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Writing tag game

Tagged by @westernlarch

Rules: Make a 24-hour poll with the names of your WIPs and then for whichever wins, write one sentence for every vote it gets.

Tagging @quietborderline @tkwritesdumbassassins @outtoshatter @missanniewhimsy @whimsyswastry @monsterrae1 @alyxmastershipper @rosieposiepuddingnpie with no pressure. This is all for fun

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A Starry Night in Kula at St. John’s Episcopal Church

A Starry Night in Kula at St. John’s Episcopal Church

A Starry Night in Kula will happen at St. John’s Episcopal Churchon Saturday, August 25th. The annual event is a celebration benefit for St. John’s Food Pantry and the Pink Paddlers (Mana’olana). There’ll be live music with Couture Jazz Duo, the Automatics, and Lenny Castellanos. Enjoy delicious pupus, and bid on live auction items like a French dinner, a two night vacation to O‘ahu, and more.…

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Mana’olana, Chapter 5

Knocking another chapter off my to-do list for April. It’s not looking like I’ll get the only other task done since i have work-related social plans this evening but never say never….

title: Mana’olana, Chapter 5

Fandom: H50

Pairing: Endgame McDanno. Canon other pairings up until end of season 5.

Fic summary:

Mana’olana: to hope, to have faith. 

Finding out he’s Charlie’s father sets in motion a series of changes for Danny. Some for the better, some not. But once the first domino falls it sets off a cascade and it’s not only Danny and Charlie that are effected. As the extended ohana gathers for Kono’s and Adam’s wedding, Danny finds that maybe not everything is lost.

Chapter summary: Danny has a rough night and then the team catches a case right before Kono’s big day.

Tags/warnings: season 5 finale-fix-it, endgame mcdanno, not nice to Rachel Edwards, discussion of child custody agreements, canon-typical cases/violence.

Read Chapter 5 here on AO3

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Mana’olana, Chapter 4

Crossing another chapter off January’s to-do list. 

Title: Mana’olana

Fandom: Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: Endgame McDanno, prior canon relationships

Fic summary:

Mana’olana: to hope, to have faith.

Finding out he’s Charlie’s father sets in motion a series of changes for Danny. Some for the better, some not. But once the first domino falls it sets off a cascade and it’s not only Danny and Charlie that are effected. As the extended ohana gathers for Kono’s and Adam’s wedding, Danny finds that maybe not everything is lost.

Chapter summary: Steve and Chin have a discussion about a complication.  The next morning Steve gets an unexpected visitor. 

Read chapter 4 here on AO3

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Playing around with title cards instead of sleeping….

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wip wednesday

I added a sentence?  Does that count as working on things?

Tagging whoever wants to play along.

Title: Mana’olana chapter 4

Fandom: H50

Pairing: eventual McDanno, canon other pairings until end of season 5

Tags/warnings: fic is not Rachel Edwards friendly. Season 5 finale fix it. First draft. Possibly also not Catherine Rollins friendly (look I don’t like how she got reintroduced and i’m going to do what I want about her coming back out of the blue because I want endgame McDanno). 

The swim had helped settle his anxiety.  There was nothing he could do about Adam. Chin’s text that he’d talked to Adam meant that he couldn’t do anything other than be ready if something changed.  Kono’s wedding was tomorrow and tonight was the rehearsal dinner.  There was a bunch of tasks that Steve could busy himself helping out with. 

As he neared shore, he could see that someone was sitting in his usual chair on the beach and it wasn’t Danny like he maybe had hoped for as they had dark hair instead of blonde. Whoever they were, they’d noticed him so he increased his pace and headed directly for them.

Catherine’s willowy form unfolded from the chair as he climbed out of the water.  She had his towel held outstretched so he took it.  “Looking for this?” She said, bitting her lower lip and dropping her eyes as she smiled flirtatiously at him. 

She looked good—as always.  He noted that she appeared relaxed, no sign of injury or hardship. Nails were done and her hair had a healthy sheen to it like she’d just stepped out of a salon. There was a newer tattoo on her ankle of an anchor that was partially hidden by the strap of her sandals, her tan even like she hadn’t been wearing a uniform or keeping her skin covered if she’d been in the Middle East. 

He hadn’t heard from her for the better part of a year and she didn’t look like she’d been crawling around Afghanistan or roughing it. If he didn’t know better he’d say she’d just popped over for a few minutes from somewhere close by.

“Catherine,” he managed, realizing he’d been staring. 

“Hello sailor,” she took him saying her name as permission to get closer and reaching for him. 

Unthinkingly, he took a step back holding the towel in front of his body. 

Catherine paused, her smile dimming just a little bit but she was watching him carefully.  Her dark eyes weren’t as welcoming as the rest of her. 

For a moment, she reminded him of his mother, Doris, in all the wrong ways. 

Calculating.  

Measuring. 

Hiding something. 

“Look… I know I should have called and… and I wanted to.  I just didn’t know what to say so I just figured if I came in person that would just be…..”

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Mana’olana Chapter 3

We post on Tuesdays?  Right?  Um.  Still not back on schedule until mid January but had a few moments to get some editing done this afternoon. 

Title: Mana’olana, Chapter 3

Fandom: Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: Eventual McDanno.  Canon other relationships including Danny/Rachel, Danny/Melissa and Steve/Cath.  

Fic summary: 

Mana’olana: to hope, to have faith.

Finding out he’s Charlie’s father sets in motion a series of changes for Danny. Some for the better, some not. But once the first domino falls it sets off a cascade and it’s not only Danny and Charlie that are effected. As the extended ohana gathers for Kono’s and Adam’s wedding, Danny finds that maybe not everything is lost.

Chapter summary: They catch Pelham but Danny empathizes a bit too much with Malcolm Leddy. 

Tags: Season 5 finale fix-it, get together, first time, not Rachel Edwards friendly. Discussion of canon child illness, child custody arrangements. Canon-typical violence and hand waving at legal/police procedures. 

Read chapter 3 here on AO3

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wip whenever

Was tagged multiple times quite a while ago for this and am now just finally having some time to post something.  Tagging whoever would like to play along. 

Title: Mana’olana, Chapter 3

Fandom: Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: McDanno (not quite there yet), past Danny/Rachel, current Danny/Melissa, past Steve/Catherine 

Other tags/warnings: fixit fic for the end of season 5.  Not Rachel friendly fic. Deals with child custody arrangements and canon child illness. First draft. Danny POV. 

He shouldn’t have been surprised when Rachel met him at the door to the hospital—she said she was there to be supportive but he suspected she was there just to make sure he did the test.  The weight of her hand resting on his elbow made his skin crawl but he held still as the needle went into the other arm and the tube filled with the dark maroon of his blood.   The nurse who’d drawn his blood was good and told him he had nice veins—whatever that meant.  

He got a nice smiley face band aid for his efforts. 

“Thank you for doing this for me,” Rachel said as he stood to leave.  They’d not made small talk while he’d had his blood drawn.

“I didn’t do it for you,” he said, maybe a bit too sharply.

She pressed her lips together, vexed at his tone but trying to hide it.  “For Charlie then.”

“For Charlie,” he agreed. 

Rachel paused, seeming to pick her words carefully. “We should have the results back in two days.”

“Okay.” That was what the nurse had said.  He’d made sure they had his phone number as well as Rachel’s.  It wasn’t that he didn’t trust her to tell him but that he wanted to be on equal footing.  He was tired of being pushed aside.  

Danny was maybe more angry now than he’d been in a while with Rachel.  Everyone thought he just was the type to blow up when angry about something but they missed the fact that when he truly got incandescently angry about something he got quiet about it.  Rachel knew this and it was why she was trying to make him talk to her when all he wanted to do was snarl at her. 

“If it matches we’ll have to set up the donation.  The doctors said sooner was better.”

“I figured as much.”  The docs wouldn’t want the disease doing more damage—made sense to Danny.  Steve would make sure he got the time off and with Kono being gone on her honeymoon they’d talked about having a two week stand down period for 5-0 where they’d have limited cases assigned due to being down Kono. 

“Well then… take care of yourself Danny.”  Rachel leant forward as if to kiss his cheek and he pulled away from her, making her hand also fall away from his arm. He didn’t want her touching him right now.  Didn’t want her trying to manipulate him. 

Danny was done with her.  She’d kept his kid from him.  She’d played enough head games over the years that he was just so done with her after today. Watching Malcolm Leddy and seeing the pain the guy was in over his only daughter had finally made something click in Danny about his own relationship with his kids. 

He’d completely understood Leddy’s drive for revenge and what drove him. 

You’d do anything for your kids.

Anything. 

Rachel had taken that from him.  Taken away his opportunity to be there for Charlie and blocked so many attempts to spend time with Grace over the years.  Made him move thousands of miles from home because it’d been what she wanted with her new preferred father for his kids.  Dictated the time and place when he could see Grace that changed at the whims of the woman he’d thought he’d always love but now could barely stand the touch of or be in the same room with her he was so angry and hurt. 

He said nothing as he turned and walked away from her—she’d be hearing from his lawyer as soon as Charlie was out of the woods.  He’d do anything for his kids just like Leddy had—including fighting for primary custody of them. 

Danny was done being shut out of his kids lives because of what might happen. Tomorrow wasn’t promised to anyone and he was done with Rachel setting the conditions of his life. 

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Seven Sentence Sunday

Tagged by the ever lovely @monsterrae1​.  Tagging whoever wants to play along. I really should get a mcdanno banner but instead i’m using the lovely @radio-chatter​‘s mreyder ones. Mostly i’ve been stuck on finishing the halloween Buddie fic but had a few thoughts on this today. 

Title: Mana’olana, uncertain chapter

Fandom: H50

pairing: McDanno, canon pairings mentioned up to end of season 5

Other tags/warnings: season 5 finale fix-it. Not Rachel friendly. 

Having to keep his hands to himself was torture the entire drive home, the stitched leather of the steering wheel pressing into his skin as a reminder to not move his hands from their positions at ten and two o’clock respectively.  Grace was out like a light in the backseat, dwarfed by Danny’s suit jacket that was getting rumpled.  Danny had the window down, shirtsleeves pushed up to show enough skin that made Steve want to swallow his tongue. 

He’d never found wrists so scandalous before but he wanted to wrap his fingers around Danny’s and pin him in place so he could do unspeakable things to him but he wouldn’t because Grace was in the back seat. 

Danny said nothing when he took the turn towards his own house instead of towards Danny’s condo. He’d just reached over and placed his hand on Steve’s knee, the touch burning hot despite the layer of cloth between their skin.  Each little squeeze of Danny’s fingers as they stroked the inner thigh just above the knee seemed directly wired to Steve’s groin, his cock twitching within it’s confines. 

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Mana’olana, Chapter 2

Title: Mana’olana, Chapter 2

Fandom: Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: McDanno, past canon relationships including Danny/Rachel, Steve/Catherine, and Danny/Melissa 

Other tags/warnings: fix it for season five finale, not Rachel Edwards friendly, discussion of child custody arrangements, typical H50 stuff. 

Fic summary: 

Mana’olana: to hope, to have faith. 

Finding out he’s Charlie’s father sets in motion a series of changes for Danny. Some for the better, some not. But once the first domino falls it sets off a cascade and it’s not only Danny and Charlie that are effected. As the extended ohana gathers for Kono’s and Adam’s wedding, Danny finds that maybe not everything is lost.

Chapter summary: Steve finds Danny at his overlook. 

Read Chapter 2 here on AO3

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snippet sunday

Tagged by @radio-chatter​ thanks for the tag lovely!

Tagging the usual crew if they haven’t already done so for today. 

From: Mana’olana, ch 2

Fandom: H50

Pairing: mcdanno

Other tags/warnings: season 5 finale fix-it, angst, not Rachel friendly, first draft

The first call was to another old buddy—Mike Kanohe. Mike had made partner at a law firm that specialized in family law that they’d used a few times over the years with various cases.  Mike owed Steve a favor or two for some referrals and was happy to start drawing up a few options for Steve to give Danny.  The lawyer made all the appropriately outraged noises when Steve mentioned that Rachel had purposefully kept Danny in the dark regaridng Charlie’s parentage because of their job and how it’d only come up because she needed something from Danny. 

“She sounds like a piece of work,” Mike observed. “A job in public service is no reason to keep a man’s kids from him.”

Steve let out a frustrated snort. “She’s been tying Danny up in knots since before I knew him.”

“Her fears should not be driving their custody arrangement though.  You said there’s an older daughter?”

“Yeah. Grace.  She’s Danny’s daughter.  She just turned thirteen.”

Mike hummed in thought. “Would your partner want to challenge for full custody?  You might have a better argument if you guys made things official you know.”

Steve’s brain did the mental equivalent of a record screech. “What?”

“Stable married couple means your partner and you have more support that she can’t argue that he’s a single parent without any help.  Add in the subteruge and withholding over a few years and I think we’d have a really good shot at getting full custody or at least primary physical custody.”

“Mike…. Danny is my work partner,” Steve corrected the false assumption.

Laughter crackled over the line. “Are you sure?  Because every time I’ve seen you with him it looked like the other kind.  My wife thinks you two are cute together.”

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Last Line Tag Game

I was tagged by @imsupposedtobewritting​ for last line tag game. Thanks for the tag lovely!

Rules: share the last line you wrote in your wip and then tag as many people as there are words on it.

That’s a lot of tags…. Err…. No pressure guys. I don’t think i have 22 people to tag….

From: mana’olana, uncertain chapter: 

“I’m saying that instead of just being ‘Uncle Steve’ it might be more… more along the lines of being a second parent.”

Tagging: @radio-chatter​ @quietborderline​ @missanniewhimsy​ @outtoshatter​ @tkwritesdumbassassins​ @elisela​ @muffinsandsweets​ @redhoodiskra​ @kikiroo�� no pressure as always and anyone else who wants to participate!

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wip wednesday

Tagged by @radio-chatter​ and by @imsupposedtobewritting​.  Thanks for the tags lovelies!  I’m not sure who has/hasn’t been tagged for the day but tagging anyone who wants to consider themselves tagged.

Without further ado…. Graphic by @radio-chatter​

Title: Mana’olana, chapter 2

Fandom: Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: endgame McDanno, other canon relationship up to season 5 finale

Other tags/warnings: first draft. All the Danny angst. Not Rachel friendly because i think her reasons for not allowing Danny to have partial custody were mean and dumb. Steve POV this part. 

Danny not answering his phone always made Steve’s brain start making lists of worst case secenarios and counterttacks that started with Wo Fat kidnapping and torturing Danny and ended with Danny being in a car wreck and in the hostpial in a coma.  Tracking a cop turned killer just made him more anxious but he couldn’t show it.  

Chin didn’t give him any grief when he asked him to ping Danny’s cell phone and it showed that Danny was at his thinking spot and not moving. 

The only reason he obeyed most traffic laws is that Pelham didn’t have a good reason to be going after Danny. So he only sped a bit and there might have been a few pinkish-red lights that he blew through on his way to the lookout. 

Danny had been going to talk to Rachel.  What had she had to say that was making Danny go off grid and ignore his phone?  He’d thought things were better—or at least the seemed to be lately now that Danny had Ambe-Melissa.

It was Melissa.  He needed to remember to call her that.  

Worry nagged at him as he followed the highway.  The sight of the camaro pulled over in the lookout had him exhaling in relief as he pulled in behind to park.   Peaking in the window, Danny wasn’t in the car so he looked around and saw him at the end of the knee high wall staring out towards downtown. 

Joining Danny, he was blown away by what he learned. 

Charlie was Danny’s and he was sick. Something serious—cancer from what Danny was saying which seemed wildly unfair.  

Steve had never really liked Rachel.  She had a tendency to completely twist Danny up in knots when he was trying to do the right thing and then dole out little rewards to keep him hooked. Want to spend some time with Grace? Okay,  but only on Rachel’s terms and if she was bored or didn’t like Danny’s reaction then she would yank Grace away saying it was best for Grace. 

That was how she seemed to operate and Steve couldn’t help but disagree vehemently with Rachel’s opinion of Danny.  He would have killed as a kid to have a Dad like Danny and after being sent away with his mother’s supposed death… Danny would have never done something like that. 

Grace and Charlie were lucky that Danny was their dad.  

Rachel’s reasons were just excuses in Steve’s book otherwise where would you draw the line over who could be a father? That meant most of the military was out.  First responder—out.  Rachel’s logic was flawed and a flimsy excuse to justify her supposed fears. 

In his darker thoughs Steve had some opinions on how real Rachel’s fears were but he never would tell Danny them. 

He was working on being okay with Am-Melissa. Her name was Melissa.  

Steve might have trust issues and her not being upfront about her ex and getting Danny stabbed was a sticking point but he was working on it because Danny liked her. 

When Danny broke down in cried in his arms, Steve wanted to curl himself around Danny like armor. There was nothing he could do to make this better until Danny knew what he wanted. 

“Shhh… I’ve got you,” he said softly, letting Danny cry himself out. “I’ve got you Danno.”