Hawaii Five-0 fic: 'Mamo's Books and Music' (masterpost)
Title: Mamo's Books and Music.
Pairing: Steve/Danny, plus background M/F and F/F pairings of various canon characters.
Rating: R for language and non-explicit sexual content.
Warnings: references to chronic pain, combat injuries and deaths, and psychological trauma.
Spoilers: none - it's an AU where the Five-0 taskforce doesn't exist.
Word Count: 29,000 words.
Summary: Steve is an ex-SEAL, badly wounded in Afghanistan; Chin is an ex-violinist, kicked out of the HPO in disgrace. Together they own Mamo's, the best classical music and book store in Honolulu. Then one day, a Jersey cop named Danny walks in...
Author's notes: I started writing this story in October, as a comment!fic for leupagus's 'Damn, Your Fandom Is Good At What You Do' fest. This is the significantly revised and expanded version.
Thanks to leupagus, for giving me the idea in the first place, and to all the lovely commenters who encouraged me to keep going. Particular thanks to zolac_no_miko for her advice on Hawaiian vocab, and to silmanumenel for her very helpful concrit.
You can read the entire story at AO3, or read chapter by chapter here on LJ:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Epilogue
Pairing: Steve/Danny, plus background M/F and F/F pairings of various canon characters.
Rating: R for language and non-explicit sexual content.
Warnings: references to chronic pain, combat injuries and deaths, and psychological trauma.
Spoilers: none - it's an AU where the Five-0 taskforce doesn't exist.
Word Count: 29,000 words.
Summary: Steve is an ex-SEAL, badly wounded in Afghanistan; Chin is an ex-violinist, kicked out of the HPO in disgrace. Together they own Mamo's, the best classical music and book store in Honolulu. Then one day, a Jersey cop named Danny walks in...
Author's notes: I started writing this story in October, as a comment!fic for leupagus's 'Damn, Your Fandom Is Good At What You Do' fest. This is the significantly revised and expanded version.
Thanks to leupagus, for giving me the idea in the first place, and to all the lovely commenters who encouraged me to keep going. Particular thanks to zolac_no_miko for her advice on Hawaiian vocab, and to silmanumenel for her very helpful concrit.
You can read the entire story at AO3, or read chapter by chapter here on LJ:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Epilogue