Hi everyone,
A little out of the normal order right now. I have fractured my wrist at the moment so typing is a little hard. So once it starts to heal and I can type without difficulty and pain I will update The Secret but until then I will post to stories that already have chapters ready.
Here's the next chapter.
Enjoy.
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Chapter 34
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Steve sighed as he sat at his desk at work going through paperwork. He had only been back a week and given that he was on desk duty, he still couldn't seem to get his paperwork pile to shrink. He was catching up on all the work that he needed to go through since he was recalled to active duty and then on holiday, not that he would have been able to come to work before that anyway. But still over that time he still accumulated a tonne of paperwork. Danny had gone through a lot of it before and after he got back but Steve still needed to review it all, so he knew what had or was happening.
At the moment, Danny, Chin and Kono were out chasing down a suspect for the case they were working on. It was a cold case that they were able to get a new lead on and then suddenly they were close to closing the case. Steve was a little put out that he still couldn't go into the field seeing how his x-rays came back clean and almost all his cuts were healed now. He had no bruising but still needed to do some more physical therapy because Danny and the Doc didn't want him to just jump straight back into work. They both wanted him to slowly increase the amount he was doing with the damaged muscles and to do that he was allowed to slowly increase his regular exercise and was doing different stretch and strength exercise to help with that.
Danny had been very strict with his return to his mini marathons as he liked to call them. Danny had first allowed him back to swimming but was only allowed a certain amount of time in the water before Danny would make Steve get out. Steve had to agree that Danny was correct as the first few times he was sore after being almost stationary for weeks on end, but he was slowing being able to increase it.
Erik was still acting up and at the moment since they were both at work Erik was doing odd jobs either around the office or out with some of their close friends. As Danny had put it, community service since Erik wanted to keeping acting up.
Steve sighed as he closed a file and put in the pile that was for completed work that he needed to file away. Steve groaned as he stretched slightly before pushing his chair back and standing to go over to the fridge and grab out a bottle of water before sitting back in his chair. Steve looked up hearing movement in the office and saw Danny, Chin and Kono walking back into the office. Steve instantly noticed Danny was limping and had a cut to his arm and covered in dirt. Steve's eyes widened and he hurried out of his office to see them.
"What happened?" Steve said the instant he opened his door.
"I took a little tumble down a hill trying to detain our suspect." Danny said with a chuckle. "Before I realised they were a … you know." Danny said waving his hand at the three of them.
"What!" Steve said his eyes widening and looked to Chin and Kono.
"We didn't know till we got there Steve." Chin said. "And Danny was already tussling with the suspect before they went over a cliff, not a hill. Only a meter down but that's why Danny is covered in dirt and has a cut to his arm." Chin said, knowing that he best tell Steve everything now and quickly so he could calm down.
"I'm fine Steve."
"Then?" Steve said trying to calm down as Danny let him look him over.
"The suspect changed and leapt off the cliff and into a small river below and then tried outrunning Chin and Kono. I climbed back up to the cars, must have hurt my knee in the tumble but it's fine. Chin and Kono unfortunately were unable to bring the suspect in for questioning. Resisted arrested and threatened them with a gun." Danny said.
"Too bad." Steve said. "Who was it?"
"It was Todd Anderson." Chin said.
"Really?" Steve said in surprise.
"Yeah. You might want to let his Alpha know before he finds out another way."
"Yeah I will. Do we know what he was doing here?"
"No idea, didn't get that far with asking." Chin said.
"I approached him introducing myself and when I asked if he knew our victim, he bolted. I chased and tussled with him before I went over the cliff."
"I see." Steve said and took Danny's arm. "We are going to patch this arm up. You both ok?"
"Yeah we are fine. Danny is the only one that took a tumble." Kono said with a chuckle.
Steve nodded and took Danny back into his office. He sat Danny down on the couch and pulled out the first aide kit and dragged his chair over and sat in front of him. Danny removed his shirt and tossed it into the bin in the corner of the room. He was going to have to get changed and it was ripped and bloody now so there wasn't much point in keeping it. Steve pulled out some large alcohol wipes and wiped the blood from Danny's arm before using a new one on his cut.
"Easy Steve!" Danny hissed when the wipe was placed on top of his cut.
"Don't be a baby." Steve said with a smirk.
"I'm not. You could be more gentle."
"I'll be gentle alright."
"Steve, hey!" Danny said and used his free hand to get Steve to look at him. "I'm ok."
"No you're not. Your leg is banged up and you are bleeding."
"Was bleeding."
"Danny." Steve said in annoyance. "I hate this."
"What?"
"Being stuck in here."
"Soon babe. You are almost ready to go back to field work. The Doc said so the other day remember. Just give it another week."
"Another week and I will be looking to shoot someone." Steve said making Danny roll his eyes and shake his head.
"I'm sure you can last."
"Do I get something if I do?" Steve said with a smug smile.
"I don't know. Keep that up and you definitely won't." Danny said with a smirk of his own.
"Oh you couldn't be able to last anymore than I could."
"You want to test that theory."
Steve sat there looking at Danny before deciding he really didn't want to test that theory. Because Danny was just as stubborn as he was and would likely hold out even if it pained him. Steve smirked and just shook his head before getting up after finishing off cleaning Danny's arm and put the first aide kit away. Danny closed his eyes and leaned back on the couch with a sigh. Steve turned around and stood there smirking as he watched Danny relax on the couch. Danny slowly opened his eyes to look at Steve with a frown.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"That smirk is not nothing. What is it?"
"Do you know how good you look sitting there, with just your pants on?"
"Really? Must be pretty good for that look on your face."
"Oh, most definitely."
"Well, I had better go get changed and do all the paperwork for this case. Don't want to tempt you into anything we can't finish." Danny smirked making Steve pout.
"Who says I wouldn't?" Steve said as he stood in front of Danny.
"One; we are at work, two; we aren't alone and three; you aren't fully healed."
Steve sighed and held out his hand to Danny and pulled him to his feet. Steve reached out and grasped the back of his head and pulled him forward into a kiss. Steve pulled back with a smile before Danny reached out and pulled Steve into a kiss of his own. Both pulled back after and Steve took a step back.
"You had better go get dressed."
"Yes I should."
Danny left Steve's office as Chin and Kono looked up with amusement on their faces as he walked shirtless through the office space to his own office and closed all the blinds so he could get dressed. Steve sighed as he went and sat back at his desk and pulled another file in front of him and started focusing on that.
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Danny sighed as he finished getting dressed into some new clean clothes and tossed the rest of his dirty ones into a bag to take home and wash. Danny collapsed on the couch in his office and relaxed. He didn't enjoy tangling with werewolves at the best of times, but the fall off the cliff made it even worse. He was putting up a brave front with the team but that tumble had really scared him. He didn't know how far down the drop went and then when their suspect suddenly changed right in front of him he really thought he was going to die right there before his team could get to him.
Danny was shocked when their suspect just turned and jumped right off the cliff. He was sure that when he looked over he was see a dead werewolf below but it was a river below and the werewolf was swimming to the bank and climbing out. Danny had no idea what happened when Chin and Kono confronted the suspect as he was still trying to climb back up over the cliff edge with a bad knee. When Danny was able to get back up he heard the gun shots and made the short walk to his car before he saw Chin and Kono come out from behind some trees on the other side of his car.
Danny stood and moved back to his desk and opened his laptop and started to fill in his report on the shooting and his report on the case.
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Steve looked up a few hours later and found Danny still had his blinds closed, it was getting late and he had just about had enough of the paperwork. Deciding to call it a day Steve shut down his computer and grabbed his weapon and badge from the draw and clipped them back on his belt before grabbing his phone and heading out the door. Steve walked over to Chin and Kono office's and told them to call it a day before he walked over to Danny's.
Steve listened in carefully and couldn't hear anything and knocked quietly on the door and still heard nothing. Steve quietly pushed the door open and saw Danny was asleep on the couch and laptop open on the table in front of it. Steve sighed softly and walked over and picked up the laptop and woke it up from it's sleep function and saw Danny's report from today and that it was finished. Steve saved the file before powering down the laptop and went to place it on the desk. He turned back to Danny and walked over and sat down on the coffee table in front of Danny and gently shook his shoulder.
"Danny. Danny wake up." Steve said quietly as he shook his shoulder.
"Huh? Steve? What happened?" Danny said as he woke and sat up slowly.
"You fell asleep after finishing your report. You ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Sorry didn't realise I did that."
"It's ok. You had a bit of a scare today."
"Steve I'm fine."
"You do realise, Danny that I don't believe you. I know you well enough now to know when something scares you and even though I wasn't there, I know that what happened today did scare you, maybe even terrify you."
"Steve…"
"Danny, it's me. You don't have to pretend."
Danny sighed and Steve moved and sat beside him on the couch and put his arm around Danny's shoulders and pulling him close. Danny leaned into Steve and sagged against him giving up trying to make Steve believe he was ok.
"Yeah, it did terrify me Steve, I lost my gun above me on the cliff and I was unarmed with a giant wolf in front of me. He would have had no issues killing me then and there. Chin and Kono were too far away from me to even help." Danny said finally and slumped even more against Steve's side. "I am defenceless against your kind, even with my gun."
"Did you still want to mate with me?"
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