Now this is the McKono (sorta) chapter you'll be waiting for, the last one wasn't so popular but I had to explain how Kono and Dylan met. And no, he has nothing to do with the case or the killer. I just thought I would add a little bit of an excuse for Steve to be jealous, which he totally is btw.

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Kono smiled broadly for the first time while going to work. She had dreamed about her date with Dylan, she had relived her date in her brain so many times it didn't seem real to her anymore. For the first time she was thinking about someone other than Steve. She felt she was putting him behind slowly, her heart jumping with joy at the idea of seeing Dylan again. That was a sign of moving on, right?

When Danny saw her walk in was when the questions begun. It was only natural to them to be curious since she hadn't had a date since God knows when. So when Danny asked her about her date she had no trouble answering with a wide smile.

"It went perfectly," she said and her friend smiled back at her. "I'm actually considering seeing him again."

"Really?"

"Yes," she smiled again as she nodded. "He's the sweetest man I've ever met, Danny. I feel there're so many things I want to know about him, you know?"

"I'm glad, Kono. I mean, I'm glad to see you so happy."

"I am, I truly am."

Her phone rings and she smiles yet again when she sees the caller ID. She feels like a schoolgirl all over again. Steve watches her from afar, walking out of his office to see her giggle at whoever was talking to her on the phone. Danny watches his friend's reaction and is surprised at how unhappy Steve is.

"Don't do that," Danny says, making Steve frown in confusion.

"Do what?"

"You don't have the right to be jealous now, man."

"What are you talking about, Danny?"

"You're jealous because Kono is seeing somebody. You don't have to say a word, I know you."

"I'm not jealous; I'm just worried about her. Period."

"Worried about what exactly?"

"The guy could be the murder we're looking for, Danny. Aren't you slightly concerned about that?"

"You know there's no chance of him even being remotely connected to it, so stop making excuses."

"I'm not…"

"Look, Steve. Kono has all the right in the world to be happy without us, you Chin and me, ruining her life."

"What if this guy turns out to be a serial killer on the run?"

"Well, what if we let Kono figure that out on her own?"

"Why don't you show more concern at our friend's situation?"

"There is NO situation and stop covering you jealousy with all this. You have your life, let Kono have her own."

"I…"

"Shut up, she's coming."

Steve keeps quiet, showing no reaction at her presence at all. She would have been hurt at some other point, but she was so concentrated on her life now that she didn't want to worry about Steve. She loved him, of course she did, but she couldn't sit around and wait for him to notice her forever. She was moving on now.

Dylan shows up for lunch time. She did not expect his visit but was happy when she saw him walk in. He brought a single red rose to her; he said he wasn't sure if she liked roses. She was so impressed by his sweetness that she didn't have the heart to tell him she hated roses.

Danny comes to greet him, followed closely by Steve and Chin. He shakes his hand politely, introducing himself and faking a smile. Kono felt her stomach tight inside as the tension building up between them; this did not come from Dylan since he seemed more than fascinated with meeting her team mates. Steve watched him with an intense look; to Kono he was just being unnecessarily overprotective seeing the new guy he insisted might be a suspect, to Danny his jealousy was showing profusely.

They walked away holding hands, and the team watched her as she laugh about something Dylan had said. To Chin's surprise Steve locked himself in his office after his cousin disappeared behind the glass doors, to Danny he was so angry at himself for seeing her with another man that the only choice he had was vanished from the world, but since he could not do that his office was the next best thing.

He should be happy, he knew that. But when Kono showed up saying there was another man, someone who took the courage to ask her out, he could not control his emotions any longer. It took him a good day to figure out what was wrong with him, it took him all his will power not to kick that man in the ass just because he wanted to. He liked her. No, he loved her. And the feeling that he was losing her over some guy who played prince charming for her did not leave him alone. He was even making up him being involved with the case, which at this point there was no use since he knew it wasn't right.

"Hey man," Danny spoke from the door, making his way in without waiting to be invited and closing the door behind him. "You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," he lied.

"That door slam you just did does not look like fine to me," he watches his reaction, Steve's silence proving he was right. "Are you still thinking about Kono and the guy?"

"I told you Danny, I'm just worried about her wellbeing, nothing more."

"You see? I would believe you BUT since I do know you…"

"I'm not lying."

"Fine. If you're not lying then tell me what's in your head right now,"

"Well I have a lot of things in my head."

"Such as?"

He sighs heavily, knowing he could not lie to Danny or he could not make something up for him to leave him alone. There was something else other than Kono in his head. Their last conversation involving Lori's love confession and how significant it had become, how it made him feel special and how he thought he could never love anyone like Catherine. Two nights later, after that conversation, he kept replaying those words over and over again. The female voice creeping inside his head each time he closed his eyes. It seemed different than he remembered; he wasn't even sure who she was anymore.

"Lori."

"Lori? You're thinking about Lori just now?" Danny asked confused.

"No, I mean I was thinking about something Lori said to me before leaving."

"What did she say?"

"The day of my accident, while I was in the hospital, Lori said she loved me," Steve explained and Danny's reaction was not of surprise, which made him believe he already knew about her feelings for him.

"She did?"

"Yeah. Kono and I were having this conversation, she told me Lori had been very brave by telling me how she felt, even If I was unconscious…"

"Was that the day when Kono walked out of your office crying her eyes out?"

Steve stared at his friend for a brief second before shaking his head.

"She wasn't crying."

"Yeah she was. I saw her, she looked kind of sad. I sort of guessed what you guys talked about but it didn't look like a happy topic to me, from Kono's reaction."

"I don't understand…"

"Can I tell you something?" he didn't wait for his answer, he continued talking "I think you got it wrong. I don't think the woman who said those words to you was Lori, in fact I can assure you it was not."

"And if it wasn't Lori, who was then?"

"Someone who you just noticed because there's some smart man out there who is going to take her away from us, from you, in no time."

He frowned, and then his friend's words hit him like a cold shower. It made sense why the voice was haunting him, why he couldn't quite place it with Lori, why it didn't sound like her at all, is because she wasn't the one.

He had been so stupid not to notice, so blind not so see her right in front of him. Now the feelings he had inside, the ones he had been trying to avoid, made sense to him so much. It had been her all along…

"Kono…" he whispered, letting the words finally sinking in.

TBC

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