McGarrett House, Honolulu, HI - Friday

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Yesterday was Steve's first holiday with the extended Williams clan in New Jersey and the only reason he wasn't dead was probably because Charlie was also there to split the attention of everyone. At least that was Danny's assumption.

But they were back in Hawaii now and the kids back with Rachel. Well. Charlie was. Grace had immediately run off to spend the day with her friends at a mall somewhere.

"You good, babe? Need a hand?"

He was just being a jerk to poor, traumatized Steve.

[for the guy!]

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"You plannin' to put that into the vows?" Danny asked.

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"I have put absolutely no thought into the vows," Steve admitted.

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"Do we even want them?" Danny asked, laughing again.

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"Personalized ones?" Steve asked, "or vows in general?"

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"Either," Danny shrugged.

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"I want to make that promise to you," Steve said, surprisingly earnest about it.

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"Yeah?" Danny asked softly.

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"Otherwise we could've just gone as we were forever," Steve said.

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"Yeah, I think we woulda," Danny admitted, leaning back into him. "Thinkin' it would have been enough to be your partner."

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"And what do you think now?" Steve asked, kissing him.

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"If you think I'd give this up without a fight, you'd be dead wrong," Danny murmured into that kiss.

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Steve nipped down on Danny's lower lip. "Mine."

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"You are so freakin' possessive," Danny replied, pulling him in closer.

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"Of course I am," Steve said.

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"You were possessive from the start," Danny added. "Didn't understand it at first."

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"Well, at the start I was slightly...off-balance," Steve said.

What a nice way to say "bordering on unhinged," Steve.

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"A mess," Danny supplied for him. You know. With love.

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"I wouldn't say I was a mess."

Other than the death of his father and best friend over the course of a week!

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"I was a mess, you were a mess." Danny, who lived in an apartment where a drug deal was probably happening at any given point in time.

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"You were definitely a mess," Steve agreed. "An angry, loud, mess that I couldn't stop watching."

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Well, Danny was doing what Steve was feeling.

"And dragging out to do stuff," Danny said. "To convince me to stay on the island."

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Almost like they were sponsored by the tourism board or something!

"O'ahu is beautiful," Steve pointed out.

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"You were a lifeline," Danny said, talking over that tourism board sponsored line. "You, the team..."

A guy couldn't live just to see his kid, you know.

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Steve wrapped his wet arms around him and pulled him in tight. "You were the same thing."

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"I used to think that was why we were so close then," Danny admitted.