#dtwilliams

Of all the days Higgins expected a call about Thomas Magnum landing himself in hospital, this day was not one of them. He had been out with Rick, TC, McGarrett and some other former seal friends. Their new outings were usually quite harmless, involved barbecue, a ball game or some diving, nothing that had the potential to injure one of them or worse: trigger the issues of one of them. She suspected almost all of them - Junior being the weird little wild card she was not sure about - had some form of mental scar left from their time serving. In some it was more evident than others - namely McGarrett, Magnum, Rick and TC.

Once Juliet arrived at the hospital Rick, now sporting a cast around his arm, filled her in on what happened. She wasn’t even surprised anymore. And on top of it she couldn’t blame the men getting involved, nor could she really blame Thomas and Steven to be self sacrificing idiots about it. Who she blamed moments later were the other Seals. With Junior and Ethan still out of it, Mike, Rick and TC all but hit behind her as Detective Williams came in. 

“Cowards,” she hissed to them as she approached Danny. So telling him about it all was on her. Luckily she was not remotely scared of him. For once she was not invovled in the incident that got Steve injured, she was just the person the called about Rick’s, TC’s and Magnum’s injury. 

“I feel like we should start a support group: Babysitters of stupid ex-Navy Seals with terrible terrible hero complexes.” It was a start that was bound to warm Danny up to her, but then again with them both literally babysitting one ex Navy Seal like that, she was just speaking the truth here.

It had been quite a while since he last saw Oahu. He was genuinely excited to see the island he called home. He had longed to see it for a while now, since he started therapy and got to his first breakthrough. His instinct then was to actually tell Danny about it and talk to him about everything he learned. And the Lou, Adam, Tani, Jerry, Duke, Kamekoma, Junior, all these people he cared about, the extended family, simply Ohana that he had cultivated. He missed them. Even more so when his therapy was done, the meds working....and his health declining. As he was first transferred to the hospital he longed to have his friends there. Even just for a short visit. He had Danny's parents and sister, but that did not even remotely compare to having Danny there, as nice as it was to feel like part of the Williams family.

And now he was here. He had smiled the moment he saw the island from the airplane window and now even brighter. Danny was there to pick him up, which was good, he knew he was in no condition to drive safely by himself or to ride public transportation when he could not even carry his own bag and even the distance from the bus stop to his house carrying that might be too far. An airport employee was currently carrying his bag for him so he could focus on just walking. Once outside Steve told him he could see the one picking him up, it was okay to set the bag down. He handed him a few dollars as tip before turning to Danny.

Noelani reached for what she had on the seat next to her after stopping on front of an all too familiar house. Danny Williams lived here and with him now Eddie, the dog of their friend Steve, who was absent until further notice. She knew Danny was a bit torn over it. On one hand he missed Steve, but on the other - and she knew that part had a tendency to win out with him - he knew it was a good thing for Steven to actually do something for himself. But it left them with a need to adjust. Some did so better than others, Noelani herself didn’t necessarily adjust easily to the new guy in the team. She was used to Danny and Steve and the dynamic everyone had, with the new guy trying to fit in, not replace. 

The fact that her boyfriend had plans on Valentines day that ended with her spending it at McGarretts was basically the telltale sign of things falling apart. It was time, really. For the last month Noelani found herself less and less interested in him and more and more interested in someone else, someone who was very much out of reach for her. 

To be fair, Eddie did not expect Christopher to set up an evening with another kid and...well his dad or dads, he really did not fully understand Christopher’s friends situation, but he guessed he would find out all about it now, as Christoper insisted that he should spend the evening with them, that he was welcome with Charlie’s father at least. Eddie himself knew nobody in Honolulu yet, except the Lady who was helping with Christopher, so he welcomed that invitation. He actually guessed that Christoper and Charlie had spoken about how they were new and were the reasons why Charlie’s father invited him to come along.

As soon as the door opened, the little boy, who he assumed to be Charlie, came out to welcome Christopher. Both boys just bounded into the house and left their father’s to awkwardly introduce himself, or so Eddie thought.

After her ordeal, getting back home was something. Suddenly she had safety, stability and a baby that really could act like a baby all day, babble and play and be cranky without Juliet hushing her as fast as she could. Now when she was cranky she had a lot of people she could cuddle with and be cranky around. 

It was getting out of the house that was difficult. The house was a safe space, surrounded by family. Leaving was scary. Out there she was grabbed, out there she faered someone taking her baby from her. So she knew she had to take katie. But she also figured she should go easy on herself and so she took the car to Danny. Tani had told her that Steve had left Hawaii and Danny was taking it easy at work, so she hoped he would be home when she rang the doorbell and movement and the door opening told her the same story. 

After only working as consultant for Five-0, Steve went to work that day, finally deciding it was time to pull out entirely. It was time to move on and he had worked on the idea for a while now. He had the perfect place downtown Honolulu, perfectly located for locals and tourists, a large space, several rooms. He was excited about the idea...but he did not want to particularily do it alone. He wanted his partner as his partner in this.

So that morning, after walking all the way to work, he sat down in Dannys office and waited for him. He smiled as his partner came in. 

Steve couldn’t help grinning. He felt almost sore with how much he grinned these past half an hour that he allowed himself and his fiancee to just be happy. Finally, as she settled and fell asleep, her own mother nodding to him, Steve picked up the reason for their happiness and very, very carefully walked outside to where he knew the rest of his family to be waiting, most importantly his best friend and partner, who would always play a very, very important role in the life of the small, impatient child in his arms. 

Steve knew Danny knew exactly how far along Alani was, he was probably as invested in this pregnancy as they were themselves, with him being the proud uncle to the baby and to the son Alani came in a package deal with, who happened to strike up an amazing friendship with Charlie. 

Finally he laid eyes on Danny and walked over. “It’s a girl,” he whispered, almost afraid to wake the tiny sleeping baby. She had been impatient, wasn’t due for another four weeks, but she was perfectly fine. With them deciding not to find out wether she was a girl or boy, they now had the perfect little surprise in their arms.