'Uhane
Chapter three
Disclaimer: see chapter one

It had been ten hours since the Five-0 team arrived at the hospital, six and a half since Danny had come out of surgery with a good prognosis, four and a half since Chin and Kono had been allowed into his ICU room to finally see one of their two injured comrades looking more alive than the last time they'd seen him. Danny's color was coming back, though still pale he wasn't the lifeless grey he'd appeared in the warehouse. The IV lines still consisted of blood, hydration and medication. A heart monitor, blood pressure cuff and pulse ox meter the only real equipment attached to him, an oxygen canal lay just under his nose, plastic tubing looped around both ears, the quite hiss of the air the only other sound over the faintness of the heart monitor.

Rachel had finally called and said she'd be back on the island the next morning; the Edwards family had taken a trip to the Big Island. Chin had told her that Danny was expected to make a full recovery, but they still didn't have word on Steve. The Governor had called a couple times, but they still had no new news to give her. Now Chin stood looking over his fallen friend, Kono dozing in the chair next to Williams bed, the older man kept trying to go over in his head how things had gone so terribly wrong in there mission when a doctor stepped into the room.

"Officer Kelly…" Chin turned toward the man. "We have word on Commander McGarrett."

Chin moved toward Kono, "Hey cuz," He shook her should gently. Blinking sleep from her eyes she looked at Danny then her cousin, "There's word on Steve." The young woman quickly stood and followed Kelly and the doctor out of the room.

Once in the hallway they saw another doctor standing near the nurse's desk, "How's he doing?" Chin asked, noticing the look the two doctors' shared.

"I'm Dr. Nason…" The second man responded, "I'm the neurosurgeon that operated on Commander McGarrett, we should take a seat." He motioned them toward a small sitting area just a few feet from the ICU room that held Danny.

Chin's gut twisted as they took a seat, he felt Kono reach over and take his hand as she also sensed that this was not going to a good discussion. "Well?"

Dr. Nason took a deep breath, looking at the two anxious people before him. "The Commander made it through the surgery. The bullet entered just above his left eye and came to rest against the back of his skull. I'm afraid the damage was more extensive than we had hoped, we were able to remove it, but there really isn't much else we can do. Commander McGarrett is in a deep coma and to be brutally honest we do not expect him to live through the night. He's been fighting, but his body in getting tired and the damage to his brain will cause it to start shutting down soon."

Chin and Kono sat in silence, this could not be happening. There was no way Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett was dying, that he wouldn't start bitching any minute now to be released from the hospital AMA to hunt down more bad guys. Kelly stood and started pacing the room, "No this can't be happening, you have to do something." In the back of his mind he knew the doctor's had done everything they could, but his heart was telling him it wasn't enough, he wasn't ready to loss his friend like this.

"I'm sorry Officer Kelly; there just isn't anything else we can do. There is something else you should know." The physician stood to meet the older man, "Commander McGarrett had a DNR order on file, as well as a living will. If we don't see any improvement in the next few hours we will have to comply with his request."

Taking a deep breath that caught in his throat Kelly dropped into a chair, taking his head in his hands as he stared at the floor. Feeling a gentle touch on his shoulder he caught the tear-streaked face of his cousin next to him. Looking back at the doctor Chin asked quietly, "When can we see him?"

Dr. Nason retook a seat across from the two, "He'll be moved into the ICU within the next half and hour. I'm very sorry." The doctor stood and left the area.

Kelly's head returned to his hands, Kono leaning into him. "How are we going to tell Danny?" He whispered.

Returning to Danny's bedside, both cousins' watched him sleep. They had no idea on how they were going to tell the Jersey native about his partner, his friend. They had no idea how he was going to react, both knew the men had become close, like brothers.

Exactly thirty minutes later activity drew their attention as another bed was wheeled into the glass-enclosed room next to Danny's. Both cousins watched as the nurse's straightened the lines and leads for the equipment that was attached to McGarrett's body. His head completely covered in sterile white gauze, oxygen mask over his face, they were surprised that he wasn't intubated. Steve was as pale as the sheet's that covered him. Kono moved forward as the nurses left, taking the injured man's hand, it was cold to the touch.

Chin just stared, "Damn it Steve, you've got yourself into a mess this time brah." Running his hand through his hair, Kelly stepped up and took his friend's other hand. "What are we gonna do if you don't pull through this, huh?" Watching for any reaction he continued, "You gave me a second chance when no one else would; you gave me my honor back. You brought Kono on based only on the word of a formally disgraced cop, you gave us a place to belong, gave me a family again." Taking a deep breath, Chin didn't really want to believe McGarrett would, could actually die, but he felt he needed to let him know how he felt, what it had meant to him to have Steve's unwavering trust based simply on the fact that John McGarrett had trusted him. "Danny's doing good, the tourniquet saved his life, so don't worry about him. We'll take care of him, you made us ohana and you don't turn your back on your family." Though Kelly was painfully aware that was just what his real family had done to him, everyone but Kono, but he knew they would never do that to Danny, to Grace.

A nurse stepped into the room, "Detective Williams is starting to wake up."

Kono and Chin exchanged looks, both wanted to be with Danny and both wanted to be with Steve, "Go cuz, I'll stay with him." Kono said, tears still streaming down her face. She needed a minute with the commander, especially if what the doctor's said was happening was true. One last squeeze of his friend's hand and Chin left the room, going back to Danny's.

"He's right, you gave us an ohana that we knew wouldn't turn their backs on us. You gave this rookie a chance and I'll never forget that, I know I'm part of something special. We'll keep fighting and like Chin said, well take care of our haole, you rest now." Kono's tears dripped onto the pillow next to Steve's bandaged head. It was almost as if she sensed that he needed to be told to rest before he would. Leaning over and kissing his forehead, she gently squeezed his hand, surprised when a weak squeeze responded just as the machines connected to him started to sound.

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Danny's world was a haze of pain, darkness, muffled sounds and flashing images. The pain in his leg was dull but there, almost a burning sensation. He could hear a beeping in the background, but his mind also replayed the sound of gunshots. Cool air under his nose was refreshing, but at the same time he could smell the faint odor of gun power and copper. Images of his partner's face flashed behind his closed lids, the worry, fear he saw in his eyes. Then he could see the his friend standing, saw his lips move, but didn't hear what he said, he watched him turn with a speed almost inhuman then he saw his friend fall. The beeping sound in the distance started increasing, almost to an annoying rate.

Then Danny was standing on the beach behind Steve's house watching his friend swim away from him, he remembered entering McGarrett's home, then darkness. A gentle touch on his shoulder grounded him in the darkness as sounds became clearer, "Hey, Danny, Can you hear me? Can you open your eyes?" That wasn't Steve's voice. Focusing a minute he tried to figure out who it was. "Hey take a deep breath man; you need to slow it down some. Come on brah, open those eyes for me." Another gently squeeze, this time on his hand, cleared the last cobwebs from his mind as the voice registered.

"Chin?" Danny mumbled, his eye's barely opening taking in the face of his teammate just as the shrill of machines nearby sounded loudly through the unit.

Kelly's head shoot up toward the door as the sound of the machines that he knew belonged to Steve sounded from the next cubicle. Kono stepped into Danny's room; hand over her mouth, tears now streaming down her devastated face. A squeeze on his hand drew his attention back to his other friend, the one who'd just woken up, "Where's Steve?"