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Sitting up a little higher in the bed, ignoring his protesting stomach muscles, Steve reached his hand out towards her, "I would like that, Grace."

Biting her bottom lip as she slowly and reluctantly entered the room, Grace looked back at Beth who smiled again and nodded before she walked across to the side of the bed.

"Kono, Lou, why don't we join Dog in the cafeteria for a cup of coffee and leave Steve and Grace to talk." Beth suggested quietly as she tilted her head towards the corridor. The look on her face warned both Five 0 officers that now was not the time to argue with her.

"Umm, sounds good, we could use some decent coffee, can't we Kono?" Lou nodded as he stood up.

"Yeah," Kono forced a small smile as she rose from her seat and glanced back at Steve and Grace, "Do you want us to grab anything for you?"

Both Grace and Steve shook their heads as they watched Kono and Lou turn and leave the room.

Turning his attention back to Grace, Steve felt his chest tighten as he saw the hurt and confusion in Grace's eyes as she turned back and looked at him. He could see the tears that were welling in her eyes, threatening to fall. It broke his heart to see her so upset and he felt the guilt lance through his soul as the knowledge he that he was responsible threatened to shatter the broken pieces of his heart. Taking a deep breath, he ran a hand nervously over his head as he began before Grace could say a word, "Listen Grace, before you say anything, I want to apologize for the way I have treated you, Charlie and Danno, lately. I never meant to hurt you, I thought I was doing the right thing but I was wrong and you have every right to be angry at me but I hope you will let me explain."

Biting her bottom lip in an attempt stop any tears from falling, Grace nodded.

"You do know that I think of you, Charlie and Danno as my ohana, that I love the three of you more than you could ever know, don't you?" Steve began slowly.

He felt his breath catch in his throat as Grace silently looked down at the floor and shrugged.

Swallowing hard, he reached for her hand and waited until she reluctantly looked back up at him before he continued softly, "I know at the moment that you probably don't believe me, but it's the truth. I would never deliberately do anything to hurt you, Charlie or Danno."

A flash of anger and hurt flared in Grace's eyes and she pulled her hand free as she stared at him, "Then why don't you want Danno to be your partner anymore?"

"What?" Steve asked a little bewildered, "Who told you that?"

"I overheard Danno telling Grandma the last time we were in Jersey. He said that he didn't know what he had done to lose your trust but you seem to trust Lou more to have your back. You take Lou out on most of the cases with you now not Danno."

"Ohh, Grace, I can explain." Steve tried to tell her quietly, "It's not that I don't want Danno as my…"

"Why do you like hanging out with Kono, Chin and Lou more than us?" Grace rushed on as all the hurt and anger over the way she, Charlie and especially Danno had been treated spilled over. "You never come over to see us anymore or to hang out with Danno! You didn't even come and see Danno or Charlie after Danno gave Charlie his bone marrow!" Her voice dropped as she looked away from him and stared at a spot at the wall as she quietly admitted, "I waited for you, Kono or Uncle Chin to come but none of you did."

"Grace, I…"

"I really, really thought you would but you didn't, not even after they got out of hospital." Grace whispered as she looked back at Steve as she was unable to stop the tears that started to trickle down her face, "Danno thought you would come, too, but when you didn't he made excuses for you. He told me that you were probably busy with a case or something but I knew he didn't really believe that. I may be a kid but I saw how upset he was when that you didn't…"

"Oh Gracie, I love you, Charlie and Danno." Steve murmured as the realization of how much he had hurt not only Grace and Charlie but also Danny crushed over him like a tsunami, leaving him feeling physically ill, breathless and light headed. Swallowing hard to force down the bile that was burning the back of his throat, he reached for Grace's hand again as he felt his own tears well up in his eyes as he tried to talk with a tightening throat, "Please believe me, Grace, when I tell you that I would never do anything to hurt any of you guys, but I…I did, even though I never meant to. I honestly thought I was doing the right thing but I was wrong. I never meant to hurt any of you!"

Squeezing Grace's hand when he saw the doubtful but questioning look on Grace's face as she stood silently, waiting for him to explain just why he had done wrong by trying to do the right thing he continued, praying that she would understand what he was trying to explain. "I thought after everything you and Danno has gone through with your mom over the last couple of years, then finding out that Danno was Charlie's dad and how sick Charlie was, then the bone marrow transplant and Danno getting custody of Charlie, that it was best for the three of you if Kono, Chin, Lou and I stepped back a little and gave the three of you some space to adjust to all the changes that were happening. I thought that the three of you needed some time alone as a family." He shook his head as he admitted not only to Grace but also to himself, "It was hard, Danno is not only my partner but he is my closest friend. There were so many times that I had to stop myself from going over to your place, to hang out not only with Danno, but you and Charlie as well. I missed hanging out with you guys, but I thought that I would just get in the way."

Biting her bottom lip, Grace nodded as she listened to Steve's explanation of why he had stopped hanging out with them, even though she thought she sort of understood, it did not make it hurt any less. Taking a deep breath, she asked, "But why don't you want Danny to be your partner anymore? I heard Danno tell Grandma that he didn't think that you trusted him, that's why he wants to go back to Jersey." She wiped her tears as she added almost too softly for Steve to hear, He says he wants to go back to be closer to Grandma and Granddad but I know that's not the only reason why, it's because he now longer feels like he is part of Five 0."

Grimacing as he shifted a little in the bed, he swallowed hard, horrified that Danny or Grace could ever think that Lou or anyone else could ever replace Danny as his partner. He felt the breath rush from his lungs as he stared into Grace's tear filled eyes as the memory of how he had noticed Danny slowly drawing away from the team during the last few months and how quickly he had told himself that the reason was because of how much Danny was dealing with at home. "Oh Gracie, Lou could never and will never replace Danno as my partner. I when I first started Five 0 and I first met Danno, I knew I wanted him as my partner and I have never changed my mind. I trust Danno with my life. He is one of the most bravest men I know and I know that he will always have my back, just like I have his, no matter what happens. As far as I am concerned, Danno is and will always be who I want for a partner and there is no one else who could ever replace him."

Grace frowned.

Running his hand over his head, he looked down at the sheet covering his legs as he tried to find the right words to explain to Grace why he had started taking Lou with him, rather than Danny when investigating cases, he sighed as he realized just how badly he had handled everything. "Grace, I honestly thought that if I took Lou along with me when we were working cases, that I was taking some of the work load off Danno's shoulders. I wanted to make things a little easier for him so he could recover from the bone marrow transplant and be able to deal with everything else that was going on with your mom and with what was happening with Charlie. I never thought for a minute that he would think that I didn't trust him or that I wanted to replace him with another partner." He shook his head as he looked back up at Grace, "I guess I really screwed things up, didn't I? No wonder why Danno is wanting to go back to Jersey."

Grace nodded as some of her anger melted away as she resisted hugging the man she loved like an uncle as she asked the question that hurt the most, a question that she had asked both Beth and Dog and neither could give her an answer to. "Why doesn't anyone care about Danno, anymore? No one cared that Danno gave you half of his liver, all they cared about was you were going to be okay. No one even went in to see him before the operation, I was the only one who did, but they all went in to see you." Her voice caught in her throat as a small sob escaped, "No one even gave Danno a get-well card. And they all thought it was funny. It wasn't funny, Uncle Steve, it hurt. It hurt heaps to see how upset Danno was and how no one noticed or even cared. Why didn't anyone even give him a card?"

Steve felt a sharp stab of guilt lance his heart as he remembered his own behaviour towards Danny when it had happened. He had not understood why Danny had been upset but now… Shaking his head, he realized that he did not know why everyone had decided to shower him with gifts and cards and ignored Danny when Danny deserved them so much more than he did. "I don't know…" he answered truthfully.

"Gracie, we all love Danny I swear, and although I know that you might not believe that at the moment, none of us realized how much we were hurting him when we tried to give him some space to get used to all the things that were happening in his, Charlie's or your lives. Unfortunately, while trying to give him the time alone to get to know Charlie, we gave him too much space and none of us realized just how much he really needed us, and that was so wrong." Chin said softly from the doorway as he entered the room with Eric trailing slowly behind him, carrying a large pile of cards. "You, Charlie and Danno are important members of our ohana and your right, ohana should not treat each other as we treated you, Charlie and your dad and we are so sorry."

Walking further into the room, Chin continued to try and answer all her questions. "You also wanted to know why we went and saw Steve before the operation and not Danny, well the reason why we went to see Steve before the operation was so we could say our last goodbyes in case Steve didn't make it." Chin looked at her and asked, "Did you know that your dad told the doctors that they were not allowed to tell us about the risks that he was taking by donating his liver?"

Grace shook her head.

"He didn't want us to worry but that's just the kind of man your dad is. He thinks about everyone else before he thinks about himself. He knew if we knew the risks he was facing, we would have tried to talk him out of it. While the doctors were allowing us to spend a few minutes with Steve, they were preparing your dad for the surgery. When we went to see your dad before the operation to wish him luck and to let him know we would be waiting for him afterwards, it was too late, the doctors had already taken him into surgery." Glancing back at Eric, Chin added softly, "As for all cards and gifts, I think Eric can explain better what happened than I can."

Swallowing hard, Eric stepped around Chin as he handed Grace the large pile of cards he held in his hands. "It's my fault that Uncle d didn't get any cards or get well gifts, Grace," he admitted softly as he nervously glanced at Steve before he returned his attention back to his cousin. "there heaps more at your place, this was all I grabbed when I went back there to get them. I just wanted to surprise Uncle d and show him just how much everyone loves him and thinks he is an awesome guy, so I sort of collected all the gifts and cards he was given. I was planning on throwing him a hero party and have them all on display when he got home…" Eric's voice trailed off a little as Grace stared at the large pile of cards she now held in her hands before she looked back up at him, "I guess it was not one of my best ideas…"