Taking a sip of the cold beer he held in his hand, Steve snuck a covert glance towards the man sitting next to him, bare feet resting on the sand as he stared out over the ocean. He still couldn't quite believe that he was really here by Danny's side. Danny looked the same as when he had first met him that fateful day in his father's garage. Looking down at himself, he mentally shook his head in amazement, and so did he. Gone was the grey hair, the wrinkles and lines that had come with him growing older that during the last few years that he had seen each time he had looked in the mirror.

Taking another sip of beer as he looked back up and stared out over the water, he slowly lowered the bottle back down to rest on his lap as he began softly, "I'm sorry Danny for walking away from you and leaving you that day."

"I know," Danny told him staring out over the ocean, enjoying the warm sunshine on his face and having Steve back by his side.

"I really did love you but I just didn't realize just how much I really loved you until it was too late. I made a mistake in leaving." Steve continued softly.

"I know that, too," Danny nodded.

"And I never stopped loving you."

"And I love you, too. I loved you then and I love you now." Danny said turning to look at him, "And I always knew that you would come back to Hawaii … to me, I'm just sorry that I couldn't be there when you did."

"I'm sorry that I didn't come back sooner after I realized I made a mistake, maybe if I had-" Steve sighed.

"That you could have saved me?" Danny asked.

Swallowing hard, unable to verbally answer, Steve could only nod his head.

"Even you, in your best super ninja SEAL mode, couldn't have stopped what happened that day, Steven, no one could have, it was my time to go." Danny smiled sadly and shook his head slowly, before taking a small sip of his beer and turning to stare out over the water again. "I just wish…."

"Wish what, Danny?" Steve asked when Danny grew quiet.

"I…I just wish I could have told you, Charlie and Gracie just how much I loved you and been able to tell the three of you goodbye instead of leaving as suddenly as I did." Danny sighed before looking back at Steve, "Thank you for being there for Grace and Charlie when they needed you the most. I always knew that I could count on you. No matter what happened I always could, you always had my back, Steve, and I knew that you would take care of Grace and Charlie and love them when I no longer could."

Steve smiled, "You would be so proud of them, Buddy, Grace married Lou's son, Will, and you have three beautiful grandchildren, and Charlie," Steve's smile widened, "Charlie joined HPD and now he's Police Chief on the Big Island. He reminds me such much of you, Danny, some days it hurt so bad seeing you every time I looked at Charlie's face and knowing that you were no longer there. But I never let either Gracie or Charlie forget what a wonderful man their father was or their Danno loved them. Or that I loved him and that I always will."

"And I loved you also, you Neanderthal Animal, and I will for the rest of time." Danny smiled as he put down the bottle of beer and got up and reached for Steve's hand. Pulling Steve to his feet, he turned and led him back into towards their new eternal home.