Hawaii Five-0 Ficlet - Beautiful Bride
Title: Beautiful Bride
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Danny, Grace
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Dancing with Grace at her wedding just drives home the fact that she’s not a little girl anymore.
Word Count: 420
Written For: brumeier’s prompt ‘Hawaii Five-0, Danny Williams/Steve McGarrett + Grace Williams, father-daughter dance at the wedding (you decide whose wedding),’ at comment_fic.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Hawaii Five-0, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
Kids grow up too fast. True fact. One minute you’re terrified, cradling this tiny, vulnerable little scrap of humanity in your arms, and knowing your life is never going to be the same again. The next minute you’re holding this beautiful, elegant young woman in a long, white gown, she’s smiling at you, and you can’t help wondering where your little girl went.
Grace looks positively radiant, and Danny wants to be completely happy for her, but he can’t quite manage it, because this day is the final proof that his little girl is gone, never to return. He’s proud of the woman she’s grown into, of course he is. What father wouldn’t be? But it still hurts, and he’d turn back the clock, re-live her childhood all over again if only he could, because he feels like he missed out on so much, and he wants a second chance even if he knows that’s an impossible dream.
She’s taller than he is now, as tall as her mother, making Danny feel a little awkward dancing with her. He tells himself it’s the heels she’s wearing, but he saw her shoes, helped her to pick them out. Hell, he paid for them, and truth is they’re not that high; she’s simply grown, the way kids do. When did that happen? It seems like only yesterday that he could rest his chin on the top of her head when he hugged her. Now he’d have to stand on a box to do that.
This is Grace’s special day though, and Danny’s not about to spoil it for her by being sad and moody, so instead he smiles back, his heart filled with so much pride it might burst, and he twirls her across the dance floor, proving her old man still has the moves. He’s not past it yet.
“You, are the most beautiful bride in the universe, you know that? Love you, kiddo.”
“Love you too, Danno.” Her eyes are shining with happiness, and that’s really all that matters; that Grace is happy, and he gets to share that happiness with her. She’s not his little girl anymore, no matter that he can’t help still thinking of her that way, but she’ll always be his daughter. Nothing and no one can ever change that. He’d been right that first time he’d held her, cradled gently in his arms; she’d changed his life forever, in more ways than he ever could have imagined, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
The End
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Danny, Grace
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Dancing with Grace at her wedding just drives home the fact that she’s not a little girl anymore.
Word Count: 420
Written For: brumeier’s prompt ‘Hawaii Five-0, Danny Williams/Steve McGarrett + Grace Williams, father-daughter dance at the wedding (you decide whose wedding),’ at comment_fic.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Hawaii Five-0, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
Kids grow up too fast. True fact. One minute you’re terrified, cradling this tiny, vulnerable little scrap of humanity in your arms, and knowing your life is never going to be the same again. The next minute you’re holding this beautiful, elegant young woman in a long, white gown, she’s smiling at you, and you can’t help wondering where your little girl went.
Grace looks positively radiant, and Danny wants to be completely happy for her, but he can’t quite manage it, because this day is the final proof that his little girl is gone, never to return. He’s proud of the woman she’s grown into, of course he is. What father wouldn’t be? But it still hurts, and he’d turn back the clock, re-live her childhood all over again if only he could, because he feels like he missed out on so much, and he wants a second chance even if he knows that’s an impossible dream.
She’s taller than he is now, as tall as her mother, making Danny feel a little awkward dancing with her. He tells himself it’s the heels she’s wearing, but he saw her shoes, helped her to pick them out. Hell, he paid for them, and truth is they’re not that high; she’s simply grown, the way kids do. When did that happen? It seems like only yesterday that he could rest his chin on the top of her head when he hugged her. Now he’d have to stand on a box to do that.
This is Grace’s special day though, and Danny’s not about to spoil it for her by being sad and moody, so instead he smiles back, his heart filled with so much pride it might burst, and he twirls her across the dance floor, proving her old man still has the moves. He’s not past it yet.
“You, are the most beautiful bride in the universe, you know that? Love you, kiddo.”
“Love you too, Danno.” Her eyes are shining with happiness, and that’s really all that matters; that Grace is happy, and he gets to share that happiness with her. She’s not his little girl anymore, no matter that he can’t help still thinking of her that way, but she’ll always be his daughter. Nothing and no one can ever change that. He’d been right that first time he’d held her, cradled gently in his arms; she’d changed his life forever, in more ways than he ever could have imagined, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
The End