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A/N: Happy Friday. Did you know today is my birthday… Do you know what that means? SURPRISE I'M DOING A MARATHON FOR YOU GUYS! We're going to have a 7 day marathon, which I thought you guys might appreciate. It's gonna get us all the way to the start of Season 5 if not farther. Do you wanna hear something crazy? I've written 155 chapters now. I've written all the way up to Episode 11, Nahele has officially been introduced, and I think you guys will like what I did there. But guys… I'm just a 45 chapters away from having written 200… that's… that's just crazy! CRAZY! This chapter in particular has some cute moments, we're going to see Wo Fat and Matty again, and we have some funny moments between Rowan and Steve and the other Five-0's. I had a lot of fun writing things one so I hope you guys enjoy it. I'll see you guys tomorrow!

Chapter 128

Steve, Danny, Kono, Chin and Grover all stood there watching the display in front of them with rapt interest.

It had been any regular old day. They had gone into work, to finish up paperwork on their last case, to have lunch and shoot the shit.

Steve had the day off. He was supposed to be spending it with Rowan, so they were all so very surprised to have Steve show up at the headquarters with a man in handcuffs and a very angry Rowan, following him. The two of them embroiled in a very loud argument.

The poor man hadn't been taken down to the dungeon, he had been shoved into Steve's office to be dealt with later. And then Rowan and Steve went at it right outside the office door in plain view of everyone.

"He was robbing the store Rowan! Did you want me to let him shoot the clerk? Let him take the money and go?!"

"No! But you could have just passed it off to HPD once it was done, but no! Someone had to play hero, someone had to crash into an ongoing robbery to save the pretty girl…"

"Oh my god, Rowan I didn't do it for her…"

"Well you sure did accept her thank you, didn't you!"

"SHE ATTACKED ME ROWAN! She was distraught and jumped on me what was I supposed to do, knock her out of the air?!"

"How about NOT making out with the store clerk in front of me, how about that?"

"For godsake Rowan!"

"No! This happens every. Single. Date!"

"Really I save lives and single handedly stop robberies on every single date?"

"No! But something happens. You're either pulled into work, you have girls hanging all over you or you're finding work WHILE we're supposed to be out!"

"You are overreacting, so can you please calm…"

"DON'T YOU FUCKING TELL ME TO BE CALM!"

Shit this was bad. Grover had never seen Rowan look that angry before, he had never seen them argue like that before and he had watched Steve arrest her for no reason. He glanced to the others who were also watching but they didn't seem too shocked at all.

"Uh… how often do they…?"

"Like every other day," Danny growled which caused Kono to smack him.

"I mean, they argue but like… it's never been this bad," she clarified.

"Yeah… this one's pretty bad," Chin agreed.

"Yeah bad," Danny growled. "Though let's be fair it's gonna be worse for me."

"Worse for you?" Kono snapped. "They're the ones arguing!"

"Yeah but I'm going to have listen to him bitch when this is done!" Danny hissed.

"Yeah and I'm going to have to listen to Rowan cry, what's your point?" Kono hissed right back.

"And Steve…actually all of us… have to listen to you bitch on a regular basis… about everything. So… I mean… it's the least you could do," Chin added and Danny glared at him.

"I WAS NOT CHEATING ON YOU WITH CATHERINE!" Steve shouted and they all jumped.

"Great they're back on that," Chin said with a sigh. "This is really not going to end well."

"She needs to let that go," Danny growled and Kono turned a glare on him. "It was a mistake, he said he was sorry, he picked her in the end she shouldn't keep bringing it up."

"No… I get why she's mad," Kono said. "They were working things out. He threw down a ridiculous ultimatum and when she wouldn't agree he went straight to Catherine. The woman who made her life miserable and made her feel like in order for us to be happy she had to go. It was a low blow."

"Yeah but they weren't official," Danny reminded her. "And she made it sound like she was leaving him so…"

"Yeah but that doesn't mean he should run straight back to Catherine," Kono argued.

"So, what he's supposed to wait until she decides to be reasonable?"

"YES!" Kono cried just as Danny said: "NO!"

Both of them turned to Grover and Chin and said: "Can you believe this?!"

Both Grover and Chin shrugged. "She's got a point," Chin said just as Grover said: "He's got a point."

Oh great they were split right down the middle.

"NO! I will not be telling you where he is! I told you! Stop asking me to snitch on my brother!"

"HE IS NOT YOUR FUCKING BROTHER!"

They all shook their heads. "You know this is just going to end with Rowan apologizing to him right?" Grover asked.

"Why should she apologize? Steve could just… you know… not work for once," Chin argued.

"He can't help it if crime follows him around. She knows him, she knows he can't stay away from the drama. She's supposed to like him the way he is," Danny reminded them.

"Okay. You guys wanna bet on it?" Kono asked. "Twenty dollars says he has to apologize to her."

"Yeah? I'd throw down forty on her apologizing by tonight," Danny snapped.

"Oh I want in on this action. I don't think it's going to be tonight, but I'll throw down forty on him having to apologize."

"Yeah I'm good for forty on Rowan caving first," Grover said.

"Fine you guys are on."

"You know what! Don't bother coming home tonight! Stay at Danny's cause I'm done with you!" she screamed walking away from him.

"It's my house, Rowan!" he called after her but Rowan just flipped him off and stormed away without saying hello or goodbye to any of them. Steve roared with frustration throwing his door open to his office and shouting: "You fucking prick! You see what you just did? Ruined my whole fucking day! You better tell me where your fucking accomplice went I swear to fucking god."

The poor man in the chair was so scared he actually threw himself to the floor to get away from the advancing Steve. Fuck Danny felt bad for the man, but at least he was smart enough to tell Steve everything he wanted to know. Now he just had to convince Steve not to make up with Rowan first but to make her come to him.

That wasn't cheating right?

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Steve returned to his house to find each of his doors barricaded and a gym bag with more than one night's worth of stuff waiting for him on the porch. He could have easily broken in but he didn't want to deal with that, not tonight anyway. He didn't want to argue with her… not when he was certain that she was over reacting, so if she wanted to sleep alone, let her. They both knew she'd come running the second she had a nightmare. The only problem was he didn't want her to have to come running, he wanted to be in bed with her, he never did sleep well without her.

Sighing, Steve reluctantly left his house and went to Danny's, who… for some reason… was very glad to see him.

They had drunk beer together, talked about how unreasonable Rowan was being and then Danny had retired to his bed and Steve had taken the couch. But he couldn't sleep. He was restless, he was worried, and he wanted Rowan. They had been going steady for at least three months now, and living together for four, he was no longer used to sleeping alone. Without her body tucked into his he couldn't sleep. Oh he could doze but it never lasted long.

Which was why he woke up the second he heard movement in the house. But he didn't sit up, there was no point, he knew who was in the house with him, knew by the way the sleepiness lazed over him, and how his heart seemed to relax suddenly. Steve turned just as Rowan walked around to his side of the couch.

She didn't say anything but he knew something was wrong otherwise she wouldn't have been there. He rolled off his back and to his side to look at her. He knew those eyes. She had had a nightmare.

"What is it, what did you see?"

"He sets the hotel on fire and you get stuck inside."

Wow, that was a new one but Steve was too tired to dissect that one. "Okay, avoid hotels, come here," he whispered opening his arms and letting her slid under the blankets with him. She tucked her head into his chest and his arms wrapped around her tightly.

Already he felt lighter and sleepier than he had moments before.

"I'm still mad at you," she whispered into the silence, her hands resting on his sides to tug herself even closer to him.

"I figured," he whispered right back his nose dipping until he could inhale the coconut and lavender of her all-natural shampoo. Her fingers gripped his sides a little tighter and he tried not to groan at the contact.

"Good night Steven," came out in a breathless whisper and his heart soared up into the night sky. Tomorrow morning they'd still be at odds, but for right now, with her in his arms, everything was right in his world.

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When Danny got up the following morning he was ecstatic to find that Rowan had broken into the apartment to cuddle with Steve. He took pictures of them and shot them off to everyone involved in the bet to prove that he and Grover had won. An easy 80 bucks for both of them.

They were in the middle of a giant text war about the legitimacy of the supposed "make up" when Steve said: "What are you doing?"

"Telling everyone you two made up," Danny said, already flipping open his camera to video tape their response.

"I haven't made up with him," Rowan answered sleepily. "So you can tell your friends that you haven't won your bet."

Oh fuck, who had told her about the bet huh? He'd bet major money that it was Kono.

"They're betting on when we'll make up?" Steve asked his eyes coming open.

"Mhmm… Chin says there's 80 bucks riding on which one of us caves first," Rowan said. Oh so Chin was the fucking snitch. Good thing he didn't put money on it. Danny watched Rowan roll off her side and stretch out beside Steve. As if he couldn't resist, Steve pressed a series of small kisses to her jawline. Rowan put a hand to his face and pushed him away. "Stop it, I'm still mad at you."

"Fine then get off," he snapped and shoved her right off the couch. Danny watched her hit the floor and just like that Rowan went from sleepy to awake.

"Oh my god! STEVEN!" she shouted and he sighed and finally opened his eyes.

"What?! If you're that mad at me you shouldn't want to be here, right?" he asked and she scowled at him. God, why did Steve do that? Now this argument was going to last even longer.

"Fine! You want me gone, McGarrett, I'll leave."

Steve groaned and rubbed his face quickly, getting up as Rowan did. "Come on, you know that's not what I meant," he called after her, but Rowan was already getting her shoes and her purse.

"Nope, you want to sleep alone, sleep alone. Or better yet sleep with Danny I'm going to go where they appreciate me!"

"Oh yeah? And where's that?"

"I unno, Wo's?!" she cried and Steve's cocky smirk fell right off his face which emboldened Rowan. Like she had forgotten that Wo Fat was Steve's weak spot. "Yeah! Maybe I'll go to Wo and maybe I'll let him take me off the fucking island. And maybe… MAYBE I WON'T FUCKING COME BACK!"

Panic hit Steve like a freight train, Danny could see it from where he was standing. "Don't you dare," he ordered. "Rowan… Rowan don't you…" but she was already out the door, and Steve launched himself over the couch to chase her. "Rowan Pierce don't you fucking do it! I swear to god, if you don't think I won't track your fucking location and send every HPD unit we can spare to arrest him you have another fucking thing coming."

Great now the argument had Steve out on his front lawn in nothing but a pair of loose grey board shorts. Wonderful. All his neighbours were going to see. Half the girls on the street would come a knocking hoping to comfort him. Danny was going to have to chase them all away. He'd have to move now.

Danny watched Steve duck as Rowan hurled her phone at him, had he not ducked it would have got him right between his stupid eyes. "Try tracing me without a phone ASSHOLE!"

As Rowan got in her car and drove away Steve retrieved her phone and came back inside. "Call Duke, put an APB out on Rowan. She's either going to be in her car or Wo's Audi. Have them trail her, and once they got a location on her, call me. If she's really gone to Wo I'm going to arrest him… that'll show her."

Danny sighed but refused to reach for his phone. Duke wasn't going to follow Rowan and neither were any of them. This argument was getting a little too out of hand… he may have to forego the bet to get them back together before they took this to a whole other level. Because they all knew what would happen if Wo Fat took Rowan off the island. Steve wouldn't rest until he got her back and Danny was not down to go on that ride.

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Matt woke up and sighed. He could already hear Wo Fat in the kitchen, the man was always up early. He had been living with him for at least a month and a half now, and originally Matt had enjoyed the company. But Wo Fat was bland, emotionless, and not impressed by fucking anything. All he ever wanted to do was drink whiskey and smoke cigars. He also spent a lot of time talking to, or watching over his sister. So when Matt came in the kitchen and Wo Fat on the phone not sounding happy, he assumed that he was having another argument with Rowan.

"I've already told you, McGarrett, she's not here and even if she were here, I wouldn't fucking tell you," he growled into the phone. "And I really don't appreciate you using her phone to contact me."

Matt took that in. McGarrett could be Steven McGarrett who was Danny's work partner. But clearly Wo Fat had bad blood with him, as he didn't sound happen to be picking up a call from him. So much for him being on the phone with Rowan.

"No, I will not send her back if she does show up here. If she felt the need to run from you than she has a fucking reason, now doesn't she?" Wo Fat snapped. "Maybe you should be treating her right, instead of doing… whatever it was you did to upset her…. Yeah fuck you too buddy. You better hope you find her first cause if I find her, you'll never see her again."

And then he hung up the phone. "God, I need a drink."

"It's like 10 in the morning," Matt said but Wo Fat ignored him and immediately began pouring himself a whiskey on the rocks. "What's uh… what's going on anyway?"

"My sister is having relationship issues again. Her boyfriend… or whatever the hell he is… has lost her again. Usually this is not an issue but she threw her phone at his face so he could use his resources to track her and now I don't know where she is because I too need her phone to track her," Wo Fat answered. "So this is shaping up to be a fun day. I'm going to have pay a lot of people to do a lot of searching."

Matt nod. Rowan was his sister and he was very overprotective of her. He had hear whispers of what he was willing to do when it came to keeping her happy and safe. So he couldn't help but wonder why he didn't just deal with the issue? Ohh, McGarrett sounded like that cop partner that Danny had been constantly bitching about the last time he saw him three years ago… except he also secretly liked him cause he invited him to family dinner. Was his sister dating law enforcement? Ohh that must have made family dinners hella awkward.

There came a knock on the door and since Wo Fat looked busy with his phone and Matt was bored, he figured he'd answer. It was a private villa it was probably one of the guards locked out again.

But when he answered the door a red head was staring up at him. She looked like she had been crying, her cheeks were red, her eyes were this unwavering blue color and though he should have been concerned at her appearance he couldn't bring himself to worry about this tiny little package. She smiled warmly at him and said a happy and perky: "Hi!" and then shoved pasted him and into the house.

He probably should have been concerned but he hadn't seen a female in months since the last hooker he had snuck into the compound. Yeah, that was too much work to keep doing. Besides, this girl, while a bit too cute-sy to be his type, wasn't all that bad to look at.

"Uh… hi? Who are you?"

"Did you just answer the door?" Wo Fat called from the kitchen. "Like seriously? You're literally supposed to be under protection so a deranged drug dealer doesn't find you and kill you and you just opened the front door?" he stormed into the front area where the girl was taking off her shoes and Wo Fat paused, tumbler of whiskey on the rocks clinking in his hand. "Uh… what are… you really came here? I mean I know he called and said that you'd… is it really a good idea for you to be here?"

"He called you? Who's… do you mean Steve?" she thundered putting her hands on her hips as she glared him down. "Well, Fuck, Wo! Why did you answer?"

Matt was impressed, Wo Fat actually took sass from her. Whenever Matt had sassed Wo he had just glared at him until he apologized. But under the stern glare of this girl he actually faltered, like he was being chastised.

"Well… cause he called me off of your phone and I thought it was you… cause, you know, someone whipped their phone at him so… I mean…"

"Whatever, where's the ice cream, I need ice cream."

"So wait… you're going to stay here? Why?"

"To piss him off!"

"Ro you can't stay here!"

"Wait… wait… Ro as in Rowan Pierce?" Matt interrupted. He couldn't help it, he was sort of thinking that this was the girl who rescued him, that this might be the Rowan Pierce, but she was also cute and she looked harmless so he wasn't sure. But now that it was confirmed he couldn't keep his excitement to himself. He pointed at her with a big goofy grin on his face. "You're Rowan Pierce?"

Rowan frowned at him. "Why does everyone say it like that?"

"Because the rumours make you sound very badass and in real life you look about as badass as a kitten," Wo Fat said moving back towards the kitchen, probably for the ice cream. "I was seriously though, Ro. You're trying to make sure the Five-0s don't find him, cause Danny can't keep a secret to save his life, remember? Steve will track you here."

"I threw my phone at him remember?"

"That boy is obsessed with you. I fully believe that he can track you with or without the phone. He'll go full super SEAL on you, or… or… hack a satellite to track you. It's scary his obsession with you, and we can't have him finding out about Matt. Remember? You're words, not mine."

Rowan groaned. "I don't want to go back. He's being an asshole. I'm not going back until he admits he was wrong," she whined. She started to cry a bit, bowing her head to Wo Fat's Chest and Matt just sat there staring at them. At the way angry resignation flashed across Wo Fat's features as he draped an arm around her.

"Fine. Fine, but we're going to have to be on high alert… or you call him and tell him you're here and you're fine."

Rowan pulled her head out of Wo Fat's chest and then shook her head. "No. I don't want to talk to him."

"Okay. I'll call him."

"No. He doesn't want to talk to you either. He'll trace the call."

"True. Hmm… wait… I have an idea."

Wo Fat pulled out his phone and dialed a number. Rowan asked him who he was calling but he stooped down to the freezer, pulled it open and put a pint of ice cream in her hand in response.

"Oh. Hello. Kelly? McGarrett with you? No? Wonderful. Can you please inform him that Rowan has arrived safe and sound? And that he's made her cry again. Yes that last part is very important. He's made her cry and she's talking about staying here indefinitely and I can't have that so he has to fix it… …Yes I know that's hard if he doesn't know where she is but that is not my problem, Kelly. Tell him to fix it or I will. I will be returning her tomorrow morning, if he hasn't figured out how to fix it by then I'll take her back. Got it? Yes. Thank you. Have a nice night."

He then hung up the phone. When he finally turned back to Rowan she had three bowls of ice cream in front of her. She offered one to Wo and then one to Matt. "And how do you expect him to fix it."

"By telling him I will," Wo Fat said opening a drawer to get the spoons. "He's terrified that I'll take you off the island. By insinuating that I will deal with it, he'll immediately come to the conclusion that I'm going to take you."

That and he had just threatened to do so like ten minutes ago. But Matt wasn't going to tell her that if Wo Fat didn't want to.

"Wouldn't that mean he'd come looking for me now?" she asked.

"I gave him a deadline."

"And you think he'll trust you to follow through with a deadline?"

Wo Fat paused, spoonful of ice cream and the spoon still in his mouth as he thought that over. "You're right. You'll have to go back now."

"NO!" Rowan cried. "Let him suffer!"

"We're going to suffer if he kicks the door down to get you!" Wo Fat cried as Rowan picked up her bowl and walked out of the kitchen and towards the TV room.

"So… we'll just hide Matty in a closet or something. If you're right he'll only be interested in finding me anyway."

"Yeah, and arresting me…"

"Uhm… not to interrupt but uh…. Wo Fat said that you know my brother?"

"Danny, yes," Rowan said as she sat down on the couch beside him.

"Uh-huh… and how did you know I needed rescuing?"

"I'm psychic," Rowan answered as she picked up the remote. "I had a vision, we did some research, and sent someone down to go and get you. The guy's ruthless… and we paid him well to not tell anyone who sent him over."

"I also threatened to let Rowan annoy him…" Wo Fat added coming to sit on the other side of her. Rowan shifted immediately to rest against his shoulder. Matt knew from experience that Wo Fat didn't like to be touched, but he didn't seem to mind it when it was Rowan curled up against him.

But Matt had quickly realized that Rowan's power wasn't her intimidation, or even the network that stood behind her. No, her power came from her ability to take strong men and bend them to her will. She was the most dangerous kind of female around and he was very grateful that she was on his side.

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The night was hellish.

Knowing Rowan was with Wo Fat secreted away somewhere that Steve hadn't been able to locate. Having to trust that Wo Fat really would return her in the morning. Having the threat of that man taking her away from him if Steve couldn't find a way to fix things with her looming over his head had kept him up. Had turned him wild with fear, with anger, with a terrible debilitating need to have her again, to hold her, to never let her go.

After this he was going demand that Rowan never saw him again. He was going to make sure that network wasn't need. He'd handcuff her to him, he'd never leave her to her own devices again.

So when he got to The Mariana Tiki Bar and found that Rowan was sitting at the bar, he couldn't contain himself. He was at her side, sweeping her up in his arms and smothering her in kisses in seconds.

"Jeezus, Jeezus, okay, okay Steven, I missed you too," she said her own arms coming around his neck, he pulled away to kiss her properly. She melted into him and that kiss and his whole body went from tense to rock hard for her.

"Last night was pretty shitty," he whispered to her. "I didn't like it at all. I'm still mad at you, but I'm not doing another night without you so I need you to come home. Okay? We can argue when we get home."

Rowan pulled away from him. "I'm not going anywhere until you apologize."

"Rowan stop being stubborn."

"I'm not being stubborn. I'm hurt. I'm hurt by your actions and the fact that you refuse to apologize to me. So, if you want me to go home with you, you'll have to apologize," she said with a shrug.

Steve lounged back against the bar and glared at her. "Rowan. Be reasonable. You're mad at me for doing my job. You're mad because a girl tried to thank me and she got a little handsy. These are not reasonable reasons to be mad."

Rowan glared at him and picked up the drink the bartender slid towards her. "You still don't understand Steven," she snarled. "May I suggest you think of someone other than yourself?"

She then picked up her drink and moved farther down the bar. Steve sighed to himself. This wasn't good. He wanted to cave but what was the point. This was just going to happen again and then they'd be back in the same argument all over again.

"She looks very pretty today, doesn't she?"

Steve straightened knowing immediately who was standing beside him. He turned to Wo Fat who was sipping on a red and white striped straw that was sticking out of a coconut, wearing a pair of cat-eye tortoise shell sunglasses that matched the pair Rowan had bought a few weeks ago. Their Sibling Glasses she had called them. Cause they needed to match for some reason.

"What are you doing here?" Steve hissed, his hand moving for his holster. Wo Fat held up Steve's gun but when Steve went to take it, Wo Fat secreted it away again just like he had with Rowan yesterday.

"Calm yourself, you'll get it back when things are settled," he said. "Don't want a mishap that puts our girl in danger, right?"

Steve glared at him, he knew without a shadow of a doubt that he could overpower Wo Fat if he had to but he also knew that he didn't want to start a fight with him with Rowan so close by. Especially since he knew if they got into a fight, she would try to intervene. Wo Fat was right, Steve didn't want to have her hurt in her attempts to keep them from injuring each other.

"What are you doing here?" he repeated his voice nothing but a low growl.

"I am obviously here to make sure that she met you. I wasn't about to leave my girl in a bar by herself when she looks like that. And I'm also here to make sure you and her sort things out," Wo Fat said. "Which is ridiculous because I am the least qualified for this. Why do I always end up being your relationship counsellor? It's disgusting."

"There's nothing to fix. She's being unreasonable."

"Oh is she… do you see that man?" he asked pointing to the man across from Rowan who seemed very interested in talking to her even though she wasn't. "He's flirting with her, much against her will, but he's trying very hard."

Steve went to move because he was right. The man was leaning against the bar, a hand to Rowan's arm, who, while glaring at him, kept trying to move her arm, but everywhere she moved it, he moved his hand right back to her. Yeah, that man needed to go but Wo Fat put a hand out to stop him. "You see, your first response was to fight. Correct? You were going to go over there and intimidate him, right?" Yes, that was right but what did that have to do with anything? "Do you think Rowan can afford to do that? Women are a completely different breed from us and they are rarely intimidated by one another. That and Rowan is about as intimidating as a puppy."

Oh, he had a point there. "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that Rowan Pierce is extremely self-conscious about how you and her look beside one another. And it upsets her when you let girls hang all over you."

Rowan self-conscious? Really? How could she be? How did she not know how much he liked her?

"I shouldn't have to tell you this, McGarrett," Wo Fat growled. "How do I know more about her than you do?"

"I don't know… she just doesn't talk to me about this stuff…" he admitted.

"You're with her all the time what do you two even do during all that time you spend together?" he asked. Steve opened his mouth to tell him that they mostly just had sex but Wo Fat must have realized that he had opened himself up to hearing things he didn't want to hear because he lifted a hand to stop him. "Never mind, I've figured it out."

"Look… I didn't realize it upset her that much…"

"She threw a phone at your head. I think whatever lead up to that might have tipped you off to her being upset."

"I thought she was mad at me for interrupting our date," Steve answered sullenly.

"Yeah, I mean, why would she be mad? You just promised her up and down that you'd spend the whole day with her and she had all of these things planned to do with you that wasn't just things that she liked. She was only extremely excited to be spending that time with you, to see if she found something you two might do together all the time. You're right it's completely unreasonable to be terribly disappointed that her boyfriend would rather be at work than with her."

She had had a lot planned. Rollerblading on the boardwalk, holding hands so he wouldn't fall. Lunch at his favourite restaurant. Jumping off the rocks at Waimea Bay. She had been so excited that morning, her smile wide, her eyes sparkling, and they never even made it to lunch.

And he never really thought about it that way.

"Okay. So I fucked up, are you happy?"

"I had to babysit my sister yesterday. I'm pretty sure I ate my weight in ice cream and raw cookie dough in solidarity alone while she bitched non-stop about you. Do you know how much she baked yesterday? What the hell am I going to do with seven dozen cookies, two cakes and three dozen cupcakes? The brownies are gone though, they didn't last long at all. And yet here I am trying to get you two back together," he growled. Whoa. Wait. They weren't together? That was news to him! "So, no, McGarrett, I am obviously not happy."

"We never broke up," Steve said to him. "Yeah we were arguing but we never broke up."

"You two aren't properly together either," he shot back. "Not until you put that label on her."

"Okay… look… I mean… why are you… Look. I'm going to fix this, okay? I don't need you threatening me."

"I'm not threatening you."

"Oh? I have to fix it or you will? I'll take her and you'll never see her again?" Steve repeated.

"Okay, so I might have threatened a little bit," Wo Fat said. "But it's the only language you speak."

It was the only language either of them spoke to each other and he had a point, the threats had worked. It had gotten his heart rate up, it had him worried and anxious, it had him needing her back. But it was the explanation that worked the best with him.

"Okay, next time can you just explain it to me? Or better yet, have her explain it to me so you don't have to talk to me at all."

"I would love to do that my dear," Wo Fat said. "But you keep calling me. And stalking us when we're out…"

"Okay, easy fix. Stop putting me into situations where I have to contact you."

"Even easier fix. Stop fucking with my sister. You have gone through hell and back with her and for her, just fucking lock the girl down. What the hell are you waiting for?"

"For you to get out of the picture."

Steve turned to find Wo Fat glaring at him so darkly it almost scared him. "The only reason you're alive, McGarrett, is because I know killing you would greatly upset her. You want me out of the picture, fine, but it'll be at the cost of your life."

Steve laughed hollowly. "Oh, look at that, more threats."

Wo Fat finished his coconut and slammed it down on the bar. "Do what you want. But I promise you. If I lose the only family I have left, simply because you can't share, I will make your life a living fucking hell, McGarrett. So, keep that in mind."

Steve watched him leave before turning back towards Rowan and heading over to her.

"Get lost," he growled and the low-life that had been hovering over her, his eyes practically undressing her, nearly knocked the stool over trying to get away from her.

"That was rude Steven," Rowan said turning a glare on him. Yeah, they could argue about his bar-side manners later.

"I'm sorry I messed up our day, Rowan."

There it was out there, and he actually meant it. Poor Rowan was so shocked by that that she actually had nothing to say to him. She just sat there blinking her eye at him surprised.

"Yeah. I know, I tried to… I tried to make it about me, but you put a lot of time into planning that date for me and you were so excited to spend time with me and I went and found us a case."

"I mean… don't get me wrong I think it's great that you saved the day, but you didn't let HPD take over, you wanted to go find the accomplice that got away… and that girl…"

"Yeah, I uh… I didn't think it bothered you that much if other girls flirted with me, I thought you knew that you were the only one for me."

"She wasn't flirting Steven. She was flat out making out with you."

"Okay, fine, I'll give you that. But I'm serious Rowan. I don't notice other woman around me, I don't notice any attempts at flirting cause the only girl I care about, the only girl I want flirting with me is you."

Rowan glanced down to the drink in her hands and then back up to him. "I know, I guess, but it's hard. It's hard to always have girls all over you… especially since you seem so blasé about it."

"Well, yeah, that's cause I don't give a shit about them. But… I can try to be clearer about you being my girl with them so they'll go away."

"Yeah?" she asked sliding a little closer to him. Steve smiled and nodded. "Then I guess I can forgive you."

Steve quickly pulled her to his chest and kissed her deeply. "Can we go home now baby?" he asked his words nothing but breathless whispers against her lips.

"Course."

"Good, cause I got another day off… uh… well I will when I call in. But uh if you'd like a redo of our date day I'm down."

Rowan's smile widened and Steve knew that all of this would be worth it. And it got even better when he got to tell Danny that he lost his bet and he and Grover both had to pay out 40 bucks to both Chin and Kono. Just the icing on the cake.