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You just HAVE to read this. Definitely one of the hottest things I’ve ever read. Read, read, read!

~*Steve/Danno*~ -..Can’t Help Falling In Love..- (by vegetasprincess)

It was the worst day of my life. And every second you can’t stop thinking about worst case scenarios, so I know what Ella’s parents are going through right now. And hope, even if it is false hope, is the only thing that’s keeping them going.

(via officerkalakaua)

I’ll start commenting on the McDanno and Team scenes, even fewer than I thought, sadly.

The phone-call between Danny and Catherine… we see him quite relaxed, it makes sense, because it’s still an official mission, but he’s also worried for Steve, because he knows what he’s going through… so he’s planning how to comfort him when he will be back home, he calls him “my boy”… it’s really sweet, heartwarming… this scene made me happy.

Then there is the scene when Steve tells the team something didn’t go well, so they have to stay there some more… well, that seemed kind of bland to me, if we think of what happened in 2x10.. would have loved more intensity in this scene.

And then the ending scene… they are there for him… like a family… they just look at each other, but man, that was intense and moving.

Intense and moving… like the whole funeral scene, the scene when Steve finds Freddie’s dead body and looks at him crying, the last scene with Steve and Freddie together, the fact that we realize Steve lost his friend and his father one after another… my poor baby… Alex pulled it off amazingly… he’s such a great actor!

I loved all his interactions with Freddie… too bad they used one of their scenes to try to push again the Steve/Catherine pairing on us. I will forgive ( ;) )Freddie because unfortunately he didn’t have a chance to see Steve and Danny together, otherwise he would have realized they are the real deal, but… Why try to sell on those terms the Steve/Catherine relationship? Sometimes it seems like they barely know each other, they barely were in each other’s lives in the first two seasons… And - just my opinion - their lack of chemistry – as I said once – is larger than the Grand Canyon: even in their supposed bonding scenes (there are a couple of them in this episode) they seem light-years distant to me…

What there is between two characters/people shows up by the way they look at each other, they talk to each other, by the things they do for each other… there is no need to “subtitle” that… and – again, just my opinion – what I see between Steve and Catherine is just a friendship and one they need to work on, actually, because it has serious flaws.

Before watching this episode I wondered why – if it wasn’t an official mission, like the promo made us think – Steve didn’t go with the team. Then we knew it was actually an official mission, so okay, he couldn’t go with them, and I’m ignorant about military rules, honestly, so I don’t know if there was or wasn’t a reason for Catherine to be there… but the scene where she told Steve she’s as qualified as he his… well I couldn’t help thinking she’s rrrrreally full of herself.

I loved the Steve parts, I loved knowing more about him, I loved Alex, Steve is my favorite character, if I have to choose, but what I love the most is to see him interacting with Danny, of course, and with the team. The team is the main character of this show. I will never get tired to repeat it: McDanno and Team are what make this show magic, unique… I hope the writers will always remember this.

Lately I happened to read some opinions about Danny Williams’ character that left me pretty confused, for sure surprised of how much the same character can be seen by different people.

Basically, I realized that some people see Danny pretty much as a whiney sidekick often used as comic relief. Like I said, perceptions are very subjective, personal, but this made me want to explain why, in my opinion, Danny is much, much more than this and all the reasons why I love this character.

Danny is the man who left his home and his family to follow his daughter in a place where he felt and sometimes still feels like a “fish out of the water”. He is the man who adapted himself to live pretty bad and uncomfortable places, who had to fight, and pretty hard, for his parental rights, finding himself literally begging his ex wife not to take his daughter away from him. He’s also the man who grew stronger and more confident about this and who fought in front of a court, when the time came, so he wouldn’t be anymore at the mercy of Rachel’s decisions about Grace. 

He’s the man who’s not afraid or ashamed to admit how much he suffered after his marriage failed, how much depressed he got in those awful months.

He’s the man who’s so good with children, who loves immensely his daughter… she is his everything, she is his life, she is his breath.

He is the man who did anything he could to clear the name of his friend and partner Meka.

The man who stayed next to Chin when he had a bomb around his neck, risking his own life, who was next to him when Malia died, trying to lessen his pain and making him feel he wasn’t alone.

The man who went through  horribly frightening situations fearing nothing as long as he could protect the ones he loves, who’s next to them through good and bad times, who is willing to do anything for them and proved this multiple times.

The man who suffered because of his brother betrayal of all the values he and their family believe in, who helped his ex wife delivering the baby he thought for a while as his own.  

The man who holds dear the memory of the people he lost.

The man who does his job greatly, who is also a hothead sometimes, who gives the best and tightest hugs, who makes the silliest jokes and thinks they’re funny, who gives the fondest smiles and laughs with his heart and eyes, who has the sassiest attitude but is also so, so sweet.

And, last but definitely not least, who is brought to life by that wonder of nature that is Scott Caan, who gives him heart and soul, giving us, along with the writers, one of the best characters I’ve ever known.

This is by far one of my favorite McDanno fanfictions: sweet, hot, domestic… a must read! 

“The thing I like the most is the character stuff, is the relationship between McGarrett and Danno, watching that kind of evolve, watching the arc of that take place and progress.”

This episode left me struck with McDanno awe.

I don’t even know how many times I watched the scene where Danny fixes Steve’s tie… definitely one of the best McDanno scenes I’ve ever seen:

- Danny stunned by how good his husband looks. “Wow.”

- “It’s for you. I wore it for you”. 

- Danny reaching to touch Steve who freaks out for a moment… do you think that if he doesn’t touch you people won’t think you’re married? Pfhhhh.

- Both of them looking around before Danny fixes Steve’s tie. Again, do you think you can fool anyone?

- “Come here. Come here”. “I’m here”.

- Steve avoiding eye-contact with Danny while he fixes the tie. Too scared to lose control and just going for a kiss?

- Their perfect synchrony.

- Their looks.

- Their little touches.

The court scene.

- Steve being almost as nervous as Danny.

- Steve’s face when Danny says he hates that place but, most of all, when he says that now Hawaii is their home.

- That’s not just the two of us, and you know it.

- Steve’s speech in favor of Danny.

- He’s my friend. He’s my close friend. He’s the man I love with all my heart.

Let’s not forget how Danny challenges Steve over the whole governor situation and the fact that Steve admits that he fears the consequences of refusing to do as the governor says…

Well, also the fact that Steve keeps staring at Danny’s neckline… and I totally understand why.

“Wo Fat, Danny!” “Forget it! Let’s go! Forget it!”

 

The ending scene.

- Seeing them sitting on those chairs is so heartwarming, brings sweet memories pilot related and make them look so much like a married couple…

- “We are going to find him. I promise.”

- Governor, I like you but… you have to make amends for interrupting Steve’s speech and cockblocking this moment, so.. you got to marry them, NOW!

- “She’s not moving.” *.*

- The hug! <3

- The way the still touch each other right after the hug.

- “You’re welcome. I’ll remind you of that later”. “I’m sure you will”. So, I get that the governor purpose in this scene was to keep it PG-rated…

- “To Hawaii” *.*

- The way Steve looks at Danny in this scene… I don’t even have words.

- Come on guys, the governor is there… you can make honest men out of each other!

Hawaii Five-0 - Episode 3.14 - Hana I Wa ‘Ia - Sneak Peek 

OH MY! I CAN’T BREATH!

“Love is the mystery of water and a star.” 

- Pablo Neruda

Yo, how long you two been married?

You talking to your wife?

How long have you two been married?

I’m gonna be your marriage counselor.

Your dads are here to pick you up.

What I love the most about scenes like these is Steve and Danny reaction to people who assume they are married and/or treat them like a married couple: they don’t even try to deny it! And how many times do this happen to them? I can tell you I’m writing and watching in my head every possible situation ;) 

What irks me the most about the 3.11 ending scene, beside of the fact that I’m clearly not a Steve/Cath shipper, is the fact that Steve is so out of character. He’s not the theatrical gestures kind of guy, he’s the guy who does discreet, significant gestures, who doesn’t have to prove anything to the people, he only wants to prove his love and affection to the person he cares about. Remember the pilot, when he gives those tickets to Danny, at the end of the episode? There’s just the two of them, he wants it to be like this, he even looks around to make sure that nobody can see that private moment between Danny and him. This is Steve. He’s all about the facts, all about the deep connection that two people can feel even through a little touch, through a look, through a smile, through a hug that you want never to end.

Could one of you talented people make a gif of the smile Steve gives Danny after he helps him out of the water, right before he asks him how’s the arm? Thank you in advance!