Watching Grace and Eric leave the room to return to Danny and the rest of their ohana, Steve ran his hand over his head. He never ever wanted to see the hurt, disappointment, and anger in Grace's eyes that he had been responsible for placing there. Although Grace had seemed to reluctantly accept his explanations of what had started out as good intentions and a misguided attempted to help the family that he loved with all his heart and considered his own personal ohana but had ended so badly with not only Grace but also Danny feeling ostracized and unwanted by not only him but the whole Five 0 ohana, he knew that it was going to take much more than just explanations and apologies to repair the damage he had unwittingly done.

He sighed loudly before he turned and found himself staring at the pile of cards that Grace had left with him for safekeeping until they could pass them onto Danny. His frown deepened with confusion as he realized that somehow Eric had managed to intercept all of Danny's gifts and cards, even the ones that had been brought directly, by friends and acquaintances, to the hospital. His frowned deepened with the mystery of just had how Eric been able to achieve doing that as he looked back up at Chin, "I just don't get it, Chin, how did Eric manage to get his hands on all of Danny's Get-Well cards?"

Chin was unable to stop the small shake of his head as he picked up some of the cards and looked through them before he looked back at Steve, "Simple Steve, while we collected all the cards and gifts that you were given after the surgery to give you when you were well enough to receive them, Eric simply told all of Danny's friends and the guys in HPD that he that he was collecting Danny's cards and gifts, so everyone gave them straight to him with no questions asked."

"But what about the cards and gifts brought directly to the hospital? He couldn't have told everyone to give him the cards."

"No, he couldn't," Chin agreed before he shook his head in amazement of Eric's explanation of how he had managed to snag all of Danny's cards and gifts, "The nurses rostered on the day and evening shifts were collecting any cards or gifts that were brought directly to the ward for both you and Danny and keeping them at the nurse's desk until you were allowed to receive them. All that Eric needed to do was get friendly with one of the nurses and convince her that he would give Danny the cards with all the other Get-Well cards and gifts he had collected."

"And because Eric is Danny's nephew…"

"The nurse had no reason not to believe that Eric would not give Danny his cards." Chin nodded as he placed the cards back onto the table, "I think it was more a spur of the moment idea Eric had that he did not take the time to think through. But I have to admit, Steve, while his heart was in the right place but it wasn't one of Eric's brightest ideas. I am sure if he had seen the look on Danny's face when he didn't get any cards, he would have realized that and told Danny just what he had done, but he didn't because he was working last night when we gave you your cards."

"And we didn't help the situation any," Steve sighed.

"Yeah." Chin agreed guiltily as he looked back at the cards as he remembered the look of the hurt resignation of being forgotten that he had seen in Danny's eyes. "I'm only hoping that Danny decides to listen to us when we try and explain everything that's happened and that he will accept our apology, cause if he doesn't…" Chin's words faded off in a heavy sigh.

Steve swallowed hard and nodded, unable to speak, the mere thought of no longer having Danny by his side was too unbearable to even contemplate.

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AN I thought I would write this short chapter in an attempt to try and explain how Eric managed to get all the cards. :). Again I just want to thank EVERYONE who is reading, fav, following and reviewing this story. You guys are so wonderful and make writing such much fun.