A/N1: OK. Busy week, one deadline is done, one more to go, but at least I managed to write the last chapter in a reasonable time.

This is the last chapter of this fic. I want to express my thanks to each of you who've read, followed, favored, and reviewed this fic. Writing in this fandom is a unique experience, you are all so supportive and lovely. I hope this last chapter will be worthy of your expectations, and will be in synch with the rest entire fic. I don't have children, but I still hope it came out accurate and appropriate. I was counting on my imagination and common sense, as well as on my version for Kono and Steve.

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Until the next one... :)

"You're doing great Kono. You can relax now for a while" Dr. Lee tells her when she stops pushing and tries to catch her breath. "Nice to see you again commander, would you like to join us?" she doesn't even look at him, and he wonders what exactly she means by asking him to join them. He would do it gladly, but he honestly can't identify a place in which he can actually contribute.

"Steve" Malia says quietly, indicating for him to come and stand beside Kono, "you're standing over here."

He steps quickly, with a sigh of relief to where Malia is standing holding Kono's back.

"You'll be fine" Malia says to the both of them when she changes places with him, and it looks like they both look at her in concern when she's ready to leave them on their own "I love you, both" she smiles reassuringly "I'll see you later, when there's three of you. OK? " she kisses Steve on his cheek, and gives Kono a long tender kiss on the top of her head, she makes her way towards the door.

()()()

"Hi" he whispers to her, moving the hair away from her sweaty face, and kisses her tenderly on her lips. He takes a hold of her hand, as he stands close by her side.

"Hi, babe" she tells him quietly "I'm glad that you're here."

"You're being nice to me because there's no contractions now, are you?" he asks with a smile, raising his eyebrow at her. She has no time to answer because it just starts all over again, and he thinks she'll break his thumb with the force in which she presses it.

"Almost there" Dr. Lee is saying reassuringly. "Pace yourself, because we'll need a few more pushes in a minute."

"I can't hold back" Kono mumbles "I have to push now."

"Just a second" Dr. Lee tells her "I'll tell you when... in a second... OK, now. Push Kono..."

He is tall and strong enough, so he can stand by her, and support her back, giving her a way to push against him, as he looks at what the doctor is doing, and he can see the head coming out slowly, with a wet black hair on the top. It's the same color as Kono's hair, and he feels like his heart is going to burst out of his ribcage with excitement and awe.

"He's really small" he whispers in her ear, not even sure if she can hear him at this point "I think you can probably take him..."

"Well done, Kono" Dr. Lee is saying "almost there..."

It's really fast from then on. Suddenly the head is completely out, and the rest of him just slides out quickly after. Before they have time to catch their breaths, and before he can turn and tell her how well she'd done, and how beautiful their son is, there's a loud crying sound that fills the room. He can't speak, can't move. He can just hold her forcefully against him, and watch the quick movements of Dr. Lee and the nurse as they hold the baby, and take care of him. He hears her gasp in astonishment when she watches every move, too.

"I'm not going to let you cut the umbilical cord" Dr. Lee explains as she adjusts the clamp and does it herself "I don't really believe in letting emotionally challenged men running around with scissors around the delivery room... There. All done. A beautiful, healthy baby boy. Want to hold him?" she smiles towards Kono.

She nods enthusiastically, her face wet from sweat and tears. She reaches her arms to receive the precious bundle, as she repositions herself on the bed, still pressed against Steve's chest. He can only look, with growing emotion, as she's holding their son against her bosom, slowly caressing his small face with her finger, and whispers to him "I love you, my darling boy."

The baby opens his eyes and looks back at her, at least it looks like he's looking at her, and he has this astonished and serious expression on his face. He feels his heart clenches inside his chest, when he sees the new connection that is formed between them. He tightens his hold around her shoulders, and kisses her temple tenderly.

"We did it!" she smiles, looking up at his face, and tracing her finger lovingly on his face, the same way she did with his son. "He looks just like you..." she whispers "so beautiful."

"He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen..." he agrees. "I simply...I can't even..."

"Yeah." she laughs, shaking her head towards the small creature "totally!"

()()()

It takes a while until they finish all the medical stuff. They take him away from them for some cleaning and for several quick tests. Kono orders him to stay next to the baby, which he does, obviously, watching the nurse like a hawk as she's handling the baby in an experienced ease that overwhelms him for a second. Dr. Lee is taking care of Kono in the mean time, it's all done in about thirty minutes, until everything is clean and organized around them. Then the nurse hands him the baby, and he holds his son for the first time.

He's so small, he suspects he can hold him using only one hand. Fortunately, he is much too scared of Kono to actually test this theory at this stage. He walks with the baby, who is currently sleeping, and sits on the bed beside her.

They both sit there, and she's wrapping her arms around the both of them, looking at her son over his shoulder. It's quiet, and it's like the three of them are alone in the world. She doesn't say anything, just strokes Steve's hair gently.

"He's sleeping." he tells her quietly.

"He had a very busy day" she smiles.

"Doesn't he need to eat or something?" he asks with concern.

"He'll let us know when he's hungry" she promises "don't worry."

They are hypnotized by the sight of him, can't take their eyes away, even for a second. They count his quick breaths, and watch his miniature hands under the blanket.

"So... what now?" he asks suddenly.

She only shrugs. "I haven't a clue."

()()()

Eventually they remember that all their friends are still out there, and they should probably let them know that the baby is born and everything is OK, so he puts the baby in the hospital crib, and goes to the waiting room.

He finds Danny and Chin and Malia there, as well as the entire Kalakaua clan. They are all jumping around him, and hugging him, and all of them are talking and shouting at the same time. It's funny, because he can't understand any of what their saying, but they look as happy as he feels, so he guesses it's all good. When Kono's mother takes a hold of his shoulders and hugs him affectionately, kissing him on both cheeks, he realizes that everything will be different from now on.

()()()

He doesn't even try to stop them, he just follows the crowd that storms into the delivery room. When he finally manages to squeeze himself in, the baby is already in Kono's mother's arms, and the boys are all over their sister almost knocking her off the bed as all of them are trying to hug her at the same time.

"He looks just like you" Kono's mother says to her daughter, looking at the small baby with a wide smile.

"He looks just like Steve, and you know it" Kono laughs.

"He has your hair, and your eyes..." she contradicts.

"His eyes are blue, mom. You can see perfectly well they are blue."

They move him around from hand to hand, because they all want to touch him and kiss him, and Steve starts to feel uncomfortable with the whole thing.

"Relax, Steve" Kono's father puts his big hand on his shoulder "the baby will be fine."

"Yeah... I know" Steve mumbles "but I really don't think he likes it."

"The kid is fine" Chin tells him from the other side "he doesn't even cry. I have to admit he is much more patient than to be expected from a product of you and Kono..."

He looks at her questioningly when they still move him around like this, but she doesn't seem concerned. She just smiles and nods to the compliments everyone throws on their beautiful child. He tries to contain the agitation he feels when the baby is out of his reach like that, and the fact that Chin and Danny are looking at him, almost bursting in laughter when they see his familiar expression, doesn't make it easier.

Danny is the last to hold him. He looks at his partner with alarm, when he notices his eyes fill with moisture, and his chin starts to quiver.

"Are you sensitive right now?" he asks with suspicion.

"A little bit, yes" Danny says, looking at the baby in his arms.

"Are you going to cry?" Steve asks with apprehension "because I don't want you to drop him..."

"I'm not going to drop him, you insensitive monster" Danny objects. "I was holding babies in my arms when you were still in Navy school."

"There isn't any Navy school, and you know it" Steve looks at him with irritation "will you please stop talking and concentrate? when you talk, you tend to move your arms too much."

"Don't worry, baby SEAL" Danny says to the small baby in his arms "uncle Danny will protect you from this dense, and cold hearted amateur... so how you're gonna call him?" he looks up at Kono and Steve.

There's a quiet in the room, suddenly, and Steve realizes that he hasn't a clue. He looks at Kono's mother, because he assumes she already made her decision, but before she has time to answer, Kono says "John. John McGarrett."

"I thought you wanted an Hawaiian name" he says after a few seconds when he realizes what she's saying, and his voice is shaking with the way she just blurts it out, without any preparation.

"I did. But I thought you would like it more, if we called him after your father."

"I do" he says seriously, looking at her with burning eyes "Very much. But how did you..."

She only smiles at him, and reaches for him with her hand, and he steps forward and buries his face in the crook of her neck holding her tightly against him.

"This is not a big deal, baby" she whispers to him with a smile "we'll pick a Hawaiian name for the next one..."

()()()

It takes some time until they get her to a proper room, on the floor. Most of the time is spent on trying to evacuate her overbearing family, and persuade them to go away. It's when the head nurse threatens to prevent them from coming again, that they finally agree to leave. He goes home to take a shower and change, to bring her stuff, and to make sure that Kai is fed and is doing alright. When he's back, he finds her sitting on the bed quietly, nursing their son.

"Wow" he says as he moves the curtain and finds them like that.

"I think he likes it" she says seriously, looking at little John's lips.

"I know how he feels..." he mumbles quietly, dropping the bag on the floor. He can't help but smile mischievously at the beautiful blush that covers her face with this statement.

"I hope your mom wasn't too upset with the name..." he says as he sits on the bed, putting his hand on her knee, and looking at his son suckling.

"She wasn't. She said I was being very loyal and very loving to suggest it."

"So... basically... she's gonna blame this one on me." he sighs.

"Pretty much" she nods, "and she's never going to forget it."

"Great" he mumbles, "I can't do anything right by this woman."

"Well..." she moves the sleeping baby slowly from her bosom to her shoulder, and indicates towards herself in the process "you're doing everything right by this one..."

()()()

"So how is it?"

"You mean being a father?"

"No, I mean being a world famous male model. Of course I mean being a father." Danny rolls his eyes at him.

"It's... it's good. Yeah. It's pretty good."

"Now you can see why we never send you to do undercover work. You are a terrible liar."

"I'm not lying" Steve exclaims "I'm very happy, and the baby is... " he smiles to himself "the baby is awesome."

"Go on..." Danny encourages him "I feel like a major breakthrough is coming. You are actually going to tell me how you feel..."

"It's just... there's not a lot I can actually do with him..."

"Do with him? what do you mean do with him? you're not supposed to do anything with him besides keeping him alive and let him grow, Fuck Steve... what did you try to do?"

"Well... it's not my fault, Danno. I only tried to be involved. Kono is doing all the feeding, and she is so efficient, by the time I get home, she's already done with all the changing and the washing and everything, and she's so tired she just hands him over, and tells me to bond with him, but..."

"But...?" Danny looks amused.

"He can't talk, or play with anything yet, and Kono told me to stop reading him from "The art of war", because it will give him nightmares, so I have to wait until she actually falls asleep to be able do it, because he has to hear it, obviously... So I have nothing to do but hold him around the house, and talk to him... which, you know... talking... me... so when I tried to take him to the ocean..."

"You took a four weeks old baby to the ocean? are you out of your mind?"

"Kono didn't mind, and there wasn't any sun, because it was evening already, but he was crying so hard, I really don't think he liked it. I mean he's Kono's and mine, how can he not like it?"

"Steve, Babe. When I call him a baby SEAL, it's only as a term of endearment. I don't really mean he's an actual seal. The water are way too cold this time of the year..." he shakes his head with exasperation "can't you two act like normal human beings and just put him in the bathtub?"

"Yeah..." Steve moves his hand, scratching his face "that was exactly what her mother said, when she caught me doing it..."

()()()

It's one Friday afternoon, when Steve is back from work, and climbs up the stairs to find Kono sleeping on the bed, and little John lying awake in the crib by the window. They moved the crib to the bedroom, when they first brought him to the house, because Kono couldn't stand the idea of him sleeping away from her. He takes him in his arms and steps out of the room, letting her sleep. When he passes the bathroom, he sees the little bathtub full with water, ready for John's bath.

"I guess it's time for another try, buddy" he tells the baby who only looks at him with a somewhat surprised expression. "Just try not to freak out too much, because mommy is sleeping and we don't want her to wake up and kill daddy for doing something wrong, OK?"

He manages to take the baby's clothes off without too many problems, and he feels the water and estimates the temperature to be just about right. When he slowly puts him in the bathtub, he realizes he is actually holding his breath.

It's a fucking miracle, because the baby doesn't cry, and starts moving his limbs around in the water, and makes some giggling sounds that makes Steve look at his face with surprise. When he looks at him, the baby is smiling towards him brightly, and it feels like an arrow is hitting him right in the heart, suddenly.

"So you do like the water after all, do you babe?" he laughs back at him.

There are more happy giggles that comes out of John's mouth, when he stretches his limbs again.

"Good" he says taking the baby soap from the counter "next week we'll take you surfing. I don't care what uncle Danny or your tutu have to say about it."

()()()

She comes to HQ to meet the guys for lunch, and convinces Malia to come too. When they get there, the three of them are in a middle of a case, and they have a briefing around the smart table.

"It wasn't random" Chin explains to the other two, moving some pictures on the screen "all three victims were at the same bank in Honolulu, in different days in the last several weeks."

"So you think they are all from the same crew?" Danny asks "because this bank wasn't actually robbed."

"Maybe they were excluded from a bigger operation?" Steve suggests "are there any other recognizable faces?"

"I don't know, I have nothing to compare it with" Chin confesses.

"You can run it through the face recognition software I've created, and run it against the HPD archive" Kono says, walking towards the smart table, with John strapped in his baby carrier "here, I'll show you."

Steve takes the child from her, and holds him against him, and she's working her magic on the computer, explaining to Chin exactly what to do. When she finishes, she notices nobody is listening to her, they all make faces to the baby, who is giggling in Steve's arms.

"Will you all concentrate please?" she rolls her eyes at her teammates, "I swear, it's completely irresponsible to leave you all to work here without me."

"We are doing fine, babe" Steve smiles to his son, as he holds him up in the air in front of him "you're on vacation, remember?"

"Vacation? you're joking..."

He looks at her with concern, because she sounds a bit angry. "Please don't..." Danny and Chin whisper to him.

"Of course you are... for at least one more month, hopefully more... it's your time off with the..."

"I'm not on vacation" she cries in irritation "I'm slaving my butt off, while you just run around having fun with your guns and your precious criminals."

"Give him to me" Danny sighs "I don't want you to hold him when she kicks your ass... sometimes I wonder why I even bother to tell you things, it's obvious you don't listen..."

"Chin?" Malia says when Kono and Steve glare at each other with murderous looks "remember I told you I want one, too?"

"Yes..." Chin looks at her questioningly.

"We could probably wait for a while..."

()()()

It's been a while since they were able to do it, so he's really surprised when they sit in the living room watching a movie, and he happens to look at her and sees her watching him with intent, biting her lower lip.

"What?" he asks, watching the baby monitor, wondering if he'd missed something.

"It's time" she tells him quietly, looking at his mouth.

"What time?" he asks in confusion "what's wrong?"

"I want to have sex..."

"Really?" he smiles brightly "are you sure? because it's a really nice movie, maybe we should finish it before we..."

"Commander! Bed. Sex. Now!" she orders, and it's all the invitation he needs. Before she has time to say anything, he's crashing her against him, and attacking her mouth with his lips. "Let's go upstairs" she whispers, when he releases her lips and moves to her jaw.

"What's wrong with the couch?" he spits back "we both know it has enough room..."

"It's the first time we're doing it since John was born, I want to feel comfortable."

She drags him upstairs, even though they make a few stops on the way, to continue with the kissing, and to get rid of their clothes, but they get to the bedroom, eventually, and drop on the bed.

"The baby is here..." he mumbles, as he helps her out of her underwear.

"He'd already seen me naked" she mumbles back, biting his shoulder in that way that always turns him on.

"Yeah... but..."

"He wouldn't remember, I swear. I mean, do you remember your parents having sex?"

He stops in the middle of kissing her between her breasts and looks at her mortified.

"I think you've just ruined it for me for the rest of my life..."

"I'm sure you'll manage" she whispers, reaching with her hand under his boxers. She's right. He's all over it in two seconds.

When they hold each other forcefully, and start moving together, and her breaths are coming ragged and shallow more and more, and when she's almost there, where he wants her, and he's feeling himself pulled to the peak inside her, the baby starts crying in his crib.

"Jeez" he breathes in frustration "the kid got Mary Ann's timing, I swear it."

"Wait a second, maybe he'll fall asleep again..."

They wait without breathing for a few more seconds, but it's no use. He kisses her chastely on her lips, and gets up to take him from his crib.

"Hey, hey little buddy. Don't cry. If anyone should be crying here, it's probably me..." he whispers, and he hears Kono's laugh from the bed.

When he hands her the baby, and she sits up to nurse him, he lies on his stomach beside her, with his arm around her waist.

"Don't worry, daddy knows you didn't do it on purpose" she says to the suckling baby, who looks at her with concentration.

"He only wants to maintain his resources, and remain an only child..." Steve mumbles from under the pillow.

"We're having a second child in two and a half years from now, there's nothing he can do about it" she says casually.

"We are?" he raises his head, and looks at her curiously.

"Yes. What did you think?"

"I didn't, actually" he tells her.

"Just lie down and rest, Steve" she rolls her eyes at him "when I finish feeding him, we'll start practicing again. Just don't fall asleep, because I'll wake you up anyway, and I don't want to be forced to hurt you."

"I won't" he promises, still looking at her in astonishment. "You've got our whole life figured out already, have you?"

"Of course, I have. What did you think?"

"Anything else I need to know about?" he asks in confusion as she stands up, with the baby positioned on her shoulder "because normally I'm the one with the plans, and not you."

"Let me think..." she says slowly, moving towards the crib, and putting the sleeping baby back in his bed "yes. I guess you should know that we're getting married in three months, and that I expect a nice diamond ring by the end of the week, so I hope you have a good idea of what you're going to buy..."

"Yes" he whispers with his eyes glinting at her, as she moves towards him, naked, and beautiful and smiling "I do!"

A/N2: a sort of a sequel - a collection of one-shots that happens after this storyline is regularly updated. It's called: "Calculated Steps".