Chapter 10

The girls made their way down to the kitchen, after making sure all of their clothing was on the right way.

"First thing, who's Eric?" Kono asked.

"My moms chef, who's really only good for making cookies."

Kono giggled, "Okay..., now how come you've never told me about your brother?"

"I didn't purposefully not tell you. I guess it just never came up in conversation." Cath shrugged.

"Whatever, your lying, but whatever."

"I'm not lying." Cath said defensively as she pushed open the door to the kitchen. "Hey Eric." Cath waved at the man behind the counter, who was tall and blonde.

"Really you both choose to come home at the exact same time," Eric groaned, "you know it's been really quiet around here with out you."

"Don't worry I won't be in here long, we're just grabbing cookies." Cath said as she picked a couple cookies off a plate before handing it to Kono, who did the same and then placed the plate back on the counter.

"Hey, you brought someone home that isn't the cocky navy SEAL! Did you finally ditch him?" Eric gasped.

"Yes I did actually. Eric this is my girlfriend Kono, Kono this is my moms chef Eric." Cath introduced.

"Hi." Kono said sweetly, and waved.

"Hey Dad." Cath said as she walked into her fathers study.

"Hey Sweetheart." Jared replied from his chair in the corner, where we was reading. "And this obviously, must be Kono." He said placing his book on the side table and standing to hug the girls.

"It's nice to meet you in person Admiral Rollins." Kono said.

"Please call me Jared. And since Kono, sort of, well not really. But anyway since Kono mentioned my job..." Jared turned towards his daughter, "... Why did you, Miss Catherine, take your leave early?" Jared crossed his arms.

"I was slightly injured." Cath winced.

"Slightly?" Kono questioned, "I wouldn't call a sprained wrist, cracked rib, and concussion, a slight injuring."

"I was gonna say something about the 'slightly' but I agree with Kono that isn't so slight." Jared said, "but how come I didn't hear about this?"

Catch shrugged, "I don't know, actually I think you and mom were on vacation."

"Possible, I guess." Jared said skeptically.

Later that night the girls were in Cath's room, getting ready for dinner.

"Purple or green?" Cath asked holding up two dresses, the purple one being from the first time Cath and Kono went out to dinner.

"Umm... Purple, because you look drop dead gorgeous in that dress." Kono said.

"Aww thanks." Cath was about to go back to rummaging through her suitcase when she noticed the solemn expression on Kono's face, "Hey, everything okay." She said getting up and crossing the room to where Kono was sitting.

"Yeah," Kono shook her head, "I just... ok don't get me wrong I love having all this free time but..."

"You miss work." Cath finished Kono's sentence for her.

"Yeah," Kono looked up at her. "Sounds crazy, huh?"

"Not at all. I could spend forever on leave but I'll still want to get back on a ship afterwards." Cath sat on the armrest of Kono's chair.

"I just... Five-0 was my dream job, I don't know where else to go." Kono brought her hand up to rest on Cath's knee.

"I have complete faith that you'll figure it out, and whatever you choose to do I'll be here for you." Cath put her hand on Kono's, and intertwining their fingers.

"Thank you, that means a lot."

"Of course. Come on let's get dressed before they start to wonder what happened to us."

Dinner went well, apart from Taylor cracking sex jokes that only Cath and Kono caught, whereas Caroline and Jared just thought the three of them were going insane.

The next morning Cath and Kono boarded their flight home. They were sad to go but knew they needed to.

About an hour into flight Cath fell asleep, using Kono as a pillow and sitting close enough to be considered sitting in her lap. Kono wrapped her arms Around Cath's small frame, thinking about how she was glad she made the decision to stay that night at Cath's and that she was finally happy in relationship.

The End