/ / / Camping \ \ \

Danny put his hand over his eyes and shook his head. "Steve, stop talking about wild boar."

"Grace?" Steve looked away from Danny and over to Grace.

Grace looked at her friends; they all shook their heads at her so she turned back to Steve. "More please, Uncle Steve."

"You said he was going to teach them survival tactics," the Aloha Girls leader said.

Danny nodded. "That's what he did when we took Grace camping."

"Which is the exact reason I asked you along."

Danny knew she was pissed off and he knew Rachel was going to get annoyed phone calls when Grace's troop went home and told their parents about how they learned the correct way to kill a wild boar bare handed and then the best way to prepare it for eating. This really wasn't going to end well. They'd had a talk before they left the house and everything. If Danny didn't think it would be admitting defeat he'd thump his head against the nearest tree. Instead he sat back with the leader and watched Steve perform for Grace's friends.

Steve started talking about a boar killing a tiger and Danny watched the mixture of awe and disbelief on the Aloha Girls' faces. He apologised to the Aloha Girls leader and stood up as soon as Steve pulled out the knife. Danny stepped between Steve and the girls.

"Why don't you change the topic, teach them how to find fresh water or find north with the stars," Danny dropped his voice to a hiss. "You know, Steven, something appropriate for ten year old girls."

"Yeah, I could do that," Steve said but there was a light in his eyes that Danny simply did not trust. "Or…" Steve turned and planted his knife into a tree. "Who wants to learn how to do that?"

With sudden clarity Danny understood; Steve was trying to impress. Danny didn't know whether to be worried that his idea of impressing Grace's friends was by teaching them to kill and gut a wild boar or not since Steve was playing to his strengths. Danny knew he was in love with a man with issues but there was a little part of him that loved Steve because he wanted Grace to show him off to her friends.

Then things turned to shit, as they tended to do when Five-0 was involved.

Danny's shoulder exploded in pain and his body remembered the sparking pain of a gunshot wound.

"Danno!" Grace ran to him and Steve turned to him ignoring the man with a gun to drop down next to Danny.

Steve hugged Grace into his side and whispered into her hair. "I'll look after him, Gracie, go back to the girls."

She turned to him with terrified eyes but nodded and span back to her leader who pulled her into a tight hug.

Steve pressed his hand to the wound. "It's shallow, you'll be fine."

"Can you get the gun without…"

"Get up!" The gunman said looming over them. Steve shook his head and helped Danny stand up as they were forced into the supplies shed. Danny felt Steve's worry and caring in the way he caressed the arm beneath Danny's wound. Steve's fingers trailed down Danny's arm before he locked them inside the shed. Danny didn't have much time to worry about Steve as he was patched up, to the utter delight of the Aloha Girls, and they set out to free themselves from the shed.

"Am I going into the tunnel, Danno?" Grace asked as everyone started digging.

"Do you think you can, Monkey?"

"Steve told me that being afraid isn't a good reason not to do something," Grace said before she leaned down and pulled her polka dot socks up and started to dig with her friends. Danny's heart grew three sizes looking at her.

/ / / / /

Danny was helping to build wood into a fire in case they were stuck here overnight when Grace walked over to him, her face still covered in a few smudges of dirt and she was gnawing at her bottom lip.

"What's wrong, Monkey?"

Grace wrapped her arms around Danny's neck. "I'm worried about Steve, Danno."

Danny tightened his arms around Grace. "Me too, Monkey, but you know Steve, he'll be okay."

"What if there is a wold boar?"

Danny pulled back and kissed her on the forehead. "We are going to get out of here, your friend is fixing a mobile phone like MacGuyver…what you've never seen that? He's like Steve. When she's done we'll get Chin and Kono's help and I'll go after Steve."

Grace frowned at him. "You're going after Uncle Steve?"

"I have to, baby."

Grace nodded but she didn't look happy.

"Sweetheart, when something happens to Steve I need to go after him."

"Because you love him."

Danny smiled. "Exactly. But he's also my friend and my partner and he would do the same for me."

Grace nodded. "And you love him."

"That too."

"You have to save him, Danno, I really want to go to your wedding and…I don't want you to be sad again like you were when you and mum got divorced."

Danny smiled and pulled Grace into his arms for a hug. "I promise, Monkey. Now, you were supposed to be collecting something?"

Grace nodded but she didn't seem sure. "Okay, Danno."

She looked the same when Danny set off up the mountain with Madeline, his Aloha Girls guide.

/ / / /

Danny shook Lucy's father's hand and smiled at the thanks pouring out of his mouth as he held his daughter tight and swayed.

"This is a number for a helpline with HPD, if she has any problems call them and they can send you to someone good," Danny said and tucked the card under the man's hand. "If you need anything, call me."

The man nodded, held his daughter tighter and walked away. When he was out of sight Steve appeared behind Danny and wrapped his arms around his partner's waist.

"I really don't like it when you get shot, Danno," Steve said into Danny's neck where he had buried his head.

"Understandable, babe," Danny said and felt the adrenaline burning out of his body and leaving him utterly exhausted, and in pain. "Shower, new clothes, Gracie, food, bed."

Steve laughed against his back. "Deal, was she okay?"

"Apparently she joined the Aloha Girls to be brave like me and she quotes you when she has to crawl through a tunnel under a shed. I'm locking her in a tower but she was okay." Danny paused and turned in Steve's arms. "She told me to find you because she wants to come to our wedding and doesn't want me to be sad like I was after the divorce. My daughter is too old for her body."

"Shower," Steve said.

"You just want to get me into bed," Danny quipped and turned around to use the precinct's showers; if he went home he'd never leave the house again. When he'd showered he called Rachel.

"Hello, Daniel," Rachel said. "Are you both okay?"

"Yeah, can we swing by so Grace can see us?" Danny asked and slumped down on the bench while he waited for Steve who would have to re-bandage his arm.

"Of course, she has been waiting for you, was the little girl okay?"

"Fine, home with her parents. We'll be there in about fifteen minutes."

"Very well, Daniel, goodbye."

"'Bye," Danny said and hung up moments before Steve sat next to him and gave his arm a kiss before he started to bind the wound.

"We going?" Steve asked.

"Yeah, I told her we'd be there in fifteen," Danny said before resting against Steve's damp chest for a second. "Come on, let's go."

Steve nodded and stood before he grabbed Danny's good hand and pulled him to stand.

"How do you have so much energy?" Danny grumbled as he followed Steve out of the precinct.

"Training," Steve threw over his shoulder. "The come down from all that adrenaline and not having slept last night on top of the wound is making things more difficult for you."

Danny didn't say anything when Steve opened the car door for him and didn't bother to grumble that Steve was driving his car. He knew that Steve had been through more than Danny had so he resolved to take care of Steve a little better when they made it home.

Steve parked in front of Rachel's house and before they were able to close their car doors behind them the front door had opened and Grace flew out of the house and ran to Danny. He stooped and managed to find enough energy to catch her when she launched herself into his arms.

"I'm so glad you're okay, Uncle Steve," Grace said from where she was rested her chin on Danny's shoulder.

Danny felt Steve come up behind him and rested a hand on her hair. "I'm fine, Danno came and saved me."

"See, Daddy," Grace said pulling back enough to look at her father. "You can do anything."

Danny kissed her on the cheek and pulled her close again.

"He sure can," Steve said and Danny could see Steve running his fingers through her hair.

"Did you stop the bad guy, Uncle Steve?" Grace asked.

"We stopped the bad guy, Lucy is safe and at home and Danno's arm is going to be fine," Steve said at the same moment that Danny heard a delicate cough from the doorway.

Danny looked up to find Rachel watching them. "Hey, Rachel."

"Hello, Daniel, Steve, I am pleased you're both well."

"Hi, Rachel," Steve said and Danny could feel that he had stepped closer to Danny's back. Danny smiled at his protectiveness and could see that Rachel had noted the move.

"Grace was supposed to be camping again tonight, if the two of you would like she can spend the evening with you instead," Rachel said watching them in that way Danny remembered meant she was watching very carefully but showing nonchalance.

"Can I, Danno?" Grace asked pulling back.

"Of course," Steve said immediately and then Danny felt his hand low on his back.

"Go and get anything you need, Monkey," Danny said. She jumped out of his arms and turned back to run into the house.

"Congratulations on your decision to get married, Steven." Rachel said with a soft smile.

"Thank you, Danny already passed it along," Steve said his hand not budging from Danny's spine.

Rachel smiled at them thinly but refrained from saying anything more. They had been slightly more civil since the Father-Daughter dance but he knew that Rachel was still incredibly annoyed at him for keeping her from going to Las Vegas and very little would be needed for them to start arguing bitterly again. When they started they were vicious and Danny wanted to stop himself, as he knew Rachel probably did too, but that old divorce bitterness and the resentment of seeing Grace so little made it impossible for him to stop and be more civil. He wanted better for Grace so he held himself back from provoking Rachel when he could.

Grace ran out moments later with a bag, she had plenty of stuff at Danny and Steve's house but there was always a favourite dress or new book or something else that just had to come with her. Grace hugged her mother goodbye and climbed into Danny's backseat.

"I'll pick her up just before lunch?" Rachel said. "We have a lunch plan."

"Okay." Danny said.

"Goodbye, Danny, Steven."

"Thanks, Rach," Danny said before he climbed into the passenger seat. She nodded at him and turned back into the house.

"Gracie," Steve said as he was driving. "How do you feel about Chinese and movies on the couch?"

"Okay," she said with a grin. "Can we get ice cream on the way home?"

"Excellent idea, Monkey," Danny said. Steve took the next right to head to their favourite ice cream place. Danny still felt bone tired but having Grace gave him a kick in energy he wouldn't have had otherwise.

Danny called in their Chinese order after they grabbed the ice cream and it arrived five minutes after Grace had chosen her movie and they had all changed into pyjamas ready. They sat down with their food when Steve made a suggestion.

"So," Steve said pouring them all a drink. "I know camping didn't go very well but we should go again, just the three of us, like last time."

"Never," Danny said just as Grace jumped at the idea. Danny resigned himself to camping again but had a flash of inspiration about what they should do on Wednesday when he had a bit more energy. He'd get Steve to pull out the tent and get it ready for lounge room camping, maybe he could put off actual camping for a little while.

In the end he hadn't needed to wait for Wednesday since Charlie got sick overnight and Grace stayed another night. An excellent thing since Danny fell asleep fifteen minutes after he'd eaten and Steve had to prod him up the stairs after he'd tucked Grace into bed when the movie was over.

/ / /

Danny handed Grace the marshmallow and smiled even if she was an adorable communist.

"I talked to Lucy today," Grace said.

"Yeah, how's she doing?"

"Happy to be home, she said one day she's going to marry Uncle Steve; when she grows up."

"Well, we will not hold that against her, right?"

Grace shook her head. "I told her she's going to need to find someone else that he's going to be my step-dad as soon as you get married."

"What did she say?" Danny heard the doorbell but didn't bother to move from inside the tent.

"She'd wait and see."

Danny laughed just as Steve slid into the tent with them and placed the pizza box in the middle. He handed out the drinks in his other hand and ate the rest of Grace's marshmallow.

"I prefer them burned," Steve said around a mouthful of goo.

"I'm surrounded by communists," Danny said.

Grace ignored them both to get a piece of pizza and settle back against her pink pillows.

/ / /

May I just say…Kono, who I love, is an IDIOT for not locking her gun up. Seriously, fine she might trust Adam but I'm sure locking your gun up is a pretty big rule when you become a cop. I loved the decoration of Danny's apartment.

Oh my God, btw, I LOVE THE NEXT PART!