Title: Stan

Author notes: Hi, this is the next chapter of the story, I hope you like it.

Thanks to my amazing beta Jerseybelle for her help.

Stan was an educated man; he went to the best schools and got the very best of everything. Always raised in money, he was used to the best. He had a lot of women, like him raised in money, but they lacked something.

He was in New Jersey for a bussiness trip the first time he met her. She was an exquisited woman named Rachel, but there was a catch, she was married and had a little girl. He considered his choices and he decided to take a chance. She was everything he wanted, beautiful, refined and tired of her life there.

They saw each other for six months and the only thing he got was a few kisses when he came to see her. He knew her husband was a police man and that deep down she loved him, but according to her, love wasn´t enough. She couldn´t be a cop´s wife anymore.

One day she called him and told him that she had filed for divorce; two days later he asked her to married him. She said yes.

The first time he saw Daniel Williams he knew that this man loathed him. His blue eyes and posture told him that he will never be able to win his trust or any kind of sympathy. In Williams' eyes, Stan, along with Rachel, was responsible for taking his Monkey to this pineapple infested hellhole.

As far as Stan could see, Danny, or "Danno" like Grace called him, was a loud mouthed detective, brilliant in his job, a job that he loved and was good at..

He gave Rachel money to hire an attorney that limited Danny´s visits. He could tell that Grace hated him, she had Danny´s expressive eyes. Rachel tried to make her called him 'Daddy Stan', which he didn´t want because he wasn´t her father but he never expected the Step-Stan. The first time she looked into his eyes and sneered "bye, bye Step-Stan" he had managed to fix their relationship; they were friendly, but he knew he would always be the man that made her mommy hurt her Danno.

Steven McGarrett scared the hell out of him, he was an imposing man, someone you couldn´t miss. He also knew that McGarrett loathed him; he could see the looks he received from the man. First he thought it was because of loyalty towards Danny until he met the other two members of the task force and they all looked at him like a bug that they wished they could kill. Danny Williams´ Ohana was scary, but Steve McGarrett was downright terrifying. When Rachel made a move to suspend Danny´s time with Gracie, Steve made the first threat and called the Governor. There was a new player in the game, Danny wasn´t alone anymore; Steven McGarrett in protective mode could be lethal.

It took him six months to figure out that Steve was in love with Danny and Danny felt the same about Steve. He knew Rachel was aware and she seemed happy for him. Some days the guilt of hurting a good man was too much for her.

Gracie loved her "Uncle Steve"; he was her playmate, her partner in mischief against Danno. Stan would never be in their position, Danno was her father and Steve, as far as she knew, made her Danno happy, so she loved him for that.

When they went in this trip Stan knew something was up. He remembered that Rachel had told him that Steve came to see Grace, he knew that the Commander would be making his move and he wanted his Gracie Daisy´s blessing, or so he guessed.

They were in Europe, and one day when he came back to their hotel, Rachel was crying and Gracie, it seemed, had cried herself to sleep.

"He was deployed and killed in action," and he knew.

They wanted to come back, he could see it. Rachel wanted to come back and Grace barely said anything. He wanted to pleased them, but he heard Danny on the phone one day and understood that he couldn´t deal with Grace.

"We can´t come back, it isn´t fair to Grace or Danny, he needs time to mourn," and he managed to convince his wife to stay. He wanted a chance to be there for Gracie; maybe this trip could make them a family.

That´s what he told himself every night before going to sleep thinking that he was negating the person Danny now needed the most.

But Stan had always been a business man. Why change now?

TBC