Here is the final chapter. A big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read and review. And of course another thank you to Wenwalke.

Chapter Eight

The next afternoon saw Danny sat in a new room. Pillows wedged behind him to ease his back, he had managed to sit out for forty minutes, and wasn't far off his target of an hour. Assessed and deemed well enough to leave the ICU that morning, Danny was feeling more alert. Arterial and central line removed, he now had two shiny new cannulas for IV fluids, pain relief, and antibiotics. His movements were less restricted, and the trip from bed to chair had been much easier.

Andrea had left Danny once he was settled with a promise to return at lunch. Steve had made an early morning call to inform them he would be in later, as the team had been called out to a double homicide. Alone for the first time since the incident, he now had time to reflect on how badly things had gone. Eager to hear how Steve's meeting with the governor went, he was lost in thought until he was startled by a noise at the door.

Captain Woolf stood at the door to his room. Danny couldn't help but crack a smile at the pair of panda eyes, and the nose splint. His memory of the fight was hazy. He had been fuelled by adrenalin, and despite being injured he had managed to get in a solid punch. The results stood before him. Woolf was obviously pissed, and not just because of the broken nose. "You happy with yourself now, Williams?"

"Excuse me?" Danny watched Woolf stumble further into the room, the smell of stale alcohol assaulting his senses. Woolf had obviously been on a drinking binge to drown his sorrows. "Woolf, I don't think you should be here."

"Where else should I be? Not work, that's for sure. Thanks to you, and the rest of your Five-0 cronies." Woolf towered over Danny in his seated position.

"Woolf, you brought all this on yourself, now why don't you go home and sleep the alcohol off."

"I already told you, I don't take orders from you." Woolf stumbled and braced himself against the hospital bed.

"Just go home, Woolf. I just got moved out of the ICU. I almost died, no thanks to you. I mean who throws a god damn flash bang into a suspected meth lab." Danny looked around for the nurse call button to ask them to escort Woolf out of his room, but was disappointed to see it on the far side of the bed, and out of reach.

"I didn't know it was a meth lab. I was controlling the situation."

"You call almost killing everyone, including a little girl, controlling the situation? If you'd have gained more intel before storming the house, you would have known we were there because it was linked to our case of meth dealers. There was every chance they were cooking the damn stuff in there. Look Woolf, you made a bad call, and are being punished for it. It's no one's doing but your own. Now go home."

"Home, home." Woolf started laughing uncontrollably which left Danny confused, and feeling uneasy. "How the hell do I go home and tell my wife that I just lost my job?"

"Lost your job?" Danny responded, he knew Woolf's actions would have serious consequences, but he didn't expect him to actually get fired, even with Steve pushing for it.

"Don't act like you didn't know. It's what you all wanted." Woolf moved closer and poked Danny in the shoulder. "You and your team think you own the island. Think your gods on the Governor's elite team."

"Back off, Woolf." Danny pushed Woolf's hand away, who then lost his balance and flailed his arms around. Catching hold of the IV line, he ripped it out of Danny's arm. "What the hell Woolf? You're a drunk mess."

Woolf recovered his footing and lunged at Danny, grabbing hold off the grey t-shirt the blonde wore, he dragged Danny to his feet, which elicited an involuntary yelp as pain shot though his back, and he stood on shaky feet.

"Woolf, let go." Danny tried to push away the inebriated Captain, but in his weakened state he was unable to dislodge the enraged man.

"It's all your fault, you had it in for me from day one, you got yourself shot trying to save your girlfriend, and now you get me fired because a situation went bad."

"Let go of me Woolf, now."

Woolf started shaking Danny. "I've lost my job, my pension. I hate you."

Danny needed to put a stop to this as soon as possible. His body was screaming in pain with every shake, and Woolf was so drunk he was beyond reasoning. After another weak attempt to dislodge himself from Woolf's hold failed, he had no other option. Cocking his head back as far as he could he launched it forward. His forehead connected with Woolf's splinted nose, and blood splattered everywhere as Woolf screamed and threw Danny to the floor.

Stumbling around, hand to his nose as blood freely flowed from the rebroken nose, Woolf kicked out at Danny. "You broke my nose again you bastard. I'm gonna kill you."

"Take one more step and it will be the last thing you do, Woolf." Danny looked across the room to the door, and was relieved to see Steve stood there, gun drawn and trained on Woolf. The rest of the team stood just behind him, hands sitting on their weapons in case things took a turn for the worse.

"Saved by the rest of your team Williams." Woolf snarled.

"Whatever Woolf, just get the hell out of here." Danny spat as he pushed himself into a seated position on the floor.

Steve moved further into the room and forced Woolf over to Lou and Chin. "Can you guys take care of this low life, book him for assaulting a police officer."

"Don't worry Steve, we got this." Lou grabbed hold of Woolf and started to cuff him as Andrea ran passed them, having been alerted to the situation. She headed straight to Danny who was still on the floor, bleeding.

"No. Don't." Danny called from the floor. "Just take him home and let him sleep off the alcohol."

"Danny, he just assaulted you?" Steve was flummoxed why Danny would want to let him get away with this, when he was the reason Danny almost died.

"He's drunk and just lost his job. Just take him home guys." Danny was already wincing as Andrea skillfully checked him over.

"OK, Danny. We can do that." Chin nodded, respecting his friends wishes. "Looks like your luck just turned for the better, Woolf."

"You might want to take him via the ER, that nose will need resetting." Andrea called not looking away from Danny. She had grabbed some gauze from a nearby trolley, and was applying pressure to the wound on his back that was bleeding. Danny held another piece of gauze to his forearm where the cannulas had been ripped out.

"Is he ok?" Kono asked as the others left the room.

"I'm fine." Danny grit out between his teeth. Without the pain relief drip, his body was screaming and an overwhelming exhaustion was taking hold of him.

"I think he just bust some stitches, but I'd like to get him back into bed and assess him properly." Dr. Pearce reassured.

"I'm ok. I just got thrown to the floor when I head butted him. Really, I just want to get back to bed, and sleep."

"Fine." Dr. Pearce conceded, happy that he was just a little shaken, and in need of a few new stitches, "but you'll need this first." Taking a syringe from the nurse she plunged it into Danny's upper arm and injected its contents.

"Awe, warn a guy would ya." Danny complained, but already the mediation was starting to have an effect, and the pain started to recede, his eyes starting to droop. Next thing he was aware of was a floaty feeling. He knew his friends were helping the hospital staff to get him off the floor and back into bed. He made an attempt to help them but his limbs felt heavy.

"Take it easy Danno, we got you. Doc shot you up with the good stuff. Just rest." Steve ordered. For once Danny decided not to argue and gave into the darkness.

5-0-5-0-5-0-5-0

Danny opened his eyes to find the room in semidarkness. The blinds were closed, and the small overhead light was on, tilted away from his face. Realising it was now evening, and he must have been asleep for most of the afternoon, he frowned as memories of Woolf's visit came back.

"Hey, sleeping beauties up everyone." Steve announced, seeing his friend's eyes blink open.

"Hey, Danny. How you feeling?" Kono sat forward in her chair and Danny realised the whole team was in his room.

"Where you guys all just watching me sleep? Don't you have a double homicide to work?" Danny attempted to roll over, but realised there was a pillow in his back, protecting what he guessed were several new stitches.

Chin stood up and carefully moved the offending pillow, then raised the head of the bed so Danny could see his friends better. "We solved the case hours ago, and after what went down with Woolf, we wanted to make sure you were ok."

"I'm fine, right?" Danny looked to Steve knowing he would have been briefed on his condition.

"You popped a few stitches. Andrea reassured us that you were ok and just exhausted, but we were beginning to worry given how long you've been asleep."

"Hey, it's not my fault. Andrea drugged me. Speaking of which, where is she?" Danny was a little disappointed to see her absent from the room.

"She got called into an emergency surgery. Don't worry she'll be back as soon as she's done." Steve hadn't missed the disappointed tone to Danny's voice.

"Did Woolf make it home ok?"

"He sure did, to an ear full from the Mrs. Man, I thought Renee was scary, she has nothing on that woman. If he didn't have a headache from the rebroken nose, and hangover, he sure will when she finished chewing him out." Lou was smiling as he remembered Woolf's wife yelling at the broken man. While Danny had found sympathy for Woolf, the rest of the team had nothing but dislike for him, he had nearly taken their friend from them.

"He said he'd been fired, that true?"

"Yeah. The governor didn't have a choice, really. Once she read all the statements against him from his team, and us. Lieutenant Yaw is going to take over as temporary team leader. He and the rest of the team send their best."

"That's good. The man was a liability."

"I still don't get why you didn't what his ass arresting." Lou would have happily marched him down to the station and booked him.

"His life is in ruins. He doesn't need any more trouble right now. He lost his job and won't be putting anyone else at risk. That's enough." Danny started picking at the tape covering the site where one of the cannulas had been ripped from, already a bruise was forming.

"I have some news." Kono wanted to lighten the mood. "I spoke with Mr. Long today. He and Lilly would really like to visit you in a few days' time. If you're up to it. Apparently little Lilly hasn't stopped talking about the brave police man who rescued her.

A smile returned to Danny's face, "yeah that would be good. Hopefully I can get out of here soon, then they won't have to come to the hospital."

"I don't know, Danny, I don't think you should rush things." Steve worried.

"Are you serious? How can you say that? Mr. I had a transplant and went back to work the next day."

"The next day? Stop being dramatic. I did what you asked, and took a few days." Steve bantered back.

"Yeah while on the phone every two minutes for an update." Kono giggled, seeing Steve's annoyance she continued, "it's true boss, you didn't really take much time off."

Danny looked smug and fist bumped Kono, "thanks for backing me up babe."

"You're welcome, but..."

"Oh no. I don't like that but…" Danny knew what was coming.

"You almost died too, Danny, which means you need to take some time." Kono finished.

"Thank you, Kono." Steve reached over the bed and copied Danny's fist bump movement, which made the team laugh.

"Fine, I'll take things easy, ok?" Danny relented.

"That's good to hear." Andrea appeared at the door, and Danny broke out a big smile, which didn't go unnoticed by the rest of his team. They were all so happy that Danny had finally found someone to love him. "That will make my life much easier over the next two weeks. I've just arranged two weeks leave to make sure you behave."

"You don't have to take care of me, I'll manage." Danny didn't want her wasting holiday on him.

"Truth be told, my boss has been pushing me to take some holiday. I have plenty saved up, so I can make sure you don't overdo things, and besides... I want to." Andrea flushed a little red.

"How can I argue with that?" Danny held out his hand to Andrea who took it and perched on the edge of Danny's bed.

"Well I think that's my cue to head home. Renee will have forgotten what I look like." Lou stood and the others followed suit.

"I should go too. Abby should be finishing soon. I think I'll swing by HPD and pick her up. She sends her best by the way." Chin followed Lou out of the room.

"Come on boss, I'll shout you some food." Kono offered.

"I think I'll sta..." Steve started, but Kono grabbed his hand and pulled him to his feet.

"Time to go boss. I fancy a steak, and I will not eat it alone." She winked at Danny as she dragged Steve away. "He's all yours." She whispered to Andrea, and Steve shouted a good night to them both as he was dragged from the room

As soon as they all left, Andrea kicked off her shoes and again snuggled up next to Danny like she had the night before.

"You know you don't have to stay, you spend most of your time here." Danny planted a soft kiss on the top of her head.

"I know, but there is nowhere else I'd rather be right now." Andrea replied. The pair remained silent, content with each other's company, fingers entwined until they drifted off to sleep.

THE END

We haven't seen the last of Woolf. There will be another story to follow at soon point.