"How do you collect butterflies in New Jersey, are there even butterflies there?" Steve questioned in bemusement as he sat across a table from Emma in an outdoor restaurant. They had decided to go out for dinner as to avoid any interruptions and being discovered by Danny who had a habit of just walking into Steve's home and a key to Emma's house. Last thing either of them wanted was for Danny to find out about any of this because according to Emma his head would literally explode at the news, which Steve knew considering Danny had told him that his sister was off limits.

"New Jersey may not be Hawaii but it's not as bad as you think it is Steve it's a pretty great place and for one thing I'm from there and yes there are butterflies but I didn't capture them and then mount them. I just brought ones that had been preserved…" Emma quipped in bemusement.

"You have a point… So we have swimming and butterfly collecting, what else can tell me about yourself." Steve began

"Between being a fulltime mommy and a lawyer there's not much time to be just Emma, so there's not much to say I'm afraid. I'm just a small girl from New Jersey whose grown up to be a lawyer and mother in Hawaii." Emma said with a small shrug of her shoulders as she took a sip of wine

"I know there's more to you than that Emma so what about this photography thing? Danny mentioned that you would have been a great photographer if you hadn't decided to go into law."

Emma blushed and briefly looked down at her hands. "Danny told you that? I wouldn't be so sure of that, I kind of fell into when I started high school. I wasn't popular like Danny and Matt, I was quiet and incredibly shy…"

"I find that very hard to believe." Steve questioned skeptically, there was no way the confident and beautiful women sitting across from him was shy as a teenager. Emma was a Williams and based on what he had seen from her, Matt and Danny none of them knew the meaning of the word shy. They all had larger than life personalities and weren't known for being quiet.

"Trust me I was, at home I was fine and could be as loud as I wanted but at school I was so self conscious that I avoided having any attention on me like the plague. It wasn't until I started college that I really came out of my shell. Any way I joined the school newspaper and they put me on photos and from there I fell in love photography. It allowed me to show people how I saw the world from my eyes, if that makes any sense…" Emma replied as she fiddled with her hands. "But it was never going to be a career for me, by my junior year I knew I wanted to be a lawyer…"

"So why law then?"

"Well when I was sixteen I was in a serious car accident–"

"Danny told me about that, you were with your best friend Olly and his car was hit by a drunk driver and you were trapped, right? They had to get you out with the Jaws of Life…" Steve recalled.

Emma smirked, Steve had certainly done his homework on her or rather Danny was unknowingly telling him everything about her. If made her wonder what Steve didn't know about her life. "Correct, the driver had smashed into my side of the car and my legs had been pinned by the wreck, my arm and several of my ribs had been broken. I thought I was going to die, Olly was trying to keep me calm whilst not freaking out himself, then my dad arrived as his firehouse arrived as they had got the call. But a few days later a attorney from the prosecutor's office came to see me, her name was Katie Rice. She told me she was going to be prosecuting the man who had put me in the hospital, turns out this guy Gary Collins had been arrested for driving under the influence and various other related crimes before but had gotten off due to technicalities. She told me that she wasn't going to let him get away with this because he was eventually going to kill someone if no one did anything to stop him."

"And did she?" Steve questioned, he didn't know that the accident had been that serious, the way Danny had mentioned made it sound like it was no big deal but then again fifteen years had passed by since then/

Emma smiled enthusiastically "Yep, he was found guilty and charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving and two counts of reckless endangerment. Ended up having to serve ten years, she was amazing Steve, Katie went above and beyond for me and she is the reason that I decided to go into law. She helped me study for my LSAT exam and when I got my acceptance letter to Harvard she was the first person I told."

"She inspired you to become a lawyer and here you are now, small time girl from the big bad New Jersey serving the great state of Hawaii." Steve said giving Emma a mock round of applause, which just caused her to blush again.

"What about you? It's been months and you still haven't answered my question of how a navy seal ends up heading a taskforce, which I've been told had complete means and immunity not to mentions answers only to the governor and being the partner of my cranky brother? Spill it McGarrett I want to know it all starting from why you decided to enlist in the navy."

"That's a long story."

"It's not like I'm planning on going anywhere anytime soon." Emma replied leaning closer.

"Well my grandfather served and was a casualty on the USS Arizona and my father served in Vietnam, so serving my country has always been in my blood. After my mother died and my dad sent Mary and I back to the mainland I joined the navy straight after I graduated from high school…" Steve stated before he noticed Emma was trying to laugh. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing it's that you said that your family has a history of serving and so it made me realize that you were actually a little pac man in cargo pants, which explains a lot…" Emma said biting her lip in amusement.

"What's that supposed to mean? And what's with you and Danny and this whole pac man thing?" Steve questioned as the Williams siblings had developed this weird habit of regularly calling each other and people by odd names. Steve was the little Pac Man in cargo shorts, Harry was Oz, Danny was Danno/Cranky Pants and Emma was Shark.

"Never mind, just ignore me continue with your story." Emma replied with a small shake of her head before covering her mouth as she irrupted into a fit of laughter.

"Is this some secret New Jersey thing that I don't know about?"

"Yeah that's it." Emma replied in a sarcastic manner that closely resembled Danny. "So back to the story, you joined the navy after you graduated high school which by my calculations is fifteen years ago doing things you probably can't tell me but then you came back to Hawaii–"

"After my father was killed–"

"Sorry."

"Thanks."

"And sorry for interrupting yet again, my mother did teach me not to interrupt people when they are speaking but it's a really bad habit I've picked up on the job. From when I'm in court arguing and objecting all day long for weeks on end So I'm going to sit here and let you speak and try my hardest not to interrupt again." Emma said with a smile before taking a sip of her wine.

Steve didn't mind in the slightest. "I came back to Hawaii with the intent of burying my father and leaving as I hadn't come back once since I left, when I arrived the governor was waiting for me and she offered me the chance to run a task force to clean up the island and I refused. All I wanted to do was bury my father and be gone but then when I went home I came across your lovely brother who started lecturing me about my house was an active crime scene. So I put a call into the governor accepted the job and made your brother my partner and the rest I think you know."

"Yes I do, Danny called me that evening to complain about the head case who had just taken over his case, got him shot out of a window and then drove him car whilst he was in it onto a Chinese freight boat. If you hadn't of guessed he wasn't that much of happy camper that day…"

"Yeah, I kind of got off on the wrong foot with him." Steve noted.

"Doesn't even have a right one to begin with." Emma quietly noted to herself in amusement as Steve's phone went off from inside his jacket pocket and he looked at Emma before reaching into get it.

"It's the governor, I'm guessing a rain check on dinner?" Steve slowly said not sure what to expect from Emma, he had asked her out for dinner and now he was probably going to leave as he doubted the governor was calling him this late in the evening just to chat. This wasn't exactly how he saw this night going in his head.

"I guess so.

"I'll make this up to you Em." Steve said as he stood up from his seat and walked over to where Emma was still sitting with an amused look on her face.

Emma smiled as she titled her head up so she could looks at Steve better, he seemed even taller than he normally was from her current advantage point. "I'd expect nothing less from you Steven so go, I'll take care of the bill and you can go play Five-0 and catch some criminals that I can prosecute."

"I'm sorry about this and f I hadn't said this already tonight, you look beautiful." Steve told Emma before proceeding to give her a fleeting kiss and then picking up his phone as he left the restaurant.