The McGarrett Household And On - O'ahu, HI - Sunday Afternoon

[hatesparadise]

So, you could make all the plans you wanted, but the island--no, not the one in the Pacific--would do whatever the hell it wanted. But in this once instance, it all worked out. Probably because there were other people involved.

Which didn't annoy Danny at all.

No, don't be silly. He was just glad to be home--don't anyone tell Steve that he called it that--and able to see his daughter again.

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Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[grenadesandohana]

"Danny and I missed it," Steve said. "We went hiking and then there was a robber and Danny demanded dinner for having to deal with it."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"That's too bad," Liam said, though at least they'd missed it for a date night (not that he'd call it that to their faces) and not because they'd been, like, kidnapped or something. "It was warm and tropical, if indoors. You would've liked it. Could've swum circles around everyone else there." Despite it very much not being the kind of pool made for lap swimming, Liam was confident Steve would've found a way.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"You cheating on us in the water, brah?" Kono asked, coming up behind Steve. She offered a smile at Liam.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[grenadesandohana]

"Never," Steve said, giving Kono a beaming smile. "Kono, meet Liam. Liam, Kono."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"It's an honor," Liam said solemnly. And even stuck out a hand for a handshake, which was not an honor most people got.

(Look, it was a cultural thing. You'd be twitchy about handshakes too if they had prelude-to-sex connotations where you were from.)

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Oh, have the boys been talking us up to you too?" she teased, taking his hand to shake.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"Absolutely," Liam said shamelessly. "Also maybe angling for a few pointers," he added, well aware that Steve was right there. "After all, you and Chin still have far more experience than I do in wrangling those two."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Oh no, we leave the Steve wrangling to Danny." For their own sanity.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"So who keeps Danny out of trouble?" Liam had to ask. Sure, Steve was great about getting him out of trouble... but that's because he was also usually the one to get him in it in the first place.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[grenadesandohana]

"I'm sitting right here," Steve complained.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"I thought it was another Navy SEAL sitting next to me," Kono said with a laugh. "Usually we back them up when things get out of hand, but they do the same for us."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

“Good to know,” Liam said, visibly peeking up as that aforementioned veggie sushi arrived.

... There was only so much salad a guy could eat, come on.

“‘Things getting out of hand’ doesn’t happen as much back in Fandom, but when it does it tends to be an island-wide affair.” Because Fandom was teeny tiny compared to most inhabited islands, including this one.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Does that mean that bossman is bored?" Kono asked, eyes sparkling. "Because bad things happen when he has too much time on his hands."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"Oh, don't worry," Liam grinned back at her. "Somehow, there's always plenty of paperwork... for him to foist off on Danny."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

Kono burst out laughing. "Some things never change. So he's made himself a new task force on a different island? I'm feeling cheated on."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

“Well, he hasn’t gone so far as to stage a coup just yet,” Liam said dryly. “It does still say ‘Sheriff’ on my- well, okay, I don’t actually have a uniform,” he admitted.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Did he take it and replace it with cargo pants?" Kono asked sympathetically.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"Oh, he'd best not," Liam grumbled.

He was a lot of things, and strangely picky about his clothing was one of them. He liked well-made expensive shit, okay?

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Do you wear a tie to work?" Kono asked, giggling.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

"I'm not that bad," Liam protested.

Ties, no. $200 henleys? Yes.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Okay, just seeing what I was working with," Kono teased. "Danny wore a tie to work for a year. In Hawai'i."

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

“I can probably count on one hand the number of times I wore a tie for work, and I used to work in an embassy,” Liam said.

An alien embassy, run by beings who had no use for clothes themselves, what with being made of energy.

“My- coworker,” just the slightest hesitation there, because ‘father’ would raise a lot of questions he wasn’t prepared to answer just yet, “on the other hand? Full suit and tie, every day. Including the time we were on a mission in Peru.”

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Was your embassy also in Peru?" Kono asked.

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[firstofitskind]

Liam shook his head. “DC,” he told her. And then: “How much have Steve and Danny said about what kind of place Fandom is?”

Re: Waikiki Starlight Luau

[hawaii_5ohana]

"Danny let us in on any of it today," Kono said, "so he didn't get much further than complaining about how stuck he usually was there, with a tangent about raccoons?"