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Season 1, Episode 9.
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When they got a call from the govenerors assistant the two went to the hotel to find out why this case was so urgent and hush hush that they didn't want HPD to handle it. Danny wasn't happy to be working on a case to protect the life of an evil man. Steve on the other hand was naturally a follow the orders get the job done however you need to kind of guy...it wasn't until the word assist was thrown in that Steve questioned the task at hand.
"No way!" Steve smiled.
"What's up, Bullfrog?" He said embracing the man that they were going to be assisting.
"Smooth Dog." He smiled back. "Been a while."
"It's been a long time, man."
"Uh, Nick, Nick served under me in the SEALs." Steve said to Danny who was clearly wondering who this man was.
"And three years in the 'Stan."
"What is the Stan?" Danny asked, clearly annoyed to hear the name of his exwife's husband.
"Afghanistan." Steve smirked, "Nick, this is my partner Danny Williams. How are you man? Figured you'd reinlist until your mandatory...when did you get out?"
"Two years ago. Got my own shop now."
Laura tried to get the focus back onto the mission which in turn resulted in Danny arguing with Nick. Steve was surprised at how blunt Danny was being...something about Nick clearly ruffled his feathers. Once it was just the two of them again Steve saw Danny visibly relax...so not jealousy. Something about Nick was not sitting well with his Partner and it made him nervous. Steve told him in their tiff that if it came to guns he wanted Nick on his side. He had trained him, been his leader...he was never his partner though. Now he wasn't so sure.
They ran through the security tapes together, bantering back and forth...Steve questioning himself the whole time wondering if he had done something to piss him off and that was why Danny didn't like Nick but nothing he said had any effect, Danny was Danny.
In the car, Danny's car...he decided to push even further. "What's that?" He asked pointing to the postcard of Jersey that Danny had put in over a week before.
"Picture of Grace." Danny answered like Steve had lost his mind.
"No not that. That." Steve said pointing to the postcard.
"Oh...that's uh that's just a visual aid. Reminder of a better place."
"Yeah? Danny, this is a postcard of New Jersey."
"I know exactly what it is...I bought it, alright?" Danny said amping up, "What? You want me to say it? I'm not afraid to say it. I miss home. Imma little homesick, okay?"
"It's okay...it's okay to be homesick."
"I miss Sals steakhouse, I miss Frankie's...I miss mannys."
"You realize how much of your life revolves around food?"
"You realize how much yours revolves around armed conflict?" The bickering was the same. Danny wasn't mad, not really anyway...so why didn't he like Nick? They threw the same punches they had dozens of timesbefore. Steve wanted home to be Hawaii. Danny maintained home was Jersey.
When they got back to the Palace Danny set to working trying to run up some leads so Steve took it upon himself to go meet with Nick to run through protection details. "Where you going?" Danny asked as he was walking out.
When Steve told him he saw a look of panic flash across his Partners face and as soon as he got into the car—Danny's car—he sent a text, 'Location open. Taking Camero.'
When he got a reply half a second later advising him to 'be careful' it made him even more nervous. Danny really didn't like Nick.
"What's with your Partner?" Nick asked as soon as Steve saw him.
"He worries." Steve said absentmindedly before launching into the route and protection plan. It wasn't long before Chin called Steve saying they had a lead on the woman.
Steve sent the coordinates to Danny and headed to meet Chin and Kono. The house was cleared quickly and Chin headed back to help Danny leaving Kono with Steve.
Kono called Danny to pass on information just as Danny was getting out his phone to call Steve. He told her about a man from Thailand... onto raid number two.
Again Steve sent coordinates to Danny even though Danny is the one who gave them the address. When they were done they headed back to the Palace to regroup.
"What is it with you? What do you do attract violence?" Danny yelled, "I've been gone two hours...two...and you have conducted two raids!" He wanted to say—without me, without your backup...but he didn't. Danny knew Kono had their backs...it just wasn't the same. "What do you have planned for lunch?"
As they worked the case Danny kept coming back to Nick...asking questions Steve couldn't answer...not because he didn't want to, but because the things they did were classified...mostly black ops. Steve hated not being able to tell Danny the truth, what he did...what Nick had done...he knew someday some of it would come out because Danny would learn what kind of things he was capable of. Nick was well trained. SEAL, CIA, black ops kind of trained. But he was a good guy...wasn't he? As he was lost in his thoughts Nick walked in with a file on the woman.
Once again Steve found himself watching Danny attack Nick. Chin and Kono remaining relatively mute but keeping themselves in position with Danny. What did they see that he couldn't? This time Steve took Danny with him to raid Aloha market to catch the woman...only she caught herself the front end of a tour bus. They quickly handed over the case to HPD and went to join Nick and his team at the airport.
Nick wanted to split up the detail and the teams with 5O protecting the wife and child and him taking Pak. When Danny looked like his head was going to explode Steve improvised a new plan. "Nick you split your men up between lead and tail. Give me a driver and we will take the three of them in the middle car." He said making sure Chin and Kono would be in a forth car.
"That doesn't work." Nick started to argue and Danny gave him a death glare.
"My island my lead." Steve said before pointing out who on Nicks team would go where. Ten minutes later they had Pak and his family and were on the road. Two minutes into the drive Steve got a phone call from Kono.
Danny recognized the crazed look in his posture and took a deep breath readying himself for what he knew was coming. "Next right!" He heard Steve yell to the driver. The next thing he knew bullets were flying and he was holding pressure on the wife's arm trying to stay out of the way.
He heard Nick yell to Steve to hand over Pak...of course he refused... but the body language on Steve... betrayed by a man he had trained, a man he trusted. When Steve drove them to his house, calling HPD on the way Danny breathed a sigh of relief. "Taylor ever been here?" Danny asked.
"Nope. Never." Steve answered before telling him to secure the back. His team knew the house pretty well but Steve knew Danny knew every detail. As he barked orders and directions to Chin and Kono he didn't have to direct Danny.
When Pak told Steve and Danny why they actually came to the island they were pissed no one had mentioned it before. Danny heard the cars before Steve and looked out the window, "It's HPD." He announced as he walked towards the door.
Something in Steve's gut was rumbling and he looked out the window, "Those aren't cops. Danny get away from the door!" As the sun completely disappeared he knew they had the advantage of familiarity but assumed they had night vision.
As they rushed back the team pulled out their phones and they quickly realized all of them were dead... all except Steve's. "Taylor killed all your signals and cloned mine." Steve said looking only at Danny. His partner had been right from the beginning and now they were all in danger because of him.
"I knew I hated that guy." Danny groaned heading for the stairs.
"Danny take the upstairs." He said as he pushed the general and his family into the hidden safe room that only Danny previously knew about. "Chin grab the gas can from the shed. Kono find me some rags." Danny heard Steve yelling as he grabbed the antique soda bottles from the cabinet.
When Steve's phone rang he watched his partner and listened to the conversation. Nick had betrayed Steve and for once his partner was being open with his feelings. When he hung up and threw his phone across the room Danny knew this was it... they were on their own until neighbors heard gunshots and called HPD for them.
Steve put Kono by the safe room with the General and Chin joined Danny upstairs leaving Steve alone on the first floor. After seeing Steve literally dodge a bullet he had had enough. Danny and Chin popped off the guys as they tried to come in the second level and those they could see in the dark in the yard. Steve's flame had helped some but not much. When Danny saw Steve run out of the house into the yard so he moved down to the main level to watch the front. He knew Steve needed to handle Nick on his own.
Once it was all over Danny walked over next to Steve, "You have got to do a better job picking your friends."
"Tell me about it...I picked you didn't I?"
"Yeah." Danny gave a small smile. He knew that this had hurt his friend. His fathers house had been torn up and what was personal was now out in the open for HPD to see.
As the sun rose in the sky they handed over Pak in a quick ceremony. "You okay?" Danny asked him knowing he was not as they left the base.
"Yeah...I should've known."
"No. You shouldn't have." Danny said turning to his friend, "How could you have?"
"You knew."
"No, no, no... I suspected." He told him, "There is a big difference. And the view was different from where I was standing. Taylor was your friend. He used that to his advantage. But hey... this is good news, really good news." Danny said smirking. "Now we know you are a human being. Which is good news to me because I had no idea."
"Well, you got good instincts Partner." Steve said smiling back at his sarcastic friend even if the smile didn't quite reach his eyes.
"Right."
"Longboards on me?"
Steve had Danny drive them away from the ceremony. Instead of going to a bar or back to his house he drove them to Steve's place to assess the damage.
The windows were all toast as was the main wall. Thankfully the personal items and photographs were relatively untouched. That didn't help Steve's PTSD as he walked back in...hyperfocusing on the area his father had been murdered...where one of Nicks guys had been killed based on the large blood stain on the floor.
All of the bodies had been removed and most of the marks from the investigation. Steve had refused to let the cleaning crew come in. Insisting it was him to do it, same as when his father was killed. "Where do you want to start?" Danny asked him.
"I can't...I uh...". Steve struggled to find words.
"I'm going to start right there then." Danny said carrying over a soapy bucket. "Go measure the windows so we can call in the order." Danny told him when he started pacing. Getting an immediate blurting of window demensions from Steve, of course he would know already... "call in the order then. See if they can bring them out today."
Steve did everything Danny directed. As the sun began to set hours hours later Danny packed up the last garbage bag and picked up the last of the cleaning supplies. "Chin should be here with dinner in not too long. Let's go sit on the beach with those long boards you owe me." Danny said grabbing a couple bottles from the fridge and leading his Partner outside. They had been up for nearly forty-eight hours and were exhausted.
After a few minutes of silence Steve turned to Danny, "I need you." He said, so quiet Danny barely heard him over the waves.
"Need me to what?"
"You saw it...I didn't and it almost got us killed."
"He was your friend Steven...he was a good guy..."
"From the beginning you saw through the act."
"I saw that he was using terms and phrases to put you back in SEAL mode but didn't once look you in the eye." Danny told him. "I knew what all the terms meant...used a lot of then back home after 9/11."
"Dammit Danny." Steve said picking up sand and letting it slip through his fingers.
"You know I've got your back." Danny said bumping his shoulder to Steve's who immediately leaned into him. "You want to stay here tonight or go back to my place?"
"I don't know." Steve mumbled.
"I had Chin run by my place to grab more clothes to keep here so whatever you decide...whenever you decide...okay?" He felt Steve nod his head against his arm but he didn't move to sit back upright.
Danny knew he was exhausted, the whole team was. Steve was hurting, hyper vigilant and sad but when Kono asked how he was doing when they arrived his answer of course was that he was fine.
"Hey Boss?" Danny heard her ask when she caught him staring at the invisible blood on the floor as he did the dishes. Danny nodded at her as she looked to him for reassurance when he didn't respond. "You are safe now." She told him, putting her arms around him in a hug, blocking his view of the floor.
Danny saw Steve stiffen at her contact but quickly put one of his arms around her, bringing his other hand to his face. "You are safe now." She repeated and Danny watched as his Partner nodded in slow motion.
Kono led him over to the couch where she sat on his lap and held him. It surprised Danny with how much it reminded him of what his own daughter had done, arms around Steve's neck, fingers twirling his short hair while holding his head into her neck. Danny felt own eyes well up with tears as Kono laid her head on Steve's shoulder. "We are ohana." She promised him as he cautiously rest his head on her shoulder, showing no outward emotion.
"He didn't cry at his fathers funeral." Chin said quietly as he moved towards Danny, "He was too worried about everyone else...think it is catching up to him?"
"He does things a bit different from everyone else." Danny said patting Chins shoulder before walking over and sitting on the couch next to Steven and Kono.
Seeing his Partner walk over the little boy in him came out, "Danno?" He asked as his eyes welled up with tears. Kono instantly noticed the change and slid off his lap but kept her hand on him as she watched the Partners, I broke her heart to see her Boss Man cry, in her eyes he was invincible.
"Yeah Buddy, I'm here...Kono is right, you are safe." Danny said squeezing the back of Steve's neck while simultaneously grabbing a throw pillow and putting it on his lap that Steve instantly fell into as he grabbed onto Danny's leg. Chin raised an eyebrow at Danny, this clearly was not the first time he had seen Steve breakdown even though it was a first for the two of them.
Once Steve was connected to Danny he instantly relaxed and was asleep in under a minute. "He going to be okay?" Kono asked as she rubbed small circles on her Bosses back.
"Yeah...doubt he will even remember this in the morning." Danny said with a sad smile. "He is exhausted...you guys should be ready for over protective Steven tomorrow though." He smiled.
"He okay to take another case?" Chin asked sitting down in the recliner.
"Better when he stays busy." Danny said, looking down at his sleeping Partner.
"And when he is with you." Kono smiled at Danny.
"You guys want to crash here tonight or...?" Danny asked.
"Stay here." They answered at the same time.
Danny smiled, "Ohana."
"You sure Hawaii isn't home Brah?" Chin asked with a smirk.
"You okay with the couch?" Danny asked Chin.
"It's kinda crowded." He laughed.
"Kono you can take his sisters room upstairs." Danny told her. "Come on, you need to sleep in a bed." Danny said nudging Steve. The two were practically synchronized in there walk up the stairs. Kono didn't think Steve even opened his eyes, he trusted Danny to keep him safe. "Should be shorts or something in the dresser." Danny told her as he pointed to the room.
"You are staying with him aren't you?" Kono asked, turning around as Danny pushed Steve through the bedroom door. Danny nodded and went about getting his partner into the bed. "Danny how many times have you done this?"
"A few." He answered as he kicked off his shoes.
"You are a good friend." Kono told him.
Danny nodded, worried how Steve would feel in the morning knowing Chin and Kono were there. He laid down on what had become his side and put his arm over Steve's chest, "Danno?"
"Sleep now Steven."
"They staying? I want them safe too." He asked anxiously.
"Yeah Buddy, whole family is staying."
"Gracie's not here."
"She is safe with her Mother and Step-Stan. Now would you sleep? I'm exhausted."
"Goodnight Danno...". He mumbled. "Goodnight Kono." He said a little louder.
"Night Boss." Kono smiled as she watched from the doorway. "Night Danny."
She stood there a few minutes until she knew both men were asleep. Danny's arm thrown haphazardly across Steve's chest. It wasn't long before Steve became restless and without missing a beat she watched as Danny pulled Steve into him, wordlessly calming him.
Chin walked up behind Kono and put his arm around her shoulders, "You should sleep too." He whispered.
"Are they really okay?" She asked, "Are we okay?"
"Ohana Cousin. We will be." Chin told her.
"I can't lose anyone else." She said to him as she fought the tears in her eyes.
"We aren't going to lose anyone."
"I've never seen him like that before." Kono said.
"Na pilina." Chin smiled, magical connection.
"You ever see anything like it before?"
"I've heard of it, all the old stories and legends Uncle used to tell us growing up. Never in real life though." Chin answered his younger cousin. "Come on...go get some sleep."
When Steve woke in the morning he felt the weight of his Partners arm over him and he sighed in relief. He hated not feeling safe in his own home, in his own skin for that matter. When he rolled over to grab his phone Danny tightened his arm over him and Steve relaxed back into the bed. With a quick glance at his phone screen he saw it was after ten. He had multiple texts from Chin and Kono, they had made it into the office on time. Steve quickly told them they would be in for the afternoon and set his phone down next to him, closing his eyes again.
Danny awoke a short time later to find his Partner asleep next to him. He got up slowly to not wake Steve and made his way to the shower. When he was done he quickly dressed and sat back down next to his still sleeping partner. He took the phone from under Steve's hand, saw the messages from their team and smiled. "How long has it been since you slept the whole night?" He asked putting his hand on Steve's shoulder.
"You already know Danno."
"Do we need to take a couple day off?
"No. Windows have been replaced and so have all the locks. Will do the walls myself. I need to get away though...you know?"
"You should stay with me until it is done."
"Daniel your entire apartment could fit in this room. I am fine." He said getting up and patting Danny's shoulder. "I'll be ready in ten minutes."
"Of course you will." Danny rolled his eyes. "Get betrayed by and have to kill your protege and fine the next day...I'm calling bullshit on the I'm fine." Danny yelled into the bathroom over the sound of the shower. Freezing when he heard a whimper from his Partner as the water shut off.
He hated that he was right and stood in the open doorway, handing Steve a towel through the curtain and giving him a minute before he opened the curtain exposing his Partner. Danny pulled him in for a hug and Steve melted into him, "I'm sorry." Danny said into his ear, "I am sorry."
"He was in the class behind me...basically followed in my footsteps...when I moved up he stepped into my...I taught him to be a killer Danny...me...I taught him." Steve near whispered, pulling back from Danny's arms and not looking him in the eye.
"First of all Steven, you are not a killer." He said, quickly holding up his hand to cut Steve off when he tried to argue, "You have killed people, Yes...but you are not a killer. You hold the weight of the lives you took. The lives you had to take to be here right now. Nick Taylor...he turned what you taught him into a way to profit off taking lives. He absolutely did not learn that from you." When Steve gave a small nod Danny continued with his rant, "You lost someone you cared about yesterday. The Nick you knew...you lost him yesterday. The man you had to kill to save your own life, that was not the friend that you knew. This home, your fathers home...it had just started to feel safe again, to feel like the home you remembered...and now it is full of bullet holes. It is okay to not be okay. You got that?" He said griped both of Steve's shoulders.
"Yeah Danno...I got it." He said looking to Danny.
"I mean it Steven. It is okay not to be okay."
"Can I get dressed now Daniel?" Steve said smiling at his Partner.
"I don't think you will make that ten minutes." Danny rolled his eyes, "I want you to take the day."
"Are you?" Steve asked as he pulled on a plane black tee.
"We will go in and do the paperwork for this...then yes I am going to take a damn day."
"I don't want to be here alone." Steve admitted.
"You don't have to be." Danny smiled at him, "Let's go get this over with." Danny said leading them out the door.