OK, I am better but, still cold and very tired but I had to put this in. The meat of the story is yet to come...
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Kono said, "Well, I so did NOT see that one coming when Steve said there was a ripple in the Williams family tree. I thought he was going to say that Danny was related to royalty not that THEY were related!"
Chin waxed philosophical and said, "Well, now we know you were meant to be a McGarrett, Danny. It is like the universe claimed you as Steve's before you both knew you belonged together. A cosmic love story, if ever heard of one."
Max just smiled and said, "If your love story is any indication of how real love is supposed to be, then there is hope for Chin, Kono and myself to find the person in our love stories, too."
"Max! I think that is just about the sweetest thing I have ever heard from you. And, I think it is the truth." Kono said, wrapping an arm around Adam and smiling at him.
That night, bedtime was a quiet affair. Everyone went to their bedrooms and packed the final bits of their luggage for the morning flight back to Hawaii. One by one, the lights went out in the Williams home. Steve and Danny snuggled down in their bed and wrapped around one another.
"This was a wonderful honeymoon after a fantastic wedding, Steve. I could not have done any better than what my sisters, my mother, Grace and Kono came up with. We need to send them all flowers in thanks."
Steve looked a bit smug. "Already done that, Danno. Texted the Floral Shop on the plane when we were on the way to Belfast. Got texts back saying they loved the gesture."
"Debbie texted me saying she will meet us at the airport for the flight to Honolulu. We are really gonna do this? We're going to try for a baby?"
Steve nuzzled Danny's neck. "Yeah Danno. I want a child with your smile and my eyes. Your hair and my ears. Your heart and my personality-at least where it comes to loving someone like I love you."
Danny nuzzled Steve's chest. "Sounds like an amazing child. I want he or she to love football, baseball, swimming and schoolwork. I want him or her to be allowed to be anything they want to be and know we support their decisions 100%."
"Danno, I want to grow old with you and watch our children grow up, get married and have kids-our grandchildren-and fill our house with love and laughter. For so long it was a sad house and full of the memories of my mother's faked death, the fact that Dad sent us to the Mainland and then, his murder. I want to build loads of happy memories there for Grace and whoever else comes along in the future."
"There is nothing more to want or need than that, Steve. Nothing more." as Danny's breathing slowed into sleep. He laid his hand on Steve's chest and let the beating of his heart pull him into sleep. Steve laid awake and thought of the future. For the longest time it looked like he would be alone and lonely for his whole life and then, Danny barged into his world and claimed his heart from the loneliness. Now, he was happy and settled. Married and actually talking about having a child with Danny. 'How could my life get any more perfect than it is right now?' he wondered to himself as he felt himself slide into sleep curled around his Danno.
The next morning saw Danny, Steve, Grace, Adam, Kono, Chin, Leilani, Mary, Max and Debbie hustling their way to the Airport in Newark and leaving for the long trip back to Hawaii. The last thing Isabelle said to Danny was, "Keep my family safe, Daniel. I can't wait to visit at Christmastime. Your Steven is a doll! A definite keeper!"
Steve never thought his house would look better to him than it did when he returned home to it after his honeymoon. He disabled the alarms and set the suitcases inside the door and went out to get Danny who was a bit sad since they had just come from dropping Grace off at her mother, Rachel's house. He knew he was being ridiculous but, when Steve led Danny to the door, he couldn't help it-he picked up a suddenly irritated Danny and carried him over the threshold of his home. When he set Danny down, he spun him around to face him and kissed him hard and dirty on the lips and said in his ear in his best sexy voice, "Welcome home, Mr. McGarrett. I love you, my Danno."
"What was that all about? I am so NOT the girl in this relationship! Steve? Why did you just carry me over the threshold like a wife? In case you missed the anatomy lesson, Steven, I am NOT a GIRL!"
Steve Kissed Danny again despite his ranting and smiled his goofiest smile at the man in his arms. "Oh, Danno. I SO know you aren't a girl. A girl could not make me moan, come undone, or learn sexy Italian like you can. You are all I want. I just-well-I'm new to this marriage thing and I wanted to be traditional right to the last detail. Carrying your spouse over the threshold is traditional, right Danny?"
Danny huffed and then, seeing how serious Steve was really being, could not help the bubble of laughter that escaped his lips. "Steve! I was mad before. I'm sorry! Oh, I love you, my adorable goof! You are traditional to the bone! I thought you were thinking I was helpless or something."
"Never helpless! I love you and I know you are just as strong as I am, Danno. If you had wanted to carry me over the threshold, I would have let you just to show you I love you that much. Why? Do you want to do it to me?"
Steve made a move to go outside again and Danny had to laugh at the vision that brought to mind and pulled Steve back inside, shutting the door. "While that may be a romantic thought, visually, that would be ridiculous. You just showed why you are my Neanderthal Goof and exactly why I love you. Now come let me love you and show my husband how amazing I think he is."
Steve and Danny brought the suitcases up to their bedroom and unpacked the dirty clothes. They brought them to the washing machine and Steve sorted them into light and dark piles and washed the lights first. He fixed some canned fish chowder soup because they had very little in the way of food in the refrigerator. They seriously needed groceries! He brought the steaming mugs of soup back up to a waiting Danny and settled with his new husband under the sheets in their nice warm bed.
Steve was the clear organizer of the pair. He was making mental lists of things they needed to do now that they were home from Ireland and New Jersey and shopping was first on the list. It was close to midnight when they got home so the morning would be insanely busy for them both. Danny could almost see the wheels turning in Steve's mind and put his mug down on the bedside table to face Steve. "Whatever you are thinking and/or planning right now for tomorrow can wait till then, SuperSEAL. We need to wind down and get some sleep. Unless, you think you have too much energy to sleep. Then, of course, I will try to, um, take your mind off your plans. If you want me to, that is…" Danny reached over and took Steve's mug and set it next to his own on the table. He reached out for Steve's face and pulled him in for a kiss, nibbling on his lower lip, asking for entrance to his mouth.
"Danno, we have so much to do tomorrow. We need to get groceries, finish our laundry, gas up the Camaro and the truck, deal with the mail, I need to get the forms for next of kin and our insurances updated so they reflect our marriage, we need to write to our family in both New Jersey and Ireland and thank them for hosting us, I need to find time to make you and Grace happy… We need to…" Steve was cut off with Danny's kisses. "Danny, I love you so much. I always want you. Yes, please take my mind off my list of chores."
Danny pulled at Steve's tee shirt and took it off his lanky frame. He then pulled his own shirt off and laid Steve on their bed. When he had Steve situated on the king sixed bed, he slid his pants and boxers off and watched Steve take notice of him walking around the bed naked.
"Danny-don't tease me with how incredible you look. Please!"
Danny crawled onto the bed. He loved how he could pull Steve into his seduction just by being naked in front of him. He trusted Steve. He never had that with any lover he ever had before. He could be free in front of Steve and not worry about criticism or judgment. It was an amazing sensation for him to experience and he wanted to show Steve how his mere touch made him feel sexier than anyone had ever made him feel. He took Steve's hand and put it on his face and let Steve draw him into a long lingering kiss that made his world shift and forced him to gravitate toward Steve and his body became a tight coil of emotions. He finally reached for Steve's pants and pulled them down to his knees and used his feet to push them to the bottom of their bed. "I'm right here for you to love and I am never leaving you, Steve. You are mine-do you know that? I am staking my claim on your gorgeous body, your bright soul and your amazing smile from now until forever is over-do you hear me, Steven?" He punctuated this by kissing Steve's neck, leaving love nips and bites that his polo shirts would have a very hard time covering when they went back to work on Monday.
Steve's eyes rolled to the back of his head in pure lust. "Danno, I'm so close already. Make love to me! I want to be yours forever! Please! Danny, do that again!"
Hearing Steve gasp out his wanton begging made Danny lose control and just attack Steve openly kissing, sucking and teasing his orgasm out of him until Steve was a writhing mess on the sheets. After Danny gave him his release, he took his own by semi-gently entering Steve and pumping him hard for his own orgasm, leaving Steve breathless and wanting to sleep but, Danny wanted to talk to him.
When they both had their minds back from the edge, Danny asked him in a soft voice, "So, Steven, when did you want to try to start making our baby with Debbie? I think we should try as soon as we can to make our dreams come true. What do you say to that, Mr. McGarrett?"
Steve was lazily drawing circles with his finger through Danny's chest hair. He smiled as he kissed Danny's shoulder and said in a still-sex filled voice, "Whenever she's ready, I am, Danno. I want to make all of our dreams a reality for both of us. The baby we create is just one of many dreams I have for us in our lives together."
"Good, because she has a doctor's appointment scheduled for tomorrow and, if she is ready to conceive, we can begin trying as soon as the timing is right."
Steve smiled and kissed Danny's shoulder again. "This means that we have to abstain from sex for a little while. Just so I can get a good sperm count for the fertilization process."
Danny frowned a bit but he said, "OK. So, no sex for a little while. I want to follow the rules and I can do it for a shot at a little McGarrett running around calling me Danno and you, Daddy. I love our dreams, Steven. Let's do this!"
Debbie called Danny and said her doctor's appointment went just perfect and that they could try for a baby as early as the following week. Thank goodness for the criminals in Hawaii not giving a care about their lives because Danny and Steve caught a case that took up the majority of the next week.
A dirty cop was hunting down the recently paroled inmates from Halawa Prison and killing them. His calling card was an Ace of Spades nailed to their chests after he double-tapped them in the heart with 9mm shots from a Glock, according to Max. "The stippling around the wounds suggests that the murderer shot our victims at very close range and from the lack of defensive wounds, this suggests that the victims either knew the shooter or that the shooter caught them unguarded and shot them point blank. I estimate that the last victim was shot less than twelve hours ago, if that helps, Steve."
Steve was impressed that Max felt comfortable enough to use his first name for a change and smiled a rueful smile back at his Medical Examiner. "Thanks for the info, Max."
Danny found a listing of the prisoners paroled over the next week from Halawa and sent uniformed Police from HPD to check on them so they had a shot at staying alive. Remarkably, the parolees wanted to be protected from this nut. One prisoner, Sam Murphy, had been contacted by a 'policeman' earlier in the day and had given this person his schedule for the next week because he was going to protect him. Danny and Steve now knew that this was their shooter and, when they had the description of the shooter, knew it was Sergeant Achou Sumano. When they did the background check on his life, they discovered that his wife had been killed by a paroled murderer from Halawa so, he went rogue and decided that they all must die for their crimes so they could not hurt anyone else and devastate another family like his again. It took Danny and Steve ten days of watching Murphy to catch Sumano but, when they did, he died in a fire fight with HPD and 5-0 rather than be put in jail for his crimes. He claimed he was taking care of the garbage Halawa threw out into society. Murphy was paroled for both his good behavior and the fact that he was in a nursing home for a stroke he suffered in Prison. He thanked Danny and Steve for saving his life because he was finally back in touch with his son and his two grandkids and he wanted to live to make amends for being in jail for so long.
This case made Danny and Steve want to have Debbie have their child. The appointment to make the donation came and they went to the clinic to create the sperm donation. They were ushered to a private room and given a specimen jar and told by the nurse to "take their time, dolls."
Steve was nervous about doing this but then, Danny stripped off his clothes and walked to Steve naked and needy. Steve was undressed and ready in two minutes flat. Soon after Danny started touching him, Steve was so turned on he willingly gave a sample just so that Danny would let him have an orgasm-his first one in eleven days-so he could maybe have mind-melting sex with his Danno that night.
Debbie was given Steve's sample and told she had to rest for the next few days and that she would know if it worked and she was pregnant in about three weeks, according to Doctor Michio, her OBGYN.
Danny, Debbie and Steve were on pins and needles until the time had passed. Debbie went to the doctor's office a month after the procedure and had her blood drawn for the pregnancy test. They went out to dinner after the test was done so they could try to relax but, their nerves were all on edge. Debbie's phone rang. Dr. Michio called and said, "Congratulations, Ms. Williams, you are indeed pregnant! We would like for you to come into the office for an ultrasound in eight weeks to check on your progress but, you are about four weeks along."
Debbie thanked the doctor and turned to the boys who were waiting on pins and needles as she hung up the phone. Danny looked into her eyes and he KNEW. "Debs, it worked, didn't it? We're gonna have a baby, huh?" When she nodded, Steve picked Danny up and spun him around and said, "We did it! We're gonna be parents!" They were all crying when they called Danny and Debbie's parents to tell them the procedure worked on the first try. It was a very happy day in the Williams and McGarrett households. When they told Grace, she screamed with happiness about being a big sister again. "I hope it's a girl so I can finally have a sister!"
Eight weeks later, Danny, Steve, and Debbie were in Dr. Michio's office for their first ultrasound. Dr. Michio looked at the screen and was instantly confused. She ordered another blood test on Debbie and said, "Your hormone levels are a bit wonky so, I want to see if the blood work can help clear up the issue for us. I will be back in twenty minutes with those results. Hang in there. She is pregnant-there is no doubt of that, Mr. McGarrett, Commander, sir."
Danny and Steve just sat there with Debbie. All were confused. They decided to play dollar bill poker to kill time and, of course Danny won because he had his ringer bill which had four nines in the serial number. He never let anyone know he had this bill and smirked as they handed over their dollars to him in victory. Steve knew something was seriously up with Debbie's blood work when Dr. Michio and her boss, Dr. Flores came into the now seemingly smaller exam room and looked at her ultrasound images.
Debbie could not take the whispered words any longer. "Um, Dr. Michio, what is going on here? You say I'm pregnant but my hormone levels are off in your books. What is the result of the latest blood work? Come on, you have to know stress is not good for a pregnant lady which you say I am so, what gives here?"
Dr Michio cleared her throat and said, "Well, Debbie, you are indeed pregnant. We are looking at your results and I am just amazed that at age 39, you conceived not just one baby but three. I had to triple check your results but, I see three heartbeats in your womb and I can make out the images of three little fetuses in there. This is why I had to make sure before I just came out and told you all what I saw. Congratulations, Danny and Steve. Triplets."
Debbie's jaw just hung on her chest. Danny and Steve were openly crying. Debbie said, "Guys, I hope you're ready for triplets. This is going to be a high-risk pregnancy as I am 39 and there is more than one baby in here. I am going to have to be careful and you are going to have to deal with my insane cravings and my moodiness. I am going to apologize right here so, you know I am sorry for any weirdness I cause you and our ohana. I love you two so much!"
Dr. Michio scheduled Debbie's next appointment for two months later and said, "As much as you can, get bed rest and relax. Off your feet as much as you can, please. You guys are going to have to be careful with her, she is your precious cargo carrier for the next six months-NO STRESS for her, OK?"
When they both numbly nodded at her instructions, she said, "Debbie, get them home. They are in no shape to catch bad guys right now. Call your family and let them know the good news." Debbie collected her appointment card, her brother and brother in law and drove them all back to Casa de McGarrett. She pulled the boys inside the home and set about making dinner for them all-stuffed chicken, whipped potatoes and pressure-cooked carrots.
Steve woke up from his shock induced nap hearing a rattling noise in his kitchen. He reached for his gun and crept into the room, listening to that rattle noise getting louder. Debbie came around the island and saw Steve on his knees listening to the sound.
She burst out laughing at his stance and said, "I rooted around in your cabinets and, wonder of wonders, I found a pressure cooker in the back of your pantry. I am making Danny's favorite comfort food-stuffed chicken, whipped potatoes, and pressure-cooked carrots. Let me guess, you've never even seen this thing much less heard one, huh?"
He flushed in embarrassment. "Debbie, I never knew I had one of those. I thought it was a bomb in my kitchen, to be honest. But, now that I can smell everything cooking, I have to say it smells SO good in here!" He kissed her on the cheek. "If you ever want to be our cook, I would be willing to pay you to come and cook for us once a week for life!"
Debbie smiled and said, "Steve, I am looking for a permanent place here. I want to live near my brother again. I miss brother very much. Plus, this gives me a chance to see Grace grow up and I adore my niece!"
Danny heard what Debbie said and his heart floated with the love she showed him in front of Steve. "Debs, I would love to have you live here. I miss my little sister, my partner in crime. You are so amazing!" He walked into the kitchen and hugged Debbie, kissing her on the cheek. He then stepped to Steve and kissed him on the lips and stepped into his embrace.
Time passed and the next sonogram appointment came for Debbie, Danny and Steve. Dr. Michio did all the tests as usual and then turned to the sonogram. Danny and Steve were looking over her shoulders at the images of their kids on the screen. "There they are guys. Your triplets are progressing along normally. You can make out the arms and legs. Next month, we should be able to determine the sexes of the children if you want to know that info. We can schedule that appointment now for you, Debbie."
Dr. Michio printed out the sonogram images for Danny and Steve and watched as they took pictures of them with their phones and immediately put them as their screen savers. Steve and Danny were on Cloud Nine with the way Debbie was being careful and they were loving taking care of her. She had finished her book and her publisher was very happy with how it was doing on the best sellers lists. Her book, 'Hawaiian Road Trip: Stories from Paradise' was into its third printing already and she was well on her way to becoming world famous as a writer. She had over half a million in her checking account and her publisher bought her a condominium ready to move into the moment she was ready.
Danny and Steve could not be more proud of her and what she had accomplished. They were in the process of getting the cribs and changing table and dressers set up in the third bedroom for the triplets. Steve was in the process of drawing up plans with an architect to add on an extension to the house to add a library on the main floor for Danny and his book collection and another bedroom for the kids so there would be enough space for them to live comfortably and happily.
It was now Valentine's Day. Danny and Steve were with Debbie at her sonogram appointment and Dr. Michio brought up the images on her screen. "Danny, Steve, Debbie-the sexes are visible now. It looks like you are having two boys and a girl. This could mean that you have three eggs drop at the same time which is rare or, you had two drop and you are having identical twins and a sister. At any rate in May, you are going to find out and it will be amazing. They all look happy and healthy and all the genetic tests we did show no abnormalities. You are going to have perfect babies around the middle of May. Here are your new sonogram pictures, boys. I think we can start thinking of names if you are ready. We will schedule one more sonogram for her eight month exam and set her up for weekly appointments from here on out to monitor the size of the babies and her blood pressure. Nothing to worry about, yet. Just a precaution to make sure mom and babies are doing well."
Danny and Steve were not going to celebrate Valentine's Day. It was a girl's holiday anyway so, they were not going to worry about forced romance on this night. They weren't into hearts and flowers-they were guys. But, still, Steve wanted to show Danny how much he loved him for everything he gave to his life. He figured Valentine's Day and all the love in the air were perfect reasons to go all out and surprise his Danno with a demonstration of his love.
To accomplish this, he enlisted Kono, Adam and Chin to help organize and set up the back yard (they couldn't completely leave Debbie to fend for herself as pregnant as she was). Chin set up the two-man tent in the back yard just off the lanai. Kono and Adam put a big cooler in the sand just off the tent entrance with their favorite Longboards and a bottle of Adam's private reserve champagne on ice. Kono put a bowl of strawberries and whipped cream inside the tent in a tray of ice. They puffed up the pillows and laid out a sleeping bag for two and quietly left around the other side of the house so Danny did not see Steve's assistants scurrying around.