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Season 1, Episode 17.
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It had been a rough week, every time Steve would start to feel better he would push it and end up aggravating his ribs. Grace on the other hand was back to her blissful self. Rachel had let her stay with Danny and Steve through the weekend after Grace demanded she take care of her uncle. Who can argue with an adorable ten year old after all?
Grace helped Steve tinker with his fathers old car, mostly picking up screws and bolts or chasing down tools with made up names. Danny loved seeing the two of them together though, it is how he had always imagined her relationship with her uncle or Grandfather to be like. When Grace finally did go back home Steve pouted, pacing around the house like a caged animal until Danny finally agreed to help him with the car himself.
The first trip out of the house they made it nine miles...and then a few hundred more feet pushing it to a safe place for the tow truck to load it up. Danny ranted of course, because, well, that is what Danny does. The ranting and bickering is one of Danny's favorite things about Steve. It is their safe place. And since they just got a call about a boat full of college kids being kidnapped they both needed their safe place.
The longer the four worked together the better they were able to read each other and all had established their specialties in crime solving. They no longer had to ask what was wanted of them or what was expected and the team had an unspoken understanding of where the line was that could or could not be crossed...depending on the situation of course. With this case though, a kidnapping...multiple abductions...Steve was the face of the team but Danny was running the show. Abductions, kidnappings...whatever you want to call them...have become too much of a trigger for Steve. Taking a step back and allowing his partner to take the lead in the investigation helped them to stay on the side of the law.
When Steve got a phone call from the kidnapper he felt like he was going to be sick. Justin had been killed. Killed because his parents paid their portion of the ransom. Steve knew it was not likely they would be able to save all twelve but to actually know that one was dead...it was like it was his father all over again. When the kidnapper used Susan's name Steve had to bite his tongue. He had them. Her name had not been listed by the media, he had specifically requested it be left out.
As the team watched the parents reunite with their children Steve hung back, he was watching Kono, seeing her reaction eased his mind. They hadn't saved them all, but they had saved eleven of them. Together the four returned to the palace and Chin ordered some pizzas and they relaxed in the office. "What are you guys doing this weekend?" Danny asked as he finished his forth slice.
"Surfing. Suppose to be some good waves at the pipeline." Kono smiled.
"Fishing." Chin said, "Few cousins and I are going out to teach the young ones how to do it."
"Spear fishing?" Danny asked.
"No other kind Brah." Chin smiled. "What are you guys doing? Do you have Grace again this weekend?"
"She is with Rachel and Step Stan...they are doing to some fancy dinner thing on Saturday that Grace is trying to talk her way out of so we will see."
"McGarrett any plans?" Chin asked.
"Work on the car." Steve shrugged.
"That piece of junk is hopeless Babe." Danny teased.
"Classic Daniel. It is a classic."
"A classic that cannot make it ten miles down the Pali highway."
"Do you still have a boo-boo Daniel?"
"My back is killing me if that is what you are referring to." Danny said leaning back into the couch he had been sitting on.
"Poor Baby." Steve said scooting his chair over closer to Danny and subconsciously putting his arm around his shoulder.
"Today was a good day." Kono smiled. "I didnt think we were going to get any of them back..."
"Odds say that we wouldnt." Chin Ho said.
"Odds are nothing with the Five-O." Steve said. "We are better than other people."
"Full of your self much?" Danny smirked as he looked over at his best friend.
"Shut up you know you are the best at what you do." Steve smiled at him. Danny was modest...and a pessimist but Steve knew that he liked hearing he was good at what he did...and he was damn good at what he did.
"Who is on call this weekend?" Kono asked, looking at her watch and seeing what time it was.
"I am. Go. Have fun surfing. I will call you if we get a case." Steve smiled to her. "You did good today too."
"Thanks Boss Man." Kono smiled as she walked out of the office, "Night Guys." She called over her shoulder.
"You need a ride back to the house?" Chin asked as he picked up some of the garbage and tossed it in the trash.
"Nah...truck is here." Danny smirked, the truck had barely been used since the tsunami incident.
"I'm gonna call it a day then fellas. Have a good weekend." Chin said leaving the two alone in their office.
"Whats your plan Danno?"
"Don't have one." Danny shrugged.
"Watch the game?" Steve asked.
"What game?" Danny asked.
"Whatever game is on ESPN."
"You dont want to go home alone do you Steven?"
"I dont particularly want to talk about my feelings tonight Daniel."
"I didnt ask about feelings."
"You know I will just see my Dads brains all over the damn floor the second I walk into the house."
"You should really talk to someone about that. Its kinda fucked up."
"I do talk to someone." Steve said standing up and throwing an unused paper plate at his partner.
"You need to deal with your impossible need to save everyone."
"I do not have a problem with saving people Daniel...my problem is when I cant save them."
"Well you cant save everyone."
"I can damn well try." Steve said slamming his way out of the room. "Are you coming?" He yelled to his Partner.
"I am right behind you you big idiot." Danny said, nearly bumping into him when he stopped to turn around. "Drive like a human please. My back really is killing me." Danny said as they walked out to the truck together.
Surprisingly Steve drove slow, taking the curves at half the speed as he traditionally would, looking over at Danny anytime he hit a bump or made any unexpected move. "Take the pain meds." Steve said when they walked into the house a few minutes later.
"I am not a fan of being drugged."
"Dude. Seriously?"
"Did you really just call me Dude?" Danny smirked.
"Whatever. Just take it Danny. It really does help." Steve said tossing him the bottle and handing over a bottle of Longboard.
Danny looked at the bottle then back to Steve, "You wont laugh at me?"
"Seriously?" Steve laughed, "You do recall what happened when I took them the other night?"
"Nothing wrong with wanting human connection." Danny looked at him seriously.
"I was nuzzling you...just take the damn pills." Danny took two.
A half hour later Danny had laid down on the couch and was playing with his phone, "I miss Rachel." Danny sniffed.
Steve looked over at his partner and saw his bloodshot eyes, "Whatcha lookin at Danno?" Steve asked, taking the phone from his hands.
"Old photos." Danny said, "I never thought I would be divorced Steve...she...Rachel always questioned how I felt about her...she thought I was more into the job...into my partner...than her...the day she told me she was pregnant...she asked if I wanted out...I never wanted out...I was in...allllllllllll innnnn." Danny slurred.
Steve looked at the longboard and saw it was nearly full, clearly Danny was as susceptible to the effects of Oxy as he was. "Did you tell her?"
"Yeah...but by the time I did it was too late...too much had happened..."
"How could too much have happened? How long did you wait?"
"Think about how old my daughter is... I lived in Jersey..."
"September 11?"
"My life changed that day in more ways than I can count." Danny said as a tear escaped from his eye.
"You arent the only one Bro." Steve said patting his friends leg. "How's your back doing?"
"Your shoulder probably hurts worse."
"My shoulder has been fine for days."
"Just pulled a muscle. It will be fine."
"You should lay down in a bed and let your back relax."
"No basketball on tv."
"TV in the bedroom and you arent watching anyway...you were looking at pictures of you and Rachel."
"Why doesnt she love me?" Danny asked.
"Come on Bro." Steve said standing up and reaching his hand out to his best friend. "If we are having this ridiculous conversation you are going to do it somewhere that wont make your back hurt worse than it already is."
Danny got up and bounced his way up the stairs, plopping down face first on Steve's bed. "Why doesn't she love me?" He said into his arm.
"I think she does love you...just dont think she was meant to be married to a cop."
"Detective."
"You know what I mean."
"Am I going to be alone forever?"
"You have a beautiful little girl. You wont ever be alone."
"Not what I meant." Danny whined.
Steve went to his side table drawer and pulled out some icy hot and sat down next to his partner and flipped up his shirt, rubbing the icy hot on his back shocking him, "what the hell?" Danny squealed, "thats cold!"
"Shut up. It will help." Steve said as he continued to massage it into his lower back.
"You haven't actually answered my question."
"Danny you know I cant tell you why Rachel left...but I do think she loves you."
"Just not enough...see this is why I didnt want to take anything...my mind...it just...Matty used to...but he is in Jersey...with all of my family."
"You have ohana here." Steve said.
"Dont know what I would do without you weirdos." Danny said turning his head to look at his partner, "You never turned on the tv."
"Games over."
"What game?"
"The one that was on downstairs."
"It is ESPN." Danny said flopping over to his back. "Why does everyone I love leave me?"
"Who else are you talking about Danno?"
"Everyone. Literally everyone..."
"Who else have you lost Danny?"
"Everyone! Dammit...I've lost everyone." He said reaching up and grabbing Steve's pillow and throwing it over his head. Steve went over and laid down on the other side of the bed and grabbed the remote, flipping the channels until he settled on an old documentary about world war two. "I cant lose you." Danny said, his voice muffled by the pillow.
"You are pessimistic."
"And you keep trying to get yourself killed."
"I am not suicidal Daniel."
"Our job...you almost died last week."
"I was shot..in the vest...we do wear them to keep us safe...and it worked, so last week I did not almost die."
"Five times in one day." He said, still talking into the pillow.
"So help me...I am not going anywhere."
"You promise?" Danny asked, peaking out from under the pillow.
"Yes weirdo." Steve said shaking his head. He watched with side eyes as Danny moved so his head rested on the pillow and he closed his eyes.
"I wish Rachel loved me." Danny yawned.
"I know Man."
"I don't want to be alone forever."
Steve reached his hand over and put it on Danny's shoulder, "Gotta find someone who I like Bro...otherwise...she wont last long."
"Rachel likes you."
"She does." Steve acknowledged.
"Does Catherine like me?"
"As far as I know."
"She doesnt like that you...uh...that you don't cry with her I guess."
"Cuz that is a thing." Steve rolled his eyes.
"You know what I am talking about."
"The majority of the time I have spent with Cath has been sneaking around and sex...we couldnt ever get close."
"You could have if you allowed yourself to...but you didnt...but you do...with me...and Gracie..and Chin and Kono...but not with her...she doesnt like it."
"Until I met you I hadnt cried since the night my Mom died."
"Why is it different with me?"
"Because you are safe Danno."
"If I am safe then why does everyone leave me?"
"Now we are talking in circles."
"I...why isnt the tv on ESPN?" Danny asked finally realizing the tv was on the documentary. "War...of course. You Steven are obsessed...and I cant see straight."
"Go to sleep then."
"You? You arent going to leave are you?"
"You are in my bed."
"Oh. Right. It is comfortable." Danny said with a goofy smile, "You love my Gracie. You are a good Uncle."
"Think so?"
"Yeah...she used to spend so much time with my Matty but when we came here...I haven't seen him since my going away party..."
"You talk to him quite a bit."
"Text every once in a while. Used to spend more time with him than I do with you."
"Hard to believe."
"We didnt work together but...after Rachel...I am still here because of Matty." Danny admitted, looking cautiously at Steve.
"You know I've got your back."
"You've got my back pushing your stupid car up the Pali Highway...which is why I am drugged and rambling like a blithering idiot."
"Its a classic."
"You are a classic." Danny mumbled yawning as his arm flopped down onto the bed coming to rest next to Steve's side.
"Goodnight Daniel." Steve said as he settled into the bed zoning out to the history channel knowing his best friend was safe next to him.