Title: Lieutenant Christopher "Hammer" Scott, Part 2

Author notes: this is seventh chapter

Big thanks to my wonderful beta Jerseybelle

They were alone now, face to face. Lt. Chris "Hammer" Scott and Danny "Danno" Williams, each have something in common, Steven McGarrett.

"I wanted to talk to you."

"I know, I could tell, but I don´t think we have much to say to each other since we just meet."

"That´s where you´re wrong, I have a lot to say and you´ll listen. Steve deserve as much."

"What do you know about what Steve deserves?"

"I know enough. I know my friend, the one who flew sixteen hours just to be with me the day my baby girl was born is broken, and I don´t understand why because you love him. I don´t know how but you screwed this up. I saw my partner, Williams, I saw my best friend defeated and I have never, in all the time I've known Steve McGarrett, seen him so defeated. You broke his heart, you broke him and that enraged me because he is my brother, because he drinked all my Jack Daniels when my first wife cheated on me, because the moment I told him about my intentions of marrying my second wife he step in and helped me to plan our wedding here, he´s been through so much with me, I owe him my life and so when I see him broken I get mad and you hurt him."

"I know."

"Is that all you have to say for yourself?"

"What you want me to say? That I´m a fucking asshole because I let true love slip through my fingers? I love him but it scares me, the intensity, I've never loved anyone like that, not even my ex-wife who's the mother of my baby. I never love her like this. That night, when he sang that song, I panicked. I was stupid because it was pretty fucking obvious who he was singing his heart out to. And then he left for God knows where without knowing how much I love him back and now..."

"Now you need to decide."

"What is there to decide? I´m gonna be here when he gets back and I´m going to apologize until he believes me. Fuck I´ll beg if I have to, for him to give me a second chance."

"What do you know about him?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Look Williams, I´m listening to you and yeah, all the promises that you´re making are nice, but..."

"But what? You don´t think I can keep my promise?"

"No, what I have is fear."

"Fear?"

"Williams, you seem like a fine cop, a great detective according to some people I've spoken to, but I´m scared because I´m not sure that you´ll stay."

"Explain better because I didn´t seem to follow you."

"Williams, I´m scared for my friend. He loves you so much, he does, but I´m not so sure about you. Being with a SEAL is not easy."

"Yes, I know about Steve, I know he´s an assassin."

Chris let out a dark laugh that sent chills to Danny´s spine.

"That´s what I´m talking about, Williams. We´re SEALs, we´re called when no one else can fix a situation, we see things that stay with us. We have seen what humans are capable of doing; we never knock on Hell´s door, we just go in. What we see is what nightmares are made of, the things we do for our country, for the safety of its citizens stays with us, but we shake the memories and keep going because we have families to protect. We do our job because there isn´t anyone else to do it; we protect our families, we protect their freedom, we fight so the next generation won't have to, so that they stay all tucked in and safe. We make the monsters go away, and keep the world from falling. And my friend, he carries so much of the burden, because he´s responsabile for his unit; he worries about his men. My friend had seen the worst, has been in the darkness for so much time that I got scared for a while, but now here you are, promising me to love him unconditionally. I want to believe you, but will you stay when the nigthmares come and he wakes up screaming in the night? Will you stay with him while he swims to banish his fears and demons ? Will you stay when the tears start to fall? He needs someone to love him, to make sure he remebers that he´s very loved, that he´s not alone and never will be, or he´ll get lost, lost in a darkness that hurts you."

"Speak from experience?"

"Being with a SEALs isn´t nice, we work hard in our training and we work even harder in our mission. When our country needs us we leave everything behind, and we awake the hunters and the demons that we keep chained inside us; we expose ourselves to pain, to the worst torture, and we do it with honour because it's what we do, because there isn´t anyone else to do our jobs. We bring justice, and then when, and if, we do come back, we´re so full of scars that we need the love our families provide. We need to feel other things besides despair, desolation, guilt, shame, pain, or we just eat our guns. Our families are what keeps us alive, they´re our hope and our weapon again the darkness, you´re our protectors and I want to believe, I really want to believe that you´ll stay, but I´m telling you this now, when no one is here, if you have any doubts, please just walk away."

"Walk away?"

"Yes, walk away now and finish shattering my best friend's heart, but do it now and be clear, tell him that you don´t love him, end his desire for you, but do it soon. Don´t leave him hanging, do it without regret so that when he burns away the pain he can rebuild his heart and his life. If you can´t handle him, Williams, I´m asking you to leave him alone, but don´t make him guess. Be sure of what you´re going to do"

Danny could see how much this man cared for Steve, he heard him asking Danny to be honest, he listened to what he said about Steve and his job and saw the loyalty there too, but it didn´t change. What this man had told him chilled his bones but at the same time, made his love for Steve bigger. He and Grace, and Chin and Kono will take care of Steve. all but more him and monkey, yes he was determined to be Steve´s Ohana, Steve protected him and his baby so Danny will protect Steve. Danny will love Steve.

"I´m sure, I love him."

"Well..." but I never got to finish because my phone rang.

Danny`s POV

I hear Hammer´s talking, and I don´t like it, he´s white as a sheet, something is wrong.

"Tell me moron, how dark was the weather? Tell me how bad." and he closed his next thing I know his green eyes are flashing and while his look isn´t as scary as Steve´s, it is scary enough.

"Have a helicopter ready, he needs his family there. I don´t fucking care where you find it, just find me a chopper or I´ll cut you balls off. You have until I arrive, and you better pray you have everything ready."

I know it's bad, I can feel it, something was very, very wrong. When he looks back at me, I know, Steve is down.

"If I had one call to make

I would dial yesterday and warn myself

Tell my lips the words to say

Not let you just walk away..."

"How bad?"

"Took two, one in the abdomen and one in his left shoulder, a broken leg and a stab wound plus there's an infection and they said his body is shutting down."

"No."

"Williams."

"No, he isn´t going to die, not now. He needs us."

"Let's go."

And I ran to get Grace from her bed while calling Chin and telling him what's going on I want to make sure that he and Kono meet us at the Naval Base. I call Rachel and explain what happened and she tells me to wait for her, that she will bring clothes for Grace and her papers to fly.

In my mind I keep repeating, over and over, 'Steven can´t leave me'.

"I love you, babe, just wait for us. Your Ohana is on the way to you."

"Tell my lips the words to say

Not let you just walk away..."

TBC