Yes, yes! Or maybe Danny finds it in McGarrett senior's stuff, because he was too paranoid, and too worried about Steve and Mary to let anyone know where they were going, and didn't pass it on as he'd promised Steve to do.
OR Danny might get the letter -- but Steve had been so distraught when he'd written it that it's literally no more than a note, explaining what's happened and promising to keep in touch -- only the email address he'd scribbled is smudged by said suspicious drop-like spots, and Danny never does work out what it's supposed to say, and so he can't write. And so they lose touch.
And then -- 15 years later! And maybe Steve will find the letter at some point, maybe when he's helping Danny move in with him later on, and it will be almost transparent from having been read so many times, folded and refolded, and just held, and he can see the smudged ink, and he'll know why Danny had never written, AND HE WILL LOVE HIM EVEN MORE.
But you have to fix it with a happy ending, you hear? -- ARE YOU EVEN KIDDING?! I cannot, cannot NOT write a happy ending. It's engraved in my genes, this need to have a happy ending. Like Ms Austen once said, [paraphrased] "If I can't have a happy ending, then by god I will at least give my heroine one." I live by this rule. You have nothing to fear! <3
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Date: 2011-01-26 05:36 pm (UTC)OR Danny might get the letter -- but Steve had been so distraught when he'd written it that it's literally no more than a note, explaining what's happened and promising to keep in touch -- only the email address he'd scribbled is smudged by said suspicious drop-like spots, and Danny never does work out what it's supposed to say, and so he can't write. And so they lose touch.
And then -- 15 years later! And maybe Steve will find the letter at some point, maybe when he's helping Danny move in with him later on, and it will be almost transparent from having been read so many times, folded and refolded, and just held, and he can see the smudged ink, and he'll know why Danny had never written, AND HE WILL LOVE HIM EVEN MORE.
But you have to fix it with a happy ending, you hear? -- ARE YOU EVEN KIDDING?! I cannot, cannot NOT write a happy ending. It's engraved in my genes, this need to have a happy ending. Like Ms Austen once said, [paraphrased] "If I can't have a happy ending, then by god I will at least give my heroine one." I live by this rule. You have nothing to fear! <3