CHAPTER SIX
Title: "Salvation: Forever and Always: Elusive Dreams"
Author: Michelle Heath
Rating: MA for adult situations and language
Summary: Story #9 in the Salvation series. The bonds of family bring the Five-0 ohana even closer.
Disclaimer: I so do not own Hawaii Five-0; unfortunately! All original characters are the property of the author!
Date Written: July 7, 2012
"Wow."
"That all you can say, Gorgeous?"
"I love you, Danny Williams."
"Much better."
(Two servers arrive at their table bearing chilled champagne and flutes and one takes their dinner orders while the other opens and pours the champagne after receiving Danny's approval. Caroline, feeling a little like a fairy princess who has been swept off her feet by her knight in shining armor, takes a moment to look at the beautiful scenery all around them, the intimacy of the candlelit table, and the man she loves with all her heart sitting across from her and is suddenly very ashamed of her behavior the previous night. When they are alone again, Caroline reaches across the table and takes Danny's hand with hers.)
"I owe you an apology, Danny. I have been so . . Consumed with trying to get pregnant that I have completely lost sight of us. I love you so much and you've got to know that I would never deliberately do anything to hurt you! I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, Caroline. I told you we'll get through this and we will. I want you to know that I very much want to have a baby with you, but . . . Honey, we simply cannot allow our mutual desire to have a child dictate every minute of every day of our lives. Yes, there are certain times of the month when you are more likely to conceive than others, but I want our child to be conceived in love and not according to the dictates of a calendar. We're both healthy and there's no reason we can't have a child together, but you're worrying about it so much that you're stressed out. You've got to relax and stop worrying about this, Caroline."
"I know. I just want to have a baby, your baby so badly!"
"It will happen, Caroline, but not until you stop obsessing about being pregnant. Okay, we're not going to talk about this any more tonight. We're going to have a fabulous dinner, talk a walk on the beach, and then we're going up to our suite and I'm going to make love to you all night long."
"Wow."
"Yeah. Can't wait to hear what else you have to say. . . Later."
(All through dinner, Caroline and Danny flirt with one another like they did when they first started dating and they are both in very good moods by the time they've finished eating. True to his word, Danny takes Caroline's hand and they head down the stone steps leading from the patio to the beach. Once there, Caroline removes her shoes, Danny removes his tie and they walk toward Diamondhead hand in hand, laughing and talking the entire time. An hour later, they step into the luxurious suite that is theirs for the evening and Caroline gasps in surprise. There are vases of red and yellow roses everywhere and a trail of rose petals leads from the door of the suite to the bedroom where there appears to be hundreds of rose petals strewn on the bed. Another bottle of chilled champagne and two flutes sit on one of the bedside tables and a completely sheer, emerald green lace nightgown that Caroline's never seen before is draped on the foot of the bed. Spinning around to face her husband, Caroline finds that he is mere inches from her.)
"Danny . . . This is. . . It's . . . Oh, my God! You are the most incredibly romantic man on this planet! I can't believe you did all of this for me!"
"Us, Caroline. I did it for us. Why don't you go slip out of that very delectable dress and into that even more delectable nightgown while I pour us some of that very fine champagne?"
"Why do you do it, Danny? Why do you put up with me and all my crap?"
"Because I love you, Caroline. It's just that simple."
"Oh, Danny. I love you, too. I can't promise you that I won't go off the deep-end again, but I can promise you that I'll try."
"I know you will, Gorgeous."
(A few minutes later, Caroline, now clad in the figure-hugging nightgown, steps from the bathroom to the bedroom and takes Danny's breath away. He is so stunned by his wife's beauty that he nearly drops the champagne flutes he is holding but manages to get one of them safely into her hand.)
"A toast, Mrs. Williams, to a night unlike any we've ever known before."
"And to a love the likes of which I've never known before or will ever know again."
(A soft clink of glasses, a couple of healthy swallows of champagne, and both flutes are quickly placed on a table and they are in each others' arms and kissing one another like there's no tomorrow. Danny has the lacy nightgown off of Caroline's slender shape in no time at all and she giggles as the thought that she had it on for maybe all of five full minutes crosses her mind. Not to be outdone, she moves quickly to divest him of his clothing and they soon fall naked onto the bed on top of the rose petals. Danny quickly pins her hands above her head and proceeds to slowly kiss every inch of her body until she is literally begging him to end the sweet torture. More than happy to comply, he moves to join their bodies and begins to move slowly inside of her. Caroline's breathing becomes shallow and raspy and she urges him on until they are both gasping breathlessly together. Once they have recovered somewhat, they manage to actually pull back the bed coverings and get comfortable while they laughingly pull rose petals from one another. They talk for a while before making love again; this time much more slowly and lovingly. Just before falling asleep, Danny realizes that he's happier than he's been in a while.)