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Chapter 14

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The day went quickly for Steve, Danny and Grace and it was time to drop Grace back at her mum and Stan's house. Steve drove his car to the front gate and Danny told him the code before they drove up to the front of the house. They climbed out and Grace went around to Steve and gave him a hug when he bent down to her level.

"Thankyou for a fun weekend Uncle Steve and letting me and Danno stay with you last night."

"You are most welcome Grace. Now remember what we talked about?"

"Yes."

"Good now you have my number. If you need to talk you can call me otherwise if I don't answer talk to Danno and he'll let me know. Now nothing over the phones either."

"Ok. Only in person and when alone."

"Yes. Now you best go say goodbye to Danno before he gets jealous."

Grace giggle and hurried over to Danno and gave him a hug before walking up the stairs with him. During her talk with Steve, Rachel had opened the door and had her arms crossed and was waiting impatiently and now with Grace and Danno walking up the steps her face became more sour. Steve didn't like her very much at all after everything she had done to Danny so far and what he knew she would do in the future.

"Daniel thankyou for bringing Grace back on time."

"You're welcome Rachel. Monkey I'll see you after school on Thursday ok?"

"Ok. Love you Danno."

"I love you more. Come here give me a hug."

Danny knelt down and wrapped his arms around Grace and gave her a big hug before standing back up as she went inside. Grace knew that her mum always wanted to talk to Danno before he left and she knew it was always about her. She didn't like that her mum gave her Danno a hard time but there was nothing she could do about it.

"Daniel what is going on? Why is Steve here?"

"Oh we had gone out for lunch and then spent the rest of the day going to a couple of the waterfalls close by. Unfortunately with the rain we had last week it's too fast flowing so there was no swimming. We planned to drop her off on the way back. Is that a problem?"

"No but why were you spending the day with Steve? Don't you see enough of each other at work? Besides these are the days you have Grace so shouldn't you be spending it with Grace."

"We stayed the night last night with Steve after the party I told you that yesterday. He asked if we had plans and Grace said no. He offered to take us to see some waterfalls around the area. Grace was excited to see them. Besides if Grace wanted to spend time with my team who am I to stop her. I like that she wants to get to know them." Rachel didn't reply to that as she had none. "What time shall I drop her off Thursday?"

"I'll call you."

Danny nodded before he headed back down to the truck where Steve was waiting. Danny said nothing as he climbed in the passenger side and slamming the door shut. Steve wince slightly before looking up where Rachel was standing before he climbed back in and driving out. Danny didn't say a word as they drove back to Steve's house and Steve wasn't sure if he should be asking what was wrong.

"Rachel wasn't happy with Grace spending time with you when it was my time with her."

"Why is that?"

"Don't know. Maybe she thinks I'll try to get more time out of her if I spend time with my daughter with you or my team members."

"Danny you don't have to let me spend your time with Grace if it's going to cause problems. I don't want to make things worse for you."

"It will be fine Steve. I'll sort it out."

"Danny I'm serious. I spend a lot of time with you. If needed you can spend the weekends when you have custody of Grace together. I can finish up paperwork or other chores."

"Steve if Grace wants to spend time with you I'm not going to stop her. Besides there might be a few times when she might just want to spend a few hours alone with me. But I doubt that will be often. She seems to enjoy her time with you Steve. You enjoy the water as much as her, well the ocean anyway."

"If for some reason, to keep Rachel happy, you have to spend it alone with Grace just tell me. I don't want to be the reason you lose custody of Grace."

"It will be fine Steve. Don't worry about it."

They pulled into Steve's driveway to find Chin and Kono there waiting for them. Steve climbed out of the car and quickly went to the front door and grabbed a bag sitting inside after disarming the alarm and then re arming it. Danny was waiting by the car as Chin and Kono grabbed a duffle bag each out of the car.

"What's with the bags?"

"In case we have to phase and don't have time to undress. We'll need clothes to get home in. Wouldn't want to be arrested for indecent exposure." Kono said.

"True. But I'd bail you all out." Danny said as Steve walked over to the car with a smirk.

"Yeah but I bet the HPD like to know why three of your team members are walking around naked while you are dressed."

"I'll just say your drinks were spiked."

"Really Danny. They'd would have tested for that."

"Well it broke down in your systems quick and they arrested you at the end of the high."

Steve smirked and shook his head as he threw his duffle bag into the back of the truck as did Chin and Kono before they all got in and headed out. Steve drove them to a national park before they climbed out.

"Steve why the hell are we here?"

"This is where the meeting is held. We book a private camp site for when we need to hold meetings. Plus we choose less crowded parks to minimise getting seen by hikers or families. Just in case we need to phase."

"Right. So how many people are in the park tonight?"

"Two. A family who are down by the river here and a group of four hikers who are a lot further up the trail. We are a good distance from them. Let's go it's not a long walk Danny."

"You should have told me where we were going. I could have changed to suit."

"Danny I saw what you brought. What you have is fine."

Danny walked next to Steve as they headed up the trail a short distance before taking the next turn off and headed away from where the other campers and hikers were. They walked for half an hour before they came to a large area, cleared of trees. There was already a fire going with other people and wolves sitting around it. There were nearly fifty of them and Danny felt a little overwhelmed.

They all looked up hearing them enter the area and the wolves gave low growls but Steve's glare shut them up. Steve looked back to them and put his hand behind Danny's back and led him the where they would sit. Chin and Kono followed after him. Steve sat down and Chin and Danny sat on either side of him and Kono sat beside Danny.

"Alpha it's nice to see you." One of the pack members said. "We were discussing the hunters that seem to be coming to the island."

"Some of the Alpha's want to get together to discuss what to do." The Beta said as he stepped into the circle.

They all backed down and stopped speaking. Steve looked up at the Beta, a glare on his face.

"I didn't ask for you to speak."

"I'm Beta I have more of a right to speak then them. And why is the human here?" The Beta said with a glare which Danny happily returned.

"Not anymore." Steve said as he stood up. "There are going to be some changes around here. Detective Danny Williams is here so that I can discuss a few things with all of you so I know my words are heeded. Detective Williams and his family are under my protection. You all know what that means. You can't hurt them, threaten them and if they are in trouble you are to protect them. Detective Williams and myself are dating and anyone that has a problem with it should say so now."

"Alpha why do you think we would have a problem with it." Asked one of the members.

Steve directed his eyes to the Beta who was close to losing control of his rage. The pack followed his gaze to the Beta and knew why he was bring this all up even though they all knew that the three with Steve were under his protection.

"Another thing that will be effective immediately is, Beta you are demoted to Omega and are no longer in charge of the packs welfare if I'm unavailable."

That's when he lost it. The Beta growled low and his body phased and had his sights set on Danny. Steve phased without a second thought and stepped in between Danny and the now Omega. Steve growled low and waited.

"This will not end well for you. You challenge me and you will lose."

"You bring in this filth and expect me to approve. You should have stayed within your own pack. I'm more than positive others would agree with me."

Steve looked around to see the pack was backing away from the fight and the ones that were in their wolf form moved behind Steve to protect Danny. Danny was once again staring in shock. He didn't think it would go this way and now he couldn't understand Steve. Chin and Kono were standing beside him in case they needed to do something.

"Looks like who you hoped would help you with this have abandoned you." Chin said.

The Omega growled and leapt at Steve and Steve countered and leapt at him and latched onto his throat. He pushed him to the ground and started trying to get a good hold on his throat, leaving plenty of bite marks on his neck. Steve was soon pushed backwards off him before he climbed to his feet and they circled each other. Steve lunged towards him and latched down on his back. The wolf howled in pain and tried to reach around to grab at Steve when Steve suddenly let go with a yelp of pain when he back leg was bitten and he was pulled back.

Chin was about to go help when two wolves that were in front of them went forward and grabbed at the wolf and got it off Steve. Steve shook his head before turning to the Beta and got back to his feet. His back leg was now weak as his muscles were torn. Steve knew he had to end it.

The Omega leapt back at him and Steve leapt at him and grabbed a hold of his neck again and slammed him down into the ground and tightened his grip. Steve held tight as he gathered his strength and then broke the Omega's throat. Steve let go and stepped back, limping. Steve turned to the one his pack had restrained and walked over.

"Why would you help him?"

"He's right in a way. You shouldn't be protecting this human."

"Who I protect is none of your business."

"Humans are the ones that hunt us down and kill us."

"As I seem to recall you begged for me to turn you. You were human once. I know that your mate rejected you once I turned you but that was not my fault. I warned you of what could happen because you didn't discuss it with him. You have only three choices, you can stay in the pack as an Omega, you can leave or I can just kill you now for attacking me. I'm well within my right."

"I should have just killed you when I could and your human as well."

Steve growled low and the two wolves backed off as Steve stalked forward. The wolf growled back and leapt at him and Steve was able to side step him and then grab the back of his neck and pull him to the ground. The wolf was still young compared to Steve and wasn't even a match for him. Steve bit in deep before breaking his neck. Steve stepped away and turned to the back who were gathered around Chin, Kono and Danny.

"Anyone else?"

They bowed down to him to show their acceptance. Kono picked up the bags they brought with them and stepped through everyone a few growling at her but Steve growled at them. They still didn't like Kono and Chin since they were outsiders. Kono knelt down beside him and pulled out pants for him before Steve phased back and pulled them on with Kono's help to keep him steady on his feet. His leg was still bleeding and wouldn't heal for a week since his muscles were torn badly. Steve quickly rolled the pant leg up so the doc could wrap it.

Danny slowly walked around the wolves and over to Steve, he was watching all the wolves carefully but they didn't seem bothered by him getting close to Steve. They probably didn't want to incur Steve's wrath by doing anything. Danny stood on the other side and wrapped Steve's arm around his shoulder to help hold him up. Steve leaned slightly towards Danny and looked at him, he could see that he was worried.

"I'm alright Danny."

"Really you're alright. Seriously Steven you always say you're alright even when we both know you're not. Why must you continue to do so? It doesn't help anyone when you lie and say you're 'fine', 'good', 'alright'. All it does is give everyone else a headache." Danny said as he went into a mini rant. "We will be talking when we get back to the house." Danny said quietly, even though he was sure everyone heard it.

Steve smirked as he watched Danny's free hand go over the place to emphasis what he was trying to say. He knew if he could get Danny into a rant he would start to feel a little better since everything was coming off his chest. Danny looked at him and saw the smirk and glared at him.

"You think that's funny?"

"Well your ranting is."

"Alright Alpha I've patched it up for now. Let's get you sat down. After the meeting I'll grab my stuff from home and come patch it up properly and treat the scratches but this will do for now." The doc said as he stood up and Steve nodded.

"Thankyou." Danny said for Steve making the doc smile at them both.

Danny and Kono helped Steve back to where they were sitting before as everyone took their previous places. Danny carefully sat Steve down before sitting beside him and trying not to hover.

"Alright three more things now. Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua are now members of the pack does anyone have any other objections?" When no one moved or said anything Steve was pleased. "Also since I no longer have a Beta, Chin Ho has agreed to become Beta. Any objections there?" Danny was thanking the gods when no one was disagreeing. "Good. You will follow his orders if I'm unavailable or away. And now one last finally thing left. I want all those in the threatening that the previous Beta arranged against Detective Williams to come forward."

There was no movement anywhere and Danny couldn't blame them. He would have been terrified too if he knew he was Steve's bad side. Danny just hoped that there would be no more killing.

"If no one comes forward in ten seconds anyone that knows who these people are had better speak up or they will suffer the same consequences as those who are hiding." A couple of wolves and four people stepped forward and Steve turned to Danny. "Is that everyone?"

"Yeah other than the Beta and the other that you killed that's everyone." Danny said looking at the six assemble in front of Steve. "Don't go too hard on them Steve, they were following the orders of the Beta."

"Danny they also had my orders. And mine overrule the Beta's."

"I'm just saying maybe they were threatened just as I was."

Steve looked to the six assemble in front of him. The younger wolves were looking at the ground too scared to look at Steve while the older were staring passed Steve at the trees behind.

"I'm not saying don't punish them just don't toss them aside. Let them stay I'm sure they would like that and the chance to earn forgiveness." Danny said and the young ones nodded quickly at his words.

Steve was starting to feel exhausted, his leg was still bleeding but slowly now and his strength was leaving from the two fights and the pain from the injuries were catching up. Steve groaned slightly and shook his head.

"I want you six to come to my office tomorrow morning and I will decide you punishment then." Steve said and received nods from all of them. "This meeting is finished."

The pack started to fan out, wolves darted out into the jungle and the humans started back up the trail. Steve, Danny, Chin and Kono along with the doc waited till everyone left before leaving. Danny helped Steve stand before supporting him and helping back along the trail. Steve was trying his best to keep most of his weight off Danny even though Danny kept pulling his arm back down again.

"Stop trying to be a SuperSEAL and lean on me damn it. You'll just hurt yourself more you big goof."

Steve looked at Danny to see he was serious and allowed Danny to take more of his weight. The doctor was on his other side making sure that if needed he could assist. When they got back to the truck Steve tossed Chin the keys before climbing in the back with Danny beside him. Steve leaned against the side of the closed door as Chin pulled the car out of the parking spot and headed back towards the house. Steve felt arms wrap around him before he was pulled against Danny and his head sat on his shoulder. Steve relaxed against him before his eyes shut and he gave into the exhaustion.

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