Returning the favour

By

Landon Richardson

Official Disclaimer

The characters of Lieutenant Commander Steven 'Steve' McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, , Adam ' Toast' Charles, Catherine Rollins, Governor Patricia Jameson, Amy Hanamoa, Detective Meka Hanamoa and Billy Hanamoa do not belong to me in any shape or form. I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes.

The character of Detective Sergeant Danielle 'Danni' Williams probably can be considered to be mine by now. Although she was originally based on male Danny, she soon evolved becoming her own person. She has her own background, her own family, her own history and her own distinct personality. This isn't to say that the Danny Williams we all know and love is completely gone, he still emerges through her at times. I like to think of female Danni as what Danny could have been if everything in his life had gone his way. As in full custody of Grace and a decent relationship with his ex.

The character of Grace has also changed slightly due to the change in Danni. Her surname is Taylor as this is her father's surname and was Danni's married name (Danni reverted back to her maiden name when she was divorced). Her parents also are amicable which has also impacted Grace but never fear, she's still the sweetheart we know and love, if anything she's more a sweetheart now.

The character of Supervisory Special Agent Jack O'Connor, Unit chief Supervisory Special Ryan Moore, Agent Kale Mead, Doctor Rosamund 'Rosie' Lange, Duncan Taylor, Alfie Meyer and Roxie the dog also belong to me as does any other character who you do not recognise from the show. Please do not use them, or my version of Danni and Grace without first asking for my permission to do so.

Thank you.

Author Note

Welcome to next chapter of Returning the favour

I'm not sure how long this story will be but I do plan for it to be fluffy!

Anyway, please enjoy!

Official Summary

It was no secret in Five-0 that Danni Williams was the Mama of the group, the one who always took care of them when they were sick but when Danni falls sick herself, it's time for her team and her friends to step up to the plate and help her. (McDanni, featuring a female Danni in place of male Danny, standalone story)

Chapter Summary

Steve finds out what is wrong with Danni and decides to do something about it.

Official Romances for the story

Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)

Mentions of past Duncan Taylor / Danni Williams (Dunni)

Mentions of past Steve McGarrett / Catherine Rollins (McRollins)

Hints of imagined Ryan Moore / Danni Williams (Rynni)

Romances mentioned during the chapter

Hints of Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)

Another note

Please keep in mind that I don't have a Beta for this story so the odd mistake may creep in without me meaning it to. I have also never been to Hawaii so all locations are either from the show, google or made up in my own mind.

Chapter Two

Time to go home

Steve McGarrett crossed his arms as he moved slightly to the side to give himself a better view of his partner as she moved across the crime scene to where Kale Mead was standing with some of his fellow CSU Agents. He narrowed his eyes, noting that Danni's usual graceful walk was missing, the movement instead slow and stilted as though she was struggling to even walk the short distance.

His gaze swept down her slim frame, a frown coming to his face when he noted that there was no physical sign of injury that he could see though he noted with a growing sense of concern that she was wearing a long-sleeved dress on a day which was especially warm and that her skin was pale to the point of whiteness with two splotches of red across her cheeks.

A long-sleeved dress was something which he knew for a fact that Danni would never wear in Hawaii, not when Steve was well aware that Danni still struggled regularly with the heat and humidity of the island.

Everything he saw pointed to there being something being wrong with her.

The question was what?

"Errr Commander? Is everything okay? You look distracted by something, if it's something to do with the case then I'll be happy to fill you in on anything you need to know."

Steve blinked at the unfamiliar voice, turning back to the front, his eyes landing on the uniformed officer in front of him, a man whose name escaped him but he knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that if his partner had been beside him she would not only known what the man's name was but everything about him up to what he had been doing over the weekend.

"It's fine" Steve told him abruptly as he looked around him again, his eyes snagging on Rosie and Kono who he had noticed that Danni had been talking to, meaning that they would know what was wrong with the other woman. "Excuse me for a moment." He stated, turning and moving away from the other man, his mouth quirking up slightly when he heard the man mumble something under his breathe, no doubt insulting him though that mattered little to Steve. It wasn't as though the people who they worked with didn't know that he was not a people person. That was Danni.

He moved across the area, keeping an eye on his partner from the corner of his eyes as he came to a stop beside Rosie and Kono.

"Boss" The younger woman said to him with a nod.

"McGarrett" Rosie stated at the same time before she continued. "I've already briefed Danni and Kono on the body but I can let you know as well if you want?" She offered with a raised eyebrow.

"No, if you've already told Danni and Kono then I don't need to know." He said with a shake of his head, falling quiet for a moment, aware as he did of the two women sharing a quick look at each other.

"Anything you need then or is this a social visit?" Rosie prompted finally.

"Not social but sort of personal." He admitted. "I want to know whether you know was is wrong with Danni? She was just talking to you so I'm hoping she might have said something?" He asked, resisting the urge to indicate his partner in any way, knowing that she had a six sense when it came to knowing when anyone was talking about her, something which she always placed down to having mother hearing the few times Steve had brought it up with her.

He turned to look at the Rookie when the younger woman sighed at the question.

"What's wrong with her is the small fact that she's sick and at a crime scene. She mentioned last week that Grace had come down with a bug of some kind and Danni was the one who was looking after her during it so it's no real surprise when you think about it that she caught it from her." Kono told him, meeting his eyes briefly before she looked passed him, no doubt focusing her attention on the blonde.

"I was afraid that it was something like that when I saw her, what the hell is she doing here if she has the same thing that Gracie had? She should be at home resting not trying to work a damn crime scene." Steve stated, picking up on the own sound of irritation in his voice as he wished, not for the first time, that his partner would at least try and take better care of herself instead of being focused on everyone else first.

"I can answer that for you, she felt that she didn't have a choice because your team is spread thin and when dispatch couldn't get through to you, they called her, she couldn't exactly say no to coming down here even though I get the feeling that she wanted to." Rosie commented with a shake of her head, smiling when Kono groaned at the comment.

"If Danni feels like she has to be here then getting her to go home to rest will be a nightmare, she's so stubborn over things like this. If she starts a case then you know that she feels like it's her duty to see it through until the end, regardless of how long it might take." Kono said, reaching up and rubbing at her forehead tiredly.

"Well it's a battle you'll have to take on McGarrett because it's my medical opinion that your stubborn partner needs to be at home, resting in bed and drinking lots of fluid because giving the amount of heat coming off of her already, the worse of that bug is going to hit her and it's going to hit her shortly and it's going to hit hard." Rosie told them, a look in her eyes which told Steve that the other woman was serious.

"The last thing Danni will want is to be noticeably ill while at a crime scene, especially if it's one where there are still Uniforms and CSU Agents who are working the case." Kono added with a nod.

"There would be nothing which she would hate more than that." Steve admitted knowing how important Danni's reputation was to her, something which he put down to the way that Danni had been treated during the first six months she was on the island when she was still working in the Detective department in HPD. A place where they had treated her like dirt beneath their feet and had watched her, waiting for anything which they could use against her.

"That's an understatement Boss" Kono confirmed in a sing song voice which brought a reluctant smile to his face before he sighed at the task ahead of him.

"Okay then, I'll take your recommendation onboard then Lange" Steve said with a nod towards the Medical Examiner before he looked towards Kono. "Leave it with me, I'll go and talk to her now and get her to see sense" He nodded at them before he turned and headed over to where Danni was still standing, nodding at whatever it was that Kale Mead was saying to her. He could see her small smile from the angle which he was approaching, the same smile which she always wore when she was in pain of some kind and didn't want anyone else to know that she was. Another side effect from her time at HPD.

He came to a stop beside Danni and placed his hand against her lower back, frowning when he felt the heat rolling off of her like Rosie had mentioned earlier.

"Hey McGarrett, good to see you." Kale said with a nod of him clearly noticing his approach.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you when you're in the middle of briefing us but would you mind giving Chin the rest of the report, I just need to speak to my partner quickly." Steve told the other man who looked briefly surprised by his request before he nodded, his eyes moving between them, no doubt wondering what was happening between them.

"Sure, that's no problem, I'll go and talk to him now. I'll speak to you later on Danni." Kono stated before he left them and moved towards where Chin was already standing with another CSU agent, both of them wearing serious expressions on their faces which Steve knew he would have to ask Chin about.

Steve waited until Kale was out of earshot before he turned back to Danni and looked at her, unsurprised to see that she had tilted her head back so she could watch him. She remained quiet, clearly waiting for him to explain why he had felt the need to interrupt her talk with Kale.

"You need to go home." He stated firmly, continuing speaking without giving her the chance to react. "I know what you're going to say Danno so don't even say it" He told her, his voice soft as he absently stroked his thumb against the material of her dress "You know already that you shouldn't be here and I know it as well so I don't want to hear any arguments." He stated, meeting her eyes, noting the slight flare of surprise.

"Steve, listen we're…" She began to say in a husky voice, stopping when he spoke over her.

"No Danni, you listen to me okay? We've got the crime scene and the case here sorted. I know that you want to help and that you like seeing things through to end but we both know that right now you need to go back home and start resting up before the worse of the bug hits. You called me last week remember and told me all about Gracie's symptoms so I know what is coming up for you with this and so do you. So, what I need you to do is to listen to your body which I bet is screaming at you to be at home rather than being out in the heat working this scene. The last thing I want is for you to collapse here which means that you'll have to take more time off then you would want to. I haven't exactly forgotten the lecture you gave me the last time I was ill and tried to come back earlier than I should have." He commented, a smile coming to his face when he saw her suddenly smile at the memory before it melted away as she sighed.

"I did think that it was one of my better lectures which I gave you though I doubted that you paid much attention to it considering you tried to come back the next day as well." She replied, rubbing her hand up and down her arm as though she was cold. "But I guess, maybe on this occasion, you might actually be right. I think it might be best for me to go home and rest like you said as long as you can spare me and don't mind me going?"

Steve blinked in surprised, silenced for a second by the fact that Danni had agreed so easily to his request without the arguments which he had expected to come up against.

"I'm the one telling you to go home so I definitely don't mind. I'll speak to the various necessary people to let them know that you're not to be contacted, that way you can rest without being interrupted by anyone." He promised her.

She nodded at him, meeting his gaze for a moment before she looked away from him as she glanced around the scene again, he could see her eyes linger briefly on their colleagues before she looked back at him and gave him a soft, tired looking smile before she turned away from him and headed towards her car, her movement still as slow and unsteady as it was before.

He watched her making sure that she reached the car safely, fighting against the desire to follow her and insist on driving her home knowing that she would hate him bringing any attention to her state. The minute she was in the Camaro, he reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, glancing down at the handset before he pressed down on the number five button. It rang for a couple of times before a familiar voice spoke over the line.

"Hey Boss man, what can I do for you?" Toast asked, his voice coming across as cheerful over the line indicating that he had no doubt had one of the brightly coloured smoothies which he insisted on having each day, claiming that it helped him work more productively. The sound of the kettle going in the background pointed to him being in the kitchen, probably making drinks for the rest of the team who had been left behind in the office to brief the FBI.

"Toast, I need you to do me a favour and speak to whoever it is that you need to speak to, to get Danni taken off of the call rota for the next forty-eight hours at least." He told the younger man.

"Why would I need to do that?" Toast demanded instantly, an undercurrent of concern coming to his voice which Steve instantly picked up on. "Is Danni okay? Why would we need to take her off the rota? She never goes off of the rota due to being your second in command unless she's on leave and we normally know about her leave months in advance." He went onto say, his words rushing together making them hard to decipher.

"She's on sick leave Toast, she's caught that bug which has been going around which her daughter had last week. She'll be fine though once she's rested up." Steve assured him.

"She's sick and she was at the crime scene, why was she there?" Toast demanded, his voice rising.

"The call came through to her probably when I was speaking to the Governor so she felt that she had to come to the crime scene to run it until one of us made it here. I've sent her home now and she'll remain there as far as I'm concerned for as long as she needs to, to get well again." He replied.

"Okay then, so all we need to do is to make sure that Blondie remains home which isn't exactly going to be easy to do." Toast said, a thoughtful note coming to his voice as though his mind was already trying to figure out the best way to make that happen. "I'll start by getting dispatch to take her off the contact rota and tell them that they aren't to bother her and if they do then I'll kick their ass myself." He told him fiercely, the tone making Steve laugh.

"I'm sure that Danni will be grateful to know that you're looking after her best interests. Thanks for doing that Toast." He commented before he hung up the phone, his gaze flickering back to where Danni's car had been packed, thankful to see that it was already gone.

He pushed the thought of her reluctantly to the back of her mind knowing that she would want him to focus his attention on the case and the crime scene.

Something which he knew would be easier said than done.

Author Note

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