Danny slammed the door of his office closed, facing his sister who looked equally as angry as he did.
"Sit."
"No."
"Sit. Down."
"I'm not a child Danny, you can't tell me what to do. I want to sleep with Steve, I sleep with him. I don't want to sit down, I don't."
Danny clenched his fist at the mention of Steve and raised them up to his head, resting his forehead on them.
"I don't understand why you're so upset about this Danny! If I remember correctly, when I was still in Jersey you were trying to set me up with the guys you worked with all the time."
"That's different Kay-"
"What's so different about it?"
"He's my partner!" He was practically yelling at this point.
Instead of yelling back, Kayla lowered her voice to a normal indoor tone. "Yeah, you've said that already. What's so different about it?" The anger in her face had kind of melted away leaving a sad, blank look on her face. When he couldn't give her an answer, she spoke up again. "I like him Danny. He makes me feel good, happy. Especially after all the Jackson crap, I mean I thought there'd be part of you that would be happy I was going out with Steve, at least you could keep an eye on him unlike all the other guys I've went out with."
"I guess that's a bonus, but I just know there's some past…flings, and I don't want you to end up like them."
"Danny. He's a navy seal. If he didn't have flings, I'd be worried. And don't even go there because at one point I lost count of how many different girls you would bring home in a month, but I didn't grab Rachel and drag her off like a screaming lunatic did I?"
He held up his hands, "let's not use Rachel and I as an example, okay? "
She crossed her arms. "You know I'm right Danny. I mean, I expected you to freak out a little. You are my brother after all, but to yell at him and try to beat him up? That's a little over the top, dude." The stern look re-appeared on her face when she remembered the scene she walked in on.
"Okay, maybe I blew things out of proportion a little. But like I said, I just don't want you to get hurt again. I couldn't stop the other assholes, but I can stop this one."
She stared at the wall quietly for a second, "Do you really thing he would turn out like the other assholes?"
He didn't answer her and she knew what he was thinking, "and you can't respond based on the fact I'm you're little sister and you think I'm too good for any man."
He sighed, "No. I don't."
She stared at him, her arms still crossed, not saying anything. She knew that he knew he was wrong, but she wanted to hear him say it for her own person gratification.
"I know you already know, so do I really have to say it?"
She raised her eyebrows in a criticizing fashion.
"Fine. I was wrong about everything and I shouldn't have attacked Steve. Even if he did molest my sister."
"I'm not 12, he didn't molest me!" She walked over to her brother, putting her hands on his shoulders. "Pleeeeease try to deal with this, maybe even be happy for me? Don't fly off the handle every time things seem a little more than PG 13?"
A disgusted look crossed his face. "I really don't want to think about anything more than PG 13 with you two okay? And I make no promises about being happy about it."
"I didn't say happy about it, I said happy for me. There's a difference." When his expression didn't change, she wrapped her arms around his waist and snuggled her head into his chest. "pweeeeeasseee Danno?"
He gave in, returning the hug his sister was giving. "Only because it's you, kid."
A smile spread across her face and she squeezed him even tighter. "Thank you." She stepped back from him, "Now go apologize to Steve."
"Who are you, mom?"
"You practically attacked him Danny! The civilized thing to do is say you're sorry."
After a moment of staring at her and realizing she wasn't going to back down any time soon, he opened the door heading back out. When he looked up, he noticed that Chin and Kono had left and Steve was by himself leaning on the table with an icepack on his lip. The two looked at each other at the same time and Danny sighed suddenly feeling really guilty for attacking him; he trusted Steve with his life, so why he wouldn't trust him with his sister, he wasn't exactly sure.
"Should I run or something? You back for round two?"
He sighed again, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Look, I'm sorry about attacking you." He was silent for a few seconds before he heard Kayla clearing her throat. Looking back at the doorway of his office he saw her leaning up against the frame, giving him the look telling him to continue.
"I shouldn't have blown up at you like I did. I know you wouldn't hurt my sister."
"It's okay man, I've got a sister too, I know how it feels. But I want you to know I would never hurt her on purpose," he chuckled, "then I'd definitely get my ass kicked."
Danny chuckled at this too and Kayla smiled walking over to the two men noticing the atmosphere change and hoping all was well between them again. She grabbed Danny's shoulder, squeezing it. "See, that wasn't too hard was it? Didn't make you to any blood pacts, no deals with the devil, just a simple apology."
"You think you're really funny, don't you?"
"Must run in the family." Steve cut in with a smirk on his face.
"Hey, no comments from mister peanut gallery over there!"
Steve continued to smirk and Danny was slowly moving backwards, "I'm just gunna go do some things in my office, you two can… you know, talk or something."
Kayla raised an eyebrow at Danny as he turned and headed towards his office. "Wow, awkward much," she muttered to herself. She turned to Steve and gave him a light smile when she realized he was staring at her. She looked over his face, noticing the bruise starting to form by his eye. She stepped closer to him and reached for the ice pack, pulling it away from his lip. She grimaced a bit when she saw his split, swollen lip.
"It looks worse than it feels."
She ran her thumb over the swollen cut, guilt surging through her.
He slid a finger under her chin, lifting it slightly to look at him. "Hey, don't worry about it. I'll be fine."
"I know, but I still feel responsible…"
"Don't. I know where he was coming from, I've got a sister and I'm overprotective of her too. It's a natural brother reaction."
She tried to laugh, but it came out more like a small cough. The worried look still on her face. Trying to get her to smile, he leaned forward and kissed her softly.
"Smile, beautiful."
He kissed her again, but she pulled back slightly and he looked at her questioningly.
"I just don't want to hurt your lip.."
He smirked, "a little pain never did any harm."
"My brother's still right over there."
"Yeah, and his doors closed." He leaned in, kissing her again. This one lasted longer than either of the previous ones and after a minute or so, they heard a knock on glass. Looking over at Danny's office he was glaring at them pointing at his watch and motioning to Steve. She chuckled and looked at him smugly.
"Told ya!"
"Yeah, well we'll just have to continue this later."
"Sounds good, but for now I'll leave you to work. Try not to get in any more fight's unless you can win them, okay?"
"Hey, I could have taken him if I wanted to!"
"Suure you could Commander."
He shook his head at her, the fact presenting itself again that she was indeed a Williams.
"I'll see you later beautiful."
She smiled at the floor, trying to hide the blush creeping up on her cheeks. As long as he kept getting that reaction, he would always keep calling her that. She gave a small wave to Danny who was still looking out the office window and left the office feeling different than when she first came in.