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STEVE'S POV

It's just past midnight when I walk in the door trying not to startle anybody who might be home enough to make them shoot me in the face without double checking who it is first.

"Hey," her voice greets softly not startled at all as she walks into the living room. "I just dropped Cath off like two hours ago so she's not here."

She closes the door behind me, which I left open without realizing it, and makes her way over to the kitchen pulling out two beers and handing one to me.

"That's not why I'm here, and you know it."

She nods her head slowly tilting it back a bit to empty some of the bottle into her mouth. "I know a lot of things. Doesn't mean I know everything."

"Well," I reply taking a drink of my own beer. "If Cath was telling the truth, then I shouldn't need to tell you. And if Cath was telling the truth, then it should be quite obvious as to why I'm here."

She shakes her head. "Not so obvious."

"Then let me make sure you know exactlywhy I'm here," I say lowly placing both of our beers on the counter."

"Steve-" I cut her off by slamming her against the refrigerator covering her mouth with mine.

Yanking her pants down, I insert two fingers as her moan fills the otherwise empty apartment.

Then she moves her lips to my ear whispering, "If you wanted to fuck me, McGarrett, all you had to do was ask."

I instantly release her walking across the short distance between her refrigerator and counter bracing myself on the sink with my arms.

Her panting is the only thing heard for minutes as I take a deep breath. I turn the faucet on splashing cold water over my face.

"To be fair, that's not what I meant to happen," I say still facing away from her.

I hear her snort. "Yeah, because pinning me to my fridge and jamming your fingers into me always means you want to help me finish the castle I started building with blocks. Oh, and I forgot to mention, I'm four years old."

I turn around to see her eyes on fire.

"Kono..." I warn.

"Don't you "Kono" me. I know my name."

"Please, cover up."

"Excuse me?!" She shouts.

"Why are you so upset right now?" I ask.

She chuckles dryly. "Maybe it's because the guy who just stripped me is now ordering me to cover up. Maybe it's because I found out some interesting things about what's been going on here while I was gone. Maybe it's because you decided to shove your tongue down my throat before explaining any of this to me."

"I'm sorry," I apologize rubbing my face with my hands lowering my eyes to the floor. "I just... Catherine just sprang some stuff on me that I realized but just hadn't accepted yet."

"Well, you better damn well figure it out before you try something like that ever again. Now leave."

My head snaps up to meet hers.

"You're not welcome here right now, Steve. I'm not going to ask you again."

I open my mouth to say something, but she stops me.

"Now."

And that's when I leave. Not because she said that word one more time but because her voice had the slightest crack to it. I'd put her through enough. The humiliation of bursting into tears in front of me wouldn't help that situation either.

S & K

Let's just say I didn't get much sleep last night after I got home.

From about one in the morning until three, I call Kono every ten minutes.

The first six calls ring and ring and then go to voicemail. The next six go straight to voicemail.

I leave a voicemail every time.

It's a good thing work has been slow recently.

Kono's not coming back until Wednesday since she flew in on a Saturday.

The sight that I meet when I walk into HQ has me seriously questioning if today is really Monday.

"Hey Babe," Danny says as I walk in.

Chin turns around from the smart table, "Morning Boss."

"Good morning," I reply my eyes never leaving the figure standing next to Chin.

She doesn't register he's in the room. Just continues to read what's on the screen.

I force myself to look around the office. "What do we got?" I ask when my eyes land back on the table.

"Bar kidnappings most likely sex trade," Chin briefs me.

"We all know how that assumption panned out last time though," Danny states.

Kono's shoulders instantly tense, but she doesn't make a move to turn and address anything.

"Okay," I say. "Do we know how any of this happens?"

"There are cameras obviously that caught all three girls going out with the same guy," Chin says. "The thing is, his head is down and covered with a hood. Hence why Kono is here."

"We can break the Rookie back in with an undercover job, and she'll be good to go on Wednesday," Danny adds.

"No," I say simply. "We can find someone else."

Finally, Kono acknowledges I'm here by spinning around on her heel and sending me her best death glare.

"Am I missing something here?" Danny asks looking between Kono and me.

"No," we both answer; our eyes never wavering from each other.

Then Kono speaks up. "I will be going undercover, and there is nothing you can do to stop it."

"Kono, you will NOT be going undercover, and there is nothing you can do to start it."

Her eyes flash with more anger as she walks towards me. "You can't stop me from doing my job."

I stand there with my arms crossed over my chest. "It's not your job until Wednesday so I'm not holding you back from anything."

"Damn it, Steve! I am sick and tired-"

"Cuz," Chin says calmly placing his hand on her shoulder. "What's going on here?"

"Nothing, Chin," Kono answers. "It's just Steve being the usual overprotective prick."

"Wow! Okay," Danny says rubbing his hands together. "So, obviously they have realized their feelings for each other, but I'm guessing Steve did something stupid, and now they're fighting like four-year-olds."

"That's the second time that age has been brought up in reference to us," I state.

Kono stares at me mouth agape. "I cannot believe you just said that," she pauses turning to Danny. "And yes, he did do something stupid."

Danny turns to Chin. "They obviously need some time alone. Do you advise sending them home or keeping them here in the center of HQ while we go to our respective offices to watch the show?"

Chin moves his eyes between us. "I say we wait until after tonight, and Kono comes back."

"Chin," I say sternly. "She's not going."

"The hell I'm not," Kono says coldly before Chin can answer. "I'm going whether you're behind me or not."

I stand there and look around at my team. MY team. A team that's supposed to listen to me. "Then I guess you're going without me," I retort walking into my office and slamming the door.

Five minutes later, Danny walks in shutting the door behind him. "Wanna tell me why Kono's so pissed at you that if looks could kill you'd be dead an infinite amount of times with just one glance?"

I sigh heavily. "Not really Danny."

"Okay, so you're going to make this difficult. Did you kill her dog?"

"What?" I ask my head snapping up from the paperwork my eyes were trained on. "She doesn't own a dog."

"Then what did you do Steven? Because the only thing worse than killing someone's beloved pet is killing their family, and I highly doubt you were thatstupid. You know, unless you played with her heart."

I stay silent because honestly, what else am I suppose to say.

"You mother fucker. That's what you did!" Danny yells.

"Danny," I say holding up my hand. "I did not kill any of her family."

Danny chuckles in fake amusement. "You son of a bitch. Do not joke about this! You played with her heart didn't you?!"

"Not necessarily," I answer calmly.

"Not necessarily? What the hell does that mean?"

"It means: I don't actually know what I did. I know I did something; I just don't know what that something is."

"You are a sorry piece of man. Now tell me what happened so I can tell you what you did wrong."

"Catherine told me that she noticed the way I was acting around Kono. So after Cath left, I went to Kono's. She played dumb to the whole situation when she just got back from a diner with Catherine, and I know they discussed this... thing; you know how much I hate it when people play dumb."

"Actually, that's me," Danny interrupts.

"Whatever! It's a general human characteristic that we hate it when others play dumb when we know they know exactly what we're talking about. Anyway, we were talking, and she played dumb. So I uh, slammed her against her, um, refrigerator and might have-"

"No! If you are going to continue that sentence with any type of sexual actions, I swear to God, I don't want to hear it."

"Okay," I say. "Then she said something that... upset me."

"Upset you?" Danny asks.

I sit there silently.

"Oh, it was sexual wasn't it? Of course it was. Don't worry about even answering that. Continue."

I roll my eyes at the mini conversation he just had with himself. "What she said stopped me in my tracks, and then I said something that offended her. Dealing with sexual stuff and it pissed her off. She told me to leave, but I didn't move until I heard her voice crack."

"WHAT?! You made Kono cry? Nobody makes Kono cry unless there's a legitimate reason like, I don't know, death! Why didn't you apologize like a normal person?"

"I did, Danny! I left twelve voicemails in two hours at one in the morning! What else was I supposed to do?"

"Not pissing her off would have been a good start," Danny sighs. "The second thing you shouldn't have done is make her cry. The final thing would probably be that you shouldn't tell Kono when or how to do her job. The job that we both know, if not everyone on this island knows, she is amazing at."

I sigh heavily. "Danny, I can't just keep putting her in danger like that."

"Steven, what are you talking about? The only danger that you put her in appears when you threaten her to go with or without you because you know she will choose to go without just to prove to everyone that she is good at what she does and can handle working with a bunch of guys! One of which is a Navy fucking SEAL!"

"Danny! Putting her undercover risks those few seconds between life and death for her. Anything could go wrong and the next thing we know, she's in the forest somewhere."

Danny sits in silence. "This is about that surfing case a month back isn't it? The women reminded you of Kono," he says with realization flashing in her eyes.

I rub my face with my hands. "I just can't lose her."

"As far as I can tell, you don't have her to begin with because you're an idiot. Now go talk to her."

S & K

I rap lightly on her door.

She looks up, and a flash of anger shows in her eyes.

She doesn't motion me in, but I enter anyway.

"We need to talk."

"You're version or mine," she bites out throwing her pen on her desk.

I stand silently looking her over.

She stands up and gets in my personal space. "If you want to fuck me, McGarrett, all you have to do is ask."

I step back running my hands through my hair. "Would you stop that?! I came here to talk not for permission to fuck you. If I wanted to do that right now, I would do it with no permission needed."

"So what did you come for? To tell me that I'm not allowed to do my job. Maybe you're even suspending me. I don't know what to think anymore because you seem to be very overprotective most of the time and make me promise to stay near you then, the next thing I know, you're pushing me away!"

My anger has now gotten the best of me.

"Did you ever try to figure out why I'm overprotective?" I ask.

"You don't give me a chance to figure you out! One minute you're pulling me close telling me you missed me, and the next you're telling me to go home because I don't start work for two days," she explains sourly.

"Fine. Then I'll make it easier for you."

"Enlighten me already! I have to get ready for tonight."

"Any other conversation you would be begging to drag out. One of the most important ones we will probably ever have is taking place right now, and you're brushing it off like its nothing!" I shout unexpectedly loud.

"Well if it's so important," Kono yells just as loud moving her face centimeters from mine. "Then why don't you just fucking say it already!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

Everything falls silent, and you could probably hear an ant walking across the floor.

Kono's mouth hangs open.

"I love you," I whisper. "There, I said it. Happy?"

A smile moves across her lips. "Finally," she replies jumping up and hoisting herself on my hips.

I smile at her wrapping my arms around her waist. "It was this easy all along?"

"This easy," she replies nodding. "Oh, and I love you, too."

I chuckle as she tightens her legs around me and pulls my head to meet hers.

The kissing continues as we make our way out of the office with Danny yelling something like: "Finally, he does something right! Ew! But right."

The locker room is the closest place with privacy I can think of. Entering the room, I move my face to her ear. "Can I fuck you now?"

"Fuck away, McGarrett."

Thanks for reading! This was my first M rated story so I hope it wasn't too big of a disappointment!