Disclaimer – I don't own Hawaii Five-O. If I did, Steve McGarrett would be shirtless all the time. And they wouldn't be covering up any of AOL's tattoos. I'm just toying with the characters for a while.

Later that morning

"All I'm saying is give the woman a chance," Danny yelled as the argument that had been brewing between the partners all morning erupted the moment they slid into Danny's silver Camaro. "She is a very nice person."

"Ellis is not a 'very nice person', she's a lawyer," Steve countered as the vehicle's speed increased in direct correlation to his blood pressure. "And worse, she's Denning's lawyer."

"Claire is not Denning's lawyer…" Danny began.

"So it's Claire, huh? You two already on a first name basis?"

Danny's hands balled into fists as he tried to keep his temper in check and not take a swing at his best friend, which would most likely end with their deaths, factoring in the rate of speed the car was traveling and the extremely solid concrete interstate support beams they were flying by so fast they looked like twigs. "Yes, we are on a first name basis, Steven. It's called being polite, and welcoming…"

"Welcoming?" Steve scoffed. "Yeah, you looked like you wanted to welcome her into your Barry White club."

"My Barry White club?" the detective asked incredulously. "Are you serious?"

"You were undressing her with your eyes," Steve replied. "Her first order of business might be slapping you with a sexual harassment suit."

"You, my friend, need to get your hormones in check," Danny retorted. "I was not undressing Claire with my eyes…"

"See, there you go again, 'Claire'…" Steve mocked.

Danny slammed one fist into the dashboard. "Stop…interrupting…me…" he threatened.

"I'm not interrupting…" Steve yelled before glancing at his partner and shutting his still open mouth mid-way through the word "you".

Danny's phone rang and he dug it out of his pocket. He read the display quickly before answering, "Hi, Claire."

Steve started to groan but was forced to swallow it as Danny's fist connected with his chest, resulting in a faint "ooof."

"Thank you, Claire. No, I know, that's great. Yeah, so easy. I agree, this is gonna be great for all of us. Yeah, okay. Thank you, again, by the way. Okay, yeah, I'll talk to you later."

He disconnected the call and turned to Steve. "The warrant is in. Kono has it and will meet us there."

"How is it possible you are already so whipped by this woman you JUST met?" Steve replied.

Danny muttered something obscene under his breath.

"Sorry, what was that?"

"I said, why aren't you happy that we are going into this arrest legally? Not with guns blazing and then having to tell the State's Attorney's office, 'Oops, my bad'?"

"'My bad?'', the Commander countered, "The terms 'full immunity and means' mean I don't have to say 'My bad'!"

"I think Claire is the Governor's way of saying you have used up your full immunity, my friend."

"Yeah?' Steve asked curiously, "did you decide that before or after you turned our babysitter into your personal porn star? I mean, I know it's been a while since you and Rachel ended things..."

"I hate you," Danny exclaimed while pinching the bridge of his nose, "I hate you so much right now."

Steve merely smirked a reply and slammed on the brakes, effectively skidding to a stop 2 blocks from the targeted location.

Danny threw open the passenger side door with more force than was necessary; then stumbled back into his seat as the door recoiled back. He kicked it open again with his foot, swearing under his breath.

Steve lifted the trunk of the Camaro and began gearing up with additional ammunition. Danny rounded the corner and snatched the shotgun out of the trunk, nearly breaking Steve's nose in the process.

"Hey, watch it," Steve replied.

"You are so lucky we have to go in and bust this guy, legally, I might add thanks to our handy arrest warrant, or you'd be watching my fist slam into your face!" Danny thundered.

"Yeah, I'm not feeling any luckier now than when Ellis said it," Steve replied with a grin.

Kono and Chin stopped behind the Camaro. "I've got the warrant," she said, waving a small envelope at them before shoving it in her back pocket.

"She has the warrant," Danny said with a smile.

Steve glared at him before flipping his "internal switch" to serious cop mode. "Target is David Salazar. As always, consider him and any buddies we might encounter as armed and extremely dangerous."

"Salazar's a known drug runner who dabbles in supplying under age prostitutes to grossly obese bad guys whose sense of right and wrong iffy at best," Danny added with a flick of his wrist for the benefit of the HPD SWAT officers who were providing additional manpower.

"Lt. Kelly is passing out a photo of Salazar," Steve stated. "Remember, armed and extremely dangerous. Everybody ready?"

The Commander didn't wait for an answer before assigning his team and the SWAT officers strategic positions along the perimeter of the Salazar estate.

Steve and Danny advanced to the main gate and pressed the intercom button that would ring into the house.

"Yes?" a deep male voice answered.

"Commander McGarrett and Detective Williams from 5-0. We have an arrest warrant for David Salazar."

"You got the wrong address," the voice answered.

"Wrong Address?" Steve said with an amused laugh. "Okay, we can do this the easy way or the hard way."

Both Steve & Danny stared at the metal speaker box as if they could make the voice's answer come faster.

A bullet from Chin's shotgun whizzing above their heads and into the vest of one of Salazar's guards who had his gun trained on Steve provided the answer.

"Hard way it is!" was Steve's gleeful reply.

TBC…