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A/N: Hey guys! So we get to see what's going on with Justin AND we've got some really cute fluffy things going on with Danny's date with Rowan. Trust me you're going to love it. For everyone who's worried, they are unofficially together after chapter 110. They are officially together as of chapter 119. So don't worry, it's all going to be happening soon!

Okay guys, don't forget! I need you guys to tell me what kind of bonus chapter you wanna read on the 24th. Do you wanna read a future chapter? (like parts from season 5 ie: Matty and Danny being reunited, Rowan and Steve at the Therapists, or season 6: like Rowan's big void moment, Rowan meeting her dad again, or season 7: like Rowan and Steve's proposal or their wedding, or Nahele's adoption celebration dinner) Do you want a clarification chapter? (How Rowan met Justin, what's going on with the Pierce's) Whatchu guys wanna read? AJ GIVE ME MORE INSPIRATION!

See you guys on Monday!

Chapter 107

A lot happened the following day.

Steve went to see the CIA agent he was certain took the body from Cambodia, or at least told people to do it. And after a charged altercation where Steve told him that the only way to get him to stop looking was to kill him, the man agreed to meet later that night in a more private location. Coincidently around the time Danny and Rowan were going on their date, which meant he could follow through on not ruining another date night for Rowan. He was determined to do at least that much for her.

Steve went to pick up Danny, who had the nerve to actually walk him through the night he had planned with Rowan like he thought it was a good idea to tell him. According to Danny the perfect night started with a candle light dinner at a restaurant Steve knew Rowan was dying to try because she had been trying to get him to go there with her for weeks now. Then a moonlit stroll on the beach with her favourite flavor of shaved ice, and then he'd drop her off at home, where unbeknownst to them, Steve would be waiting to make sure Danny didn't kiss her goodnight. She could have the whole date, but there was not gonna be a kiss goodnight, not from Danny. From him maybe, but not from Danny.

Steve hated that Danny had planned a fucking perfect romantic date for her with apparent ease. Yeah it was romantic as shit but it was also a no brainer. Steve could have done this too, he could have gotten reservations at a fancy restaurant, bought her shaved ice and taken her for a walk on a beach. It was when Danny hinted that he had other smaller things planned, that he wouldn't tell Steve about, that he started to worry. He said that it was just small little things that he was doing because he knew it would make Rowan smile. Danny had finer details, Danny had other smaller things to pile on, and Steve was never good at that sort of stuff.

While they were discussing that, Kono and Chin had gone to visit Nina Johnson whose medical bills had been paid anonymously by Laura. There they found a connection. Back in high school Laura had been dating Nina's son, Corey, at the same time she was dating Alan Lim. Corey had gone missing in high school, supposedly drowned, despite being an amazing surfer and no one ever found his body.

The assumption was that Alan Lim killed Corey and Laura knew about it. They assumed that she felt guilty about it, which was why she payed Nina Johnston's medical bills. And if that didn't help assuage her guilt, she probably also was going to come clean, which meant Alan Lim was going to go to jail.

And that was motive for murder.

Except when Kono and Chin got to his house Adam Lim had been completely brutalized. Chin and Kono had followed the ambulance to the hospital, Danny, who had picked up Steve in the Camaro, met them there.

"First-on-scene thinks it was a home invasion," Kono told them as the paramedics wheeled Alan by.

"You believe that?" Steve asked.

"Well, Laura Richmond and Alan Lim were both at the reunion. Laura's in the morgue. Alan's in the ER. I don't think that's a coincidence," Chin told them.

Yeah, Steve thought that too. "Alright, both assaults were up close and personal with no weapons. They knew their attacker."

"Alright, so right now, Alan is the only guy who can give us an ID," Danny summed up. God he loved it when Danny finished his thoughts.

"Okay, I want an officer with him at all times," Steve ordered. "The minute he wakes up, I want someone to take his statement."

Chin said: "Copy that," and then he and Kono turned to walk into the hospital, but not before Steve grabbed Kono to get her to stop. He had a question on his mind and he figured now was as good a time to ask her.

"Hey… uh… Kono… real quick… Rowan told you about Justin… why didn't you…"

"It was none of your business," Kono answered quickly cutting him off. "Hos before bros, boss, sorry."

Steve nodded, yeah he deserved that, she didn't really sound all that apologetic but he wasn't about to argue with her about that. He watched her disappear into the hospital with Chin and he pointedly ignored Danny's disappointed stare.

"When did they get so close?" he heard Danny mutter and he wondered if Danny was upset that Rowan chose to confide in Kono and not him. To be fair the man could barely keep a secret, he was surprised he managed to keep the fact that they had made up a secret from Steve as long as he had. Well now Steve knew what it was like to be left out. But Steve didn't have time to comment on that like he wanted to, his phone was ringing.

"Give me a second, it's Max," he said and then before Danny could say anything he had answered it with a gruff: "McGarrett."

One look from Danny and Steve put Max on speaker phone for Danny to hear so he wouldn't feel left out. "Commander McGarrett, I'm so sorry to give you this news, but I don't know what happened."

God he sounded so upset. Steve was immediately concerned. "Max. Relax. What's going on?"

"That sample you gave me. I set it over to the lab for processing, but they say it never arrived."

Steve's eyes whipped to Danny just as he said: "Just like Rowan said it would."

Yes, just like Rowan had said. But Mac didn't hear him, he was too busy freaking out.

"I'm doing whatever I can to track down its whereabouts, but as soon as the sample left my office, it's as if it simply vanished," he cried.

Steve was upset, of course he was, but it wasn't Max's fault. And part of the reason he was so upset was that Max was so distraught over all of this.

Steve smiled to himself. "You know what, Max. Don't even worry about it. Okay? I mean, it's not your fault, alright? Thank you for the call. I appreciate it."

He hung up and then turned his eyes back to Danny who was staring at him with a very confused look crinkling his face. He went to walk into the hospital but Danny stopped him.

"What?"

"Why are you not upset by this news?"

"I would be upset if I gave Max the whole sample," Steve said and Danny smiled.

"Oh you stuffed a little on the side, like, for a rainy day or something?" Danny asked grinning like an idiot at him.

Steve nodded. "Wanna beat these guys, you gotta play by their rules," Steve said with a shrug.

"And you listened to Rowan."

"Yeah," Steve conceded. "Yeah, I listened to Rowan. I mean… she had been right about everything else so far, so I figured… I wouldn't take a chance with this. And you know… she was really upset that you didn't listen to her yesterday about the collapsed building… made her cry you know?"

"Okay, hey, don't do that to me. Don't guilt me like that," Danny ordered. "And it's a parking garage. A parking garage collapse she is getting more and more details about, which does not bode well, okay. So I may not be avoiding all parking garages yet, but I am listening."

"More details?" Steve echoed.

"Yeah, you putz, Chin and I… we've had a lot more practice with this then you have. Her dreams, they're fuzzy, until it becomes important. She says it's cause she's not energized by the void anymore so she doesn't remember the TV show until it starts happening, until she's right in the episode. But the dreams she gets, their like warnings, except they're fuzzy like a TV not getting the right signal. And as we get closer to the start of the episode her dreams get clearer… and more frequent."

Steve stood there taking it in, remembering what Rowan had said about that parking garage collapse and how she saw Danny die with a bolt of Rebar blooming out of his chest.

"How many times did she dream that collapse this week?" Danny asked him.

"Uhm… three times that I know about."

"Okay, and I got four calls, so I'm going to guess four times maybe more, because she doesn't always call me when she has the dreams," Danny said, probably once when she wasn't with Steve.

"Okay… and does that mean… does that mean we worry?"

"I don't know. Chin said, the week before the Gary Nathan case, Rowan dreamed of him getting taken by him every night that week. And she had scary details. Like, she knew what the guy looked like, knew that he tortured women, that he was going to cut Chin's finger off and take his girlfriend hostage as well. But before the case with Gabriel, Rowan only had one dream the night before we caught the case and it was about the night Chin's father died. So you know… it varies."

"Alright, so this is definitely more like the Gary Nathan case," Steve said. "So… I guess if she has five dreams in a row we should worry?"

"I think we should just worry," Danny said. "She says it happens when we're together. So we just shouldn't go into any parking structures together."

"Really? You think that's going to work? Me and you we just won't ever go into a parking garage together and that's it, dream thwarted? No, you said it yourself, Rowan's told us about it, it's in the universe now, it's going to happen, now we just gotta make sure we survive it."

Danny shook his head but followed Steve into the hospital. He didn't like Steve's plan, and Steve knew that, but in light of what they knew, it was all Steve had to offer. Right at that moment all he could do is just finish up this case and hope to god he didn't try to kill Danny before he tried to take Rowan on that date.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Returning to the palace after the arrest he just went through was both welcoming and not. It was a rough take down. Despite Danny being warned by Rowan, he still got hit with a shovel, but luckily, Rowan put Kamekona in the air and on their way to him to help track Bradley in the maze from the air. It was because of Kamekona's directions that Steve managed to catch Bradley in the first place, Kamekona and indirectly Rowan.

He didn't deserve the help. Not after what he had done, it was really nice of her take care of them like that, so when he got Bradley into the back of the Camaro he had shot her off a text professing the right amount of gratitude, so she never forgot how much he and the rest of the Five-0s appreciated her again.

I didn't do it for you. I did it because that man had the nerve to hit my date with a shovel.

Well that wasn't the response he was hoping for, but he deserved it and said nothing else about it. When he got to the palace he was excited to just sit down and rest his weary bones, except he wouldn't be able to. He had a video chat cued up in a few moments where he'd hopefully get some form of explanation as to what the hell was going on with Justin Chau who may or may not have been Yakuza.

When he got there he found Justin leaving and Catherine waiting for him. And that was when the Palace stopped being welcoming.

"Where the hell is he going?"

"We couldn't hold him Steve not after…" "After what?" "He's an actor Steve."

Steve straightened and stared at her. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Justin Chau, he's an actor. The profile you found this morning, it was put into the FBI database last night during the first initial hack. Once you arrested him, whoever hacked in the first time, hacked in again and took it down. Justin was approached by Yakuza, he was offered the job, given a makeover and then flown over here at the request of, what he was told was a rich benefactor, who wanted to set his girl up with a man he could control. He was fed lines, info about Rowan, was told how to behave with her, and was warned that he might get arrested, hence the large fee."

Steve just stood there staring at him. An Actor? Why? What the hell did that prove? What was the purpose of putting either Rowan or himself through that?

"Your call is coming in," Catherine said interrupting his thoughts. Steve moved over to the smart table and then just waited for the images to appear.

Steve didn't have to say anything. The second Wo Fat saw his face he was laughing at him.

"This is not funny," Steve snapped as Wo Fat collapsed against the table he was sitting at, wheezing and slapping his hand against the wood. "You hired an actor to date your sister, she's going to be livid."

"Oh god, look at your face! God, she's so mad but your face, it's worth it for that fucking face."

"It's not funny," Steve repeated.

"Yes it is! Is it true? She says you literally pulled the cuffs out the second he dropped the word marriage. Did you really? God I wish I hadn't missed that."

Oh god…. He had. It wasn't intentional but the second that man said he'd marry her Steve lost it… decided then and there that he had to arrest him because he needed to be as far away from Rowan as possible.

"You've already… she already knows?"

"Of course she knows. I got a stern lecture, she nearly disowned me and I was informed that if I ever pull a stunt like this again, she will fly to Colorado to beat my ass, solitary confinement or not."

Yeah that sounded like Rowan, luckily for Wo Fat she didn't have a passport. Steve shook his head at him. "What the hell is the matter with you? What did you think you were going to gain?"

"Well, I was hoping she'd like Justin. She did not. He was sweet apparently, but not her type sadly enough. But I figured I wouldn't be that lucky on the first try, so I'll settle for making you upset, and since I have I'll say this experiment was a success."

Steve sighed, he rubbed his temples to try and keep the growing head ache at bay. "You have got to be kidding me."

"I assure you I am not. Though Rowan has her heart set on you I quite decidedly do not. I think you're not good enough for my sister."

"Wait… Rowan has her heart set on me?"

Wo Fat sighed as if completely aggravated. "You are hopeless. How I have become your relationship counsellor is beyond me. Here's my advice. Drop Catherine. Ask my sister out. Or I'll keep sending people to date her until one of them sticks."

"Didn't she say…"

"I'm a freaking criminal mastermind with nothing but time on my hands. And honestly, I'd love to have her visit Colorado even if it is to attempt to kill me in my solitary cell. Whatever gets her away from you eh?"

"Okay, yeah we're done here, good-bye you psycho."

"Bye to you too… Commander Twat."

Steve ended the call and then just stood there for a moment. He didn't know whether he should be mad at Rowan for letting him think that her brother has sent down a criminal to date her and she had been fine with that, or if he was madder with himself for proving Wo Fat right.

Steve knew one thing for sure, though… whatever he and Rowan had… it wasn't ignorable, it was transferrable, and he sure as hell didn't want anyone else anywhere near her.

Steve was going to have to cave first. Steve was going to have to let her win this one if he wanted to have her. He could do that right? It would be worth it in the end… wouldn't it?

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Steve's Silverado pulled up to the building where he'd be meeting the agent with all the information Steve needed and quickly made his way up to the office he knew belonged to him.

To say he was nervous was an understatement. Anyone would get jittery where they were finding out information like this. About their mother and why she was so attached to a psycho path. A psychopath who had an unhealthy interest in their girlfriend's love life, in their girlfriend in general.

The problem was, when he got up to the correct floor none of the lights were on. That didn't bode well, this was a horror film in the making. And then when he got to the office, the door was slightly ajar and it was pitch black inside.

Steve hesitantly pushed the door open reaching into the darkness to turn on the light. The office was empty.

Like literally empty, it had been cleared out of everything, it was like he had never been there in the first place.

"You son of a bitch," he muttered to himself and then the phone rang.

Shaking his head he crossed to the desk to answer it.

"You need to walk away," a male voice said to him once the phone was to his ear. God not this again.

"Who is this? Where's Sam?" Steve asked.

"Agent Connors doesn't exist," the voice told him. "The casket in Cambodia doesn't exist."

"You think making an agent disappear and cleaning up that mess in that field is gonna stop me?" Steve thundered truly offended that they thought he'd cave that easily. He was Doris McGarrett's son, that should have tipped them off to just how determined he was to get his answers. But they didn't have an answer for him, they just hung up.

Steve was left standing there in that office, seething. Today, had literally been a terrible day. Rowan was looking for normal people to date. Her brother was calling in actors to prove points to him, and sadly it had worked way too well. His best friend was taking Rowan out on a date and he had to pretend it was okay even though it so wasn't. And now, now the FBI was going to stop at nothing to keep him from finding out the truth.

Could today get any worse?

Actually it could, because he still had to post up by Alex's to make sure Danny didn't try to kiss Rowan goodnight cause he was really worried that he might try and then Steve would have to kill him. He was also very certain that Danny had no interest in Rowan in that way, that he had only agreed to this date to upset Steve. What he was really worried about was that Danny would kiss Rowan also just to annoy Steve, and if he did he was going to get punched. Simple.

He made his way down to where he left his truck, checking his watch, if Danny's time line was right he would be taking Rowan to the beach. That meant if he went to Alex's now he'd probably have to wait about an hour before they showed up. Steve had just gotten the door open when the purple GTO pulled up and the horn honked twice. Steve blinked his eyes at it, even though he knew who it was because Rowan was the only one on the island with a car like that. Still didn't explain why she was there.

She rolled down the window and called: "Get in loser! We're going driving!"

Steve approached the car. "Really? Loser?"

"Oh my god it's a Mean Girls reference. What did you live under a rock?" Rowan asked as Steve slid into the back to where Amber was sitting. It was the first time they were meeting and Steve was surprised. She was a really, really cute little brunette. Way out of Danny's league.

Had they taken Amber and Grace on their date? That was… awkward.

"What uh… what about the date?" Steve asked.

"I'm dating Amber, you putz," Danny said reaching back and smacking Steve's shoulder.

"Yes and Melissa would not approve."

"For the love of God, Rowan, her name is Amber. Ahhmmmbbuurrr," Danny drew out.

"He literally just said it," she said to her.

Rowan scowled. "Sorry! I will get it. I swear. I swear, one of these days I'll get it."

"So, what is this?"

"It's a Saturday Night Sing Along," Rowan said. "It's saved for special occasions, mostly, but we're making an exception tonight. Tonight it's because we all have disappointments we'd like to live down at the moment. And I'm told I'm supposed to make things less awkward with Grace and Amber." She then turned to Danny with a playful grin and said: "See I got her name right this time. "

Steve knew his disappointment, he was pretty sure he knew Rowan's, but what were Danny, Amber and Grace disappointed about? He turned to ask them only to have Grace say: "I'm not disappointed about anything, I just love Sing Alongs. And I'm not being awkward."

"No but your father is," Rowan said shooting Danny a teasing smile as everyone laughed at him and his discomfort.

Ah, well that answered one question.

The GTO roared to life and then the city lights were blurring around him as the songs thumped through the car. Everything about the car was original, except for the radio which was brand new and capable of being hooked up to Rowan's phone. Steve had also made sure to put a better sound system into the car for her so the music came out clearer.

That was ever so apparent as the words to Cheap Thrills came out at him. But it wasn't Rowan's voice singing it.

"Did you…" "Sell the song? Yeah Sia bought it, that was the diva pop star from the other day, you know when I convinced you to talk to Grover about your nightmares? Nice lady, said she'll buy anything I write out right if I think it's gonna fit her brand or voice. Pete was super pleased to hear that."

Steve blinked his eyes at her. That was… pretty amazing. It looked like Rowan had some good things going for her… you know… when he wasn't ruining her dates.

"Congrats," Steve found himself whispering.

"Hey Aunt Ro, have you finished that other song yet?" Grace asked suddenly.

Steve watched Rowan's eyebrows crinkle in surprise. "Which song sweetie, you know I'm working on a few right now."

"You know…" she said and then started to sing: Let this promise in me start, like an anthem in my heart…

That didn't sound like one of Rowan's pop songs, it sounded different, just those lines alone gave him chill. Rowan nodded. "Ah, From Now On. No sweetie, I still don't remember what note the high note is supposed to be and where it goes in the song."

Grace seemed to think for a minute before asked: "Okay, then can you and Danno sing the Lips of an Angel?"

"Oh you know how your dad feels about that one," Rowan said while Danny shook his head.

"Wait you guys sing a song together?" Amber asked before Steve could, she didn't sound too pleased about it either.

"Yeah, it goes too low for me to sing it," Rowan said. "Danny does a good job though but I don't think he'll do it with either of you in the car, though. Danny's shy."

Steve couldn't help but find himself grinning at Danny who was pointedly ignoring him up there in the front seat. "Well now you gotta sing it."

"Yeah Danno please?"

"No, not with him in the car. You know what he's like, Gracie," Danny said curtly.

"And he doesn't want to look silly in front of… uh…" "Amber, my name is Amber." "I'll get it I swear I'll fucking get it!"

"Don't swear in front of my kid!" Danny snapped smacking Rowan's shoulder causing her to yelp.

"Don't hit my girl," Steve snapped back slapping the back of Danny's head.

"No fighting in my car!" Rowan shouted as Danny turned to hit Steve back, probably harder. "I will turn this car around and go straight home, don't think I won't!"

Steve sunk back in his seat scowling as Danny turned back around in his seat, sending a death glare at Steve before he did so, he watched the scenery change outside the window wondering where Rowan was taking them.

"Uncle Steve won't tease you… will you, Uncle Steve?" Grace asked after a moment's silence and then turned that puppy dog pout up to him. Well damn, he couldn't very well break a promise to his little Gracie now could he?

"No, course not sweetie, I won't make fun of him."

"And Amber won't get mad right?" Grace asked turning to Amber who turned to her surprised.

She blinked her eyes a few times before hesitantly whispering: "No?"

It was more a question than an answer but Rowan took it as permission.

"Alright," Rowan crowed. She reached for her iPod but Danny swatted her hands away.

"No distracted driving," he chided and then turned to Steven in the back. "Listen here, if I even so much as hear a snicker we're dropping your ass on the curb and not looking back got me?"

"What happened to not swearing in front of your kid?" Rowan taunted causing Danny to smack her again and tell her to shut up. Steve moved forward his hands gripping Danny's shoulders very, very tightly.

Steve was already grinning and fighting the urge to laugh, he wasn't sure he could handle it but he kept his mouth shut, and would do his best to not laugh. But he couldn't wipe the smirk off his face.

As soon as Danny started singing Steve understood why Danny wouldn't want to sing it in front of him but it wasn't his voice that hit Steve in that way, it was the words. They struck a chord in him.

Honey, why are you calling me so late? It's kinda hard to talk right now. Honey, why are you crying, is everything okay? I gotta whisper 'cause I can't be too loud.

It was like the words were his, it was like she had listened to his inner monologue whenever he was alone with Catherine but what he really wanted was her. When they got to the chorus, where Rowan started harmonizing with Danny, and her eyes met his in the rear-view mirror that he knew, he just knew that this song was written for him, or at least about him.

Well, my girl's in the next room, sometimes I wish she was you. I guess we never really moved on. It's really good to hear your voice saying my name it sounds so sweet. Coming from the lips of an angel hearing those words - it makes me weak and I never wanna say goodbye, but, girl, you make it hard to be faithful with the lips of an angel.

He wanted to ask how it was possible that she knew. He had told her recently that the way she said his name, his full name, all low and husky set him off entirely, but she couldn't have possibly written this entire song and recorded it with a full band in the time between him telling her that and now. With Danny and Grace knowing every word she had to have written this song before they even got back together. But Steve couldn't bring himself to ask the question, he couldn't bring himself to break the spell. There was something magical about sitting in the back seat of a car he fixed up himself with three of the most important people in his life, singing songs in the Hawaiian moonlight, their words drifting out the open windows and onto the warm night breeze.

The only thing that would have made it better was if he knew the words too.

The song coincidently finished by the time they got to their destination and Steve realized Rowan had pulled up to a beach. Grace was already cheering, unbuckling herself and bouncing up and down.

She had climbed over Amber to get the car door open despite Amber's cries of pain. She had the door open and was half out of it by the time Danny called: "You know the drill, don't run off until you're Aunt Ro is ready."

Grace said okay and then patiently waited, hoping up and down in excitement, but saying absolutely nothing as Rowan put the car in park, swung her impossibly long legs out of the car and then took off her shoes. As soon as that was done Rowan and Grace were running through the sand to the surf. They splashed through the water laughing and giggling, kicking water up at one another and practicing their cart wheels.

Steve and Danny moved to the front of the car and leaned against the bumper watching the two girls have fun. Amber stood beside them watching the show. Danny glanced over to her.

"Uh… you can go… you know? You can go join them."

Amber turned to him, clearly unimpressed. Uh-oh, maybe inviting her along on a sing along was not a good idea. "Are you sure? It kind of looks like they don't need or want me there."

"Hey Amber come on!" Rowan cried. "We're having a cartwheel contest!"

"Yeah! Come on!" Grace echoed and the two of them waved her over.

"See, they want you there," Danny said. Amber shot him one last glance before jogging over to join them.

As soon as she was gone Steve turned. "She's not too impressed with Rowan is she?"

"Well can you blame her? She's another woman. A very pretty woman that I sing duets with… that have nothing to do with me by the way, she just needed a male voice I have a feeling that anyone would have done… it doesn't help that Grace and Rowan really have a thing you know? I keep trying to tell her that these sing along's they're Grace's thing with Rowan. Grace loves Rowan's songs, she loves listening to Rowan sing and Rowan… despite saying she doesn't like nor is she good with kids, is really… really good with Grace. She's a bad influence but she'd never put Grace in danger you know? She's usually a pretty good role model."

Steve nodded as if that made sense. And then Danny added. "I have a feeling that she's going to be worried that Grace will never like her as much as Grace likes Rowan."

The two girls devolved into singing, a melody Steve didn't recognize paired with words he couldn't hear. But they seemed to be having fun except for poor Amber who looked out of loop. Well Amber wasn't the only one, Steve didn't know the song either.

"She's really close with you two now, huh?" Steve whispered and Danny nodded.

"You think it's bad with me, you should see her with Chin," he said and Steve turned to him. As if Danny could sense Steve's inquisitive stare, could feel the questions rising up in his friend, he sighed and added: "After she cut us out, after we figured out what had happened… all she had was me and Chin. And Rowan… I don't know if you know this… Rowan doesn't like being alone. I have Grace so it was harder for her to attach herself to me… but Chin… well… he needed company and Rowan needed someone."

Steve hadn't known that. He had begun to suspect it, but he had never actually had any concrete proof to make that statement true. "Yeah, it's why she's so determined to do things on her own. She's always relied on other people. Her parents, her brother and now us and Wo Fat. It's why her music is so important to her, it's why she's looking for her own place, and I think it's why she's constantly going out of her way to help us without directly telling us."

Steve watched Rowan jog up to them. His body instinctively reacting to her being close to him, but she didn't come to Danny or to him, she jogged right past them and to her car. She turned it back on and then she was fiddling with the radio.

"Oh God… Rowan… no… we're going to get another noise complaint again," Danny groaned.

"Oh, it's one song Danny," Rowan told him. "And besides she's asking, it's practically tradition."

Danny sighed out a dejected god as a new song came on the radio and down the beach Grace cheered and called Rowan over. Not only did Rowan rush over, but once the song started, the two of them were dancing and singing.

This song was a feel good song meant to make people happy, meant to make people dance, which was what the song was about. Dancing. But what surprised him was that the dance Rowan and Grace were doing was synchronized and clearly practiced. But it wasn't until they were coming up to the second round of the chorus that Rowan came up, clearly with the intent to grab one of them.

Immediately Steve began to panic, he didn't know the moves. But it wasn't Steve that Rowan was coming for. It was Danny. She grabbed a hold of him and though he struggled to shake her off she still managed to get him out onto the sand.

And then they were all singing and dancing the same dance.

Nothin' I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance. Feel a good, good creepin' up on you so just dance, dance, dance, come on! All those things I shouldn't do but you dance, dance, dance and ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'. I can't stop the feelin'. So just dance, dance, dance. I can't stop the feelin'. So just dance, dance, dance, come on!

He watched them dance, he watched the giant smile on their faces, even Danny was grinning and having fun. And each and every single one of them knew the dance. A dance that he didn't know. A dance that he had never even heard about. Well, he didn't have to feel bad about it, cause Amber didn't know it either. She left the group and came to stand beside Steve.

"I don't know it either," he said to her when she leant back against the car. Amber smiled her thanks up to him. "I'm Steve by the way, I'm Danny's partner and Rowan's… uh… something. I'm dating her. Not Danny. Me. You know… just in case you were worried."

Amber nodded to him but shook the hand he offered to him. "I'm Amber, and I'm dating Danny… in case you were worried."

Steve laughed and they turned back to the group as they finished off their dance.

When the song was done, Rowan jogged up to turn the music off before it could go to the next song. Danny and Grace stayed out by the water and when Rowan was done in the car she came to stand in front of him all breathless and tired. She turned to Amber with a warm smile on her face and then glanced back to Danny and Grace.

"You know, Grace is the one who picked out those dance moves… she'd be able to teach you better than me," she said. "Why don't you go ask her? She loves showing off the moves."

Amber's eyes narrowed at her, but after a few silent moments of contemplation she thanked Rowan for the idea and walked back to the water where Danny and Grace were playing and then he and Rowan were gratefully alone.

"Uh… what's going on with your face?" she asked. "You have like… some really weird version of aneurism face."

Steve scowled, goddamn she was spending too much time with Danny. "I don't have aneurism face," he muttered. He stared down at Rowan who he cared about so deeply for. He thought about how upset he had been when he found she had been dating someone else, and why… why hadn't he just told her he didn't want to share her? That it hurt to see her with someone else because all he really wanted for her to only want to be with him. Why was he so afraid that she'd say no? Why was he afraid she wouldn't really want him?

"Well something's wrong, what is it?"

"So does… uh… does everyone know that dance, or just sing along people?" Steve asked trying to not sound like he was upset that he was left out.

Rowan smiled at him, a motion of pure pity and he just wanted it to go away. "When I wrote the song… when we started these sing alongs, you and I weren't friends."

"So is that a yes?"

"Yes Steve, but I can teach you if you're really upset about it," she whispered. Steve wasn't sure how it happened but his hands were suddenly on her waist pulling her towards him. The last time one of them was leaning against her car they ended up making out. Steve wanted to that now, but not with Grace and Danny teaching Amber that dance near-by. But at least one peck… they could get away with one peck.

"I'm not upset," he whispered. "I just… would like to be…"

But before he could finish his sentence, Rowan raised herself up on her tippy-toes putting herself altogether too close to him and suddenly they were kissing. Her hands splayed across his chest as his grip tightened to pull her closer. It was a chaste kiss, they didn't go too far, and as quickly as it started it ended.

Rowan opened her mouth to say whatever it was she was going to say before he cut her and himself off with that kiss when Grace suddenly interrupted her.

"Are you Uncle Steve's girlfriend now, Aunt Ro?" Grace called and Rowan winced. Steve wanted to say not yet but Rowan turned away from him and beat him too it. Damn he needed to stop kissing her so much, it dulled his senses and slowed down his reflexes.

"No, sweetie, I told you… Uncle Steve and I are still uhm…" she called back and then froze. She couldn't finished the sentence and Steve realized that Danny was right. Rowan had absolutely no idea what he and her were, though to be fair neither did he. But that meant that Rowan was probably just as confused as Danny told him she was. Steve found himself staring at her as Grace groaned loudly.

"Aww… why not? Doesn't Uncle Steve love you?" she asked.

"Uncle Steve happens to care for your Aunt Ro very much," Danny explained. "But they're working on some things, okay monkey?"

Grace seemed to think this over before she said: "Well don't take too long," and then skipped away taking Rowan with her.

Steve watched them go as Danny joined him to apologize. She wasn't his girlfriend yet, but once he thought of a good way to put it, once he got her alone and he thought she might say yes to him, he was going to ask. Screw the Wo Fat thing, he could work around that. Grace was right, he didn't want to take too long, this had already taken too long.

Steve McGarrett had finally smartened up.