[Homeplot - Kono]

[haolehothead]

Danny is not having the best fucking morning. First of all, his knee hurts. It hurts worse than it has hurt since the first minute of injury when he'd twisted it and the ACL just tore. Second of all, his back hurts. And it's no surprise given that he wakes up on his shitty pull-out bed.

Then he realizes: shitty pull-out bed and actually experiences a moment of sheer glee. He is home, he is back. And then he gets right back to being pissy because he just got happy about Hawaii.

He fumbles for his cell phone and habit tells him to call Steve.

He calls Kono instead, willing her to pick-up. "Hey," he greets, when she does. "I know it's crazy early, but you feel like shave-ice on the beach? And yes, it really is Danny. Danny Williams, I just, I could use a friendly face right now." Just to make sure he's not insane.

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[koakono.livejournal.com]

"You have a rough night or something?"

All of Five-O were friends, no doubt, and Kono had always made friends fast. Still, they tended to fall into natural lines: Kono and Chin Ho, Danny and Steve. It made sense, in a way, that they would parcel themselves out that way and it's a little bit of a jolt to have Danny calling her bright and early.

"Yeah, be there in ten. I was going to go out before coming in this morning anyway. See the surf report this morning?"

[haolehothead]

Danny lets out a snort. Rough night is a goddamn understatement. He's pretty sure he went to bed in a decent hut with a nice mattress. Hell, half the time he wakes up and Steve's snuck his way in like he's afraid of monsters in the dark or something. He's alone here, now.

He fumbles for his cane and lets out a low chuckle at Kono's words. "Kono, my knee is...my knee is so fucked you wouldn't believe. There's no surfing going on for me, stop trying to make me kama'aina," he mutters, hobbling to his feet and limping along slowly.

[koakono.livejournal.com]

"Rough, brah. You know I don't have anything but sympathy for that, right?"

She'd had her own trouble with knees, knew exactly how one little twist could snap an ACL and end a whole life. It was just a little thing, just a little bundle of tendons, but it had changed everything. Danny was a little less affected by his but she couldn't help but have a sympathy pain or two.

"We won't go on the sand," she decided. "It's hell on you when your knee's out. Stick to the boardwalks."

[haolehothead]

"You are a goddess," Danny announces. He figures if anyone is gonna be able to brief him on things, it'll be Kono. "I just gotta fire a text to the boss, tell him we'll be a little late. And hey, shave ice is on me."

[koakono.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a long way to the beach from her place. Sure, it was the size of the trunk of a car but it's as conveniently located as anything is on an island with just a few miles between anywhere and the ocean at any given time.

Kono waited near the shave ice place, warm breeze already rolling in off the ocean this early in the morning. Seeing Danny roll up she smiled, only for it to fall when she saw the limp.

"Did a number on it, huh?"

[haolehothead]

Danny's wincing every time he puts pressure down on the bad knee, but he got there. Damn it, he got there. He's trying not to think too much about whatever island he came from and he's ignoring Steve, too, just in case Steve doesn't remember a thing in hell. "You have no idea," Danny lets out a stricken laugh. "Fuck, it's, it's ridiculous. You have no idea how much I hate goddamn tropical paradise."

He's itching to find out what's been going on, though. "Hey, so, gimme the update. What's the freshest news?"

[koakono.livejournal.com]

Kono arched a brow for a second, wondering why Danny was asking for the 411 when she'd just seen him the day before but after a few seconds of contemplating that weirdness just rolled her shoulders in an easy shrug.

"Not too much. I was working on trying to track down where that extra ten million came from. Side project. Don't...don't tell Steve? Or Chin Ho? I don't think they'd want me sticking my nose in it."

Kono wrinkled her nose a little. "Just baby cuz, remember? I don't always get to play in the major leagues."

[haolehothead]

Danny raises his brow in slight approval, always impressed by what Kono's got in her back pocket. "Yeah?" he asks, with a little bit of a pleased laugh. "Hey, you need any help either on the HPD side or with some of the work, you gimme a shout. We can make up secret code-signals," he says, real serious. "But yeah, really, I'd love to help."

[koakono.livejournal.com]

"We can do smoke signals from the beach," Kono said, smirking a little. "Everyone will think it's just a luau. Perfect cover."

It would require Danny to wear a grass skirt, though, so Kono wasn't sure how well it would work.

"What about you? What's going on with Grace?"

[haolehothead]

They've been there. From the sounds of it, they never even left and Danny's living on something like cloud nine right now. "Grace? She's amazing, she's perfect, she's a Williams," he boasts. "I'm gonna see if I can get her out of school early and hit the beach, see if McGarrett will let me use the private sand so I don't have to worry about tourist idiots."

[koakono.livejournal.com]

"Ooo, classy," Kono teased, then tilted her head a little in invitation. "I could tag along, if you want? Give her that surf lesson? I know the ex-wife is probably paying some slicked up California guy to do it but the only way to learn how to surf is to talk to the waves and you're not going to get that from a haole. Besides, you might even learn something."

[haolehothead]

Danny freezes up slightly. Even if Steve doesn't remember, there's going to be a whole pile of awkward for him to navigate through and if Steve does remember, they're going to be under Kono's watch for hours.

Speechlessness on Danny isn't exactly how he lives, so for an awkward moment, he just looks like a fish out of water. "Me and...at Steve's place," he says, face getting a little heated as all the blood starts rushing in. "You uh, you sure? I mean, you don't have plans with what's-his-face, Ben? You don't need to," he gives a strangled laugh, "you know, sit around and watch Steve give me an aneurysm, but if, but if you're around, then you should drop by for dinner or something or hey, whatever Steve does."

[koakono.livejournal.com]

"Ben and me? Oh, no. Ship has sailed. It would be a really bad idea to get involved again."

Not that she wouldn't want to; Ben Bass had been the love of her life as a teenager but now, well. It was too complicated. Too many years between them and she had a good thing going with Five-0 that she didn't want to screw up.

"Sounds to me like you don't want me to come, though. Are you guys planning something and leaving the rookie out?"

[haolehothead]

Danny feels like he could shove his face into the sand and still, still, he would not be able to come out of this decent. "What? No!" he says, scoffing and maybe his voice hits an octave it shouldn't before he clears his throat and tries to remember that Steve could just be Steve. "No, you should totally come, really, you should. Really."

He's said really one too many times, he thinks.

[koakono.livejournal.com]

Kono tilted her head, a little skeptical. "Uh huh. You sound really cagey, even for you Danny. Did something happen? Did I say something wrong?"

It wasn't like Kono to worry about something like that but with Danny acting so weird...

[haolehothead]

"God, no, you're fine, Kono," Danny says, exhaling the words and trying to settle himself to rights. He takes a deep breath and smiles apologetically. "I guess something happened, but it's not gonna change anything, especially at Five-O. I just, I had some time to think about things."

Which is the nicest way ever of saying 'I got kidnapped to another, crazier island'.

[koakono.livejournal.com]

"You know for all my talk about how you're a mainlander," Kono said cautiously, not wanting to spook Danny off if he was going to open up to her, "You're family. Like Steve, like Chin Ho. If something's going on, you can always talk to me."

She clapped his shoulder lightly, friendly.

[haolehothead]

Danny shifts with slight discomfort, knowing that he's kind of lying by admission if he doesn't tell her. And he hates lying, he really does, it makes him burn up inside, it makes him feel furious and angry. "Kono, I'm...kind of dating someone."