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A/N: This was written in response to the prompt:
Hawaii Five-0, Steve/girl!Danny + Grace, someone confuses Steve for Grace's dad

Looking the part

Being with Steve was, in some ways, just as difficult as being with Richard had been. Steve was tall and slender and built and just plain gorgeous. Danny... wasn't.

Danny was a short and loud-mouthed and no one at her old precinct had ever understood why tall handsome Richard with his gorgeous accent had ever dated much less married her. She doubted anyone at the new precinct would ever guess or even believe evidence that she was now with Steve.

She was fine with her body. She had a great body. When she dressed to impress, she was damned impressive. She had the kind of curves to make a grown man drool. (As the saying went: She was broad where a broad should be broad.) And she had a right hook that could take down criminals and drooling idiots alike.

But if she wanted to be taken seriously in the workplace she wore suits to cover the T&A and got right into people's faces with words and gestures. She was a detective and a good one, and if that meant that she was just one of the guys that was just fine.

But, well, there were trade-offs and even if she was happy with what she had, there were times when she was very aware of what she didn't.

No one, beside her, was surprised when Richard left her. She didn't look like someone who could be Richard's wife any more than she looked like someone who could be Steve's lover.

Which is why she's so surprised when the guy at the restaurant Steve was showing her and Grace had told Steve that "If your daughter get's bored, she can play in the courtyard while the food is prepared."

Steve had turned to ask Grace whether she wanted to play and Danny had just sat there, not sure what to say.

She was Grace's mother. That had to be obvious. Grace looked like Danny, or at least a lot more like Danny than she looked like Steve. Grace raced off to play, still in sight of their table, and Steve gave Danny a look.

"What?"

"You look like something happened. What's the matter?"

"The waiter thought you were Grace's father."

"Yeah?" Steve looked blank, like he didn't know where she was going with this.

"He thought we were Grace's parents. He thought we were a couple."

"Uh Danny, we are a couple. We're not exactly subtle about it."

"Oh come on, no one thinks we're a couple! We don't look like a couple!"

Steve looked blank again, but this time like maybe Danny had said the wrong thing. "I think we look like a couple. I think we are a couple."

Okay, maybe she had said the wrong thing, but still, she waved that away. "Yes, yes, we're a couple, but aside from the guys saying we argue like a married couple, we don't look like it. You know we don't."

Steve got one of those looks on his face. He checked to see that Grace was fine outside and not paying any attention to them at the window, which really should have been a clue that he was going to reach out and pull her into his lap.

She made an undignified squawk, and started telling him off.

He smiled at her and she paused her rant. It was a pause, not a stop, she wasn't sure if she was ready to stop, but... "What?"

"We definitely look like a couple."

And okay, Danny thought, sitting in his lap, enjoying the warmth of his hands on her hips, perhaps he had a point there.