Watching re-runs of past seasons, I recently had a new story idea come to me. I do not own anything related to Hawaii Five-0 and this story is completely a work of fiction on my part. Hope you will enjoy! Please let me know what you think.

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(Late Tuesday morning-Five 0 Headquarters)

The members of Five-0 had just returned from a crime scene where a high profile criminal attorney had been murdered. A few witnesses had been interviewed, Max was getting ready to perform an autopsy on the body, and other evidence had been sent to forensics for analysis. In the meantime, the team tried to start putting pieces together of the evidence they had on hand.

"So our vics name is Marcus Cutler." Kono began as the man's driver's license picture appeared on the screen for them to see. "He's a criminal defense attorney out of Phoenix who was here for a seminar this week. He was here with several other members of his law firm as well as a couple hundred other attorneys from around the country."

"How long had he been here?" Steve asked.

Chin answered, "The seminar started yesterday and is supposed to last through tomorrow. However, Mr. Cutler arrived last Friday and spent the weekend here for some r&r according to some of his co-workers."

"Any witnesses see him with anyone over the weekend before the seminar started?" Danny asked.

"That's where we're getting conflicting stories." Kono said. "Two of his co-workers said he came alone, but hotel employees saw him in a heated discussion with a woman at the hotel bar on Sunday night. They gave us a basic description of her: Early to mid 30's, 5'6", long brown hair, attractive."

"Okay. So that description could fit countless women on the island on any given day." Steve replied, "Do we know her name or have any surveillance pictures or video from the hotel showing the two of them together?"

Kono continued, "Yep. The videos from the bar were pretty grainy and it was hard to get any clear shots of their faces. However, I was able to pull some video from outside of Cutler's hotel room last night. I ran it through our facial recognition software. This is what we have." She posted a surveillance photo of a woman entering the hotel room as well as a picture of her Arizona Driver's License which had been matched through the program. "Her name is Cassandra White. She doesn't appear to have a criminal record. In fact, everything is pretty clean so I haven't been able to find out much about her so far."

Steve studied the picture on the driver's license and noticed something familiar about her although he couldn't figure out what it was. It was something in her eyes….like he'd seen her before but couldn't remember when or where. "We need to find her ASAP." he told his team. "We need to know where she is staying, how she is connected to Cutler, and if anyone else saw the two of them together. Get her picture out to HPD and have her name flagged in case she tries to fly out. If she's involved, we need to find her before she leaves the island."

Before long, Chin had confirmed that Cassandra was staying at the same place as Marcus Cutler so the entire team headed back to the hotel. Upon arriving, Chin and Kono went to speak with some of the witnesses again while Steve and Danny got Cassandra's room number from hotel management and decided to try their luck at finding her still there.

They got off the elevator on the 10th floor and headed towards her room. As they got about halfway down the hall, the door opened and Cassandra started to come out with bags in hand. Danny called out to her, "Cassandra White?" She looked up startled at the two men approaching her and quickly moved back into the room and slammed the door. Steve and Danny picked up their pace and quickly knocked on the door.

"Ms. White, we're with Five-0. We need to talk to you."

"Who the hell is Five-0? Go away!" she yelled from behind the door.

Steve tried again, "My name is Steve McGarrett. We need to talk to you about Marcus Cutler and we're not leaving until we do. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. I'd rather go the easy way, if you don't mind. Please open the door."

"I said go away! I'm calling security." she yelled back. Then as an after thought, she added, "AND I have a gun."

The shaking in her voice made her sound more scared than threatening which told Steve she was probably bluffing. He was growing impatient, though. Noticing a certain look on Steve's face that he'd seen many times before, Danny clasped his hands together as if begging and said, "Please don't break the door. Please. I'm begging you."

Steve just looked at him and smiled while holding up what looked to be a room key, "I had them give me one before we came up. Just in case."

"Ah. What a relief. So I am finally rubbing off on you!" Danny smiled.

"Whatever." Steve said and rolled his eyes as he turned back to the door.

"I'll give you one more chance, Cassandra." When he didn't hear anything, he added, "I need for you to slowly open the door by the count of three or we're coming in. One.…two.…" Steve paused hoping she would open the door. When that didn't happen, "Three.….Alright, we're coming in"

Steve slid the keycard into the door and entered first with his gun drawn.

When they didn't see her right away, Danny called out to her, "We just want to talk to you." They rounded a corner and found her by the bed with a gun pointed in their direction.

So much for bluffing, Steve thought to himself, "Put the gun down. Now." his voice was low and firm leaving no doubt he expected her to comply.

"Are you KIDDING me?" she snapped. "You just entered my room uninvited and you want ME to put down MY gun?! I have no idea who you people are!" Steve saw the gun shaking in her hands.

Mustering all the patience he had, he answered her, "I told you, we're with Five-0. We need to talk to you about Marcus Cutler. Now if you'll just put down your gun, we can do that."

"Show me your badge." Cassandra demanded. "And do it slowly. No sudden movements!"

He released his left hand from the gun to pull his shirt tail away from his belt and show her his badge. "My name is Commander Steve McGarrett. This is my partner, Detective Danny Williams. We need to ask you some questions."

"Yeah, so you've said. About Marcus Cutler." Cassandra took a deep breath and slowly lowered her gun, "What has that good-for-nothing-womanizing weasle done now?"

"So I take it you didn't like him very much?" asked Danny.

"Like him?" she laughed sarcastically, "I hated that man. There was nothing about him that was likeable. At all."

"Did you hate him enough to kill him?" Steve asked.

Cassandra stared at them stunned, "What? What are you talking about?"

"He's dead, Ms. White." Danny said. "You were one of the last people to see him alive, which is why we need to clear some things up."

"What do you mean, he's dead?" she asked.

"Dead." Steve confirmed. "Murdered actually. He was found in his room this morning by hotel staff. We need to know why you went to his room last night."

Cassandra glared at Steve. "Exactly what are you insinuating, Commander?" she spat.

"I'm not insinuating anything. Just trying to figure out why you would be seen entering the room of a 'good-for-nothing-womanizing weasle'…. on the same night he was murdered."

"Not killing him, if that's what you think. I can assure you, he was very much alive when I left."

"Good. Then you won't mind coming with us so we can talk about this a little more."

Cassandra seemed to take a moment to think about it. She didn't really want to go, but looking at Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams, she got the feeling she didn't have a choice. "Okay fine." she said. "Just let me get my bag."

As she gathered her things, Steve called Chin to let him know they had found her and were taking her back to HQ.

The threesome made their way to the lobby which was suddenly full of a busload of tourists who were checking in. A crazy thought entered Cassandra's mind. Thanking her stars she had worn comfortable shoes, she seized the moment and took off in a sprint for the door. It took Danny and Steve a moment to catch on. "Oh come on!" Danny shook his head in disbelief.

"I'll get her, Danny. Go get the car." Steve said as he took off after her. Steve had to hand it to her, she was pretty fast. Not fast enough to out run him, though, so he caught up to her quickly. He grabbed one arm as she tried unsuccessfully to wiggle free. "Let me go!" she yelled. "You don't understand. It's not what you think!"

Steve ignored her protests and quickly got both hands behind her back as he pulled her back against him stopping her from moving anymore. "So much for doing this the easy way." he said into her ear as he pulled out his handcuffs.

"Are you serious? You're handcuffing me?"

After securing her arms behind her back, he turned her around to look at him, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you just try to run away from us?"

Cassandra swallowed nervously as she looked at the man glaring at her, "Temporary moment of insanity?" she rationalized as she tried to look as innocent as possible.

Danny pulled up beside them in the car and Steve opened the door to put her in the back. Cassandra looked at him pleadingly, "Please take the cuffs off. Please?"

Steve seemed to consider it for a moment before answering her. He still couldn't shake the feeling he knew her from somewhere and that familiarity softened him somewhat. "Promise to be a good girl?"

She shook her head, "I promise." Steve relented and removed the handcuffs and helped her get into the backseat before climbing in beside her.

"You're riding back here too?" she asked in disbelief.

"You've already pulled a gun on us AND tried to run away. I'm not taking any more chances." Steve answered much to her chagrin.

They rode in silence until they reached Five-0 headquarters. Steve helped Cassandra out of the car before taking her elbow and walking her in. As they entered the offices, Steve saw Joe standing inside and remembered they had scheduled a lunch appointment. He had been so wrapped up in the investigation that morning that he'd forgotten to cancel.

Seeing Joe as well, Cassandra suddenly stopped in her tracks making Steve bump into her.

"Daddy?" she said.

Joe turned around. "Cassie?!"

Chapter 1 is complete. I love to hear from reader's, so please let me know your thoughts on this one. I'm still formulating where I want this story to go….so we'll see what happens. Hope you come along for the ride!