Christmas is over and it was pretty decent...oh the food I ate (it was 40 degrees celcius and I had a roast for lunch :) and the cheesecake...the amazing cheesecake.
Enjoy...

/ / / Break In \ \ \

Danny felt Steve move out of bed and wanted to cover his head with the pillow and would have until he heard the slide of the gun moving. Danny sighed and pulled himself out of bed as well. He grabbed his own gun out of the bedside table and looked at Steve.

"Someone's downstairs."

Danny nodded and pulled a shirt over his head as well. "Take the lead," Danny said quietly shaking the sleepiness away. Steve nodded and they started out of the room towards the stairs. Danny crept behind Steve down the stairs checking the rooms along the way even though there were no sounds anywhere but in the direction of the kitchen.

Steve pushed the kitchen door open and stepped into the room, Danny close behind him but the person who turned around didn't appear to be a threat.

"Don't move! Mum?" Danny knew Steve was surprised when he didn't lower his weapon.

"Hi Honey," Doris' eyes slid over to Danny but she didn't say anything. "You've done a great job with the house." Steve's mum said. "I love that you used my plans for the kitchen."

"What are you doing here?" Steve asked.

"Making breakfast," Doris said scrapping the eggs onto a plate.

Danny didn't know what this woman was playing at, he could understand coming back to Steve since she had left the island but why now and not straight away, Danny pushed his questions to the side so he could focus on Steve who still looked confused.

"Stop playing with your gun Steven," Doris said as she turned back to the toast. Danny pulled the gun out of Steve's hands and tucked them both into a drawer. "Good morning Danno."

"He prefers Danny," Steve said taking a step forward.

"I'll just go and have a shower," Danny said stepping back, Steve looked at him for a second terror in his eyes but it was quickly hidden. Danny didn't want to stay but he was in this so he didn't move.

"No," Doris said. "Stay, how do you like your eggs?"

"Don't ask him that question," Steve said suddenly coming back to himself. "He makes terrible eggs."

Danny rolled his eyes. "I make great eggs."

Doris finished putting the toast on the platter and heading out of the kitchen. "The kitchen looks even better than I pictured it."

Steve nodded and grabbed Danny's hand to tow him into the dining room with them, he let go of Danny's hand before they made it through the door ensuring that Steve's mother didn't see the action. "Danny made some suggestions as we were going."

"Did he?" Doris asked and put the eggs down onto the table. Steve came around to the other side of the table and started asking his mother why she was here but her attention slipped off him and onto the painting hanging on the wall. "Where did that come from?"

Doris dropped her toast and Danny's stomach plummeted down when he realised it was the painting he'd done for Steve's birthday, the one of their last day as a family.

"Danny gave it to me for my birthday," Steve said.

"Who painted it?" Doris stood up and walked over to it looking at it with a critical eye.

"I did," Danny said.

"The painting supplies are yours?" Doris asked.

Steve beamed for a second. "I gave that to him for his birthday."

Doris nodded and sat down. "It's not a bad painting."

"Thank you," Danny said even if he didn't think the comment had entirely been a compliment.

"You know your security system sucks," Doris said plating herself up some breakfast.

"What are you doing here?"

Danny sat down between them but didn't make a move for any of the food Doris had made. Steve was still standing but Danny knew he preferred to stand in an argument, Danny much preferred to be seated and comfortable if he was going to be yelling though pacing was also good.

"I never left the island but I think you already knew that." Danny was watching Steve rather than Doris, he knew how to read his McGarrett but Doris had spent too many years lying for a living to be readable to someone who didn't know her and he knew he wasn't going to get anything out of her.

"Yeah, you persuaded WitSec to turn the plane around."

"I can be very persuasive." Doris said with an almost audible smirk, Danny took a moment to look out the window and remember why he wasn't going to insert himself into the conversation when he realised that the table had been set. Three place settings. She'd actually bothered to put one out for him, he felt completely uncharitable in his surprise but he grabbed a piece of toast anyway in hopes that eating it would save him from having to keep his mouth shut. He could see Doris' eyes track his movement but responded with nothing but a smile as Steve spoke.

"I remember Mum, why'd you do it?"

"I wanted to come home. I'm tired of running." Danny mentally called bullshit and kept his eyes on Steve. Steve looked down at him for a second and Danny could see the deep breath he took as their eyes met, Danny smiled; he wasn't going to get between these two but at least he knew he was helping Steve in his own way.

"Okay, well, where have you been for the last few weeks?" Danny would really like to know the answer to that question and turned to Doris for her response but he suspected they wouldn't get one…and he was right.

"I just needed some time. I wasn't sure how you'd take this." Danny tried not to hear 'it's your fault I was hiding' in her words but he did anyway and he really hated that she'd put that on Steve and not herself.

"Well you should have told me what the plan was."

"Sure, sure you never would have agreed." Danny had to agree with her there, sitting here watching them argue made Danny sure that they were similar in their stubborn belief that their way was the right way but he'd be damned if he was going to agree with her at the moment.

"No, I probably wouldn't have agreed to it." Steve grit his jaw for a second and Danny could see him shifting gears knowing that he wouldn't get anything this way. "What is this, what are these bags? Are you staying?"

"Yeah."

"Mum!" Steve turned and looked out the window before turning back to his mother. "Wo Fat is still out there, this isn't the safest-"

Danny's phone rang upstairs following moments later by Steve's where he'd dumped it the night before and forgotten about it. They looked at one another and knew – it was a case.

"You answer," Danny said. "I'll go and shower."

Steve nodded and heard Steve answer just as he hit the bottom of the stairs.

"There are a lot of pink things around the place," Doris said idly.

Danny answered as he headed up the stairs. "Grace's favourite colour at the moment." He didn't hear anything else but figured that she would have had something more to say.

/ / / / /

"There are a lot of pink things around the place," Doris said behind Steve while he was writing down the details of the crime scene.

"Grace's favourite colour at the moment." Danny called back in answer.

"She really likes purple as well though," Steve said when he hung up the phone.

"Why is it all out when she's not here?"

Steve sat down across from his mother and scooped some eggs onto his plate while he waited for Danny to be done in the shower. "Why wouldn't it?"

"Well, because she's at her mother's house so there isn't much for a reason for her things to be out."

Steve shook his head. "That would be like Danny packing all my things into a room when I go and do my Reserves training."

"You're in the reserves?"

"I transferred in when I started Five-0."

Doris smiled at him. "You call yourself Five-0? Like we used to?"

Steve nodded and focussed on his food. "They are my family."

"I'm your family Steven."

"You only came back into my life a few weeks ago. They have been watching my back since I first set up the team."

"So, where am I sleeping?" Doris asked sounding hurt.

Steve made sure he could hear the shower before he looked up at his mother. "Doris, you can't stay here."

"I beg your pardon? This is still my house."

Steve sighed. "Technically it's mine since you are still legally dead but that's got nothing to do with it."

"I don't care that you are gay though you shouldn't be sleeping with your partner."

Steve shook his head. "This is Danny's home and with Danny comes Gracie so you cannot stay here. I will not have your problems getting close to her."

His mother stared at him for a moment. "She's that important to you?"

Steve nodded. "They both are."

"And you are telling me this when Danny is showering so that he can't tell you off for kicking your mother out of her own house?"

"If you want the house then have it. I'm telling you this now because you have already been rude to Danny once and I want to make it clear that this is coming from me and has absolutely nothing to do with him."

"Of course it has nothing to do with him but he's the reason you are kicking me out," Doris said with a probing look. "So I can have the house but you won't be in it?"

Steve nodded. "I will protect them, they are my family-"

"I am your family, Steven," Doris said cutting him off.

"You died in a car accident and I moved away from everything I'd ever known. I didn't have family for twenty years until Danny. He is my family and Grace is my family so I will do whatever I have to do to protect them. I would let you stay if it was just me, I can take care of myself but she is ten and Wo Fat wouldn't hesitate to use her."

"So you do understand why I faked my own death."

Steve heard the shower stop. "No I don't, I have a problem I take it to Danny. That's why he was in Japan with me. Then we sort it out, I tried doing it alone and it never works out as well as when he has my back."

Doris stood up and grabbed the phone. "I'll call a taxi."

Steve shook his head. "I'll organise a safe place for you to stay."

"Don't worry about it I can take care of myself."

"I want you to be safe." Steve said even as she made the call.

"I've been keeping myself safe my whole like Steve."

"Yeah, safe and hiding from your family for twenty years."

"You know why I had to go Steven."

"No," Steve said shaking his head. "I know your reasons but if there was someone out there like that I would stop at nothing to make them accountable for their actions and protect my family. You didn't protect us your destroyed us, Dad sent us away, we weren't a family anymore. Dad was tortured and killed by a guy working for Wo Fat and Wo Fat captured Mary and I at different times for information on you. He tortured me, he would have killed me if Danny and our team, our friends, hadn't come for me. You had twenty years to get him and you didn't."

"You haven't got him either Steven."

"I had him once and I will get him again Doris. I don't know why you had to go and I think there is more to it than you said because if I'd been in your position in that safe house Wo Fat would be dead."

"You could kill him that easily?"

Steve shrugged. "Wouldn't be the first time." Steve turned and headed up the stairs. "Let me know where you're going so I can organise some protection."

By the time Steve had come down from the shower his mother was gone and Danny was looking at him strangely.

"Where is she?" Danny asked as they climbed into the car.

Steve sighed before smiling at the fact that most of their conversations like this didn't happen at home but in their car. "I told her she couldn't stay with us."

Danny watched him carefully for a moment. "Why?"

"Because Wo Fat is still after her and I will not let that into our house, Grace needs it to be safe and with everything going on with Rachel and the custody issue we can't afford to give her any ammunition."

"Wo Fat was out and about before too."

Steve turned into the parking area for their headquarters and nodded. "But he was looking for Shelburne. Having my mother in our home is a giant flashing symbol telling him to come at us there. She broke my family once but I am not letting her do it again."

Danny nodded. "Are you setting her up in a safe house?"

"She said she could look after herself," Steve said. "I'll set up protection when I know where she is."

Danny nodded again but didn't say anything.

"Say it Danny, before you explode."

"You're right, I don't want her near Grace while Wo Fat is at large but you can protect her better at home."

"I won't choose her over you Danny."

"I'm not asking you to choose, I just don't want anything to happen to her and for you to regret not keeping her close."

Steve didn't say anything for a while but when Danny tried to climb out of the car at the crime scene Steve grabbed his arm to stop him. "She is right, she's been keeping herself safe for the last twenty years and…" Steve took a deep breath. "I don't trust her, she could have had Wo Fat and she let him go. If I can't trust her I can't invite her into our home."

Danny nodded.

"Though since it is her house I told her that if she wants it she can have it but we won't be there."

Danny slid quickly from a bark of laughter to a harsh sigh. "What did she say?"

"She said that since I'd do anything to protect the two of you I must understand why she did what she did. I told her she was wrong and that instead of saving us she got most of us tortured and my father killed."

Danny whistled. "I'm assuming that did not go well."

Steve smiled at Danny weakly. "I ended the conversation by reminding her that I was trained to be a murderer."

Danny dropped his head down onto his chest. "Okay babe-" Danny was about to say something else when his phone rang, he pulled it out and answered it. "Williams. Hey Rachel, of course I can. That's fine. No, we're at a crime scene. Yes, I know what your lawyer said. No, I'm not changing my mind. Yes, well Stan can make decisions about his own kid. No, I don't want to fight. Rachel, let's just leave this with the lawyers, no I don't want…dammit Rachel she's my daughter too and I am not doing this to make your life harder, I'm doing this for Grace. It is not about Steve. Yeah and you're not moving to Vegas because of your husband? That isn't even worth answering Rachel, I'll pick Grace up from school this afternoon." "We have a case Rachel and I don't want to argue. I'll see you on the weekend. Fine, bye." Danny put the phone down in his lap after viciously hitting the end call button.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm only fighting her because of you and I am trying to make her life more difficult and Stan, sometimes I am so happy I shot that man, Stan thinks that Las Vegas would be good for Grace and she'd get to see different things. Grace…dammit. Let's just go and sort out this case."

"Have you told her that I'd come with you?"

"No," Danny said. "I don't want her going into this knowing that I don't have things to lose. She can say it's about you and it is in that we have a life here, one that Grace is a part of but it's so much more than that and Grace would hate the desert."

Steve slid his hand up and down Danny's arm. Danny twisted in his grip until they were holding hands and Steve tightened his grip.

"Steve, we'll work it out. We'll work it all out."

Steve cut the engine and nodded. "We will, we'll have to work out what Doris is hiding and we'll keep Gracie…wait you're not supposed to have her this afternoon."

Danny beamed at him. "The whole reason for the call, she needs me to have Grace this afternoon. She'll have to hang out at Five-0 with us but she's staying the night."

Steve smiled back. "See, good news."

"I'm sorry babe. Would you like to time share my mum, she's a nag and bosy and loud and she will try to fatten you up when she sees you but she gives good hugs."

"Thank you Danno."

Danny leaned over the console and kissed Steve. "Let's go catch bad guys, babe."

/ / / /

I was thinking of doing another coda for this episode but it's up to you, do you want to just pretend that Danny helped with that tetanus shot and it lead to sex?