Pilikia

Zebraboymom

Disclaimer: Starlight star bright, first start I see tonight, bring the wish I wish tonight. Let me have Hawaii Five- 0.

Author Notes: This is a sequel to Nalowale Take Two, but you can read it as a stand- alone. The word for trouble in Hawaiian is pilikia. Steve and Kono are definitely in pilikia. This is for amblue36. Remember your request for my next story? Here it comes. Shirik I also know you love a wounded Steve. And for all of you who said they couldn't wait to see Wo Fat show up again, this story will have it all.

Danny had enough. He could not stand there and listen to one more screaming match between Steve and Kono. What the heck? He wondered if Chin could sense the sexual tension between the two officers. They had gone from being inseparable after the incident when Kono went undercover to not even being able to be in the same room together.

It started about two weeks after they "got together". Kono was chasing a perp and he threw her over a fence and down an incline. She cut her head on some wire during the fall and needed six stitches. Steve was a basket case and let the perp get away as he rushed to her side. She tried to wave him off, but he picked her up and carried her back to the SUV. Kono was struggling and bleeding all over him the entire way. When he finally put her down, she had slapped him hard in the face. He shoved her in the front seat, jumped in the car and peeled out of the parking lot forgetting all about Danny and Chin. When they finally got to the hospital, Kono was refusing to talk to Steve and asked Chin to take her home. They had been fighting ever since. He was pretty sure Kono had broken up with Steve and he was not handling it well. He stumbled into work the next day with what looked to be a huge hangover and Kono took a personal day. When they had both returned to work they didn't speak unless it related to the current case for the first two weeks and now for the last two weeks they had been at each other's throats.

"That is not going to work."

"I was a Navy Seal. I think I know what I'm doing here."

"You need a fourth for back up and I'm not on the roster."

"I want you to handle the tech stuff."

"No. You want me under lock and key because you don't think I can handle myself."

"No, that's not it."

"Bull. That is so it."

"You are so stubborn."

"I'm stubborn? What about the great Steve McGarrett? He's never wrong. He never makes a mistake. You act like you know everything, but you don't."

Danny tapped on Chin's shoulder and motioned towards the vending machines. They needed to work this out without an audience. Chin looked back over his shoulder and sighed, then followed Danny out and down the hall. They could hear their voices getting louder and louder.

"Oh, please. You are so transparent it's a joke. I may as well have left my badge and gun on the counter that day for good. You obviously aren't going to be able to change. I should just quit right now."

Steve started to panic. He could not lose her. He had to do something. He loved her. He knew it. He'd been miserable for the last month without her and he couldn't stand being apart from her.

"I'm done fighting with you Kono. If you want field work, you've got it!"

Steve walked out of the room and slammed his office door so hard the window rattled.

He clicked on his computer and started working on his obsession: finding Wo Fat. He spent the rest of the day glaring at Kono through his window as she wrote up the request forms and did other office work. Steve was going to catch Wo Fat if it was the last thing he did. He needed to do it for Kono and for all the other women he had hurt with his sex trade ring. He had never been so scared when Wo Fat kidnapped her during an undercover operation. It was during that undercover assignment he had realized how much he was in love with Kono. Afterwards he almost lost her until he told her how he felt. Now he might end up losing her again. Things had been so great between them. It was a very short relationship. She broke up with him when she realized how much he worried about her. He knew in his head that she could do her job, but he couldn't seem to get past his protective feelings. He had to do something though or he was going to lose her forever. He loved her so much and had missed her this last month so much. They had only had two weeks together before he had blown it. The very thing he loved about her drove him crazy. He shook his head to clear his mind, but his heart was another matter. He watched her through the window and when he thought she wasn't looking he just gazed at her. Occasionally she would catch him watching her and when she did he would just glare at her and look back at his computer screen.

Back to Wo Fat. When they busted the sex trade ring, he thought he had him cold. He still couldn't figure out how he got away after jumping overboard. He knew he had shot him. They had police and coast guard swarming all over the place. His body was never found and Steve knew Kono would never be safe until he was caught. Steve had made it his personal vendetta to catch the escaped man. He had been disgusted that women were bought and sold. He almost lost Kono to the man and couldn't shake the thought that he might never have seen her again. He had nightmares where she was sold to someone who raped and abused her. It made him wake up in cold sweats. He didn't let her sleep away from him the whole time they were together. He always had a protective arm around her waist. He spent the rest of the day tracking down any investments of Wo Fat that he could find. After he saw Kono head for home he called it a day. He hated to go home and couldn't sleep that night as usual. He missed her and he hated to go to sleep and face the dreams again, but he was excited. He had a list of several buildings Wo Fat owned. Tomorrow they were going to do a search of four or five of them. Maybe they would get lucky.

The first four buildings didn't turn up anything. It had already been a long day when they arrived at the last building of the day.

"Danny, you and Chin start checking the cars in the lot here. Kono, you're with me."

"Fine."

They were halfway through the first floor when Steve saw a stairwell leading down into a basement.

"Let's check it out."

Kono nodded and followed him down the wide stairwell.

They entered the basement and began a search room by room. It took them almost twenty minutes to work through all of it.

"This is going to take forever. There are four more floors."

"So what do you want to do Kono? You want to join Chin and Danny in the parking lot going from car to car? Then go for it. I can do this alone. I don't need you."

"Yeah, well I don't "need" you either."

Kono started towards the stairwell. The last thing she remembered was the sound of a timer switch going off and then the sound of air escaping. Steve and Kono's eyes met for only a second before he shoved her under the stairwell next to them and then dived to cover her with his body. The room exploded around them and the roof caved in. Everything went black.