Thank you so much to all of my wonderful readers who have stuck with this story for so long. I hope that you did enjoy it. I hope that you will review this last part. I apologize. I rewrote it a few times. I guess this one will do. I wanted to get everything tied up before I left it. Hopefully, I will write something again. I am going to try for something shorter next time. Anyway, please enjoy and thank you to all of you who have stayed with it and reviewed faithfully. You guys really are the best. Thanks for all your kind words.

"Am I alright? He wants to know if I'm alright. No, Steven, I am most definitely not alright. Why are we sleeping in the same bed and why the hell am I wearing your gigantuan clothes?" he asked. His voice getting louder as he went and his hands were waving like mad.

"You wanted me to stay with you and you were wet from sweat after your fever broke. You changed in the middle of the night. They were the closest so that's what you got." Steve said calmly.

"Wait, why are you even talking to me?" Danny asked very confused and a little quieter.

"Danny, are you sure that you are feeling OK? You aren't making any sense. Why wouldn't I be talking to you? Did you do something that I don't know about? Should I be worried?" Steve asked trying to figure out what Danny was talking about.

"Wait. What happened yesterday? I don't remember much. I know Chin took me to the doctors and I had a killer headache, but after that I don't remember much. I asked you to sleep with me...I mean sleep in the same bed as me?" Danny asked while he was searching his brain to pull out any information that may be hiding in there.

"You told me not to go. That was after Kono had tried for quite a while to settle you down. I was finally able to get you to calm down, but then you didn't want me to leave. I was afraid you were going to hurt yourself the way you were tossing around so I stayed." Steve said like he shared his bed with his very heterosexual best friend everyday and it was nothing.

"And the clothes?" he asked again while gesturing at the obviously loose outfit he was wearing.

"Jeez Danny seriously, I think maybe that fever did fry your brain a little. Haven't you been listening? You had a fever. Your fever broke sometime in the middle of the night. You were soaked from the sweat and needed to change. I wasn't exactly in any shape to go get your clothes, so you got whatever I had in the closest drawer to me." Steve explained.

"So I'm afraid to ask what else happened yesterday if the final act was us sharing the bed and me in your clothes. I'm not sure I even want to know...Yes, I do. Spill. What else happened yesterday?" he asked curiously.

Steve tried to give Danny a run down of the day. He gave him the facts, but left out the important stuff that Danny wanted to know.

"So if Kono and Chin were back at work when I got sick, who took care of me? I must have been in pretty bad shape if I don't even remember it." he said embarrassed.

Steve hesitated for a minute then said, "I did."

"You?" Danny asked in disbelief.

"What don't you think that I am capable of taking care of another human being. I had to do it all the time when I was on missions Danny." Steve explained.

"Yeah, but you weren't hurt too then." Danny said slowly.

"Sometimes I was." Steve said quietly, but matter of factly. "You were sick. You needed help. I may not have been the best nurse, but you survived. Your brains didn't even get fried from your fever although you had me a little worried for a while" Steve continued.

"Yeah, but what about you? That couldn't have been good for you? I remember you being in a good amount of pain." Danny asked guiltily.

"Danny, I'm fine. I kept up with my pills. I actually feel better today then I have in a while. I think I was in a little rut with feeling like I couldn't do anything. Now I know I can. I think in some strange way you getting sick actually helped me." Steve said.

"You know that you are a sick individual Steven and that you need therapy, right?" Danny asked with a smile, glad to have the old Steve back.

"Why are you smiling at me like that? It's a little creepy. Especially while we are sharing a bed and you are wearing my clothes." Steve said.

"Just...Thanks man and I'm glad to have you back. You really had us really worried there for a while." Danny said.

"Us?" Steve questioned.

"Yeah, you know, Chin, Kono, me and ... Cat." he said.

"You called Cat?" he asked not sure whether he was more surprised or embarrassed.

"I know you said her number was for emergencies, but it was Steve. If you could only have seen yourself. It was scary." Danny started. "She explained to me, without betraying any national security confidences, some of what you had dealt with in combat and that she had seen you like this before when you had been hurt. She told me you needed a mission or something to make yourself useful. I wanted to come up with a plan, but then I got sick. Little did I know that my being sick was exactly what you needed. I guess I was your mission." Danny said.

"I should get a medal for bravery after what you put me through. You are a bad patient. You wouldn't settle down for anyone but me so I had to keep staying with you to get you to sleep. Do you have any idea how pitiful you are when you are sick? There was no way I could just leave you like that."

"Well thanks brother. I haven't been that sick in a long time. It means a lot that you had my back even when I was like that." Danny said.

"No problem. You would have done it for me." Steve said.

"Huh!" Danny said.

"What?" Steve wanted to know.

"I guess you are human after all. You really had me fooled." Danny said with a smile.

"Ha Ha Danno. You better watch out. I know things about you that you would rather I didn't know. Did I tell you that you talk in your sleep too?" Steve teased.

"I do not." Danny yelled, but he wasn't really sure if he did. Lord only knew what he could have said if that was true.

"Alright. Whatever you say. Don't you think it's about time we get up before this starts to get any more awkward than it already is?" Steve asked.

Steve edged toward the end of the bed and limped around to Danny. Danny stood up, but was still a little dizzy. They were certainly a pair. Steve grabbed a change of clothes as Kono walked in. She had heard their bickering, but didn't want to interrupt. She waited until it sounded like they needed help then she decided to come in.

"Alright. Where is it that you two think that you are going?" she asked in a motherly tone.

"We're going downstairs." they answered in unison.

"Oh no you aren't. We made a deal. No going downstairs alone until Chin and I say it's OK and I do NOT say that it is OK." She said with her best stern voice.

"Well he needs a shower then." Steve said and pointed to Danny.

"Yeah look who's talking. I wouldn't exactly say you were smelling like a bouquet of flowers either." Danny countered.

"That's only because your stink rubbed off on me. I think I'm going to have to burn my sheets too." Steve joked.

"Kono, I wouldn't mind a shower actually. Would you mind?" he asked politely.

"Not at all Danny. You head in there and I will get you some clean clothes and stuff. Do you think that you can manage?" she asked.

"My head's a little dizzy still, but I think I'll be OK." he said.

"Let me get you in there safe then I'll go. You can sit on the edge until I get back." She said.

She helped Danny and he took his shower. Steve stripped the bed and put all the sheets in a pile. He did his best to make the bed one handed. It was far from perfect, but it was done and the room was in some semblance of order when Danny got back out. Steve was sitting in the chair by his bed with his eyes closed and his ankle on the bed.

Danny knew that he was starting to be in pain. He went to the nightstand on the other side of the bed where Steve's pill bottle was. He didn't know that Kono had been in during the night to give him some meds. He grabbed the pill bottle and the 1/2 empty bottle of water and brought them to Steve. He sat on the bed opposite him. He gently put his hand on Steve's leg. Steve's eyes immediately popped open. Danny held the pills and the water up to Steve.

Steve knew he was caught. He took the pills and the water and laid his head back again. Kono helped Danny downstairs to the kitchen while Steve relaxed.

"You OK for your shower now boss?" Kono asked as she returned to his room.

"Yeah I guess. It's just a little sore." he said pointing at his ankle.

"Alright, well let's get your shower done and then get you downstairs where you can relax a little." she said. "It's Danny's turn to help you today, lord knows you paid your dues yesterday...and last night." Kono said with a sly smile.

When his shower was done she helped him quickly downstairs and to the kitchen for breakfast. She went to shower as she was running really behind and was going to be late for work if she didn't hurry.

"Hey don't you want that wrapped? And where is your brace? Aren't you supposed to be wearing it? he asked pointing to Steve's naked foot.

"It must be in there." he said as he pointed to the other room where Kono had put down some of the things that they would need for later. They had both forgotten to put the brace back on.

"Well were you planning on putting it back on?" he asked.

"Kono's late. It's hard to do with only one hand." he said looking down.

"You big goof. Just wait a second and I'll be right back." Danny said as he went to get the wrap and the brace from the bathroom.

He sat back down at the edge of the bed. He pulled Steve's ankle into his lap and carefully wrapped the injured ankle and then put the brace on it.

"Better?" he asked.

"Yeah, thanks." he said.

"So what are we going to do today?" Danny asked.

"We are on lockdown so not too much. Just watch some TV and relax I guess. Neither of us has really gotten to do that in a while. Resting while on pain killers or because of a fever does not qualify as resting." Steve clarified.

"Do you need anything before I go? Call me if you need me." Kono yelled as she breezed by them on her way out the door. She stopped for a minute looked back and said "Phones?" They both obediently reached into their pockets and pulled out their phones to show to her. "Alright, I expect a call if you need anything and if not I expect to talk to you at lunch time. Got it?"

"Yes Mom." They answered in unison with big stupid grins on their faces.

They finished and cleared the table then went back into the other room. Danny had not been wearing his brace. His neck felt OK so far, but it was a little stiff.

"Hey man how about one of those McGarrett neck rubs?" Danny asked.

"Why, is you neck OK? Did you hurt it? Do you need me to call Kono?" Steve asked worried.

"No man, calm down. You have aneurysm face. Relax. It's a little stiff and I want to do my exercises and I thought that you could loosen it up a little for me so that I could do better with the exercises." Danny explained.

"Oh, OK. Sure. You could have said that in the first place." Steve said.

Danny just shot him a look, but moved so that he was at the right angle for Steve to work his magic. Then he worked on his stretches. His neck was really coming along and his knee was feeling better. The day of being off it while he was sick had really made a difference. He knew that Steve must have made sure he had ice on it and kept it elevated. Between that and the shot helping to reduce the swelling, it was almost starting to feel better. Not all the way better, but good enough that he was able to take a few steps here and there without the cane.

Steve's arm was feeling a little better too. He was moving his hand and wrist inside the sling and was able to hold light things without being in agony. He still had a little more time with the splint and the sling, but he was feeling better. His ankle was still giving him grief. The more he stayed off it, the better it felt. Now that Danny wasn't sick, he should be able to really rest it today. The bruises on his back still hurt when touched, and he was almost able to sit on the couch without wincing.

They spent the day relaxing watching a CHiPs marathon and arguing over which one of them would be Ponch. They took turns taking care of each other. Kono called at lunch and they told her that they had it under control. They let whoever was hurting or tired rest while the other did things that needed to be done. Danny was still tired and a little weak from being so sick, but he was on the mend. The guys had picked up a routine and were back to easily reading each other by the end of the day. Looks were exchanged and body language read to determine who was hurting more. It wasn't necessary to verbalize it. By the end of the week they were back into their old rhythm and were really starting to annoy each other. Danny returned to his own apartment, but they checked on each other.

After another week Danny was no longer wearing the neck brace except when he would have a flare. He was only using the cane for long distances, no more in the house or in the office. Steve's arm had come out of the sling and he had started therapy on the elbow. Like everything else Steve did, he was doing wonderful with it and the therapists expected him to make a full recovery in no time. The bruising on his back had faded and only the outlines of where they had been were still visible if you really looked. His ankle was tolerable. He was still walking with the cane for any length and on stairs as well. They had both returned to work for desk duty only. They were getting caught up on lots of back-logged paperwork. There were still times that Danny's neck would ache from the countless hours hunched over the paperwork. Steve would give him massages to help his neck and Danny would reciprocate with Steve's aching ankle.

Finally, they were both released for duty and were back in fighting shape. Canes were gone, sling and braces gone. Chin and Kono were back from their assignments with HPD. When the first case came in, they were both chomping at the bit to go. Steve had answered the phone. It was the governor. The son of one of her old friends was missing. Steve gave them the run down of all the information that the governor had just shared with him. Chin was looking up locations and Kono was trying to track the car with the plates.

Danny and Steve looked at each other and both said "I'll drive" as they both dove for the keys sitting on Steve's desk. Everyone laughed, but Kono grabbed them first as she was closer and said "Actually, I think I'll drive. Danny you're with me and Steve you can go with Chin."

Danny and Steve looked at each other and put on their best pouting faces, but did as they were told. They might have both been in fighting shape, but neither of them really wanted to mess with Kono. Not on their first day back at least. Tomorrow, well that was a different story.

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