Wow! Increasingly surprised by the acceptance of my story and happy to see that there are still people who believe that Steve and Cath belong to each other. Very happy.

Besides being a big fan of McRoll I'm also a fan of Steve Whump, so my story will have some of it ok? I hope it does not annoy everyone.

Let's now find out what's happening with Super SEAL.

Enjoy!

Cath drove through the streets of Hawaii to the limit of recklessness. She knew it was dangerous, but Danny's call only minutes ago had stolen the floor from her feet. Steve was back in the hospital and by the tone of Danny's and the urgency in his voice was serious.

Cath even blinked, there is nowhere else in the world that she prefers to be than beside Steve now, even after the harsh words he had told her the day before. That did not matter now. She just could not believe that fate would play her that way. Was it punishment?

Soon she reached the Tripler that she knew so well and ran to where Danny was. He wore jeans and a T-shirt, a look so different from his overly dressed normal that he always wore at work. But what scared her the most was the terror on his face.

"Danny!" Catherine said as she ran to Steve's partner.

"Cath ..." He said and seemed almost relieved by her presence, which left her confused.

"What happened? He was fine when I left his house yesterday ... "

"Did you see each other yesterday?" Danny was surprised.

"Yes, I went to Steve's house to talk, but Danny responds to me, how is he?" She wanted to know what the hell could have happened so fast.

"I ... I went to check him this morning, made sure he was not running, or swimming, or driving with one arm out of commission and I found him burning with fever, practically fainting upstairs from the house ..." Danny was abnormally hesitant in his words and Catherine's heart twisted with the fear she saw in the intense blue eyes.

"So you came to the hospital, any word about what it might be? Maybe an infection from the shot?" Catherine asked, trying to get Danny to continue talking and without realizing she held one of his hands with both of her and felt him icy cold. Oh God…

"Yes, I dragged him here, because he clearly didn't want to come and the doctors collected blood for some tests and then ..." Danny could not utter the end of the sentence.

"So what, Danny? Please, you're killing me here..." She was desperate now, all pretense of keeping control completely lost.

Danny sighed. It would be complicated to explain Steve's current situation without talking about transplant, radiation poisoning, the very real possibility of rejection that would always hang over Steve's health and even C word, which Danny tried not to think otherwise he would get into screws. And it would not do any of them any good.

Catherine was looking at him extremely pale. And her hands was trembling, her brown eyes larger than normal and filled with pent-up tears.

"Here is the worst place in the world to have this conversation and Steve will be pissed at me for telling you, but given the situation I don't have much choice, Super SEAL will need all the support he can get now and you, despite of my personal reservations is one of the people who really cares about him."

"Danny, I'm losing my mind here, please tell me what's going on with Steve because of course it's not a simple infection from a gunshot wound ..."

"No, it's not ... it's a long story, but I'll tell you now and you'll swear to me here and now that you will not run. That you will not abandon him again, that will not break your heart again, because if you do it after what I'll tell you, I'll hunt you down in hell Catherine and it will not be beautiful this time, everything that Steve doesn't need now is another disappointment with you, he has had enough for several lives ... "

"Danny! For the love of God! I'll say it one last time. I'm not leaving anymore. "

Danny smiled. She looked really sincere this time.

"OK. Steve's health has been very delicate for the past two years. He remains healthy as ever but he has gone through some mishaps that even all healthy eating and miles and miles of swimming and running can help. "

"Jesus ..." She was afraid of what Danny could reveal.

"About two years ago we got a huge case of drug smuggling here on the island and then we went in disguise, Steve was a small airplane pilot and I was his mechanic. Everything went well until we were discovered. So the thugs turned that little plane where we were on a sieve and Steve was shot three times." The simple memories of the worst hours of his life made tears appear in the detective's eyes.

Catherine was already crying.

"He was hit in the arm, in the fold abdomen and in the thigh, cutting an artery. His liver was destroyed by the bullets and he had to undergo an emergency transplant to save his life ... "Danny can not help sobbing with the memories.

"A transplant?" Catherine was incredulous. That was not possible.

"Yes. I was the giver. Half of my liver resides in the nutjob inside that hospital room now. "

Catherine then surrendered to sobs, threw her arms around Danny, and held him as if her life depended on it. She could never thank the man currently crying in her arms for saving Steve's life. And how the hell did she not know that? And Doris? Did she know that her son had come so close to dying?

They spent long minutes hugging and crying when Danny walked away and continued.

"He recovered relatively well from the surgery, returned to work as if nothing had changed, disobeyed every postoperative recommendation and obtained a radiation poisoning ..."

"WHAT?!" Before Danny could finish, Catherine shouted. This can only be plot of a bad movie.

Danny laughed humorlessly, a bitter laugh, he also could not believe that Steve had achieved so many near-death conditions in such a short time.

"That's right. He disarmed a dirty uranium bomb and got radiation poisoning, so his condition is so delicate now. He is still suffering side effects from transplant and now from radiation sickness."

"Christ! How did all this happen? He was always reckless, but this is beyond comprehension..." When Catherine glanced back at Danny the look of accusation was back.

"Perhaps he imagines that his life is worth less than that of others. When we were in the jungle, in front of a dirty bomb that could decimate half the island, he took control, sent me away and disarmed the damn thing alone, because in his own words, I had to live to take care of Grace and Charlie . As if he had no one to care about him."

"This is so far from the truth ..."

"Hey! I know that, you know that, but he doesn't know. What he knows is that all the people he loves always go away. They always betray him, abandon him and he is always alone in the worst moments of his life."

"You've always been here for him."

"Yes and always will be, but as much as all women and some men break their necks when he passes, I'm definitely not on that list. Not that way."

Catherine laughed. It was a familiar joke on the island that Steve and Danny were married. She knew how that annoying both of them

"So, what's up with him now?" After hearing about Steve's near-death experiences, she could understand Danny's panic.

"His exams came back really bad. Blood rates are a mess. Excessive white blood cells, few platelets. It can be a lot of things. Since rejection to the liver, cancer..."

"Oh my God, Danny! What can I do to help? "

"Being here for him this time? He recovered from the transplant only with my help and the team of Five-0, Lynn went through the hospital a few times and stayed a few nights with him at his home, but the worst of the recovery, he went alone."

"Of course I'll be here for him. But what about Lynn? Will not she want to be here? After all, she's his girlfriend."

"No anymore. They finished some time ago. It was obvious to anyone with eyes that there was no love there."

"She seemed to like Steve very much."

"Yes, she was a nice, beautiful, interesting woman and liked him, but he was not in love with her and then finishing was inevitable."

Catherine tried not to sound too happy about it, but by the ironic smile on Danny's face she had failed miserably.

"So he's alone now?" She could not help but hope.

"Yeah, he doesn't have a girlfriend, but there's someone clearly interested in him."

"Ah…"

"Hey! But I'm sure she has no chance compared to what he feels for you. But please, don't break your heart again, I don't know if this time he'll be able to recover."

"I know I've said that in the past and I didn't keep it, I know you still don't trust me, but I'll guarantee Danny, all I want is to spend the rest of my life here with him."

"I'm glad to hear that Cath. Because I know there's still a box with a ring in his house. He was never able to recover from the proposal he almost made you."

"And I was not able to recover from knowing that he had planned to propose to me when I left."

Danny smiled. Now they were both on the same page.

"And there's nothing I dream more than he proposes to me one day."

Danny hugged Cath once more, he just hoped fate was kind to Steve this time.

Catherine and Danny were in Steve's room watching the Super SEAL sleep. The heavy dose of painkillers and antipyretics made the guy faint and did not even realize he was not alone. Doctors said it was good for Steve to sleep and rest, since the guy was usually hyperactive and did not take proper care of himself.

Then a group of doctors entered the room, asked only Danny to stay, since he was Steve's emergency medical contact. Cath went out to find a coffee and gnawed all her nails as she waited for Danny to come back and talk to her.

Steve was still asleep when doctors told Danny that Steve had severe, low platelet anemia that could cause bleeding and also had a swelling in the liver. They believed it was not rejection, but they need more detailed examination to state with certainty. The leukemia hypothesis could also only be ruled out after an examination of the bone marrow.

He would be hospitalized until the test results came out.

Danny sighed. The doctors' prognosis did not reassure his heart at all. For all intents and purposes he could still be losing his partner.

Catherine sat down beside Steve's bed. Her eyes were swollen from crying. After all Danny talked about the man she loves and the pessimistic prognosis of the doctors she simply could not believe that when she decides to go back to Hawaii and fight for Steve, circumstances were wanting to take him away.

She took his good hand, careful not to disturb the IV on top and neither the pulse monitor on the ring finger. She gently stroked the knuckles of his fingers that had always been soft in the touch on her.

"I'm here, Steve. I'm never leaving again. We'll get over it, together we can do anything. I promise you that I will be by your side every step of the way."

She then gave a soft kiss on Steve's temple.

Nothing and no one would take from her the right to live this love.