Title: Chin Ho Kelly
Author notes: hi we´re getting close to the end so Thanks for being there with me.
Jerseybelle, my amazing beta, you´re a godsend.
The first time Chin Ho Kelly heard the McGarrett last name was with a different man. John McGarrett was the finest police officer a rookie like him could ask for. He was hard but fair; he really took time to train you, not just have you do the reports.
When he was accused of stealing that money and was separated from the force his friend never believed the charges and put more than one person in the hospital for badmouthing him. Soon the others learned that you never mess with a McGarrett.
Then John died and another McGarrett came, one Chin had meet on just a few occasions. Steven McGarrett was a force to be reckoned with, you had to notice him. He was an imposing figure, one that you couldn´t take your eyes away from.
When he and Danny Williams came to see him, Chin could tell that his life was about to change. Being asked to join the task force took him by surprise, he tried to refuse, but his friend´s son never let him and took his word about his innocence without hesitation and in that moment he earned Chin´s loyalty.
When Steve gave his cuz an amazing opportunity without much questioning he knew this was really a life changing moment. They were part of something now; he was again part of an Ohana.
He cared about his boss. Chin knew he carried a lot of pain inside him, a lot of guilt and he decided that he was going to be there for his boss, his friend, from now on.
When the first month passed he suspected Steve was in love with someone. It took him a while but on his birthday he finally saw it, Steven loved Danny.
When he though about it, they fit together in a way that Danny didn´t fit with anyone and that included Rachel, so Chin prepared himself to be there when Danny opened his eyes and saw it. But time passed and that never happened. He wanted to say something, he wanted to make them see it, but he didn´t; this was something that they needed to see for themselves. But they never did, their fear and blindness was stronger and Steve got deployed, and everything went to hell, his boss was killed in action.
They fell in the dark pit; they had lost their Ohana´s heart.
Danny was lost in shadows and demons, Kono was drowning herself, and he was filled with guilt because he could have stopped this.
They fell hard because they didn´t have their protective net to catch them.
Chin could do nothing other than see his beloved Ohana as it died right in front of his eyes. Malia, his love, betrayed him; betrayed him by asking him to forget about the man who returned his honor.
Chin did everything he could but it was never enough.
Time stopped, day became night, and hope became pain.
Chin saw; Chin felt every change his life took. He was unable to find something to help his Ohana and that was failing the man that always stood by him.
So every morning he woke up, swallowed his pain and kept trying. Chin will keep trying because he owed it to the second McGarrett he met.
And you never let down a McGarrett...