A/N: Let it begin! The new year is nearly upon us, thank goodness, and so I have decided to post this as a new beginning for 2017.

2012 wasn't the best of years for me. I fell into a slump after the death of my father and did very little writing. Because of this, my very good friend, Maeghan, bought me a book by the San Francisco Writers' Grotto called 642 Things to Write About. It is a book of prompts to help with encouraging creativity, and I decided to write all of them from the point of view of Danny and the Five-0 team. In December of 2014 I completed Danny's 642 Things To Rant About, and figured that would be the end of the adventure. It took two years to write all 642 stories. Fast Forward to 2016 and Maeghan has bought me a brand new prompt journal - 712 MORE Things to Write About. Well Five-0 fans, I think it's time to begin again. Happy reading and thank you in advance for joining me on this new adventure into our favourite characters. My Goal is to write these in two years, like the last time, and I hope to update frequently but we all know that they will be sporadic at best. But I will try, I promise!

Prompts 1 - 10

1. Write yesterday's horoscope.

Angrily Grace Williams stomped around the house moaning and groaning before she finally obeyed the orders of her father and rushed off to her room, slamming the door as hard as she could behind her, she screamed nonsensically once she was alone.

"What did you do?" Steve asked when the thick static calm descended in Danny's house.

"I took her phone away, called her mother and she backed me up," Danny answered. "It's called parenting and I'm usually the bad guy, but hey, when she deserves it, she deserves it."

"What did she do?" Steve asked knowing full well that Danny was generally a pushover with his children.

"She went to a party without permission and forgot to pick up her brother from his play date on her way home from the library," Danny answered. "And her most prized possession, the one thing she just can't live without these days, is her phone. So now it's mine."

"My horoscope said you were going to be an asshole today!" Grace yelled from her room.

"What did you just call me?" Danny barked. "Good thing you're already grounded, right? For two weeks now, how does that sound?" He yelled back.

"Two weeks, isn't that a bit harsh?" She asked in tears now.

"You forgot your baby brother and you just called me an asshole, what did you think was going to happen? Aside for the fact that you already lied about where you were going and the only reason I found out was because your boyfriend is an honest young man!" Danny said. "Now get to your room, you have two whole weeks to write letters to you friends to tell them just how much of an asshole your father can be, but if I hear that kind of language come out of your mouth again, young lady, this grounding will be for months and this phone will be cancelled completely."

"What if I have an emergency, and need a phone?" She asked in her sarcastic teenage way as she stood defiantly in her bedroom doorway.

"Send a smoke signal. I'm sure you'd find a way to get help," Danny retorted.

"Now who's being unreasonable Daniel?" She asked, sounding like her mother and placing her hands on her hips.

"Daniel?" He asked, livid now. "How old are you? Are you still a minor in my home? Did your mother not just tear a verbal strip off you? Is Steve not in this house, in this moment, watching you be a bratty, temper tantrum throwing child? And you dare disrespect me, your father, who pays for the phone in the first place?"

Grace opened her mouth to retort but Danny held her phone over the fish tank.

"Choose your next words very, very carefully, or you'll be checking your horoscope the old fashioned way, by staring at the stars!" He threatened.

"You wouldn't," she called him out.

The phone dropped into the fish tank and Grace screamed.

"Now, not only are you grounded for two week, you are phone-less until you get a job and can pay for it yourself," Danny said and turned away from the fish tank.

"I hate you!" Grace screamed and slammed her door.

"I'm your father, you aren't supposed to like me," Danny called back calmly but no response came from Grace's room.

"Did you really just drop the phone into the fish tank?" Steve asked in shock.

"Rachel told her I'd throw it into the ocean," Danny said with a shrug. "This was the closest salt water I could find."

"But she's right, you just wasted that money," Steve said.

"Yes, but the phone was paid off and Grace has been hounding me to get her a new phone because this one is old, and I already did that but she doesn't know that. So, when I'm feeling benevolent and she's apologizes or has gone several weeks without a phone, then I will give her the new one, but there are going to be new rules, and she is going to have to start paying for it and once she realizes just how much it costs, she'll respect it more," Danny explained. "At least for now I don't have to listen to it's pinging."

"A+ parenting, Daniel, really. And had you checked your horoscope today you'd know that obstacles would be presented to test your resolve and build character," Steve said as he read the words from the news paper before him.

"I don't believe in that stuff," Danny said with a shake of his head. "But maybe I'll start clipping out of the paper so she can have them daily," he said as he motioned with a twitch of his head toward his daughters door.

"Is Charlie okay?" Steve asked.

"Yeah, he didn't even notice that she hadn't showed up, and when I finally did, he was played out and ready to go home anyway. He was with them for an hour over the time that was discussed between the mother and Rachel, but they understood the situation," Danny said, parents generally do when parenting is in question, or discipline in this case."

"Where is he now?" Steve asked.

"Nap, that kid can sleep through anything," Danny answered. "But I'm going to check on him. Be back in a second."

"Take your time, I'll occupy myself with this," Steve said and turned his attention back to the news paper.

"Never a dull moment in the Williams house," Danny said and left.

"Not according to this horoscope," Steve mocked and settled in to read the paper in the newfound silence and peace.

2. Your partner writes a Craigslist ad to get rid of items of yours that they totally hate. What does it say?

"What the hell have you done?" Danny yelled his question as he walked into Steve's office and dropped his phone onto the desk with an un-ceremonial thud.

"I don't know what you're talking about but I'm happy to see you learning to use the phone," Steve said in response but there was guilt in his tone.

"This morning my kid found this add on craigslist and the great weekend we had together melted away to angry accusations that I'm ungrateful and how it hurt her feeling," Danny explained. "Only I didn't post the add to sell my tie collection, because I like the ties that my kids bought me and they have sentimental value based on the occasion for which they were purchased. So I though to myself; who doesn't like my ties? Like I even had to think about it. I know it was you!"

"I didn't do it," Steve said but his lie fell flat.

"Nice try, but like you said, I don't know how to use craigslist and when I enlisted Grace to help me take it down, she realized I couldn't have done it because I don't even know what the hell craigslist is! But you're welcome, she was able to break your password and take the items down. She was also able to put up a few other things, like that wreck of a car that's just sitting in your garage. People actually want it," Danny said and smiled, picked up his phone again and scrolled to the new add, "see."

"You didn't," Steve gasped.

"No, I didn't, Grace did," Danny said and pointed at the angry teen in the bullpen who shot death glares at Steve.

"I'm sorry, now get her to take it down," Steve said as he scrambled for his own phone.

"You get her to take it down, she's the one you need to be apologizing to," Danny scolded.

Like a dog with his tail between his legs, Steve exited his office to talk to Grace and the car was taken down just as the ties were.

3. A thank you note for a weekend visit were everything went wrong

"Let's take the kids snorkelling, he said. It will be fun, he said," Danny grumbled as he sat by the side of a pile of drift wood and the sun was setting on them quickly. Grace and Charlie were huddled closely to their father as Steve frantically rubbed two lengths of husk together. "I should know better than to go out on the open ocean with you. It never ends well, but thanks for proving me right again. I'll send a thank you note and a fruit basket to our rescuers if you ever get a fire started," his voice grew louder and more angry with every word.

"How was I to know that the canoe wasn't anchored and floated away?" Steve asked. "You had fun, admit it."

"Sure, until I ended up stranded in the setting sun because we couldn't find the canoe along the shoreline," Danny huffed. "I didn't want to canoe in the first place but that damn Disney Movie got you thinking that the kids would like it!"

"Moana was a good movie," Charlie said softly.

"I like it too, Charlie, don't worry," Grace said to comfort her brother.

"Look, fire, we'll survive the night and when we don't show up for work tomorrow morning, Kono and Chin will come looking, or maybe by the light of day we'll be able to find the canoe. It's gotta be on a beach somewhere along this island," Steve said as the fire started.

"And what are we going to eat?" Danny asked angrily. "Or sleep on?"

"It's like survivor, but we don't have time to build a shelter," Charlie whispered to Grace.

"And Uncle Steve would be the first one voted off the island if Danno has anything to say about it," Grace joked.

"I'll get the coconuts I saw down the beach, just keep feeding the fire," Steve said as he sulked away.

"We'll be find, wont we Danno?" Grace asked when Steve was gone.

"Yeah, he's right, Kono and Chin know to come looking for us if we don't check in tonight. This has happened too many times for us to not have a backup plan. We'll be off this island by morning, I'm sure."

"So why not make the most of it?" Grace asked. "It is kinda like survivor, we could build a shelter and play at it like it were the T.V show to pass the time," she offered.

"If that's what you want to do," Danny said.

"Yes," Charlie cried excitedly.

"Okay, have at it, build a shelter right over there. I'm sure Steve will help as soon as he gets back with the coconuts. I'll keep building the fire," Danny said.

4. It's winter, and you just moved to North Dakota. Write a postcard that makes Californians jealous.

"What's so funny?" Danny asked as he and Steve walked into the forensics lab and found Eric clutching his sides.

Eric handed his uncle a postcard.

"Why does your mother call you a cali boy when she knows to send your stuff to Hawaii?" Danny asked after glancing at the card.

"You tell me, she's your sister. I don't pretend to understand what makes her tick, or you for that matter, but you've known her longer so maybe you have some insight," Eric managed between his gasped for air.

"She's my sister and I love her, but she's a few crews loose," Danny confessed.

"What's so funny?" Steve asked.

"Ma has a new boyfriend and he convinced her to move to North Dakota, or at least visit there to try it out. My Ma is a Jersey Girl through and through, no question, but she's trying to prove to the family that she can make this change. But it's ridiculous. Like you think I'm going to be jealous of your horrible weather conditions? I live in Hawaii, Ma," Eric explained. "And she calls me a Cali boy because I always wanted to move to California but I ended up in Hawaii instead, of course I was 5 when California spoke to me. I'm happy here now."

"I remember that phase!" Danny said and began to laugh. "You thought Sponge Bob would invite you to live with him if you could only get to the ocean. And when your mother told you Jersey was on an ocean you lost your mind and wanted palm trees to prove it."

"I was just a child," Eric protested.

"It's a pretty postcard," Steve said optimistically as he handed it back to Eric.

"Yeah, sure, long enough to take a picture then you have to shovel the snow, and it's cold and wet, and it sticks around for months on end. No thank you, her attempts to make me jealous are not going to work. I'm going to send her back a stack of postcards from Hawaii of beaches and oceans and pineapples to prove that North Dakota sucks," Eric explained.

"You might convince her to move out here," Danny said thoughtfully. "I am not opposed to the idea of having family, more family, in Hawaii."

"And have her bring Todd? No thank you," Eric said with disgust in his tone.

"Todd is the new boyfriend whom we don't like very much," Danny whispered to Steve.

"Todd is a conservative, who doesn't believe in climate change, or science," Eric said with a roll of his eyes.

"So he and Eric don't get along at all," Danny said. "But I mean if your Ma is a few screws loose, then many this guy is perfect for her. He sounds just as crazy!"

"That's my Ma your talking about," Eric scolded. "I only wish she was smart enough to get rid of him," he added with a sigh.

"She'll come around," Danny said optimistically. "And so should we, what do you have for us?" He asked to get back to work.

"Surprise, surprise, the ice that encased your victim was not from around here. It's actually glacial right from Alaska," Eric said and handed Steve and Danny printouts of the analysis.

"Glacial ice from Alaska would not make it this far to wash up on the beach of Hawaii," Danny said.

"No, this was a block cut from the glacier and dropped like an ice cube in pearl harbour. You're looking for a boat from Alaska or someone on a route that takes them there, and they would have only gotten here in the last day. This ice would have melted had you not found it just after the dump. It was too intact to have been back in the ocean long," Eric explained. "That's about all I can tell you."

"So this person was dead a long time to be encased in glacial ice?" Steve questioned.

"Sure, but because of the melting glaciers, caused by global warming, someone was going to be found out so they moved the body down here," Eric theorized.

"And dumped it right into our laps," Steve said with a shake of his head.

"Exactly," Eric said and picked up the postcard again. "At least she still writes to me, that's a good sign, considering Todd would rather she didn't talk to her forward thinking, educated, son."

"That's reason to hope she'll ditch that guy," Steve said and waved the file at Danny.

"At least it's something," Danny said in agreement, "but we have got to get back to work."

"Yeah, yeah, go!" Eric shooed them out of the lab.

"Thank Eric, good luck with your mother," Steve said and he and Danny left together.

5. Imagine you are on Yelp. Write a review of the restaurant everyone is talking about. In the fourth paragraph, admit you've never eaten at the restaurant, but argue why your misinformed opinion is still more important than the other reviews on the site.

"What's all this?" Danny asked the delivery man who showed up at his home with arms loaded with food.

"This is our apology for the sub par service you received. We're deeply sorry sir, and hope that this rectifies the situation and misunderstanding," the man said handed the take out containers to the shocked and speechless Danny and returned to his vehicle without further comment or elaboration.

"Nice, dinner is here," Steve said as Danny placed the containers down as he walked into his own kitchen still very confused. "And from that new Italian place everyone is raving about. Well done, Danno. You know it's nearly impossible to get in there. Believe me, I've tried."

"So have I, but I've never been there. I don't know what they're apologizing for. What the hell is Yelp?" He asked as he read the note that had been attached to a large serving of pasta.

"Yelp is a review app," Grace said as she and Charlie entered the kitchen. "I posted a terrible review for the new place, knowing that you couldn't get in, and they sent free food. You're welcome." She said with a wink.

"You did what?" Danny asked in shock.

"Well, if you can't get into the restaurant, even as members of an elite task-force, why not give them a bad review?" She asked.

"This is dishonest!" Danny scolded.

"I'll change the review if the food is good," She said with a shrug. "It's not going to be as good as Nona's but, you know, if it's passable as authentic Italian food as they claim to be," she added. "I mean, if it's not, then who's really being dishonest here?"

"She has a good point!" Steve said with a nod.

"Don't encourage her," Danny said with a shake of his head.

"The foods here now, may as well eat it," she said and helped Charlie into his seat at the table.

"Yeah, I guess there is not point letting it go to waste," Danny said and sighed. "But don't do it again, and you will change that review."

"Yes sir," Grace said and settled in for the meal.

6. A friend of yours at the NSA calls. She says that for just one hour, she will let you listen to the conversation of any two people in the world. You accept. Whose conversations do you listen to and what do they say? Transcribe them here.

"I cannot believe you two are making me do this," NSA agent Clarence Campbell huffed as he sat in an unmarked surveillance van with Steve and Danny.

"We'd do it ourselves but our technician is taking a course at the police academy and can't do anything in connection with Five-O until his course is complete," Steve said with a dismissive wave and was shushed by Danny.

"You mean your hacker friend Toast?" Clarence asked.

"Our official title for him is: specialist in charge of technical support and surveillance," Steve countered.

"Oh, to have immunity and means," Clarence sighed.

"Currently, while working with Five-O you do have it," Danny said and then shushed them again.

"And with it we're eves dropping on private school kids," Clarence huffed.

"We're trying to catch them taking about their dealer and who is recruiting children from this school to sell heroin laced with propofol, which is killing kids," Steve barked. "Two of them from the school they go to in the last month."

"Would you two please shut up, we're getting to the good stuff," Danny scolded and silence fell in the van.

"Did that kid just confess to dealing?" Steve asked as he jumped.

"Yup, grab him," Danny said as he rushed to the back of the van. "Keep listening Clarence."

"Got it Detective," Clarence said as he moved into Danny's stop and Steve and Danny jumped out of the back of the van and snatched up the kid.

7. You are a coach who has just cut an 11-year-old girl from the team. Write an e-mail to her parents, explaining why.

Danny paced his office fuming as Grace sat in the chair before him sobbing.

"Ready to go?" Steve asked as he popped his head in and caught the 'death to all' glare that Danny shot at him. "Bigger problems then murdered prostitutes, got it! I'll take Chin," he added but before he could flee Danny rushed at him grabbed his arm and pulled him into the office. The door slammed behind them, Grace looked at Steve tearfully and Danny slammed a printout into Steve's hand. "What the hell?" Steve asked angrily as he read the letter and looked up, rage in his eyes.

"She was cut from the team, my kid, cut from the team because she was too young?" Danny asked in a rage.

"There are three boys on the team that failed three times, but they can play, how is that fair?" Grace asked as she stifled a sob.

"I'll put Kono and Chin on the case. We're going to figure this out, Gracie, don't you worry about it," Steve said and touched Grace's cheek. "Uncle Steve will fix this mess."

"Who the hell is this new coach? I want a back ground check. I want his credentials. I want all of his records!" Danny demanded.

"I guess the prostitutes will have to wait, or I can put Jerry on that," Steve said as he hesitated.

"Give Max some extra time with the bodies, this investigation shouldn't take long," Danny said as he stormed out of his office and right up the smart table.

"We'll get to the bottom of this Grace," Steve said. "You just stay here and calm down. Five-O is on it."

8. Now you are the school principal. Write an e-mail to the coach who cut the girl from the team, explaining why he is being fired.

"I understand Detective, we will deal with this accordingly," Mrs. Calista Mave said as an angry Danny and Steve stood before her desk. "But by doing what you want you see that we are just doing the same thing you're accusing our coach of doing."

"It's not an accusation. We have evidence to prove that your coach is stacking his team and that you knew about it and accepted the students with the soul purpose of winning state, in fact, two of these students are too old by regulations to be playing, having failed their twelfth year twice and one four times, and a third student, whom we arrested, is taking enhancing drugs. Stacking the team alone is enough for disqualification and a three year ban from participating in the school leagues. Is that what you want? Do you deny knowing of these accusations?" Danny asked sternly as the woman's eyes grew wide.

"I knew of the failures, but not the drugs," she confessed.

"We've arranged to have the whole team tested for drugs, and our investigators are looking into this new coach of yours," Steve added as his phone pinged. "And the report was made to the school board and the council to decide whether or not you should be allowed to participate in any sports this season."

"And I'm looking to have you investigated as well, and my child removed from this school so you will not have to worry about 'doing the same thing we're accusing you of'," Danny added.

"Please, I don't think you need to be jumping to these conclusions Mr. Williams. I'm sure Mrs. Edwards will back us, she's on our PTA," the principal countered.

"She knows about what happened, she forwarded the email to me. Removal from this school was her idea," Danny spat. "Just because she's on the PTA and that I have very little to do with the school because of my job, doesn't mean that my ex-wife and I are not proactive in our children's lives and extracurricular activities, and because I'm a cop, I'm overly diligent when these kinds of things involve my kids."

"I wasn't implying that you don't," the woman choked and was clearly agitated. "We are prepared to cooperate fully."

"How long has this man been working for you?" Danny asked as Steve continued to read his text.

"Less then a year," The woman answered.

"Is this him?" Steve asked and showed a mug shot to the Principal.

"Yes," she gasped.

"He's wanted in four states for drug charges and misconduct toward minors, forget firing him, he's being arrested and charged with falsifying his identity and working with children when he's a registered sex offender. Also his licence to teach is clearly a forgery because he's been revoked by the college of teachers. Better learn to do better background checks," Steve stated and stormed out.

"Who else do you have working for you?" Danny asked suspiciously before he followed Steve. "I'm going to launch a full investigation into you and this school."

The woman sank into her seat as they left. She should have known better than to let the man cut Grace Williams, but she'd been blinded by the prospect of winning a state championship for the first time in the history of the school.

9. Briefly but convincingly, explain why world peace is better than indoor plumbing.

"No more wars, no more capitalism, just peace," Grace said as she read off the cue cards in her hands.

"It's a good argument Monkey, but you might have to be more specific," Danny said when she'd finished. "Remember, debate is an art form. You have to make your audience believe you."

"But who comes up with topics like this?" Grace asked as she threw the cards into the air. "As if indoor plumbing and world peace are even in the same realm of similarity."

"If you want to be a lawyer, you're going to have to learn to argue against things you don't believe in sometimes and you can't always be confident that you opposition isn't going to be able to flip the argument on you and convince a jury. That's the whole point of this debate," Danny explained.

"Maybe I don't want to be a lawyer," Grace huffed.

"You can be whatever you want to be, baby girl, just not a police officer," Danny said with a smile. "But you've signed up for this debate so you can't let your team down, we Williamses are not quitters are we?"

"No, Danno, we're not," Grace said.

"So why is world peace better than indoor plumbing?" He asked as there came a knock at the door.

10. Just as briefly and convincingly, explain why indoor plumbing is better than world peace.

"Lack of indoor plumbing would be the reason for the fall of society as we know it," Steve argued. "Trust me, I know, I've lived without it in war situations and yes, it makes matters way worse. World peace cannot exist without indoor plumbing, it's just an absolute truth."

"And yet there are untouched tribes in under developed countries that still live without plumbing and live in peace with one another," Danny countered as he and Steve sat across from each other at the kitchen table and Grace took detailed notes of every argument that was being made.

Not knowing that they were doing it, Steve and Danny argued both sides of the debate she was preparing for, doing all the work she'd been struggling with, as they at the meal that Steve had so graciously brought over.

"That's societal peace, not world peace," Steve countered. "And can only exist as long as the rest of the world, and it's influences, do not move in on this ancient societies. They are already living in peace with each other but should they open themselves to the corruptions of the outside world, that peace would be disturbed."

"So you're saying that without indoor plumbing the world would be worse off than it already is?" Danny asked.

"Oh yes, and if we had to revert back to a more primitive time, away from technologies of all kinds, that would set the whole world into ruin and war. Progress is the real argument here. As we move forward with progress and invention, we lose of innocence. There was a time when indoor plumbing wouldn't have mattered because we didn't have it, but now because we are so accustom and evolutionally dependent on the technology, we would rumble into ruin without it. It's like a Zombie Apocalypse, would we survive if the undead walked the earth?" Steve asked.

"Because Zombies are more primitive?" Danny asked in confusion.

"Yes, exactly, but we are capitalists, and have lost our understanding of more primitive times. We can only move forward, not backward, and world peace was only a true thing before enlightenment and industrialism," Steve explained. "It's an old, antiquated, ideal that cannot be obtained."

"That makes so much sense," Grace gasped as she let the idea set in.

"It does?" Danny asked in confusion.

"Yes, we can't go back, like Steve said. So unless we have a full extinction event, that moves us back, or at least the survivors, to rebuild society from the ground up, we can never have world peace," She said. "And even then, we have the knowledge of what this world is like and we will work to make it like that again, so really we'll never return to the purity of the beginnings of our evolution when there was peace."

"Exactly," Steve said with a smile.

"We'll I think I'm going to lose this debate," she said sadly. "I'm on the wrong side of the evolutionary argument."

"We can't win them all, Gracie, but you can try to be optimistic," Danny said.

"Not now that I know their argument will be right," Grace said.

"Well, they may not be as evolutionally in tuned as you and I," Steve said. "So if you can steer the argument away from evolution and just make them look petty, you may have a change at winning."

"You're right," She said brightly. "I will work the other angle for world peace, and then argue that world peace would evolve as well, if they jump into the evolution argument," She added and rushed away to work.

"She's a smart cookie," Steve smile.

"Way smarter than I'll ever be," Danny said proudly.