Disclaimer: Hawaii Five-0 don't belong to me. They belong to CBS. I just burrow them.

A/N: Thank you for all the nice reviews and thanks to the many followers. Please remember English is not my first languages and therefor I want to thank JazzieG for betaing.

Chapter 6

Danny was pacing the floor in the cave. 1h and 5min. Where were they?

"Danno, you are making me dizzy!" Grace sat again next to Steve's head on the floor.

Danny was saved from an explanation, when he heard voices come nearer.

He ran to the cave entrance and saw his friends and a man coming up to the cave.

"Chin, Kono!" He greeted them relived. "God, I'm so glad to see you!" He hugged his friends and

Chin introduced him to Dr. Mekele Kamea, who was a middle aged Hawaiian.

Danny immediately showed them into the cave, where Steve lay still unconscious with a very tired Grace by his side.

Before Dr. Kamea looked Steve over he crouched down by Grace's side. "Poor Keiki, is your arm hurting much?" At Grace's no, he asked if she hurt anywhere else and when she said no again he checked her eyes and a few reflexes, he smiled, stroked over her head and told her that he was now helping her friend. He stood up and looked at Grace's anxious father.

"I think she is okay, but we will check her over at the hospital, anyway!"

Danny liked this Doctor immediately, with one gentle gesture he had calmed the scared child and in addition her father with her.

Now he was checking on Steve from head to toe and there his look became more grim.

"Did you set the needle to deflate his lung?" Dr. Kamea looked up at Danny with a frown.

"Yes, but…."

"And set his arm, open fracture, his stomach wound and made all this nice stitches?"

"Yes, sorry…"

Dr. Kamea nodded his head. "You did a remarkably good job, Detective!"

Danny stared speechless at the Doctor and then slowly a proud smile lit up his face.

Chin patted Danny on the shoulder after laying the back board they brought down.

"I see; a small MD after your name, after all!" He said smiling.

Kono gave him a quick peck on his cheek. "Yeah, well done, brah!"

***HF0***

"Okay, let's move him carefully over on to the board." All helped to lift Steve's body slightly to place him safely on the backboard, while Grace stood back and curiously watched it all.

They were just about to fasten the safety belts when Danny felt Steve's hand on his arm.

When he looked down, two feverish hazel eyes looked at him.

Danny immediately signaled the others to stop from restraining Steve when he was conscious.

"Danny?!" Steve's voice was barely above a whisper. "Danny, I'm sorry!" The sick ex SEAL stared with pleading eyes at his friend.

"It's okay Steve."

"M sorry…. So sorry." His eyes filled and his whole body started to shake slightly.

"Steve, everything is okay!" Danny looked desperately at the Doctor and his friends while Steve's body kept on shaking.

Danny stroked gently over his best friend's hair. "Steven, babe, don't worry, okay. You'll soon be safe…don't worry!"

But Steve kept on pleading, although no sound came out of his mouth and his body kept on trembling.

Kono and Chin looked asking at their friend, but Danny only shrugged his shoulders.

"I'll give him some 'Dexmedetomidine' this should calm him down" Dr. Kamea said while preparing the injection.

He swabbed his right thigh and gave him the strong sedative. And indeed after a few seconds, Steve calmed down and let go of Danny's arm.

After restraining their friend for his own safety, Dr. Kamea checked again Steve's vitals and stood up.

"Okay, let's move!" He said and asked Chin to take the front, while he took the handles of the back.

Danny bent down and raised Grace into his arms.

"You're ready to go Monkey?" Grace nodded and watched how the gurney was carried out of the cave.

"Will Uncle Steve be okay, Danno?" she asked softly but with worry in her eyes.

Danny looked seriously at his daughter and then at the gurney.

"I hope so Monkey, but he has to be, doesn't he?"

***HF0***

It was a long trek down to the beach where the chopper waited. Steve moaned from time to time, but didn't regain consciousness.

"Danny shall I take Grace for a little while?" Kono asked, feeling a bit useless with only the back packs to carry.

"Do you want to go to Aunt Kono, Monkey? Just until we are by the chopper?" But the request was rejected immediately with a shake of her head which she pushed even harder into her father's neck.

Kono just smiled at Danny and patted Grace's back. "Didn't expect anything else!"

Carefully they loaded the gurney into the chopper where they had made room to even be able to transport a backboard this big.

Chin took the seat next to the pilot. Dr. Kamea sat next to the gurney on the floor and Kono, Danny with Grace sat on the only remaining seats in the back.

When the chopper finally took off, Danny looked out the window. This small island was somewhat hell and salvation in one.

***HF0***

After five minutes into the flight. Steve got suddenly very agitated. His breathing became labored, fast and short.

"What is it Doc?" Danny asked worried over Grace's head at the Doctor, who was already listening to his friends lungs.

Dr. Kamea lifted the stethoscope from Steve's chest with a frown on his face.

"We have to replace the needle! He isn't getting enough air and the pressure is building up again." He rummaged in his bag and held a tube up for Danny to see. The Detective stared back knowing what was to come.

"I wanted to wait until the hospital, but I'm afraid I have to do it now!" he said calmly.

"Detective would you help me, please?" Dr. Kamea must have seen the shocked expression on Danny's face he smiled shook his head and pointed to Steve. "He is very restless and I need him calm!" Danny nodded and turned to his clinging daughter.

"Grace, please can you sit by Aunt Kono for a moment?"

"Danno!" Grace moved even closer and Danny gently lifted her head to make her look at him.

"Please Monkey, the Doc needs me to help Uncle Steve,… please?"

Grace turned to look at her Uncle, nodded and went into Kono's waiting arms, who made sure Grace didn't see anything.

Danny slid to the floor and crouched next to his friend's head.

"Danny, could you please just make sure that he won't move while I place the chest tube."

Danny nodded and placed one hand on the side of his friend's face and the other on his shoulder.

"Doc, he is burning up!"

"I know Danny, but this has to wait until we are at the hospital!"

Danny nodded and gently stroked over his friend's face and hair.

Immediately, Steve seemed to seek the comforting contact and pressed into the touch.

"Yeah, buddy I'm here and you are safe! The Doc here will make you breathe easier, but you have to stay still, okay." Danny kept on gently stroking his friend. "Yeah I'm here Steve!"

"Great, keep him that way!" The Doc said and placed his scalpel to the ex-Navy man's ribs.

Danny was relieved it didn't come down to him to have to do this! Because just watching, made him sick and he had to look away. Only when he heard the by now familiar whoosh he dared to look again.

Dr. Kamea taped the tube to his friend's chest and smiled at him.

"All done! Thanks a lot Danny!" He suddenly looked strangely and curiously at Danny. "You two are close, aren't you?"

"Yeah very!" Danny murmured and only when he heard Kono softly chuckle he looked up. First at Kono, then at the Doctor. And only then he realized the meaning behind the words.

"Oh no, no, no Doc!" Danny shook his head wildly and waved his hands. "Not like that! Not at all! He is.. he is my best friend and … he's like my brother!"

Dr. Kamea nodded. "I didn't want to offend you in any way, Danny!"

"No offence taken! I just want to make that clear!"

Kono giggled, "Yeah Doc! I have only very manly straight men around me! Lots of testosterone! Not easy to handle, let me tell you!"

She smiled. "I am like a sister with three brothers, imagine that!" she chuckled and added then more serious.

"We are Ohana, Doc!

***HF0***

Finally after approximately 45 min. the chopper landed on the roof of Queen's Medical Center.

Malia and a few nurses were waiting until the door was opened and helped to slide the back board to a gurney. Dr. Kamea jumped off the chopper behind the board.

"Hurry! We need to bring him down immediately – His stats are very bad, he has a fever of 104.9 and he needs immediate surgery!"

Danny stared at him. The Doc never told him that it looked that bad! He just opened his mouth to let the man know what he thought of that, when he felt a small hand on his shoulder.

"I guess by your look, that Mek didn't tell you the severity of Steve's condition?"

Danny shook his head and looked at Malia. "I… I…"

"Don't worry Danny, he's the best! I'm sure he wanted to save you from even more stress by keeping you in the dark. You are very exhausted yourself and very stressed out by this whole situation – I mean; from what happened in that cave and coping with Steve's and Grace's injuries!"

Malia shook her head and gave Chin a kiss, then hurried after the gurney with Steve on it.

"I will let you know as soon as I have some news!"

"Come on, Danny!" Chin said and Kono handed him Grace. "We have to take Grace to the ER and, Malia also prearranged a checkup for you!"

"Me? But I'm fine!" Danny protested.

"Yeah,… and that's Steve's line! But nevertheless, we are going!" Chin insisted.

Later Detective Williams was assigned to a nice quiet one bed room!

He thought it was ridiculous, but the IV in his hand and the numerous tests he had to go through told otherwise. Dehydration and severe exhaustion was the verdict.

Now all his friends were in 'his' room and waited anxiously for news about Steve.

Kono smiled at the nice picture Danny and Grace made.

"How is she, Danny? And I don't mean the broken arm."

Danny looked down at his left side, where Grace was snuggling against him, sleeping peacefully. She had a blue cast on her left arm but otherwise she was okay, thank God. He pulled her a little closer. He need to have her as close as possible.

"The Pediatrician gave me a number to call if Grace is getting… problems.. Especially what happened with Steve in that cave."

"That's good, brah. But I think she'll be fine. Children are tough and Grace loves her Uncle Steve very much." Kono stood and smiled down at the little girl. Danny nodded at his female partner he was sure Kono was right.

Then he looked at his watch and murmured grumpily.

"They've been gone now for four hours! I think they could at least send someone to update us!"

"Give them some time, Danny!" Chin was worried, too, but there was nothing they could to except to drive themselves crazy.

***HF0***

After almost six hours, Dr. Kamea came in to Danny's room.

"Don't you dare to get out of this bed!" was the first thing he said. Dr. Kamea pointed at Danny who already had one leg out of it. Danny immediately swung it back in and stared at the Doctor.

"Steve? How is he?"

"He is a very lucky man!" Dr. Kamea said to all in the room and then looked at Danny.

"And he had you, Detective!" He moved to a chair and sat down.

"Steve made it with minor problems through surgery, but I think problems were due to his high fever. We had to clean out the hole, the branch in his side tore. He was really and I mean really lucky. The branch didn't nick/damage any artery or injure any major organs! Just a clean through and through flesh wound, which Danny cleaned excellently!" The Doctor paused before going on. "His open thigh fracture made us sweat, though. An open fracture is always prone for infections and that's what happened here. Danny had to push the bone back in, which was out of the body and exposed to all kind of germs. Pushed back into the body the germs immediately started their so called evil work. Although Danny here cleaned it and sutured it up, there was no way this could have been prevented under these unsanitary conditions. In surgery we cleaned it up and re-set it with metal and screws. There is no cast at the moment, because first the swelling has to go down enough for casting. The broken arm is not worth mentioning and the stiches on his hairline were done by a real seamstress!" Dr. Kamea smiled at the blonde Detective, who rolled his eyes.

"So this means he went through surgery with flying colors?" Kono asked.

"Yes, he will definitely be fine. It certainly will take time, with his leg needing PT and all, but this will be a small obstacle to what could have been! Like I said he had a lucky star and…. Danny!"

They all smiled and chuckled at that.

"What is it Danno?" Grace said from her father's side. He kissed her on her head.

"Uncle Steve will be fine!"

"Really?" came the hopeful question for reassurance.

"Yes! Really!" Danny smiled relieved.

"Good!" Grace sat up slightly. "Then… can we go on another sail trip with Uncle Steve?"

Everybody was laughing; most of all because of Danny's shocked expression.

Dr. Kamea stood.

"Malia is with him and I will send someone to fetch you when he's settled."

"I want to go, too!" Danny said from the bed.

"Sure! I will send a nurse, who will bring you and take you back after 15 min.!"

"Only 15 min.?"

"Yes! At most! He is probably still sleeping when you see him and he needs the rest very much and by the way you do, too, Detective Williams!"

TBC…

- I hope you still like it.