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The first time Danny had been kissed under a sprig of mistletoe, he’d been seven. It was elementary school and he and Suzy-Lu were caught together. He kissed her on the cheek and she slapped him to the cheers of the rest of their second grade class. Danny had a crush on her that lasted all the way until high school, when it came out she wasn’t even interested in men at all, and after that they became best friends.
Suzy-Lu had been the one to get Danny interested into joining the police force and by some stroke of fate they’d ended up being partners. This lasted until Danny and Rachel’s divorce and his subsequent move to Hawaii.
Suzy-Lu still sends him Christmas cards every year though, always with that same picture some well-meaning mother had taken of Danny’s bright red cheek and the tears in his child blue eyes.
Danny and Rachel had never been caught under mistletoe, though Danny and Grace had and, laughing, he’d kissed his daughter on the forehead.
Someone had placed mistletoe in the doorway leading into the H50 office. Danny suspected Kono, though he couldn’t be sure. He and Chin ended up being stuck under it and she’d stopped them, camera phone out, with a cheeky grin.
Danny looked at Chin with a raised eyebrow, ready to protest loudly, but Chin just smirked at him and landed a quick one on his lips.
Danny stood there, watching his colleague go with a gobsmacked expression. Kono couldn’t stop laughing and Chin stopped by her to check how the picture had turned out.
"Did I just see you kissing Chin?" Steve asked, coming up behind Danny.
Danny looked around at his partner and then, with an air of dread, pointed up to where the mistletoe hung. Steve followed his finger and frowned.
"Come on, boss!" Kono said. "You’ve got to do it now. Two for one, Danny."
Danny sighed, but inwardly his heart was pounding a bit. He and Steve never had discussed this strange push and pull of attraction between them.
Steve looked down at him from his monstrous height, and then over at where Chin and Kono stood waiting. He didn’t look happy and Danny made the executive decision to get it over with. He kissed Steve quickly on the side of the mouth and then pulled back.
Steve didn’t say anything as Danny walked about.
Kono sent him a copy of both pictures. He printed out the one of him and Steve, Steve’s face dark with some unnamed emotion, and put it on the fridge next to the one of him and Suzy-Lu. At least, he thought, he hadn’t been slapped.