Hello people. Here's another go at a story.
Warnings: This does include McDanno. No smut. Child abuse. It's graphic. The suspect in this story is one sick bastard. Please, if this subject matter is triggering go away. Also, i DO NOT condone child abuse any any way shape or form. This is fictional. No, I'm not sick in the head.
Please leave constructive comments. If there's any comments about me being sick or that i enjoy hurting children you will be laughed off the soapbox.
The members of Five-O stood around the smart table looking at the photo of a man who stared back with flat black eyes. They didn't know it yet but this man would change their lives, especially Steve and Danny's.
"Ok," Chin started, "I know we know who this man is but we're gonna have a refresher course." He typed on the table to bring up more surveillance images. "Meet Dwayne Isaac, forty-six. He's the biggest human trafficker Hawaii's ever had the displeasure of knowing."
"Not this creep again." Danny mumbled.
"Afraid so, brah, but there's light at the end of the tunnel." Chin assured. "Dwayne Isaac has been the focal point of HPD's trafficking division for two years now and they finally caught a break."
The other three team members stood a little straighter. Two years previous HPD had brought the case to Five-O hoping they could catch the evil man. His specialty was young girls, girls who were barely developed yet and still had their natural innocence. The problem was no one could get a lock on Isaac's whereabouts or where he kept the girls. The middlemen were caught, questioned and processed but nothing came to fruitation. Nobody wanted to give up the boss, instead choosing to go to jail rather than deal with the fallout of being a rat.
The governor had made the case high priority after a fishing vessal discovered the bodies of six preteen girls in the ocean. Getting the report back from the M.E. had devastated all law enforcement involved. The poor girls bodies were in such bad shape; Dr. Bergman had found evidence of mulitple rapes, healed broken bones and scar tissue that suggested they were bound for a significant amount of time. It was no doubt the work of Isaac and after bringing in a Profiler to explain why he would get rid of the girls, the team memebers were sick. Apparently they got to old for him and his clientele so he got rid of them. Threw them in the ocean like forgotten trash.
With Isaac off the radar and no physical evidence to tie him to the girls bodies the case went cold, but not forgotten. Five-O took it especially hard as they notified families of their dead children, children who'd been missing for so long hope was completely depleated from the parents. Poor Kono had only been a cop for a year and it hadn't been her first gruesome case but the first time she had to help deliver news about a dead child. Afterwards she held on to Chin, crying on the ride back to HQ, her cousin a mask of stoicism but storming beneath the calm. Steve didn't have children of his own and at the time he couldnt have imagined being in those parents place, getting the worse news they'd ever receive. It pissed him off to have nothing to give them in return, no justice to offer. But Danny, his poor partner took the case so hard he spent more than a few nights at Steve's, drunk and mumbling Grace's name over and over in complete despair.
"What break, cuz?" Kono's hopeful voice broke the men out of their thoughts.
Chin smiled and pulled a photo up on the screen that had Isaac looking a little worse for wear.
Steve stepped closer to the monitor, "Is that a recent photo?"
'Yes it is, Steve."
Danny threw his arms up in the air, "It's about time. How'd we get this?"
"Seems like Dwayne has gotten comfortable being untouchable and's venturing out on the island. HPD took this photo three days ago. Since then they've had a tail on him." Chin pulled up another photo of a compound in the jungle. "And here's where they've seen him coming and going."
"How come they haven't taken him down yet?" Kono asked.
"They just got the intel and passed it to us."
Steve stared at the screen of the compound imagining what they were going to find. "Danny, get on the phone with HPD and SWAT, coordinate a raid in two hours. Chin, I want a map of exactly where were going and if possible any blue prints of the building. Kono, I need you to get in touch with EMS, we'll most likely need multiple busses for possible survivors. Get on the phone with the hospital and give them a heads up too."
Orders given the four team members dispersed their separate ways.
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With Five-O leading the way the small brigade of law enforcement vehicles stopped a quarter mile out from the compound. After the team strapped on TAC vests and weaponry they met in a circle with HPD and SWAT.
Steve gripped the front of his vest as he looked to the group. "We're going after Dwayne Isaac today. He's known for trafficking little girls so watch for possible hostages and God knows, watch where you're shooting. This man should be considered armed and dangerous. My team will follow behind SWAT as they infiltrate the building. We need HPD to watch the exterior of the building for runners and help with any survivors. We have EMS on standby. Any questions?"
Taking the silence as confirmation everyone was on the same page Steve nodded and signaled for them to move. The compound was quiet as Five-O and SWAT saddled up to the side of the building, HPD hanging back a bit to get a good vantage point of anyone trying to escape. As they waited for the SWAT team to get in position Danny laid his hand on Steve's arm.
"I don't know if I won't kill Isaac." He whispered not batting an eye.
Steve stared into his partner's blue eyes searching for any doubt and saw none. "This ends today, Danny." He assured.
The lead SWAT officer got Steve's attention and nodded, "You ready Commander McGarrett?"
Steve glanced behind him and briefly locked eyes with each member of his team before turning back, "Let's do this."
At Steve's confirmation the team gripped their weapons tighter and a steady breath could be heard exhaling just as the doors were rammed in.
Five-O fell in behind SWAT as they rushed a group of men who jumped up to scatter. Steve and Danny went down a hall and to the left as Chin and Kono did the same on the right. They heard a yell of 'clear' from the entrance as they pushed on.
The small dimly lit room Steve and Danny found themsleves in was permeated with the smell of urine, mold, sweat and something else they didn't want to think too hard about. What they found though stopped them dead in their tracks, shocking them so bad they dropped their weapons to the side' safety be damned. Cages, a dozen of them, held the motionless bodies of little girls. A shout of 'clear' in their ears barely registered to Steve and Danny as they stared into the cages.
A loud gasp of *oh my God* shook Steve and his head snapped up in time to see Kono lean over and puke.
"I can't. I can't, boss. Sorry." Kono turned running from the room.
The three men could hear each other breathing heavily. Steve looked over to Danny, his partner in every way, and felt something inside himself snap at the devastation he found. He rushed to one of the cages, kicking the small padlock off before dropping to his knees. The cage was small, just big enough for a large breed of dog but Steve managed to squeeze half his body in next to the motionless little girl. She looked to be around eight, her dark skin and hair indicating she was a native Hawaiian. He knew, even as he rested a shaking hand on her pulse point that she was dead. Her open eyes were lifeless and dull, her lips tinged blue, her skin cold. Steve rested his hand on her small chest as he dropped his head reminding himself how to breathe. This wasn't suppose to happen.
"Steve.' Chin's soft voice called out to him. "She's gone."
"I know." His shaking voice replied. " I just- I don't know."
"Commander McGarrett, we need a status report." Steve heard a voice through his earpiece. He carefully extracted himself from the cage and sighed as he answered. "No survivors. Send in the M.E., we have at least a dozen bodies."
There was a moment before the voice came back again more subdued, "Yes sir."
"Do we have eyes on Isaac?" Danny asked through his radio.
"Negative. We have ten men in custody."
Without answering Danny turned and charged from the room with a distinct sound of him cocking his gun.
Steve and Chin ran out of the room after Danny, not sure on what the man intended to do. The answer wasn't too surprising to Steve as he found his partner aiming a gun at one of the men's face.
"Where's Isaac?" Danny asked in such a calm voice a person who didn't know Danny would think he was under control. Steve knew better though. Knew if the man wasn't waving his hands and raising his voice he was about to lose it.
"Who?" The man answered mildly.
Danny punched the man so hard in the face a tooth went flying out of his mouth. A SWAT officer standing by stepped forward to intervene but stopped at the shake of Steve's head.
"I'm not in the mood for games!" Danny shouted in the man's face. "The man who's responsible for killing at those babies in the other room."
The man spit blood on the floor and had the audacity to smile at Danny, "I don't know who you're talking about."
Danny lost all his composure. He jumped on the man, straddling him before hitting him in the face again, again, and again.
"Danny!" Steve shouted at his partner as he struggled to get him off the unconscious man. Steve managed to grab Danny around his chest pinning his arms at his sides. "Stop. You can't kill him."
"Get him outta here, Steve." Chin put a hand on Steve's shoulder. "I'll get things processed in here."
Steve nodded a thanks to Chin before manhandling his partner out the door. He moved his arms from around Danny's chest and instead intertwined their fingers as he led them towards the Camero for some privacy. He stopped at the back of the car to find Danny with silent tears running down his face.
"Talk to me, Danno." Steve ordred softly as he squeezed his hand in encouragement.
Danny took a shuddering breath before looking into Steve's eyes. He shook his head, "I keep seeing Grace's face in that cage. I was looking at that little girl, dead and she looks so much like my monkey. God, Steve, how can someone do something like that to a kid?"
"I don't know, Danny, he's an evil son of a bitch. We're gonna get him though, he's not gonna get away with this."
Danny wiped at his face and nodded, "That's why they called us, babe."
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The team regrouped themselves enough to go back in and finish processing the scene. Kono came back determined, Steve waving off her apology for abruptly leaving.
The men found in the building were all taken back to HPD to be processed for evidence and questioned while Five-O stayed behind. The four team members stood in the room with the now empty cages.
"Ok, why did Isaac kill the girls?" Kono asked.
"They hadn't aged out." Chin supplied.
Steve rested his hands on his hips as he looked around, "My guess is Isaac somehow got wind that we were closing in on him."
"That or he got paranoid." Danny chimed in. "The HPD tail said that Isaac was acting erratic. Maybe he was finally losing his shit."
Chin nodded. "It's possible. You definitely have to be a certain brand of crazy to do this."
Kono opened her mouth to reply but stopped when a shuffling sound caught her attention. She pulled her gun from the holster and snapped her fingers to get the rest of the team's eyes on her. As Steve's eyes locked on hers, Kono motioned toward a huge cabinet off to the left.
Steve and Danny took point, unholstering their guns. Danny held up three fingers to count down as they heard a small bumping noise. As he got to one he quickly pulled the cabinet door open as Steve stepped forward letting his gun lead him.
Danny, Chin and Kono gathered around Steve and found themselves looking at a scared girl with her arms chained high above her head. She had big, scared, hazel eyes, pale skin covered in different shades of bruising and the most heartbreaking expression.
Thanks for reading. If you've made it this far and think I should continue please do tell. Laters.