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It took a while for Thomas to come to. His head was pounding, essentially everything hurt, and at first he didn’t know where he was or what was going on. The floor beneath him was damp and soft, the smell of dirt was in the air, and bit by bit, things came back to him, on step at a time. 

Juliet and him teamed up with Five-0 again in a joint mission, but things went wrong. Horribly wrong, actually, and he was reminded of it as he tried to sit up. He hissed as he moved, essentially unable to move his left arm. A glace at it showed his shoulder was dislocated, and that was only mild for what they went through. Juliet, Steve and him got captured, essentially tortured, and judging by the surroundings, were left in the jungle. There was no way he could even remotely tell where they were.

Thomas started to panic then. Not because of being unable to orientate, but because of Juliet and Steve. Shit. Thomas frantically looked around, spotting both still out, and moved first to Steve to the best of his ability, shaking him a bit. 

“Steve? Steve!”

When Tani woke up that day, it all seemed to be just as normal. She was up first, Koa soon followed, and their dad usually never slept for too long past that either. Except, that morning he did, so Tani decided to just let him sleep in while she fixed them breakfast. 

As she went to wake him up, however, nothing could prepare her for what she and Koa would go through next. She shook their dad once, gently, knowing that he was a light sleeper, but he didn’t wake. She tried again, a bit harder, again without a reaction. By that point nervous, because she knew this wasn’t normal for Kawika, Tani called out to him, again and again, fearing the worst, and the worst happened. She checked his pulse: he had none. In panic, she called for Koa, telling him to call 911 immediately while she started reanimating him, shaking all the time as tears threatened to show. She didn’t stop, didn’t want to all until the ambulance arrived and the paramedics had to pry her away from him to get to him. Tani clung to Koa as the paramedics did everything they could, asking her questions in the process which in the end had them pronounce Kawika dead.

Tani shook against Koa as they proceeded with everything they had to do, who, as Tani wasn’t even able to utter a word, called Steve and asked him to come to their house. Then he tried to get Tani out of the house, to get some air, which she fought against at first, though in the end just slumped down on the stairs on the front lanai and cried.

Bridget was not having a good day.

She had taken a couple of days off work to sort some problems with her new apartment, but it was looking like she would have to ask for a couple of days more, since everything that could have gone wrong, had actually gone wrong.

Worst of all, she hadn’t had the time to actually call Danny. She had managed to text him, to try to check on him, but the few texts saying that he was okay and slowly recovering, didn’t do much to ease her concerns, She had not had the time to call him and check for herself that he was really as okay as he claimed, after being kidnapped and shot, and it made her feel incredibly guilty.

Since she didn’t have anything edible back at her place, she figured she could stop by her parents’ and hopefully grab a bite to eat and catch up with her mom before she went back to her very empty apartment.

She let herself in with her key calling out a greeting, but it looked like her mom wasn’t at home. Instead, she found someone she really wasn’t expecting in the kitchen.

so when she was called by clara to join them for dinner, with a surprise that would wait for her there, grace wasn’t one to decline it. the excitement held her throughout her morning and afternoon classes, with her getting to the dorm right on time and with enough time to get ready and grab the bus to her grandparents’ place. the surprise was an added bonus, true, but secondary, and what she was rather looking forward to was spending time with her grandparents that evening, and it was the weekend as well. she could easily stay the night and head back to her dorm later on. 

once arriving, clara opened the door for her and promptly let her to the living room, where she saw no other than steve. grace grinned brightly and rushed to him, clashing with him and hugging him tightly. ❝ uncle steve! i missed you so much! ❞ nothing, absolutely nothing would make her pry herself away from him anytime soon. it’s been way too long. ❝ what are you doing here? did you come to visit? ❞

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a day will not pass that i won’t recommend @xmcgarrett / @jxhiggins / @powerfultales to somebody. ( and yes, i can recommend three because it’s the same mun behind the blogs! i’m bending the rules just a little bit, shhhhhh )

ash has that amazing ability to take some of the most complex characters from various shows and movies, do them justice, embrace them with all their flaws and difficulties and even add to the characterisation while at the same time being able to break down the characters she writes and offer an in-depth analysis of why the character behaves the way they do, or why do things the way they do them, and it all makes perfect sense! ash does an amazing job in researching her characters’ backgrounds, jobs and even goes as far as researching illnesses and their symptoms to make the threads and characters all the more believable and as close to real life as possible, and that in no way is an easy feat!

ash’s steve is beautifully written, incredibly true to the character, but with added little quirks and bits and pieces that make her portrayal stand out from the crowd and be unique and one of a kind. he’s a wonderful mix of his stubborn and determined self, always on the look out, always cautious, and his relaxed self, his vulnerable self, which is incredibly hard to balance ( imo at least! ) and ash does a wonderful job at it!

her juliet is equally as beautifully written, and ash once again shows her ability to balance out two polar opposites residing in a character by staying true to juliet’s usual stubborn and slightly cold self, but also depicting her soft side whenever there are interactions with the one she loves or in any of the happy family with children threads so wonderfully that it always makes my heart swell with joy!

upon steve's return to hawai'i, it was to be expected that danny would be more so with him than at work, and that was more than fine, especially with lou and gordon having mostly things under control. barbecue's at steve's became once more a regular thing, and while gordon attended them from time to time, it was simply the fact that he didn't want to impose too much. he was still the new guy after all.

the chance presented itself, however, when word came around that steve was opening a gym that would offer self-defense classes, rehabilitation programs, all in all a well rounded schedule with classes for everybody, so gordon found himself at the opening of said gym, trying to see if he could get a word with the man himself, not necessarily in private, but to have a proper conversation with him. after all, he was the guy who hired him and brought him into five-0. ❝ it's good to have you back on the island. ❞ the now second-in-command of the task force told him with a small smile once managing to catch him on his own.

and you'd think that the excitement for the day would be over, and that ethan would do his regular checkups on his patients, as he usually did, before calling it a day, though that just wasn't his luck, now, was it. it took him one walk past the reception desk at the surgical ward to freeze in his tracks as the door opened.

❝ doctor shah, it looks like---- ❞

❝ i know, sarah. i know. ❞ he told the receptionist with a soft smile and watched as not only steve and danny walked in, but the whole team. of course, ethan was quick to assume that steve most likely got injured again, and as the, and he'd even dare say that, official doctor of the entire five-0 team, he would also be the one to make sure he would get better, and try and force him to stay in the hospital for as long as possible, for his own good, too. the team steve had was mayhaps also a huge factor that had to do with his fear of being the bringer of bad news. they could get downright scary when scared of any of their injured teammates, not to mention if they were in a critical state and practically demanded that miracles were done.

with a soft sigh, more to himself, ethan walked over to them and offered a warm smile. by now they were friends, since they adopted him into their slightly weird, but very well functioning family. ❝ commander mcgarrett, what did you do this time? ❞ ethan gave him an almost scolding look, like a parent would, but it was all in good jest.