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A/N: Hey guys! Happy Easter Friday, if you celebrate that. If not, Happy regular Friday. So it's official guys! I officially finished rewrite season 4! All I have are the ten filler chapters and then we're moving onto season 5. This is so exciting. I also have some minor spoilers that I will be posting below detailing what's going to be going on in the upcoming seasons. If you don't want to know, skip it okay?

I'm really glad you liked last chapter, I really hope that you've liked the fluff cause… as of this chapter… we're dealing with the angst again. So this chapter… but in particularly the next chapter, there's going to be some major drama and major angst as we've finally hit Hump #1. And right after it will be major hump #2. Everything after the next two chapters is going to be minor bumps. There will still be some fluff, I promise, but we've hit an angsty few chapters. I promise that in about 10 chapters it will be done, like, no more relationship bumps, they will be fully committed the only issues is them making it official and then getting a label onto Rowan. So please don't get TOO mad!

P.S. AJ I have decided a way to put you in the story. I'll be combined two of your plot points. I've made you a bit of a badass too so I hope that's okay. All I need is a physical description of how you want your character to appear and then you'll be in appearing in Chapter 129

Chapter 102

Well so much for getting her back in bed where he could show her all of the kinds of pleasure he had to offer.

But waking up to Rowan's on his chest, his arms around her, the lull of the ocean in the background and the general sense of being content as fuck had him waking up in a good mood. Except for the fact that sand was everywhere it shouldn't be.

He lay there basking in that moment, in the brightness in his chest. He hadn't felt this light in months. And all it took was one glorious romp with Rowan. His birthday was well and truly over now, though, which meant the pretending had to end here too… or did it? He didn't want it to end, obviously, and not just for the sex. He wanted all of this.

He wanted her to wake up so he could help her dress, brush the sand from her body and kiss her over and over. He wanted her to brush the sand out of his hair as he knelt in front of her to help her with her shoes, her eyes linked with his. He wanted to take her home and fuck her on his bed then make her breakfast. He wanted her to always look at him the way she had last night, with the stars reflecting back at him and utter wonderment in her eyes.

Somewhere in the sand a phone rang. Still a little out of it, Steve reached up and answered it. "McGarrett."

And then silence came back at him. Steve pulled the phone from his face… realized it was Rowan's phone and that a private number had been calling her. Ohh… Wo Fat.

He put the phone back to his ear in time to hear Wo Fat's weary voice ask: "Since I'm assuming she's still with you, can you give her the phone please?"

He nudged Rowan who groaned against him, her lithe body stretching out the kinks of sleeping in the sand. Her body against him, moving in that way, her fingers digging into his chest set him on fire again.

"Phone's for you," he whispered, handing it to her. Rowan sleepily took it and put it to her face. He slipped a hand under the dress shirt she was wearing, his fingers traced a pattern up her back that had her smiling into him and him smiling as well.

"Hello? No, no, I'm alright, we just… well… we stayed out on the beach," she said and then after a moment's pause she said: "Well I didn't know you'd worry, now did I? I was more concerned about getting laid."

That did not make Wo Fat happy which meant that they'd be arguing now. Rowan rolled off of him and onto her back and he sat up to get his pants back on. "His name is Chin, and I'm sorry he called you, but he was probably just worried cause I didn't come home."

Why was she referring to Chin's place as her home? Why would Chin get so worried that Rowan hadn't come back last night? Also how did he know how to contact Wo Fat? What was going on? He wanted to ask her that question but then Rowan sat up and leant against Steve, her chin on his shoulder, one absent hand brushing the sand away from his back and all thought processes left his mind.

"Okay, yes, I will call you when I get home, okay?" she said. "Yes. Okay. Love you too."

She hung up the phone and sighed against him and Steve struggled to keep his desires under control. "Everything good?" he asked her. Rowan smiled and pressed a soft kiss to the soft spot behind his ear. Steve groaned.

"Yep, all good. Except for all the sand in unsavory places," she whispered, trailing a set of kisses from behind his ear down to his shoulders, pausing to nip at the top of his tattoo, her eyes big and wide, filled with mischief and boring into him. Fuck me eyes, if he had ever seen them.

He wanted to kiss her, he wanted to tumble back into the sand with her but he could hear the din of people near-by and he really wanted their next sexual interaction to be on a bed. "You hungry," he asked, loving the way her fingers found all those spots that made his heart race, all while trying to clean him of sand.

"I could eat," she answered.

"Good, let's go to Rainbow's. My treat," he said.

"Mmm… Steven McGarrett footing the tab, I must still be asleep," she said as she got to her feet. She bent over to pick up her shorts and Steve couldn't resist a light tap on that inviting butt cheek. She gasped with mock outrage and then turned to him. "Keep that up Mr. McGarrett and we might not make it back to Rainbows."

He couldn't keep the smile off of his face. This was it, this was the day he finally got his shit together and figured things out with Rowan.

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Breakfast at Rainbows had never been charged like this. He hadn't been this awkward with Rowan since… well… no that's not true he was usually this awkward with Rowan, it was his default mode with her. But he had a reason this time, a good reason. Asking her what he wanted to ask her, it had a lot of implications. And he did not have a good track record when it came to baring his heart to Rowan Pierce.

They had sat quietly across from one another, he looking like he just came back from a fabulous night out in his fancy suit, and Rowan looking like a beach bunny who still had sand in her hair. His hand holding hers, his thumb brushing against her soft skin, her own thumb doing the same to his. She kept sipping at her tea, her eyes meeting his over the rim of her mug. Those beautiful blue eyes doing unspeakable things to his heart… and his dick. He loved those eyes. He found that he was too nervous to ask her, too afraid of what to say so he didn't end up making his move until the food came.

"So do you like… like this?" he asked her.

"You mean the pancakes?" she asked, she had only taken one bite. "You know I love pancakes, Steve."

"No. This. Us. The beach and now here and like… I unno do you like this?" he repeated stumbling over his words. God, he was usually a bit better put together than this.

"Well, sure," she answered. "I like dating you. The sex is phenomenal. Though, to be honest, I'd rather do it in a bed. Cause I have sand in unsavoury places and my neck is all out of joint from the couch…"

"I like dating you too," he blurted out because all that sex talk was getting him horny again and if she kept going he may not be able to wait to fuck her in a bed and he was getting too old for bathroom quickies. "I want this to be like… an official thing… like no one else… just us."

Rowan's smile widened, her eyes lit up like blue sparkling sapphires. "Really? I mean... I'd love—"

"Great!" he interrupted again. "Just… you know… call Wo and tell him you and him are done."

"Uh… what?" she asked.

"Well I mean. You'll have me. You won't need him," Steve replied.

That smile was gone. Rowan tugged her hand out of his grasp and then her hands went under the table, a sure sign that she was now concerned or upset, because as soon as she was either of those things she fiddled with her fingers.

"What are you saying, Steve?" she asked.

"Uh… that I don't want you connected with Wo Fat anymore? That if you're dating me you won't need him cause I'm going to protect you?" he offered.

"So if I want to date you I can't be friends with Wo Fat?" she asked.

"Yes?" he said. Why was that so hard? Surely she had realized that there was bad blood between him and Wo Fat.

"So if I stay friends with Wo Fat then I can't date you?" she repeated.

"It isn't this hard Rowan. You just said… you just said that you wanted to be with me. And I want to be with you… isn't that what… isn't that you what you want?" she asked.

"So you're going to make me choose between the guy I see as an older brother and you, the man I have romantic feelings for? Why? Why do I have to choose?" she asked in a small voice. "Why do you have to dictate who I see and who I talk to?"

"I don't care who you see or talk to, Rowan… don't… don't you know what he did? He tore my family apart. He killed my father! He's killed my friends and my coworkers. He tortured me! I can't forgive that. I can't."

"But I'm not asking you to like him. I'm not asking you to be friends, or forgive him. I don't expect the two of you to interact, I expect to keep you separate. Why are you making my feelings for you and my feelings for Wo the same thing, when they are completely different entities?" she thundered. "Why aren't my feelings for you enough?"

"They… they are… I mean… they're important but you… I can't… I can't be with someone who's involved with him. I can't… I can't separate him from… everything… I just… can't," he admitted. "Because every time I look at you I'm going to see him and I don't want that. Okay? I want to separate you and him. Okay? Don't you get it?"

"If this is how you're going to show me that you're not controlling… by trying to control who I see and talk to… than I don't want to be with you either," she snapped.

"Wait… no… Ro… please… don't… don't leave… please," stuttered but Rowan was already shaking her head at him and gathering up her things. No this wasn't where things were supposed to go. It wasn't. This was supposed to a happy ending what had fucking happened?

She threw down a few bills from her wallet. "Good-bye Steve," she snarled and then she was walking away. Steve tried to call her back to him but she wouldn't listen, she left the diner and Steve sunk into the booth.

How the hell had he fucked this up so bad? How the hell had this happened?

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Steve made it back to his house, his stomach twisted in knots, his throat thick with the frustrated tears he was trying to force back, his body heavy with the crippling disappointment. He just wanted to go into his house, drink his beer, and call Danny. Danny could help him fix this. Danny could help him pinpoint where he went wrong.

He was not expecting Catherine to be sitting on his front stoop. Steve sighed, he didn't need this today. He just didn't.

"Hey, Cath… uh… what's going on, you okay?"

Catherine nodded, standing to approach him. "I uh… I wanted to talk to you, if that's… you know… if that's okay… cause you know… we never got to talk at the party…"

"Yeah, I know," Steve answered illusively. "I got uhm… I was busy."

"I know you were with Rowan, no need to lie to me," she said.

Steve hung his head. He probably should have been sorry. But he wasn't. There wasn't any way he was going to regret the decisions that brought them to that beach, but he sure as hell regretted what happened in the diner.

He unlocked his door and invited her in where she quickly walked over to the arm chair and sat down. "This is a lot for me to ask… so… please be kind." Oh Steve didn't like that. What the hell did that mean? "I have been talking to Danny, and well he may have mentioned that you and Rowan aren't like… official."

Fucking Daniel Williams. Why couldn't that man keep his mouth shut? He knew, he knew Steve was going to ask her about that soon, why the hell was he going around like he couldn't make things work with Rowan? Well there was no arguing about that now, seeing as he didn't quite know what they were any more anyway.

"Uh… yeah… we agreed… uhm… we agreed to a more casual thing until… uh… yeah… just yeah."

God why was he telling her this? She didn't care if he and Rowan got together, she was rooting for him to not. Like any good ex would.

"Good, uhm… well I mean, not good for you and Rowan, I mean for me," she said lowering her eyes. "You said before that you care… uhm… I guess I was just wondering if you still cared."

Steve blinked his eyes. "I mean, yeah Cath, course I care about you."

"Do you care enough to keep trying?" she asked in a soft voice.

"Trying? Trying what?"

"To make us work, did you… I unno since this with you and Rowan seemed to have stagnated, do you want to try us again?" Catherine asked her warm brown eyes staring at him unwaveringly.

Steve blanched. His heart quickened, his chest constricted. Did he? Did he want this. He knew he wanted Rowan. But he wanted Rowan unattached and all his. He wanted to trust Rowan and he wanted her to trust him but they weren't there yet.

"I don't… I'm not sure…"

"It's an easy question, Steven. You and Rowan aren't officially together and you left me for her months ago. Whatever it is you're trying isn't working."

Okay… it was like two months ago.

"I mean…" he said rubbing the back of his head. "I wouldn't say we're not working. Her and I… we've gotten much better, I mean, yeah we're still casual but that's cause we're still trying to get past our… issues."

Catherine's scoff was one of disbelief and derision and Steve didn't need that this morning either. She didn't know what happened yet… how could she?

"You know I'm just… guess I'm a little confused. You really want to be casual with me… after everything I did and how badly I treated you?" he asked her hands on his hips glaring down at her. "When you know that my end goal is to work things out with Rowan?"

"Look Steve, I'm lonely, okay? I feel isolated and left out. The only person who invites me places with you guys is Rowan. She's the only one who still thinks and worries about me and the girl… well… I mean… come one we're supposed to hate one another. I just… I just don't want to be alone anymore. But if you seriously don't care for me anymore, if you don't want to try and make this work, or even just be casual even for a brief bit, just tell me that," she snapped coming to her feet again. "I'll quit Five-0, I'll move off the island. But don't stand there and tell me you cared about me when you clearly don't."

"God Cath, you don't have to move off the island and we're not kicking you out of Five-0. You have a job and a home here and I did… do care about you. You know that. It's just that… unno… I just… I just…" he paused there and thought about it. Really actually thought about it. About this morning disaster. He wanted Rowan. Yes, that emotion ran deep but he couldn't forgive the continuing to talk to Wo Fat, he just couldn't. Maybe… maybe things never would work out with he and Rowan. Maybe he should just face facts… "Alight," he whispered. "Alright. Fine. Then you and I. We'll do casual too, okay? Just don't… don't get your hopes up… Ro… if I can get things to work out there… then this will end, okay?"

Catherine nodded, smiling widely like he had just agreed to get back together with her. She hugged him tightly before kissing him. The feeling wrong, she didn't fit the way Rowan did, he didn't feel the same way as when he held Rowan. Their kiss was that and nothing more, no passion, and he didn't press for more.

"Okay then, how about Friday, we'll go on a date. A nice little dinner date at Side Street and we'll see how it goes from there, okay?" she asked when she pulled away.

Steve sighed but nodded. Not sure if this was a smart move

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Three days.

Three fucking days.

That's how long it had been since he had last seen or heard from Rowan.

She hadn't answered his calls, she wasn't at Alex's, none of his Five-0 friends could or would tell him where she was which left him worried, and slightly pissed off.

Yes, they had had an argument, but he didn't think it warranted her disappearing on him. If Danny and Chin had been more worried when he noted that he hadn't seen her in twenty-four hours he would have worried too, but they seemed quite calm about it, so he figured that they knew where she was.

How nice of them to have sided with her again.

The previous night, Steve had agreed to take Catherine out. He hadn't been looking forward to it but he had given her his word that he'd try so he had gone. It was surprisingly easy to slip back into old habits. The night started off quite rocky… with a farewell dinner prepared by Jerry who hadn't realized Steve had a date that night. It was a farewell dinner because Steve had asked him to back into his own place, for… well… his own reasons. After dinner he and Catherine had sat out under the stars talking and somehow, he still wasn't sure how, but he ended up in his bed, having sex with Catherine.

Nothing as glorious as the two encounters with Rowan, in fact he had a hard time concentrating on Catherine at all, but it was nice to get out some of that pent up frustration.

Steve had left Catherine in his room to go for a swim. Because waking up to a body that wasn't Rowan curled up next to his had not only startled him but left him feeling jittery and slimy. It made him realize that he didn't want casual with other people, he just wanted Rowan. But he knew, he just instinctively knew that if Rowan found out what he had done, she wouldn't see the reason behind it, she would just be mad.

So the plan, the one he thought about his entire 3k swim in the ocean, was to talk to Catherine, not just about how it wasn't going to continue between she and him, and to Jerry, to make sure that neither of them spoke to Rowan about the previous night or this morning.

He got back to the beach, out of breath but not tired or sore. He towel dried himself off, zipped up the blue hoodie that still smelt like Rowan, the last article of clothing he had that did, and then moved towards the lanai where Jerry was setting out what seemed to be a whole buffet.

"What's all this?" Steve asked coming towards him.

"A farewell breakfast," Jerry said "OJ or Papaya this morning?"

"Jerry, I appreciate this farewell breakfast and the farewell dinner last night and I think we both agreed is time for you to move on, right?"

"Was it the snoring?"

"No."

"Because I can get one of those breathing-mask things."

"Listen to me. It wasn't the snoring. Okay?" It was cause Rowan stopped coming over. It was cause he wanted Jerry gone for when he finally got Rowan to talk to him or answer his fucking calls. "It's not you at all. You didn't… it's me. You're a great roomie. I'm just… I like to live alone. Okay? You can understand that right?"

"Well you didn't seem to mind having Rowan over. You kept her room the same and everything…"

"Okay… Rowan's different… she's… all alone, she's got no one else…"

"And you can sleep with her…"

"Yeah, I can sleep with her… don't tell her I said that," Steve said quickly. "But you have your mom and your own home to go back to, Rowan doesn't really have…"

"Well I mean she likes staying with Chin…" "—Whoa wait she said that to you? She likes staying at Chin's… I mean… did you see her or something?"

Jerry blinked his eyes at him. "Are you sure it's safe for me to go home?"

Steve tried not to groan in frustration, everyone did that to him now. Instead of answering questions about Rowan they'd just change the topic. "Yes, Jerry. Yes. The Chinese government are… they got bigger fish to fry right now.

"Can we still be friends?"

"What are you talking about, we are friends. That's not gonna change."

"Good-bye hug?"

"Come on!" Steve said and then regretted it immediately. Jerry pulled him in for his hug and he was practically crushed by it.

"Aww look at you two, so cute," a voice he recognized announced. Steve pried himself out of Jerry's grasp and found Rowan sitting at the table, helping herself to food. "Does Danny know?"

The implication that Steve was cheating on Danny usually would have got a rise out of him but he was too panicked to care about that right now. Not when Rowan had finally showed up and Catherine was just upstairs.

"You know, if I knew we were going to have so many guests I would have made more food."

"You keep saying that, but it's just us here, Jerry," Rowan said, she turned to Steve who had winced at that comment because he didn't want to lie to her but he knew it wouldn't end well if Rowan knew he was doing casual with Catherine as well.

"What are you doing here Rowan?" he asked changing the topic before she could notice the look on his face.

He didn't do a good enough job because Rowan's eyes narrowed at him. "Well… I've been thinking about our argument…" "—It took you three days to think about our argument?" "… well I mean, yeah, and I was talking it over with Wo Fat and we came up with a counter offer that we think you might… uh… why exactly did you pull that face when I said me and you were the only ones here?"

Steve's eyes widened, she couldn't find out Catherine was here, not when she came up with a counter offer. Cause at this rate he'd take ANYTHING that minimized her contact with Wo Fat. But before he could come up with a convincing lie, Catherine was out on the lanai too.

"Good morning," she said crossing over to Steve and planting a kiss on his cheek. As he pulled his arm out of her grip and tried to move away Catherine turned to where Rowan was sitting in front of a waffle and a helping of scrambled eggs and said: "Oh Rowan… I didn't know you'd be here today."

Rowan's wide blue eyes swung from Catherine to Steve and he saw the realization of what he had done hit her. "Oh…" she said to him, pointing to Catherine. "That's why…"

"Okay, just uh… just give me a second to explain…"

"Nope, no, not necessary," Rowan said quickly getting out of her chair and moving away. "I uh… I just realized I have to go, band meeting and all of that."

"Okay, bye," Catherine said in a saccharine sweet voice. Steve shot her a glare before chasing after Rowan.

"Wait, wait, wait…" he called rushing past her and the throwing himself against her car door before she could get it open.

Rowan looked up to him, there were unshed tears in her eyes and his heart clenched in his chest. God, no this was not supposed to be happening.

"It's not… it's not what you think…"

"No? You didn't just fall into bed with Catherine the second you didn't get your way?"

"No!" Steve cried, horrified she thought that. "Me and Catherine are not together, okay? It's a casual thing, like you and me, it's just something… something to do…"

"You mean someone to do," Rowan growled and Steve froze because maybe that was kind of it. "So let's see if I got it. I wouldn't cave to the whole Wo Fat thing, and now you and Catherine are casually sleeping together, is that it?"

"Well… I mean… I don't know… I guess I thought a lot over the last three days too and I… I mean what if we never get over this, huh? What am I gonna stay casual with you for the rest of my life? And then Catherine… she was lonely and she offered and I unno, I just … I mean, it's not like we're official or anything, you know?"

Clearly none of what he just said was the right thing because she went from about to cry to absolutely livid. Her eyes crackled with an intense rage and Steve actually considered backing away from her except he couldn't because he was up against her car.

"Well… you know… you're absolutely right," she said, crossing her arms over her chest. "So you go a head and casually date Catherine, and you know, Alex has been wanting to get back together, maybe I'll juts casually date him too?"

"Okay now wait a second…"

"Oh no, Steven, if you get to casually date, so do I. So if I want to see if I can work things out with my ex you don't get to say shit, now get away from my car so I can drive over to Alex's okay?"

"Okay… so we both know you're only saying this because you're mad at…."

Whatever he was going to say next was lost when Rowan punched him in the throat. Steve immediately couldn't breathe, he collapsed to his knees, coughing and sputtering as Rowan pushed him over and then climbed over him to get into car. She sped down the driveway the dust from the gravel spraying up and making it even hard for him to breathe.

Steve flopped down to his lawn struggling to breathe, rubbing his throat. He deserved that. He did. He knew it was a bad idea. Now he had made everything worse.

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The sobs took over a few streets over and Rowan was forced to pull over to the side of the road to let them out. She sat in her car, forehead to the steering wheel and just let it all out. After a few minutes of crying, Rowan forced herself to sit up.

She sat there, forcing herself to breathe, trying to will the tears away.

She wanted to talk to someone, but she couldn't call Danny, he was always on Steve's side. She could call Chin but he'd worry, besides he had been called in on a case before she left which meant Steve would be called in soon too. She could call Kono, but she was with Adam and Rowan didn't want to ruin her time with Adam by dragging her through Rowan's misery.

But there was someone she could call. He wouldn't take any of this well, not any better than she was at that moment but he was all she had at that point. Still she pulled out her phone, marshalled in her breathing and then she pulled up the app and called him.

He answered on the first ring. "I thought the deal was that you wouldn't be talking to me as much anymore."

Already the tears were back in her eyes her voice thick with her emotion. "I couldn't… I didn't…"

"Aw, Rowan, it's okay," he said to her. "I know how much you care for him… I'm fine with what we came up with… honest."

Yes, she did have strong feelings for Steven McGarrett, which was why this hurt so much. "That's not it."

"Are you crying? Why? What happened? Did he turn down the offer? I don't think I could negotiate much more…"

"No, that's not it, he… he…" "He what?!" "He had Catherine over…"

Wo Fat went silent as he listened to her distressed sobs and then sighed in the most aggressive way possible. "That's it. I'm sending someone to beat him up… today. Knock some sense into his thick…"

"NO!" Rowan cried as if the man hadn't just gone back to his ex.

"Then I'm sending someone to kill Catherine. I don't care who gets it but blood will be spilt today!"

"For god sake Wo, couldn't you just comfort me? I mean, it's great that you want to avenge every wrong that's done to me, but could you just say… I unno something comforting?"

He was silent a moment taking in that request. "Okay. You know I'm not good at that, but I guess I can try." He cleared his throat dramatically before saying: "He's a jerk. He's a jerk that doesn't deserve you and if he couldn't wait three days for you then well… he's just… you know…"

Rowan narrowed her eyes. "Why did you say it like that?" she asked. She heard the first of his protests but she cut him off. "No. Why did you say it like that? You don't think I'm worth waiting three days? He said some pretty shitty things in that dinner, should I have just rolled over and called you to cut you out?"

"No, of course not, Rowan," Wo Fat cried. "Okay, well to be fair… I did tell you to go over as soon as possible…"

"Yes, but we didn't know that he'd run straight back to Catherine," Rowan shouted at him and when Wo Fat was suspiciously silent she frowned and asked: "Did you know he had run straight back to Catherine?"

"Uh… yes… I did, but I didn't think they'd move that fast," Wo Fat said and Rowan roared in outrage.

"What… when did you… how did you…"

"Well, I, uh… I don't quite trust McGarrett, and when Kelly called to say you hadn't come home I sent some people looking for you. I forgot to pull them after I found you. One stayed right on you the other stayed on McGarrett… and well… he may have reported that Steve met with another woman and that he was speaking about a relationship of some sorts with her…"

"When?"

"Does that matter?"

"Wo Fat…"

"Jeezus, fine, okay. Uh… oh god, you're not gonna like this, but uh… after he got back from the diner."

Rowan felt her mouth run dry. Really right after their argument? She turned him down and he went straight back to Catherine? Really? And he was mad cause it took her three days to think about their argument? He literally fell right back in bed with Catherine as soon as he didn't get away.

"Why didn't you tell me?" she asked in a small voice.

"I unno… he's so damn protective of you, and he kept going on about how much he wanted you. I never thought he'd… and I guess I just didn't want to worry you."

"And you were secretly hoping he'd fuck up?"

"And I was secretly hoping he'd fuck up," Wo Fat admitted. "Look, I just… I just don't like the two of you together. Okay? I'm sorry. I don't. He's controlling, he did terrible things to you, he's kidnapped you, arrested you and now not days after using my goddamn network to save you, he wants you to cut all contact with me? That's not fair Rowan. I'm the only thing keeping you alive."

"Wo."

"Alright, fine, I'm sorry. To make it up to you I'll have someone cap her okay?"

"What's capping… you know what I don't wanna know, and you're not going to do it you got me?"

"Someone has to get hurt, Rowan, someone has to pay," he said to her and Rowan sighed.

"Someone has Wo. It's me."

"Yes, which is why you should let me…"

"Oz!" Rowan cried, hoping his nickname would calm him down. "Please. I just… I just want to lie down and die but I have to go to Alex's and beg him to cover for me."

"Alex? What… why… okay, no, not him… whatever it is you need him for, we'll find someone else," he groaned.

"Too late, I already told him I would get back together with Alex," she said. Wo Fat growled out her name but she ignored him. "It'll be fine, I know better this time. Just… just let me deal with it my way."

She hung up before he could argue, before he could hear the tears in her voice, before he could convince her to send someone after Catherine. The tears started falling again and she stubbornly wiped them away, at this point she wasn't sure if this was worth fixing anymore.

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Steve got called in for a case literally seconds after Rowan left. Which was great cause he might have throttled Catherine, and Jerry. Why the hell didn't Jerry open with, hey, by the way Rowan's over? And then why the hell did Catherine have to hang off of him like that, like they were together. It was one date, one date that he didn't think had gone that well.

But then Rowan had gone off. Get back together with Alex, indeed. If she got back together with Alex, he'd kill the singer himself, he'd… he'd officially date Catherine… he'd… god he'd probably just cry.

When Danny picked him up he sense immediately that something was wrong. He opened with: "Didn't Rowan come over?"

Which told him that Danny knew where Rowan had been all this time and just hadn't told him, despite Steve asking him repeatedly. It also meant that he knew Rowan was coming over, but he had also known that he had a date with Catherine the night before. Why the hell hadn't Danny warned him? Why hadn't he warned Rowan? But he couldn't blame Danny, he could have easily just not let Catherine stay the night. He didn't want to talk about so he turned the conversation towards what Danny had done that day and boy, did Danny not disappoint.

"A divorce attorney? You sure?" Steve asked. He knew Danny didn't want his mother to go through with the divorce but she was only so patient, or in the Williams' case, not patient at all.

"Mm-hm. I'm positive."

"She told you that?" Steve asked. He was trying to be supportive but after the morning he had he was not a happy camper and even he could hear it in his voice.

"No. it's not what she told me…" "You followed her?" "I might have followed her."

Oh wow look at Danny, pulling a McGarrett, maybe Steve was rubbing off on him.

"You followed her," Steve echoed with a large grin on his face, he was just so happy that it wasn't just him who stalked his mother.

"I did, but she was being very suspicious this morning. Okay? She's sneaking all around the house. And you're not allowed to judge me. Okay, cause I know for a fact that you surveilled your own mother, and Rowan, and that makes us even, so…"

Steve made a face, a single grimace and just like that the conversation was back on Rowan.

"Seriously, what happened? She was all excited to see you this morning, but if you're this upset it can't have gone well."

Steve's already bleeding heart nearly burst in his chest. She had been excited to see him? Why did that inflate him like that? Especially in light of how badly things had gone. Because maybe it meant that there was still hope for them.

"You should have told me she was coming over," Steve growled.

"Why?"

"Because I wasn't expecting her and…" "Oh god, you weren't alone?" "No, no I was not."

"Well, fuck, McGarrett," Danny thundered thowing up his hands in frustration. "Why did you… with Catherine? I thought things were done, I thought you only wanted Rowan. You were literally dreading that date last night!"

"I was…and I did… I do… it was just… familiar, you know? Maybe I just wanted to feel like someone wanted me, you know?"

"You're a fucking idiot." "You're not helping, Danny." "Oh and what do you want me to say then? How bad was it? Was she really upset?"

"Yes," Steve said, "She wouldn't let me talk to her, wouldn't let me explain."

"Well why didn't you try to stop her?"

"Of course I tried to stop her. I got in front of her car and tried to keep her from getting in but she… she…"

"How'd she get away from you?" Danny asked. "You were blocking her car, how did she get away from you?"

Steve avoided his eyes. "She… she uh… she punched me in the throat."

Danny stared at him for a bit and then started to guff, Steve didn't see what was so funny. "She punched you in the throat?" he echoed. And Steve scowled and looked away from him. "You, the trained SEAL got taken out by that little girl?"

Steve put the car in park and shook his head. Yes, yes she had, because it never occurred to him that Rowan would hit him like that, but he was wrong, make her angry enough and she would hit him.

"Okay let's go back to you, okay?" Steve cried desperately needing off of this topic. They got out of the Camaro and walked towards the crime scene "Maybe seeing a divorce attorney isn't the worst thing in the world. Then your mother can weigh up her options, right?"

Together they ducked under the caution tape and Danny shook his head.

"No, no, no. Attorneys are never a good thing. Okay? They get a hold of you, and forget about it. It's not good."

"Alright, you'll wanna hope that this top-secret op you got planned for tonight works," Steve said.

"It will. I hope," Danny whispered.

They were going up the stairs when Steve heard it, the distinct inhale of a Danny about to lecture him, and considering how Steve had been lecturing himself since the incident happened, he didn't need it.

"So how are you going to get her out of the house?" he asked. He didn't need to turn around to know that he had derailed Danny and he now had to switch from lecture mode to answer questions mode.

"Day of beauty at the Spa Makani. Shiatsu massage, mani-pedi by the pool. The whole thing, it was not cheap. But if it works, it'll be worth it, you know?"

They got to the front door, and to the side of him he heard someone say: "Are you Commander McGarrett?"

Steve turned to the man beside him, he didn't know how he got up there, he wasn't in a cop's uniform, Chin who had been standing at the door seemed surprised to see him. He was just a dark-skinned male, local looking, dripping surfing wax and salt water and wearing a tribal puca shell necklace smiling at him warmly looking fully out of place.

"Yeah, uh… how did you… you can't be up here…"

"I'm your Rowan-gram," he said and Steve frowned. Rowan had sent him a Hawaiian surfer?

And then the man punched him square in the jaw.

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Okay I think that's a safe enough distance.

So I want you guys to get used to the idea now, cause we have a lot of stuff that's going to be coming up.

For Starters, Season 5 is the season of fluff. It's going to be a lot of Steve and Rowan trying to get over their issues and find a way to make things work for them. So there's going to be a lot of over protective Steve, a lot of small dates, and cute things, and Rowan being a disaster.

Season 6, however, they're going to hit a major speed bump. Something terrible is going to happen to one of them and yes, there is a break up. And a lot of the chapters are going to be dedicated to Rowan becoming who she needs to be, learning to control her powers, and coming to terms with her past and how she came to the world. Which means there will be interactions with the other Pierce's I've already mentioned in the story and I will be introducing a new Main OC to the story. You've already met him, but in season 6 he becomes a main.

Season 7 is where Rowan and Steve finally get married.

So yes, after season five we will be going back to a season of all angst, and I'm sorry about that, but it's going to make sense in the long run. And after that, THAT IS IT! They're officially together, and then part way through season 7 they get married. So you know… things to look forward to!