to cry, he wanted to kill, he wanted to get drunk, just something to stop him from this feeling captured in his chest. He had never dealt with this level of heartbreak. Any splits from the past paled in comparison to tonight's events.

Before he loses his nerve, he texts her asking her to stay in Hawaii so that they can talk. He asks for time because he doesn't even know what to say, but he can't bear for her to leave again. If he had thought the jungle was a bad memory, this was a thousand times worse.

When she responds that she'll stay, the anxiety he feels melts. Seven words from her are all it takes for him to take a deep breath finally. If he thinks too long he'll get anxious about talking or seeing her, so he jumps out of his truck and walks up Danny's driveway.

He has a key, but he knocks anyway. Danny's surprised that Steve's come to his house, Steve is surprised that Lou is already over. He wants to back out because it's awkward and he shouldn't have ripped into his team the way he did.

"I…uh…I." Steve struggles to form the words, and Lou cuts him off telling him they need no explanations. The trio sits down with two six packs and pretends to watch the game Danny had recorded earlier in the week. Lou and Danny fake interest in the game and wait for Steve to address the elephant in the room.

"We uh, talked." It's all he has to offer. Danny and Lou don't acknowledge his confession; neither know if Steve and Catherine talking was a good or bad thing.

"I told her what I needed to say and she told me the things she needed to say. She's going to stay in Hawaii. I don't know how I feel about that; I don't know if I want her in my life or if we should never see each other again." He feels guilty for lying to his friends, but he knows they'll never understand and he's not in the mood to fight. He takes a swig of his beer before continuing.

"Nothing happened, I am still with Lynn, but I still love her. I love her with all my heart. I didn't know it was possible to be this hurt. I will never get over her; she's the love of my life." There's no questions or uncertainty in his statement.

"Sometimes it's like that brotha. This love shit is hard." Lou offers and Steve's thankful. Danny, suspiciously silent, nods his head in acknowledgment.

"I think I'm gonna take a few personal days. I need time." By now Steve's on the verge of tears. It's breaking Danny's heart; he loves his partner more than he loves his own brother.

"Steve, she came by today when she dropped off Grace." Steve's head shoots up as he waits for Danny to finish.

"I yelled at her for leaving, for talking to Grace behind my back, for not coming back. I called her a cancer."

"She's a Leo," Steve adds confused.

"No, I called her toxic, she's like cancer to you Steve. I'm not sorry I said it, but I wanted her to know how much pain she's dumped on you." Steve takes a breath because he's ready to fall into a violent rage, but Danny's not finished.

"She told me her side, and I respect her for that at least. I don't agree with her actions, and I'm still so pissed at her, but I believe her. I think she really is trying to be a better person. Grace and I talked for a long time after she left and it made me put things in perspective. I know you've had a rough night, but I need you to talk to Grace. She thinks you'll never forgive her for not telling you and me that Catherine was back and that they'd seen each other. In fact, Catherine and Rachel have even become friends who bond over wine and reality tv." This elicits a surprised chuckle from both Lou and Steve.

"Well, I'll be damned," Lou mutters, entertained. Danny's new fact provided the levity needed to continue this conversation.

"I…uh don't know what to say to that Danny. I don't. But tell Grace I am not mad at her; I am not hurt, I still trust her as much as I ever have. I am sad Grace didn't tell me, but I know that's what she wanted; she didn't want me to find out that she's on the island. I can't hate Grace for respecting her Aunt's decisions. I don't expect that from a child."

"Wow. Are you sure you're okay? That's awfully mature of you to say, Steven."

"Watch it, Danny," Steve says half-jokingly.

"Easy easy, I'm just busting your balls. Grace will be so happy to hear that, she's been so upset I had to call in the big guns, the boyfriend. So, Grover and I were just shooting the shit until they get back from getting ice cream." Steve hates that Danny knows him so well that he thinks Steve needs an explanation as to why Grover is here at Danny's. He knows Danny is subtly telling him the two were not gossiping about the status of Catherine and him.

"Yeah, I think I need to talk to my niece, I'll wait until they get back." It's a question in the form of a statement, Danny knows he's asking to stay, and so he squeezes Steve's shoulder to say "of course you can stay."

When Grace and Will arrive back from their date, she notes the Silverado parked outside. Anxious she texts her dad to let him know she's home and he tells her it's okay for them to come in, Uncle Steve is not mad at them. She opens the door to the house and runs to Uncle Steve on the verge of tears.

He immediately stands up and hugs her. Grover and Will quietly leave the Williams home, and Danny goes in to check on a sleeping Charlie. He's glad Melissa has gone home, which prevents a scene from erupting between his partner and his girlfriend. He asked Melissa for 24 hours before she told Lynn that Catherine's back and Melissa had reluctantly agreed. Danny knew Steve needed time to sort his head out before Lynn came rushing in to heal him.

He waits behind the corridor wall to eavesdrop on the last bit of his daughter's conversation with Steve.

"Uncle Steve I want you to be happy. I want Aunt Cath happy. I want you two to be happy together because she loves you, she loves you so much, and you love her. Now that I am in love, I know what that feels like…" Danny's disgusted, since when did his baby girl start loving Will? Vomit.

"I love Aunt Cath because she listens to me and treats me like an adult. I will never hate her, but if you don't want me to talk to her, I won't because I know how much you mean to my dad. I don't want to cause a rift between you and Danno because you know I talk to Aunt Cath."

"Grace, I would never ask you that. In fact, I am so thankful for you supporting your Aunt." He can't quite say Catherine's name yet.

"Uncle Steve I am gonna tell you a secret. Swear you won't tell Danno?"

"I swear." Danny knows he should announce his presence, but he wants to know this secret. Now, Grace only shares her secrets with Will or her friends, not him. Why did his little girl have to grow up?

"Danno thinks he loves Melissa, but he doesn't. He's just scared to love my mom again. And she's scared to love him again. I worry about my parents every day, I know I was not enough for them to stay together and I thought maybe Charlie was, but he isn't either. I overheard her tell Aunt Cath that she moved to Hawaii, not because of Stan's business, but because she needed space from Danno because she loved him too much to not be with him. She told Aunt Cath that both her and my dad operate off fear, they don't take risks, and that's why neither of them is truly happy. I can't ask you this, but I want you to think about taking a risk on Aunt Cath."

For such a young age, Grace Williams was wise beyond her years. Her secret revelation leaves both Danny and Steve's heads spinning. Danny doesn't know how to control the emotion welling up within him, but he knows better than to interrupt or let her know he's overheard them.

"Gracie it's not that simple. Your Aunt and I have so much history, so many issues. It's just not that simple honey, sorry."

"Uncle Steve it is that simple. Take a risk. Either you're happy, or you're heartbroken, but you've been both before and survived. What's the problem? Adults make everything so much more complicated, and it makes me so mad. You all go through the motions and act like everything's okay, but it's not because you're not with the one you love." Steve swallows his protest and lets his niece continue.

"When Danno and Melissa got into a big fight and broke up, he went crawling back to my mom. I was at a sleepover, so Danno was supposed to come pick me up in the morning, but I wanted to go home, so I took an uber home, and I saw his car still there, and I knew. I left and stayed with Aunt Cath until noon and ubered to Danno's. Never tell him this, but the morning after, I took one look at him, and I knew they'd slept together. They think I'm a baby so that I wouldn't know these things, but I do. And then after my mother got comfortable with being back with my father, he got back with Melissa. Do you know how much that hurt? Me? My mom? But she never said anything, and neither did I."

"Grace, I didn't know about your parents. I'm sorry." He was telling the truth, Danny had not mentioned he and Rachel had slept together again, sure Steve suspected it, but he never inquired.

"It's okay. It's a part of life. I don't want what happened with my parents to happen to you and Aunt Cath. You can forgive her; she didn't keep a child from you for three years. You can forgive her. I look at the way Will's parents love each other through thick and thin. I want that for my parents; I want that for you too. You can forgive Aunt Cath."

Steve wraps Grace up in a hug and Danny pretends to come out of Charlie's room finally. The three of them watch tv together until 2 am. Then Danny carries a sleeping Grace to her room and puts a blanket on a snoring Steve. He stays up until 5 am thinking about his daughter's words.