Title: Rachel and Gracie

Author notes: Hi I wanted to thank all those who left me a review and again big thanks to my beta Jerseybelle.

Rachel Edwards had been born in England. She was a well educated woman, who fell in love with a loud mouthed Jersey boy.

Her mother never approved of her marriage to Danny. She said that they were so different that it would only lead to pain.

She lived in a small home with her police man husband and was happy. Grace´s birth was the best day of her life.

But then the time came when her mother´s prediction became true. They were too different. He was a cop, and he was a great one, he had a will to solve cases that was almost impossible to match, but she couldn´t be a cop´s wife.

One afternoon she was having tea with friends when she saw the officers walking up to the little home. Danny had taken two bullets and was in critical condition. She picked Gracie up and went to see him. Her husband almost didn´t make it, but like always, his will of iron helped him. When the doctor told her that he was going to be fine, she threw up and then went to see a lawyer.

Stan was a businessman; He was rich and had a life far from the dangers of police work, so when he popped the question she said yes.

Danny had follow Gracie when Rachel took her to Hawaii. He hated Rachel with the same passion with which he had loved her. She was ashamed to say she was jealous of her daughter. Danny had left everything he knew for her.

Rachel knew that he was working in the HPD but he wasn´t happy; the pineapple infested hellhole was torture for him, or at least that's what he told her, or rather, barked at her.

Everything changed and he was in the Governor´s Special Task Force, second in command to Lt. Commander Steven J. McGarrett, a man that could put James Bond to shame. The one time he smiled at her she almost fainted; he had to be one of the most beautiful men she had ever seen.

When she saw them work she could tell something was different, they were so funny together, the way the Commander bated Danny to listen to one of his rants always made you ask them how long had they been married. They argued, and Danny yelled and ranted about the crazy neanderthal of an animal that Steve was, and Steve just flashed this shit-eating grin and Danny sometimes forgot what he was saying and sometimes he yelled louder.

Rachel could tell he had an Ohana, as Grace told her. Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua were, along with Steve, Danny´s new family; one that protected and loved Grace like Danny did.

Danny smiled more, he was happy and relaxed. He still ranted and hated her but he had a spark that Rachel hadn´t seen in years.

She saw them once again and could tell that they were in love, or at least Steve was. at that moment and when Danny smiled at him with a smile that she had never seen, she was sure.

She waited for them to speak, she waited for them to came and tell her that they were in love but they never did. Steve came once to see Grace and she could tell that he loved her and she was a part of him too. So she waited, she waited to tell them that she was happy for them, she kept waiting but they never came and Steven got deployed, and she saw the old Danny come back, but he was still the new one, too. Danny was worried, he was worried and lost, he needed his partner. She could tell that they all needed Steve.

She took Gracie to travel around Europe, but she kept waiting for them, for Danny´s happy ending, with Steven coming home and she kept waiting for them to call and tell Gracie that they were together.

She called Danny because she thought he had forgotten about Grace in his happiness to have Steve back. And that was then when she found out that Steven never come back. Steven had been killed and had taken Danny and his Ohana with him.

She went to see her baby; she needed to tell her. She and Stan had decided that Grace needed to know.

"Gracie, sweetheart, we need to talk."

"What about, Mommy?"

"Well, Danno called."

"He did, so Uncle Steve must be home. We need to go back, Mommy, now. I need to be there. Uncle Steve told me, he told me that he would ask Danno and I had to be there to give him the ring."

"What´re you talking about. Grace. what ring?"

"That day he came to see me, you remember, Mommy, Uncle Steve came to talk to me about Danno and him..."

Flashback

"Gracie."

"Uncle Steve, what´re you doing here? Is Danno…?"

"Don´t you worry, Danno is fine, but, Gracie, I wanted to talk to you."

"About..."

"You see, Gracie, you know there are different kinds of love."

"Yeah, mommies and babies, mommies and daddies..."

"Yes, but there's also..."

"Uncle Steve, is this about you being in love with Danno?"

"What? How do you know?"

"Well, Alaini, that is my new best friend in the world, explain me that when two grown ups that were boys or two girls and they said they are partners they were in love so you and Danno are boys and you said you´re partners so you´re in love."

"You´re friend is not entirely right but she's not wrong either, Gracie, but with Danno and me, we´re partners because we work together. But yes, Gracie I´m in love with your Danno."

And Steve waited for her reaction, one minute later Gracie Anne Williams was in his arms

"Yes, yes, yes. That´s great, Uncle Steve, I´m so happy for you."

"You are?"

"Yes, you´ll make sure Danno is happy right?"

"Yes, Gracie. I have to go now, The SEALs need me, but when I come back I´m gonna ask Danno to marry me. You would like that idea?"

"YES!"

"But you can´t tell Danno, OK?"

"OK, Uncle Steve, I won´t tell Danno."

"And ,Gracie Daisy, can do you do me another favor?"

"Yes, Uncle Steve, what do you need?"

"Can you keep this for me so the day I come back you can help me ask Danno? Can you do that, Gracie Daisy?"

End Flashback

And Grace showed a stunned Rachel the two silver rings. One said, in Latin, "Amore Aeternum" –Eternal love- and the other one, in Gaelic, "Mo Anam Cara" –My soulmate-

It was at that moment that Rachel, between tears, explained to her baby that they needed to go back home because Danno hadn´t gotten his happy ending. Rachel cradled her baby as they cried together for Danno and Steve, and because they didn´t get their happy ending.

TBC