Steve and Danny sat in the lobby of the Governor's office, patiently waiting to see Governor Pat Jameson. Well as patient as Steve could be. He sat next to Danny, tapping his foot on the floor as a fast rate.
"Will you please stop that?" Danny asked, annoyed. It took a minute but he finally quit. Just in time for the receptionist to escort them into the office. They were greeted by the Governor, but there were two others in the office as well.
"Ah, Commander McGarrett, Detective Williams. Nice to see you gentleman." Governor Jameson said, shaking their hands.
"Governor." Steve replied. "What can we do for you?"
"I would like you to meet the three newest interns joining us. 20 year old David Jacobs, 19 year old Amanda Rivers, and 17 year old." She paused. "Well there is supposed to be three. Our third appears to be running late." As she finished her sentence, there was a disturbance in the lobby.
"You can't go in there!" The receptionist yelled. The doors to her office were thrown open and another teenager ran into the room. Steve cocked an eyebrow at the blonde running into the room.
"I am so sorry I'm late ma'am!" She exclaimed, stopping next to the other two. The receptionist came in running in after her but was stopped by Jameson.
"It's alright Diane. We've been expecting her." She told the other woman. When the doors were finally closed, she turned and gave the teen a disciplinary look.
"You had better have a good excuse Angel." Jameson said sternly. Steve and Danny gave each other an odd look.
"I had a game and you know how daddy is! He drives slow when he needs to be somewhere important and fast when there's no rush for it!" The young woman replied with a smile.
"At least tell me you won." Pat told her.
"I stole home for the win." She replied with a large grin. Pat gave her a small smile but quickly hid it. She patted the girl on the shoulder before turning to the two men.
"Gentleman, meet 17 year old Angel Johnson." The two men reached forward and shook the hands of all three interns. Steve noticed how professionally the older two were dressed and the youngest of the three was in a softball uniform covered in dirt. There was a spark felt between the two when their hands met. He also noticed how beautiful the young woman was. Carmel blonde hair pulled up into a high ponytail, sparkling blue eyes. She was a bit plump but not fat by any means. Just bigger. He wondered what she looked like without the uniform. But he immediately shook the thoughts out of his head.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you know your bleeding?" Danny asked the teen. Everyone turned their attention to her left knee which had a large scrape covering it and was slowly dripping blood down her leg toward her tall bright purple socks. Angel just shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh it's no big deal. I've dealt with way worse." She answered him. Danny grabbed a few tissues off from the governor's desk and handed them to the young woman.
"Thanks." Angel said shyly. Danny nodded in return and looked to Steve when he started speaking.
"With all due respect Governor, we have a lot of work to do so could you please tell us what we're doing here." He asked.
"Well as I said these three are interns. Mr. Jacobs here will be interning with our medical examiner, Dr. Bergman. Ms. Rivers will be in the forensics department, and Ms. Johnson will be with you and the rest of Five-O." She replied. Steve and Amanda instantly started yelling.
"What! You chose her for Five-O! Over me!" Amanda yelled.
"She's 17 years old! She's too young! What if she gets hurt?" Steve argued. They both continued spitting out arguments until Jameson waved her hand for them to stop.
"Enough! Now, Ms. Rivers, I seem to remember you having the highest science scores in your entire high school and ACT testing. This is a wonderful opportunity for you. I was also told that if you didn't participate in this program, that you were going to Germany with you parents and attending college there." She informed her. "As for Ms. Johnson you could say she has law enforcement in her blood. Her father is a U.S. Marshall, her sister is in law school, and her brother is in Afghanistan as we speak. To top it off, I am her aunt. If you would rather be on a plane to be with your parents, there's the door." The young woman looked to the floor and shook her head no in response. She then turned to Steve.
"Commander, she will be 18 in six months. Not only that but I believe you could give this girl quite a lot of encouragement and hopefully help her decide what she wants to do with her life. As far as getting hurt, she is more than capable of taking care of herself." Steve didn't reply. He just crossed his arms over his chest and scowled. Jameson walked to her desk and sat down. Steve's phone rang before she could say anything else.
"McGarrett." He answered. There were some words before he hung up and looked to Danny.
"That was Chin. We have a case." He said before turning and starting to walk out of the room.
"Commander?" The governor loudly asked. He stopped and turned back to see her motioning to Angel. "Forgetting something?" Steve gave another scowl before nodding his head to follow him. Angel looked at her aunt, with a slightly scared look on her face. Danny patted her on the shoulder.
"Don't worry. He's like that with everyone at first. Come on. We'll get your knee cleaned up so it doesn't get infected too." He said with a smile. She followed Danny out of the office and the building towards the waiting Camaro.
"Driving my car again." Angel heard Danny whisper under his breath.
"Does he do that a lot?" She asked. He only nodded his head in response and opened the car door for her. She squeezed into the back seat and felt an uncomfortable silence starting. Danny decided to start up a conversation to cure the awkwardness.
"So Angel, the governor is your aunt?" He asked from the front seat. She looked up to see Steve staring at her in the rearview mirror. A shiver ran up her spine at the look her was giving her.
"Technically no. Aunt Pat has known my parents since before my sister was born. They met at some conference thingy about some election. We moved a few times but they always kept in contact. But her and her husband are pretty close with my parents, so we just call her our aunt." She replied from the back seat. Danny and Steve shared a look. Danny reached under his seat and grabbed his small first aid kit and handed it to the young woman.
"Here, you can use this. Just try not to get blood or anything on the seats." He said with a smile. She took the kit with a smile of her own and started wiping up the dried blood.
"Your brother is in Afghanistan?" Steve questioned her. She paused in the middle of cleaning her injury and he noticed sadness wash across her face for a moment before she answered.
"Yes. This is his third deployment." Angel answered. Danny turned around in his seat to see her trying not to cry. She finished with the first aid kit and handed it back to him.
"Thanks."
"No problem." Danny answered. They didn't say anything else until they arrived at the crime scene. Steve jumped out of the car and all but ran inside. Danny helped Angel out of the backseat and showed her the way. Angel followed him into the house and was greeted with a swarm of people. Cops were everywhere. She saw Steve bent over a body talking to an two Asian looking men and csi's dusting for prints throughout the home. There was a Hawaiian woman talking to what she assumed would be the victim's family. Danny handed her a pair of gloves and they walked over to Steve. One of the men gave her a strange look. She smiled in return.
"Hi! I'm Angel Johnson." Angel told him thrusting her hand out toward him.
"Chin Ho Kelly. Five-O." The man replied shaking her hand. He looked at Danny and Steve with a questioning look.
"I'll be interning with you guys." She told him before they could answer. Angel looked down and went pale. Danny smirked at her reaction.
"First dead body?" He asked. Nodding her head in confirmation, she took a deep breath before kneeling down next to it. She instantly seen the three bullets in the man's back.
"Looks like he was running from his killer. He has bruises on his knuckles too. Put up a fight. Do we have an id yet?" Angel questioned. When no one replied, she pulled a wallet out of the man's back pocket. Flipping it open she looked at his driver's license. "Markus Erickson. 35. License says he's from Kansas." She put his wallet in an evidence bag while the medical examiner took the body away. Steve, Chin, and Danny all looked at her impressed.
"What?" She asked innocently. Just then the Hawaiian woman walked over.
"Alright, the wife says her husband stayed behind while she took the kids to the beach. Claims he had a tumor removed a few months ago and still gets a migraine every now and then. They came home and found him here." She told them and then noticed the girl standing next to Danny.
"Hi. Kono Kalakaua. Are you one of the interns?" She said giving Angels hand a shake.
"That's me. Angel Johnson. Nice to meet you."
"Likewise." Kono replied.
"Ok. So. We need to find out where he and his family have been since they got here. Kono talk to his family again and find out when they got here and if there has been anyone following them or if they've had any problems with anyone since they got here. Chin, run a background check. Find out if there's anyone that had problems with him and his family in the past." Steve ordered. Angel quit paying attention when she noticed drops of blood leading outdoors. She followed the trail into the backyard. It lead to the fence surrounding the property. Not noticing Steve walk up behind her, she jumped when he made his presence known.
"Sorry. Find something?" He asked with amusement evident in his voice.
"Our killer is injured. There's a trail of blood leading from the house to the fence here." She replied. When she looked down, she noticed something under the bush. Reaching her hand in, she pulled out a .45 semi-automatic handgun. Steve raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Looks like it could be our murder weapon." She told him with a smile. Walking past him to go back into the house, she smiled in triumph. "Hey Danny, bag this for me will you." Danny turned to her and his eyes widened in shock.
"Where did you find that?" He stuttered. A few others in the room turned to look at the interaction.
"Outside in the bushes by the fence. I followed a trail of blood outside to the fence. Saw this on the ground." Angel told him proudly as she placed the gun in an evidence bag. Danny was impressed. Very impressed. She hadn't even been there an hour and was showing them all up. Steve walked back into the house and patted her on the shoulder as he walked by.
"Good job." He told her.
"Yes. That was great." Danny agreed. Angel gave a large smile and took her gloves off. Danny watched as she made her way outside and instantly knew that this girl was definitely the breath of fresh air Five-O had needed.
Thanks to Angel finding the murder weapon and their killer being injured, they finished the case before the end of the day. When they arrived back at Five-O HQ, Steve showed Angel her office. A small, dust filled room.
"Well. It's small. But it's nice. A little color and decoration will do wonders. Thank you." Angel told him with a smile. Steve leaned against her desk and watched her. Angel got the feeling of someone watching her and turned to Steve. Tilting her head to the side she returned the look he was giving her.
"Can I help you with something?" She asked.
"Yeah. I have a question." He responded.
"Well. I just might have an answer." Angel smiled.
"What's the real reason for the Governor to be putting an intern on my team? My first guess would be to spy on me and my team. Second guess would be she doesn't trust that were doing a good enough job. With a family that she described you having, I couldn't imagine you not knowing what you wanted to do with your life." Steve questioned her. Her eyes narrowed.
"Unlike you Commander, I'm not inclined to follow in my family's footsteps." She retorted.
"Excuse me?" He asked her, standing to his full height and giving her one of his sinister glares. However, she didn't back down.
"You heard me. Yes my father is a U.S. Marshall. Yes my sister is going to be a lawyer. And yes my brother is a Marine. Just because it may 'run in my blood' doesn't mean I have to do everything my family does. Your grandfather was in the Navy who dies on the Arizona and your father was a cop who was murdered by an international arms dealer. So you probably felt the need to do everything they did. Not me. My father and brother encourage me to find something outside of war and law enforcement as a career. Although my aunt felt I needed a nudge in this direction." His glare increased at her remark but she continued. "The Governor trusts you more than anyone else. She knows you're doing an amazing job in keeping this island safe. You should feel damn lucky that she hasn't thrown your ass in jail with the stunts you've pulled. Instead you get full immunity and means. So maybe you should think about what you're going to say to someone before you say it."
"How did you know about my family?" He snapped.
"Do you really think a U.S. Marshall is going to just let his daughter join a team without knowing everything about each person on that team? Think again." She answered him. They didn't speak for a while after that. They just stood toe to toe glaring at one another. Neither of them seen Danny, Kono, Chin, and Jenna standing in the hallway watching and listening to them. Danny was the first to speak.
"I love how he can never make a good first impression on anyone. At least he didn't get her shot on her first day." Chin shook his head at Danny's remark and Kono just laughed. They continued to joke about their sometimes hard ass boss until an older man came into the office. Based on the resemblance they concluded it was Angel's father.
"Hello. How can we help you?" Kono asked him.
"Hello. Andrew Johnson. I'm Angel's father. Is she around?" As he finished his sentence, Steve stormed out of Angel's office and towards his own. Angel yelled after him.
"Maybe if you thought with the side of your brain that doesn't include guns, grenades, and blowing shit up, you would get things done faster with a hell of a lot less damage and casualties!" He ignored her and went into his office. "Asshole." She mumbled. Looking over at her new teammates, she noticed her father standing with them.
"Hi daddy!"
"Hi there. Your car is home so I decided I would come get you." He looked towards Steve's office when he finished. "I see you're already making friends. I'm going to guess that's Lieutenant Commander McGarrett." Angel nodded her head in response.
"We just had a little disagreement is all daddy."
"Ok. Just like when you and Jacob had a disagreement that ended up with you getting grounded and him having a broken arm." Her father told her. She smirked and shook her head, ignoring his remark.
"Daddy, I want you to meet Detective Danny Williams, Officer Chin Ho Kelly, Officer Kono Kalakaua, and Jenna Kay." He shook hands with each of them as they were introduced. "I would introduce you to McGarrett but he's..." She was cut off by Steve coming out to greet them.
"He's what?" Steve asked her.
"I was going to say, he's busy." She answered him.
"Steve McGarrett. Pleasure to meet you." Steve said thrusting his hand towards Angel's dad.
"Andrew Johnson. Pleasures all mine." He replied. "I came to pick-up my daughter if that's alright. Her sister is home and her mother would like her home for dinner. If she's able to leave."
"Oh no. Absolutely. It's perfectly fine to take her home right now." Steve told him quickly, Angel shot him a look before turning and leaving with her father. Before she got out the door Steve called out to her.
"Angel." She turned back to him.
"Yes, Commander?"
"We're going to get along just fine."