Disclaimer: see chapter one
Author's Note: Thank you so much to those that reviewed last chapter and those that subscribed to alerts for this story. I can't thank you enough for continuing to read and support this story. I apologize for the delay with this chapter but it seemed as if this chapter didn't want to be written; to make up for it I've made this chapter longer so I could include everything I wanted to in this story. On a side note, I know that Scott and Alex's actual birthdays are a day apart but I wanted some space in this story.
Danny was a man on a mission, he knew that the birthday of a certain SEAL that he loved so dearly was vastly approaching and that said SEAL didn't want anything special. His exact words about the matter had been, 'Danno just get me one of those premade made cakes and a night in bed with you and I'm good.' And Danny was more than happy to give the latter of Steve's birthday wishes, but he wouldn't just let it go with that and a cake, not after Steve's plans for Danny's birthday two months ago. Plus Danny thought that Steve's birthday was a perfect excuse for him and his overworked coworkers to let off some steam with alcohol and a good time. So for his wonderful Neanderthal's day of birthday they are hopefully going to get wasted and enjoy a nice meal. Danny thinks it's the best simplistic birthday he's ever planned, especially after he surprises Steve with the newest member of their family.
Steve starts the day like any other; he wakes up and enjoys the warmth that is his Danno before pushing himself out of his bed and into his swim trunks. He runs his normal five miles before cooling off with another five miles in the deliciously warm and sparkling ocean, toweling off and going into the house to start the coffee before going to make sure that Danny had actually gotten up and was getting ready for work. He probably should've known that Danny would be up and making him breakfast, but he didn't think that Danny would actually get up early just to make him breakfast.
"Happy Birthday Babe." Danny greeted looking up from the egg whites he's whisking and smiling at Steve. Steve can't help but smile in return as he walks over towards Danny and kissing him swiftly on the mouth.
"What's for breakfast?" Steve asked glancing into the bowl and smiling slightly at the egg whites, after many trial runs Danny has finally perfected the art of making any style of eggs and Steve especially loves it when he actually adheres to Steve's dietary choices.
"That is a surprise, so go on shower off that delicious salt water and get ready for work. Your breakfast will be done by the time you're done." Steve can't help but give Danny a skeptical look before nodding and kissing Danny quickly making his way up the stairs with a large smile on his face. He can't help but feel incredibly lucky to have Danno in his life.
After enjoying a healthy yet filling breakfast Steve drives them to work, without any complaints from Danny (which Steve considers to be a great present). He can't help but hope that they don't catch a case because for once he's actually looking forward to celebrating his birthday, mostly because he wants to see what else Danny has planned for them.
Although as he's sitting in his office about three hours later he's beginning to rethink his wish about not having a case, he absolutely hates paperwork and thinks it's a pretty crappy way to spend the day. Danny can sense right before lunch that Steve's going a little stir crazy, so he launched into the next part of his plan.
"Hey babe, let's grab lunch just you and me." Danny suggested as he stood in the doorway to Steve's office. "My treat." Danny added knowing that those two words worked the last time, back when Danny was trying to woo Steven.
"Like a date?" Steve can't help but ask, his mind also flashing back to their night at the Italian restaurant.
"Yes like a date, since we're grabbing dinner with the team later, I wanted to have just a little bit more alone time with you for your birthday." Steve smiled widely as he stood from his desk stretching his stiff legs, he couldn't help but love it when Danny said such sweet things. Danny can tell by the look on his face that Steve is getting ready to make a smartass remark and Danny quickly throws his hand up signaling to Steve to not even bother. "It may be your birthday, but if you say whatever the hell is on the tip of your tongue right now, I swear no birthday sex for you." Steve pouts for a moment before nodding, deciding that birthday sex is way more important than this battle of wits. After a moment of silence has passed Danny smiles at Steve and grabs his hand pulling him from the office, he knew that Steve was going to love his next birthday surprise.
Steve glanced over at Danny as he pulled the Camaro up to Kamekona's shrimp trunk, he thought that Danny would have taken him somewhere a little bit more special for his birthday lunch but before Steve can question Danny he's out of the car and waiting next to his door for him to get out of the car. "Come on babe, you're gonna love this." Danny steers Steve towards the truck and Steve's still trying to figure out what they're doing there when he sees why. Sitting at one of the tables near the beach are Mary and Grace smiling brightly at him. Steve looks over at Danny and gives in pulling him close to his body and kissing him soundly on the mouth.
"Do I even want to know what you had to do to get Grace today?" Steve asked still holding onto Danny. He can only imagine the strings that Danny had to pull to get Rachel to even consider letting Grace spend some time with them today.
"I may have asked Mary to call Chris and plead for him to get Rachel to allow this and I may have had to give up next Wednesday with her. But I think it's worth it, plus she really wanted to see you today." Steve leans over and kisses Danny lightly on the temple before pulling away and making his way over towards his family.
"Uncle Steve!" Grace exclaimed flying from the table and into Steve's open arms. "Happy Birthday!" Steve chuckled as she wrapped her arms tightly around his neck. He shared a look with Danny, whose proud smile made Steve's own heart beat a little bit faster. Sometimes the love he felt for that man made his heart pound and stop at the same time.
Steve continued to hold onto Grace as he walked the short distance to the table, where he pulled Mary into his arms as well. He's surprised that Danny had done all of this for him, but really after the way they celebrated his birthday last month Steve really should've known that Danny would try and give him the best birthday he's ever had. Granted it's probably the first birthday that Steve's celebrated since the year before his mom died, so really Danny could've left his birthday at breakfast this morning and Steve would've been happy.
"Happy Birthday bro." Mary whispered the gravity of celebrating today hitting both of them. It was almost foreign to them to be happy and surrounded by family on days when they were so used to being alone.
"How'd he even manage to get you here? I thought you were flying more these days?" Steve asked after putting Grace down and sitting across from Mary at the table.
"I love my job don't get me wrong, but after spending that week with you guys last month something felt off. It didn't hit me until I was back in LA that I wanted to be happy like you are here, I want to be surrounded by people that love me and support me no matter what. So I've decided that I'm coming home. I know that we originally agreed on LA because it was safer for me, but after what happened with dad I'm not taking that chance again. It's much easier to protect me here, then sending one of your SEAL buddies to check in on me every couple of weeks." Steve looked sheepish yet confident in his decision to include Sam in his protection of Mary.
"You're right; you should be here where you're closer to family. I just want you to be happy; we both deserve to happy after all the shit we've been through." Steve reached across the table and squeezed Mary's hand. Danny suddenly appeared at the table with Grace and smiled broadly at him.
"As much as I hate to interrupt Steve when he's talking about feelings, Grace wants to give you her gift and have lunch with you before she has her tennis lesson this afternoon." Steve nodded and smiled moving down the bench for Danny to sit next to him while Grace ran around to Mary's side and sat across from Steve. She reached into her backpack and pulled out her messily wrapped gift and homemade card.
"I made the card and even wrapped it myself, but Danno helped me pick out the gift." Steve pulled the card first, knowing that you always open the card first his mother had made sure that he knew that. Looking at the front of the card, Steve could tell that Grace took a lot of time and effort into making this card for him and he honestly loved it when she made him things like this. As he read the card, he couldn't help but feel his heart constrict, Grace was so open and honest in her love for him that he felt on top of the world. He was the luckiest man to have both Danny and Grace there to love him so unconditionally.
Danny read the card over his shoulder and gasped quietly at the heart wrenching emotions that his precious young daughter had for Steve. Steve glanced at Danny and they both shared small, almost watery, smiles as Steve passed the card over. Danny watched Steve rip open the wrapping paper and couldn't wait to see his reaction to Grace's present, they had spent quite some time in the bookstore making sure that they picked the most perfect book for Steve.
When Steve saw the book, he couldn't help but chuckle of course Grace (Danny) would pick out a book about Navy SEALs. It was perfect actually, because Steve enjoyed reading stories by those that had lived through similar experiences in the SEALs as he did. "I love it Gracie, thank you. The card was amazing and the book is awesome too. I'm gonna put your card on the mantle at home so everybody can see your amazing artistic ability." Grace beamed and bounced a little in her seat, she was excited that her Uncle Steve loved the card she made him. Kamekona walked up at that moment with lunch and small cupcake with a candle for Steve's birthday. If lunch was this amazing Steve could only guess what Danny had in store for them later for dinner.
After lunch and then spending the rest of the afternoon in his office staring at paperwork, Steve was more than ready to have a few drinks with his team and Mary. Thankfully their week has been slow so they could rest up and heal after the hellish three weeks they had had with case after case, so tonight they were going to really let loose. At least that's what Danny had told everybody has the left the office to get ready for their special night on the town. He had even gone as far as warning them all to the dress nicely because they were going somewhere special for Steve's birthday dinner and then hitting the bar afterwards.
Once both Steve and Danny were dressed, Danny led them out of the house making sure that he had the keys to the car and not Steve. He was not going to ruin the surprise of his birthday dinner by having to tell him where to drive to. When they got to the restaurant Steve smirked giving Danny a cocky look. "Really Danno? I should've known huh?"
"Well it is technically the place we had our first date and I promise I won't flirt with the waiter this time." Danny replied pulling into a spot in front of the same Italian restaurant that they had gone to so many months before. "I wanted a change from our typical barbeque and I know that you love their lasagna, so I thought why not?"
"It's great Danny really. I couldn't think of a better place to have my birthday dinner. Well besides mom's that is." Danny smiled and chuckled thinking about his mother. She had called Steve this afternoon to wish him a happy birthday and tell him that his gift would hopefully be arriving tomorrow. It was an emotional phone call for Steve because it has been twenty plus years since Steve's had a mother figure to dote on him for his birthday or in general for that matter.
"I'll make sure she knows that next time we see her." Steve nodded and let Danny grab his hand and lead toward the restaurant where the rest of their party was waiting for them. Steve smiled as he took in their party; Chin had one arm wrapped around Malia who was talking with Mary, while Chris was chatting with Kono and Charlie. When they decided to clean up, they could put any model from GQ or Vogue to shame.
"Happy Birthday Bossman, you and Danny clean up nicely." Kono couldn't help but rib her boss. It was no secret that when Steve traded his cargos and t-shirts for nicer clothes he looked hot, like melt your skin hot. It was no wonder that they both managed to turn heads whenever they went.
"As do you Kono." Steve flirted back wrapping her into a friendly hug, she was like his second little sister in their ohana and now that Mary was coming home, their ohana was complete.
"Happy Birthday Steve." Chris greeted giving Steve a quick man hug. Steve looked over his shoulder at Mary, raising his eyebrow in question. Mary only shrugged and turned back to Kono who had asked her a question. Danny led the group into the restaurant and motioned for them to follow the hostess falling back with Steve.
"I knew she had a crush on him when he stopped by that morning. They make a cute couple, though." Steve watched the way that Chris pulled Mary's chair out and acted like a gentleman and relaxed. If they were involved then Mary was in good hands and Steve could relax a little bit. It didn't take long once they were seated before the bantering and jokes began flying across the table, most of them focused around Steve and his antics since it was his birthday after all. Steve took the ribbing in stride, choosing to hide his smirk behind his wine, which was flowing freely across the table.
After stuffing themselves to the hilt with delicious pasta and bread, they moved from the restaurant to the bar where things really became alive. Danny was content with his beer to sit back and watch Kono and Mary get Steve completely wasted. As Danny watched Kono pass another shot to Steve, Danny knew that he was going to get a rare treat to see Steve completely drunk.
"Do you wants to know a secret?" Steve slurred leaning heavily on Danny as they slowly made their way to the front door.
"Sure."
"You can't tell Danno, m'kay? I want to tell him when the times right. But I gots to tell somebooty." Steve snickered as he said booty. "Booty. I've come for yer booty." Steve stopped almost making Danny fall forward and struck his best Captain Morgan pose and using his best drunk pirate accent. "You smell like Danno, but you're too quiet to be my Danno."
"Alright big guy, I'm going to lean you against the house so I can open the front door. Do you think you can stay there for a few seconds?" Steve looked between the door and where Danny was pointing and jerked his head in agreement. Danny carefully moved Steve so he was leaning against the house.
"Wanna know a secret?" Steve said again looking at Danny with drunken curious eyes. Danny just nodded his head before Steve's grabbing his face so that they are looking into each other's eyes.
"I love Danno, a lot. I wanna be with him foreva because he's so pretty. He's definitely the prettiest one in our relationship." Danny nodded feeling his heart swell with love yet he really wants to laugh at how serious Steve is at the current moment. "Him and Gracie, they're my whole world ya knows?" Danny nodded again as Steve dropped his hands moving so that he's resting his head on Danny's shoulder yawning. "'m tired." Steve whined, sounding an awful lot like an overly tired Grace, which makes Danny laugh out loud.
"Alright it's time for this drunk Super SEAL to get some shut eye."
"Oh if I'm super can I get a cape? I need a cape with a giant seal on it! My super power would be throwing people in da shark tank." Danny only gripped Steve tighter and slowly make their way up the stairs.
By the time that Danny and Steve finally made it into the bedroom, Danny had a slight sheen of sweat on his forehead and his breathing was labored a little bit. It was not easy supporting Steve's tall frame up the stairs while said giant is nuzzling his neck and whispering about his love for his Danno. Danny set Steve on the bed and went to grab his shirt when Steve batted his hands away. "No. Only Danno gets to take my clothes off." Steve batted Danny's hands away again and Danny lifted his hands as he stepped back from Steve.
"Alright then, you can undress yourself." Danny left the room going downstairs to set the alarm and get water for Steve, because the man was going to have a hell of a hangover the next day and Danny was going to enjoy every tortured filled minute of it.
The next morning Steve woke up and groaned as the sunlight hit his closed eyes. He should've known that celebrating his birthday with both Kono and Mary would be a bad idea. But the wine from dinner had made him so loose that doing all those shots seemed like a good idea, plus it's been a long time since he's allowed himself to get completely drunk.
"Good morning, here's some aspirin, coffee, and toast." Danny whispered shutting the blinds against the bright sun. Steve groaned as he opened his eyes and sat up slowly, giving the room the chance to stop spinning.
"Why are you so cheery?" Steve couldn't help but ask after he had downed both the aspirin and first cup of coffee on the tray for him.
"Someone had to play DD last night for you. Plus it gave me a chance to see a drunken Steven. It was hilarious let me tell you." Steve quickly whipped his head toward Danny afraid of what he possibly could have done or said last night.
"Please tell me I didn't make an ass of myself."
"Oh no, but you did have high praise for your Danno. It was nice to hear how much you love me and want to spend forever with me. Oh your drunk self also says that I'm the only one that gets to undress you, so I'll keep that in mind."
"I least I told the truth. I meant every word that I said in my altered state."
"That's why they say if you want the truth get someone drunk. I consider last night a very good present to myself, because seeing you drunk is something that I have wanted to see for awhile now."
"Glad I could do that for you." Steve replied his head starting to feel much better.
"Are you feeling better?" Danny asked once Steve had finished his toast and the second cup of coffee.
"Yes, thank you." Danny merely shrugged and grabbed the tray.
"Don't move, I have one more surprise for you." Danny quickly left the room leaving Steve to wonder what else he could possibly have up his sleeve when the distinct sound of paws on the wood floor grabbed his attention. As Steve opened his mouth to call for Danny, a bundle of fur jumped from the floor and onto the bed. "The animal shelter called the other day and said that we could pick him up. I thought it was a perfect birthday present, so I had Mary hold onto him for a few days."
"Hey Jack." Steve greeted rubbing behind his ears and smiling at the happy dog in front of him. "He really is adorable."
"Yeah but I'm the prettiest one in this room, you said so yourself." Danny joked moving to join Steve on the bed to pet the newest member of the McGarrett Williams household.
"Yep and your pretty self made my birthday one of the best birthdays I've ever had." Danny leaned over and kissed Steve soundly on the mouth, while Jack rolled between them happy to be surrounded by such love, as if he could tell what was going on around him. Later on as they played fetch with Jack down on the beach, Steve reached over and pulled Danny against him. "Although you did forget about the birthday sex." Danny turned his smirk matching the one spread across Steve's face.
"Come on Jack!" Danny called running with the dog into the house. He turned at the door giving Steve his best sexy smirk and Steve took off chasing Danny through the house and up the stairs.
A/N 2: thanks so much for reading this story, and like always let me know what you thought of this latest update! ~thatredheadgirl~