After leaving the house Steve and Lila headed to HPD to get the information on his dad's case since it's now their case to investigate.

Once they got the information from them they headed towards Danny's apartment because Steve has decided to make him their partner on the Task Force and Lila thought it was a good idea.

The cab pulls up outside of Danny's place Lila has a smirk on her face and Steve notices "what's with the smirk, Lila?"

She grins at him "Oh you know just the fact that messing with my little brother is hilarious because he hasn't recognized me yet."

Steve smiles at her "okay that makes sense and it explains why you've been so smug since we left him at the house"

She shrugs "well I recognized him when I heard him talk but he has yet to put the pieces together and I'm not saying a word until he puts it together himself, I know he kinda recognized me but he hasn't completely figured it out yet... I did tell him my name so that should have tipped him off"

Steve shakes his head "of course your not Lila"

she grins back at him "well come on then let's get in there and piss my little bro off even more"

Steve smirks and they get out of the taxi in the pouring rain and we walk up to the door Steve knocks on the door. Danny opens the door and Steve starts talking "We swung by your precinct, spoke to your captain, he said you requested a wire to be put on someone named Fred Doran, tell me about it"

Then he just walks in not even waiting to be invited in. Lila shakes her head with a chuckle as she steps in behind Steve.

Danny then says "Come in" after they were already inside and he shuts the door. Steve picks up a picture of Gracie...Lila's niece and Danny's daughter.

Lila has only met her once. Danny wasn't home then, and she only had a little bit of time before she had to head back to base so Lila only got to see Rachel and meet Gracie, she didn't get to see Danny that day.

Steve picks the picture up "This your kid?"

Lila smirks as Danny gives him a look "yeah that's stunning detective work" the Steve picks up another picture and it's of Danny and Lila at their high school graduation aka the only time that Lila's mom could get her in a dress. "what about this one who's that?"

Lila takes the picture out of his hand "Let me see that... oh my god!"

Steve looks at me "what?" I shake my head "I'll tell you later" and then she bites back her laughter, so she doesn't give away that she is indeed the girl in the picture with Danny to her brother because she meant what she said she is going to completely let him figure it out on his own.

Danny looks at Steve "that's my sister" Danny looks at Lila "That is also my sister holding the picture, you know that was really funny back at the house Lila"

She grins at him "I thought it was too Daniel... god I knew it was you as soon as I heard you speak but I knew you'd have to think about it because it had been so long since we've seen each other"

He rolls his eyes at her as she pulls him into a hug but he hugs his sister back "so what are you doing here? and why are you with him?"

Lila puts the picture down next to the one of Grace and looks at her brother well "that's a bit of a long story but technically I'm here just here for moral support but with my impressive Naval record the Governor wanted me on her task force as well so yeah and the answer to the other question well I already answered that partially.... Moral support"

Danny gives her a look "okay so how do you know him them?"

Lila smirks but decides that telling him about her and Steve right now would not go well so she decided to just omit bits and pieces of the story "Basically Steve and I met in Annapolis at the Naval Academy and we became best friends and we have been through pretty much everything together since the Naval Academy.... so that is part of it, I'll explain the other part at a later date but for now let's just focus on the case at hand"

Steve nods and looks back at Danny "you don't actually let your daughter stay here with you, do you?"

Danny steps forward "what are you Nanny 911?" Steve opens the file.

Lila is letting Steve handle most of the case stuff revolving around this case because it is his father and she is just there for him as someone to lean on and he knows that he can lean on her.

"So, what do you know about this guy... Doran?" Steve shows him a picture of the guy, Danny takes a seat in one of the chairs at the table and answers sarcastically "Oh, but surely you don't need my help, right?"

Steve looks at Danny "Enlighten me"

Danny gives him a flat look "he's a suspected arms dealer, two years Maui Correctional for weapons possession, he's currently a person of interest in an unrelated homicide. The weapon was never found"

"So what's he got to do with my father's case?"

"When I ran a ballistics comparison to the bullet that killed your dad, I got a hit on the Doran investigation, see I think the first thing that Hesse did when he got on the island was, hook up with Doran and get a gun."

Steve nods "and maybe Doran still knows where he is, so let's go talk to him"

Danny looks at him as we walk towards the door "whoa, whoa, whoa are you suffering from dementia? This is no longer my case"

Steve looks at Danny "your captain said you transferred in from New Jersey six months ago, so your eyes are still fresh"

Danny cuts in "you know, I appreciate it but my psych eval's not for six weeks"

"Fold out bed, no ring on your finger, you obviously moved here to be close to your daughter, which means between visits all you got is your job and you take pride in it, that's what we're looking for"

Steve turns to leave but Danny stops him "yeah but you know what? It's guys like you, they think they know how to do everything better and that only makes my job harder"

Steve shrugs at him while Lila smirk as Steve looks at Lila to continue "Well... The thing is you got no choice, Daniel, Governor gave us jurisdiction and we are making you our partner"

Steve nods and adds "we're going to get along great"

They walk out of Danny's place and out to his nice Camaro and Lila climbs in the back as Steve and Danny are in the front.

Driving down the road Danny's phone starts playing some horror movie sound and Lila smirks knowing that has to be Rachel. Danny ignores the call and sets his phone back down.

Steve glances over at him "I take it your marriage didn't end too well?"

"No... it would have had my ex not remarried and dragged my daughter to this pineapple infested hellhole"

Steve looks over at Danny "you don't like the beach?"

Lila snorts from the back seat and Steve looks at me "something you would like to share Lila?" she bites her lip "nope..... I'm good"

Danny glances back at me through the rearview mirror for a moment before answering Steve "I don't like the beach"

Steve looks at him "Who doesn't like the beach?"

Lila pipes up "I like the beach"

"I uh, I like cities, you know, skyscrapers, no tsunami's, no jellyfish"

"tell me you can swim."

Danny looks over at Steve "Can I swim?"

"You don't know how to swim?"

"I know how to swim... I swim for survival not fun"

Steve nods "alright"

Lila has to bite her lip to keep from laughing at their banter thinking 'well this is going to be interesting I can already tell that even more so when Danny realizes that Steve and I are together... god now that is a conversation that I don't want to be around for.'

Danny's phone plays the horror tone again and this time he answers it in an annoyed voice "yes, dear?"

Lila smirks but can't hear the reply but Danny instantly smiles and chuckles Lila smiles thinking 'so that must be Gracie'

"Hey monkey" Lila smirks having been proven right at her brother's reply "no, no, no I thought you were your mom"

"I am so glad that everybody liked Mr. Hoppy"

"I'm excited to baby, we're going to have so much fun this weekend"

"Hey... Danno loves you"

Lila smiles thinking 'awh that's so cute... But then again this is Gracie we're talking about and she is the cutest kid I've ever seen... Given I'm only saying that because she's my niece but still a cute kid.'

Danny hangs up the phone with a smile.

Steve looks at him "Who's Danno?"

Danny shakes his head "Don't"

Steve gives him a look "Hmm?"

Danny shakes his head "Just..." Danny trails off

Steve nods "okay" dropping it for now.

A bit later they pull up to the guy's house and Steve starts to get out but Danny calls out "Hey, you know this guy Doran's a shooter alright we shouldn't be doing this without back up" Steve moves and lets Lila out of the car.

Lila smirks at Danny "you are the backup little brother"

Steve shuts the passenger side door and Lila hears Danny talking to himself "I am the backup... of course, I am"

Steve and Lila start walking towards the door and a second later Danny gets out "Hey, hey slow down huh?" They start up the steps there is a crash and a woman speaks "you ruined my life!" Steve holds up a hand for Danny and Lila to stop and Lila falls into step right behind him and stops.

Danny is behind her and Steve pulls his gun out and Lila does the same, Danny goes up the stairs and to the other side of the door and grabs the woman as she comes out the door Doran calls out to her "get your ass back here!" then she bites Danny and there are gunshots and Danny gets hit and falls from the porch.

Lila looks at him "Danny!"

"Go! Go! Go!" He tells us so Steve chases him through the house while Lila goes around the side to try and cut Doran off.

But he's gone before she can get there so they chase him and he takes a woman hostage Steve is pointing his gun at Doran while Doran is threatening to kill the woman Lila rolls her eyes as she tries to come up to the side, Steve goes to put his gun down but Doran tries to shoot him anyway and that is when Lila puts a bullet in Doran.. there is no way in hell she is letting him hurt Steve... it's just not gonna happen.

Well, Danny and Lila shot at the same time but Lila's bullet is the one that put him down because it hit him first then Danny's hit him.

HPD is now on scene Steve and Lila are inside, she looks over at Steve "I'm sorry you didn't get Hesse's location out of Doran but I'm not sorry I shot him because he was going to shoot you and I had to do something... there was no way in hell that I was gonna let him hurt you"

He nods at her "it's alright Lila... we're just back to square one now"

They hear a sound while looking around the place. Steve opens the blocked door and they find a young girl tied up in the closet Lila crouches down in front of her figuring she'd be the less intimidating one in this situation "Hi, Sweetheart... what's your name?"

Steve crouches down beside his girlfriend and asks her in Chinese "Ni jiao shen ma ming z?" (What's your name) the girl looks at him "Chen-Chi"

Lila smiles at the girl "Chen-Chi"

Lila can speak a lot of languages, but Chinese isn't the strongest one, she can speak the basics of it but not like Steve, so she steps back and lets him handle this situation.

Lila walks out in front of Steve and Chen-Chi.

After getting her checked out by the paramedics Steve and Lila walk back over to Danny and Steve starts explaining to him "okay, she was smuggled in four days ago, in a cargo ship from China, with her parents, and a couple of hundred refugees, she get here she's traded to Doran"

Danny looks at him "okay, excuse me, I'm sorry, this is where you would usually say thank you for you know saving your life"

Lila smirks at Danny "well actually little brother I saved his life and he can thank me for it later" she shoots a wink at Steve after her last statement which apparently the wink and the double meaning behind her words go unnoticed by her brother but Steve shoots her a smirk back knowing exactly what she meant.

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Danny knows that Lila is his sister and she loves rubbing in that she's older than him but he is still clueless about her romantic relationship with Steve and that aspect I am going to keep for a while because I still stand by the way he finds out which won't be for quite a few more chapters.