Ohana Mea
(Family Matters)
Author's Note: - This story is a prequel to my other story Laukona (Heartless). "Family Matters" takes place four weeks before my other story takes place.
Chapter 1:-
It was 2:30am and a tropical storm had just swept into Hawaii on a hot and balmy night. The rain was heavy, making the humidity worse than it already was and the wind was intensely strong, slightly easing the effects of the humidity. But this wouldn't stop a violent home invasion on an innocent family of four in Kahala.
With an all mighty swing of a sledge hammer; a window was easily smashed and the two home invaders quickly made their way into the two storey Kahala home. Making their way up the stairs they hear footsteps coming down the hallway. It was Glen Malvern, the owner of the house who was coming downstairs after he heard the smashing window. The two invaders made themselves scarce and quickly got into position to take down Mr. Malvern. As Glen walked down the stairs, the two invaders made their move and pushed him down the stairs. Being pushed down the stairs caused Glen to break his neck, killing him almost instantly. Once the two invaders had taken care of Mr. Malvern, they headed towards his bedroom to take care of Belinda Malvern, his wife.
Belinda was sleeping quietly; completely unaware that her husband had just been killed. One of the two home invaders then quietly walked up to Mrs. Malvern's bed, raised the sledge hammer they had used to smash the window and swung it down straight on top of her head, killing her instantly.
The next task was the one that the two home invaders were both dreading, but agreed to do anyway. Kill the two Malvern children. The home invaders took careful measures not wake up the two sleeping children as the crept quietly into their bedrooms. The only way that these two home invaders had agreed to kill the children, was to do it without any violence. So, the both pulled a syringe from their pockets and injected something into their necks, which would kill them. Whatever it was, it was a high enough dose to kill them in their sleep.
The two home invaders then ran back down the stairs, past Glen Malvern's body and out the front door, rather than the smashed window, as it was a much faster way to get out of the house. The reason they had used the door rather than the smashed window, was because they were afraid someone may have heard them and they wanted to make their escape quiet and quick. The two now criminals made their way to a waiting black van, climbed in, closed the door and sped off.
It's about 10am in Hawaii and Steve had made his way over to Danny's house. It was supposed to be their day off and they had both agreed to hang out for the day. Steve knew that being their day off, Danny would probably just getting up to make himself and Steve something for breakfast and he was dreading that Danny was probably going to serve him his horrible, horrible scrambled eggs. Danny knew full well how Steve felt about his eggs, but continued to give them to him anyway.
Danny then heard a knock at the door; he automatically knew that it was Steve. He then quickly serves up his scrambled eggs and then runs to answer the door where the impatient Navy SEAL was continuously knocking. Patience never being Steve's strong suit was one of the things that annoyed Danny the most about Steve.
Danny reaches the front door and opens it and lets Steve in. But not before complaining to Steve about his patience issues.
"Seriously, no one knows more than me that you have patience issues, okay" Danny complained.
"But come on! How many time do you need to knock the door before someone answers it?" he asks rhetorically.
Heading down Danny's hallway Steve instantly smells the scrambled eggs. What Steve had been dreading that morning; had indeed happened, Danny's scrambled eggs.
"You know I've told you that your eggs are terrible right?" Steve asked.
"Yeah I know, but you're in my house, so you have no say on what I make you for breakfast" Danny replied with a smirk on his face.
"Yeah?" Steve asked.
"Yeah" Danny answered.
"But you said nothing about me having to eat them" said Steve.
Danny then nodded in defeat.
"But could you at least take a bite?" Danny asked.
Steve then reluctantly picked up a fork to take a bite of Danny's scrambled eggs. As soon as Steve put the eggs in his mouth, he gagged, but managed to swallow the scrambled eggs.
"Now, was that so bad?" Danny asked.
Steve then nodded, answering Danny's question.
"You got any mouthwash?" Steve asked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Danny asked.
Breaking the awkward was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it" said Steve in an effort to escape the awkward situation he had created with Danny.
Steve approaches the door and then answers it.
Standing at the door was woman. She was about Danny's height, had long brown wavy hair; and she was wearing a floral summer dress that went down to just above her knees. Steve automatically knew that she wasn't a local, definitely from the mainland. As soon as she opened her mouth, it confirmed his observations.
"Hi, I think I may have wrong house" said the woman. "Does Danny Williams live here?" she asked.
"Who wants to know?" Steve asked.
"Who's asking?" she asked.
"I see want you did there" said Steve.
The woman then displayed a cheeky grin on her face.
"Steve McGarrett, I'm Danny's partner" said Steve.
"In that case, I'm April Williams" said the woman. "Danny's little sister" she says as she puts her arm out to shake Steve's hand.
"So you're Steve huh" said April. "Danny's told me a lot about you" she added.
"All good I hope" said Steve.
"Well most of it was complaining about how much of an animal you are. But other than that, all good" said April.
Steve and April then hear Danny coming towards the front door.
"Hey, how long does it take to answer the door?" asked Danny.
Immediately after saying this, he sees his smiling little sister standing outside the front door. This then brings a smile to his face. He hadn't seen his sister since he moved to Hawaii.
"Hey April, Hi" said Danny as he reached out to give her a hug. April was quick to return the gesture. Steve couldn't help but notice that while Danny and April were hugging, April was making a face as if the hug was causing her physical pain.
"Why didn't you tell me you coming to Hawaii?" Danny asked.
"Well I wanted to surprise you" replied April.
"And I guess I have good timing, because it looks like it's your day off"
"Why don't you come inside" said Danny as he and Steve helped April with her luggage.
"You should've told me you were coming, I would have made up a bed for you" said Danny.
"Well, what's stopping you from doing that now?" April asked.
Steve's phone then rings.
"McGarrett" Steve answers.
While Steve is on the phone, Danny and April head for the spare room with her luggage. Danny then realizes that April's boyfriend Nathan wasn't with her.
"Hey, where's Nathan?" asked Danny. "Why isn't he with you?"
"Well, I was able to get some time off work to come here, but Nathan couldn't" April answered. "So he said that it was okay if I went on my own"
Danny sensed that something wasn't quite right with April's answer. He could tell that something was a little off with his baby sister.
They were then interrupted when Steve entered the room.
"Sorry to have to break up this little family reunion, but Danny and I have to go work" said Steve.
"Seriously, I thought this was your day off" said April.
"It was" said Danny.
"It was great to finally meet you April" said Steve.
"Yeah and it's great to see you by the way" said Danny. "We'll catch up later okay"
"Okay" said April.
Danny and April the hugged each other again. Steve then saw the same face that April showed when they hugged last time. It also started to occur to Steve that something was a little off with Danny's little sister.