Hawaii Five-0 2010 story
I do not own 5-0 and make no profit from these stories.
When Kono failed to provide adequate back up to a 5-0 member and then lets a dangerous criminal escape, she finds herself and othering questioning her continued prescence on the task force team. Can she make ammends or will she decide to walk away.
Weakest Link
Her body was tense as she looked around the old abandoned building, it cold have quite happily featured in a horror movie as its grime coated half standing walls were almost now a solid black. There was a smell in the air that slightly tuned ones stomach making it hard to concentrate. Snap, a distance sound had her swiveling her gun about, she opened her mouth to call out then quickly shut it again, it would not be a good idea to draw attention to herself. Moving cautiously forward she imoved around a concrete pylon, still nothing, her hand was shaking more now. A slight rustling sound drw her attention to a large pile of plastic, bringing the gun to bear Kono yelled, "come out with your hands up". The rustling intensified as a man climbed from underneath the plastic. He stood facing her hands out by his sides. In the dim light she could not fully glimpse his entire body but could see the whiteness of his open palms and the lack of a weapon within them. "On your knees, now", Kono yelled. The man just smiled ignoring her command, "do it or I'll shoot", she insisted gesturing with the gun. 'You'll just shoot an unarmed man, I have no weapon", her captive stated waving his arms about. Kono kept the gun on him mindful of the fact he'd already shot 4 people. "Get down on the ground", she repeated. The man just shook his head again and smiled wider. "All alone aren't you, just like a little baby bird the first time out of the nest. So aren't you scared little bird", Lee May taunted. Of course she was scared, terrified in fact. This man had robbed a store shooting the owner dead for moving an inch. Then as he fled he'd shot and wounded the two HPD officers who had pursued him. But that had not been the end of his rampage, a woman who witnessed this brutal shooting had screamed loudly and May had shouted, "oh shut up', before shooting her as well. He was an obviously dangerous man that was now standing in front of her , seemingly unarmed. But that did not make him helpless and she was here without backup. "So little bird not worried where papa bird has gone", Lee stated calmly his eyes never lever her face. Kono tightened her grip on the gun to stop it shaking, she hadn't started this hunt out by herself and was now only too aware of her partners absence, "where is he ,what have you done with him", she snapped at May.
He looked at her coldly, "I could ask you the same thing little bird, aren't you supposed to watch his back", he taunted. Kono shivered yes that was her job, looking out for ones partner . "You lost him, didn't you, my ,my little bird how you going to explain that one", May was grinning widely at her. "It'll be fine since I have you", Kono stormed back at him. "So you have me do you little bird, then come get me", hands out at his side May began to walk backward. "Stop right now", Kono ordered as she shot the ground in front of him. "May laughed again, "little bird if you want to stop me, you are going to have to shoot me", he turned around, "in the back as I walk away, then of course you'll have to explain to your superiors where my weapon was". May started to walk and Kono fired a few more times at his feet. He'd positioned himself cleverly hiding the vulnerable non lethal parts of his body behind fallen debri. So that only left her the option of shooting him in the back. Unable to contemplate doing this even to such a dangerous man Kono just stood feeling helpless as Lee May escaped. Seconds later she was alone again in the building . Keeping her gun out she began to retrace her steps hoping she could locate the cell phone that had slipped from her fingers when she'd fallen. She thought about that moment , her mind had been trained on the figure in front of her carefully watching his back as the two of them hunted down May. They had known as they entered the building that help from HPD and the rest of the 5-0 team was still at least 30 minutes away. Knowing that their prey was extremely dangerous and not wanting to risk him killing or wounding anymore people they decided to move in. She been nervous but determined to carry out their mission. Her partner was quite capable and would not let her down. But she'd let him down falling over in the building and losing sight of him. Now she had no idea where he was, but May's taunt indicated that he'd possibly done something to him. How was she ever going to explain this one. A slight glinting in the corner of her eye led her to her phone . She picked it up relieved to see it was not smashed. Before she dialed for help she rang another familiar number. When there was no reply she knew there was only one thing left to do, admit that she'd stuffed up. She found herself pressing the speed dial on the easier of the two familiar numbers left to ring.
"Hey Cuz, you got him already", Chins voice sounded proud. She rubbed her eyes feeling hot tears forming, "Kono, everything okay" Chin asked more loudly. "No", Kono sniffed, "please hurry".
There was a pause and then another familiar voice, one that filled her with more dread, "Kono ,put Danny on", asked Steve Mc Garrett. Kono closed her eyes bracing herself for what she had to report, "I can't", she admitted. "What do you mean you can't, where is he", Steve tone had gone up a sure sign of anxiety. The next words out of her mouth were even harder to say, "I don't know". "What do you mean you don't know, you were his backup weren't you", now the tone had a hint of anger. 'Yeah I was his backup and he was relying on me", Kono said , 'I failed him Steve", she admitted.
"We'll be there in ten", Steve replied as he hurriedly broke the connection. Ten minutes Kono thought, that was all she had to make some sort of ammends by finding Danny . She'd heard not gun shots, so knew that he wasn't lying bleeding from a bullet wound somewhere. There are other ways to die, that thought snapped throught her brain. Please don't let him be dead, she begged the empty building. If he was dead she knew that not only would she never forgive herself it'd also be the end of her career.
