CHAPTER FIVE
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"You really gotta go home man." Steve looked up to sleepy voice of one Daniel Williams and winced when he saw the look on his face. "It's five am, you've woken the wife and do you realize the world of pain I'm in because you've woken her?" Danny hissed dropping himself into the seat beside Steve.
"No, I wouldn't know would I?" Steve countered setting his peeled but uneaten pear on the table, leaning back in his seat as he watched Eve in the kitchen moving around. He felt guilty for waking her, he knew she was having trouble sleeping as it was.
"Okay, wrong choice of words, but my statement is still reality babe. You need to go home, you need to sort things out with Kono and you need to go back to your damned house and raise your son with her, because I know you still love her and she's never stopped loving you okay? Go. Home." Danny's last words were punctuated around the sips of coffee he drank, before he finished draining the mug.
"I know alright." Steve sighed scrubbing at his face with his calloused palms. "I know I love her and she loves me and we have a son that I want to raise with her, but I -"
"But you what?" Danny interrupted narrowing his gaze to Steve. "You can't look past the fact she never told you she was pregnant?" Danny finished eyeing his partner. "You're pissed I get it, I would be too if Eve never told me she was carrying our child, headed back to Jersey and raised them for four years before I turn up to win her heart back -"
"Better take you less than four years babe or we have problems." Eve's voice called through from the kitchen, putting a smile on both Steve and Danny's face as she came in with the pot of coffee, refilling Danny's mug and then Steve's before taking her own seat at the table. "Big problems."
"Obviously it wouldn't take me four years." Danny breathed soothing his wife with a grin. "But I get it Steve, I can't imagine the pain it's caused you coming home to find out everything, but it's been no walk in the park for Kono or any of us either. We thought you were dead babe? Kono was the last of us that was holding onto the fact you might just be missing and not dead. We grieved, but we moved on with our lives as well. Kono couldn't and she nearly killed herself with the guilt she had for not telling you." Danny explained softly, Steve watched his hand absently linked with Eve's when rested her hand upon his. "Ask Chin, she was prepared to tell you when she called, she had the sonogram picture in hand and everything, christ I was there when she scared the life outta me fainting at the hospital, prime place mind you, but still heart stopping watching her hit the deck." Steve's lips curled with a small smile as he watched his partner shudder at the apparent memory.
"What Danny is trying to say." Eve pushed in, rolling her eyes at her husband's lack of story telling skills. "Kono's paid the price over and over for not telling you, for months she believed karma or whatever had issued justice by taking you away for her not telling you, for months she was blaming herself for you going missing, when we say she's driven herself into the ground and barely got back up, it's no joke or expression of speech." The words Eve spoke hit Steve hard, he hadn't thought about that, honestly he hadn't thought much past finding out he had a son. "We can't force you to go home, and you'll always have a place here Steve, but it's not where you belong."
She was right, what was it with the women and Chin in their lives always being right. "You've done well there Danno." Steve grinned, playing off the seriousness of the conversation, even though it was in the forefront of his find he needed some time alone to think about what he was going to do. Steve watched Danny agree under the watchful and amused gaze of Eve and he couldn't have been happier to see Danny so happy. He seemed truly in love with the woman and Danny certainly needed that happiness.
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Kono had folded herself behind her desk, scribbling furiously across pieces of paper she would file for her case reports. Danny had the finesse of writing their reports, Kono, much to his disappointment had taken on Steve's tact for writing them and as a result all her reports had to be checked by either him or Chin for things like; "Bad guy went bang." She looked up when her door swung open expecting to see the blonde bugging her for the report that was already late, instead it was her husband and that surprised her. "Hey." The greeting was quiet as she looked up at him from where she sat.
"Hey." Steve stood in front of her, hands in his pockets as he rocked back and forth on his heels. "Did you want to get dinner - or something?" He asked finally settling and looking back at her, his piercing blue gaze catching hers. Her breath hitched and the widest smile split across her features.
"I'd like that." Kono nodded setting her pen down and folding her hands together. "I could cook?" She offered. Being at home would be better, they could really talk and it gave them the privacy they wouldn't get in a restaurant.
"I'll cook, I remember your cooking." Steve grinned, a real smile from ear to ear. Kono went to protest, she wasn't that bad anymore, however her cooking didn't match her better halfs. She conceded and nodded in agreement, her amused frown creasing her brow. "Think Danny and Eve will have John?" He asked looking back just as Danny started a rant in the bullpen, Chin throwing his hands up in the air.
"Yeah, he'll take John, Eve has him tomorrow anyway." Kono explained softly with a nod. She would stuff Danny in the boot of his car until he agreed to take John for the night, Eve wouldn't be a problem.
"I'll see you later then." He nodded in a more final way, his smile still wide and he backed out her office. Kono wasn't a song and dance type of gal, but right then, they could have broken out into song and danced she was that happy. He was finally giving them a chance to talk and work things out, she was excited for later, she couldn't wait to get home and maybe find Steve there, in their home.