Hawaii Five-0 Fic Ideas
H/C:
Pre-series hurt!Steve h/c
See my post sick!Steve fic ideas
Steve is stressed and/or sore; Kono gives him a massage (can be SFW or NSFW). See my post about McKono Fics
Post pilot – Kono goes to Steve's house to check on him.
Post 2x22 – Kono ends things with Adam after he almost killed Steve. See massage idea above.
Post 3x07 – h/c for Steve. Can be McKono, McRollins, or Gen.
Maybe Doris and/or Mary notices the roadrash on Steve's back.
Maybe Max comes over for some reason.
Or maybe Chin came over to thank Steve for what he did for Kono and Steve has his shirt off (bc when does he wear a shirt).
Maybe it's an AU and Malia is still alive and when Chin notices the wounds he calls Malia.
Maybe Kono comes over to thank Steve and to check on him. (Chin made her see paramedics.)
Maybe Catherine is over, and she takes Steve's shirt off and notices the injury.
4x08 – hurt/comfort; what if it wasn't just a graze?
Post season 7 finale – Steve has one of his spells during a meeting with the governor.
Alicia finds out about Steve's radiation poisoning.
Based on 8x24 – John is worried when he finds out Steve was hurt. He's also grateful to Joe for saving his son and making sure he got out of there...alive.
Pre-series: how Steve gets the purple heart or his gold star. There's a flashback in 8x24 of Steve getting injured in the field. He would have received an award for that. They didn't specify which one, though.
Steve gets sunburned really bad on his back. (McRollins or McKono) (ik this is a cliché; sorry, not sorry)
Maybe Steve was on his morning run and overheard an old lady in his neighborhood on the phone with a landscaping company to hire someone to mow her lawn. Steve doesn't want her to have to pay a bunch of money just for someone to cut her grass, so he offers to do it for free. She gratefully accepts. It's very hot out – like over 100°F. (Another cliché, ik)
Maybe later that night, right when Steve is about to go to bed (on his stomach), or in the middle of the night, he gets a case.
Emotional H/C:
Danny goes too far in his ranting or his insults; Kono tells him off and defends Steve and comforts Steve.
Steve has abandonment issues.
Post pilot – Kono goes to Steve's house to check on him.
Post 2x09 – Steve tells Joe what happened with Nick Taylor. Joe tells him it wasn't his fault.
3x08 – Steve is upset that his team didn't trust him
Post 5x18 – Steve feels guilty that he wasn't the one to get Chin out and that he had to choose between Chin and Danny. Steve goes to apologize to Chin. Chin assures him there's no hard feelings and that he understands why he had to get Danny first (Danny was an American cop in a Colombian prison, while Chin was in America).
Post 6x19 – Steve tells Lou about his mom faking her death and his dad sending him and Mary away.
7x16 – Insecure!Steve based on the scene where Steve mentions his crow's feet
Veteran's Day or Memorial Day
Maybe Grace or one of Grace's teachers or her principal asks Steve or asks Grace or Danny to ask Steve to give a speech for Veteran's Day. Or Memorial Day.
Maybe Steve went to his Dad's grave and/or the Pearl Harbor Memorial and/or had to attend a ceremony. Without realizing what day it is and/or where Steve was, Danny starts ranting and teasing about Steve being late to work or for the speech/presentation at Grace's/Charlie's school.
Maybe at Grace's school students had to write letters to veterans; Grace writes hers to Uncle Steve.
Anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor
Maybe Danny makes some comment without thinking and doesn't realize what day it is, and Steve gets pissed. Chin scolds Danny and tells him what day it is. Danny wants to go find Steve and apologize, but Chin tells him to let Steve cool off. Going after him now will only result in Steve retreating further behind his walls. Instead, Chin offers to go check on him later.
Chin and Steve talk about how Steve isn't sleeping.
Steve has self-worth issues.
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Discontinued Fandoms Masterlist
This is a compilation of all the works we’ve posted for fandoms we no longer write for. The writing itself will always be kept here for you to enjoy!
Check our main masterlist here!
American Horror Story
Imagines:
Cordelia Foxx | Imagine becoming the new Supreme
Big Bang Theory
One Shots:
Sheldon Cooper | Prove the Theory
Headcanons:
Sheldon and Leonard | Sheldon’s little sister sharing the apartment
Black Sails
Imagines:
Charles Vane | Imagine Charles Vane promising you a future by his side
The Breakfast Club
Imagines:
John Bender | Imagine Bender helping you find the library for detention
DC Universe
One Shot:
Hal Jordan | Get Your Own Jello
Deadpool
Preferences:
How they cuddle | Part 2
Divergent
Imagines:
Will | Imagine Will teaching you martial arts
Doctor Who
Imagines:
10th Doctor | Imagine being with the 10th Doctor in Paris
12th Doctor | Imagine being in a band with the 12th Doctor
Downton Abbey
One Shots:
Thomas Barrow | Such A Charmer
The Flash
Headcanons:
Barry Allen | Dating Barry would include
Friends
Imagines:
Joey Tribbiani | Imagine having a crush on Joey
Headcanons:
All | Having a night out with the group would include
Glee
Imagines:
Noah ‘Puck’ Puckerman | Imagine Puck getting jealous over you
Grey’s Anatomy
One Shots:
George O’ Malley | 007
Owen Hunt | Major
Owen Hunt | My Choice
Hairspray
Imagines:
Corny Collins | Imagine Corny telling you “Hey baby, looks like you could use a stiff one.”
Hawaii 5-0
One Shots:
Chin Ho Kelly | Mistakes
Danno Williams | Save Me
Hemlock Grove
Imagines:
Roman Godfrey | Imagine Roman missing your hints that he’s an upir
KINGSMAN MASTERLIST
LOST
Imagines:
James ‘Sawyer’ Ford | Imagine Sawyer not wanting to give your bag back
James ‘Sawyer’ Ford | Imagine Sawyer not realising he’s stolen your medication
James ‘Sawyer’ Ford | Imagine having your first time with Sawyer
James ‘Sawyer’ Ford | Imagine Sawyer noticing that Jack is your ex
Kate Austen | Imagine Kate comforting you when you lose a precious necklace
Sayid Jarrah | Imagine falling asleep on Sayid
Sayid Jarrah | Imagine being selectively mute and only speaking to Sayid
Sayid Jarrah | Imagine Sayid saving you
Sayid Jarrah | Imagine Sayid scaring you when he turns ‘bad’
Sayid Jarrah | Imagine finding a pool with Sayid
Sayid Jarrah | Imagine finding out Sayid is touch-starved
Shannon Rutherford | Imagine lending Shannon your inhaler
One Shots:
James ‘Sawyer’ Ford | Sandbox | Part 2
Preferences:
First Kiss
Night At The Museum
Imagines:
Kahmunrah | Imagine Kahmunrah falling in love with you
The Maze Runner
Imagines:
Gally | Imagine Gally falling in love with you
Gally | Imagine trying to come up with a plan to be with Gally
NCIS
Imagines:
Leroy Jethro Gibbs | Imagine Gibbs reluctantly cuddling with you
One Shots:
Leroy Jethro Gibbs | His Closest Friend
Park And Rec
Imagines:
Ben Wyatt | Imagine comforting Ben after the Ice Town incident
One Shots:
Andy Dwyer | “Holy shit, you know Santa!”
Ben Wyatt | Happy Secrets
Peaky Blinders
One Shots:
Tommy Shelby | Eavesdrop
Preacher
Imagines:
Cassidy | Imagine being in a relationship with Cassidy
Cassidy | Imagine getting up to mischief with Cassidy
Pushing Daisies
Imagines:
Emerson Cod | Imagine Emerson knitting you a sweater for Christmas
Emerson Cod | Imagine being Emerson’s assistant
Ned the Piemaker | Imagine Ned falling in love with you when you become a regular
Ned the Piemaker | “You’re covered in flour.”
Ned the Piemaker | Imagine Ned baking you a pie
Reign
One Shots:
Sebastian ‘Bash’ de Poitiers | Real France | Part 2
Riverdale
Imagines:
Archie Andrews | Imagine everyone noticing you and Archie like each other
Archie Andrews | Imagine being a Serpent that Archie falls for
Jughead Jones | Imagine editing Jughead’s manuscript
Jughead Jones | Imagine becoming Jughead’s friend
Reggie Mantle | Imagine Reggie liking you
Sweet Pea | “Open your present!”
Veronica Lodge | I dressed down in this catwoman outfit for you and my party boob keeps escaping
One Shots:
Archie Andrews | Worry
Jughead Jones | Misery Loves Company
Sweet Pea | Blood, Tears, and... Corn?
Shadowhunters
Imagines:
Jace Wayland | Imagine Clary trying to go for Jace when he’s already dating you
Teen Wolf
Imagines:
Lydia Martin | Imagine Lydia helping you figure out which supernatural creature you are
Stiles Stilinski | Imagine helping Stiles through his night terrors
Stiles Stilinski | Imagine being Scott’s little sister and having a crush on Stiles | Part 2
Stiles Stilinski | Imagine Stiles reacting to you getting terrible anonymous messages
Stiles Stilinski | “Fine, you can put the topper on the tree.”
Stiles Stilinski | “My gingerbread house is prettier than yours.”
One Shots:
Brett Talbot | His Angel
Stiles Stilinski | Unsteady
Stiles Stilinski | Not Anymore
Stiles Stilinski | Jealousy
Theo Raeken | In the Neighbourhood (kinda NSFW)
Headcanons:
Stiles Stilinski | Dating Stiles would include
Stiles Stilinski | How Stiles reacts to you breaking up with him
Stiles Stilinski | Taking Stiles to meet your parents would include
Theo Raeken | Dating Theo would include
X-MEN
Imagines:
Erik ‘Magneto’ Lehnsherr | Imagine Erik trying to help with dinner by using his powers
Erik ‘Magneto’ Lehnsherr | “You’ve never had a New Year’s kiss?”
Charles ‘Professor X’ Xavier | “Why does the house smell like a cinnamon roll threw up?”
Charles and Erik | Imagine being recruited into the X-Men by Charles and Erik
Wolverine / Logan | Imagine stealing Logan’s motorbike to get his attention after having a crush on him for so long
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Remember how tiny those tents were? Dude, how could I forget?
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Title: Cupid painted blind
Author: renecdote
Artist: angels-c
Relationship(s): Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams
Rating: PG
Genres: Romance, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: N/A
Spoilers: Season 5 up to 5x17
Summary:
Chin Ho Kelly, brilliant detective that he was, was the one to figure out that Steve was the common denominator, but it was Kono who first suggested magic.
“I have a friend whose cousin tried a marriage spell once,” she said. “It was just supposed to make a girl fall in love with her, but she messed it up, ended up linking their hearts together. It looked a little bit like this.”
“A spell,” Danny repeated incredulously. “Like an actual magical spell?”
Steve and Danny get magically bound together. The resulting we-have-to-live-together-so-we-don’t-die leads some unexpected places.
Wordcount: 18.5k
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via AO3 works tagged 'Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams'
by C M Ramsey (NeoCortex)
It's been two years and Danny had only one way to get a hold of him.
Now that's gone and they need to tell him.
Why was she here?
What was she doing?
Why wasn't she with him?
Where was he?
All answers may come at a cost.
Words: 1434, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett, Junior Reigns, Tani Rey, Lou Grover, Grace Williams, Charles "Charlie" Williams Edwards, Nahele Huikala, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Adam Noshimuri, Lincoln Cole (Hawaii Five-0 2010), Quinn Liu, Jerry Ortega, Eric "E-Train" Russo, Kamekona Tupuola, Catherine Rollins
Relationships: Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams, Junior Reigns/Tani Rey
Additional Tags: Chin and Kono will be coming back for this., Mentions of various other characters - Freeform, Mentions of Catherine - Freeform, Her being in this is VERY short, Blink and you'll almost miss it., sort of.
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Nothing like Terrorism to bring a guy home
by C M Ramsey (NeoCortex)
It's been two years and Danny had only one way to get a hold of him.
Now that's gone and they need to tell him.
Why was she here?
What was she doing?
Why wasn't she with him?
Where was he?
All answers may come at a cost.
Words: 1434, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett, Junior Reigns, Tani Rey, Lou Grover, Grace Williams, Charles "Charlie" Williams Edwards, Nahele Huikala, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Adam Noshimuri, Lincoln Cole (Hawaii Five-0 2010), Quinn Liu, Jerry Ortega, Eric "E-Train" Russo, Kamekona Tupuola, Catherine Rollins
Relationships: Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams, Junior Reigns/Tani Rey
Additional Tags: Chin and Kono will be coming back for this., Mentions of various other characters - Freeform, Mentions of Catherine - Freeform, Her being in this is VERY short, Blink and you'll almost miss it., sort of.
via AO3 works tagged 'Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams' https://ift.tt/3kGIuA8
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Finally! Congratulations Jerry!!!
From : S07E21 Part2
Part1
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so 7.18 is the episode in which steve and danny transport a bomb through the forest in a truck and bicker the whole way and danny is thinking about retirement and steve essentially keeps going “but how can you make lists about it without me! i thought we were married!” once he finds out the truth after endless nosy pushing, and the whole thing is a gift and easily one of my favorite mcdanno episodes for so many reasons, BUT i think there’s a moment that goes woefully overlooked (at least by me, repeatedly, because i keep forgetting it even happens). it’s fairly near the start of the episode, when steve gets home after arguing with danny non-stop for literally two entire scenes about whether he was allowed to look at the list on danny’s desk or not, and now danny is not with steve anymore but steve is on the phone and then we find out he’s talking tO CHIN about his argument with danny. just, he’s mid-attempt to convince chin that chin should pick his side, while dear chin (bless his heart), seems to be actually responding to steve’s nonsense arguments while also trying to stay neutral. steve is also doing this literally as he walks in the door, which means that he was very possibly dropped off by danny outside (since they were taking the camaro together for their lecture at the police academy just before this) and then he just immediately picked up his phone, dialed (poor, patient) chin ho kelly and with barely a second of preamble went “chin! danny didn’t want me to look at a list and i’m sad now :c” but tried to frame it as “listen, i am totally right and danny is wrong and you should tell him so” and that is just. so stupid. it’s so, so stupid, but also so, so good. i love that so much.
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Sewing Circle Participants
Sewing Circle Participants
Thank you to everyone who participated in sewing the rhinoceros! We could never have finished it without you. You are forever in our hearts.
Deanna Cruise back
Juliana Pennington shoulder
Yue Yang Caigla Zou back
Yuen (Jessica) Chen back
Kelly White shoulder
Athena Johns leg
Antoinette Barton head
Erica Lipshultz rump
Marc Fletcher back left foot
Siobhan Cassidy front right leg
Elisa Li head
Harry Yu head
Beth Thomas snout
Erica Barajas forehead
Vivian Romney shoulder
Zoe Walker head
Amy Khalmann rear flank
Alina Hayes feet
Janice Wood rear flank
Barb Bakun head
Andi Wong rear flank
Sarah Stein back, thigh
Chloe Marrinstein head, foot, outline, da booty
Sadie Marrinstein thigh
Amanda H. Johnson head, foot, outline
Kaila Wood head, foot, outline
Leah Johnson head, foot, outline
Ani Mukerji back leg
Inka Mukerji back leg
Winnie Ding rear flank
Jennifer White back feet
August White back feet
Neve Schmitt head
Michelle Schmitt head
Sigrid foot
Leah Anderson foot
Mary Kenny rump
Isle Oritt rump
Olga back leg
Dustin rhinobum!
Linnea Furlog head
Pam Deluco rear leg, haunch, elbow, letters
Jeff Thomas back
Bryan Barkley rear
Mary Wheeler back top flank
Teri Gardiner tail hair, rump, belly, ridge of back
Robin Hill rump
Darcy Padilla stomach
Emily Clark-Krasner rear
Yuen Chen leg
Jodi Connelly back
Noah Greene belly
Ryan Meyer belly and back
Arielle Rebek belly
Muzi LaRowe eyes
T. Blackmon bottom
Bettina Pauley tail
Allyson Feeney rump
Mark Baugh-Sasaki back foot
Dox Lorax haunch
Kelli Rae rump
Cesar Rubio unknown
Ho Yan Nip unknown
Frank Merritt all over, circles, edges, hindquarters, shoulder, rump, dark purple bottom edge of shoulder armor, behind the ear
Kim Miskowicz rump, right foot, rear/rump
Julia Langer buttocks
Jonathan Coignard buttocks
Suzanne Gore haunch
Kelly Wang from hip to buttock
Steve Rasmussen rear leg
Bob Rocco rump
Odysseus Wolken upper rump
Juliette Langley lower rump
Fehim Haelzic crown/forehead
Leyla Haelzic crown/forehead
Tanja Gels head
Lisa Ekstrom from right leg, forehead
Eva Walker front leg
Sara Wright eye
Karrie Hovey shoulder
M. Dym a wrinkle on the head
Amy M. Ho front foot, forehead
Dave Lyons just below eye
Mel Day forehead
Heather Peters ear
Helen Hiebert butt
Alyssa Casey neck, horn
Vanessa Gingold rump
Mary V. Marsh front right toe, ear
Antonio Guerra letra C
Jenny Phillips hands
Ingrid Rojas Contreras hoof
Maia Wachtel lines on the back
Roli Douglas the top line
Noga Wizansky rump
Suzanne Forester border line
Cindy Steiler face
Alexa Boromo behind
Amber Hoy back
Melody Dalton back
Cheyenne Dalton rear feet
Elizabeth Boyne ear
Teddy Midler front foot
Drew Cameron face
Cathy DeForest front left hoof
Leah Korican face
Mayumi Hamanaka r - text
Dana Zed shoulder
Erin Sheanin knee
Alisha Funkhouser front foot
Debbie Walker unknown
Nancy Marriner tail
Summer Om face
Eraden Wordal Chesh face
Isle Oritt knee
Mary Grace Tate toe
Sophia Auen face
April Marriner tail
Charlotte Semmes snout
Andre Chevonier foot
Jane Cassidy foot
Kellen Rhoda foot
Meiasha Gray border
Samantha Bankston back foot
Winship Varnes hindquarters
Miranda McFarland belly
Susan Paigen nose
Kevin Holmes ear
Jackie Wallowheng plants
Beta Heist Morello edge
Elaine Todd nose and edge near nose
Lori Chambers back foot
Mickie McCormic foot scales
Jeremy Logan ear hair
Brook Craddock mythical horn!
Morning Hullinger toe jam back foot, shoulder flank, final inner
C.C. Chaya scales
Lolli Jacobsen back
Sarah Crews rump
Connie Burket ears
Debbie Divine rear leg
Martha Rhea hindquarters
Donna Sandberg along the top of the back shoulder and letter H
Pam Morgan back
Ruth Cathcard Rake front leg and letter R
Gretchen Boyum front leg, front foot
Rachel Butler front leg
Lucy Butler front leg
Bill North butt, ground, back right foot
Caroline Stoll head
April Engstrom back right leg/hip
Connie Wilson close to face
Gloria Gonzalez hind foot
Judy Nease chin
Alleigh Weems horn
Lyndsi Weems back foot
Karla Prickett rump
Jennifer Baker back
Kent Manske spots
Susan Tuoley back foot and butt
Susan Paigen nose
Christina Steinbrecher pfrandt (lower leg)
Yeqi Song legs
Yuan Luo legs
Jenny Chin (Kuan-Jen) legs
Jingying Liang back leg
Jianguyin Reng back leg
Beth Abdallah back flank
Rebecca Redman back leg
Michael Seidel kidney lining
Rita Hsing head
Sandy Lee back
Chelsea Herman back
Marie Kidd right front foot
David Kidd right front foot
Amy Whitcomb rump
Bob Carpenter nose
Barbara Carpenter nose
Cynthia Beecher ear
Leteb Beecher ear
Susan Sweet ear
CK Itamura hamhock
Dionne Thornton front left foot, butt edge
Robert Wuilfe da booty
Gina Ching front foot
Jordan Juel front foot
Anne Ingraham front foot
Michelle Waters butt
Elizabeth Addison foot
Lydia Nakashima Dagarod shoulder
Linda Joy Kettwinkel snout
Peggy George butt
Maryly Snow scales
Zelisa back end
Scott Partch back end
Chin Cox head
Hada Marshall Booth head
Eduardo Arenas leg
Luna Gomez head
Sauita Patel gog (back)
Brian Lease back leg
Islonia Hasbrim frente
Guadalupe Portillo espalda
Queen Krubally back
Bridget McCraken back
Margaret Coston back
Kathleen Murphy belly
Julie Grigoryan ear
Joyce Subel border
Yatit Maidorh head
Omer head
Alon head
Rooek head
Eli head
Posja Mahushwai neckline
Talia nose
Ella ear
Jonathan nose
Nancy Brunn back
Sabina Brunn ears
Judith Fast back
Lindsey Stoll hoof
Emily Marks head
Victor Vargas chin
Britt-Marie Alon horn
Al Bloch horn
Alyssa Flores horn
John Hoffmeyer border
Madison Cockrum head
Anthony Murillo border
Sheri Simons front legs
Emily Matherson face
Hana Jones hoof (back foot)
Angela Kirchebel bottom left corner border,
small area of right foot, scales
Adele Etcheverry Sheets upper border rear and rear of Rhino
Leslie Jurado back leg, hoof scales
Jaime Muñoz shoulder
Aiden Ginn back leg
Sheecid Lopez border and back leg
Sophy Hock shoulder
Nancy Scott Patton rump
Hana Beaty shoulder, back leg
Eric D’Alessandro lower jaw
Betsy Copeland leg and hoof
Kylie McCloskey horn
Dellanira Carrillo butt
Jose Llamos hoof (back foot)
Timothy Clancy forehead
Kobley Benjamin Mona shoulder
Alicia Ramirez foot
Kim Green upper thigh/butt
Francesca Figone left back
Josette Stokes shoulder
Mercedes Yatta foot
Luis Medina booty
Shane Geoge face (under eye)
Ellen Baird foot
Daria Booth shoulder
Adria Davis backside
Johnny Bruno back foot
Brianna Warren leg
Adrienne Glatz forehead
Mallory Frucha bum
Kelly Weber front and back legs
Carissa Duggan booty
Jasmin Gonzalez foot
Francis Newsom rear end
Shari Maxson Hopper shoulder
Veronica Brenck butt
Marie Fox rump, front foot, back foot
Chloe Taylor root
Marissa Winslow rump/tail
Shai Porath head
Linda Bea Miller tummy
Tom Seoul rump
Kathleen Ritchie unknown
Sue Bottom front leg
Lisa Chu forehead
Anne Ingraham hind foot
Chris Voisard rump
Jane McLaughlin front foot
Malinda Thompson rear leg
Mallory Nomura Saul tusk and back
Judy Shintani tummy and rump
Kevin Austin top of nose, bottom of horn
Claudia Molley top of head, behind ear
Kate Oltmann butt
Amanda Bosma wrinkle on face
Xittaly Vasquez back leg
Emily Murray torso wrinkle
Julia Albo border
Miriam Hassman neck/face
Ryan Patton back left leg
Alexa Weber chin and left front leg
Jiovanny Soto forehead
Jenny Harp lower back
Steven Garen nose/head
Tallulah Terryl leg
Johanna Arnold back
Sean Olson muzzle
Emma Spertus back
Chris Challans loin, belly
Susan Kanowith-Klein rump
Christina Aumann eyelashes and forehead
Ruth Souza misc dorsal area
Phuong Pham booty
Laurie Crogan shoulder-scales
Lorna Turner armpit
Eva Hausam chin wavy lines
David Reiman shoulder
Lanqin Wang forehead
Camryn Travis belly
Jennifer Munnings eye/cheek
Brooke Sommers belly
Katie Gallagher ribs
Sariah Gonzalez forehead
Anthony Isenhour shoulder
Berenika Boberska the bottom!
Taylor Hoogsteden hip
Carmina Ellison sideburns
Nicole McHale shoulder blade
Preeva Tramiel back leg
Jessica Bernhardt front leg
Milldrid Thompson ear
Sharon Robinson front leg
Timiza Wagner back leg
Bobbie Jeffery rear of body
Joanne Landers ear
Sylvia Stanger front leg
Paula Landers back leg
Charlotte Jacobs front leg
Mavis Brown front shoulder
Cheryl Batrato haunch
Kathy Goldmaker shoulder
Liz Matthews back leg above the foot
Sailee Pawar back leg
Andrea Fleiner belly
Marina Taniform leg
Andres Taniform leg
Rose Nguyen ribs
Marco Chavez ribs
Lily May Larson cheek
Rachel Williamson back leg
Cheryl Zuur above the eye
Kathy Willis hindquarters
Martha White hindquarter
Artemis Koren head
Anika Sykora tummy
Irene Floyd hindquarter
Ming Zhou head
Max Koren front leg
Dinah Irino ear
Maya leg
Morgan Carter head
Ava Kasim the hinney
Isabella Anderson back
Ian Kussi-Gillu shoulder
Viyada Satyapan upper front back
Mahvash Salehpour back hip
Christina Bayley back foot
Pam Schwartz left leg
Lynn Koolish back leg
Sandra Duncan front hoof
Emily Rosenberg right leg
Gina Dixon back leg
Tamara Sommerfield neck
Diana R. Reton rear leg
Candace Kling shoulder
Cindy Jacomette head
Nicki Hitz Edison front leg
Toru Sueto front left leg
Jeanne Sueto under eye, along lower jaw
Linda Goss rear hip
Kim Meuli Brown back ribs
Michael Chin chin
Kasla Melton right back leg (pierna derecha)
Vanessa Herrera right back thing
Wendy Brown back leg
Jack Fleig front leg
Amanda Fleig front leg
Shobitha belly
Sasha back
Marilyn rear haunch
Caden Jo Hartdegen head/neck
Yolanda Araujo unknown
Meredith Payn unknown
Tiffany Hartdeger unknown
Richard cheek
Hanna Peacock shoulder
Juan Manuel Gutierrez rear hip
Paola Valencia head
Jesus Castillo head
Diego Barregan shoulder
Hernandez Irvin belly
Cindy Simmons cheek
Ginna Sierra upper leg
Carole Walters-Cook face
Angela Etsey back leg and thigh
Victor Navarro IV V neck
Elizabeth Finkler ear
Jennifer Lu lower tummy
Kylee Dougherty neck
Jada Wong stomach
Kerwin Azores back knee
Hugo Jimenez head
Becca Wong neck
Breanna Estrada unknown
Candaces Perrault shoulder
Kevin Liu belly and front of leg plates
Michael Huang Mil back leg
Natalie Diazza chin hairs
Eliza Villa dorsal neck
Steve Dellicalpini in that neck tho!
Michelle van Eyken right flank
Leslie McLaughlin shoulder circles
Angela Acosta front leg
Allison Acosta front shoulder circle
Rebecca Bui upper back leg
Barbara Post back foot
Irene Caravajal back leg
Gabrielle Koizumi neck
Clayton Bavor front leg
Ava Eui front leg
Judy Diamond upper shoulder
Mhanna Kutras front leg
Liam neck
Leona neck
Leana Olliffe stomach
Patti Samuelson right leg
A. Manley neck plates
Donna King right shoulder
Becky Leech right hindquarters
Raymond Mueller front left leg
Timmy shoulder
Asher Fleig front leg
Julia back leg
Nicole B chest
L. Hum hind leg
Alice Schwegman shoulder
Gail Blackmarr unknown
Christina Truong neck
June Dao scale
Ellie Reese a rear leg
Susan L. Goranson left rear leg
Marci Ariagno breast shield
Maya unknown
Diane Mestu head
Claudia Havah back leg
Mickey Guffin right upper hind leg
Annalise Sailen unknown
Jennifer Schaeffer front right leg
Mia rear leg
Joe Ranish right shoulder
Ann Ranish rear leg
Anthony left leg
Leslie Nobler neck
Anne Trickey back leg
Maris Kaplan neck fold and front shoulder
Paula Bohan neck fold
James Brooks neck
Amanda Briggs back right foot
Andrew Briggs back right foot
Miriam Briggs back right foot
Willow Yamaden cheek
Sarah Bartman neck
Bridget McMahon flank
Amy Brown jowl
Vanessa Dion Fletcher jowl
Denera Gains unknown
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Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett & Danny "Danno" Williams & Grace Williams, Kono Kalakaua/Adam Noshimuri, Abby Dunn/Chin Ho Kelly, Lou Grover/Renee Grover, Will Grover/Grace Williams
Characters: Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett, Grace Williams, Nahele Huikala, Lou Grover, Will Grover, Samantha Grover, Renee Grover, Mary Ann McGarrett, Joan McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Charles "Charlie" Williams Edwards, Abby Dunn, Kono Kalakaua, Adam Noshimuri, Jerry Ortega, Other(s), Other Characters Mentioned, Secondary Characters - Character
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 07, Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Coda, Fix-It, character closure, Protective Danny "Danno" Williams, Sick Steve McGarrett, Nahele integration, Nahele lives with Steve, the big "C", Angst, "are you sure they aren't married?", "I thought they were going to tell us something else...", Danny takes care of Steve, Even though Steve doesn't think he needs taking care of, A lot of Flashbacks, almost in every chapter i think there will be one, kind of like how the show does them too
Summary:
Formerly: We Have To Tell You Something
This is just how I see things having gone in the time between season 7 ending and season 8 starting. I miss Kono and Chin so much so I wanted to give myself some closure too. Did a lot of research for this (read: watched a lot of episodes over and over). 1st chapter picks up a few days after the last scene, but there are flashbacks (a lot). Planning on incorporating different people's reactions to Steve's news too. Also Danny and Steve go get that second doctor's opinion.
~ Excerpt ~
“Hey! He’s up! It’s a miracle.” Danny grinned when he and Steve walked into the bedroom.
Nahele was sitting up on the bed, Charlie sitting across from him giggling.
“Uh huh. Charlie told me you sent him up here to jump on the bed.” He said, before going to tickle Charlie. Charlie let out a scream of laughter as he tried to wiggle free.
“Yeah cause you’ve been saying 'five more minutes' for the past two hours.” Danny said, hands lifting in the air in frustration, then pointing at the bathroom. “You're lucky he woke you up because I was getting ready to dump some cold water on you.”
Steve chuckled as he looked at Nahele, “don’t worry I just woke up too.”
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Your self-control will be tested (TURMOIL)
Andrew Firestone's bottom
Seal's belly (shucks)
Chris Pine's arm (ho hum)
Rachel McAdams's nostril
Beyonce Knowles's thigh (ugh)
Mel Gibson's forearm (roger)
Vanessa Minnillo's ear (snap)
Keri Russell's toe (oopsey)
Luke Bryan's buttocks
Christina Hendricks's eyelash
Pink's neck
Josh Brolin's head
Ivanka Trump's wrist (all right)
Matthew Perry's cheek
Cee Lo Green's foot
Dianna Agron's hand
Freddie Prinze, Jr.'s eyebrow
Barack Obama's toe
Hugh Hefner's bottom (um)
Manny Pacquiao's knee
Suri Cruise's belly (there)
Jay Cutler's leg
Jane Lynch's hip
Dwayne Johnson's elbow (yummy)
Jennifer Love Hewitt's leg
Michael Urie's eyelash
Steve Carell's nostril (whew)
Jeff Probst's forearm
Faith Hill's hand (never)
Mike Fisher's buttocks
Alec Baldwin's tooth
Avril Lavigne's breast (yum)
Winona Ryder's lower leg (fiddle-dee-dee)
Kellie Pickler's thigh (zounds)
Marcia Cross's fist
Dave Navarro's leg
Jennifer Garner's calf
Sharon Osbourne's thigh
Cate Blanchett's leg
Donald Trump's chin
Carey Mulligan's wrist (no can do)
Shar Jackson's elbow
Michael C. Hall's bottom
Elisabetta Canalis's finger
Kirstie Alley's back (argh)
Marc Anthony's bottom
Garth Brooks's buttocks (bother)
Kelly Bensimon's toe
Cacee Cobb's hand
Prince's cheek
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“Triple Banana, Bitch”: Or, McDanno and the Challenge to Heteronormativity
1. Introducing the Case
[1] Imagine a TV show where two co-workers/friends survived being trapped under a collapsed building and Person A sustained some pretty severe injuries. While trapped, the Person B says “I love you” to them. They are eventually rescued, and the following conversation ensues.
A: When we were in there, you said ah, y'know before you did the thing with the bomb, you said what you said ... I want you to know, I feel the same way.
B: How is that exactly?
A: You're making me say it? (B gives A a look.) Come here. (They hug.) I love you.
Now imagine a couple years later, a mutual acquaintance, Person C, is listening to them discuss Person A’s ex’s upcoming divorce.
B: What about therapy? It worked for us.
C: You two lovebirds have a therapist?
A: (Incredulous scoff.) Yes, we have a therapist.
Around the same time, imagine the couple arguing because Person B found out that Person A had been thinking about retirement without consulting Person B.
B: You didn’t feel the need to include me in the decision for you to retire. I trust you to bring me into big decisions like that.
You’d probably think that was a romantic couple, wouldn't you? They got together, they expressed their love after a traumatic event forced them to, they’ve worked at their relationship, they still have spats over things like major life decisions.
What if I said that Person A is Detective Danny Williams and Person B is Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett of Hawaii Five-0?
2. Maybe It’s A Joke
The thing about Hawaii Five-0 is that they treat Steve and Danny as if they are the lead couple.
And I don’t mean this in an “if one of them was a woman, they’d be together” kind of way, but in a “sometimes you forget they aren’t actually a married/romantically involved TV couple” type of way. In the Season 7 finale, there was a moment where I honestly was confused why Steve didn’t give Danny a kiss before leaving his office.
It’s intentional, maybe not to the extent that I see it. It started out in a wink-wink-but- clearly-a-joke sort of way. Both friends and strangers referred to them as a couple very early on in the show. But, unlike some shows, there haven’t been “no homo” responses (and none as far as I know from the actors). Maybe a little incredulity from Danny on occasion, but that is his response to teasing in general.
In S1E4, Steve is playing basketball against a guy in prison to try and get information out of him. Steve yells at Danny to shut up to try to get him to stop heckling him. The prisoner he’s playing against asks, “How long you two been married?” No reaction from either of them.
In S1E7, Steve is in a hostage situation while Danny is in the perp’s house. They’re on the phone, and Danny—who looks around to make sure no one is in the room—whispers, “You, uh, you miss me, don’t you?” Steve says, “Of course I miss you.” The retired Navy guy Steve is with asks, “Who are you talking to? Your wife?” Steve replies, “I’m talking to my partner.”
In S2E18, Harry the retired police officer offers them marriage counseling.
They go to a sorority house in S3E12 and one of the women in the house says, without really seeing them interact, “Kelly, your dads are here to pick you up.” Both men look slightly put out by the statement—but Steve expressly says it’s because he doesn’t think he looks old enough to have a daughter in college.
In S5E17, they occupy a woman’s apartment for a stakeout, and a nosy neighbor assumes they are married. At the end of the episode they leave for couples therapy (no, really) and the woman is confused, because they said they weren’t married, to which Chin says they just fight like an old married couple.
There are numerous other examples of this. A lot of it happens non-verbally, in looks they get from other people or that other people share behind their back, including people who have known and worked with them for years, usually Chin.
In S4E11, Danny calls Steve cheap while the whole group is out, and everyone backs away from their argument, side-eying each other like, “oh the married couple is fighting again.”
So, maybe it’s a joke.
3. More Than Subtext
But maybe it isn’t.
“Ho yay” is a phrase that is sometimes used, meaning “homoeroticism, yay,” to refer to homoerotic subtext in otherwise heteronormative narratives. The history of this has its roots in the fact that you couldn’t put overt mentions of homosexuality on television for a long time. So you had to do the wink, wink, nod, nod. The “roommate” or intimate friendships that most people would interpret as good friends.
There seems to be a conception used in anti-gay rhetoric that homosexuality didn’t exist until the last couple decades and that the liberal agenda intends to turn everyone gay. I would recommend to these people to read any Ancient Greek text (like, any of them), but maybe straight men and women don’t see subtext, because they don't have to. They’re represented.
Sometimes people use the term “queerbaiting” to refer to TV shows that use homoerotic subtext not in a way to imply that characters are gay, but, rather, to tease the idea that a show has gay characters so that people who want to see that kind of representation on a show watch it, but so that people who are “offended” by gay representation won’t not watch it.
I’m not sure if this happens intentionally, or if it’s just people who are fed up with the lack of representation reading into it, because the big TV demographic that everyone is after is males age 18-34, and the majority of men are heterosexual. So, this is unfortunate, but this is the problem with diversifying television, film, publishing, etc. Straight white men are still the default, so anyone else is a niche market, i.e., a risk.[2]
But Hawaii Five-0 goes way beyond the jokes, and I think even beyond baiting. You can actually watch the show as if they are in a romantic relationship together without squinting. Sure, it’s an open relationship, and you have to read both characters as bisexual (easy to do with Steve, a little harder to do with Danny), but on my reading it’s a relationship that goes outside the usual mapping of two men or two women onto a stereotypical heteronormative relationship tropes.
Maybe they aren’t sexually involved--the jokes and innuendo are almost always about them being romantically involved. And that might help my case.
4. The Evolution of a Couple
But I’m getting ahead of myself, because it takes them awhile to get there. Their relationship really starts out with pulling pigtails. They tease each other about their musical tastes, food likes and dislikes, Danny’s love of New Jersey, Steve’s love of firearms. But then “Sexy Eyes” by Dr. Hook comes on in the car one day (S1E11), which is such a lame song there is no reason why Steve McGarrett would like it, and Steve refuses to let Danny change it. It is my personal belief that Steve McGarrett listens to Supertramp and King Crimson exclusively (I have absolutely no proof of this), so not letting Danny change the song from “Sexy Eyes”? I don’t even know what to do with that.
A lot of friendships (and particularly male friendships) are based on ribbing. But neither Steve nor Danny interacts that way with Chin, Kono, Max, Jerry, or Kamekona. In fact, the only person Danny argues with the way he argues with Steve is with his ex-wife. And Steve doesn’t even remotely interact with any of the characters the way he does with Danny. He gives Lou a hard time on occasion, but he never really teases anyone else. The more I think about it, the more I think he is one of the most earnest characters on television. Steve does have a very close friendship with Chin, and in later seasons with Lou, but they’re more serious with each other. The care and support are there, but the playfulness isn’t.
In the first season, Steve and Danny have pet names for each other. In S1E6:
Steve: When I say, “Book ’em, Danno,” it’s a term of endearment.
Danny: OK. Do it every day. I like it.
Danny first refers to Steve as “babe” in S1E10. He says it’s a Jersey thing, but he never refers to Chin as “babe” or Kono (who would probably shoot him for it). Sometimes Steve parrots back with a “babe” of his own. They do this in front of other people who don’t know them, usually men, usually men who look like they have no idea what to do with these two crazy cops.
Kono calls Steve “boss” or “McGarrett” and Danny is always “Danny.” Chin calls them by their first or last names. No one calls Danny “Danno” except for Danny’s children, because it’s a nickname Grace bestowed on him.
They flirt. See S1E13:
Steve: We're gonna tear into this guy's life and we're gonna rip it all apart.
Danny: I have never liked you more than in this moment right now. It’s beautiful.
Substitute “I have never been more turned on than in this moment right now,” and you’re in an action movie where the guy is hitting on the badass woman.
Or in S2E1:
Danny: Why are you smiling at me?
Steve: You’re not wearing a tie. It suits you.
There was also the thong incident. While in a party bus investigating a case (S4E6), Danny finds a discarded g-string, he holds it up to show Steve, and Steve says, “You gonna get an evidence bag, or are you gonna put that thing on?” For a second you can see on Danny’s face that he thinks Steve might be serious.
They know each other in ways that you only people you are intimate with. Danny has a catalogue of Steve’s looks.
Meanwhile Steve catalogs Danny’s tones of voice. Hell, Danny knows Steve’s favorite kind of frosting when he surprises him with a birthday cake. They open up to each other about their pasts in a way that we don’t (or rarely) see them do with anyone else. They communicate with each other nonverbally. They read each other. By season 7, they recognize each other’s moods and use that knowledge to encourage them to talk about what’s on their mind.
This certainly could be best friend behavior. Or it could be the result of their couples therapy (really).
Like I said, maybe they don’t have a sexual relationship, but they also touch each other a lot.
They don’t do this with other characters that they are friends with. Sometimes Steve will put his hand on Chin’s shoulder. Everyone on the team is a hugger. They’re all close. They’re ohana. But it’s different.
Steve and Danny sit really close to each other on couches. In season 3’s Halloween episode (S3E5), they watch The Notebook together on the couch. Steve’s girlfriend Cath is on the opposite end, Grace next to her. Then Danny. Then Steve on the end. He puts his arm around the back of the couch and Danny snuggles next to him. (It was apparently Scott Caan’s idea to do this.)
In S2E8, Steve shows up at Danny’s apartment, puts his arm around the back of the couch behind Danny and they watch Enemy Mine together.
They almost always sit next to each other when the whole group is together. They danced together at Kono’s wedding (S6E1). Not a group dance, this was arms around each other, holding hands, dancing like a couple. I have never seen two straight males friends do this, and I know plenty of straight men who are openly affectionate with their male friends.
One of my favorite moments happened in S4E3 where they are in a warehouse after a shootout, and Danny needs zip ties, so he walks toward Steve, who just lifts his arm as he crosses the warehouse in the other direction to give Danny access to the pocket on his tac vest. Danny grabs the zip ties while they both keep walking. It’s a practiced dance of bodily familiarity. Again, this could be because they work together closely. Steve and Kono have a silent language sometimes when they’re taking down bad guys, but they share a certain cold-blooded killer instinct that Danny and Chin don’t, but it’s not the same as a physical familiarity.
Danny knows Steve’s blood type. He gives Steve part of his liver in S6E25 (after he goes on a cold, uncharacteristic, ballistic rampage against the guy who shot Steve). They will put their lives on the line for the other and directly in harm’s way. They will go all over the world to find the other at all costs.
Danny went to North Korea to rescue Steve (S2E10). Because Jenna knew that Danny was Steve’s person to call in an emergency. She could have called HQ. She didn’t. She called Danny.
Danny went to Afghanistan to bring Steve back after he is captured by the Taliban and rescued by the Army, who didn’t know he was there (S4E20). And Danny gets super defensive when the Army officers who hold Steve try to get him to leave the room. Steve is surprised Danny is there, he asks Danny why he came, and Danny says, “I had to make sure you were okay.” Steve looks so touched in that moment, because it was the first time anyone done something like that for him.
Danny goes with Steve to a random location in the Cambodian jungle to dig up a grave, because it gave Steve a clue into his mother’s identity and past that is haunting Steve (S4E18).
Steve went to Colombia to with Danny to try to find Danny’s brother (S5E4) and later to get Danny out of Colombian prison (S5E18). He gets on a fundamental level that Danny has to get revenge for his brother, and he knows that it’s going to hurt Danny.
My point is that they really seem like a couple.
Danny goes with Steve to a doctor’s appointment in S7E20. He is in the exam room with Steve while the doctor comes in. He asks questions like a spouse. He makes the doctor tell Steve the same thing that he has been telling him in the hopes that he’ll listen to the doctor. They also have a conversation about playing doctor, because Danny is messing around with the doctor’s equipment.
Danny: Now, would you please do me this one favor.
Steve: No, I will not bend over and cough with your cold hands.
Danny: It’s not that kind of test.
Note that Steve’s objection is the coldness of the hands, not the hands.
Danny enters Steve’s house without knocking. Steve enters Danny’s apartment without knocking. Danny cooks in Steve’s kitchen. And then there was this in S1E24:
Steve: I’ll take powdered eggs over your eggs any day.
Danny: You love my eggs.
Steve: They’re terrible, Danny.
Why would Danny be making Steve eggs? Who cooks their work friend breakfast food?
5. Defying Heteronormativity
The show hits on a lot of the typical heteronormative romantic TV/movie tropes with Steve and Danny’s relationship.
Agents dating, on a stakeout, undercover—this happens in particular when Steve opens up to Danny about his stunted emotional growth during a stakeout, to which Danny responds by buying Steve a guitar.
Anguished/dying declaration of love: When they are trapped under a building together (S4E19) and when they are dealing with a uranium bomb (S7E18) (more on those below).
Like an old married couple: Again, numerous examples of this.
Belligerent sexual tension: Danny rants at Steve all the time, and Steve argues back, you keep waiting for Janeane Garofalo to jump in and say, “Would the two of you just do it and get it over with? I'm starving!”
Innocent cohabitation: Steve lets Danny stay at his place for a while after Danny’s apartment gets destroyed, Danny sleeps with the TV on (which drives Steve crazy) to drown out the noise of the ocean (which drives Danny crazy), so he buys Danny super expensive noise-canceling headphones from a store clerk who gives him the “partner?” face (S2E9).
Love at first punch: Danny punches Steve in the face in the first episode (S1E1).
But it isn’t entirely heteronormative. Sometimes you run into the “which one is the more feminine one” stereotype when you see gay couples portrayed on TV. You might be tempted to think that H50 plays into this and that Danny is more feminine because he’s sometimes called the nagging wife, and because Steve is a Navy SEAL and Steve really is the central character of the show.
But when you look closer, Danny shows more overt signs of traditional hetero-masculinity than Steve does. His primary emotional response to anything is anger. He goes alpha male protective over his kids to the point of causing others bodily harm. He falls asleep in front of the TV, wakes up when Steve turns it off and says “I was watching that.” He’s the one who sometimes leers at women, is distracted by bikini models. He fathered two children. He is coded as straight.
Steve meanwhile always looks women in the eye. He is either very reserved or he is more individual, person-centric in his choosing of romantic or sexual partners. Given that his old nickname was “smooth dog” (still not sure if that was a joke or not, because Steve is also a huge dork) you get the feeling that he used to be more of a lothario, but doesn’t do that anymore. Maybe he was overcompensating. He is also, in spite of his hard exterior, extremely thoughtful and compassionate. He’s also nags Danny about Danny being a slob after Danny house sits for him. He’s a control freak--usually the accusation given to women.
He also remembers down to the day how long he and Danny have been partners (this happens multiple times over the course of the show).
It wouldn’t be a stretch to consider that maybe Steve is bi or gay, but was closeted while serving in the Navy. You see him in two relationships with women on the show, and both women are not traditionally feminine. Catherine was great. She was absolutely likable. She was a Naval officer, she likes her steaks rare, she drinks beer, she shoots guns. She was competent, confident, and kind of a badass. She was perfect for Steve, and I could roll with it. I like Lynn, too. She’s tough, a thrill-seeker, well-matched for Steve, someone he can do things with that Danny wouldn’t do.
It takes a little mental gymnastic work, it does, but they might just have an open relationship. It works for some people. And it would make Hawaii Five-0 a really progressive show if they went there.
There’s the Rachel issue to contend with. Steve seems upset when he finds out that Danny and Rachel started sleeping together again at the end of season 1. Mostly because Danny didn’t tell him. But in the end, Danny actually chooses Steve over Rachel. Steve gets arrested, and, even though Danny is supposed to meet Rachel and Grace at the airport, he goes to Steve instead.
The writers are teasing Rachel and Danny getting back together, which I vehemently oppose. They tried it twice, Rachel lied to Danny, she resents his job, they don’t work together. It also throws off my narrative a little, even though I think Rachel actually likes Steve, so maybe Danny is going to break Steve’s heart and I will never forgive the writers.
Steve and Cath never really defined their relationship. Though Steve did plan to propose to her, and Danny encouraged it. That doesn’t really kill my theory, though, because I think Danny probably loved Cath, too. Marriage would have been the only way to keep Cath in Hawaii, but marriage wouldn’t have precluded Danny and Steve from still being together in some capacity. Because Cath accepted Danny’s role in Steve’s life. In one episode (S3E17), Cath buys Steve tickets to the Pro Bowl, but Steve already had tickets for him and Danny. Cath just took Kono instead and teased Danny and Steve about their date. In the end, Steve gets injured on a case and can’t go. Danny could still go, but chooses to stay with Steve at the hospital instead. Danny has always been more important to Steve than even Cath was.
I do think part of Danny still likes the idea of a nuclear family, because he’s a parent. But he’s not necessarily a monogamist, though. As evidenced by the fact that he started sleeping with Rachel when she was still married. (Presumably Rachel was already planning to leave Stan, but Danny gets upset when he thinks his sister is cheating on her husband in a later episode, so I don’t know. But hypocrite much, Danno?)
Now you have them in more of a polyamorous situation. They give each other dating advice, but it’s sort of like telling your crush what you would like them to do to woo you. It’s sort of like they are the primary couple and they are negotiating how to deal with the open part of their relationship. Maybe they still both prefer sleeping with women. Danny seems to lean more that way. Maybe they do the commitment, companionship thing with each other. Maybe whatever they have together is new and they’re still working through it.
In S7E16, they “accidentally” spend Valentine’s Day weekend together. They’re with their respective girlfriends, but they end up spending most of the weekend together, and it was their girlfriends who booked the vacation, the adjoining rooms, and they seem more interested in hanging out with each other than they do Danny and Steve.
When the four of them have dinner together at the end of the episode on the beach in a romantic setting, Steve and Danny are sitting next to each other and Lynn and Melissa are on the other side of the table. Earlier in the day, Danny had apologized to Melissa for something and she says, “I knew what I was getting into.”
It’s also worth noting that the steamy love scenes we get on screen are between Kono and Adam and between Chin and Abby. You see Cath and Steve making out pretty heavily once, fully clothed, and you see them in bed together, but Steve and Lynn never even kiss. You see Danny and Melissa in bed together, but it’s only ever implied.
Whatever else, this show does challenge heteronormative stereotypes on some level.
6. The Evidence of Affection
They regularly say “I love you” to each other. Sometimes there’s a “bro” or “buddy” added, but it almost always sounds awkward. You feel like they know other people are watching so they don’t go for it. Most of the time. Sometimes there’s more feeling behind it. “I love you,” I thought I was going to lose you. Sometimes they say “I love you” in the way that you say thank you after you convince your spouse to do an unpleasant chore.
Steve takes Danny on a date (a hike, whatever) in S1E20 to show him cliffs that he used to climb and petroglyphs that his dad used to take him to when he was a kid. This is a big deal, because Steve is opening up about his family. He even suggests that they take Grace there when she’s older. Danny, who complains just to complain, reluctantly agrees that “it’s nice.” It’s kind of romantic.
Steve ends up falling when he goes to check on another fallen climber. Steve breaks his arm in the process but is more worried about Danny being careful when he climbs to the summit of their hike to get cell service. Help does arrive. As the helicopter takes him away, Danny makes a heart sign at him. Maybe it was a joke. But at the end of the episode, he gets jealous when a woman comes up to sign Steve’s cast.
But when Danny thought they were going to die under the collapsed building (mentioned at the beginning, in S4E19), there was no joking around. Again,
Danny: When we were in there, you said ah, y'know before you did the thing with the bomb, you said what you said ... I want you to know, I feel the same way.
Steve: How is that exactly?
Danny: You're making me say it? (Steve gives him a look) Come here. (they hug) I love you.
Steve: I love you, buddy.
Take out the “buddy” and re-read that. I’ll wait.
In S7E18, there is a uranium bomb that Danny and Steve have to removed the uranium from and then take to another location. The bomb is volatile, and they have to take it across uneven terrain in an old truck. Before Steve starts the car, he tells Danny he loves him. Danny doesn’t say it back right then, he panics. But after Steve gets the uranium out, Danny apologizes, “Look, I’m sorry. I should’ve told you.” Told him about his retirement plans? Told him that he loved him? Who’s to say?
My all-time favorite line is in S5E12 when Steve starts helps out a teenager, Nahele, who stole his car but was really just dealt a shitty hand in life:
Danny: You know what you are? You’re a half-baked cookie, soft and gooey on the inside. Kid should be in juvenile hall, and you go and you give him a job That’s why I love you, babe. You like fixing broken toys.
You don’t always see portrayals of male friendships that are so openly affectionate or willing to say they love one another, and I don’t want to diminish that, I really don’t. Familial love and platonic love are no less important than romantic love. As someone who identifies on the aro spectrum, this is important to me. But you get plenty of solid platonic relationships on the show.
Steve and Chin also have a strong relationship—Steve totally loses it when Chin is strapped with explosives in S1E12. He breaks into a police evidence room and steals $10 million to save Chin’s life. We find out in a flashback scene that after Chin’s wife dies, that Steve would regularly call him in the middle of the night and invite him out for coffee at the diner near Chin’s house, and he would sit with him in companionable silence in the middle of the night. That is friendship. That is love.
But it’s still not the same as it is with Danny. It’s more like you would expect a brotherhood, family, or a close friendship.
Steve and Kono’s relationship is probably my favorite on the show, because Steve neither treats her like a sister nor as a sexual object. Danny leers at Kono the first time he meets her. Eric hits on her, Sang Min hits on her. Steve treats her like a peer. They’re friends, but there is a mutual respect that you rarely get between men and women in real life.
7. More Than Ohana
So, maybe they’re just family. Maybe.
They go to couples counseling—I am not making this up; they literally go to couples counseling—because they have communication problems that affect their working relationship. They also argue about money. These are the two classic problems that romantic couples argue about.
Danny always pays when they go out and would like Steve to stop conveniently forgetting his wallet. Steve doesn’t share his feelings enough. Danny feels like Steve doesn’t listen to him. Danny is the nagging one in the couple (in S1E13, he even admits this, “I don’t want to be a nag, but…”). But Steve is the control freak (as Danny regularly points out, as Steve himself says in S7E18 When he exposes himself to the uranium so Danny doesn’t have to). They’re both worrywarts, particularly about the other, and about Danny’s daughter.
Steve goes to pick up Grace from school in the first season (S1E23) like he’s her step-father, because Danny is in the hospital. He didn’t talk to Danny about it—all he knew was that the doctor said he was going to be okay. He already knew it was Danny’s day to get Grace.
The way they know each other is intimate.
There is a scene in S7E14 where Danny and Chin watch Steve have a conversation on the phone, and Danny gives commentary, knowing the gist of the conversation based on Steve’s body language,
Danny: His mouth has not moved in three and a half minutes.
Chin: You know, maybe she's got him on hold.
Danny: No. No. His nostrils are flaring. He's pacing like a maniac. And he just switched the phone from his right hand to his left hand, which means he wants to punch something.
Chin: Well, you know your boy well.
In addition to the counseling, which is not just a one episode gag (no, really, they have a workbook), Steve “accidentally” books them a couple’s counseling retreat. It’s almost as if he wanted Danny to see that they are a couple, but then he chickened out.
They talk to each other like a couple. There are so many examples of this, I don’t know where to start.
When Danny’s mom comes to visit (S6E15), Steve offers to come down to keep Danny company because she is driving Danny crazy. This was after Steve met her and was overwhelmed by her and Danny’s bickering that he escaped.
Steve: What could the FBI possibly want with your mother?
Danny: I have no idea. Why do you think I’m calling you?
Steve: Did you ask her?
Danny: Of course I asked her. What kind of stupid question is that?
Steve: Whoa. Why are you getting mad at me?
Because he recognizes that Danny is upset about something else and projecting. After Danny explains why he’s upset (counseling works!), Steve responds with “You want me to come down there? I’ll come down there.” He’s working a case, but he would drop everything to run interference with Danny’s mother.
Steve cares about Danny’s daughter and son as if they are his family. And you can write it off along with the theme of “ohana,” you could, but by season 7, Steve and Danny are basically co-parents. Steve goes to the governor to help Danny keep his custody agreement in season 1. When Danny gets taken to Colombia, he asks Steve to talk to Grace. Steve does, and the way he talks to Grace it’s clear that he respects her enough not to lie to her.
In S4E14, the whole group is together, including Grace, celebrating the end of a case. Steve pulls Danny away from the group under the guise of bringing back drinks for everyone just so he can tell Danny what a good kid Grace is. The way Steve looks at her is with fatherly pride.
When Grace’s school dance is held hostage in S7E8, Steve is absolutely frantic until he sees that Grace is okay. He calls out her name like a concerned father, and when she sees him, she races to him to give him a hug. When they separate, Steve looks at Danny and asks, “No hug?”
Danny says, “I’ll give you a hug. I’ll give you a kiss. You pick a base.” Then the three of them walk together, Danny with an arm around them each. I want a scene where Grace’s friends ask her who her dad’s hot boyfriend is. Because you know it happened.
In S7E23, Steve helps Danny decorate Charlie’s bedroom (at Danny’s house? At Steve’s? I can’t tell.). Danny is dealing with protecting a witness (he also leads Steve--not the team, Steve personally--on a wild goose chase around Oahu to track the men who want to silence the witness, which amounts to him ordering Steve around until Steve drives his truck through a house to stop the bad guys), so Steve finishing building Charlie’s race car bed. He plays race car driver with Charlie before bedtime, he tucks him in, brushes his hair off his face, and wishes him goodnight. Like a parent.
Their families talk about them like they’re partners. Hell, Steve takes Danny as his date to Steve’s aunt’s wedding.
In S2E19, Steve’s sister Mary runs into them at the beach as they are coming in from surfing. She asks, “So you guys are like surf buddies now?” And Steve says, “Kind of.”
It’s meant to be on the surface a comment on Danny’s surfing ability, I think, but the awkwardness of it doesn’t account for that. After Mary leaves, Danny says, “So we’re surf buddies now.” The ensuing argument that you can fill in goes something along the lines of: you can’t tell her we’re seeing each other? It is the natural next line in that conversation. “Surf buddies” is like the male version of “gal pals.”
When Danny’s sister comes to visit, she knows who Steve is because Danny talks about him a lot. She says “Mom said you were a catch.” But you don’t get the feeling that she means a catch for her.
The clincher for me was in S7E18 (the uranium episode).
He and Danny have an argument in front of students at the police academy until Duke intervenes. Steve read a list that Danny left on his desk full of things he likes, things like traveling (which Steve points out that Danny always complains when they travel together). Steve calls Danny out for keeping something from him and offers to talk about it, and Danny gets mad because Steve invaded his privacy by looking at the list. The next scene you see Steve talking on the phone to Chin trying to get his assessment of the situation.
We find out that it’s a list of things that Danny would like to do when he retires. Steve gets upset. In the “I thought we would always be together, please don’t leave me” type of way.
Again, “You didn’t feel the need to include me in the decision for you to retire. I trust you to bring me into big decisions like that.”
In the ensuing conversation, Steve compares his relationship to Danny with Danny’s first marriage. Danny says that maybe he wants to open a restaurant after he retires. Steve is incredulous, but by the end of the episode, after they’ve both survived, Steve wants him to name it “Steve’s, “because if we’re not together, we’ll still be together.” Steve is so co-dependent on Danny I could write a separate essay about it. To show his support, Steve even buys Danny a monogrammed chef’s hat in S7E25.
The last scene of S7E18, when Lou tells Steve that HPD was the target of the uranium bomb, you see Steve turn and look at everyone eating dinner in the house (McGarrett’s house. Where Danny was cooking.), and the camera following Steve’s gaze focuses on Danny.
8. McDanno Forever
I can work with the girlfriends and the apparent heterosexuality. I can work with the “bro”s and “buddy”s. My point is that if the writers started writing out the women as love interests and wrote in a few more domestic scenes with Steve and Danny, it wouldn’t take away from the show. In fact, I don’t think anyone would notice anything was different. Because it wouldn’t actually be different.
It also genuinely wouldn’t feel out of character for Danny to finally figure out that he and Steve have actually been together together for years without him realizing it. Steve, of course, knew all along.
But it also wouldn’t surprise me if they are already knowingly in a committed but open relationship. One that maybe started with sex but ended up as life partners of some sort, because however you want to define it, Danny is very clearly the most important person in Steve’s life. And Danny clearly relies on, depends on, trusts and loves Steve.
You can actually hear the reactions when they tell everyone.
Lou: *nearly falls over laughing*
Chin: “Yeah, we know, brah.”
Kono: “Everyone knows.”
Jerry: “Worst kept secret since The Flash’s identity.”[3]
[1] Originally posted on Wordpress here. Title is a quote from Danny regarding the level he reached on Pac-Man. Also, all photos and were taken from google searches, and probably the property of CBS.
[2] There’s a lot more to say about this. Diversity without tokenism is really important to me, and some day I'll write something about it.
[3] Granted, Wally West told everyone he was The Flash, but then he outed Barry Allen in the process...
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We Have To Tell You Something
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by ThatFanwriter
This is just how I see things having gone in the time between season 7 ending and season 8 starting. I miss Kono and Chin so much so I wanted to give myself some closure too. Did a lot of research for this (read: watched a lot of episodes over and over). 1st chapter picks up a few days after the last scene, but there are flashbacks. Planing on incorporating different people's reactions to Steve's news too. Also Danny and Steve go get that second doctor's opinion.
~ Excerpt ~
“Hey! He’s up! It’s a miracle.” Danny grinned when he and Steve walked into the bedroom.
Nahele was sitting up on the bed, Charlie sitting across from him giggling.
“Uh huh. Charlie told me you sent him up here to jump on the bed.” He said, before going to tickle Charlie. Charlie let out a scream of laughter as he tried to wiggle free.
“Yeah cause you’ve been saying 'five more minutes' for the past two hours.” Danny said, hands lifting in the air in frustration, then pointing at the bathroom. “You're lucky he woke you up because I was getting ready to dump some cold water on you.”
Steve chuckled as he looked at Nahele, “don’t worry I just woke up too.”
Words: 3185, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Characters: Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett, Grace Williams, Nahele Huikala, Lou Grover, Will Grover, Samantha Grover, Renee Grover, Mary Ann McGarrett, Joan McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Charles "Charlie" Williams Edwards, Abby Dunn, Kono Kalakaua, Adam Noshimuri, Jerry Ortega, Other(s), Other Characters Mentioned, Secondary Characters - Character
Relationships: Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett & Danny "Danno" Williams & Grace Williams, Kono Kalakaua/Adam Noshimuri, Abby Dunn/Chin Ho Kelly, Lou Grover/Renee Grover, Will Grover/Grace Williams
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 07, Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Coda, Fix-It, character closure, Protective Danny "Danno" Williams, Sick Steve McGarrett, Nahele integration, Nahele lives with Steve, the big "C", Angst, "are you sure they aren't married?", "I thought they were going to tell us something else...", Danny takes care of Steve, Even though Steve doesn't think he needs taking care of, A lot of Flashbacks, almost in every chapter i think there will be one, kind of like how the show does them too
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via AO3 works tagged 'Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams'
by bgharison
Steve realized a while back that he needed Danny in a way he’d never needed anyone. He depended on him -- needed him to be a voice of reason, a moral compass, a literal light in the often too-dark places that his mind and memories tended to take him.
But he meant it when he’d told Danny -- needing things like that, needing people like that -- was a luxury he could ill-afford. And a luxury he’d give anything to have, right now.
Words: 4510, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Characters: Steve McGarrett, Danny "Danno" Williams, Kono Kalakaua, Chin Ho Kelly
Relationships: Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams
Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Pre-Slash, Dollop of Whump, Pinch of H/C, Smidge of BAMF!Danny
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Nothing like Terrorism to bring a guy home
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by C M Ramsey (NeoCortex)
It's been two years and Danny had only one way to get a hold of him.
Now that's gone and they need to tell him.
Why was she here?
What was she doing?
Why wasn't she with him?
Where was he?
All answers may come at a cost.
Words: 1840, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Danny "Danno" Williams, Steve McGarrett, Junior Reigns, Tani Rey, Lou Grover, Grace Williams, Charles "Charlie" Williams Edwards, Nahele Huikala, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Adam Noshimuri, Lincoln Cole (Hawaii Five-0 2010), Quinn Liu, Jerry Ortega, Eric "E-Train" Russo, Kamekona Tupuola, Catherine Rollins
Relationships: Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams, Junior Reigns/Tani Rey
Additional Tags: Chin and Kono will be coming back for this., Mentions of various other characters - Freeform, Mentions of Catherine - Freeform, Her being in this is VERY short, Blink and you'll almost miss it., sort of.
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