In four days time Emma and Harry was going back to the mainland and Danny had yet to talk to her and the death of her best friend. Steve just couldn't understand it as Danny was still pretending like everything was fine and whilst Steve understood that, there was only so far Danny could go along with it before he had to talk to Emma about it. Danny had told him to leave it alone but Steve just couldn't. Emma had lost best friend and there was no way that she was just fine about it and Steve wanted to let her know that it was okay to be upset about it. That she didn't have to feel like she couldn't tell Danny about it. Which is how Steve ended up outside the door of their hotel room and waiting for Emma to open the door. This had the potential to blow up in his face but Steve was willing to take the chance as Emma didn't seem quick to temper like Danny given that she was the more mellow of the two of them.

"Hey Emma, is this a bad time?" Steve asked when the door opened and he could tell that she was surprised to see him.

"No it's fine Harry's down for a nap so I'm all yours. Steve" Emma replied as she motioned for Steve to come in and as he did she quietly shut the door behind him and then both sat down on the couches in the suite. "Is this about Danny? Has something happened to him?"

"No he's fine, it's actually about you." Steve began slowly, he knew Danny was going to kill him or least not speak to him for a week when he found out what he was doing. "He's worried about you but Danny doesn't want to say anything to you about it."

Emma eyed Steve carefully before taking a deep breath. "He knows, doesn't he? Danny knows that Olly's dead, I figured as much… It was only a matter of time before he did and I'm assuming that our mother told him considering that only her and our dad know. I asked them not tell my siblings as I needed time but Danny's always had a flair for getting my mom to betray her confidence."

"I'm sorry for your loss." Steve said.

"Thank you, it's still taking a while for it to sink in despite the fact that we knew that it was going to happen but I still can't believe that Olly's been gone a month already. It's just crazy to think that he's dead as the two of us did almost everything together so it's kind of hard to do things without him…" Emma began wearily and that's when Steve noticed it. The look that Danny said Emma got in her eyes when everything was not fine. He could see it as plan as day. As beautiful and bright as Emma's eyes always seemed to be, Steve could now see the sadness and sorrow.

"Danny said that it was a brain tumor, it must have been hard." Steve slowly said, trying to be as sensitive as he was and Emma gave him a small laugh.

"Oliver Cole was the last person you'd expect to get a brain tumor, he was insane but in a good way. Always wanting to have fun and try out new things, whenever we went off I was never allowed to pay the bill. To Olly, socializing was a tax write off and things were always like that with us. We'd go out and have fun but I could always expect him to turn up at my front door for Sunday dinner no matter how hungover or busy he was. But then things changed, he'd been getting these chronic headaches for a few weeks and then he collapsed at work one day, they took him to the hospital and he had some tests done where it was discovered that he had a tumor and that it was inoperable. Olly kept it to himself for the first month and I never suspected anything because he was his usual fun loving and happy self. Then he finally broke; Olly couldn't take it anymore and so he told me, said that he had a brain tumor and that the doctors said he had less than six months to live. I thought it was a joke until I noticed that Olly was crying and he never cries, that's when I knew he was telling the truth…"

"It must have been hard for the both of you." Steve stated and Emma shrugged her shoulders and Steve couldn't help but notice that she was trying her hardest not to cry.

"I guess but Olly didn't want us to focus on it that much so he distracted us from it but it was there in the back of his mind constantly. A week after he told me he had already arranged his funeral sorted out, a live in nurse and got his affairs in order. Told me he wanted to spend his last few months with the two people who meant the most to him; Harry and I. Olly still went to work for another two months before I got him to quit and even then he wouldn't take things slow, despite the fact he was sick he always put others before himself. That's what I loved most about Olly, he was the person you could call in a crisis, in fact he was the first person I called when I thought I was pregnant. When I was taking the tests he kept distracting me by commenting on how my family or rather Danny and my dad were going to go ape if the tests were positive." Emma said with a teary smile before sighing. "First thing he did when the test came back positive was empty out the liquor cabinet as he said I wouldn't be needing them anymore. Then asked if he could be my birthing coach."

The two of them sounded really close and it was clear to Steve that Emma really missed him. "Danny said you had been friends since you were kids."

Emma slowly nodded. "Yeah and everyone thought that we'd get together eventually but we weren't like that. I loved him but not in a romantic way, we loved each other like brother and sister. We were completely different though but we just somehow got along despite the fact that I'm lawyer with a child where as Olly was a bachelor, he enjoyed the single life, smoking cigars, drinking scotch and spending his money as he saw fit he wasn't ready to settle down and have a family. But he liked have a 'disposable' family as he liked to call Harry and I…"

Steve frowned. "Disposable family?"

"A family without the responsibility." Emma explained with a brief smile on her face. "Said he could do the fun stuff and then kick us out when he was bored with us but truth be told he never did. As much as he'd never admit it, he liked having us around. I think it was his biggest regret; not having a family of his own. So we'd stay over two or three times a week for the last few months at his apartment as my brother Matt was rarely ever home. And then we got near the end, Olly got worse and he didn't want Harry to see him like that so I sent him to stay with my parents, I told my mom that I had a really big case. But when she and dad came to pick him up they saw Olly and figured it all out… After that it was just the two of us, I took time off work to be with him as I couldn't leave him. I had to be there with him at the end and I was, it was the two of us as always along with his parents and his two brothers. Olly died with a smile on his face, I wouldn't have expected anything less…"

Steve cleared his throat before taking a deep breath. "Why you haven't told Danny?"

"The same reason why Danny hasn't mentioned it; you've seen the two of us Steve. We can barely go five minutes without arguing. All Danny and I are good for is winding each other up, I push his buttons and he comes back with an insult. As much as I love my brother; there are certain things that I just can't talk to him about. Watching my best friend die, is just one of those things…" Emma grimly noted.

"Yeah he knows that, pretty much said the same thing to me when I asked, which is why I assume he hasn't said anything to you yet."

"How long has Danny known?" Emma asked.

"A couple of days before the barbeque I assume, we were talking at the barbeque about you and why the two of you argued and it came out. "

"That's why I came to Hawaii, it wasn't just to see Danny but it was to also to clear my head. So I decided to hop on a plane to the pineapple infested hellhole that my brother kept complaining about." Emma quipped and Steve couldn't help but laugh. It amazed Steve how strong Emma was; she had lost two of the most important men in her life in the past two years and yet she was determined to carry on. "My parents were smothering me with attention and I just couldn't handle it anymore so I need to escape. They thought I was going to have some kind of mental breakdown because of what happened. And I'm trying my hardest not to be sad although it's hard but Olly didn't want me to be sad and I promised him that I wouldn't and that I name my first born daughter after him."

"Your first born daughter?" Steve asked skeptically.

"Originally Olly and I made a bet that if I got into law school that I'd have to name my first born child after him but just before Harry was born, George's friend was killed in the line of duty and so we chose to name Harry after him. So then Olly decided that if he couldn't have that then he would have my first born daughter or next born son."

"You're a good friend Emma, I don't think many people would be able to watch a friend die. "

"Maybe."