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Destiel Trope Collection 2020 Day 5: Case Fic

Fearful | @deansrightfulangerissue

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1430 Main Tags/Warnings: Canon Universe, IT Crossover, Angst Summary: It comes for children, it feeds on their fears. Dean and Cas arrive to end its reign of terror.

He Wanted More (WIP) | @becky-srs

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1621 Main Tags/Warnings: #HeWantedMore #Destiel Summary: After years of self-denying and depressing Dean realized he's in love with Cas. Cas loves him too but this two morons won't see it, until Sam takes of with Eileen to a romantic vacation and put Dean and Cas on a case with a monster who kills gay couples what takes them to be an undercover couple... may the cover fall and revel their true feelings?

Curse me | @notfunnydean

Rating: General Word Count: 3099 Main Tags/Warnings: Dean loves balett!! Summary: Dean had always loved ballet, even though he never told anyone about that. When he and Sam find cursed ballet shoes, Dean can’t resist and tries them on anyway. He gets surprised in more than just one way.

Lost and Found | @unforth & @deansrightfulangerissue

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 4885 Main Tags/Warnings: Horror, Ambiguous Ending, Memory Alteration Summary: Dean and Sam's hunt in a haunted forest was bullshit from the moment the fog rolled in. And then the ghost silenced the world.

On This Night | @mittensmorgul

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 5688 Main Tags/Warnings: case fic, djinn, fluff, dean knows his tropes Summary: Something goes terribly wrong while hunting a djinn. Newly-human Cas had never considered what the effects of djinn poison could be for a human, and struggles to remember why everything seems just so slightly off when he wakes up back at the cabin he and Dean had been staying in during the hunt. The cabin has been transformed with holiday decorations, and Cas wonders just how long he'd been unconscious. Only when he tries to get answers from Dean, reality comes crashing back in on them both, in the best of all possible ways.

Heavenly Flavor | @songbird211

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 7190 Main Tags/Warnings: First Time/Fluff/lust monster/Sam Ships It/Anal/Blowjobs/Nipple Play/Top Dean/Top Cas/Bottom Dean/Bottom Cas/Voyeurism/Wing Kink/Love Confession Summary: During a case involving college men going missing Dean and Cas are taken by the creature responsible. This creature loves having sex with humans, hence the kidnappings, but this time she wants to fulfill her fantasy of watching two men have sex and she thinks Dean and Cas will do nicely.

The Unexpected Consequences of Amnesia | @pray4jensen

Rating: Mature Word Count: 10539 Main Tags/Warnings: Casefic, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Jealousy, Secret Relationship, Miscommunication, Dubious Consent Summary: When a spell backfires and results in Sam losing a year’s worth of memories, Sam’s really not that worried. After all, Dean reassures him that he hasn’t missed much and for the first time in a long time, the supernatural world’s at peace. Except then Dean and Cas exchange a look. Except then Sam keeps seeing them sneak around at night, into each other’s bedrooms, or whispering stealthily into each other’s ears whenever they think that he’s not looking. So naturally, Sam just has to investigate. Or the one where Sam obliviously and almost single-handedly brings about the collapse of Dean and Cas’ marriage in the span of one week.

Angeleech | @noiproksa

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 14457 Main Tags/Warnings: Canon Compliant, Team Free Will, Hugs, Family Feels, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt Castiel, Banter, Platonic Cuddling, Sharing a Bed, Case Fic Summary: It was supposed to be an easy hunt, but then everything goes sideways. Dean and Sam have to take care of an injured Cas and find out what is going on with the angel before it is too late. (Intended as gen, but can be read as Destiel pre-slash.)

Ten Inch Hero | @banshee1013

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 16689 Main Tags/Warnings: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Smut, Canon Compliant, Case Fic, Season/Series 15 Spoilers, Sam Winchester Ships Castiel/Dean Winchester, Hurt Dean Winchester, Established Castiel/Dean Winchester, Minor Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Witch Curses, Castiel/Dean Winchester in the Men of Letters Bunker, Researching Sam Winchester, No Archive Warnings Summary: After returning from Purgatory the second time, Castiel and Dean were just beginning to explore the new direction of their relationship, when on a case involving missing hunters, Dean is struck by a witch's curse and turned into a ten-inch plastic figurine. Can Sam find a way to revert the effects of the curse and return Dean to himself before the tiny spark of life Cas detects in him fades away? Or will Cas lose Dean just as their relationship has begun?

Trouble in Paradise | @its-funnier-in-klingon

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 1746 Main Tags/Warnings: canon divergence, human!Cas, post 14x09, Hawaii, case fic, bed-sharing, ghosts, mutual pining Summary: Sam finds a case where gay couples are being tormented by a ghost in a resort in Kauai, Hawaii. Sam, Dean, Cas, and Jack embark to the resort where Dean and Cas must go undercover to take down the ghost, all while trying to sort through all their own personal issues.

Unthought Known | @noiproksa

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 18337 Main Tags/Warnings: Temporary Amnesia, Profound Bond, Team Free Will, Banter, Canon Compliant, Hugs, Case Fic, Soul Bond Summary: Dean wakes up in an abandoned mental institution with no memories and two strange guys, ‘Sam’ and ‘Castiel.’ They have to work together if they want to find out who they are and what happened to them. And what the hell is this profound bond he seems to share with Castiel? * Dean woke up with a pounding headache on the floor of a bright white, windowless room and no recollection of how he got there. What the hell was he doing in what looked like some sort of psych ward? Before he could get his bearings, he heard moaning coming from behind him and got to his feet, swiveling around, ready to fight whoever was in the room with him. ‘Whoever’ turned out to be two someones. One man with abnormally long hair and one guy in a trench coat who had a ‘tax accountant’ vibe to him. Who were these clowns? (Intended as gen, but can be read as Destiel pre-slash.)

Suck It, Judy Garland | @midrashic

Rating: Mature Word Count: 20116 Main Tags/Warnings: N/A Summary: It had to be St. Louis. Or, the one where Sam and Cas get fake married for a case, and Dean loses his mind.

Making it Up as We Go | @Foxymoley

Rating: Mature Word Count: 24439 Main Tags/Warnings: Case fic, ghost, Angel!Cas, choose your own adventure Summary: A choose your own adventure story! The Winchester's catch a case—an ordinary salt and burn—but Dean's decisions along the way are up to you!

The Memory Remains | FriendofCarlotta (AO3)

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 28408 Main Tags/Warnings: Case fic, post-canon, POV Dean Winchester Summary: With Chuck defeated, Dean's trying hard to get his head back in the game. What he needs is a bit of peace and quiet, and maybe a nice, straightforward hunt. What he most definitely doesn't need is this thing about monsters trying to summon some kind of hermaphroditic goat person. Or dealing with Cas, whose powers are still failing and who is acting more human in increasingly disconcerting ways.

Human Error | @jemariel

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 33435 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate season 9, case fic, wendigos, human Castiel, Cas in the bunker, miscommunication, drunk sex, top!Dean, bottom!Cas, 69 (sex position), bedsharing Summary: Cas is human now, and things aren't going to plan. (Not that Dean had a plan. Nope. No plans of any kind.) Anyway, what's a Winchester to do when everything he tries seems to blow up in his face? Go hunting. Obviously.

Fade to Hell | @alisuwink **Also in English**

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 37549 Main Tags/Warnings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester,Alastair (Supernatural), Bobby Singer, Slow Burn, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Canon Universe, Season/Series 05, Fanart, Action/Adventure, Violence, Dark, Humor, Hell, Tortured Dean Winchester, Madness, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester Summary: It didn’t seem to be enough with Lucifer wandering free and the Apocalypse up our asses. Of course not! Now, Sammy’s soul has ended in fucking Hell, and I have no choice but to go down to that fucking hole with Castiel. When we rescue Sam, he is going to be buying me beers for the rest of his damn life. *Note: the fic is finished in Spanish, I'll have it in English by June.

Highway 9 | @ellis-park

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 38909 Main Tags/Warnings: Angst with a happy ending, mutual pining, suicide attempt Summary: Dean Winchester is a private investigator working what should be an open-and-shut vandalism case on an isolated stretch of rural highway. Except it’s not an open-and-shut case, because whatever is happening on Highway 9 isn’t vandalism — it’s something far more sinister and unnatural. And if Dean is going to get to the bottom of this case, he’s going to have to rely on the one person he’s learned he can’t rely on for anything — his ex-best friend, Cas Novak.

Someone Who’s Feeling for Me | @ellis-park

Rating: Mature Word Count: 45876 Main Tags/Warnings: Mutual pining, case fic, canon universe Summary: Dean sees her for the first time in nearly six years in some no-name town in Idaho, and it's panic at first sight. Lisa Braeden, the one woman Dean ever actually had a shot at a real life with, back from where he buried her in his mind. And her hand is on Cas's arm like it's no big deal, like it belongs there. Cas, Dean's dorky, sweet, badass, angelic best friend, and he's just standing there next to Lisa and not moving her hand away. Dean feels the jealousy rising, and it's not directed where he expected it to be. Because it takes this exact moment for Dean to realize he's in love with his best friend. He's in love with his best friend, and Lisa is looking at Cas like he's the best thing since automatic rifles, and Dean is utterly fucked.

Silver and Cold | @pomegranatedaffodil

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 64851 Main Tags/Warnings: Case Fic, Hunter Castiel, Small Town Setting, Religious Themes, Canon-Typical Violence, Minor Injuries, Minor Character Death,Tragic Backstory, Nightmares, Angst with a Happy Ending, Switching Summary: The death of a young man in an apparent animal attack brings hunter Cas Novak to the small town of Sydnam, Maine. It doesn’t take long for him to realize he’s tracking a werewolf, but discovering the killer’s identity is no easy task. All signs point towards Dean Winchester, a lonely recluse who lives in the middle of the woods and whose antagonistic behaviour does little to lessen Cas’ suspicions. As the investigation drags on, their mutual distrust gives way to a wary alliance. Cas’ instincts warn him that Dean is hiding something, but as he uncovers the man beneath the mystery, his professional interest becomes far more personal. Praying his faith in Dean isn’t misplaced, Cas races to catch the killer before the next full moon rises and another life is abruptly cut short.

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ourmodernzen · 4 years ago

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sweetheartofsecondlife · 4 years ago

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Wednesday Jazz 8/18

August 21st is Count Basie’s Birthday, so I played a lot of the Count tonight. I’ll be playing an all Basie set on Thursday at The Fern.

Nat’s Jazz:

Count Basie - Kansas City Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox - Pompeii Duke Ellington - Caravan - Remastered Count Basie Orchestra - Satin Doll - Instrumental Louise Baranger - Love Potion No. 9 Frank Sinatra - The Best Is Yet To Come Cannonball Adderley - Groovin' High Count Basie Big Band - One O'Clock Jump - Live Count Basie - Broadway - Live At The Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas/1969 Louise Baranger - Soul Bossa Nova Norman Brown - Man In The Mirror (feat. Sounds Of Blackness) Count Basie - Li'l Ol Groovemaker...Basie Alien Fashion Show - Secret Agent Holiday Louise Baranger - The Sidewinder Wally's Swing World - American Bandstand Count Basie - Whirly Bird Royal Crown Revue - The Rise and Fall of the Great Mondello Swingerhead - Candy for Breakfast Count Basie - Thunderball (Remastered) Alien Fashion Show - Detroit Swing City Cab Calloway - Air Mail Stomp Acme Swing Co. - All but Broken Doris Day - Tacos, Enchiladas And Beans Count Basie - All of Me James Brown - Popcorn With A Feeling - Instrumental Julie London - Hot Toddy - Remastered Count Basie - Oh Pretty Woman Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - Lyonaise Potatoes And Some Pork Chops Frank Sinatra - The Coffee Song Booker T. & the M.G.'s - My Sweet Potato Count Basie - Splanky Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - C Jam Blues (with Wynton Marsalis) - Live Ella Fitzgerald - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home James Farrelli - In the Air Tonight

Sphynx

The Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble - Charade Oscar Peterson Trio - Mack The Knife Dizzy Gillespie - Desafinado Art Blakey - Moanin' Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) Count Basie - Rusty Dusty Blues Count Basie - Jumpin' at the Woodside - Live The Mills Brothers - Sunny Tower Of Power - Squib Cakes Cab Calloway & His Orchestra; Vocal by Cab Calloway - Are You All Reet? Count Basie - Fancy Pants Jive Ass Sleepers - Silver Samba Count Basie - Perdido - Remix Count Basie & His All American Rhythm Section - St. Louis Blues (feat. Buck Clayton & Don Byas) - 78rpm Version The Fearless Flyers - Kauai Count Basie - Kingston Calypso Count Basie - Oh Pretty Woman Count Basie - April In Paris

Nat’s jazz

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flowerfan2 · 5 years ago

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Bound To Be Together - Ch. 25

This is it - the final chapter in my episode coda series, and the fix-it to 9.25. Hope you all enjoy it!

McDanno, E, A03 (Read from the beginning here)

A continuous story of Season 9 codas exploring the bond between Steve and Danny as they grow even closer.

Chapter 25: 9.25

Danny paces back and forth in the waiting room, feeling like he can barely catch his breath. Steve had been whisked away to surgery hours ago, and Danny still hasn’t been able to talk to him. He still doesn’t know for sure if he’ll ever be able to talk to him again. When Steve was shot he went down so hard, and there was so much blood… Danny doesn’t want there to be a limit to how many times Steve can defy death, but even cats only have nine lives.

“Coffee?” Tani appears in front of him, holding a steaming paper cup. She and Junior showed up at the hospital just a little while ago, both of them looking almost as wrecked as he feels.

Danny isn’t interested in coffee, though. Doesn’t think he could hold the cup without spilling it. Caffeine isn’t going to help Danny now. Nothing is, except Steve waking up and giving him a chance to explain himself.

Danny Williams has fucked up many times in his life. He is sadly familiar with the cold sweats, the wave of shame, the urge to hide under a rock and never come out. But this time he’s outdone himself.

“Hey, it’s gonna be okay.”

Danny blinks, realizing that he’s sitting on the floor, Tani crouching down next to him. She puts a hand on his shoulder, barely flinching at the blood stains on his shirt. Steve’s blood.

“I don’t think it is,” Danny chokes out, hardly able to bear the kind look in Tani’s eyes. He sinks his forehead to his knees and covers his head with his arms.

“Come on, you said it yourself.” Tani gives his shoulder a squeeze. “This is what they do. And they always make it out the other side.”

“You don’t understand.”

“So fill me in. We’ve got time.” Tani shifts, settling herself next to Danny on the floor. “Take a few deep breaths, okay, and then tell me what happened.”

Danny breathes into the space between his knees, feeling his heart continue to pound a broken rhythm against his chest. It reminds him of how he felt when that building collapsed on top of him, years ago. Except that time Steve was with him, holding his hand. Making sure he made it out the other side.

Now he’s in a crowded hospital waiting room, surrounded by all of Five-0 except the person that matters most to him.

“You don’t wanna hear this.”

“Try me.”

Danny sighs. He pretty much feels like he’s going to fall apart anyway, telling Tani can’t possibly make it worse. “Just before Omar Hassan’s wife came in, I told Steve I lied to him about last week. Told him I wasn’t in New Jersey, that I was with Rachel on Kauai instead.”

Danny hears Tani suck in a breath, but before she can launch into him, Lou responds incredulously.

“That’s bullshit. I know you were in Jersey. You’ve been talking nonstop about that Mets game you went to with your sister. Even posted dumb pictures on Facebook.”

“I know,” Danny says.

“Wait, I’m confused,” Jerry says, pulling a chair over with a squeak. “Were you in Jersey or not?”

“I was, of course I was,” Danny says. “Helping my folks move into a smaller place, just like I said. I was just screwing with Steve, like I always do. He does the same – hell, in the car earlier, he was giving me shit about that NSA woman he flirted with a few months ago. And he’s always bringing up Catherine. It’s what we do.”

“You told him you spent a week on Kauai with Rachel, but you were just screwing with him?” Lou asks, still obviously not convinced that Danny hasn’t lost his mind.

“Not my best moment,” Danny confirms. “But we weren’t done talking – we were in the middle of the conversation. I could barely keep a straight face as it was, the joke would have been over in another ten seconds. Azra Hassan interrupted me – if she hadn’t come in, this never would have happened.”

He lifts his head and looks up at his team, who stare back at him with various degrees of disapproval.

“Man, you really stepped in it this time,” Lou finally says, and Danny nods.

“Yeah, I did.”

Another hour goes by. Adam convinces Danny to get up off the floor, and they walk down the hall to the vending machine together. There’s something different about Adam lately, something hopeful, and Danny’s glad for him.

Back in the waiting room, Tani pats a plastic chair next to her and he sits down between her and Lou. He offers Tani some of the candy bar Adam bought him.

“Thanks,” Tani says, holding his hand steady while she takes a bite. “You know,” she says, wiping a crumb off her mouth, “you really are kind of a dumbass.”

Danny huffs out a bitter laugh. “I’ve been told that before.”

“Steve’s gonna be fine,” she says. “And you guys are gonna be fine. What you’ve got together is too good for this to throw it off course.”

Danny stares at her then, and something must show in his face, because Tani gives him a soft smile he’s never seen before.

“Fuck,” Danny says. “Did… did I just out us… Steve… to the entire team?”

“We knew, Danny,” Tani says gently. “We’ve known for a long time.”

“Definitely,” Lou says. “That day taking prom pictures? Come on.”

“My housewarming party,” Adam says, “that’s when I knew for sure.”

Junior shakes his head. “I think it was even earlier. Steve stays over your house all the time, it’s not exactly a secret.”

“I knew something was up last fall.” Tani says. “When Danny was away, and Steve brought in that giant box of coco puffs from Liliha’s, ‘cause he didn’t realize Danny was gone, and then he was so upset when he found out he moped like a middle school kid all week.”

“No, that was before Joe White was killed, wasn’t it? Didn’t seem like you were together then,” Adam says.

“Oh, yeah, it did,” Junior insists. “You weren’t there when Danny showed up, but I was. You should have seen the way-”

“Okay, that’s enough,” Danny says, standing up, his face hot with embarrassment. His team’s casual recital of everything he and Steve have been through for the past year isn’t making him feel any better, it’s just pointing out how much he has to lose.

“Excuse me, Five-0?” It’s a little ridiculous how well all the hospital staff know them. “I have an update on Commander McGarrett?”

They all turn, and Danny holds his breath as he waits for the doctor to continue.

“How is he, doc?” Lou asks.

“He’s going to be fine,” the doctor says, and Danny feels a surge of relief so strong it almost knocks him over. “He lost a lot of blood, and we were worried that he hit his head pretty hard on the way down, but the bullet missed all major organs.”

“Can I see him?” Danny pushes forward, but the doctor steps back and holds out a hand.

“We’re moving him to a room, and then one of you can come in.”

Danny nods, but the doctor continues, looking at Danny apologetically. “He asked to see Captain Grover. I’m sorry, Lieutenant.”

“That’s okay, Danny can go-”

“I’m afraid that’s not what I meant,” the doctor says. He waits for Lou to acknowledge this. “Someone will be back to let you know when he’s ready.”

Danny sags against the wall. “He doesn’t want to see me. He’s barely out of surgery, and the first thing he remembers is that I lied to him.”

“But you didn’t,” Tani insists.

“He thinks I did. He almost died, and he thinks I betrayed him.”

*****

Lou only spends a few minutes with Steve before the nurse kicks him out. He fills the team in on Steve’s medical situation (he’s going to be stuck in the hospital for at least a few days, but he’ll make a full recovery) and tells them all to go home.

Lou stays behind, clearly anticipating that Danny wants to know more than he’s told the rest of the team.

“What did he say? Why can’t I see him?”

Lou leans against the back of a chair, looking uncomfortable. “I told him you were here, and that you were worried. But I didn’t plead your case for you. You’re going to have to do that yourself.”

“What the hell?” Danny snaps, anger getting the best of him. “You didn’t tell him anything? That I wasn’t with Rachel?”

“Actually, I tried. Against my better judgment. But he wouldn’t listen, just waved his hand in my face and said he wanted to sleep. And then the nurse kicked me out.”

“This is not fair,” Danny says, looking around for someone else to complain to. “Why – why won’t he listen? Why won’t he let me talk to him?”

“Give him some time, Danny,” Lou says. “He’s had a rough day.”

“A rough day,” Danny says, his throat catching. “Yeah, that about sums it up. Fuck.”

Lou eventually goes home to shower and get some sleep, but Danny stays in the waiting room. Jerry returns to sit with him for a while, and tries to cajole the nurses into letting him see Steve – he promises to put in a good word for Danny - but apparently they want him to have “uninterrupted rest.” Danny has the feeling this is actually at Steve’s request, to avoid having to deal with Danny, but there’s not much he can do about it.

Later Tani and Junior come by, and Junior’s brought him a t-shirt and jeans. His own.

“How’d you get these?”

Junior rubs his face. “I knew you’d ask that.”

“The ‘Danny drawer,’ where else,” Tani says, smirking.

“At Steve’s place?”

“Well, my first thought was to get clothes from your house – we could use the key that Steve keeps in that bowl by the front door? But Junes knew where to find your stuff at Steve’s, so that saved us a stop.”

“How did you know I had clothes there?”

“Junes does Steve’s laundry when he’s feeling particularly dutiful - didn’t Steve tell you?”

Danny sighs. Clearly he’s not the detective he used to be. Junior is a lot more observant than Danny has given him credit for, and Tani, well, Tani’s a force to be reckoned with.

“It’s cool,” Junior says, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. “I don’t mind doing laundry. I like the routine.”

Danny tries not to imagine Junior folding his boxers. “I can’t believe this.”

He does feel better when he’s changed into clean clothes. There’s nothing like wearing a shirt with your partner’s blood on it to bring down your mood. The t-shirt Junior brought is one of his favorite black ones, and it’s soft on his skin. He keeps it at Steve’s on purpose. Steve likes him in it. And out of it.

When Noelani comes to check on Steve (and Danny) later that day, after her shift, Danny gets an idea.

“Can I borrow your jacket?” Sometimes being a relatively small guy comes in handy.

With Noelani’s white coat on and a confident stride, Danny passes for a doctor long enough to sneak into Steve’s room.

Steve is lying on his side, facing away from the door. He turns as Danny enters the room, and Danny’s heart skips a beat. Steve’s got a bandage on his head, and a bruise running down the side of his face. But the worst part is the defeated look in his eyes.

“What are you doing here?” Steve says, his voice scratchy.

“Steve, for god’s sake, I’ve been dying to see you.” Danny rushes over, reaching for Steve. He completely forgets about anything except getting him in his arms.

But Steve flinches, and Danny freezes, then pulls his hands back to his sides. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean-”

“Go away, Danny.”

“Steve, you have to let me explain. I wasn’t with her, I was just kidding around, I would never-”

“Nurse! Security! Help!” Steve yells, and Danny is hustled out of the room before he can continue. The bastard, he thinks. He’s just being childish. And he’s managed to get Danny thrown out of the hospital for the remainder of Steve’s stay.

With no other options left, Danny goes home.

A few days later, Steve gets released. He’s not supposed to go back to work yet, but he’s recovered enough to go home. Danny and Junior drive to the hospital in Steve’s truck, Tani following behind.

“You sure you want to do this?” Junior asks.

“I’m sure.”

Junior goes inside and comes back out with Steve a few minutes later, while Danny waits in the car with Tani, slouched down and out of sight. After Junior gets Steve settled into the passenger seat of the truck, he and Danny switch spots.

Steve glares at Danny as Danny starts up the truck. “Fuck off.”

“No.”

And that’s it, for almost the entire drive back to Steve’s place. Danny has spent the past few days swinging back and forth between despair and fury, and right now, Steve’s refusal to talk to him is pushing all his fury buttons. But he knows the mess between them is his fault, and he’s not going to let Steve ruin this. Not if he can help it.

So he sits there next to Steve, and drives his car, and brings him home. Because that’s what partners do. And that’s what <i>partners</i> do, even if they’re mad at each other.

As they approach Steve’s house, Danny bites his lip, takes a breath, and speaks. “I love you, you know.”

Steve doesn’t answer.

When they pull into the driveway, Steve jumps out before they come to a full stop. He’s inside his house with the door slamming shut behind him before Danny turns off the truck. As he watches Steve sprint up the walkway, he can’t help but be impressed – Steve’s physical injuries sure aren’t slowing him down.

Over the next few days, Steve keeps up the silent treatment. He doesn’t return Danny’s calls. Grace informs Danny that Steve is answering her texts, but only if she talks about things other than Danny. Tani tries to get Steve to talk to him, but when it doesn’t result in any progress, she just shrugs. “Boys are dumb,” she announces, taking the last malasada out of the box Danny brought in for the team. “I can only do so much.”

A week after Steve was shot, Danny decides he needs to try another approach. He does a little research, and makes a call.

*****

The cove is beautiful. There are palm trees lining a gentle curve of beach, and one of the smaller Hawaiian islands is off the coast in the distance. Danny fidgets as he waits. He’s dressed the part, he hopes, with a white on white Aloha shirt and khaki slacks. He’s even wearing flip-flops, the kind Steve thinks are dressy, with braided leather straps.

He hears Frank and Steve talking before he sees them. Frank is excited about his new project, and had jumped at the chance to show it off to Steve – and try to help Danny out, too. “Happy to help, sunshine,” Frank had said over the phone, and then explained how Danny could pay him back in beer.

“The arch will go over here, with the chairs behind it, facing out to the ocean,” Frank says, his voice getting louder as they approach. “I’ll build a hut, too, for the reception, all open air. And open bar.”

They come around the bend, Frank still talking, Steve looking around obligingly. When Steve sees Danny, his eyes widen, and he comes to an abrupt stop.

Frank looks at the two of them, pats Steve on the shoulder, and leaves, going back the way they came.

“Danny,” Steve says, staring him down. “What’s going on?”

Danny swallows hard, and walks over to Steve. At least he isn’t running away, Danny thinks. “I wanted to talk to you.”

“You couldn’t have done that somewhere else?”

“I wanted to talk to you here,” Danny says. He waves his hand at the clearing, which will someday host happy couples on their special day. “I always imagined we’d end up at a place like this. Eventually. If things worked out.”

Steve lifts his chin, looks away. “Yeah, too bad that’s off the table.”

Steve’s reaction stings, but Danny knows him. It’s not over yet, and Danny has hardly gotten started.

“Steve, please. Stop being so stubborn and just listen to me for a minute.”

Steve frowns, but after a long moment, he turns back to Danny. “I’m listening.”

Here goes, Danny thinks. He rehearsed what he wanted to say a dozen times, but he’s still not sure he’s going to get it all out.

“I’m a changed man,” he starts, and he sees Steve’s eyes flit over his outfit. Not just my clothing, you dope, he wants to say, but refrains. “I’m a changed man, a better man, since I met you. Not just since I met you, but… because you love me. Because I love you.”

Steve’s face softens for a moment, but then his jaw clenches again. Danny can tell he’s about to lose him, and he rushes to get to the point.

“I’ve gotten more positive, even if not everyone sees it. I’ve opened myself up to the possibility of good things in my life. Good things happening with you, in particular. But no matter what I thought before, I realize now, it wasn’t enough. I didn’t change enough.”

This gets Steve’s attention, and his eyes finally meet Danny’s.

“I crossed a line, last week,” Danny continues, his eyes starting to tear up. “I went too far. And I’m sorry.”

Steve steps back, still holding Danny’s gaze. “Danny, you really hurt me.”

“I know, babe.” It slips out, Danny can’t help it, and he moves forward and grabs Steve’s arms, hands squeezing his biceps tight. “I know, I’m so sorry. I screwed up. I’m so sorry.”

“I believed you.” Steve’s voice is small, barely audible over the sound of the breeze in the palms. “I didn’t want to, I knew it didn’t make sense, but for a few seconds there, I believed that you went away with Rachel. That you lied to me, and cheated on me, and…” Steve ducks his head down, but he doesn’t pull away. “It really hurt.”

Danny doesn’t doubt it, he can feel the ache in Steve’s chest just like the one in his own. “I shouldn’t have joked about that,” Danny says, inching closer to Steve and sliding his hands up to his shoulders, pressing his collarbone with his thumbs. “We kid around about almost everything, but I knew how you worried about me and Rachel. I should have known it wouldn’t be a joke to you. I went too far. I’m sorry.”

Steve looks at Danny, and his eyes are wet. “I got shot. And you weren’t there.”

Danny tilts his head, confused. “I was there, I was right there. Lou tackled Azra, Adam grabbed the kid, and I was next to you in seconds. I used the hem of my shirt to put pressure on your wound, I had your head in my lap-” Danny’s voice breaks. He can taste how terrified he was, when Steve didn’t respond. He shudders, remembering all too clearly.

“But you were with Rachel. In my mind. And… that’s what I thought, at the hospital, when I woke up.”

“Is that why you wouldn’t let me come see you?” It’s exactly what Danny feared – that given the drugs and the shock, all Steve would remember would be their last conversation.

“At first. And then,” Steve pauses, his tone shifting to something like embarrassment, “I was just pissed.”

And hurt, Danny fills in. Really fucking hurt.

“I’m so sorry,” Danny says again. He’ll say it as many times as it takes.

Steve sniffles, and then his arms are around Danny, pulling him close. “I don’t like fighting with you.”

“I don’t like fighting with you either,” Danny chokes out, digging his face into Steve’s neck. He rubs his nose against Steve’s sweaty throat, feeling his stubble scratch over his skin. “Please say we won’t fight anymore.”

Steve makes a sound that’s somewhere between a laugh and a cry. “I don’t think I can make that promise.”

Danny laughs with him, snorting wetly into Steve’s shirt, and clutching him tight. He feels lightheaded, almost giddy. They’re going to be okay. They’re really going to be okay.

“Making me come out here with Frank was a dirty trick, you know,” Steve says, his hand sliding up into Danny’s hair. “The whole time, I kept picturing you and me getting hitched on the beach, Gracie at your side, Mary at mine, Joanie and Charlie with flowers and rings.”

“Really?” The image had of course occurred to Danny too, he’s already admitted it, but he hadn’t begun to hope that Steve was on the same page.

“Really.”

“That’s, um, that’s good. That’s very good.” Freakin’ understatement of the year, it’s so good.

Steve laughs, more relaxed now, and he pulls back to find Danny’s eyes. “Figured you’d think so.” He looks Danny up and down. “Nice outfit. Coincidence?”

“Yeah, this vintage Aloha wedding shirt was just lying there at the top of my clean laundry basket, total luck of the draw.” Danny raises an eyebrow. “Hey, by the way, could you maybe have mentioned that Junior does your laundry?”

Steve squints at him, and then apparently puts two and two together. “Guess that might have given us away?”

“Depends, I suppose, on whether he was fooled into thinking that you had secretly taken to wearing striped dress shirts in my size.”

“And black t-shirts.”

“That’s not completely beyond the realm of possibility,” Danny muses. “You look hot in black.”

“So do you,” Steve says, and then, unexpectedly, blushes. “I like you in white, too.” Steve leans in and kisses Danny, his mouth soft and gentle, and Danny melts against him.

“Oh, babe, thank god,” Danny whispers against Steve’s lips, and Steve hums in agreement before ducking down to kiss him again, another gentle press, and another, until Danny is practically shaking with the force of his tenderness.

“I don’t want to lose you, Danny,” Steve murmurs, kissing Danny’s cheek and down his jaw. “Don’t even tease about it, okay? Anything else is fair game, but not that.”

“Okay, yes, absolutely. Lesson learned. I’m so fucking sorry-”

Steve cuts him off with a kiss that is significantly more heated, his tongue darting inside Danny’s mouth, pressing hard enough that their teeth clack together, then stopping for his own apology. “I’m sorry too. I was kind of an ass about it. Should have let you talk.”

Danny laughs against Steve’s lips as Steve takes his mouth again. Steve isn’t letting him talk now either, but he’s got no problem with it. There is one thing he needs to say, though, and even Steve’s blisteringly hot making out skills aren’t going to stop him.

“Steve?”

“Hm?” Steve blinks at Danny, pupils blown and eyes wide. “Yeah?”

“I love you a ridiculous amount, okay? And I’m yours. Just yours. For as long as you want me.”

Steve beams and practically bounces on his toes. “Yeah? How about forever?”

Danny’s heart leaps, and he can feel his own radiant smile stretching his face. “Sounds good. Very good. Forever sounds good to me.”

Steve grins and starts kissing him again, nipping at Danny’s lips and sucking at that spot on his neck that makes Danny moan, one hand firm against Danny’s back and the other tangling in his hair. Danny loses himself in it, gives himself over to Steve, clutching at his shoulders and murmuring encouragement.

Steve’s hand has moved to the front of Danny’s pants and Danny thinks there’s a decent chance he’s about to get his very first beachfront blowjob when they hear Frank clearing his throat, explaining in an amused tone that he needs to get back, but if they want to stay longer, they can probably catch an Uber. Steve and Danny jump apart, Steve looking charmingly disheveled and Danny feeling like a kid almost literally caught with his pants down.

Danny’s first instinct is to pretend that nothing much was going on, but Steve grabs his hand and beams at him. There’s a glint in his eye that Danny is all too familiar with, and before he can say anything Steve drags him tight against him, attacking his mouth in a searingly hot kiss - right in front of Frank, who lets out a delighted laugh. Danny gets the feeling that now that the news is out, this won’t be the first time Steve gets a little possessive in front of their friends. The wonderful thing is, nothing could make Danny happier.

#H50 #Hawaii Five-0 #9x25 #9.25 #fix-it #episode coda #my fic

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kmp78 · 1 year ago

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"when JL and VK rekindled their love affair" what do you mean?

VK and JL separated (or doing my best Ross impression here: they were OOOOOONNN AAAA BREEEEAAAAK!!! 😂) sometime during the summer of 2019, and then VK spent the rest of the summer/fall moping around with Maddy and the girls, and suddenly decided to buy a dog (surely surely SURELY not as a bandaid for her 💔 or anything! 🩹).

In Nov/Dec 2019 VK signed with Lions LA and subsequently even moved to LA, and then sometime before Christmas 2019 she and JL reconciled and flew off to Kauai for some New Years fun for both them AND ALSO US. 🙌🥰

And that rekindling seemed to be a real turning point in their story because after that, suddenly VK was no longer a top secret no-name no-one who was not allowed to be seen or heard anywhere near him. 🤫

In January they went on a couple's vacay to Joshua Tree with Stevie and his missus, Reedy and his missus, and of course the forever spinsters GFlo and Eiza.

Suddenly VK was allowed to be in photos AND EVEN TAGGED. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Coincidence?

HARDLY. 😏

I'll go to my grave maintaining that at that moment when they got back together, VK finally put down her foot and demanded that enough of that sneaky shit already, and that even if he's not willing to publicly walk hand in hand or take her to events as his proper date, then at least she has to get some sort of easements to her existence in his life, aka this exact thing we see in these pics. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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brooklynislandgirl · 5 years ago

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Random thoughts: forgive my useless memory, but does Beth (or Riley) have a Highlander verse? What's the tag so I can read if they do, and if not, what would it look like?

Summer Carnival || Accepting

Cracker Jacks| Ask Me Anything

The Siblings Riley do not yet have a Highlander Verse, but now that you mention it…

Born To Be Kings || Highlander AU

From the dawn of time we came…moving silently down through the centuries. Living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you��..until now.

~*~

Conchobhar Raghalach Ua Neill’s father, High King Brian Ua Neill had been murdered by the Anglo-Normansat the Battle of Druim Dearg and his head severed and removed to the King of the Saxons in London. Ireland was not a safe place for the dead king’s children, especially a small and angry second son, and it was decided that he should seek safety with family in France. He was five years old.

Eventually he found his footing as a soldier, joining the aristocratic ranks of the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon ~ more famously known as the Knights Templar.

However his own death came just prior to the fall of Acre, which would see the beginning of the end of the Templars. His mentor and rescuer was a Saracen immortal by the name of Imad Ad-Din Al-Isfahani, and it was this warrior that dragged him off the battle field and held the two day vigil over the young Irish prince’s body.

Over the next fifteen years, he trained Conchobhar...who now goes by Riley...various kinds of swordsmanship, arts and sciences previously unknown to the Knight.

Eventually the two parted with mutual affection and kept in touch over the centuries via lengthy correspondence. Always restless, Conchobhar ventured to the New World as soon as he had a chance, and one of his larks was a trip with an English Captain, Cook.

In 1778, Cook and his crew aboard the HMS Discovery became the first Europeans to discover the Hawaiian Islands when they sailed past the island Oahu. They landed on Waimea on the island of Kauai two days later and decided to name the island group the Sandwich Islands, in honour of John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich, and Cook’s greatest patron.

The natives were quite welcoming and fascinated by the Europeans’ ships and use of iron. Cook provisioned his ships by trading the metal and his sailors traded iron nails for sex. The ships made a brief stop at Ni’ihau before continuing North. A year later, they returned to the islands and found safe harbour in Kealakekua Bay.This time, the visiting crew were not so welcomed. The local populace greeted Cook’s men by hurling rocks, and eventually a brave group stole a small cutter from the Discovery. As anyone could guess, negotiations with King Kalaniopuu for the return of the cutter collapsed after one of the lesser chiefs was shot to death and a mob of the Hawaiians descended on Cook’s party. The captain and his men fired on the angry Hawaiians, but they were soon overwhelmed and only a few managed to escape to the safety of the Resolution. Cook himself was killed by the mob, and days later, the Englishmen retaliated by firing their canons and muskets at the shore, killing some 30 of the natives, before eventually leaving.Conchobhar did not go with them.

Instead, he had at first sided with the natives, and then chose to stay behind when he realised a particular green eyed girl that died in his arms was like him... an immortal. It took a very long time to learn her language, even if he started with her name. Which he could not then, and even now, cannot say right. But he took Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonua as his ward. He renamed her Elizabeth after his own mother.

The two have been inseparable ever since.

#tabbyrp #Mahalo!Tabs #An UnWritten AU #The Turtle Speaks|Mun Answered Asks

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wearsdani · 7 years ago

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Kauai Photo Diary - July 2017

Pictured above (In no particular order):

The Secret Falls

Na Pali Coast

Hanapepe Swinging Bridge

Trail to Queen’s Bath

#kauai #hawaii #travel blog #travel #blogger #secret falls #napalicoast #hanapepe #queens bath #secretfalls #adventure #islandlife #kauailife #lush #jungle #pov #point of view #waterfall

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ayliamc · 3 years ago

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Kauai Trip

Day 7

Steps: 12,017

Notable Discovery: like a million waterfalls

New Bug Bites: 5

Our last full day on the island. Bittersweet to be sure but we took advantage of it at least. Our quaint little kayaking adventure we were supposed to go on yesterday was cancelled but Dan found something comparable - albeit more commercial which was a bummer.

Before we left for that, we spent some time whale watching from our balcony. Oh yeah. Did I mention? We can see mother fucking whales from our condo’s BALCONY! We had the binoculars and saw spouts and cresting bodies and even BREACHES! Whales breaching!! Surreal. And awesome as shit.

Then my sweet sweet parents drove us down to the Wailua River marina to drop us off while they did their own thing. We were told to wear shoes we could get wet and muddy so we wore our beach shoes which provide a relatively decent sole protection and have been great to have this whole trip.

Our tour guide was a very enthusiastic and chatty man named Logan who loaded us up and the other 4 or so couples in our kayaks where we set out on the river and immediately remembered how weirdly exhausting kayaking is. We also saw a sea turtle (whaaaaat??) poke their little head out of the river before disappearing below the surface and hopefully heading back into the ocean.

Logan kept up a constant stream of narration and I question how much of it was accurate information but most of it made for good listening. (I could have done without all the stories about hunting wild pigs and cows raised for food on the island who are shipped to California for slaughter but-it’s-ok-because-they-lead-really-good-lives-so-it’s-totally-fine-we-murder-them.)

When we finally finished our tranquil and backbreaking kayak leg, it was time to hike.

As you can see I clearly needed a snack first.

The path was both easy enough that my watch did not accept it as a “hike” when I tried recording the workout, and yet difficult enough that we got covered in mud, multiple stubbed toes leading to discolored nails, and some scrapes. It was a rocky and overgrown path which required us on at least five different occasions to literally wade through the river. Like jungle cruise shit. We were intrepid explorers, stepping carefully on the slippery rocks with our beach shoes, trying not to stub any more toes.

Some notable tidbits from the hike:

* according to Logan there is a plant all over the island that closes when you touch it (which Dan and I did like children in a chocolate factory) planted by the Japanese to track American troops

* We visited a human made waterfall leading to a pool where Hawaiian royalty were taken to be bathed in the pure waters before it went to the ocean

* In a battle, the royalty of all the other Hawaiian islands were captured and when the assailants tried to capture the king of Kauai, he defeated the army and freed all of the other royals. It would be a cooler story if I remembered the details…

* There’s a magnificent flat topped tree that grows all over Kauai which gives me strong Lion King vibes and our helicopter pilot identified as African Albizia trees (thereby justifying my Lion King vibes) but Logan said were East Asian Albizia trees and that anyone who said they were African was lying. But then he said they were planted on Kauai to hold the island together because it’s eroding so fast and a cursory Google search suggested that they were planted because they’re fast growing trees and they wanted to rewild the island

Here we are with the man made waterfall, leading to the King and Queen’s bath (not to be confused with the other queens bath we hiked to on day 2.

And here we are at the destination of our hike, a natural waterfall, colloquially called Secret Falls but tours like this one have made that name a joke. There’s a Hawaiian name but I don’t remember it nor can I find the info anywhere.

We picnicked there with the sandwiches provided by the tour and then I tried to go into the water. I really did. Really really. But it was cold water, we were completely shaded, and there was a cool breeze. Altogether made it impossible for me. Dan was able to however.

Look at him go. Show off.

The hike and kayak back was the same but backwards. More mud, more stubbed toes, more exhausting paddling, but we made it and were rewarded with a bit of pineapple back at the marina where my parents were waiting for us.

We drove to an overlook to see Wailua Falls, another breathtaking waterfall. (Ok, Hawaii, we get it already.)

Then another overlook with another waterfall.

Oh, and don’t forget all the chickens literally everywhere. And I think it’s the season for babies because my god we saw hundreds of them. So fucking cute my god it took everything in me not to try to grab as many as I could.

We had an eclectic dinner back at the condo consisting of all the leftover food we had in the fridge before bed. A well spent last day.

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