Toi que je veux by allheadybooks (PG-13)

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Fandom: HAWAII FIVE-0
Pairing: Steve/Danny
Length: ~5k
Author on LJ: allheadybooks
Author Website: On AO3
Why this must be read:

Summary: Whatever, Steve, Danny thinks, you know you're hot, I know you're hot, did nobody ever tell you it's a dick move to tease your dyke friend?

I love gender/sex swap fics, particularly when they have something interesting to say about gender, and this one is excellent. The entire team is swapped, so Danny, Steve, and Chin are female, while Kono is male. But Danny totally steals the show here. She's tough and loud and everything we know from canon, and translated so perfectly I can't even stand it. I could just see her so clearly in my head, and Steve too. The dynamic between Steve and Danny is just as fiery and adorable and compelling as it is on the show. This is one of my favorite H50 fics, period, so I hope you'll give it a shot even if you don't generally read sex or gender swaps.

Excerpt:

"Steve," [Danny] says, hanging in the doorway with her best put-upon expression, "would you please do me the honor of accompanying my daughter and I to your stupid house on Saturday morning, you grenade-carrying lunatic?"

Steve grins that cute little grin, the one that dissolves every cynical impulse in Danny's body. She closes her laptop and crosses her forearms over it, fingers laced, her big-ass waterproof watch black against the tan of her skin. And Danny has a thing for butch women in watches or wrist cuffs, okay, it's like early imprinting from this girl she used to follow around first year of college, and she just rolls her eyes because Steve, Steve, Steve will just not quit it. She might not even know what she's doing.

"I'll take care of lunch," Steve says. "I have an idea."

"Oh, God, what have I just agreed to," Danny moans, clapping a palm to her forehead. "What, are you going to shoot a bird out of the sky, pluck the feathers out with your teeth and grill it over an open fire? Catch fish with your bare hands and rip it into sushi-sized chunks with your teeth? I cannot wait, Stephanie, to hear more about your idea."

Steve looks mildly affronted. "No," she says, "first of all, I would never give raw fish to a child, and I never trained to shoot birds, Danny. What exactly do you think I did in the Navy?"

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Link to fic: Toi que je veux
There is also a short sequel, which can be read as a stand-alone, here: Dropped (PG-13)