The Bet

By

Landon Richardson

Disclaimer

The characters of Steve McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Jenna Kaye, Adam 'Toast' Charles, do not belong to me in any shape or form, I am merely using them for this Danni universe.

The character of Danni McGarrett, although originally based on the idea of male Danny Williams, is probably different enough now to be considered my own creation since she has a different background and has morphed into a different person.

The characters of Oliver McGarrett, Special Agent Jack O'Connor and David Williams do belong to me.

Any other characters who are mentioned who you don't recognise, no doubt belong to me so please do not use them without permission first.

This disclaimer will grow as more characters emerge but I think that's all of them covered for this prologue.

Author Note

Here's another offering to you which has already been completed by me about a year ago and I figured I should put it up because maybe you guys will enjoy it.

This is another version of the SEAL saga which I was working on during this time period. There's three other stories on it, I actually placed a chapter on it on Snippets. Steve and Danni have 6 kids in this saga which may sound a lot but which has been seriously stretched over a time period. They had five girls before finally having Oliver.

I really like this saga so I may continue putting stories from it up. Some are one shots but some, like this one, are too long for a one shot.

It should be up to six chapters long so please enjoy this one.

Overall Summary

When Danni McGarrett makes a bet with Kono Kalakaua that she could go a day without kissing Steve she wasn't quite prepared for what she was getting into or just how tough it was going to be. (McDanni, part of the Danni universe)

Chapter Summary

Danni McGarrett sighed tiredly as she reached the bottom of the forensic report she was reading. She glanced over the typed words, considering it for a moment before she gave a single nod to herself and signed the bottom. A signature which meant that she approved of what the report had said and the conclusion it had reached and that it was now ready for the next stage of the process.

Overall Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni McGarrett (McDanni)

Chin Ho Kelly / Malia Waincroft (Chalia)

Kono Kalakaua / Charlie Fong (KoFo)

Chapter Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)

Other Note

Point one – Please be aware that nearly all the locations I use are either from the internet (Thank you Google) or made up. I claim no knowledge of Hawaii

Point Two – I have no beta so please forgive any mistakes you find.

Chapter One

Danni McGarrett sighed tiredly as she reached the bottom of the forensic report she was reading. She glanced over the typed words, considering it for a moment before she gave a single nod to herself and signed the bottom. A signature which meant that she approved of what the report had said and the conclusion it had reached and that it was now ready for the next stage of the process.

Dropping her pen to the surface of her desk, she reached her arms up high above her head, stretching as she moved her head side to side trying to loosen the muscles up. A groan of relief escaped her when her lower back gave a satisfying crunch. She quickly gathered the papers back together, making sure they were in the correct order before she slipped them back into the file. Danni checked the name on the front for the name of the CSU agent who had submitted it and placed it in the correct out-tray to be returned to them.

Danni's second in Command Ryan Moore would be down at nine to collect the reports she had managed to complete and to leave her with the new reports which had been complied by the staff over the previous week. Never mind that she still had at least twenty five files which still needed checking. Ryan had already warned her in the email he had sent her that morning that the pile he was bringing her was double the amount it normally was for a Monday, which would mean that Danni had a week of desk work ahead of her.

It didn't surprise Danni though it did worry her that the amount of files were increasing. There had been an increase in the level of homicides on the island over the past two weeks. It seemed to have come from nowhere which either meant that they were looking at a gang related revenge spree that was escalating or there was someone on the island now who really didn't like people in general.

Whatever the reason behind the increase it was now critical enough that Danni was flagging it to her husband Steve's attention when he arrived in the office that morning. She had spent some of yesterday when Steve had been out food shopping to create the file for him so he could look though it as Danni spoke and decide whether it was a suitable case for 50 to deal with or whether it should be dealt with by HPD. If he did agree then it would be mean action time. Danni would present the case to the team, give them their files before she grabbed her work case from her office and headed to the most recent crime scene to see what she could find.

She wouldn't be alone though, Steve would make sure of that, either sending one of the others with her or coming with her himself. She hoped that Steve would send one of the other three field agents out with her rather than himself. He would be needed elsewhere, hunting down the suspects and making them talk, something he wouldn't find hanging out with her at a crime scene.

Steve and the others had all stated that Danni being assigned to 50 as their personal forensic officer was the best thing which could have happened to them and perhaps it was in a way. They were more organised, the time it took to process evidence and scenes had decreased dramatically meaning that they were solving the cases at a quicker rate than before and they had all melded well together becoming a strong team or Ohana as the others liked to say but Danni thought the opposite was true. That her being assigned to 50 was the worst thing which could have happened to them.

She was a distraction for Steve. Suddenly his mind wasn't fixed entirely on the case, part of his mind was fixed on her and making sure she was safe, especially if she was out in the field and he wasn't with her. Instead of focusing on himself and keeping himself safe he was more concerned about her safety and it wasn't right.

Danni had briefly considered speaking to the Governor about it and asking to be transferred back to CSU but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Not only would the Governor refuse her request but news of it would get back to Steve and it would hurt him. He would feel that it was something he was doing wrong and she didn't want that. She loved him and she wanted him to be happy, to always see a smile on his face and a bright affectionate look in his eyes when he looked at her. She wouldn't do anything to take that from him, even if it meant staying with 50 than she would do that for him.

She did love working at 50, the work was interesting and always different. She got to go out to crime scenes instead of sending other agents and most importantly she got on with all the other people in the team. She understood what Steve meant when he called them their family. Chin and Jack were like big brothers to her, Jenna was like a big sister, Kono and Toast her like younger siblings to her. She found herself feeling very protective over them all and it was a feeling she liked, a feeling she had only experienced at work when she had been in New Jersey with her old team.

Being so close to the others did tend to land her in trouble occasionally especially when she ended up making stupid bets with Kono, bets which even as she agreed to them, she knew were a seriously bad idea.

Bets like the one they had made on Friday night.

They had been out on a girlie drink, just her, Kono and Jenna to celebrate the end of a stressful week and another completion of a case. Everything had been going fine when Kono had brought the conversation subject away from the case and to romance and the fact that Steve and Danni seemed to be unable to keep their hands off of each other in the office. She had commented, using her cocktail stick to point at Danni, that she had already lost count of the number of times she had walked into the office or the building to spot Steve and Danni making out with each other. It was sickenly sweet and little surprise that Danni had just popped out their sixth child since they probably went at it like rabbits at home if that was how they were at work with people around them.

Danni had been torn between amusement and embarrassment over the comment especially when Jenna had burst out laughing and added her agreement to Kono's statement. She had been about to comment when Kono had spoken, a gleam in her eyes which Danni should have recognised instantly as trouble.

"I bet you an evening meal and dancing that you can't go one work day without kissing the boss. Loser pays for the whole night for the winner."

Danni, tipsy on her third brightly coloured cocktail of the evening, had instantly risen to the challenge that Kono had present her with and agreed to the terms of the bet.

It was probably why she found herself in the office, early on a Monday morning with the potential of a ten hour day ahead of her, a ten hour day where she would be in close proximity to her husband but not be able to reach out and kiss him. As if that wasn't hard enough to deal with there was also the other restriction Kono had placed on Danni. That Steve wasn't to know about it. Danni had to act the same way she always did to Steve minus the kisses. So the same lingering touches and looks as before just without the sweetness of the reward. It would be absolute torture and it would be even worse when Steve figured out, minutes after he entered the office, that something wasn't quite right between them. A thought that would send him into a panic.

What the hell had she been thinking when she had agreed to it. She should have just shrugged and admitted that Kono was right and that Danni couldn't go a day without kissing Steve. The younger woman would have laughed at her and then they would have moved on to another topic of conversation but no, she hadn't done that. Instead her professional pride had flared up and that had been that.

Danni had spent the entire weekend using every possible method she knew to try and wear him out, from long heated make out session, to hand jobs, to blow jobs to making love every opportunity she had. Steve must have thought that all his Christmases and Birthdays had come at once, especially considering the night just gone when Danni had dragged him off to bed the minute the children had gone to sleep. They had made love three times during the night. Danni was exhausted, her body still deliciously sore and for once she had been forced to leave her hair down to cover the love bites littered over her neck.

She could only hope that her plan had worked and that Steve would be as exhausted as she was and in no mood for kissing or for sex. It was either that or her plan had backfired and he would be desperate to have her again.

A movement to the side of her caught her attention. She looked towards it, a smile coming to her face when she saw that her three month old son Oliver was stirring in his push chair, a small frown on his face which soothed when his hand tightened on his small Seal toy. She watched him for a further second to make sure that he was back asleep again. He probably would have been more comfortable in the cot which Steve had placed in the small room he had made for Oliver but Danni didn't like leaving him there when Steve's office was empty and someone could access it. Danni was well aware that she got caught up on her work, often missing things happening around her and it was something she couldn't risk when Oliver was with her.

She had left their house earlier than normal that morning, waking up just as Steve left the room to go on his normal five mile run, all she had was a glimpse of his back, giving her a chance to see the scratch marks down the skin from the night before, before he was gone. She had immediately jumped out of the bed, pulling on Steve's favourite dress without thinking and left the room after sorting her hair and makeup out. She quickly brushed her teeth before she went into Oliver's room. She woke him up gently, feeding him and placing him in his day clothes before she made her way quietly down the stairs. Oliver in one arm, high heels in the other.

Normally she and Steve did the morning school run together but she didn't trust herself today, it was better to put some distance between them if she had any hope of winning the bet.

She had been lucky enough that John, Steve's father, had been up, moving around the kitchen as he fixed himself a cup of coffee before he returned to the guest house on their property where he currently lived. Danni had given him a kiss on the cheek and asked him to help Steve get the children ready for school that morning. He had raised an eyebrow at her, silently demanding a reason for the change in routine. A reason she had easily been able to give him. Monday and Fridays were her busiest days and the days she needed to get a head start on. John, being a retired Detective, had understood her need and had waved her off without another word.

Danni had left, taking the silver Camaro and gone to the office sending a quick text to Steve before she had dropped her phone back into her bag.

She had arrived in the office at seven and it was now eight thirty which meant that her time alone would be ended any moment when the others came in. Chin Ho Kelly and Jack O'Connor tended to get in the office first at around eight thirty. They would be followed by Jenna Kaye at around eight forty five and Kono Kalakaua and Adam Charles who was known as Toast would arrive just after nine. Steve would arrive anytime between now and nine depending on how quickly he dropped their children off. It was a routine which had been in place since Danni had started, the only difference was that Danni was here first instead of arriving with Steve as normal.

She already knew that the first thing her husband would do would be to come into her office and demand his normal morning kiss, he was probably annoyed that by the fact that had left without him so his lack of a kiss wouldn't help matters. He would go for Oliver after that, the only one of his children he wouldn't have seen that morning, and gather him into his arms, covering his small face with kisses before he left Danni's office, Oliver still in his arms, to speak to the others.

She needed to somehow to dodge his kiss though she knew that he would instantly notice it.

Danni leaned back in her chair, covering her face with her hands for a moment before she came to her feet and headed over to Oliver's pushchair, unstrapping him from it and gently picking him up. The small boy shifted in her arms for a moment, his eyelids slitting open revealing a sliver of grey before they drifted shut again. He snuggled his face against her neck and swiftly fell back asleep if the cute little snuffling sounds he was making was any indication to go by.

Danni kissed the top of his head, resting her cheek against his soft blond hair for a moment before she twisted on the spot, grabbing her large dark purple mug from her desk and left the room, glancing around the empty office as she headed towards the back of the room where the kitchen was situated.

She seriously need some more coffee before she did anything else.

Author Note

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