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Season 1, Episode 13.
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"Danny." Steve barely mumbled into the phone waking his partner up.
"What's wrong? I knew I should have just stayed there last night. I am on my way." Danny rambled, not waiting for a response as he scrambled out of bed throwing on the first outfit he could grab.
"They got it." Steve said a little stronger.
"Who got what?" Danny asked confused.
"They. Three men...Champ box." Steve said in a broken sentence.
"I am five minutes out. Are you safe?"
"They are gone."
"Are you hurt?"
"Tased."
"Im pulling up." Danny said a few minutes later hanging up the phone and sending a quick blast to Chin and Kono to get to Steve's ASAP. "Steven?" Danny yelled walking in the door finding the living room in a chaotic mess.
Seeing Steve sitting on the floor with his head in his hands in front of the couch Danny rushed over to him checking him over for injuries. "M Fine Danno." Steve shrugged him away. The tears in his eyes told Danny that was far from the truth.
"All they took was the box?" Danny said as he gently looked at the burn left by the stun gun on the back of Steve's neck.
"All? Danny that box was everything." Steve said his voice cracking.
"Chin and Kono are on their way."
"I called you."
"And Im here. But we need to know what happened."
"Three guys got in here and took the Champ Box...there isn't anything to investigate."
"Boss Man?" Kono yelled as she burst through the door. Seeing Danny sitting with him she slowed down crouching down in front of him as Chin walked in.
Steve immediately sat up straighter, looking at Danny as he blinked his walls back up. "I'll get HPD down here to process the place." Danny said as he walked into the kitchen, grabbing a piece of candy and an ice pack from the freezer as Steve argued. Always keep things in house. Privacy...secrecy...classified...that was how Steve had learned to live his life.
"What are you eating?"
"Nothing. Ice for your head."
"I'm fine."
"Don't be a tough guy, okay?" Danny handed him the ice, "I've been popped by a stun gun before, it's no fun. Ice helps."
"You've been stun gunned?" Kono asked.
"Yes. I've been stunned, Hoboken. Halloween 02. It's a long story." Danny said turning his attention back to Steve.
The bickering between the two went on, Danny interrogating Steve. Steve firing answers back right. Danny knew that was the only way to keep Steve focused. When he realized the only other person who knew about the case was his sister who had just flown back into Hawaii the day before.
He pulled his phone out and called his sisters number, panic crossing his face when she didn't answer. "Somethings wrong." He said as the two tore out of the driveway leaving the other half of their family to clean up the mess.
"Do me a favor, please. Don't go there." Danny started, "okay? You don't know anything. Maybe she went out last night. Got a little goofy, sleeping it off." When he wasn't getting through he tried another tactic, "and let me be honest about something, if first thing in the morning I see your face pop on my phone I might not answer either."
Steve knew what Danny was trying to do and it made him feel a little better but he couldn't lose anymore family. "They didn't break into the house Danny and the only other person who has a key is Mary."
"We will find her." Danny promised.
"You don't know that."
"Pretend for once that I am a detective." He said putting a hand on Steve's shoulder, "And I am a good one."
"I want to believe you." Steve said tearing into Mary's driveway.
As they did a quick search of her house the fear mounted in both men when they did not find her but found a tooth and a puddle of blood instead in the ransacked home. Danny stuck close to Steve as they investigated, bringing HPD in the loop about Mary...not about him.
Danny had a hard time not teasing Steve after Mamo called him Stevie. He spent most of his time trying to keep him from stepping off the freak out ledge they were both feeling awefully close to. When Mary called Steve as they were driving Danny got on the line with Chin and before her phone lost signal they were able to get enough to know she was headed up the Pali.
Steve flipped around and went to the closest helipad where an old classmate of his worked and as Steve arranged a bird Danny organized HPD's search of every car in the visinity of where she was calling from. He jumped into the helicopter with Steve despite how terrified he was, he knew Steve needed his backup on this.
As the two killed the men who had kidnaped Mary Danny breathed a sigh of relief. When Steve pulled his sister from the trunk and into his arms he couldn't help but let the tear fall from his own eye. Steve would be strong for his sister...for now...but Danny knew that when the adrenaline finally wore off tonight it was going to be rough.
When Steve had to release Mary to go with HPD in order to fly the helicopter back Danny offered to go with her but Steve gave him an instant look that took the words from his mouth. It wasn't thirty seconds into their flight that Danny looked over to Steve to had tears pouring from his eyes. "We got um Stevie." Danny smiled to his partner.
"I need to keep her safe and cannot do that here."
"You sending her back to LA?"
"Do I have a choice?" Steve asked as he wiped his face.
"You could send her to Jersey."
"I need her safe."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Keep my head right."
"You know I've got your back." Danny said as Steve lowered the helicopter back to the ground.
Steve rushed to the Camero not wanting to see anyone as Danny thanked the man who let them borrow the bird. He also offered up cash to cover whatever gas they had used but he just waved him off. "Anything for Mary." He had smiled.
When Danny finally made his way to his car he found the driver seat open, "We aren't going directly back to the palace." As he texted Chin and Kono to get everything going with Mary, that they would be back in a bit.
"Stevie?" Danny tried on him after a couple minutes of silence as they drove back up towards the north shore.
"I haven't been that scared since..."
"We got her back." Danny interrupted, "Mary is safe."
"Danny I don't know how to tell her she can't be here."
"Tell her the truth."
"My Dad sent us away...I can't do that to her."
"I want a shaved ice." Danny said turning into the parking area near Kamakonas stand and ending his partners internal struggle. He knew he was going to do it, it was the only choice he had...didn't mean he had to focus on it.
"Strawberry and coconut." Steve said not moving to get out.
"You think I don't know what flavor you want?" Danny smirked.
"I don't always get the same thing."
"When you are relaxed you get banana and blueberry. You stressed you get the rainbow. When you are sad...strawberry and coconut because it was your mother's favorite." Danny rambled to him.
"Danno." Steve said as his eyes filled with tears again.
"Told you I've got your back."
When they finally did make it back to the palace Mary was pacing back and forth, clearly worried about her brothers reaction. She had stuck her nose in when he told her not to...he had said he was taking care of it...she didn't listen. Danny walked up to her and pulled her in for a hug and whispering in her ear, "He loves you. Let him take care of you."
"He isn't mad?" She whispered back, squeezing Danny harder as she fought her tears.
"No Babe, your big brother just isn't as tough as he likes to think he is." Danny said it loud enough for Steve to hear but not the others. "You okay?" He asked, pulling back from her and looking her over.
"I coulda sworn I only had one big brother." She smiled at Danny as he checked her over before stepping out of the way for Steve to do the same thing.
"They are each other's alter ego." Kono laughed as Danny mumbled about walking over to the ME's office. He knew the only way Steve could keep it together was if he stepped away, give him time for his walls to rebalance. He had to be strong for Mary.
That night Danny went into Steve's office, sitting down on the couch where Mary was sleeping and she lifted her head and put it on his lap, "He needs to go home Danny."
"What do you think I came in here for?"
"I'm going home with you guys aren't I?"
"Think it is the only way he will leave." He said looking over to his Partner who was still completely focused on the Sherlock Holmes book.
"He is going to make me go back to LA." She said with tears in her eyes, "I know why...but...I like having my big brother back."
"At least you can skype now...talk on the phone everyday."
"That what you do?"
"Yeah. Haven't seen any of my family except Grace since I moved it here."
"How are you going to get him home?" Mary asked sitting up.
"Just follow us out...he..."
"You can get through to him when no one else can." She stopped him with an eye roll.
"You ready?" He asked Mary and she nodded standing up and walking to the door. Danny got up and took the book from Steve's hand, flipped it over so his place was saved and grabbed his hand to pull him up. Mary could see that Steve was checked out completely as Danny put his arm around his back leading him out.
She climbed into the back seat of the Camero as Danny buckled Steve in when his eyes went wild and he yelled for Mary. "I'm right here big brother." She said squeezing his shoulders to the back of the seat.
"We cannot go to the House...they got in there." Steve rambled, panicked.
"Chin talked to the company and we beefed up security there. Have to use fingerprints now to turn off the alarm. We will be safe there." Danny told him. After staring at Danny for a couple minutes he decided he trusted him and leaned his head back and closed his eyes, falling asleep almost instantly.
"How the hell do you do that?" Mary scoffed.
"He is my partner."
"He is more than your partner Danny."
"We trust each other Mary."
"I don't know that he has trusted anyone since our Mom died."
When they got to the house Danny reached over and unbuckled Steve's seat belt before walking around and opening the door without waking him. As Danny led Steve into the house, scanning his own finger to unlock the front door. "Grace has stayed here a couple times so your room..."
"He told me you and Grace have stayed. I'm good, you take care of him."
"Danno?" Steve looked at his partner for the first time.
"Yeah Buddy?"
"Need you close."
"Not going anywhere." Danny told him as he pushed him up the stairs. "You need anything Mary?"
"I need you to take care of my big brother."
"Check the perimeter." Steve barked an order as he stiffened and froze halfway up.
"Steven look at my phone." Danny said as he pulled up the new app that Chin had installed that showed several cameras both inside and out."
"You did this?" Steve asked.
"Chin. I went over everything though and talked to the people at the company. Me, you and Mary are the only ones who can shut off the system using the fingerprints. Chin and Kono have a code that will trigger to you to enter your print to let them in. You are safe here."
"You are sure?"
"Yeah Babe. Made double sure. Safer here than at HQ."
As Steve studied the different camera angles and looked back and forth between the phone and Danny he finally nodded and handed the phone back. "Okay." He finally mumbled as he walked the rest of the way up the stairs.
Danny followed him up and into the bedroom getting himself changed and ready for bed as Steve did the same thing. When Steve sat down on the edge of the bed he looked over at Danny who was standing in the doorway. "She okay?" He asked.
"She is worried about her big brother." Danny told her.
"I am fine." He said shaking his head, "I just..."
"You just got attacked and tased and had your sister kidnapped which brought back your memories of your fathers kidnapping...and murder...and needing to keep her safe which reminded you of when you were sent away. You can say you are okay all you want Babe but we know you are far from it."
The longer Danny spoke the more Steve's eyes filled with tears until they spilled over, "Hey, tonight you let me do the swimming?" he smiled at his friend as he sat down on the bed next to him.
"Mary was right you know...I haven't trusted anyone."
"I told you your sister was a smart girl." Danny smiled, putting his arm around Steve's shoulder as he looked up and saw Mary standing in the doorway.
"I am scared to close my eyes." Steve told him.
"I will be here."
"Still."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Make me safe?" Steve said leaning his head against Danny's shoulder.
"Come on then." Danny said moving around so he was laying down on the bed with an arm tucked under his head and the other reaching out for Steve to lay down with him.
As Steve laid down with his head on Danny's chest he watched Mary's reaction, "I've got you." Danny whispered as he leaned his cheek against Steve's head. Less than a minute before his lips parted in sleep, his hand going limp and sliding slightly from his chest. "You don't have to stay in the doorway." He told Mary.
"This happen a lot?" She asked as she walked in and laid down on the bed next to her brother putting her hand on his arm.
He immediately tensed and moaned in his sleep and wrapped his arm tight around Danny. "I've got you." Danny whispered to Steve and he calmed down in an instant.
"You guys are like always together and my bedroom is your daughters..." Mary said moving her hand again, this time Steve stayed relaxed, "My brother trusts you...like really trusts you."
"I trust him."
"What did you mean when you told him to let you do the swimming?"
"Just that I would be here tonight...take care of him."
"So he takes care of you like this too?"
"We are both..."
"Stubborn and needy."
"I was going to say we have both been hurt...and it is nice to have someone who is just...it makes it easier for us to turn to each other."
"What made him trust you?"
"Me punching him in the face after he got me shot."
"Seriously?"
"First two minutes of knowing your brother we had our guns pointed at each other."
"You guys are weird."
"Not weird. Love Danno." Steve mumbled, rolling in his sleep to face Mary, flopping an arm over her and letting out a small snore as his head slid back against Danny.
"You know he used to come in and lay with me until I feel asleep? After Mom died...until we got sent away. He always tried to take care of me...its nice to see him letting someone else take care of him." She said with a yawn.
"You should sleep too Mar...it wasn't just him that the day was awful for."
"You are really staying in here all night?"
"Yeah...only way I will be able to sleep is if I know he is sleeping too." Danny said reaching over and shutting off the lamp.
"Never thought I would be sleeping in my parents bed with my big brother and his partner." Mary whispered, "Night Danny."
When Steve woke up to the sun streaming in his window several hours later he felt both his Partner and his sister on either side of him and he took a deep breath in and felt relaxed. He was safe, they were safe. Today was a new day.
Then he remembered they still had to catch the people behind the kidnapping and whatever the hell else was going on. They still had a job to do. "How do you get up so early and function?" Mary mumbled.
"Danny is she safe to stay here?"
"Yes Steven." Danny said sitting up.
"Then go back to sleep." Steve told her, "Do not leave the house unless you are with one of us."
"Or Chin or Kono." Danny added with a sympathetic smile.
"Im not going anywhere." She said moving stiffly.
"Are you hurt?" Steve asked rushing back over and checking her over.
"Steven she got beat up and shoved in a trunk. She is sore. You should be sore but you are some freak of nature not human neanderthal." Danny said with a smirk. "You go swim. I am getting in the shower." He said walking into the bathroom and shutting the door behind him.
"How many nights do you spend together?"
"Does it matter?"
"He knows where everything is here. You trust him. You let him protect you. You are way more than work Partners Big Brother."
"He is my best friend."
"What happened to Freddie? You two used to spend all your time together and you haven't said anything about him once since Dad died."
"He died."
"What! When?"
"Same day as Dad...and no I don't want to talk about it."
"Does Danny know?"
"We don't talk about the past."
"Steve."
"Not talking about it Mary."
"You and Freddie grew up together...how can you not talk about it?"
"That is exactly why I cant talk about it." Steve said, his eyes filling with tears.
"I love you."
"I am going for a swim. Go back to bed." Steve said stalking out of the room wiping the tears from his eyes.
When Danny came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around him he felt Mary's eyes on him. As he grabbed his clothes to go back into the bedroom Mary called after him, "Why don't you guys talk about your pasts?"
"It is hard."
"You weren't a SEAL."
"I was a Jersey cop on 9.11."
"Oh."
"Like I said...its hard. And some stuff comes out when it needs to."
"How long until he comes back?"
Looking at his phone he smiled, "Four minutes."
"Seriously?"
"Your brother is a creature of habit...do you want me to have Kono come and hang out with you today?"
"I will stay here...sit on the beach...he is going to send me to LA...want to get as much time as I can here..."
"It isn't going to be forever." Danny said as he heard the door downstairs open, "Four minutes." He smiled.
"Freak!" Mary said throwing a pillow at her brother as he walked back in.
"What the Hell?"
"Go take a shower so we can get to HQ." Danny said laughing.
"What did you do?" Steve asked, glaring at Danny.
"Told her you would be back in four minutes and you came in three minutes and fifty four seconds later."
A half hour later the two were in the office. An hour after that they had Hiro Noshimori's name. By noon they were stalking into the restaurant they had tracked his phone to. Ten minutes after that the Governor was walking in to meet her lunch date. They knew then why his father never said anything with the investigation. By three the Governor was screaming at Steve in his office. At five they were getting shot at in front of Mamo's surf shack. By seven Danny was driving Steve home to pack up Mary and send her on the next flight to LA.
"Do you want to do this on your own?" Danny asked as they pulled into the driveway.
"No."
When they walked into the house they saw Mary's suitcase packed by the door. "How long do we have?"
"Half hour." Steve said quietly.
"I want to go by the cemetery to say bye to Dad first."
"We need to go now then." Danny said.
Danny climbed into the passenger seat with Mary behind him and he felt her hand on his shoulder as they pulled out of the driveway. He reached his hand up and squeezed hers. She was scared, scared of the people out there trying to kill them, scared of losing her brother again...scared of the unknown. None of them spoke as they drove to the cemetery, as they walked to the gravestone...back to the truck and to HQ.
Danny watched as Steve twitched his jaw, trying to maintain control of his emotions. Mary kept her hand on Danny and he could feel her shaking. When they dropped Danny off at HQ Mary turned to him and wrapped her arms tight around him and he held her as she cried, "Take care of each other."
"Call us anytime." Danny told her, "We will be okay."
"Skype, right?"
"You know it, Babe." Danny said as he pulled back and wiped her tears with his thumbs. "This isn't forever." He promised her.
She slowly nodded and smiled. "Love you Danno."
"Not you too." He smiled, "Love you Kiddo. Have a safe flight." He said passing her off to Steve who looked like he was barely holding it together. Danny hated not going to the airport with him but Chin had called at the cemetery and Steve wanted Danny to see what it was...he trusted Danny.
"This is so stupid." Mary said to her brother when they were standing at the gate, "I didnt even want to be here and now I dont want to go...It was kinda starting to feel like hoe again."
"What are you talking about? This is always going to be your home...but while Koji's a free man, and until this is over and I know it is safe for you to be here..."
"I am having a deja vu moment. Its just like before, when Dad brought both of us here and put us on different planes back to the mainland...I havent talked to you in ten years...and I never saw Dad again."
"Hey, hey! We are going to see each other again, okay?" He said trying to convince himself as much as her, "Hey, we will."
"You promise?"
"Yes. I promise." He said, "Come here." He hugged her as the flight attendant announced the final boarding for her flight. "Call me when you land in LA, all right?"
"I will. Bye. Thank you."
"Have a good flight." Steve called after her.
He drove around a bit before driving back to HQ trying to get control over his emotions. When he walked back in the door he was verbally assaulted by Danny. Once he was done ranting and the two had talked a bit about the photos Mary had taken as Steve kept his hand on the Champ box. "Hiros brother Koji was found dead an hour ago." Danny told him.
"How?" Steve asked.
"Car accident. You believe that?"
"No." Steve said getting a sinking feeling in his gut.
"We aren't going to worry about it tonight. We are going to get dinner and watch the game and wait for Mary to call to say she made it back to LA."
"Can we bring the food back to the house...until I know who is behind all of this I don't want..."
"Tonight yes. But we aren't going to hide forever."
"I want to make sure Grace is protected too."
"I had Chin bump up security on their house too...and we have a cruiser parked out front."
"Is that enough?"
"Do you want to argue with Rachel?"
"Do you think she is safe?"
"Yes."
"I need Gracie to be safe too."
"We are leaving." Danny hollered to Chin and Kono, "Come on Babe." Danny said leading his Partner out. He was going to get them home and fed before his anxious energy hit the red.
They picked up barbecue on their way and Danny locked them into the house and as soon as Steve had filled his belly instead of the pacing he thought his partner would do Steve collapsed into the couch next to him. Danny flipped on the tv to ESPN and sat next to his best friend, checking his phone and flight tracker every few seconds as Steve relaxed further and further into the couch and into him until Danny found Steve's head sliding down his arm. He pulled a pillow and pushed Steve down so he was laying across the couch. "You take this watch?" Steve mumbled.
"Yeah Buddy. Get some rest."
"We are safe?"
"Yes Steven."
"And Mary?"
"Still in the air. Flight is right on course." Danny answered him. He relaxed into the couch watching the game as Steve slept, when the plane landed Mary called his phone, "There is a car waiting for you. LAPD is bringing you home." Danny told her.
"Where is my brother."
"Asleep. Right here."
"I will call when I get to Aunt Debs."
Fifteen minutes later Danny recieved a Skype call from Mary and he answered, showing Steve asleep on his lap. The two talked for over an hour before Steve woke up and looked at the phone and then his own on his lap. "You call him and not your own brother?"
"I was HOPING you would be asleep...and guess what...you were."
"You just land?"
"Babe we have been talking for over an hour. She is at your Aunts."
"Danny arranged for LAPD to bring me home."
"You did that?" Steve said sitting up and looking at his partner.
"Were you expecting her to hitchhike?" Danny rolled his eyes.
"I am going to go to bed. You two should too." Mary told her big brothers. "Love you guys."
"Love you too Mar." They both said in sync with each other.
"Why did My Sister call You?" Steve asked as he relaxed back down.
"She knew we were going to be together. Does it matter."
"She is my sister."
"Are you jealous?"
"No Im not jealous. She is my sister."
"You are totally jealous." Danny said pulling the pillow out from under Steves head and hitting him with it.
"Im not."
"You are."
"I am glad Mary listens to you."
"She will be safe there."
"I hope so."
"My buddy from Jersey is with LAPD and they are keeping a car on her until I tell him otherwise."
"You didnt tell me that."
"You think I am not going to keep her protected? Ohana Stevie."