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Kono pulled her car into her driveway with Danny pulling up to her curb a moment later. They each got out of their cars and headed to her front door. Once they had stepped inside and she had put her keys on a hook next to the door, she turned around to face Danny. She sighed as she rested her head heavily on his shoulder. Danny immediately wrapped his left arm around her waist while his right hand rubbed soothing circles on her back. They stood like that for a few moments.

"You okay babe?" He asked. She nodded against his shoulder but didn't move otherwise. They stood like that for a few minutes. Kono heaved another large sigh before picking her head off his shoulder, walking around the couch and plopped on the couch. Danny walked to the counter and grabbed the bottle of Terraza Malbec. He opened it up, setting the cork on the counter before reaching up to grab 2 wine glasses from the cabinet. He grabbed the 2 glasses and poured a generous amount of wine into each glass. He sat down next to Kono on the couch and handed her a glass. He sat down next to her, placing his arm around her shoulders and pulling her into his side. "Alright, tell me what's going through that gorgeous head of yours." He kissed the side of her forehead. She smiled at the compliment, leaning into him.

"It's just...I ddin't think they would find out this way. I was hoping that we could tell them together or ease them into it. Not have it sprung on them by us making out like teenagers on your desk. We didn't even get a chance to discuss how we would tell them."

"Yeah, it would have been easier if we had told them ourselves. But, it happened and now we've got to deal with it. Granted, I'm sure this wasn't how either of us wanted to be found out and with more finesse I'm sure, but they know now. I'm sure they will eventually be okay with it but we definitely can't do any PDA at work. So let's not panic about that and take tonight to calm down. Sip your wine and relax. I'm gonna stay right here. I'm not going anywhere." Danny picked up the remote for the TV and turned it on, flicking through the channels til he came across 'Wipe Out'. They let the mindlessness of the show wash over them as they sipped their wine. They were both half paying attention as they privately went over in their heads about the events of the day.

Finally, Kono spoke, "Someone should have pulled back or stopped it before it went that far."

Danny smirked and leaned in, "I didn't hear you complaining."

"Shut up!" She laughed while shoving him in the side with her elbow. That was the first smile he had seen on her face since earlier this afternoon. Danny genuinely smiled, pulled her in and pressed a kiss to her hair. She sighed happily and snuggled into his side, leaning on him.

"Thanks Danny, you always make me feel better."

"No problem babe." They stayed like that, sipping their wine and watching the show til it was over. Kono leaned forward and placed her glass on the coffee table. She got up and stretched, arching her back as she did so and heaving a sigh of satisfaction when finished. While she was stretching, he watched her. He leaned against the side of the couch with the wine glass dangling from his right hand and the fingers of his left hand resting on his forehead. She turned around to face him then put her hands on her hips.

"I'm hungry. You?"

"Yeah, I could eat something. What do you feel like?"

"I feel like Thai tonight."

"I could do some Thai." He leaned over and grabbed her glass. "More wine?" He asked her.

"Sure. What do you want?"

"Nothing too spicy. Evertime McGarrett gets something,, he tries to burn my mouth."

She smiled at that and teased, "I'll make sure that they mark which dishes are spicy so we don't get them mixed up and burn your pretty blonde head."

"Har har, very funny." He gave her a quick peck before turning an heading back to the kitchen. She smiled after him as she pulled out her phone and followed him to the kitchen. He poured the wine while she riffled through the drawer until she found the Thai place she liked. As she phoned in her order, Danny leaned up, kissing along the juncture of her neck and shoulder. She leaned away from him and mouth Stop it! to him. He gave a mischievous smile and handed her her glass of wine. She sipped her wine as her order was repeated back to her and kept on eye on Danny. She finished her phone call and turned around to face him, a slightly irritated look on her face.

"Really Danny? While I'm on the phone?"

He traded to a slightly more innocent smile trying to look like a bit more innocent than a few moments ago, "What? I couldn't help myself! Your neck looked yummy so I had to try it for myself!" He sipped his eyes and gave him puppy dog eyes.

"Really Danny? Show a little self self-control."

"A beautiful, young woman who is as attracted to me as I am to her and you expect me not to sneak in a kiss or two."

Kono shook her head, trying to hide her smile behind the glass, "You're incorrigible."

Danny stepped into her space, wrapped his free arm around her waist and whispered against her lips, "Only for you babe." He closed the short distance between them and gave her a sweet kiss. He felt her smile against his lips. She tilted her head to deepen the kiss. They kissed lazily until there was a knock at the door. They reluctantly pulled apart. Kono went to get her wallet to pay the delivery guy. She put the glass down, pulled out the mone and opened the door. She paid the delivery guy plus a tip and took the bag of food, thanking him as well. She closed the door as he headed down her steps. She turned around and grabbed her glass of wine and gave Danny a peck on the way back to the couch. She placed her glass down while she unpacked the bag; placing Danny's food on his side of the table and hers on her side. She placed a set of cutlery next to his food and didn't wait for him to dig in. Danny padded to the couch,, plopping next to her. He placed down his glass and dug in aes well. When they both finished, they leaned back and heaved a contented sigh.

They each grabbed their glass of wine, turning towards each other on the couch. It started when Kono asked him about some stories that she had heard from McGarrett about him and his brother Matty somehow managing to almost steal a grey parrot from the zoo. He confirmed the story then proceeded to tell her about the first time that Matty had gotten him ridiculously drunk at his bachelor party where they started in New Jersey and somehow ended in Wisconsin with both of them facedown in the middle of a football field with cheeseheads and their boxers on while the rest of the bachelor party was passed out in the stands in a similar state of dress with the addition of flags and banners draped on themselves. After Kono finished laughing, she told him about the time that her and her female cousin had snuck out or her house one night when they were having a sleepover to go to a club clear across the other side of town and got mistaken for prostitutes by mainlander businessmen on their way to the club and no matter how hard they tried that they couldn't get rid of them until they got to the club and tried to follow them in but the bouncer wouldn't allow the men in. They each gave stories, trying to one up each other. Each story they told made the other laugh harder and harder until they both got to a point where neither of them could speak they were laughing so hard. They were both laughing so hard that they had tears coming from their eyes. It took a few minutes for both of them to calm down, wiping the tears from their eyes with the back of their hands. When they had settled down completely, Danny collected all the trash from dinner and put it back into the original takeout bag while Kono collected the glasses. She took them to the sink and washed them out while Danny threw the bag in the trash. He crossed to the fridge and opened it. He saw beer, water and pineapple juice. Of course it's pineapple juice. What else would you drink on a pineapple infested hellhole? Danny thought to himself. "Want anything else to drink?"

"Yeah, I'll take pineapple juice." Danny scrunched up his face, stuck out his tongue but grabbed the juice anyway and a bottle of water for himself. He shook up the juice bottle, rested it on the counter and pulled a glass down from the cabinet for her. He filled up the glass with juice and handed it to her. She took it gratefully, thanked him and took a large sip. He cracked his water bottle and took a large sip as well.

"You feeling better babe?"

"Yeah, thanks for coming over." She downed the rest of her juice before walking over to him and hugging him. He wrapped one arm around her waist, set his water bottle down with the other before wrapping his other arm around her and holding her close.

"Not a problem. I'm here for ya babe." They pulled back from each other. They made eye contact with each other. Kono spared a quick glance down to Danny's lips and gave a small smile; looking back up into his eyes for reassurance. Seeing no hesitation there, she lowered her lips to his. The kiss was slow and languid. There was no need to rush this, it was what they needed to cap off a stressful day.

They explored the others mouth with their tongues, learning all the nooks and crannies, enjoying the combination of flavours between the wine and the Thai food as well as the addition of the pineapple juice on Kono's tongue. Danny stapped away from the countertop where he was resting, pushing Kono back at the same time. He leaned down slightly, without breaking contact with her mouth to grab her around her thighs and wrap her legs around his waist. He swung them around and sat her on the countertop, widening her legs as he stepped in closer so their groins were touching. He placed his hands on either side of her on the countertop while her hands threaded into his hair, mussing it up. Kono started moaning as she became more turned on by their make out session, trying to wriggle herself closer to him. Danny groaned as her wriggling pressed her against his crotch where he was starting to get hard. He took his hands off the counter and placed them on her hips, sliding his fingertips under the edge of her top. She gave a small gasp when his fingers made contact with her skin. He greedily swallowed her gasp as his fingers edged higher up her back, splaying to cover as much skin as possible. Becoming overwhelmed and quickly running out of breath, she used her grip of her hands in his hair to pull him back and heave in a few deep breaths. Danny, still hungry for her, dove in to her neck, placing open kisses and licking whatever skin he came in contact with. He wasn't trying to mark her but he was trying to burn the memory of her taste into his head, moaning at the feel of his lips on her skin. She tasted of salt, vanilla and something exotic that he couldn't quite put his finger on but was uniquely Kono. She had thrown her head back to give him more availability to get to her neck, hands never leaving his hair though they were now holding him to her neck. Danny pulled back and dove back in to take her lips in his again. They both moaned into the second kiss.

Danny pulled back, leaning his forehead against hers and whispered, "Kono."

"Hhmmm," Kono replied, leaning back into him to capture his lips again, not wanting to be parted from him. Danny indulged her for a minute before pulling back again, breathing hard and gulping down precious air.

"Kono," he said a bit more firmly, leaning back from her to take in her appearance. His eyes were wide open and taking her in as he waited for her response. Her hair was a little mussed, she was breathing heavily and she had a light flush across her cheeks and chest. When she finally opened her eyes, he could see that her pupils were still wide with lust. he let out a soft groan but resisted the urge to delve back in and taste her mouth again. She looked so delectable with her mouth slightly parted and her lips kiss swollen. He knew he wasn't the picture of perfection that he usually was with his hair slightly mussed and his shirt slightly awry. He tried again, "Kono, I'm gonna stop before this goes any further." He reached up and stroked her cheek with the back of his knuckles, smiling slightly at her as she leaned into the touch, "I don't want this to be some quick roll around or brought on because of an emotionally charged day. I want to make sure that this is good for the both us and that we're both not on an emotional overload when we do finally sleep together." Danny held her gaze as he could see the debate as to whether she would press the advance or not. He saw her come to a decision and sigh heavily.

Kono looked down, breaking eye contact and dropping her legs from around his waist before she spoke, "You're right Danny. We should do this when we are both clear of mind." The hand that was on her cheek drifted down to take her chin in his fingers, pulling her towards him for one more quick kiss before he backed up from her to give her space to hop down. He tidied himself a bit while she hopped off her counter. He grabbed his bottle of water to take it with him as he turned to head to the door. She followed behind him to the door. He opened it and turned back towards her, smiling at her still slightly flushed appearance.

"Good night Kono. I'll see you tomorrow at work." Kono looked slightly uneasy at the prospect of having to face Steve and Chin at work tomorrow. "Don't worry Kono. We'll be fine! Steve and Chin will have had time to calm down and as long as we don't do a repeat performance, we'll be okay."

"Good night Danny. I know you're right...again." She let a small smile pull at her lips, "See you tomorrow." He kissed her once more on the cheek before walking down her steps to his car and driving home.

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