Undercover What?! Chapter 5
Warning: OOCness and maybe spoilers
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Danny sighed in exhaustion as he pulled up into the drive way and turned the car off. Turing to look at his daughter a soft smile appeared on his face as he reached over and nudged her a bit. "Hey monkey, time to get up. We're home, let's go in and see if Uncle Steve is up. Come on Grace."
Grace grumbled a bit as she moved around in her seat but remained asleep and unresponsive. Shaking his head, Danny got out of the car and took Grace's bags to the front porch of the house. Doubling back he shut the driver door and went to the other side to slide Grace out of front seat. Shutting the car door with his hip he rearranged Grace into a more comfortable position to carry and made his way to the front door.
Sliding his key into the lock on the door, he made quick work of getting Grace into the house and to her new bedroom. Flipping on the light in the room he had asked Steve to prepare, he sat Grace gently down on the bed, sliding her shoes and socks off. Pulling down the blanket he shifted her around until she looked comfortable and left the room.
Grabbing his daughter's bags from the porch, he set them just inside the door of her room and walked over to the bed. Leaning down he pushed back the stray hairs covering her face and pressed a kiss lightly to her forehead. Smiling as he stood up he left the room, clicking the light off as he left.
Making his way back to the front room, he walks up to the back of the couch and prods his partner. "Steve. Hey, wake up. Steve!"
"What? I'm up! I'm up!" Steve mumbles as he waves his hand in a general direction.
"Steve, come on you need to get up. Did you get in contact with Kono or Chin?" Danny asks as he prods his partner once more before moving to sit on the coffee table in front of the couch.
"Ugh no I fell asleep not soon after you left. It's probably too late to call now." Steve said as he stretched while moving to sit up.
"You would be quite right about that seeing as it's now one thirty in the morning." Danny replied. "I'll send Kono and Chin a text and let them know we'll call them tomorrow morning. I'm going to head to bed, night." With that Danny stood up from his spot on the table, and made his way to his bedroom, ready to sleep. Opening up a text message, he took his time typing his questions to Kono and Chin before pressing the send button and sliding it onto the nightstand beside his bed.
Sliding under the covers, Danny could only hope Steve's shenanigans would stay on a moderate level and that his daughter wouldn't be involved in any of them. As he closed his eyes, he knew it wouldn't happen.
Grace was a smart girl; she knew she was in the house Danno had said they'd be sharing with Steve. Climbing out of her bed she rushed through her morning routine and hurried out to the hallway and made her way toward what she hoped was the living room. Grinning in triumph when she found it, she ran around the couch and plopped down.
However instead of feeling the soft material of the couch cushion, she encountered a squishy but firm object. Looking down, she shrieked when she realized it was Steve she was sitting on. Hopping off really quick, she began apologizing as fast as the words would come out, "I am so sorry Uncle Steve! I didn't know you would be here on the couch! Sorry! Are you OK? Do you need me to go get Danno to check you over?"
Groaning slightly at the dull ache in his stomach, Steve rolled off of the couch and looked up at Grace. "I'm fine, just wasn't expecting a monkey to sit on me. No need to get Danno, why don't we make some breakfast first though? Pancakes sound good?"
Nodding her head in excitement she bounced into the kitchen and smiled in joy. "Pancakes sound perfect Uncle Steve!"
Standing from his position on the floor, Steve followed the little girl into the kitchen and began pulling out the easy mix for pancakes along with a large mixing bowl. "Uncle Steve, when should we get Danno up? Usually he's up by the time I get up!"
"I couldn't tell you, Danny must be pretty exhausted to still be asleep. I knew he was super excited to see you! Are you ready for a fun filled next two weeks?"
"Yup," Grace said as she pulled a chair to the counter, "so what can I help with?"
"Why don't you measure out two cups of water and pour it into this large mixing bowl here, can I trust you with that?"
"You sure can!"
While Grace got to work on the water, Steve quickly poured the pancake mix into the large bowl and retrieved a mixing spoon. Handing Grace the large spoon, Steve pulled out the griddle and grabbed a spatula. Checking on Graces batter, he deemed it perfect before letting her pour it onto the hot griddle.
"Be careful, we don't want you to get burned. Also make sure to keep them in far enough apart so that they don't stick to one another."
Nodding her head, Grace stuck her tongue out and carefully poured more batter onto the hot surface. When she was done, she sat the bowl down on the counter before hopping off her chair. "Uncle Steve, should I go wake Danno now?"
Glancing at the clock, Steve deemed it a fine time to wake the other man up and nodded to her, "Yup go get him up, tell him we're cookin' breakfast."
Grinning she rushed out of the kitchen and back to the hallway where she had come from. She eliminated the first doors, one on the left and one on the right, because the right room was her bedroom, and the door on the left led to the bathroom. Bouncing her way to the next two doors, she knocked on both, even though she knew one would be completely empty since Steve was in the kitchen. The door on the right resulted in no noise, so she opened it and peered inside only to find it empty of her father. Grinning she turned to the other door and knocked, but did not wait for a reply as she opened the door and ran to the bed, ready to pounce.
Rocking on the balls of her feet, she assessed the figure on the bed before leaping straight on the man. "Daddy! You need to get up now! Uncle Steve and I are cooking pancakes for breakfast! You need to hurry and come eat them before they go cold! Come on Danno!"
The mass underneath her groaned and shifted before moving her body over. "Grace, what have I told you about jumping on your poor Danno?"
"That you get enough rough treatment from Uncle Steve and that all you want from me is hugs, kisses, and some more hugs! But Danno, it's eight o'clock in the morning, it's time to get up! Up up up! Come on, let's go! By the way daddy, you're hairs all funky! You look like a penguin!"
Grinning, Danno rolled out of bed and picked his daughter up and threw her over his shoulder. "But this penguin is a strong penguin and will gobble you all up! A nom nom nom nom!"
Tickling the child, he sat her gently back on the bed and reached for his toiletries bag. Pulling out his brush he comb his wild hair into a semi decent pullback. "How's this Grace? I don't look like too much of a penguin now do I?"
"Silly Danno, of course you do! But you're my penguin-Danno!"
Shaking his head in amusement, he grabbed Grace off the bed and made his way to the kitchen where Steve was just finishing up the pancakes. "Smells good in here, Steve. Didn't know you were a pancake kind of guy."
"There's a lot you don't know about me Danno," Steve replied with his self-satisfied smirk.
Shaking his head in exasperation, Danny moved and grabbed the plates along with some forks and set them on the table. Placing a plate in each designated spot, he prepared Grace's plate quickly and watched her dig in before Steve sat down. Glancing at his partner he watched the other man sit down before starting himself.
"So what do you think we should do today Gracie?" Danny asked as he took a bite of his pancakes.
"I think all of us should go swimming today!" Grace said as she gave her father the puppy dog eyes.
Trying to resist Danny caved in seconds and agreed to the idea. "Where do you want to go? The beach or the pool?"
Looking at both her father and Steve, Grace shouted, "The beach!"
Resigning himself to the disaster he knew it would lead to, Danny agreed and finished up his pancakes. "Well monkey finish your breakfast, which I have to say was simply delicious, you and Uncle Steve should be master chefs! Then I want you to go and get your bathing suit on. Also don't forget to grab anything you want to take to the beach with you. And while you do that Danno will make sure to grab the sunscreen and get ready."
Nodding her head Grace ate the rest of her pancakes before pushing away from the table and making her way to her room.
Shaking his head in amusement, Danny helped Steve with cleaning up and asked him, "You are ok with going to the beach, right? Cause if not that's fine Grace and I will understand."
"Danny we're supposed to appear as a couple, plus I don't have anything else better to do."
Smirking at his partner, Danny was relieved and a bit anxious as he had forgotten that the two of them were on mission. Nodding to the other man, Danny put the last of the dirty dishes in the dish washer and made his way back to his room. Slipping on his board shorts and grabbing a white t-shirt along with his flip flops and phone Danny made his way over to the hall closet, where he proceeded to grab the largest sunscreen bottle he could see and some beach towels. Heading towards the living room, Danny noticed he had 2 miss texts from Chin and Kono. Pausing to set his things down he dialed Chin's number and waited for the other man to pick up.
After a minute of nothing but the phone ringing, Chin answered with a sleepy "hello."
"Hey Chin, morning. Is this a bad time? Cause I can call back later if you need me to." Danny said as he leaned into the cushion of the couch.
Hearing a mumbling and groaning sound, Chin responded, "Naw brah, it's cool. Anyway let me three-way Kono and we'll give you the low down on what we found."
It was only moments later when the cousins clicked onto the line. "So what did you guys find?"
"Well we found a couple of Kimo's friends were associating themselves in the wrong parts of town. Plus they seemed to be hanging around with the wrong crowd. Though I guess that's not really a shocker," Kono replied.
"We weren't able to catch them doing anything illegal and they pretty much kept to the crowd talking and horsing around with the group. We'll keep an eye on them and let you know if they do anything else. So how's the house brah?"
"It's nice and relaxing. I had to pick up Grace from Rachel's last night because of some trip Step-Stan had to go on for business, but she likes the place from what I can tell. We're heading to the beach today, so if you both want to come join us, you're more than welcome too."
"That sounds like fun Danny, I'll be there," Kono said accepting the offer.
"I'll meet you there later, tell Steve to bring some gear to spear fish, maybe we'll get lucky and have a little get together tonight at the beach." Chin suggested.
"Sounds like a good plan. I'll let him know, thanks guys. See ya later." Danny said as he ended the phone call.
"Hey Steve," Danny called out, "Chin says to bring your spear fishing gear, he suggested we have a little get together at the beach tonight."
Coming down the hallway, Steve plopped his stuff onto the couch before replying, "Sounds good, it's all in my truck from last time we went, we'll just take my truck, is that fine with you?"
Nodding his head, Danny went and made sure that Grace was doing ok. Knocking on the little girls door, he called out, "Monkey, are you alright in there? You got everything under control under there?"
"Yes Danno! I'm almost done, just packing everything into my bag!"
"Alright, meet us in the living room when you're done!"
"Kay!"
It was only ten minutes before Danny was moving his daughter and their things out to Steve's truck and packing it up. "We have everything right?"
"Yes Danno, we have everything!" Grace replied as she got into the backseat.
"Alright Monkey, Steve are you ready?" Danny asked as he made his way to get into the passenger seat.
"Yes, Danny I'll be there in five seconds. Just hold your horses," Steve replied as he shut and locked the front door. Throwing his things into the bed of his truck he hopped into the driver's seat and started the truck right up. "Aright then, let's get going. Don't want to keep Chin and Kono waiting, do we Grace?"
"Nope! Off we go!" Grace cheered as the truck pulled out of the driveway.
Turning to Steve, Danny gave him a small grin before looking back out his window, checking out the neighbor's house. Nothing looked out of the ordinary in the neighborhood, so he closed his eyes and waited for Steve or his daughter's announcement of them arriving at the beach.
A/N: Ok so ending is weak, I know it. Criticism welcome! This is just a filler chapter while I work out the plot a bit more and see where I want this to go. Also sorry for the long wait!