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Season 1, Episode 21.
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"Yo." Danny answered the phone.
"You let Kamekona into my house before you left this morning."
"He said he owed you a debt."
"Spam."
"Excuse me?"
"He made spam."
"You don't like spam."
"You are the one who let him in."
"Are you on your way here?"
"Need you to turn around, caught a case that is up this direction. Have Chin and Kono meet us there, I will text you the coordinates."
"Be there in five." Danny said flipping on the lights and siren and turning around in the middle of the highway racing back to Steve's. As soon as Steve jumped in he flashed the newly reacquired photographs of the car bombing that killed his mother. "Camera catch anyone this time?"
"You would have gotten the alert if it did." Steve glared. "I am not in the mood for this."
"Did you drink your smoothie this morning?" Danny asked his grumpy partner.
"Did you put something different in it today?" Steve asked, "It was a little sweeter than yesterdays."
"As a matter of fact I did." Danny smiled, "So what exactly are we headed into this morning?"
"Got a shots fired call to 911."
"HPD can't handle it?."
"Tied up at the marketplace,we are closer." Steve said as he stashed the photos in the glove box of the Camaro.
"Your head in the game?"
"I got your six." Steve grinned, "You gonna tell me what you put in the smoothie?"
"Not a chance Babe." Danny smirked as they jumped out of the car as Chin, Kono and a slew of HPD patrol cars pulled in behind them.
The partners lead the charge to clear the property, signaling for HPD to tend to the living victims as they continued the search for the offenders, and young Kevin. When Steve found Kevin in the closet he got down on his knees and pulled the blanket off his head, talked to the boy like he spoke to Gracie before lifting him up, broken arm and all and carried him out, shielding the boy from the dead bodies Steve had to step over to get him outside.
"You go with the kid, talk to Reggie when he gets out of surgery. I will process here." Danny said seeing the struggle on his partners face.
"You sure?"
"Go with the kid Steven." Danny recognized his look and especially after receiving the photos back of the car bombing that killed his mother...he needed to be with the kid.
Danny caught a ride back with Kono after they finished up at the scene and between running back and forth from the me office and hq the two were busy all morning. Around lunch Steve tore into his office and told him they were going to see Jimmy Cannon and once again Danny was offered a glimpse into Steve's tortured soul...a child who lost his mother...eventually he would crack.
Steve had no filter, no safety button...no I may regret this decision later...he was acting from his heart and Danny knew he would be the only thing keeping his partner alive. He knew at some point they were going to become a three man team with Reggie. Reggie and Steve may as well be sharing a brain for this case their way of thinking and perspective of justice so in line with each other. After a few more hours of running around the island, Chin and Kono cyber digging that is exactly what happened. Together they got their man...the son of the man who they initially thought...greed, deception...murder... As they said goodbye to Reggie and his son the team told him if he ever wanted to come back they had a spot open for him.
Danny and Steve drove them to the airport and escorted them on to the plane and as the two partners walked out of the Honolulu airport together Steve threw his arm around his partner, "Thanks Brother." He smiled.
"You are an idiot." Danny smiled back. "Tiki Hut?" He asked, the little bar was just a few miles from the airport and he knew Steve wouldn't say no.
As Danny led his intoxicated partner to his Camaro he smiled, "I am not driving all the way to the North Shore."
"Its not that far." Steve said pouting.
"You need to sleep."
"Medicine is at home."
"Have a bottle at the apartment Steven."
"You take care of me." Steve said looking over at Danny and studying him as he drove.
"What are you looking at?" Danny finally asked after a few blocks.
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why do you take care of me?"
"You are my Partner."
"Not why."
"Okay then smart guy why then?"
"Because you are my Partner."
"That is what I said."
"My Mom was killed."
"I know."
"Will he end up as screwed up as me?"
"I think he will be fine."
"How does he get to be fine when I am...like I am."
"He has someone who knows what it is like to look after him."
"Who?"
"You, you big idiot."
"He will be in Washington."
"There is a this thing called a phone Steven."
"Everyone I care about leaves." The second that sentence exited his partners mouth he knew the time he had been dreading was upon them. Losing a parent as an adult was a hard enough thought, he couldn't imagine what it would have been like for Steve to lose his Mom, get sent off to a military boarding school and then lose your father.
"I'm not going anywhere." Danny said, looking over to the passenger seat.
"You will...you just don't know it yet." Steve mumbled as he pulled into the parking lot of the apartment complex.
"Not going anywhere Babe." Danny said as he parked the car. "Get your ass inside."
As Steve followed Danny inside they both sat down on the couch. "I miss her you know." Steve mumbled as he leaned back and closed his eyes.
"I know."
"She would have liked you."
"You think?"
"What is it like to have a Mom?
"Until I moved here I thought it was overbearing and annoying...now I miss the pestering and meddling in my life." Danny told his friend.
"I never had that." Steve said yawning.
"You want to lay down?"
"No...if I tried I would...uh...my...its bad tonight."
"PTSD?" Danny asked earning a small nod, "You need to sleep." Danny said reaching over and pulling his partner into him.
"I hate this." Steve said curling into Danny's side.
Danny held his partner into his side and slouched down leaning his head against the back of the couch. "You need to sleep Babe."
"I miss her Danny." Steve whispered as he closed his eyes.
"We can go visit her tomorrow before we go into the office if you want."
"You will go with me?"
"Yeah...I've got you."
"Why does it hurt so bad?"
"Steven..."
"I know...I just..."
"It is okay to miss her...she was your Mom and you love her...and I know the case...the boy...I get it...and I've got you." Danny said pulling a blanket over and flipping it over both of them.
"It hurts." Danny leaned his head against his partners and held him tight into him, running his hand up and down his partners shoulder until he felt the weight of his head against him knowing that he had fallen asleep.
When Steve woke up in the morning he felt the weight of his partners arm around him and heard his soft snoring in his ear. When he started to move to sit up Danny tightened his grip around him, "Still early...go back to sleep." Steve moved and sat up on the couch, "Why do you have to be a morning person?" He said thankful that he slept as long as he did.
"Your couch isn't exactly a comfortable bed...at least it doesn't smell like spam in here."
"You volunteering to make me breakfast Babe?"
"Why don't you go lay in bed and sleep? Got a couple hours until we need to go in."
"Still want to go visit your Mom?"
"We don't have to Danny...I am fine."
"Make me breakfast...I am going to go shower. We are going." Danny said getting up and stretching, squeezing his partners shoulder as he walked by.
"Thanks Danno." Steve said, his voice thick with emotion and Danny debated turning around and wrapping his arms around the man who was on the edge of breaking down. Instead he left the door open as he went into the other room, waiting to see what Steve's response would be-either get up and start cooking or break down.
An hour later Danny pulled to a stop in the cemetery and looked over at his Partner. "We getting out?"
"Gimme a minute."
"Fine. I am going." Danny said getting out of the Camaro. He could hear Steve grunting and mumbling under his breath as Danny made his way to his mother's grave where he sat down in the grass and just started talking.
As Steve towered over him he continued, refusing to look at his partner...eventually he would sit down and allow himself to break.
"Your Son...such a pain in my ass...but I don't know if I would still be here if it were not for his stubborn...I was miserable...lost...I had no one on this God Forsaken Pineapple infested rock...but he...with a gun aimed at my chest somehow...he saved me...he reminded me that people do care...and now I am here to remind him of the same thing. He can always see it in other people but he cannot see it in himself."
Danny rambled, finally looking up to Steve who had tears sliding down both his cheeks. Danny reached up and grabbed his wrist, pulling him down next to him. "We save each other...I am not going anywhere." He finished, as Steve fell against him.