Ah! One more chapter after this and thrn thr epilogue! So excited and honestly cannot thank you guys enough for all of your kind words!
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Looking back, Danny thinks that it was the fact that he had just spent a very exhausting day volunteering and that was what made him snap at Steve.
Either way, the two of them found themselves driving back to Danny's house in silence, both fuming at one another.
It had been two days since they had slept over at Kono's and Danny's home repair had finally finished. Steve's on the other hand, had yet to be fixed, so now he was staying at Danny's. All of the changing houses was really starting to bother them both, and they just wanted some normalcy back in their lives.
But since Steve had so graciously given his house to Danny during the storm, Danny offered his to Steve after the storm. After being together at Danny's house for three hours, they both needed to get out and do something. Thankfully, that was when Chin called them asking if they wanted to help his neighborhood clean up after the storm.
Both of them jumped on the chance to get out, and after six hours of exhausting work, they were secretly thankful when Chin called it a day. Danny was forced to sit and take a break two hours ago because of his still healing side and concussion. Humiliated by this, and overall exhausted, he was as happy as Steve was to leave.
"Alright guys, thank you for all the help." Chin said walking them towards the Camero.
"Not that I did much." Danny sighed.
"You still helped, brah." Chin said frowning.
"Yeah, you got everyone water." Steve said trying to help.
Both Chin and Danny snapped their heads towards him and frowned and Steve put his hands up defensively. "I didn't mean that in a bad way!"
"Good luck with that one." Chin said to Danny as he smiled and walked away.
"What?" Steve asked looking at Chin's back as he turned away and then at Danny's face.
"Nothing, Steven... nothing. Just hand me the keys and I'll get us home."
Steve looked at him for a second. "Why can't I drive?"
"Because Steve, it is my car..."
"So..."
"That should be enough reason."
"Well I'm just saying that you normally let me drive your car. What is the big deal?"
"Because Steve, I am tired and hungry and just want to drive my own damn car!"
"You know I get carsick..." Steve began pleading with Danny.
"Bull."
"It's true!"
By now Steve was on the passenger side and Danny on the driver's side, both yelling at one another across the Camero. Both Danny and Steve were happy that the Camaro was parked away from everyone else, otherwise their argument would have become public and the last thing they needed was Five-0 under heat.
"You know what Steve?"
"What Danny?" Steve yelled back, both of them furious at this point at the other one being ridiculous.
"You just can't admit your control problems!"
"Oh here we go with this again! You are always bringing up my quote unquote control problems. I don't have control problems Danny! I just get car sick, okay?"
"Steve, I have literally seen you shotgun and in the backseat before and you were fine. You just have to be in control of every. Little. Thing!"
"Well Danny if you hate it so much then why put up with it?" Steve challenged.
Danny looked stuck, and with his anger levels rising, he blurted out, "I don't hate you, you putz! I just don't understand why you don't trust me enough to let me drive my own damn car!"
Steve's expression changed in the blink,of an eye from furious and red to confused and somber. "I do trust you. Danno how could you say that?"
Danny never eased off when he continued. "For one thing,you never let me drive. Never let me go first through the door. Never inform me when things are going on in the office when I'm away. Never tell me anything about you or share anything. So if you do trust me you have a funny way of showing it."
Steve now but on a brave face. "Danny I do trust you. Don't be sensitive."
"Really? This again!"
"Danny, me wanting to drive has nothing to do with any of that! Don't make something out of nothing, pal."
"You know what?" Danny said. "You're right. My bad." He tossed Steve the keys and get in and flopped in the passenger seat. "You drive."
Steve hid his shocked expression and instead put on a pouting/ sulking face as he got in the car. He did not expect the argument to end like that, normally they argued until one of them admitted something to the other and made up. Steve was not used to this... he was used to the arguments being over, not this fuming Danny beside him.
So that was how they both ended up fuming in Danny's car. Steve mad at his partner for bringing this up in the first place and then not having the nerve to finish the argument, and Danny for his partner for being so insensitive when he was trying to tell him something important.
When they got to Danny's, they both got out of the car and slammed their doors. Danny went inside and left the door open for Steve. "You know where the guest room is. Charlie and Grace are coming for dinner at six."
And then Danny retreated into his house, slammed his bedroom door, and left Steve alone on his driveway, wondering how he and Danny had managed to screw up this much in this little time.
Preview for 'Chapter Sixteen: Steve's Turn' :
"What the hell are you doing?" He yelled without thinking. His hand quickly went to his mouth as Charlie put his hands over his ears and shouted:
"Danno said a bad word!"
Danny looked at Steve who was suddenly really interested at staring at Danny's wall while Grace stared at her phone that Danny could tell wasn't even on.
"Yes Charlie, Danno said a bad word because Danno was surprised."
Danny put on his best fake grin, folded his hands in front of him, and leaned forward.
"Would you like to tell Danno why you are on top of Uncle Steve when you know you are not allowed to and are supposed to be getting ready?"
I pinky promise that I will fix this by the end. I just needed to add a little climatic action to get a big angsty finish because isn't that what we all secretly love?DISCLAIMER: I do not own Hawaii Five-0