N/B It is was or will be my birthday depending on when you read this. My birthday is the 25th March lol. So as a birthday celebration I am posting this for you g. I am also hoping to post the next chapter of We Be The Cavalry tomorrow before I go out for a birthday lunch with my mum in one of the oldest pubs in England, which happens to be where I live so it will be food and alcohol lol. I hope you all like how this story is going and sorry for the delay on updates, but this cold weather has really caused me pain in my knees. I am falling apart at 38 (or almost).

Chapter Four

Steve looked up from his desk and stared into the opposite room and sighed. He missed his best friend so much. He never realised how much time they spent together until Danny had left and there was this gaping hole in his life. No matter what he tried he couldn't seem to fill those empty minutes with anything else, it never seemed to feel right.

Steve had enough and couldn't concentrate and went out to join Kono and Chin.

"Uncle Steve." A little sobbing voice called out.

Steve turned and went down onto one knee just in time to have a crying Grace in his arms. He stroked her back and looked up at Rachel in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Steve asked he could see Chin and Kono join them.

"Danno got shot." Grace cried harder.

Steve's eyes widened with fear. "What?"

"She overheard me on the phone." Rachel shrugged. "She wanted to come and see you straight away."

Grace pulled away and stared into Steve's eyes. "You'll make sure he's ok won't you Uncle Steve? We're ohana."

Steve smiled at her. "Of course I will Gracie. I'm going to talk to the governor and find out what is going on."

"I knew you would." Grace hugged him tightly. Steve stared at Rachel knowing that he had a lost look on his face. He couldn't imagine a world with no Danno in it."

"Come on Gracie; let Uncle Steve carry on, once he knows something he'll call." Rachel said as she took Grace's hand.

"Of course I will Gracie. I'll call you soon Rachel." Steve waited until she nodded. He stood up and watched them leave and turned to face his two team-mates, who looked as shocked as he felt. "I'm going to call the governor." He turned and stormed into his office.

Chin turned to look at Kono.

"When do you think he's going to realise he's in love with Danny?" Kono asked.

"I don't know, but I hope that Danny is ok. If he isn't, I don't know how Steve is going to survive." Chin answered his voice low. They were family, and it will destroy part of him to lose Danny as well. He smiled at the thought of their little blonde tornado who didn't have a filter attached to his mouth.

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Steve stormed out of the office. "I'm going to see the governor."

"Well, this isn't a good sign." Kono muttered. She had to keep the faith that everything was going to be ok.

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"Commander McGarrett, thank you for coming. I'm sorry you've been given the run around all day. I only found out as I went into a meeting. I hadn't realised that Mrs Edwards had already been told."

"Is Danny ok governor?" Steve didn't want to make polite chitchat.

"Well, he was shot in the shoulder he is fine, but that isn't what worries me."

"What is?"

"I did a little digging; this seemed to happen as soon as he arrived. From what I have been told this case that Danny had worked on was going nowhere and the Captain and the precinct was getting breathed down on by his boss's to get it sorted out. Detective Williams was the perfect bait. He had been the only detective to get close to solving it. So…"

"They decided to bring Danny over and see who can crawl out from under their rocks. Well, obviously that plan failed. Danny was shot, and no one is in custody… are they?"

"No, and no one has admitted to doing anything wrong, so Danny stays over there." Governor Denning told him.

"What," Steve exploded. "He can't stay there, not without protection and those cops are obviously not doing anything."

"I totally agree Commander, and on top of that I don't like the underhanded way they went about this. So you are the rest of Five-0 are going over to New Jersey. Detective Williams is a member of MY task force. You three are now his protection. Get yourselves sorted and leave ASAP." Denning grinned. He reached over and grabbed the telephone. "I'm just going to let their Governor know what I think about on his police forces putting one of my specific personal task force in danger without letting anyone know."

Steve nodded. "Yes sir." With that, he turned and headed out of the office, hearing the Governor voice his opinion on what had happened. They had a lot to do and a small amount of time to do it.

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Steve looked at Chin and Kono as they made it into the hospital. The governor had already called ahead to let the hospital staff know who Steve, Chin and Kono were.

As they arrived in the long corridor that housed Danny's room, Steve noticed the security unit outside. Steve snorted at the thought of these idiots letting Danny getting shot in the first place was now the ones trying to protect him.

"You two deal with those." Steve nodded to the two men looking bored. "I'm going to check on Danny. If they are involved in this, I don't want them to be able to give any kind of warning.

Chin and Kono nodded as they moved ahead of Steve.

He waited for a moment until they had them talking when Steve walked up and looked into Danny's room. The first thing he saw was his best friend laid out, pale but not looking like he was in any immediate danger from his wounds. Other people now, that was different Danny was in danger from them. Steve smiled, and it seemed as if he were finally able to breathe.

Steve frowned as noticed the other man staring down at the detective with a yearning look on his face. The man reached out as if to touch Danny, but the sudden movement of the man in the bed stopped. His eyes frozen to Danny's body as the blanket moved off him to show his bare chest. One had remained frozen in the air while the other reached down to his trousers where he rubbed his now hard length that was visible beneath his slacks.

Steve growled he wouldn't let this man perv over his friend, the man who meant everything to him. Steve pushed that thought away as he opened the door and walked in.

TBC