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A/N: Hey guys! How are you liking the Birthday marathon? I hope you're enjoying it. In this chapter we have some mention of above pg13 things, but it's supposed to be really cute so I hope you guys enjoy it. In other news I've figured out how to post chapters from the app on my phone, which is great for you guys cause I'm not at home for the weekend, I'm out partying up with my friends up north, so I'm posting this using data and the app! Hopefully it freaking works! See you guys tomorrow!

Chapter 129

Panting, Steve urgently pressed his lips to Rowan's to swallow the ragged cry of his name as she climaxed against him. Which was followed, no much longer after that, by his own climax and his own half, cry half shudder of her name against her shoulder.

Finished, spent, sweating and heaving he clung to the girl who drove him wild, bracing them both against the sink in his small ensuite bathroom. Rowan caught her own breath, her head tipped back against the mirror as Steve smiled lazily into her neck, pressing soft kisses to her skin. God he loved doing that to her.

"You… fucking… asshole…"

Steve smiled up to her, tugging her a little closer to her, the motion getting him hard again. "You loved every second."

"Well no shit, but you messed up my hair, and my makeup and we're probably late again… and I swear to god if you left marks…"

Steve carefully assessed her pale collarbones and neck. Nope. No marks. "You're mark free and you look stunning, my darling, as always."

Rowan rewarded him with a solid kiss and he growled grinding his hips against hers again. "Not again," she whispered to him. "If we bail on this date, Danny will kill us."

Reluctantly Steve pulled out of her and then helped her slide off of the sink. God she looked beautiful, with her hair all tousled up and her make up all smudgy and her lips all plump and pink from all his kisses and that stupidly seductive off the shoulder black dress making her look like a bombshell. Fuck what this girl did to him.

Rowan turned to assess herself in the mirror and Steve grabbed her hips again, pulling her back to him. "God you're beautiful," he whispered into her ear and he felt that atmosphere around them change when she smiled.

"Steven," "God I love it when you say my name like that." "Steven McGarrett!" "Yeah baby, like that." "Stop it this instant!"

Steve groaned against her but Rowan refused to turn around. Good thing too because he knew what would have happened if she did. He would have started kissing her again and they would have ended up back against that sink again.

"Seriously Steve I have to get ready. Don't you want me to look prettier than Amber?" she asked.

It wasn't a contest… but… hell fucking yes. His baby was gonna be the prettiest fucking girl in that restaurant, she was gonna turn all the heads and if anyone gave her too lurid a look Steve was gonna punch them out.

"Alright, alright, fine," he said to her, kissing her cheek again and finally letting her go. "But just so you know, you are absolutely gorgeous, no matter what you do and what you wear."

"You have to think that, you're dating me," she said quickly turning to Steve and kissing him on the lips. And then she shoved him out of the washroom.

Steve could only smile. God he loved being domestic with Rowan. It was everything he thought it would be and then some.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

This was a terrible idea.

When Danny suggested a double date with his best friend, and his best friend's girlfriend she had hoped and prayed that it wouldn't be Rowan and Steve. Kono and Adam… hell she would have taken Chin and Jerry but of course, it was Rowan and Steve. Amber had tried to be okay with it, but if she was being honest, she didn't like Rowan.

Rowan who knew things without any explanation as to how. Rowan who called her the wrong name. Rowan who could call Danny in the middle of the night and he'd not only answer but go to her if necessary. Rowan who was the cool Auntie Ro that Grace loved. And while she was at it she didn't like Steve. Steve who was too pretty to be as nice as he was. Guys with abs like his weren't generally decent guys, and they did date average girls like Rowan. Not without ulterior motives. Steve who was closer to Danny than any other living person. Steve who had the kind of arguments she and Danny were supposed to have. Steve who was Danny's work wife… and well… essentially his regular wife too.

Amber wasn't sure what use she was in Danny's life that Rowan or Steve didn't already fill… except you know sex. Because apparently Rowan and Steve were doing that with each other.

But Danny had asked her to go and she liked to make Danny smile so here she was sitting across from Steven and Rowan who were just as ridiculously, disgustingly cute as Danny had warned her they'd be.

She was still in shock over it.

Steve always had to have a hand on Rowan, either draped on the back of her chair, playing with her hair, holding her hand, or under the table on her thigh… or at least… that's where Amber was hoping his hand was going. She kept glancing at Danny who kept his hands to himself when they were together and wondered if they would ever be that cute.

She wasn't sure that they ever been even a fraction as cute as those two were now.

But this wasn't a competition. Or at least Amber didn't think it was.

"So how did you meet Rowan?" Amber asked trying to make conversation out of the awkward silences between Rowan and Steve's heated covert glances to one another. "I don't think I ever heard the story."

"Oh, uh… I dropped out of the sky and into the ocean right beside the dinghy they were stranded in," Rowan said. "They saved me from a tiger shark."

Amber blinked her eyes. What? "Like out of an airplane?"

"Sure, something like that."

Oh wow that was something ominous. Amber narrowed her eyes at her suspiciously. "And you survived?"

"There's a lot of things in my life that should have killed me, but I'm still living!" Rowan crowed and Steve smiled at her, wrapped an arm around her shoulder, tugged her close to his side and kissed her temple. Amber turned to Danny almost surprised, normally people… they didn't talk like that. Like being in and out of life-threatening situations was bragging rights, maybe it was when you were dating someone who worked with Five-0 though. Maybe Danny thought Amber was boring because she wasn't in and out of dangerous situations like that.

"That's my baby jumping into every dangerous situation she can find," he said with a proud smirk on his face. Oh wow… Steve was just as fucked up as her. What a perfect clusterfuck of relationship that must be. Why did Danny want to spend time with them?

"Yeah, to save your asses!" she snapped to them. She then smacked Steve. "Like you and Danny don't jump into every piece of drama, danger and terrorist act you guys can find."

"Okay, topic change. Steven, anything you want to ask?" Danny growled before Steve and Rowan could devolve into cute nuzzling kisses again.

Steve blinked his eyes at him, a confused look dawning on his face. Amber didn't know if it was because he was lost in Rowan's eyes again or if the question confused him. "Uh… no?"

"Steve, I think he means the safe conversation topics he gave you."

"Oh… right… uh… did you bring those?" he asked. Rowan went for her purse. "I think I have the text."

Danny put a hand to his forehead while he groaned with frustration as Rowan's phone appeared in her hand. "Oh yes, here it says under no circumstances should we bring up all the dangerous situations you two end up in. And my history… aw wait how come we can't talk about me?"

"Oh my god, Rowan."

"Does she not know what you do?" Steve asked him but Danny just put his head in his hands and braced his elbows on the table.

"I like it better when you two are arguing," he growled to them.

Rowan rolled her eyes and then said: "Fine, safe topic." She then turned to Amber, and smiled in this pretty little way that Amber did not find innocent or reassuring. "Amber how was your day at work? Where… uh… where do you work? No one's told me that yet."

Amber ignored the question and turned to Danny with wide eyes. "You gave them safe topics to talk about?"

"You don't know what they're like," Danny groaned. "They will literally say anything and everything. I'm trying to not scare you off and you're already intimidated by Rowan."

"How are we still on that?" Rowan asked. "I'm about as intimidating as a kitten. I would know, my brother keeps telling me so."

Amber just stared at her and then turned angry eyes on Danny. "You told them I'm intimidate by her?"

"Okay… so maybe… is shouldn't have mentioned it," he said to Amber and then turned to Rowan to hiss: "And it was on the list of things I put on the don't mention list."

"You think!" she thundered. Just as Rowan asked: "Was it?"

"Oh, my god. I'm so embarrassed right now," she cried looking down at her hands.

Rowan, who had her phone in her hand suddenly said: "Oh yeah… there it is," and Danny kicked her under the table causing her to yelp and her phone to clatter out of her hand. "He kicked me!"

Steve was on his feet in a second, same as Danny about ready to start arguing, maybe even a fist fight, but Rowan grabbed the back of Steve's black dress shirt and tugged him down to his chair. "Fight him later, Rambo," she snapped before turning her attention back to Danny. "What the hell is your problem?!"

"Can't you see you've upset her?" Danny hissed, indicating to Amber who just sunk into her seat even more embarrassed then before.

"I think she's upset with you, not us," Steve growled but Rowan's attention finally fell on Amber and she tried to smile encouragingly.

"Aw… no… don't be upset," Rowan said, leaning across the table to take her hand. "I mean I'm sorry but really, if you think about it, I'm not the biggest threat to your relationship… Steve is."

"Excuse me?" Danny snapped.

"Yeah, I mean… if you think about it… Steve's the biggest threat to your relationship. Kind of like Danny is to mine," she repeated which just earned her confused stares from the boys at the table.

"Uh… excuse me, but I think that Catherine…" he started but Rowan waved that off.

"Oh don't get me wrong, Catherine was a big issue, like totally the number one problem to begin with," Rowan said with a shrug. "But… uh… now that's she's gone… well… Danny's my biggest threat."

Danny threw down his fork and shouted: "Excuse me?" again while Steve chocked on his sip of wine and managed to cough out a: "What?"

Rowan turned to Steve to explain. "Well… the only person closer to you than Catherine was Danny, in fact, I'd go as far as to say that you were closer to Danny than Catherine. If you're going to leave me for anyone, who isn't Catherine, it's going to be Danny. Your bromance is a borderline relationship… in fact, sometimes I'm certain you're more intimate with Danny then you are with me."

"Thank god you feel that way too!" Amber cried, and Rowan reached across the table to high five her. It was the first time Amber and Rowan had ever agreed on something.

"Okay. Now… wait a second… we… me and Steve…. We have never been intimate."

"No. But Steve knows all your secrets, and, Danny, you know all of Steve's secrets before I do. The two of you cuddle more then me and Steve do, and Steve has admitted he loves you, he won't even give me a label. You've got the label and the I love you. So, I'll say it again. You're the only threat to my relationship with Steve. Just like Steve's the only threat to your and Amber's relationship."

Amber nodded. "It's true. As much as I'm worried that Grace will never like me as much as she likes Rowan, I'm probably equally if not more worried that you'll realized you're in love with Steve and leave me."

"See. Me too. Except the other way around. And with all the life-threatening situations they get in, I'm afraid they're one explosion away from realizing they love each other."

Both men stared at their women with shocked horrified mouth opened stares before they both devolved into arguments. The difference was, when Rowan turned her patient eyes onto Steven, he fell quiet and just stared at her.

"You trust him more than me," she told him. "You trust him implicitly in a way I don't think you'll ever trust me. You tell him that you love him. He's your best friend. In fact, the only thing you two don't do is have sex because that's the only thing I can offer you that Danny can't. You know… unless you two decide you're gay for each other and then you won't even need me anymore."

"I'm not… I don't… Danny… I…" he stuttered he then turned his eyes away from Rowan to Danny. "Help me," he implored.

Danny took a deep breath looked from Amber, to Steve and then finally to Rowan and said: "You are out of your mind."

"Yes," she answered immediately. "Doesn't mean I'm wrong about this."

"Rowan, come on," Steve sighed. "I'm crazy about you. Literally crazy about you. Danny can tell you how insane I am when it comes to you," he said to her and then pointed to Danny. "And I'm gonna pay you back for kicking her best believe," he then turned back to Rowan and said: "Danny… Danny's my best friend and you know that. But you know… I want to trust you… but you… uh… lie. To me. To all of us. And you know… your brother…"

"I keep telling you I do not tell my brother what you do…"

"No, you just talk about our personal relationship."

"Well I have to talk to someone! I can't trust Danny to keep his mouth shut! And Chin, and Grover and Kono they take everything I say and take it straight to you. I have no where safe to turn except to my brother, who I know tells you nothing."

Danny sat back in his chair and turned to Amber. "And now we're going to get to watch the have an argument."

"Wow, from really cute to an over emotional argument," Amber whispered.

"Yeah, just as long as they don't start making out or disappear into the washroom we're good."

"She's right though, you know?" Amber added. "Maybe you and Steve are just really good friends, but you are closer to him than anyone else. So, I don't just have Rowan to worry about, I have to worry about him too. Will you ever trust me like you trust him?"

Danny reached out and took her hand. "I don't know, but I'm more than willing to try and make it there."

Amber smiled and leaned in to kiss Danny on the cheek. Both turned back to where Rowan and Steve were done arguing and instead were staring lovingly into each other's eyes, their foreheads pressed together. A mischievous grin on both of their faces.

"If you two try to sneak off to the washroom we will leave you with the bill," Danny warned.

Rowan and Steve turned to them surprised as if they had forgotten they were there. They apologized and settled back in their own seats.

Rowan cleared her throat. "So I'm down to share a dessert. I'm thinking me and Amber cause Steve's all about that caramel and I'm all about that chocolate."

"Oh yeah, it's chocolate all the way," Amber said with a smile. Okay maybe there were more things that she and Rowan had in common.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Danny was walking shoulder to shoulder with Steve. In front of them Rowan and Amber were walking arm in arm twittering and gossiping away as they walked barefoot on the beach, every now and then walking into the water and laughing. Probably trading stories of Steve and Danny's eccentricies and laughing it up.

"I gave you one thing. Just one thing to do," he snapped to Steve. "Keep the conversation on one of the safe topics. I gave you like a list of ten."

"You gave me even more to avoid."

"For god sake, Steve. I wanted this to go well," he growled.

Steve shrugged. "It did go well. Amber and Rowan are finally getting along, isn't that what you wanted?"

"In what world, where Rowan looks us bare face in the eye and says that we're the biggest threats to each other's relationships, does that mean that things went well?"

Steve thought it over. "I mean… Rowan and Amber have something in common?"

"You are seriously a bad friend," Danny sighed. "How are you not more worried about what she said?"

"I am worried," Steve said. "But Rowan's irrational fears mean nothing. It never happened in her TV show so it's not going to happen now. Unless you're… you know…"

"Interested in…." "Me?" "You?" "Well, are you?" "No. Are… uh… are you?" "In you? No. You know how I feel about Rowan."

"Well I mean… I do… but why doesn't she?" Danny asked. Steve groaned but he wasn't going to let this go. "No, seriously, why Steve, why doesn't she know how much you care about her? Why does she still think that you don't trust her?"

"I do trust her… she just…. It's Wo. You know how I am about Wo. I've been trying… but… I still don't know if he's planning something. She sees him… and I never know when he just snatches her up off of the street…"

"Has he done that again?"

"Well no… he says he'll give her warning for the next time but… I don't know… sometimes it feels like she's on everyone's side but mine."

"Well she just announced at dinner that she feels like she can't trust me, or Chin or Kono or Grover… that he's the only one that she trusts because he won't run straight to you and you know… that hit me hard. I never thought about what it must feel like to be alone, to have no one to turn to or talk to that won't take everything I say straight to someone else… like a report."

Steve silently took it in. "I guess… I guess I never saw it like that."

"And if you think about it, babe, that man has put more effort and money into saving and taking care of that girl than you have," Danny reminded him and Steve just frowned. "I know you don't want to hear this but what if… and I'm just saying what if here… what if Rowan's right about him. Okay? What if… what if she actually got to him. Like what if… he won't actually pull shit on you so long as he thinks it'll upset Rowan if he did."

"Well… he did allude to that…"

"You see. Look. Rowan said he's just looking for his dad, right? I get that, the dude just found out that the man's alive, he wants to see him, it's natural. Think of what you'd do if you found out your dad was alive… think of what you did when you found out your mom was alive. He's feeling all of that… except probably not properly. If you get him that info, he'll like… owe you…" Danny cried.

Steve sighed. "I'm trying but no one wants to give me that info and I don't even know where to begin, you know?" he admitted. "And do I really… really… want to make nice with him?"

"He's the adoptive brother of the girl you're romantically obsessed with babe," Danny said with a smirk. "You're gonna have to accept that he's a part of your life now."

"Ow! Shit! Ow!" Rowan suddenly cried. She was hopping on one foot and holding onto Amber's arm as Amber tried to help her stay up all while trying to look at Rowan's foot. "Steve!"

She didn't even need to call him name, the second she had cried out in pain he was moving towards her, having abandoned Danny immediately. "What is it, baby, what happened?"

"I stepped on something Steve… what… what if it's a needle? Is it a needle?" she asked.

Steve got down on bended knee and pulled her foot up to look at it. Rowan's hands were on his shoulders as he probed the injured foot and then felt at the sand at their feet. The water washed up and soaked one of Steve's legs, but he didn't notice, his sole focus was on Rowan.

Amber came to stand beside him, her arms wrapping around him. "Wow…"

"Yeah, he's uh…" "Yeah I can see," Amber whispered.

"It's a shell Rowan… you stepped on a shell," he said to her his eyes turning up to hers a smile on his face.

It was moments like these that Danny loved to see. The way they looked at one another like the world was in their eyes. The way the world around them always seemed to cease to exist and all that mattered was each other.

"Wow."

Danny smiled at her. "Yeah."

Steve stood quickly pulling her up into his arms, carrying her bridal style away from where Amber and Danny were standing. Danny knew that the world was lost to them now, they had all but forgotten that they were there.

He turned back to Amber who was smiling after them. "That looks…. You know… it looks…"

"Ideal," Danny finished for her. He smiled to her and the he too stooped down and picked her up. "Doesn't mean that we can't be just as… ideal with some practice."

Amber rested her head against his and pressed a single kiss to his lips. Yes. They could be just as amazingly perfectly dysfunctional as Rowan and Steve one day.

And maybe one day Rowan and Steve… with some practice… could be just as normal as he tried to be with Amber.

All they needed was practice.