Previously On: When Kono was fired from the team, another new member, Lori, took her place, only to leave shortly there after, to work with the Governor. While someone from IA gave information about Kono to Steve, breaking their case on her wide open! The team, including the IA agent, work to bring down Wofat.

A/N: Please feel free to read What Kono Did to get the full story before you read this one.

A/N: This story starts out as Elisabeth centric, but it won't be that way for long. I plan on getting into more Steve/Wofat/Shellbourne story more, providing I can get everything done before the next episode. So please just bear with me.
A/N: Sorry I had to delete the story. Something happened with the chapters I put up. Starting over again! Again, so sorry about that!

A few months have passed since Kono had let Wofat get away, but that didn't stop them from getting on with their jobs. In that time, they managed to solve a cold case while solving a missing persons case. A woman had gone missing, while hiking in the mountains. Things quickly came together and they were able to find the missing girl, but they also found a body of another young woman, that had been missing for thirty years. The man confessed to both murders. It easy case to close!

Once Kono delivered the news to both families, Kono met up with the rest of the team at her and Chin's cousin's restaurant down by the docks. It was a small dump of a place, but the food was exceptional. Kono took her seat by the window and had begun to day dream about Wofat. As Elisabeth glanced over, she saw just how distracted her friend really was.

"Hey!" Elisabeth whispered. "What's up?" She knew that Wofat was on Kono's mind.

"Nothing!" Kono looked back at Elisabeth, with sadness in her eyes. "Umm, that's not true! I can't stop thinking about...him."

Elisabeth nodded. "I know!" She reached out to her friend and hugged her. "It gets better, believe it or not! I know it doesn't seem like that now." She thought back to when she was with Wofat. For a time, being with him was wonderful, but deep down, she'd always known what kind of man he was really, even if she did deny it.

With Kono going through her own personal hell, it brought back all those memories Elisabeth tried so hard to keep tightly locked away. She wasn't going to let it get to her again! There were to many good things in her life now to go back to the past, one of them was meeting Chin, Kono, Danny, and even Steve. In such a short time, they each welcomed her into their lives. It felt good to have something solid and real in her life, whereas before them, all she had was work.

Once again, Elisabeth found herself glancing over at Steve. She saw everything that Wofat was not. Steve was kind, friendly, caring, sweet, determined, good, funny, duty bounty, even if he did try to hid his feelings. That was the kind of man she knew she should be with, but she knew, because of their jobs, nothing could happen. Even if things had gone that way, it would just be to difficult for the team. She was afraid to think that far ahead.

"Oh come on," Danny had said teasingly.

"No way!" Steve shook his head no.

"Just admit it! We know you do!"

Chin couldn't help but smile as he glanced over at Elisabeth. She looked at him and knew he knew something she didn't and shrugged helplessly. She'd totally missed the first part of the conversation, but figured it must have been about her the way Chin was grinning. She glanced over at Kono, who was still of in her own little world.

"Admit what?" Steve said a little to nervous, glancing at Elisabeth, then back at Danny. "Wait!" Steve was relieved when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and he quickly pulled it out and answered it. "McGarrett! Uh huh, okay, we'll be there." He ended the call and slipped it back in his pocket. "We have to go!"

Even though it interrupted their celebration, it was time to their job. It was a 24/7 job, one that they never took for granted!

"Hey Ren!" Chin called out to his cousin.

A short, stocky, balding man in his late forties, waddled out from the kitchen, and over to the team. His clothes were a little to be desired. A tattered white tee shirt and dingy white pants "What's up, cuz?"

"We have to jet!" Kono replied.

Ren nodded, knowing that being cops was a busy profession.

"So what do we owe you?" asked Steve, pulling out his wallet, but Ren waved him off.

"No, no your money no good here!" Ren smiled. "On the house!"

"What really?" Elisabeth was surprised, she was already to pay for her meal.

"Yep! Now go you!"

What a good deal, they couldn't pass it up!

"Thanks, man!" Chin shook his cousin's hand. "See you at JoJo's!"

Ren nodded and headed toward the back.

As everyone stood up, pushing their chairs in, Kono wondered, "We are we off to, boss man?"

"Harbor View..." Steve replied absentmindedly .

"Did you say Harbor View?" Danny said slowly, glancing at Elisabeth. He saw the color drain from her face.

"Yeah, why?" Steve asked curiously. He had no idea what Danny was getting it, though everyone seemed too.

"That's where Elisabeth lives," Chin replied a moment later. He glanced over at Elisabeth, who was looking very much scared.

Elisabeth knew that it was at her apartment, she just knew that it had been her sister that was dead. She felt light headed, shaky and needed to sit down. She wouldn't be able to stand much longer.

Glancing over at her, Steve made the connect, and quickly pulled a chair out for her and helped her sit down. He mentally kicked himself for not realizing sooner.

"It's a woman isn't it...?" Elisabeth said shakily. "From Apartment 13B, isn't it?"

Without saying a word, Steve just nodded.

"That's my place." Elisabeth glance up at Steve, tears glistering in her eyes.

The look worried Steve, he didn't know what else he could do for her, but console her. Could he do that? Would that be stepping over the bounds he carefully had been creating for them, since he meet her not so long ago? What would he actually say to her? He'd only come close to losing his sister, however, he did lose his parents, and he knew that pain real well. It was something that he lived with on a daily basis, even if he did try to push it away.

Unable to find the words Steve was feeling, he simply turned to the rest of the team, saying, "Go on ahead – we'll be there shortly. I just want to give her a minute a or two, or however long she needs." He finally glanced over at her, realization how tiny and frail she looked. He wanted to take her in his arms and make that pain go away, but he knew something like that would never totally go away. There would always be a hole there in her heart.

"Sure thing!" Danny nodded, patting Elisabeth on the shoulder, to tell her that they were there for her no matter what. "Come on..." He, Chin, and Kono took one last look before leaving.

"He really did it this time!" Elisabeth said after a moment.

"Who?" Steve reached for her, then pulled back. It was really scaring him to see her so upset like that. Her face was white as a ghost, she was shaking, her voice cracked. He wanted so badly to comfort her but he just took a seat instead.

A few weeks prior to joining Five – O, Elisabeth's sister, Sera, had been attacked by her boyfriend, Alec. It was so bad that Sera ended up up in the hospital. She only recently came home and then she winds up dead? How was that even fair, let alone right?

Instantly, Elisabeth's mind went straight to Alec. If only Sera had listened, gotten the restraining order, she'd be alive! Now that Elisabeth was with Five – O, she should have been able to protect her better. Why didn't she listen to her?

"Her jackass boyfriend!" Putting the blame on Alec was making Elisabeth feel better. She knew she didn't have rock hard evidence to prove he did it, but she didn't care, someone had to take the blame for this! Who better than, him, the one who had put her in the hospital in the first place.

"If he did do it, we will put him away," Steve said softly as he could.

The blonde looked up at Steve, a small smile crossed her pretty face. "Thanks!" It really meant a lot that he and the team would go that far for her and sister.

Finally, Steve got up enough nerve and wiped away a fat tear rolling down her cheek and caressing her face. "It's going to be okay." They looked into each others eyes for the longest time, letting their emotions speak freely, until the phone rang again and Steve tore his eyes away from her to answered his phone.

Damn Phone!

"McGarrett! What?" He glanced at Elisabeth again, this time, his expression all to serious. "Another woman beaten? She's alive?" Relief washed over his face. "You check the apartment out, while Elisabeth and I go see about the girl at the hospital! Okay thanks, Chin." Steve shut the phone off, sliding it in his front pocket. He was quite for a moment, thinking.

Pushing away all her feelings, including what Steve was stirring up within her, Elisabeth finally asked, "Another girl beaten?"

"Yep, same building."

That totally shocked Elisabeth. Maybe it wasn't Alec after all, but that wasn't going to stop her from finding out. She owed it to Sera! "What are we doing sitting here, let's go!"

TBC