Snippets - The AU saga Chapter 4: 19th October 2011 - The CSU saga, a hawaii five-0 fanfic

Snippets – The A/U style

Landon Richardson

Disclaimer

The character of Steve McGarrett, Danny Williams, Grace Williams and Governor Jameson do not belong to me in any shape or form. I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes

The character of Danni McGarrett, Oliver 'Ollie' McGarrett, Abbie Fitzgerald, Liam O'Brien and Rose Hanamoa however do belong to me so please do not use these characters without asking

I should also add that if a character is mentioned who you are not instantly aware of then that character belong to me as well

Author Note

Welcome to my Snippets AU saga.

As I previously mentioned I have a lot of saga written when it comes to the overall Danni saga so I figured the best way to put them up was in a snippet form rather than putting up millions of stories because there must be like over a hundred by now!

I'll put a little note by the saga so you will know which snippets belongs to which saga so hopefully it will becomes clearer. If you like a certain saga then let me know and I'll make sure I work more on it as well.

Nothing more to say except that I hope you all enjoy the stories!

I should also make a point that any time the surname Richardson is used in regards to Danielle it means that male Danny is in the story. In these stories Danni will be referred to as Danielle in the narrative instead of Danni.

It makes all the work I do on them worth it. I am struggling with a crisis of confidence with my writing at the moment so I really appreciate your support.

Thanks and enjoy.

Overall Summary

A glimpse into the McDanni world featuring lots of romance, drama, and gun fights, babies and a whole lot more. Based on the A/U Danni world.

Chapter Summary

Danielle McGarrett placed her empty coffee cup on the counter and closed her eyes, blocking out the noise of her children and counting to ten, focusing only on her breathing as she mentally ran through a check list in her mind to make sure that she had everything which she would need for the upcoming day.

Overall Romance

A hell of a lot but always with Steve and Danni ending up together…. It's better to look at the chapter romance to gather which one is which…

Chapter Romance

Steve McGarrett/Danielle McGarrett (McDanni)

Danny Williams/Abbie Fitzgerald (Fitzwilliams/Danbie)

Other note

Nearly all the places I have stated are either made up or I've got from the internet so I'm sorry in advance if I get an address wrong or anything. My geography on Hawaii is very poor having never been there before!

Other other Note

For the sake of this saga I have made the building 50 are based in bigger with six floor as a basement. I'm aware that this isn't obviously the case but I've taken just creative licence with it.

Saga

The CSU Saga

19th October 2011

Danielle McGarrett

A day which she had not planned to face for at least another four months.

Truth be told Danielle was still unsure about how she found herself in her current situation. Danielle had given birth just under two months ago to her son Oliver and she had originally planned to make the most of the maternity leave the state offered her as an employee of them. Six months off work, on full pay to spend time with Oliver and her other children had seemed like complete heaven. A chance for her to catch up with all the little jobs which she had been meaning to do but never quite getting around to. Things like sorting through her daughters' wardrobe to recycle or throw out unwanted or unworn clothes. Or finally getting around to redecorating their house from top to bottom. She had even began drawing plans for the rooms, picking out potential colour schemes and deciding on what furniture to keep when she had received a visit from the Governor of Hawaii to her house.

At first she had assumed that he had popped round to discuss a case with her husband Steve who was the current head of the Governor's personal taskforce, a taskforce which was better known as 50, but it had quickly became clear to Danielle that she had been the target of the visit all along. Governor Denning had been polite of course, charming as one expected a Governor to be. He had apologised for the intrusion and simply informed Danielle that her skills were needed back at the office and that she would have to cut her maternity leave short. There had been no question in his voice, just a simply command but it was a command which Danielle had received loud and clear.

Danielle had reluctantly agreed, hoping that her word would be enough and that the Governor and his personal assistant Brandon would leave but instead Governor Denning had made herself comfortable on her sofa, sipping the cold lemonade she had gotten the older woman and then dropped the real bombshell on her.

The Crime Scene Unit, the department which Danielle had been head of for the past six years, was being moved from its current headquarters to the Aliiolani Hale building. A building which held not only 50's headquarters but also the headquarters of the legal team and the DA's office. Danielle's team and equipment were to be placed on the fourth, fifth and sixth floor. 50, the Governor had informed her taking another sip of his drink, were situated on the third floor and had run of the basement for their holding cells and interrogations room while the DA's office and legal team took up floor one and two. Danielle's old building would be taken by the medical examiners now as it would be closer to both 50 and HPD and therefore made more sense.

Danielle was to be shared now though, not only was she to remain head of CSU, a job which she excelled at, but she was also to be 50's forensic specialist, setting up a small team within CSU which she would head up which would deal only with 50 cases, pushing the evidence through and making sure that the results came back as quickly as possible. Danielle was to be given an office in the 50 headquarters where she was to run the whole CSU team from. Not only that but she was to be the contact point for the other departments who needed 50 to look at their cases for them and decide whether they were suitable for their team or not.

Danielle had stared at her, a scream lodged in her throat as she thought about the sheer amount of work she was expected to do when she got back into the office. The Governor clearly had no idea what being the Head of CSU actually meant. Danielle was in charge of twenty members of staff, day and night shift. It was her responsibility to manage them, to read through every report they came and sign it off, to allocate them new cases to investigate. To answer emails from other CSU departments across all of America and Canada and to deal with their queries. Danielle was unfortunately one of the best out there and it was a fact that everyone knew and exploited.

The Governor had taken his leave then, telling her she had two weeks until he expected her back in the 50 office. He had at least granted her one small reprieve, her husband would not be her boss in any form even when it came to 50 work. Danielle would continue to be her own boss and answer only to the Governor directly like she had been doing. He had also agreed that for the next six months Oliver would be with her in the office, he was still breast feeding and needed to be near her at all times, especially in this early stage. The Governor had tried to argue the point with her but Danielle was adamant. No Oliver in the office meant no Danielle in the office. Needless to say the Governor had swiftly come round to her way of thinking and agreed.

Danielle had spent the next ten minutes staring into space before a cry from Oliver had released her from her thoughts and set her into motion.

She had done everything she had to do. She had informed Steve, not bothering to hide her annoyance from him when a large grin came to his face at her news. She had informed her unit that she was returning and booked them into a team meeting the day after she came back to discuss everything, the fact her second in command Ryan Moore rang her almost crying with relief did nothing to elevate her sense of unease.

Now however there was nothing more she could do.

The day was here and that was that, whether Danielle wanted to or not she was going back to work, no doubt being thrown straight in at the deep end.

She slowly opened her eyes and looked around her, her eyes landing on her children. They were dressed for school, they were neat and tidy, hair brushed and in the case of the girls tied back or plaited out of the way. They were at the table eating breakfast, talking to each other and enjoying the last moments of freedom they had left before they had to go to school.

"You seemed concerned Pua, what is on your mind?" Danielle blinked, turning to look at their nanny Rose. She was a plump woman in her mid-fifties, small and dumpy with curly black and silver hair and kind looking dark eyes. She had been with them since they had moved to Hawaii back in 2005. Danielle honestly didn't know what she would do without her. They had a second nanny called Liam who was a ranger who had served with Danielle's two brothers in their unit. Although his job title was nanny it was a well-known fact in their household and among their friends that Liam was more a bodyguard then a nanny. He stayed with them, he took care of them, drove them to and from school and had taken down quite a few people who had tried to get back at Steve through his children. No one got past Liam, a fact that Danielle was thankful of every day of her life.

"Nothing much" Danielle confessed, "Just doing a mental checklist in my mind to make sure I have everything before I head off. I really don't want to go back to work today" she said with a sigh. Rose shot her a sympathetic look.

"Of course you don't" she said simply "But you know that there is nothing you can do about it so it's best to simply smile and make the most of a bad situation, once you get past this day then the rest will be easy to deal with." Rose reached out and patted Danielle's shoulder with a warm smile. "It is a shame that husband of yours couldn't be here to drive you into work and to be with you for your first morning there."

Danielle nodded in agreement. She had thought that Steve would be with her every step of the way but he had been gone when her alarm had gone off, leaving her a text telling her he was sorry but that a gang of drug dealers they were chasing were making their move finally and the team had been called into action.

"Hopefully he won't be gone long" Danielle said with a sigh before she focused on business. "Have you got everything ready here?" She asked, smiling when Rose rolled her eyes at her.

"Of course" was the simple answer "When have we ever not got it under control. We shall drop the older children off at school first and then the twins at nursery school. You shall have Ollie with you for the day. Speaking of which you should probably get off, the last thing you want to do is be late, not if your day is going to be as busy as you fear."

Danielle nodded, kissing the older woman on the cheek before she headed to the table, kissing her children goodbye before she scooped Oliver out of the arms of Liam, giving the taller man a kiss on the cheek before she turned and left, the goodbyes of her children echoing in her ears.

Danni left their house and made her way down the garden path towards her car, quickly settling Oliver in his baby chair and securing him in before she got in herself. She threw her bag on the passenger side, taking her personal and work mobile out and plugged in her handset, putting the ear piece in her ear and started the car, reversing out of the driveway and onto the main road. Steve had told her it was a fifteen minute drive which meant that it would probably take her about twenty minutes to get there since she tended to keep to the national speed limits unlike her husband.

She put the radio on low, hoping that the moving car would put Oliver to sleep. She was just turning onto the main street when her personal cell phone went off. She glanced at the name, raising an eyebrow at it before she answered the call, keeping her voice quiet.

"Hey Abbie, what's up?" She asked.

"I want to strangle Danny Williams with my bare hands, that's what's up" Abbie Fitzgerald replied. She sounded furious, her low voice sounding almost high pitched. Danielle blinked wondering what her husband's work partner had managed to do this time. It must have been something bad for Abbie to sound so worked up. Her best friend was the chief medical examiner for the state of Hawaii and Danielle knew her to be an extremely calm person. She had to be, just like Danielle had to be, it was vital for their jobs.

"What has he done to warrant that reaction?" Danielle questioned.

"You mean besides his stubborn nature?" Abbie responded, "We had a row about money again" she said with a sigh. Danielle raised her eyebrow.

"Again?" She questioned with a shake of her head, looking up in the mirror to see that Oliver had fallen asleep in his chair. "I thought you had managed to hash out all the issues the last time you spoke about this. You have money, that's the end of it, Danny surely can understand that?" She questioned.

"Normally he can but sometimes he just goes off on one" Abbie said "I don't know Danni girl, I got that beautiful Stella McCartney dress in the mail yesterday and it's a dress which begs to be seen by people so I decided that for once me and Danny could go to a nice place so I booked a table at Moritmoto's for this coming Saturday. Just a romantic date for the two of us. I was going to ask you and Steve to babysit the kids for us and just spend time together."

"That sounds reasonable" Danielle said hesitantly, waiting for the catch.

"So I told him about it. I asked him to wear his suit and a tie and to just look as gorgeous as he always does. He was fine with it until I told him where we were going and that was it. Seriously Danni girl you would think that I had threaten to poison Grace by the way he reacted. He started going on about how if we went on Saturday then we would be eating shrimp from Kame until the next pay check. He was an ass, I wanted us to talk about taking the next step together, you know moving in together and all he could think about was money. He is the second in command of the Governor's task force. I know he has money! I could have paid for us this one time but he just wouldn't even listen to that suggestion, he seemed pissed that I even suggested it."

"You can't be surprised by that reaction, this is Danny Williams we're talking about, you knew what he was like when you agreed to date him and then proceeded to fall head over heels in love with him" Danielle remarked absently as she hit her indicator and pulled into the left lane, holding her hand up in thanks so the driver behind her who had let her in could see. "Danny's a proud man and he likes to think that he's providing for the woman he loves, he knows very well that you have money but I don't know maybe it bruised his male ego or something? We both know how fragile the male of the species are." She sighed, "I can't believe that you managed to get a table at Moritmoto's" she stated changing the subject. "I've been begging Steve to take me there for months now but he always says no or changes the subject. If Danny doesn't want to go then I would be more than happy to be your date" She remarked with a laugh, hitting the indicator again and pulling into the road where the Aliiolani Hale was situated.

"I'll book us in for next Friday, we can get a group of the girls together, dress up and go. Food followed by dancing sounds pretty good right about now" Abbie remarked "Which reminds me, what exactly are you up to? I suppose you are currently lying on your own private beach with your super cute little baby just enjoying the breeze, can I just state now for the record how jealous I am!" Abbie said, amusement flavouring her tone.

Danielle snorted down the phone.

"Trust me when I say that I wish that was the case. I told you about the Governor's visit right? Today is the big day when I have to go back to work. My maternity leave is apparently very much over now. Not only am I still meant to run the whole of CSU but now I'm meant to be 50's forensic specialist and create and head up a small team who are dedicated strictly to them. Where am I meant to find the time to do all of this?" She demanded, "Oh and the Governor has also decided that he wants to hire more people for CSU so somehow I've got to find the time to head hunt and interview and read CVs and all of that stuff on top of everything else" Danielle huffed out loud, bringing her car into the empty space right in front of the building, a smile coming to her face when she saw the name Steve McGarrett on a sign in front of it. Steve would simply have to walk when he eventually arrived.

"Okay, on one hand it's good news for me that we can work together again, Ryan has been amazing but he's not you but that also sucks about the lack of maternity leave. You only gave birth under two months ago, are you even fully recovered enough to be taking on such a stressful job? Whose decision was this? Governor Denning's or Steve's?" She queried.

"Governor Denning was the one who informed me of the changes but this whole coming back to work at 50 has Steve written all over it. He's always wanted me to work at 50 with him." Danielle said, gathering up her stuff and opening the driver's door stepping out into the bright sunlight. She shouldered her bag as she spoke. "Abbie I've just arrived at the 50 building so I'll call you later okay? I've got to get through security and deal with Ollie so I think it's safe to say I'll be needing both my hands for it."

"Okay, call me later and don't overdo it! I'll be calling your husband later to bollocking him over this, I might be a medical examiner but I am still a Doctor and your health is important to me" Abbie replied before she said goodbye and hung up the phone.

Danielle glanced down at the handset before she placed it back in her back, straightening her skirt for a moment she looked up at the large building in front of her and set her shoulders.

She had work to do.

Author Note

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