Steve continued to sit in the waiting room twenty minutes had passed since Emma had gone to be with Harry while the doctors were working on him. It had been a long day for Steve but all he could think about was Emma and Oz. The two of them really deserved a break for once and some actual happiness without something threatening to crush their spirits yet again. As Steve sat there he noticed one Danny Williams come running into the ER like a headless chicken until he finally spotted Steve and made his way over to him. "Danny…" Steve began.

"What's happening? Where's Emma? How's Harry?" Danny immediately demanded and the worry was obvious on his face, despite the fact that Danny argued with Emma like there was no tomorrow, it was clear that he loved his sister and nephew very much.

"Emma is with Harry, the doctor came out about ten minutes ago and she said that Harry was stable but they were running tests and they needed Emma's consent to do a procedure on Harry called a Lumbar Puncture on him–"

"–What is that? Why does he need to have that?" Danny asked.

"It's a procedure which involved getting fluid from Harry's spine, they think he might have meningitis and this test will tell them whether or not he has it." Steve slowly said and Danny immediately sunk into one of the plastic hospital seat.

"Meningitis? How is that even possible?"

"Harry's had an ear infection for the last couple of days and according to the doctor an infection like that can led to meningitis. But it could just be the ear infection getting worse and we're hoping that these test results confirm that. This procedure takes half an hour and it's already been ten minutes and Emma said she'll come out and update us once it's done." Steve assured Danny as he sat down next to him, who looked like he had just aged five years in the matter of minutes.

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"Ear infection? What the hell is going on? I didn't even know that Harry was sick until you called to say that he was here. If he's been sick for days why am I just learning about this now? I should have been there, helping Emma to take care of him." Danny quietly asked.

"Emma didn't want to bother you, she said something about not wanting you to always have to take care of her. She didn't call you because the pediatrician told her it was a simple ear infection that would disappear after a couple of days. But it wasn't, Harry woke up and he was in a lot of pain Emma took his temperature and it was really high that's when we brought him here. We didn't realize how serious it was until the doctors mentioned this meningitis." Steve told him.

"–Wait… we? What are you talking about and why is this we thing? And why we're you at my sisters so late in the evening?" Danny questioned.

"Danny it's only half past eleven and I went over to Emma's to check up on her after the whole incident at the Nozuka house, she was pretty upset after it considering she just recounted the day she lost George to another woman who just lost her husband. I was worried about her and I hadn't been able to get in contact with her so I went over to her place. That's when she realized something was wrong with Harry and I drove the two of them here." Steve explained as he briefly shut his eyes, Danny was clearly stressed and needed to vent some of his frustrations out somewhere.

"Is there something going on with you and my sister." Danny demanded and Steve was honesty shocked at what he was hearing, that was the last thing that he was expecting Danny to come out with and it caught him off guard and considering how much of a long day he had Steve didn't respond. "There is isn't there?"

"Danno this isn't the time or the place to be having this conversation, can we just focus on the task at hand" Steve said hoping to deter Danny away from that particular conversation but he really should have known better than to believe that Danny would just drop it. His partner really couldn't leave things alone.

"To the fact that my nephew is seriously sick and could possible die? Personally i'd rather not focus on that possible scenario and focus on the fact that you're involved with my sister despite the fact that I have repeatedly told you that she is off limits to you." Danny stated.

Steve could only remember Danny explicitly saying that to him once, the other times he just warned him about getting in trouble around her but anyway that didn't even matter. It's not like Danny could him or Emma who they could or could not date. "She's a grown woman Danny."

"Who is my sister Steven!" Danny retorted.

"You're mad."

Danny looked over to his partner in disbelief. "Mad? No I'm not mad but there's a whole other bunch of words that I can use such as furious, livid, infuriated, fuming and more, plenty more."

"Look Danno, I understand that your mad and you have every reason to be mad." Steve said in an attempt to calm down his partner who seemed to get more agitated as the minutes went on, this news coupled with the fact that his nephew was sick was surely raising his partner's blood pressure and the way that it was carrying on Steve gave it only a matter of minutes before his partners head exploded.

"Well thanks you Steven, I find out that my partner has been sleeping with my sister for god knows how long and your kind enough to give me permission to be a little bit mad." Danny snapped back as quietly as he could.

"It's not like the way you're describing." Steve said as he and Emma hadn't even slept together yet and even if they had been, it wasn't like Steve was just involved with her for sex. It wasn't like that but Danny didn't seem to see it like that. He liked Emma a lot but he doubted he could convince Danny of that tonight or any other night.

"Steve this isn't just about Emma this is about Oz as well–" Danny began.

"I know that."

"Actually I don't think you do Steve, my sister and my nephew go together hand in hand. You don't have one without another and the two of them have gone through so much these last few years. My sister isn't someone who you can casually date, she is a mother with a small child who she would so anything for, that boy comes first in her life always!"

"You don't think I know that Danny? I know that the two of them have gone through so many things that they didn't deserve, I know that they have lost people they loved and cared. That's why I'm here, because I care about both of them! I care about Emma and Oz! I know how important the two of them are and the last thing I would ever want to do is make them unhappy. I know they are your family and you only want what is best for them and given everything they've gone through you just want them to be happy and their happiness is important to me too–" Steve said, stopping prematurely at the sight of Emma who was approaching the two of them with tear filled eyes.