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Season 1, Episode 11.

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Danny woke up a few hours later in Steve's bed by himself. He stretched and got up, slowly making his way into the bathroom where he showered and shaved...asking himself when he brought all the stuff he was using. That was all Steve though, after his house had been shot up he required his team to supply him with whatever they would need if they were ever in an emergency situation where they had to bug out or hunker down. The team had complied to appease their boss.

As it happened though everyone had used at least something from their bags since then whether it was for a change of clothes after a post bbq surf or like Danny who had unofficially moved in. To be fair though Steve had things at Danny's for the same reason.

By the time he made it downstairs he found Steve had plugged his phone in for him next to all the fixings for a smoothie with a scribbled out note that he was going spear fishing with Chin before work. He walked out of the house, smoothie in hand, locking the door behind him before heading to the Palace.

As Steve and Chin talked after they made their way back to the truck Steve quickly realized Chin could potentially help him fill in the missing pieces in his fathers life and he took him back to his house. While he was showing the items in the toolbox Steve got a text from Danny saying they had a case and to meet at Honolulu Medical Center.

As soon as Steve saw Danny in the hallway the two immediately teamed back up. And not ten minutes in began their banter. The banter mixed in with Danny telling Steve he only ever spent two days with Rachel's mother. Steve then told him he showed Chin the Champ toolbox.

"He have any answers?" Danny asked him when they were driving towards the hotel surprised that Steve would show anyone.

"Maybe an old case file. Didn't recognize anything else though." He shrugged.

"You okay?"

"I don't know man."

"I got you."

"I know you do, Buddy." Steve said as they pulled into the hotel parking lot.

Their next car-versation was after Steve had to tell Erika that Jake had been killed. Danny told Steve about the first notification he had to do, fresh out of academy. Then Steve dropped a bomb, "I was sixteen. My mom was late for dinner...mom was never late and Uh, the doorbell rang and from the minute I saw that cops face...I knew right away."

"How'd it happen?"

"It was a car accident...drunk driver. You know, my dad used to say he felt sorry for the cop who had to come tell us and I never understood what he meant by that until the day came that I had to do it myself."

The two of them went straight back to their banter after that, flipping from serious to vacation in an instant. They were so in sync in that way it was as if they could read each other's minds and even their banter seemed to come too easy, quips expected, never a surprise...and always a smirk.

When the two were done with body recovery, paperwork and reuniting Jakes mother with his widow Danny ducked into his office to grab his bag and Chin called Steve into his office.

"So I heard back from my guy at HPD...he looked up the case number your dad wrote down." Chin said nonchalantly.

"Yeah, what'd he say?" Steve asked suddenly nervous.

"The file is missing which means it was either lost somehow or..."

"Somebody stole it."

"Yeah... I was able to get a little bit of information just based on the file number itself. Here's the thing, the case was opened on April 19, 1992. That was..."

"That was the day my mother had her car accident, the day she died."

"Yeah."

"Okay...so why, uh why would somebody steal my mother's accident report?"

"Because according to this, it wasn't an accident report."

"What are you talking about, Chin?" Steve asked, feeling like the floor was falling out beneath him.

"It was a homicide."

"You're saying my mother was murdered?" Steve asked as Danny walked in.

"That is what your father was investigating." Chin said, thankful that Danny had come in he didn't know the news would have such am impact. As far as he knew Steve wasn't big on emotion and since he had been there for the funeral nearly two decades earlier he didn't think it being a full investigation would be news.

"My Mom died in a car accident." Steve said, sinking down onto a chair that was behind him. Chin looked to Danny like a deer in the headlights as Danny put his hand on his Partners shoulder.

"You able to keep an eye on his office? Erika and Nancy are still in there." Danny asked Chin as he sat down on the arm of the chair Steve sank into.

"Those photos...that was my mother...my dad sent us away because he thought she was murdered..." Steve said rubbing his eyes.

"What can we do Babe?" Danny asked putting his arm on his Partners back. Chin nodded and pointed out towards Steve's office, he knew that Danny was the best person for Steve right now.

"Both of my parents were murdered." Steve whispered, looking to Danny for guidance.

"You want me to take you home?" Danny asked.

"Not the house...not tonight."

"Apartment then." Danny told him.

"I should tell Mary."

"Let it sit on it for a minute, we can tell her together this weekend."

"Danno?" Steve near whispered looking up at his Partner.

"I know." He said as Chin walked back in.

"They are gone...whatever you said to them...they walked out holding hands." Chin shrugged.

"Just told Nancy family needs to stick together." Steve said looking at Danny he said putting his mask back on.

"You guys want to hit the Pit tonight?" Chin asked the two men, "Kono said some of her friends were going."

"Think we are going to call it a night." Danny said. "Have to save some energy for Grace this weekend."

"Thanks Chin." Steve said standing up, pulling his walls up with him. "I told Gracie we would go snorkeling in the cove this weekend if you and Kono want to come over."

Danny saw through the act, and noticed Steve's clenched fist at this side. "See you in the morning." Danny smiled as he followed Steve out of the office. He felt eyes on him as Chin followed behind them out to the parking lot and cringed when Steve climbed in the passenger side right as Kono walked past to her car. "Night Kono." Danny said as he climbed into his driver seat, Steve closing his eyes in the passenger seat. Instead of answering she pulled out her phone to ask what was going on. Danny told her to ask Chin.

"You don't have to be a super seal around them." Danny told him as he started his car.

"Don't mean to be." Steve mumbled.

"Talk me through whatever is going through that thick skull of yours."

"I answered the door...I was sixteen...the officer had me get my dad...Dad made me take Mary out back while he talked to him...when he finally came out he sat down and told us that moms car had been hit by a drunk driver and caught on fire...said she didn't make it." He said, his voice breaking.

"Now you know it was a car bomb and not a drunken accident."

"Dad had to have known then...he had me stay with Mary while he went there..."

"If you had a sixteen year old smartass and a ten year old daughter...what would you tell them?" Danny asked, looking at his Partner.

"The truth." Steve said quietly after a minute.

"Hesitation tells me otherwise."

"He had two decades to tell me the truth." Steve said as Danny pulled up to the apartment. "He chose instead to use his last few words to me to give me a clue..."

"Steven do you think you were an easy child to raise?"

"I stayed out of trouble."

"Not what I asked Babe."

"Danny he should have told me." Steve said getting out of the car and slamming the door, stalking towards the apartment and using his key to let himself in.

Danny took his time going in, detouring to check his mail before walking in, sitting down on the couch and picking up the Longboard Steve had opened for him. "Would it have made a difference if he told you back then?" Danny asked him after taking a long sip.

"Would have made me angry." Steve answered after thinking on it for a minute.

"And sixteen year old You was already pissed your mother was dead, regardless of what killed her. You were devastated and you expressed that with anger..." Danny said, "Stop me if I am wrong, angry you plus Mary plus losing his wife and now being a single parent...if he told you the truth, or what he suspected to be truth...would that have made life easier or harder for your Father?"

"I don't know how...it's like I lost her all over again."

"You need to let yourself feel what you are feeling."

"I don't know if I can."

"Do you trust me." Danny asked as he stood up and went over to the front door, locking it and pulling the shades.

"I don't know what to do."

"Come here." Danny said sitting down and putting his arm on the back of the couch. He flipped the tv onto espn and turned it down, "You need to sit in your emotions. Focus on what is going through your head." Steve moved and laid down across the couch putting his head in his Partners shoulder. Danny wrapped his arm around the man and held him into him, "Just close your eyes and feel."

Feeling his Partner relax into him he thought he was falling asleep and Danny started to rub his hand on his shoulder in a soothing fashion. Danny felt Steve's silent tears fall onto his arm, he didn't say anything as his partners body shook, he just held the man closer. Steve eventually relaxed again but stayed in his partners arms. "Danno?"

"Yeah Babe?"

"Where were you back then?"

"On a beach at the Jersey Shore." Danny said remembering the date perfectly.

"What was it like?"

"Miserable." Danny said blinking back his own tears.

"Danno?"

"Does Hawaii feel like home for you?"

"Hawaii? Or here?" Danny asked, squeezing Steve a little tighter.

"Here." Steve near whispered.

"Yeah." Danny answered him back with a smile, "I could really use a good slice though."

"Your life revolves around your stomach."

"Sure it does Babe."

"You want to go get dinner?" Steve asked sitting up a few minutes later. "I'm hungry."

"You sure it's my stomach life revolves around?" Danny smirked.

"Let's go down to the Pit."

"You sure?"

"Ohana Danno." Steve smiled at him.