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A/N: Happy Monday (or Tuesday cause I never post on time anymore) my wonderful readers. We are 2 chapters away from a really cute chapter that I believe you will love, but we're also 5 chapters away from the season 6 drama! Are you guys getting excited? I know I am! Not gonna lie, my goal for this week is to not have formatting issues when I post my story! Sidenote Adelaide! You won a prize, answer my message please! Tell me what you'd like! Don't forget to leave me a review and I'll see you guys on Wednesday.

Chapter 198

Danny would have been lying if he said he wasn't afraid to meet his ex-wife at the park. He kept trying to think of what he could have done to upset her. He was really afraid that she was going to try and take Grace away again and he was ready for a fight, but he was also trying very hard not to fly straight to the worst case scenario. Rowan hadn't been having any visions about this meet up so it couldn't be all that life altering… right?

"Hey!" he said as he came to sit beside her on the park bench.

Already Rachel was smiling. That was a good sign, right? "Hi! Thanks for coming!"

Together they turned, Danny couldn't help it, watching other kids play always made him smile. It was nice to see Charlie out playing on the monkey bars with a grin on his face. "Oh, I remember this. I used to have a panic attack every time Grace got to the top of the monkey bars." The two shared a smile until Danny couldn't take it anymore. "So what's up?"

"It's Charlie… he's sick, Danny," she said.

Okay. Why was that his problem? Obviously he cared but…

"What do you mean sick?

"He has something called HLH. It's a disease that affects his immune system. It's rare."

"How serious is it?"

"It could kill him," she whispered and Danny nodded understanding that fear. "We caught it early… thanks to Rowan…"

Oh Rowan and her dreams. She really cared a lot about this kid.

"…The good news is there's treatment. His best option is a bone marrow transplant. But the problem is finding a match and usually sibling are the best ones."

"So what? You want my permission for Grace to get tested, or what?" he asked.

"We've tested Grace, she's not a match," she said. Well that shot the permission factor out of the water. Then what did she need Danny for? "But every parent is called a half-match. It's not their first choice, but doctors can use that bone marrow. The point is, one parent is usually a better half-match than the other."

Danny still didn't get it. "Why are you telling me this?" Rachel gave him a look and the understanding dawned on him. He looked out to Charlie. No, she couldn't have done that to him. "My kid?"

She gave him another look and his heart fractured in his chest. No. no. "How long have you know this, Rachel?" God she had lost the ability to talk, so it was great that Danny could read her faces. "You've known the whole time?"

"Danny I…" "—Why would you keep something like this from me?"

"Because… your life and the chances that you take…"

"The chances that I take?"

"If anything ever happened to you, I didn't want two kids growing up without a father."

Oh my god. All because he was a cop. He missed out on three years of his son's life because she didn't like that he was a cop? "You had no right to do that. You understand that? You had no right keep that from me, that I got a son."

"I know that you hate me right now, and I don't blame you for hating me. But I am telling you now. We have a son and there is something wrong with him. Something that could kill him. So he needs our help."

Danny immediately stopped, he was still angry but she was right. His son was sick and they needed to get on top of this now. They could argue later. "Okay. Okay so what happens now?"

"You need to take a blood test. It won't take long. A few minutes, twenty four hours to get the results and then the doctor scan decide how to proceed from there" she said.

"And then you'll set everything up then?"

"Yes," she replied and then laughed. "I do believe… if she's right and you say she's always right, that you'll be the stronger match."

Rowan knew. Goddamn it Rowan knew. She had said that they caught the illness early thanks to Rowan but that had been eclipsed by Rachel's confession. Now it had his attention, because if Rowan knew about Charlie, how had she not told Danny before this?

He'd circle back to that later "How about Stan? What does he know?"

"He knows now."

Oh well that was just great wasn't? She wasn't just blowing a hole into his life, but poor Stan's as well. Though he was slightly comforted by the fact that Stan hadn't been aware the whole time, at least he was sort of in the same boat as Danny.

Danny didn't know what to say he could only sit there and try to digest everything that had just happened. He didn't know what to say or what to do just that this was terrible and he wanted to yell at Rachel. Except Charlie had come running up to them and Danny found he could just stare at the little boy, finally noticing all the similarities between them. The same hair, the same eyes, the same nose. This was his son and he had had no idea. Some detective he was.

"Mommy I'm hungry," Charlie said in that cute, three year old way, that three year olds had.

"Well, okay, sweetheart, we'll get you something to eat. Oh, Charlie. Do you remember…?"

"Do you remember me, buddy?" Danny asked.

"Grace's dad," he answered.

"Yeah, I'm Grace's dad."

"Danno."

"Oh, he doesn't like being called…" "—No, no," Danny said quickly before Rachel could ruin anything else. "You can call me Danno whenever you want. It's okay. What? Did your sister teach you that?"

"Uh-huh"

"Yeah that's good." He said offering out a high five. "Good to see you again."

He watched as Charlie ran off to go back to playing and then turned to Rachel, determined to get some sort of closure on at least one of the bombshells Rachel had dropped on him

"And… when did Rowan come into this? Huh? What she just show up at the door one day…"

"No she dropped off Grace, caught sight of Charlie and sort of made a funny face. Then she just sort of said it, almost absently, I almost missed it. All she said was: He's Danny's. She told me he was going to get sick that I would need to tell you. And I just… she really never told you I honestly figured she would… or that you knew and you were mad at me or something. I mean… she was so upset about those kidnapping dreams…"

Oh My God. He was going to kill her.

"Okay… so this was before the kidnapping dreams… when exactly did Rowan tell you that she knew? Huh? When?"

"The weekend you went to Maui and she babysat Grace."

Danny blinked his eyes. Maui. She knew about Charlie being his kid when he took Melissa to Maui? That was only a few days after the parking garage collapse. That was… that was almost a whole fucking year ago!

"She really didn't tell you?" Rachel asked and Danny sat back. No she hadn't but she was definitely going to pay for keeping something like that from him.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Steve, though he didn't want to, left the crook chasing to Kono and Chin and actually took a break off of the case to have dinner with his family. He had called Rowan up, his intention was to ask her to come to the palace with Nahele so he could be near-by when they got a break in the case. Problem was, Nahele answered the phone and he really, really wanted shrimp from Kamekona's so Steve had caved, leaving a note for Chin and Kono to text him if they caught a break in the case.

As soon as he got to the beach, to those picnic benches where Rowan and Nahele were waiting for him, he was happy he took the time off. Both of them looked so happy to see him that he couldn't help but smile as well. Damn he should take more time off cases.

He had hugged both Rowan and then Nahele before taking their orders up to Kamekona. He had stood back and waited for the food, just smiling at the two people he now called his immediately family. They were both talking animatedly and smiling and generally looking cute and Steve was happy to finally be a part of that.

"What did you do today?" Steve asked as he sat down beside Rowan. He put her Rowan special in front of her and Nahele's platter in front of him.

"I had a math test that I think could have gone either way. I either knew everything and aced it or I fucked up hard and failed it cause the test was easy. Like suspiciously easy," Nahele said. "And Rosie Callaghan asked me out again."

"Oh Rosie Callaghan… is that the…" Steve asked but Rowan shook her head.

"No, no, he likes her friend, Noe Kaialani," Rowan said. "Which I already told you is not going to happen. Girls have a code and all that, don't date the guy that your bestie likes. And if Noe agrees to date you even though Rosie has a thing for you she's not a good friend and will probably be a shitty girlfriend."

Steven shook his head while Nahele visibly deflated. "No harm in trying. The worst she says is no," Steve said. "And even if she says yes, and it messes with her relationship with Rosie, it just means she thinks you're worth it."

Nahele smiled, happily at that and tucked into his food. Steve ignored Rowan's unimpressed glare and smile his roguish grin at her hoping to mollify her annoyance. "And what did you do today?" he asked his girlfriend.

"Mmmm, more wedding prep and practice," Rowan said. "Kono hired this wedding planner cause she thought I was getting too stressed with everything. Me and her nearly came to blows."

"Wow… can you take her?"

"Oh hell yeah. Would have totally won."

Steve smiled and nudged her shoulder and she nudged him back. She smiled at her two boys before moving to get up. Now that Steve was back she didn't feel too bad about slipping off to get herself a snow cone.

"I'm getting myself a shaved ice, you two want one?"

"Naw, dad… Steve… sorry… he got me a pop," Nahele said trying very hard not to blush as he showed her the bottle beside him. Steve turned his large grin up to Rowan, not because he wanted something but because he accidentally got called dad again. She ruffled his hair and he kept a grip on her shirt until she had to tug it out of his grasp to go.

She gave Flipper her order and then waited for her shaved ice to be handed to her. And it was while she was waiting that it happened.

"ROWAN!" was shouted at her from a distance and she straightened immediately.

Rowan turned to where Danny was storming towards her. Despite the obvious anger on his face Rowan smiled at him. "Oh hey Danny!"

"Don't you hey Danny me! You knew!"

Rowan paused and blinked her eyes. She didn't know what he was talking about. "I did? What did I know?"

"About Charlie."

In a flash it all came back to her and the smile dropped off of her face. "Oh… Charlie… she told you about… oh is he sick then? You better get yourself tested you're the ma…." "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"

Rowan yelped throwing herself back to avoid his lunge. Had he just tried to strangled her. Danny righted himself and lunged for her again which cause Rowan to stumble away as he struggled to get a hold of her and she struggled to shake his grip on her.

In her panic she couldn't keep her strangled, fearful cry to herself. "STEVEN!"

She raced back towards him, already her man was on his feet, hand by holster ready to draw just in case but he faltered when he saw Danny chasing after her.

"Don't let him kill me, don't let him kill me!" she cried, Steve swept her aside and then stopped Danny from reaching her by simply putting his hands out and shoving him back and away.

"What the hell, Danny?! What have I said, what do I always say? Don't fucking touch my girl, what the hell is the matter with you?"! Steve cried, having to shove the man back two more times as he kept trying to get past Steve to get to Rowan.

"She knew Charlie was my kid! She knew! Rachel told me, she's known for months! She knew since the parking garage collapse. She knew and she didn't tell me!"

Steve turned to Rowan, his eyebrows raised in surprise. Rowan's eyes were wide, that meant it was true, but he couldn't understand why this was something she never told him… or Danny, but mostly him. Fuck he had never liked Rachel and now he liked her even less. "Okay… that's true. I did know. Kind of, but it wasn't my secret to tell. And honestly… I did tell her that she had a month to tell you and then I think I kind of forgot."

Danny roared once more and lunged for her again and Steve threw him back. "Danny, stop it! You know how the visions work. You know!"

That time when Steve threw him back, Danny didn't try to lunge again. But still Steve stayed on alert in case Danny tried again. Set into a low position ready to slam him down to the ground if Danny tried again. Steve shot a glance back to Rowan who was still behind him, her hands on his sides, gripping his shirt. A position that usually filled him with such potent lust, now he was just annoyed. Couldn't her visions, just for once, not fuck with things? Was that too much to ask?

She glanced up to him, caught his unimpressed glare and then lowered her eyes once more, pressing her forehead to his back. "Don't look at me like that, we weren't all that good back then, we had just started dating, I had just moved in. I didn't want to rock the boat," she mumbled.

Steve shook his head. God fucking damn it. Okay she had a point, and he did know that she forgot her visions once she stopped having them. "Alright, look, I'm gonna, we're gonna go somewhere and talk it out, okay? You good to get home?"

Rowan nodded. Steve shoved Danny away trying to usher him back to the Camaro and then pulled her close. He kissed her cheek carefully before resting his forehead against hers. "You okay?"

"I mean… I actually thought he was gonna kill me," she whispered. She sounded hurt or betrayed as if she really had any right to be so. She should have told Danny right away about Charlie and they wouldn't have been in that situation right now but he also didn't want to rub it in, so instead he kissed her softly, rested his fingers against her cheek momentarily just to make sure that she wasn't shaking and she was okay.

"He's just upset, I'll get him to apologize… once he calms down. Text me when you get home, so I know, okay?"

Rowan nodded again. He kissed Rowan's lips one more time before leaving her side to go hug Nahele good-bye. He asked if he was okay, got a strong yes from him before letting go. He jogged after Danny who had stormed back to his car hoping to get all of this settled sooner rather than later. Because he was not very happy that his cute little family dinner got interrupted over this bullshit.