Emma was surprised to find one Steve McGarret standing on her doorstep at nine in the evening with his arm in a sling and a rather odd look yet bemused on his face. "Steve what the hell happened to you arm and your face?" Emma asked as tilted Steve's face to the side so she could survey the damage.
"Danno and I went for a hike and we stumbling across a dead body, fell off a small cliff ended up shattering my forearm but it's no big deal." Steve replied and Emma wasn't sure what to say about this, falling off a cliff was pretty big deal to most people but not the navy seal. "But that's now why I'm here, I wanted to talk to you about why you've been avoiding me Emma."
"I haven't been avoiding you." Emma said as she motioned for Steve to come inside the house.
"Really? We had dinner three nights ago and you seemed kind of distant and since then you haven't answered any of my calls or returned my messages, I'd call that avoiding someone."
"I've been prepping for this huge case that goes to trail next week Steve I've barely spoken to anyone and now Harry is sick so I've been here all day taking care of him for the past two day, I'm not avoiding you Steve, I've been taking care of my sick child that's all…" Emma replied and okay so it was a bit of a lie, she had been avoiding Steve because she still felt weird about the whole crying about George thing but that was at the beginning of the week and Harry was honestly sick.
"Oh, what's wrong with him?"
"Ear infection and it's driving him crazy, he's got a fever, headache, trouble hearing and sleeping so he's cranky, he's in pain and he doesn't know why, it's the last thing that I needed at the moment but that's the thing about children getting sick, very inconvenient and comes when you least suspect it so I'm kind of pulling double duty."
"Danny didn't mention anything about Oz bring sick, have you told him?" Steve questioned.
"Yeah about that we haven't spoken to each other since the beginning of the week and it's f for the best really, I kind of lost my temper with him that morning for him asking me to do something that he really shouldn't have but don't worry we'll talking again by the end of the week. We can never stay to mad with each other…"
"You shouldn't have to be doing this alone Emma, Harry's sick and on top of that you've got work stuff to deal with. I think you should call Danny and ask for his help, after all that is why you moved to Hawaii."
Emma shrugged her shoulders "Steve it's sweet of you to worry about the two of us but I am a working parent, it's never going to be easy and I moved to Hawaii for a fresh start not to have my big brother take care of me. These next few days are going to be stressful seeing as Harry isn't sleeping through the night but that little boy upstairs is my pride and joy so if staying up all night to take care of him means he'll get better and back to his happy, healthy and cheerful self than so be it."
"You're a good mom." Steve noted.
Emma wearily smiled. "I try to be."
"About what happened at the beginning of the week, it was a lot to ask for you to do and we shouldn't have asked you, I was as much as to blame as Danny for it…" Steve began until he was interrupted by the sound of quiet sobs and he turned around to see Oz standing there in his pyjamas tugging on his left ear, holding his teddy bear in his right hand and crying his little eyes out.
"Momma… hurts." The small boy whimpered.
"Hey buddy, I know your not feeling too good but look whose come to see you it's Steve." Emma said with a bright smile as she made her way over to her son and picked him up and Harry tucked his head into Emma's shoulders and after a brief moment Emma pulled his away and put her hand on his forehead. "Steve…"
"Emma, what is it?"
"He's burning up again… upstairs in Harry's room on the chest of drawers there's an ear thermometer, can you get it for me?" Emma asked trying to keep her voice at a normal even level as not to worry.
"Momma… don't feel well…" Harry hiccupped as he continued to pull on his ear and Emma kissed the top of his head in an attempt to make him feel better.
"I know you don't buddy but everything's going to be fine, mommy will make everything better like she always does so just hold on, were just waiting for Steve to come back and then once I know what's wrong I can make it all better." Emma said reassuringly to Harry and moments later Steve returned with thermometer than she had requested. Taking a deep breath Emma put the thermometer in Harry's ear for thirty seconds before taking it out and waiting for the reason. "Oh god…"
Judging by the horrified look on Emma's face Steve knew that there was something seriously wrong. "What is it Emma?"
"105°F, it was down to 101 a couple of hours ago and now it's spiked again, I need to take him to a hospital Steve. It's been 48 hours and he's not getting better…" Emma replied as she went around grabbing her bag, keys and phone all whilst holding Harry in her arms.
"Okay we'll take my car…" Steve replied as helped Emma head towards and pick up Harry's teddy bear who he had just dropped.
"Steve are you sure you can drive with your arm like that?" Emma questioned and already Steve was removing the sling of his neck.
"Don't worry about me, I'll get us there just focus on Oz…"
