I think we'd have to, really, if we want to get the feel of it right. And Danny can grumble some more about it being some sort of coded exchange, and can't they just speak English already?! And then Steve will smile at him, and Danny will get a little weak at the knees, which will only annoy him more.
Re: brainstorming... can you actually remember what Steve said about his dad sending him away? When did that happen? Because I have this idea -- what if Steve gets shipped off to mainland after he graduates, and he joins the Navy, and sort of loses touch with Danny? And Danny goes back to Jersey, and becomes a cop, and meets Rachel, and has Gracie, and because the world hates him, once they divorce Rachel moves to the same pineapple-infested hellhole that he'd had to endure for a whole year once, and that reminds him of bloody Steve at every corner, Steve whom he's never quite managed to forget, not even when he'd fallen in love with Rachel, there's always been this niggling pain somewhere in his chest that Steve had to go away, and Rachel has always wondered why Danny watches CNN and foreign correspondents obsessively, but Danny's always put her off when she asked; and then one day, a couple months after he's back on that damn island, he gets a call, and Steve's dad is dead, and he goes to investigate (he asks for the case, because, of course, he knew McGarrett senior, if only vaguely), and then he hears that voice that has haunted his dreams for the past ten years telling him to drop his weapon...
What do you think? Too much? Melodramatic? Should I have it end happily ever after back in high school? But this damn idea won't leave me alone! Grr.
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Re: brainstorming... can you actually remember what Steve said about his dad sending him away? When did that happen? Because I have this idea -- what if Steve gets shipped off to mainland after he graduates, and he joins the Navy, and sort of loses touch with Danny? And Danny goes back to Jersey, and becomes a cop, and meets Rachel, and has Gracie, and because the world hates him, once they divorce Rachel moves to the same pineapple-infested hellhole that he'd had to endure for a whole year once, and that reminds him of bloody Steve at every corner, Steve whom he's never quite managed to forget, not even when he'd fallen in love with Rachel, there's always been this niggling pain somewhere in his chest that Steve had to go away, and Rachel has always wondered why Danny watches CNN and foreign correspondents obsessively, but Danny's always put her off when she asked; and then one day, a couple months after he's back on that damn island, he gets a call, and Steve's dad is dead, and he goes to investigate (he asks for the case, because, of course, he knew McGarrett senior, if only vaguely), and then he hears that voice that has haunted his dreams for the past ten years telling him to drop his weapon...
What do you think? Too much? Melodramatic? Should I have it end happily ever after back in high school? But this damn idea won't leave me alone! Grr.