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Chapter 21: Weeks later

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They hung up and Danny just sighed heavily in the chair. He took hold of Steve's hand and rubbing his knuckles with the thumb. Tears rolled down his cheeks and he just sliently gave way to them as he laid his head on the plam of Steve's hand, "Babe, please wake up soon. I really need you right now. We found out something about what happened. Please wake up."

Now a few weeks had gone by and Steve still hadn't woken up. The brain scans showed that he still had brain activity and this was a good thing so there was hope but slowly Danny was loosing hope that maybe he had gotten there too late and Steve would never wake up because of how long he had been exposed pior to getting there. The snake poison was long out of his system but for some reason it was taking longer for the Siran to get out of Steve's system. He was still intubated, still had the antidote hooked up to him and his eyes were still closed. Everyday Danny had come back and stayed up there just talking his ear off, hoping that Steve would wake up and give him that 'I'll pay you cash money if you stop talking' look.

In the meantime, life outside the hospital was crazy with the trial starting and Rachel and Stan having a lawyer for each of them. Rachel had been thinking about everything she had done and she was truly sorry for going along with Stan to get rid of Steve. The trail for her didn't last but only a few days because she plead guilty to the counts of conspiaracy, kiddnapping and attempted murder of a fellow officer. She got 2 years for cooperating with them in telling them as much information as she could about everything Stan was into. Apparently some of his business dealings had been in drugs, gun-running, stolen art, jewlery. It was all over the place. Stan wasn't too pleased but understood why she rolled on him doing it for the sake of her children. Stan's trail had been going on for the past couple of weeks because of everything that was discovered by Rachel. Once they had the evidence they needed; they could really get this trail going and hopefully close quickly. A week later Stan was sentenced to life in prison with the possibly of parol.

By now a month had gone by and Danny was getting really stressed out at this point. Everyone was getting stressed out including the Governor. It wasn't until the middle of the night that Danny felt something move benethe his hand. Danny's eyes flew opened hoping he didn't just imagine it but it happened again and he smiled for the first time since this whole thing happened. Steve's grip on Danny's hand got tighter and he saw Steve's beautiful blue eyes flutter open. Danny hit the emergency button and told the nurse to call the doctor to tell him that Steve was awake.

Danny could tell by Steve's eyes that he was in a panic so he looked straight into his eyes, "Steven, it's okay, you're in a hospital and you had to be intubated-you have a tube down your throat-that's why you can't speak. The doctor will be in a few minutes to take that thing out, okay?"

Steve shook his head indicating that he understood what Danny was telling him. About 10 minutes later the doctor came in, checked Steve's vitals then started talking to him.

"Steve, I'm Doctor Smith. I need to take out this tube so I need you to cough for me when I tell you to; alright."

He nodded his head in understanding her words. He did cough when she told him to and Danny was right there by his side holding his hand and holding a cup of water with a straw in the other one. Steve gladly took the water and drank like a dying man in the desert, "Whoa babe, slow down, don't want you to throw up, okay?"

"fffeels ggood" Steve's voice sounded dry and unused but Steve kept trying to get his voice back to normal, "Danny"

"Yeah babe?"

"Lllloove you"

"Love you too" Danny smiled and his eyes were wet with unshed tears, "I'm just so glad your back Steve. I was so scared that you'd never wake up again, I thought...I thought I'd lost you and that just terrifys me to the core. Please don't ever do that again."

"I won't. You can't get rid of me that easily Danno." For the first time in a month and half Steve smiled that famous McGarrett smile and Danny's heart just melted. That's also when Danny's tears finally fell from his eyes and he just let go. Steve wrapped his hand around Danny's neck and pulled him down for a long sensual lingering kiss. They broke apart and just looked at each other.

"Do you remember what happend?" Danny finally asked.

"Yeah...Stan...Stan stabbed me; the knife was laced with Siran and something else."

"That other poison was Rattlesnake poison."

"Oh so that's why I felt funny..."

"What else do you remember?"

"I tried kicking down the door but with the poisons in me and the stab wound; I couldn't kick down with the normal full force and then my leg hurt. After that I was so tired and it was starting to get hard to breath. I thought if I laid down a few minutes and rest, I could try the door again. After about 20 minutes I got up but by that point I could barely catch my breath and I fell face forward. Then I woke up here. What happened?"

"When Stan gave up the address I took off like a bat out of hell, drove like you because I was afraid that I wouldn't get to you in time before-anyway we got there and Kono and I started searching. Kono found you laying face down with one arm above your head like you were trying to get to the door. You were pale, sweaty and your breathing was very shallow. Chin pulled me out of the way so the EMTs could work on you. When I moved you started convulsing really bad. They couldn't do anything till you stopped and the sezire lasted about 15 mintues before they could start working on you to get you stable enough to move you. I...I was in complete shock."

"Wow...does Rachel know what Stan did?"

"Uhh that's the thing...he and Rachel planned this a few days before it happened."

"What? Why?"

"She said that she was jealouse of us and if you were out of the way then I would break and give up custody...it's really petty"

"Sounds like she's got a vindictive streak in her"

"Yeah...I never knew she could stoop that low"

"Have you talked to her?"

"Not yet...I was waiting for you to wake up"

"Well I'm awake now...you should really talk to her."

"Oh I will-trust me she will listen to what I have to say. She's going to jail for 2years and Stan got life"

"Good...what about Grace and Charlie?"

"Oh...great news! I've got full custody of Gracie. We called her parents to see if she could take Charlie till he was 18 and they couldn't so they gave him to me since his parents are deceased."

"Wow...well we're in this together Danno. You'll never be alone."

This made Danny's heart melt and confidence in them grow again. He looked down at his ring and just smiled.

"I'm glad you're marrying me again Danno"

"Me too and I'm sorry about what I said about Chin and me hooking up; I never should've said that, never should've stooped that low."

"Danny...stop...it's okay, I get it, you were mad as hell, pissed off beyond belief at me and I do not blame you."

"Okay"

"So when are you going to talk to Rachel?"

"Tomorrow but right now we need to get back to sleep."

Steve and Danny smiled at each other and Steve laced his hand into Danny's linking their fingers together and closed his eyes.

"I love you Danno"

"Danno loves you too"

With that Danny closed his eyes also and they both fell into a peaceful sleep for the first time.

AN: hope you like it...next chapter Danny confronts Rachel so people gear up.