Hi Everybody! My humblest apologies for the delay in updates! Have had yellow jaundice for 2 weeks and its been excruciating! This is the last chapter for this story. Pretty much all Steve and Kono with a guest appearance from Danny! Hope you enjoy! Thanks for all the reviews and adds! Its been awesome!

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chapter 9

The sun was starting to set on beach infront of Steve's house. The two had been nestled in each others arms the whole day. They had barely moved an inch in the hammock. Steve awoke to the sun beaming in his face as it set over the horizon. He turned to see the beautiful woman lying in his arms. He let out a deep sigh. It felt right, so right. She had her head still resting on his shoulders as she slept soundly. Her dark smooth hair was cascading over her face. He lifted his hand to brush it behind her ear and she moved slightly at the touch of his hand, but still did not wake. He decided that he would make her dinner and let her catch up on the much needed sleep that she had been deprived of the last couple of days. Carefully he took one step out of the hammock, balancing it as he moved his body away from hers. When standing above the hammock he turned back and watched her nestle into the hammock again, not seeming to notice that his body was no longer there. He smiled down at her, a glimmer in his eye at the thought of her being close to him. He ran into the house and allowed her to sleep some more.

Steve busied himself in the kitchen, making a healthy chicken dish for them both when he heard a knock at the front door. He scampered in that direction and opened the door to find Danny standing there, ready to knock again.

"Hey. No letting yourself in these days?" He rushed back to the kitchen.

"Nah, thought that you might be still having a beauty nap and we all know how badly you needed that." He grinned at his own joke.

Steve brushed off the comment. "I thought you'd be with Rachel and Grace tonight?"

"They are resting at the moment. Also I needed to go home and change and thought I'd stop by on my way. Are you hungry Steve? That's a hell of a pile of food, even for you."

"It's for Kono aswell." Danny raised an eyebrow in surprise and nodded as if knowing what was going on.

"Right, should have guessed."

"Danny."

"No need to explain. I totally understand. Extreme situations bring people closer together." Steve shot him a look. "Where is she anyway?"

"Sleeping. Outside on the hammock."

"And where did you sleep?"

"none of your business Danny. Don't you have anything better to do than nit pick at me?"

"Ok, ok. I know when its my cue to leave. Behave yourself Steven. Tell Kono I say the same thing." He pointed his finger in the air " P.S. You are so lucky that Chin is in hospital and not here to see this."

"Danny, there's nothing to see."

"Yeah yeah, I better not see Barry White in the CD player when I come over again." He waggled his eyebrows and waved a hand in farewell to his partner.

Steve shook his head at his partner, realising that telling him his true feelings on the matter might make things more complicated, especially for Kono. The last thing he wanted to do was imply a situation that she was not completely comfortable with. He completed the meal and served it onto two plates and walked outside to see Kono still sleeping in the hammock. He walked over to her and placed one plate close to her face so that she could smell the aromas. Her eyes started to flinch. The light was no longer bright outside. She slowly lifted her head. Steve noted to himself how gorgeous she looked when she was still half asleep. Her eyes adjusted to being open and she sat up dead straight, not really comprehending where she was.

"Boss?"

"yeah, I go by that name, but most people call me Steve." He smiled at her sleepy behaviour.

She scratched her head as she adjusted herself in the hammock. Almost loosing balance due to the fact that she had not realised she was in it. "How long have I been sleeping for?"

"A while. I made dinner. You up for it?"

"yeah of course. Feels like I haven't eaten in days."

"Come on. I'll set it up on the porch."

She slowly rose from the hammock and walked towards the porch of the house, remembering the days events as she finally awoke from her sleepy state.

"hmmm.. smells good."

"yeah, I have a feeling it will taste even better."

They smiled at each other as they each picked up their utensils to start eating. They ate almost in complete silence. The moment feeling rather awkward as neither one of them was sure what would happen after they had finished their dinner.

"Thanks. That was great. I'm totally stuffed right now."

"It was my pleasure. Nice to finally have a normal moment. Want to take a walk to work it off?"

"Yeah sure I could do that."

He rose from the table and took her hand in his as he guided her onto the beach. Kono enjoyed the warm feeling of holding his hand, but it still seemed awkward. As if they had unfinished business that was blocking them from being completely open with each other.

The moon was shining brightly and reflected off the ocean as they walked in complete silence down the beach, their hands still joined. Steve decided that the silence was too much for him.

"So superwoman?"

"Yeah superman."

He smiled at her form of banter. "Feel like a swim?" With that he lifted her over his shoulder and ran towards the water. She squealed at him.

"Steve, put me down! You're such a brute!"

He laughed in response and proceeded to drop her into the water. As she hit the water she could feel the saltiness of it stinging her wounds. She winced in the sudden pain of it. Steve had forgotten about her wounds. He took note of her response and quickly leaned down to pull her out of the water. "Kono, I'm so sor…"

Before he could complete his sentence she had him in a neck lock and pulled him head first into the water. She rose to her feet and laughed hysterically at him looking like a drowned rat.

"Oh, really, its like that now is it?" He wiped the water from his face and started to chase her in the water.

"No fair, I'm injured!" She was still laughing when he had come behind her and picked her up, bridal style and was pretending to get ready to dump her in the water again. "Uncle! Uncle!" She was smiling a full grin at him. Their eyes met as he carried her to shore. She had her arm wrapped around his neck. All of a sudden she felt an electric pulse run through her core. She swallowed hard and seemed to get nervous. Steve gave her a half smile in response and continued to carry her to the shore. They were both soaking wet, water dripping off of them from head to toe. Steve paused as he reached the dry sand. He wasn't sure if she would let him carry on like this or if she would bolt. He laid her gently on the sand and found a comfortable position lying next to her. He leaned on his one elbow and faced her as he began to stroke her arm. She shivered. He leaned towards her and let his hand cup her face.

"Kono Kalakaua, you are amazing." The words were so genuine coming from him. She could hardly believed he had said them.

"You're not too bad yourself McGarrett." A smirk on her lips.

They stared at each other for what seemed like forever, when all of a sudden Kono pulled away from him and started to stand, dusting the sand off of herself. Steve was not completely surprised. He knew that she would have some reservations about them being together. He looked up at her towering over him.

"We should probably get back to the house. I could use a shower." A cold one. She thought to herself.

Steve sighed disappointedly and raised himself off the damp sand. "Ok by me."

Kono felt guilty, as if she had led him on and then pushed him away when he was comfortable with her, but she couldn't help feeling as though was in a dream world and soon the dream would end. She started to walk back along the beach ahead of Steve, he soon caught up with her and put his arm around her shoulder as if reassuring her that he wasn't put off by her backing away. She smiled meekly at him as they made their way back to the house.

The house seemed awfully big to Kono. Like her and Steve were on opposite sides of the world when in fact they were on either side of the room. She quickly made her way into the downstairs bathroom and had a shower. Steve went upstairs took out a Navy T-shirt and a pair of his running shorts and snuck into Mary's room and laid them on the bed for Kono. He quickly ran upstairs again and went for a shower aswell.

Kono walked into the spare room and immediately a smile made its way across her face when she saw the clothes laid out on the bed. She picked up the shirt and the smell of it reminded her of Steve instantly. That was a scent she could used to. She dressed herself in the clothes he had laid out for her and made her way to the living room where Steve was perched comfortably on the 3 seater couch, watching tv. He looked at her wearing his clothes and smiled a toothy grin at her. They seemed so big on her. She had obviously pulled the drawstring shorts as tight as they could go and they still hung on her hips. She tossed two bandages at him as he sat on the couch.

"Care to assist?"

"For you Kono, anything." The grin still present on his face.

She sat next to him on the couch and he slowly started to bandage her arm. She could feel the warmth of his breath rolling over her skin. She instantly got goose flesh.

"You cold?" He looked up at her with his eyes, still keeping his head focused on her arm.

She shook her head, afraid that any words that would come out of her mouth would reveal to him how nervous she was that they were so close. He seemed to get the picture though. He finished bandaging her arm then slowly moved his hand onto her thigh, letting it slide down her leg to her knee. Her heart started to beat a little faster.

Steve lifted her knee onto his lap and slid his hand back to the area that had been grazed by the bullet. Kono watched him as he carefully bandaged her leg, making sure no loose ends stuck out of the bandage. When he had finished bandaging her leg he let his hand rest on her thigh. She swallowed hard and their eyes met as they stared in silence. Steve slowly wrapped his other arm around her waist and scooted her closer to him. She could feel the space between them getting smaller and her whole body started to shake, wishing that they were no longer apart. Steve felt her shaking and took his hand off of her leg and let it find her face. Cupping her face gently he pulled her into a sweet, sensual kiss. She didn't back away this time. Now she realised that this is where she wanted to be. Her family was safe and now she needed to concentrate on the man in front of her. She raised her arms and wrapped them around his neck, returning the kiss he was giving her. There was nothing to disturb them now. She felt relaxed as they embraced each other on the couch. When eventually their lips parted she noticed an incredible grin on Steve's face.

"Pretty pleased with yourself?"

"Well, this happens to be the most dangerous thing I've done in a couple of days and I have to say, I think it went well." Kono giggled at his words. She loved the playful banter he was giving her.

"Well Commander McGarrett. I think I can up the danger level on this one." She shifted and Steve found himself staring up at the beautiful brunette who was now sitting firmly in his lap, her knees on either side of his waist. They grinned at each other.

"I think I'm up for the challenge."