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A/N: It's finally happening guys! Season 5 is upon us! And it's going to start with some very funny moments. I actually don't think the major angsty drama starts until maybe… another three chapters in. I'm going to have to do my research. I'll get a better number for you ASAP. Are you guys excited for therapy, and drama and eventual cuteness? I would hope so cause I'm pulling out all the stops for this season to make up for… uh… well… season 6. I will explain more about that once we get closer to it. Side note, a really long time ago I did a huge dump on info about Rowan. Since we got more since then, would you guys like another dump at the end of one of our chapters just so you guys know? Keep me posted on what you think and I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Chapter 133

"So… uh… we have… uh… been together for three years…" "Four." Danny sighed and pointed at Steve. "See this is, uh, specifically what I'm talking about."

Steve groaned. Why where they doing this? Why? This was so stupid. "I'm just correcting you," he said, wiggling in this stupid seat that was making him uncomfortable. He was in dress pants and that blue button up Rowan loved so much, while Danny looked… well like Danny.

He hated that he was in relationship counselling with Danny. He hated it. Because Rowan made more jokes about them being more together than he and Rowan which he knew where to mask the insecurity she felt about Danny being closer to him than she was. But he wasn't touching that with a ten foot pole because for the last month all he and Rowan had done was argue.

Over one stupid fucking thing.

"Okay. Uh… four years," Danny corrected.

"Well it's three years, eleven months, two days exactly."

Danny turned a dry glared to him. "And how long have you and Rowan been together?"

"Uh… a four… five… four… between four and five months?"

Okay maybe Rowan had a point.

"Wow… but uh… but you know how long we've been together to the day, huh?"

Steve rolled his eyes and ignored him but their shrink, Dr. Carlin had other ideas. "Detective Williams asked you a question."

"When?" Steve asked cause he didn't remember a question, other then Danny's smart ass remark. I bet Danny couldn't wait to tell Rowan that he had no idea how long they had been dating but he knew how long he and Danny had been partners to the day.

"He asked if you knew how long you and your girlfriend were dating."

Fuck Danny. Steve faltered a bit. "I'm… I'm sorry, whose side are you on?"

"I don't take sides, commander. I'm an objective observer," she told him but Steve doubted that because she was taking Danny's side right at that moment.

"Don't feel bad he does it to Rowan too," Danny said to her.

"That's because she does, Danny, for every fucking argument we have, you have to run straight to Rowan to whine so she'll fight your fucking battles for you!" Steve cried.

"Okay… let's get back to this. As you know, the governor has asked me to oversee the annual psychological audit of personnel, and I was concerned by what Detective Williams had to say. And now that we're here, I'm growing increasingly more concerned for your girlfriend who seems to be at your place of work quite frequently?"

"Yes she is," Danny said while Steve put a hand out to ward him off of this topic.

"Okay… for starters… Rowan's not… we're not… we're dating, she's not my girlfriend," Steve said. "And she's not important… I mean, she's obviously important to me, but she's not important to this. So me and Danny don't agree on a few things…" "That apparently Rowan gets involved in?" "No, maybe, that's not important! None of this is big deal. None of it. Not me and Danny arguing… not Rowan's inability to side with me, nothing. It's just… it's all fine."

"Okay I'm gonna go a head and step in here," Danny said. "First we don't disagree on a few things, we don't agree on anything. And Secondly… I don't go running to Rowan to bitch, her and I commiserate, cause you and her can't agree on anything either. And then you ask her to pick sides and we all know that Rowan doesn't respond well to ultimatums and she picks me to piss you off. Don't know why you're complain you keep telling me how much make up sex is going on between you two and it's phenomenal…" "It is pretty fucking good, like out of this world…" "See so why are you complaining?"

"Because she's my girlfriend, Danny!" Steve cried. "She's supposed to have my back."

"See you just said she wasn't your girlfriend."

"OH SHUT UP DANNY!" Steve cried and Dr. Carlin immediately put her hands out to calm them down while Steve turned himself away from Danny so he wouldn't launching himself out of that chair and slap him.

"Okay, noting down that Rowan is a volatile subject with you Commander," she said and Steve scowled, she was not… mostly. "Why don't we back track. Detective Williams, you mentioned that you and Steve never agree about anything, why don't you provide him an example?"

"An example?" he echoed and then thought about it. "Okay. Uhm. I never get to drive my own automobile."

"And I don't understand why you're angry about that!" Steve cried. "I mean, I'd think you'd be grateful for being driven around. He get's driven around, all day."

"What? Who am I? Ms. Daisy?" Danny cried. "Sometimes I'd like to drive my own car."

"And sometimes you do drive," Steve said.

"Sometimes? Are you saying that with a straight face, in front of this woman?"

"Do you never drive your car? I don't always drive your car."

"No, you're right. I only get to drive my own car when you're not in it," Danny cried and Steve nodded. "When I'm alone, I get to drive my own car. Yeah."

"There, see, you get to drive your car. That's sometimes," Steve said. When Danny turned an incredulous look to Dr. Carlin who just sat there writing a mile a minute Steve shook his head. "Okay, Fine. You wanna know why you spend so much time in the passenger seat? You wanna know?"

"This should be fantastic," Danny said to Dr. Carlin and then turned to Steve and said: "Yes, Steven, why do I spend so much time in the passenger seat?"

"I get carsick if I don't drive."

And then Danny started laughing at him. Steve turned to him surprised, how dare Danny, Mr. Emotional Capacity, laugh at him and his car sickness.

Steve turned to Dr. Carlin, his eyes begging her to take his side for once. "And he laughs. And he laughs. First time I've told him that and he laughs."

"Cause it's ridiculous!" Danny cried "Okay, it's ridiculous. He's not car sick he's a control freak! He's a gigantic control freak. It has nothing to do with motion, trust me, please."

"Detective Williams," she started, and got a yeah from Danny. "Commander McGarrett is sharing something very personal with you. Perhaps you could show him a little respect."

Steve turned a smug grin to Danny and waited for him to see it. That's right Danny, their shrink was siding with him. FINALLY!

"But he's lying."

"I'm not lying!"

"He's a Navy SEAL!"

"So what? What has that got to do with it?" "—Okay, okay…" "No seriously what has it got to do with it?" "Please stop. I don't really wanna be here, respectfully. I'm sure he doesn't want to be here either, but if you're not gonna be honest, I'm gonna leave."

"I am being honest, Danny," Steve snapped.

"Gentlemen…"

"Yes?" they both answered together.

"This is a mandated review. So let's continue shall we?" she asked and they nodded and voiced their agreements to move away from their last argument and Steve just hoped that Rowan didn't come up again.

"Why don't we shift gears a bit?" she asked and they both grunted their agreement.

"Describe how you two first met."

And there was Danny laughing again, cause their first time they met they had pulled their guns on one another.

"Four years ago, Governor Jameson asked me to start a, uh, major-crimes task force and Danno…" Danny held up a finger. "I'm gonna stop him…. See. He knows that I don't like that."

"You're right. Excuse me. Sir Daniel."

"This is going right off the rails. This right here…" "Come on, come on. I'm teasing, all right?" Steve waited to see if Danny was going to interrupt him again but he didn't so Steve started back with his story. "Right after I started the task force, Detective Williams was my first hire."

"Right. I personally wouldn't call it, um, a hire. It was more like a kidnapping," he said and Steve threw his head back and groaned. "A ransom. It was the kind of thing… uh… I didn't really have a choice."

"I liked his sense of humor, you know, his personality," Steve said which was a lie.

"When you're getting shot at it's nice to reflect on what a nutjob this guys is," Danny said.

"Why don't you tell me about the others on your team?" she asked before they could start arguing about the nutjob comment.

"Well, after Danny signed on, we recruited Chin Ho Kelly…"

"He was fired from the HPD at the time…"

"That's right. But we straightened that out."

"Yeah, and then, uh, Kono Kalakaua… that's Chin's cousin… she was next," Danny added.

"I'm told she wasn't even a police officer at the time," Carlin added and both Steve and Danny nodded.

"Yeah she was a few weeks away from graduating from the academy," Steven explained. "But we needed a female, you see, and she fit the bill. Oh and just recently, we recruited a former HPD SWAT commander named Lou Grover from Chicago."

"So five people make up the Five-0 task force?" she asked and they all nodded.

"Yeah, but we're uh, more than a task force, you see. We're 'ohana."

"Why the look, Detective Williams?"

Steve turned to Danny, he was making a look? Steve was getting all sentimental and Danny was hitting him with looks? "Oh, no, no, no look. Um… I guess I was just, uh, agreeing with him for the first time…"

"I think we're good…" Steve said but Dr. Carlin didn't think so.

"So where does Rowan fit into your little family. She's a part of your cases, all your friends' lives, but she's not a part of the 'ohana?" she asked.

Aw fuck him. He felt Danny's eyes on him, he had Dr. Carlin's eyes on him and Steve could only blink… because he had no idea how to answer that questions… and maybe that was why the two of them were having so many issues right at that moment.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

They had gone to Jerry to find out more about the Drone that had been doing all the killing. Problem was, it was a government hushed-up project. Another problem was the thing was hijacked during a flight test and stolen by their real murderer. Another problem was someone had since then, attached military issued guns to the thing and went and killed two people.

Probably Steve's biggest problem right now was the conversation he had with Jerry about the bookshop owner who bought really old books that could be used as counterfeit paper. It had absolutely nothing to do with his case but it still stuck with him.

"No one reads hard cover books anymore," Jerry had snapped.

"Rowan does."

"Rowan is a rare breed. She's like the unicorn of girls. If you don't lock her down can I date her?"

"Jerry… I mean… do you want me to hit you?"

He was still thinking about it because it surprised him. People thought he hadn't locked Rowan down? She was pretty fucking locked down. He was dating her, wasn't he?

Rowan came into the Palace, fresh after their mid morning argument ear to her phone as she walked towards them.

"Yes, yes, I just checked in," she said. Checked in was right she had a damn suit case with her.

"What are you doing?" he asked her. Obviously when she had said she would stay with Chin until Steve saw reason he thought she was bluffing because the argument was about toaster waffles and who had eaten them all.

For godsake, he was going to buy her more… what was she packing bags for?

"Yes. I promise I will stay inside until Steve catches the guy," she said. "Of course Steve is going to catch the guy, he catches all the bad guys… uh… yes he does catch you, he's caught you twice now."

Great she was on the phone with Wo Fat.

"No I am not taking my anger at Steven out on you, I am stating facts. The man has arrested you twice. You've been caught…. Wow really? Go outside and get shot? That's rude!"

"Okay give me the phone. If he's threatening you give me the phone," Steve said reaching for it.

Rowan ducked his hands, slapping them away and then glaring at him like she didn't understand why he was talking to her. "Don't talk to me," she snapped. "You know the exact number of days you've been dating Danny but you couldn't tell your shrink that we've been dating for four months. Fuck you!... what? No not you, Steven."

"DANNY!" Steve snapped as Rowan moved past him and into Steve's office. All eyes were on him now but all Steve could see was Danny, clouded in a red haze of anger. "Are you fucking kidding me, you told her? Why the hell would you tell her?"

"It was funny!"

"I'm going to kill you!"

"Your killer drone is heading to Waikiki Beach!" Rowan called and everyone, except Steve, turned away to gear up. Instead, Steve went to his office to stare at Rowan who was setting everything up at his desk.

"Are you seriously going to stay at my office until I buy you toaster waffles? Really? Don't you think you're being a tad bit unreasonable?"

Rowan glared at him as she put her guitar down on the desk. "Okay, firstly, it's not unreasonable. When we went grocery shopping and picked up the toaster waffles you said they were stupid and you only liked fresh ones, and I said that was fine cause they were going to be mine for the mornings I had to dash out and you put up a big stink about how you didn't want to waste your money on my toaster waffles so I bought them with my own money… AND THEN YOU WENT AND ATE MY WHOLE BOX!" she cried. "And secondly, I have been expressly told that there's a killer drone flying around Hawaii and Wo Fat would prefer if I stay inside until you catch him. Preferably at the Palace because he wouldn't put it past the guy to decide to target you and shoot up your house with me inside."

Okay… fair… that did explain a lot. Even why she was angry that he ate a few toaster waffles. But he said he'd buy more so let it go.

"And how would Wo Fat know all of this?"

"Well I didn't ask, Steven, but I would assume it's because he sold the guy his hardware."

"So Wo Fat's running guns again?"

"I don't know!" Rowan cried. "He doesn't tell me those things. I don't ask. And even if I did I'm not supposed to tell you!"

Alright, fine, he'd give her that one too. She had done really well at keeping him and Wo Fat separate since his mother had left. In fact, if she was to believed, and she was cause it supported the chatter Jerry had picked up, Wo Fat was no longer on the island. Possibly Japan, possibly on a boat to stay near by Rowan in case of an emergency, but he wasn't here anymore.

"Seriously, Steve, Waikiki, killer drone. Go!" she ordered and Steve winced but went for the door.

"I knew we had been dating four months, Rowan," he said to her, pausing at the door to look at her.

"Yeah, yeah, that's why you told her that, right? Just go Steven," she said not evening bothering to look up and he knew he was dismissed.

Still as he walked away he couldn't help but smile because the sight of Rowan behind his desk warmed him in ways he couldn't even imagine.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Steve had come back ten minutes ago. She knew that. She had seen him. Had seen him look over at his office with a look of longing on his face so deep she thought he might come over but he didn't. Because his cases were always more important.

But that didn't matter because she was putting together the perfect event. She had a different theme on each wall, with options to go with each one.

Steve opened up the door and looked around all the pictures she had posted on his windows and walls.

"Uh…. What are you… what are you doing?" he asked her.

He looked nervous that look got worse when she said: "I'm planning a wedding."

Behind him the team began to laugh while congratulating him and clapping his back. Steve's frantic look of fear almost made her laugh, she wanted to tell him the truth right then and there but then she caught Kono's worried look and she knew she couldn't. Especially when Kono had sworn her to secrecy.

So when Steve said: "Uh… no… Ro… I haven't… we haven't…" she simply waved him off.

"Of course you haven't. I can't even get the girlfriend label. You don't even know how long we've been dating for," she snapped which won a scowl from him. She turned back to the wedding dress she was pinning up and knew instinctively that she couldn't tell them the real reason for her sudden obsession with weddings because it hasn't happened yet. So, instead, she said: "No, I'm planning my wedding to the guy I will eventually leave your waffle stealing ass for!"

Steve groaned. "God! Rowan!" he cried.

"Come on Steve, sometimes a girl likes to fantasize, that's all. Danny, you have sisters, am I right or am I right?" she asked pointing to him.

"Oh here we go again," Steve growled as Danny said: "Uh… I can confirm that this is a thing girls do. Granted they usually wait until they or one of their friends are getting married and it's never to this… uh… extent, but uh… yeah, sometimes they just like to look at the options."

"See," Rowan said. "Now why don't you go back to the case we all know is more important and I will stay in here with my bridal magazines."

"You know I don't like it when you say that you're less important…"

"I'm going to start looking at rings and wedding tuxes that will suit you if you stay in this room," she warned and she had never seen Steve run away from her faster.

The other's left but Kono stayed behind, which was great because Rowan had been planning all of this for her. She looked around at everything and then pinned Rowan with a dark, disappointed glare.

"Okay, so I know you haven't said yes yet… but look!" she cried showing her everything, "I have themes, and options, and I looked at flowers and I pulled all the dresses that would look good on you, and…"

"Rowan come on!"

"I know, I know, I know," Rowan said quickly. "But I know you say yes. Really I do."

"Rowan," Kono growled in warning.

"No. It's true. You two get married and somewhere in season 8 you have a baby, it's a son. I'm gonna be a godmother…" she said but when she looked at Kono she didn't look excited she looked afraid. "Oh… I'm sorry… I guess that's a lot to take in. Just pretend I didn't say that or something…"

"Thank you for all of this Rowan, and trust me when I say that if I say yes to Adam you will be the first person to know, but you're freaking out me and you're freaking out Steve so if you could please take this all down until I'm ready… but uh… save this one right here cause that is stunning…"

Rowan pulled the picture of the wedding dress she was pointing at off of the wall and placed it specially in the books she had in her arms. "Saved for a rainy day!"

Kono looked like she was going to say more but Steve was in the doorway again, refusing to step a toe into his office with all the wedding stuff on the walls. He nodded at Rowan until he had her attention and then beckoned both of them out onto the main floor.

"So uh… Jerry's gonna make this drone thing that can take over the killer drone," he told them and Rowan nodded. Because that made sense. He focused his eyes on her and she knew immediately that he was going to ask her for a favour. "Okay… uh… well we need to be in 200 yards of the drone to hijack it. Which means we need to know where it's gonna be…"

"So like… you're asking for a vision…" she asked just as Steve asked: "Does Wo Fat know where it's going next?"

Rowan balked at the question. "No? How would he know that?"

"Well how did you know it was going to Waikiki this morning?" he shot back.

"You touched me…."

Steve reached out and touched her again and both Rowan and him yelped at the electricity. But Rowan clearly didn't see an attack cause she just went: "Awww… right on your front porch!"

"What?" Steve asked. And Rowan shook herself loose of the vision.

"What?"

Kono was glaring at her, that meant it was about the proposal again. Sighing, Rowan shook her head and stared at Steve with what she hoped were really cute puppy eyes. "Look… I'm not getting anything big on this, maybe you could just…"

"You're coming with me."

"Ugh, fine! But I'll have you know this is the exact opposite of what Wo wanted," she said as Steve dragged her out of the office.

"You'll be fine. I can protect you just fine, thank you."

"Well you better cause if you don't, I'm gonna haunt you for the rest of your life, which will probably be very short cause I won't be around to stop him from killing you," she snapped. She caught Steve's glare but he said nothing and neither did she, cause both of them knew she wasn't lying.