Epilogue

"Adventure? no, I work with this guy, I don't need anymore adventure" Danny Williams (S5e23 Mo'o 'olelo Pu)

Few Days Later

"This is not good for you." Danny stated half to himself, half to the man in the hospital bed beside him. The door to Steve's room was closing behind the last of the visitors, leaving only Danny and Steve behind.

"What?" Steve inquired. Danny thought he looked well. The color returned to his face, and he seemed lively and alert.

"All this attention. You were absolutely irresponsible and stupid, and all this..." Danny's hand waved towards the close door "hero worship, it's just enabling."

"Seriously Danny?" Steve glared

"Yeah seriously, you are an accident waiting to happen…" he thought for a second "then happen again, and again, and all this attention, it's like… cutting your brake line."

Steve rolled his eyes "It's OK Danny, I am sure you will do your best to hold me back and constantly remind me how much danger I am to myself and my surrounding."

"So you are listening!" Danny exclaimed "and then you choose to ignore me" He continued sadly.

"Well, it's like a fly" Steve retorted "constantly buzzing in your ear, you can't not hear it, but if you wish to keep your sanity, you have to ignore it."

"Well good news! You do have a sanity to keep! Where have you been hiding it all this time?!"

"Oh, real nice, Danny" Steve's eyes were drawn to a spot behind Danny's back, and Danny turned around quickly to see what caught his eyes. He jumped involuntary as a woman with a brown ponytail towered behind him.

"You freaking Ninjas" he muttered.

"Ezra," Steve greeted her with a smile, "Commander." She smiled back. Danny registered it was a nice smile. It annoyed him for some reason. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything."

"Not at all. Nothing can interrupt him," Steve motion with his chin towards his partner "maybe just hold him off for few seconds, it just gives him time to breath between rants."

"Oh, real nice, Steve"

Ya'el's left eyebrow raised in amusement, the smile still lingered on her face. "How long have you…"

"Been married?" Danny completed with a complementary eyeroll.

Her laugh was gentle, unsure of the joke maybe, "I was going to say 'working together', but fine…"

"Any progress with the leak investigation?" Steve changed the subject, Danny wondered if it was for the sake of her embarrassment or his own.

"They shut us out completely, so I would guess- no. But it seems that someone there was finally willing to believe the leak was indeed in the CIA, so you might consider that as progress."

Danny snorted. Then he caught something, a look between the two, that made him wonder if they were actually talking when he didn't look.

"I am sorry about your partner." Steve suddenly said quietly "I promise that when I'm out of here I'll use up all my contacts to find who did this."

"Thank you, Commander" she replied with a sad smile "I would say you have done enough..."

"That he did!" Danny couldn't help it.

"But I know it wouldn't matter" she continued now looking at Danny, still smiling.

"And you'd be right again." Danny sighed

"Anyway," she looked back at Steve, "I was just stopping by to say goodbye. I was given the choice to stay here and be arrested for espionage or leave the states never to come back. Officially anyway." She smiled.

"I can't say you made the wrong choice." Steve replied. "It was nice working with you."

"Working." Danny interjected "Yeah, obviously you will call it work." he looked at the two but suddenly got the feeling that neither of them were aware of his existence.

"It was kind of fun, Commander." Ezra said "I'm sorry about your knee. And ribs. And…"

"Yeah, yeah," Steve was laughing "I am sorry about your wrist."

"Maybe on your next date" Danny tried again "you can crack each other's heads open while jumping out of an aeroplane with only one parachute to fight over". He was sure he was still talking to himself, but both pair of eyes suddenly glaring at him suggested differently. He smiled sheepishly.

After few seconds of silence Ya'el finally said "So...bye."

"Goodbye, Ezra. Take care."

"You too Commander. Detective."

She turned to leave and was quickly out the door when Danny suddenly lept to his feet. "Be right back," he muttered and went out after her. He caught her few steps from the door

"Hey, Ezra."

She turned, eyebrows slightly raised in question.

"I just wanted to say… thanks. For having his back, you know. I would rather you convinced him to stay in bed, but really, no one could have done that, and you made sure this stupid, crazy plan of his would have some chance, even though you were injured too. It does not mean I am happy with what you dragged him into, but…"

"You are welcome detective." She nodded and smiled. "I would be happy to have a chance to work with you guys again."

"Oh no, no, once was more than enough, no offense."

She laughed and turned to go. Danny, unwillingly, smiled at her back.

When he went back into Steve's room, he was greeted with a smug smile.

"Admit it." Steve said, stifling a yawn "She's not that bad."

"Oh, yes she is." Danny answered immediately shaking his head. "I just made sure she was indeed leaving. And never coming back. This woman is bad for your health." he motioned at the man still in a hospital bed to emphasize his point.

"I'm fine, Danno." Steve assured him "I'll be out of here in a couple of days. And she did stop a major terrorist attack, you can't say it wasn't worth it."

"Worth it?" Danny leaned forward then sent both hand flying through the air "Worth almost dying while diving 60 feet under to save your ass? Then getting shot at while storming into a hospital to save you again because you haven't had the decency to accommodate the fact that you drowned and had your insides butchered with a fishing spear?"

"Did you have a better idea, Danny?" Steve laid his head back, he was obviously tried, the next yawning attack was not so easy to stifle. Danny could notice that, but couldn't help himself.

"Well, maybe, if you had given me the chance to think of one before deciding on your own, yet again, to do what you probably thought was some kind of heroic act". Danny's hands were helping him express what he thought about the last two words, "but any other person in his right mind would see was a fatuous idiocy act. Yes I said fatuous, that only by miracle ended with you still breathing." he looked straight at his partner "Pure luck, Steve."

"You call it pure luck, but the bad guys are dead or locked up," yawn, "and the good guys are safe".

"You know what?" Danny got up, he fiddled with something outside of Steve's line of sight "You are tired, and lucky for us, we can do this tomorrow morning again" with a quick move he latched one side of the handcuffs to Steve's wrist.

"Danny, what are you doing?"

"And I am not taking any chances with you anymore," he attached the other side to the bed railing, "So see you in the morning, sleep well".

"Danny! Uncuff me!"

The detective walked out the door, ignoring the loud rattle of metal on metal from behind him, then looked back to his partner

"This isn't funny, Danny!"

"Goodnight superSEAL" he let the door close behind him and walked away.

A/N: This is it! I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me! Now real life is demanding its attention (bgharison, if you are still here, there's a laundry pile waiting for you :-) ).
I am not promising anything here, but I'm already missing this project, so if you feel like something is missing, or more scenes you would like to read in this, Please let me know. I might just do something about it.

In any case, I would like to hear what you think of this little adventure.

Thank you for reading, reviewing following and favoring, this really made this project much more fun than I thought.

And again thank you my beloved Yul. I couldn't do this without you. I Think I'll let you drive your Camaro next time around.