Hi guys, this is my first fanfic. It's an AU set in Ma'ema'e. I don't want this to happen in the show, I mean Kono's just so kick-ass and awesome, but I thought it might be interesting to try.

It was almost over. After all the planning, the waiting, the lying and the secrets, it was almost over. She could talk to her team again. I mean, true, she was hurt that, for the most part, they'd shut her out, but it was nothing compared to the relief and the freedom. No more pretending.

Focus. You need to focus.

Kono could feel Trisha shaking beside her. Not that she blamed her. But if Trisha had a breakdown, it would only make it harder for Kono to protect her. This undercover operation was almost over. She couldn't afford for it to blow up in her face. Not when so many lives were at stake.

The elevator door slid open with a ding, and Kono walked quickly towards Delano and Mapes, passing the loaded duffel bag into Delano's waiting hand. Now all they had to do was walk down those stairs and outside the door, right into the waiting arms of HPD. And then it would all be over…

"Ma'am, you forgot you're key-"

Aw shit.

The clerk froze, watching as Trisha passed on her duffel to Mapes. Kono could see the gears in his brain churning as he absorbed the scene unfolding before him. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a bank clerk reaching for the call button behind the counter. Almost immediately, Delano and Mapes had their guns drawn.

Nononononononono…

"Frank, don't do it!"

Too late. Delano advanced on the clerk, gun pointed at his head, and Kono's combat instincts took over. Sprinting forward, she tackled Delano, sending his machine gun skirting off into the corner. While she might have had surprise as her advantage, Delano outweighed her by far. She struggled against him, shouts and gunshots echoing around her. The clerk must have alerted HPD after all. Delano saw the approaching cops, armed and ready to take him down and yet he grinned, an ugly maniacal one. He pinned her to the floor, and bent his head close to hers. His breathe licked at her face as he hissed into her ear.

"Thought you could pull a fast one on me, eh? It's too bad. You had so much potential."

And with that, he flung her through the glass window of the bank, a story above the ground. As she fell, all Kono could see was his face leering down at her, his smile wicked and twisted.

It was a weird sensation, almost like it was happening in slow motion, which was weird, considering she wasn't that high up.

Bye guys. I'm sorry.

And reality caught up to her as her body slammed against the ground, intense pain unlike anything she had ever felt before shooting through her, electric, stabbing, white hot pain. The last thing Kono heard before she blacked out was not the siren screaming towards her, but the sound of a lone seagull flying overhead, oblivious to the chaos beneath it. And she wished she could fly away with it.

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Chin Ho was pissed. Which wasn't really how he usually felt, but given the circumstances, he reserved the right to be utterly and completely pissed. Not just at Fryer for dragging his cousin into all this mess, but at himself as well. He should have been there.

I mean, yeah, Kono had ignored him, but he should have known that it was because she was being forced into something, not because she was dirty and resented him. They were family. Ohana. He was supposed to watch her back.

"Chin." Steve's voice came over his headset. "They've left the elevator. Delano and Mapes are heading towards the stairs out the north entrance."

Chin cocked his rifle and shifted his position slightly from where he was crouched behind a bush by the entrance. "Roger that. And Kono?"

"Right behind them with Trisha. Here they come-SHIT!"

"What's going on?" Danny's voice crackled over the headset."

"One of the clerks made a move. All teams go! Watch for civilians!"

Chin sprinted forward, when he heard the smash of glass breaking. Looking up he watched as a person was thrown out of the second level window. The person was lean, with long brown hair, probably female. Wait…

Chin ran like someone possessed. Please God, no, not her, not here, not now. He heard the others shout in confusion, the gunshots ringing out, but none of that mattered. All that mattered was his little cousin lying broken on the ground.

Thanks for reading! I'm thinking of making this 5-6 chapters. Sorry if this was short.

- Anonymous