A/N: A new McRoll story. It's a sequel to Aloha Nui Loa. It'll pick up the morning after that story. Hope you like it. Enjoy.
I don't own the characters of Hawaii five-0 or the show. I just own Kye and Kailani.
Steve and Catherine just had brought the babies home the next morning. Steve's arm still hurt a bit from the bullet but he was doing fine. Steve carried Kailani in and Catherine followed with Kye. They placed the babies in their playpens. Together they stood and watched over the babies.
"They are so cute," Catherine spoke.
"Yes they are. I still can't believe we have a boy and a girl."
"Me neither. But I'm very happy.
Steve turned her to him. "Me too." He kissed Catherine. "I love you. Thanks for making me a daddy."
"You're welcome. Thanks for making me a mommy."
Catherine was still a bit tired after the delivery so she lay down on the couch.
"Can I get you something?" Steve asked.
"Some cereal please."
Steve went to fix them some breakfast. When he came back in the living room Catherine was asleep on the couch. He put her cereal back in the fridge and sat down on the chair, watching his two babies. They looked so cute. He still couldn't believe he was a father.
A little later Catherine woke up when Kailani started crying. Steve picked her up and tried to calm her down.
"I think she's hungry honey," Catherine told him.
Catherine sat up as Steve had Kailani to her. Catherine lifted her shirt up and exposed her breast. Kailani immediately found her breast and started sucking.
"There's a good girl."
Steve loved this picture. It was so beautiful. While Catherine was feeding Kailani there was a knock on the door. He opened it and found his sister standing there with Joan.
"Uncle Steve," Joan squealed.
Hi Joan," Steve spoke as he tickled her tummy causing Joan to laugh. "Hey Mary," Steve hugged his sister. "It's good to see you again."
"What happened to you?" Mary asked when she saw that his shoulder was in a sling.
"Ah this, it's nothing. Just got shot in the shoulder. I'll be fine."
"Okay good. Now can I see my niece and nephew?"
"Yeah come on in, Cath is just feeding Kailani."
"It's okay, I'm done," Catherine spoke as she put Kailani over her shoulder for burping.
"Aw she looks so cute. Look Joan, that's your cousin Kailani."
"She so small," Joan spoke.
"Yes she is. You were small like that once too."
Kye had decided to cry too. Steve went to pick him up.
"Hey, it's okay little guy. It's just your Aunt Mary coming to visit you."
"Aw Steve, he's so cute. He looks like you."
"Well I guess that's a good thing," Steve joked.
Kye didn't stop crying so Steve handed him to Catherine for feeding.
"Would you like to hold her?" Catherine asked Mary.
"Yeah sure."
Catherine handed Kailani to Mary and took Kye into the kitchen for feeding.
"They are so cute Steve. I still can't believe you have twins."
"I know, me neither. I have no idea how we're gonna handle twins."
"You'll do fine Steve. You're great with Joan. You'll be an awesome dad."
"Thanks, I hope so."
Steve pulled Joan onto his lap and together they watched Kailani lying in Mary's arms.
"Can I hold her mommy?"
"Sure, come sit on my lap, we'll hold her together."
Steve put Joan on Mary's lap and together they held Kailani. Steve pulled out his camera and took a picture.
"That's really a nice picture," Catherine told him as she stood behind him with Kye in her arms.
"Yes it is. Hey little guy, did you eat enough?"
"Yes he did. He ate very well."
"That's good."
"Joan, can you get the present out of the bag please and hand it to Uncle Steve and Aunt Cath," Mary asked.
Joan took the two presents out of the bag and handed one to Steve and the other to Catherine. Catherine had put Kye down in his playpen. Steve opened his present first. It was a cute pajama in green navy print. Catherine opened hers. It was the same pajama but then in blue navy print, just like their uniforms from the Navy.
"Thank you Mary, this is really nice," Steve told her.
"You're welcome."
Mary stayed a little longer before she left. Just as she left the team, Grace, Grover, Kamekona, Flippa, Charlie and Duke arrived.
"Hey guys," Steve greeted them.
"Hey Steve," Danny greeted back. "We just came to visit your two little babies."
"That's fine. Come on in. Hey Gracie."
"Hi Uncle Steve."
Gracie quickly walked in and sat down next to Catherine who was holding Kailani.
"Aw Aunt Cath, she's so cute. She's so small."
"Yes she is. But she'll grow bigger just like you."
"Can I hold her?"
"Of course."
Catherine carefully placed Kailani in Grace's arms.
"They really are cute," Kono told Catherine. "Here we brought you something. It's from all of us."
Kono handed one package to Catherine and the other to Steve. It was a pretty big package. Catherine opened hers first. It was a beautiful play mat for the babies. It had an arc over it, from which toys where dangling.
"Thank you guys, this is really nice. I'm sure the kids will love it."
Steve got the same present. "Thanks guys."
Steve went to get everyone something to drink. When he came back Kono was holding Kye. Steve smiled at the picture. He was happy to share this moment with this team, his ohana.
The others left just before dinner. Neither one of them wanted to cook so they ordered in pizza. By 7pm they were putting the babies to bed. Catherine was feeding Kye while Steve got Kailani changed for bed. It wasn't handy to do with just one hand but he managed. He gave her a soft kiss and put her in her crib. Once Catherine was done feeding Kye she did the same. They turned on their music mobiles. They stood over their cribs and watched as they fall asleep.
"They are really cute," Catherine whispered.
"Yes they are. I'm glad to have them with you."
"Yeah me too. I love you so much."
"I love you too."
They stood there for a minute before going back downstairs. They sat down together on the couch. Catherine sat with her back against Steve's chest as Steve put a movie on. Steve put his hands on Catherine's stomach. It was weird not feeling her pregnant belly anymore with their kids in it. But he was so happy that their kids where finally here. He loved them so much. Halfway through the movie Catherine fell asleep. Steve lay his head or hers and fell asleep too.
About an hour later they both shook up when they heard a loud noise. The babies were crying. Together they quickly walked upstairs.
"What's the matter, sweeties?" Catherine spoke when they walked into the room.
Catherine picked Kailani up and Steve picked Kye up. They tried to calm them down but it wasn't working.
"Are you hungry little girl?" Catherine sat down on the rocking chair and started feeding Kailani. Kailani immediately started sucking. "There's a good girl."
Kye however was still crying.
"I think he's hungry too Cath."
"I'll feed him in a minute, when I'm done with Kailani."
"You know, if you put the milk in a bottle I can feed one of them too when they are crying both."
"Yeah maybe that's a good idea."
Kye was crying at the top of his lungs. Nothing what Steve tried worked.
"It's okay buddy, mommy is almost done. You'll get milk soon. Shhhh, it's okay buddy."
"Can you burp Kailani so I can feed Kye?" Steve took Kailani from Catherine and handed Kye to her. "It's okay little guy, here you go," Catherine spoke as she put Kye on her breast.
Kye immediately stopped crying and drunk eagerly when he found her nipple. Steve burped Kailani and watched as Catherine fed their son. Once the kids had been fed and burped they placed them back into their cribs. They sucked on their pacifiers as they fell asleep.
It was already 10.30pm so Steve and Catherine decided to go to bed. Catherine fell back exhausted in bed.
"You okay honey?" Steve asked.
"Yeah, I'm good. Just tired. It's not gonna be easy raising twins."
"No, I guess not. But together we can manage," Steve told her and gave her a kiss. "And I'm sure our friends would love to babysit them from time to time. We can handle it honey."
Steve lay back and Catherine lay down on his chest. Steve put his good arm around her and they fell asleep. That night they woke up 4 times by a crying baby. Twice Catherine went out and the other two times Steve went out. If the baby was hungry he would go to Catherine. It was a little getting used to for them.
…..
The babies were now 2 weeks old. They were doing very well. Steve's arm had healed completely. He was returning back to work today. He had taken some time off to let his arm heal and to help Catherine with the babies.
"Do you have to go back to work?" Catherine groaned still half asleep.
"Yes I do honey."
"I want you to stay here."
"I know honey, me too. But I've gotta get back." Catherine held on to him as Steve tried to get out. "Honey, can you please let me go?"
"No," Catherine replied as she pulled him closer. "I want you here."
"Believe me honey, I would want to but I've gotta get back. I'll drop by during lunch."
"Promise?"
Steve lifted her chin up and looked into her eyes. "Promise." Steve kissed her before he got out.
Just as he wanted to walk down the stairs he heard crying coming from the babies' room.
"I'll get them," Steve Called. Steve walked towards the babies' room. "Good morning my little sweeties."
Kailani looked up to Steve with her brown eyes, she had the same eyes as Catherine.
"Hey Kailani," Steve spoke as he picked her up and gave her a kiss. He felt that she had a wet diaper. "Let's get you changed shall we."
She didn't just have a wet diaper but a dirty diaper as well.
"Pheewwwww," Steve spoke when he opened the diaper.
He tossed the diaper in the bin and cleaned Kailani up before putting a new diaper on her. He dressed her in a cute pink onesie. Steve picked her up and held her above his head and occasionally brought her down to blow on her tummy. Kailani smiled as he did that.
Catherine was lying in bed and heard Steve playing with the baby. It was so cute. She smiled as she heard that. She got out and walked to the babies' room. She stood in the doorway and watched Steve playing with Kailani. Steve turned around and saw Catherine standing there.
"Hey babe," Steve greeted her as he walked up to her. "Who's that? Is that mommy? Yeah that's mommy. Wanna go to mommy?"
Steve handed Kailani to Catherine.
"Hey little girl, were you playing with daddy huh. Daddy's funny isn't he."
Kye was crying too so Steve went to pick him up. He changed his diaper and got him dressed too. Kye was definitely a daddy's boy. As soon as Steve would step in the room Kye wanted to be held by him even if Catherine was holding him. Kailani was both a mommy's and daddy's girl.
They took the babies downstairs. Steve warmed up one bottle. Steve fed Kye the bottle and Catherine breastfed Kailani. Kye drank from the bottle really well. Kailani preferred Catherine. Kye had just finished his bottle and Steve was burping when there was a knock on the door.
"Come on in, it's open," Steve called.
"Hey guys," Danny greeted them.
"Hey Danny, hey Gracie," Catherine greeted.
"Grace had a day off from school and she wanted to spend it with Aunt Catherine, I hope that's alright."
"Of course, I can use an extra set of hands with the twins."
"They are so cute," Grace spoke as she sat down next to Catherine.
"Do you wanna hold Kye?" Steve asked.
"Yeah, can I?"
"Of course."
Steve handed Kye to Grace.
"I've gotta go honey. I'll try to drop by during lunch and I'll try to be home early but I can't make any promises."
"Just be safe honey."
"I will. I love you," Steve told her as he gave her a kiss.
"I love you too."
Steve gave Kye and Kailani a kiss before he went to work.
"Hey boss, welcome back," Kono greeted him. "How are Catherine and the twins?"
"They are doing very well. The twins are growing very good. They're eating very well and they are not waking up that much during the night, mostly just once, sometimes twice."
"That's good."
"And Catherine is doing great as well. A bit tired sometimes. Me too. It's not that easy raising twins. Most of the time one of them is crying."
"You can handle it, and if you ever want me to babysit just say the word."
"Thanks Kono."
A little later Danny and Chin came in. Steve sat behind his desk to catch up on his paperwork.
"We're just gonna go grab some lunch, you wanna come with us?" Danny asked as he stepped into Steve's office.
"Nah thanks Danny, I'm gonna drop by the house to see how Catherine and the twins are doing."
"That's fine. See you later."
Steve finished his report and headed home.
"Hey honey," Steve called when he walked into the house.
There was no response so he went to find Catherine. He found her outside. He stood in the doorway and watched Catherine lying with their kids in the hammock. Grace was coloring at the table.
"Hey Gracie," Steve greeted her.
"Hey Uncle Steve."
Steve looked Catherine's way. He smiled as he looked at them. Catherine looked his way and smiled at him.
"Hey Steve," Catherine greeted him as he walked over to them.
"Hey honey," Steve whispered since the babies were sleeping. Steve gave Catherine a kiss. "Hey my little babies." Steve gave both of his kids a kiss. "How are you?"
"I'm good. The kids have been pretty quiet this morning. I've just gotten them to fall asleep."
"That's good. It's just so cute seeing you three lay here."
"How's work?"
"Pretty calm today, got a lot of paperwork to catch up on."
Steve's cell phone rang causing the twins to wake up. Steve walked away and picked up the phone.
"McGarrett," Steve answered.
"Hey Steve, we've caught a case," Danny spoke.
"I'm on my way." Steve walked back to Catherine who was calming down two babies. Steve took Kye from her. "It's okay buddy, daddy didn't mean to wake you up." After a while Kye calmed down. "I'm sorry honey but I've got to get back to the office. We have a case."
"That's alright. Just be careful."
"I will baby."
He gave Catherine a kiss and handed Kye back to her. Both babies had calmed down again.
…..
Steve pulled up to the crime scene a few minutes later than the others.
"What have we got Duke?" Steve asked.
"Runners found the body about 30 minutes ago," Duke informed them as they walked to the body.
"Hey Max, find anything yet?"
"Other than that the victim is female in her mid-20's not much. There's no ID on the body. Cause of death seems to be the gunshot wound to the head. But I'll know more once I've examined her."
"Please call us when you do."
"Will do gentlemen."
"Hey Steve, over here," Chin called.
Danny and Steve walked over to Chin. "What have you got Chin?" Steve asked.
"Drag marks. Looks like the body was dragged here."
"Kono, Chin, follow that trail and see where it leads."
Steve and Danny went to talk to the runners while Chin and Kono followed the trail. A little later Chin called.
"I think you're gonna wanna see this Steve," Chin spoke.
Steve and Danny followed the trail till they reached Kono and Chin. "What's up Chin?"
Steve and Danny stood still as they took in the site. It was like a butcher shop somewhere in the middle of the woods, covered by some leaves and branches.
"Guess this was the place she was killed," Danny spoke.
"But he has all these torture tools here, why don't use them and just shoot her," Steve stated.
"Maybe she ran away and he shot her when she ran away and then dragged the body away from here."
Steve looked around.
"What are you looking for?" Danny asked.
"A place to hide out."
"You think the killer is hiding out here?"
"Not necessarily, more for us."
"You wanna hide out here in the woods?"
"It's a forest Danny."
"Excuse me nature boy. So you wanna hide out here in the forest? Why?"
"Wait him out. He'll probably show up again. He didn't get to complete his last victim."
Steve's phone rang. It was Max.
"Hey Max, you got something for us?"
"Yes I found something I need to show you."
"Alright, we're on our way." Steve hung up. "Kono, Danny, see what Max has. Chin and I will stay here to wait for the killer."
Danny and Kono left and Steve found a hideout spot for him and Chin. They lay low, waiting for someone to arrive.
After about an hour they heard footsteps in the distance. They saw a man approaching the place. Steve and Chin snuck up from behind.
"Five-0, turn around, slowly," Steve spoke as they raised their weapons.
The man turned around, visibly shocked.
"What's going on?"
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm a biologist. I use this place to collect and examine everything I find."
"Do you have a license or ID?"
"Yes of course." The man pulled out his ID. He seemed to check out.
"What's with all the knives?" Chin asked.
"I use them to cut open some of the flora, bugs or anything I find. What's this all about?"
"A woman was found dead a little while further. We traced drag marks back to this place."
"Dead? As in murdered?"
"Yes. Do you know something about that?" Steve spoke.
"Me, no. I've never seen anyone in this part of the forest."
"Have you been here the entire time?"
"No, I got here around 8am. I walked in that direction to go search for stuff. I just got back. I always come in that way and there was no body when I walked past it."
"If you see anything on your search please give us a call." Steve handed him his card.
"Will do, hope you find whoever did this."
Steve and Chin walked up. The man shot them a dirty look. They were onto him. He needed to think of something fast.
He pulled out his laptop and searched for the man whose name was on the card, Steve McGarrett.
….
By the time they were heading home they hadn't found anything solid on the case. They hoped they would have better luck tomorrow.
Steve pulled up to his house and saw that the front door was open. He grabbed his gun and moved in.
"Catherine," Steve yelled but there was no answer. "Catherine," Steve yelled as he searched through the house.
Catherine was nowhere to be found but he did find two crying babies in the cribs and Grace hiding under their beds.