This is it. This is the end. Thank you. Thank you for all those amazing reviews, the support, EVERYTHING. You are the best, all of you. I love you guys so much.

Here's my last gift to you before going to a long vacation. I'll be back, soon.

LOVE YOU!

Fran

This was seriously not the way I pictured things to happen. I always thought that if I ever told Steve about our daughter it would have been somewhere completely different. It'd happen somewhere nice and warm, like the beach. Definitely not in a church full of people I barely even know with sad looks on their faces, with my lips swollen and the taste of blood still in my mouth.

"What?" Steve repeated for what seemed to be the fifth time already.

"I know I should have told you before…"

"How could you lie to me like this?" He looked hurt, which was sort of obvious.

"I'm sorry…"

"You told me her father was gone. You made me believe you were all alone, Kono."

"Steve please, just let me explain."

"I was right here! All this time, I could have been there for you…" he cries and my heart feels so tight inside my chest, the air inside my lungs is heavy and my head begins to spin quickly.

"I…" I whisper and hold on to Chin's hand, "I don't…I'm not feeling so good…"

"Kono?" Chin whispers as he holds my hand tight and Steve moves next to me and I wish I could say something else but I'm gasping for breath.

The last thing I see his Steve's face.

"Hey, wait. She's waking up."

My eyes open slowly. I'm lying on Steve's couch in the office, with a warm hand upon mine and another caressing my head softly. I sit up straight, Chin, Danny and Steve very close to me, making sure everything was right.

"How are you feeling?" Danny asks, his tie forgotten somewhere.

"Better… I think," I look at Steve, who glares at me and then he turns around. I feel like crying again, just because the mere thought of him hating me breaks my heart.

"Guys, can you give us a second?" Steve speaks. Chin and Danny nod and leave the room in no time. He turns around to face me, and I'm searching for something other than anger and disappointment but I can't.

"I have an explanation," I speak and he shakes his head. "I do."

"No, you need to rest," he says. "All I wanted to say is… that I'm not mad at you, Kono. I'm disappointed because I thought of all people you would never lie to me. And you did. Now I don't know if I could trust you again."

"All I did, everything I said was because I wanted to see you happy," I explain, wiping away the silent tears running down my cheek. "The day I found out I was pregnant was the day you told us about Stacie. And I figured you had finally found your happiness…"

"We could have been happy," he whispered.

"How? You can't even remember our night together, Steve!"

"What on Earth makes you think I don't remember?" he asks.

"Well, we never talked about it."

"And when were we supposed to talk, huh?" he continued, "here at the office? While Chin and Danny worked at the computer?"

He was making an excellent point. We barely even saw each other outside the office, except that night, which made everything difficult to discuss. And since he never said a word, I didn't either, and then I assumed he didn't remember since he was pretty drunk.

"I…" I speak.

"And what is this crap about seeing me happy?" he continued complaining, "You saw how miserable I was with her, I even asked for your advice!"

"Steve, stop it!" I scream, because at this rate we weren't getting anywhere. He stopped talking. "I'm sorry, alright? I'm sorry I lied to you. I'm sorry I was being selfless for once, thinking you might be happy if you never knew because that way you could move on with your life instead of staying with me forever. I'm sorry I thought about you and not my daughter."

In my head everything was a lot simpler; the speech I made up was light and not angry. In my head I begged for Steve's forgiveness instead of making him feel guilty, which I know he feels right now by the look on his face, considering this is all my fault.

"I never wanted you to do this for me, Kono," he speaks. "This is my daughter we're talking about, my child. Denying me the chance of being there for her just because you thought I would be happier with another woman is… ridiculous."

"No, it's not," I state. "I just thought that telling my daughter she was conceived over a one night stand was not the right thing to do. And yes, seeing you happy with Stacie was the main reason too."

"It was not a one night stand. Yes, I was drunk. But that doesn't mean I never wanted this to happen…"

"What…"

"Was that night and all the alcohol a trigger? Yes. Do I regret going out with you that night, laughing, having fun? No." he sits next to me on the couch and holds my hand between his. "How can I possibly regret spending a night with you knowing such a wonderful thing happened?"

I could see the truthfulness in his eyes and God this is everything I've ever dreamed of. He was telling me how he doesn't regret anything like I thought he would.

"I want to be part of my daughter's life, if you let me."

"I don't want to force you, Steve."

"I want to do this; you won't be forcing me to anything."

"Are you sure?"

"Kono.."

"I'm sorry… I just.." I sigh heavily, and he touches my belly softly, reassuring me he was one hundred percent sure.

"I've missed so many things, so many important moments of this pregnancy. I don't want to do that with our daughter."

I cry. I cry because I think everything he missed was because of me, everything we could have done was because I didn't let him, and even though he didn't look upset anymore I just couldn't help but feel guilty.

And then he hugs me close, or as close as my five month belly allows me, letting me know just by his simple touch that everything was going to be alright, that what I did was going to be forgotten because there was something more important than that, someone who needed us to stand beside her no matter what.

She was going to, because her daddy loved her.

Four months later our daughter, Elisa McGarrett was born.

Steve could not take his eyes away from her as he hold her, followed closely by Danny who didn't want to say anything but I was sure she already became her uncle's favorite.

THE END!

a sequel is coming!