Adam's POV
I sat across the table from Kono. "You know that Chin is right. If they have taken a group of girls down to Hawaii that we can get Five-0 to help us."
She simply nodded. "I have made a life and a separate name for myself up here on the main land though Adam. If you want to chase this girl go right ahead." She wasn't happy with me and I knew it but I had to do this.
So, I packed up and booked a flight leaving for Hawaii. I knew Steve would help especially if I explained why this girl was so important. Truth was I doubt Kono really understood why I wanted to or felt like I had to go after this girl. We were from the same world and she was young enough that maybe I could actually save her from making the same mistakes as I had. I had only talked to her once, Kono had spoken to her several times but she wouldn't help us. But now she was moved into an area of the world that I actually knew better than she did.
I texted Steve to tell him that I was returning to Hawaii and asked him if he would pick me up and that I had a case for them. To say that he was intrigued and happy was an understatement, but I guess things have be a little slow there lately.
It was nice getting to see everyone again. Danny was happy that Steve had one of his friends back, so he would be able to get out of surfing lessons for a few weeks. I just laughed declaring that watching Danny surf would be good for all kinds of laughs and that I would most likely join in on the fun too myself. Jerry seemed a little concerned that the case hadn't come from the governor's office. That was until Steve reassured him that if something was happening in Hawaii it was in the scope of what Five-0 could investigate.
After being introduced to the others and being told that Lou would join us soon, I decide its time to come clean about my trip to Hawaii and possibly staying there.
"So first of all, Kono and I aren't getting along so well, and it is partially to do with this case that we were working on together." I took a breath looking at everyone. Maybe this would be better if I just told Steve, Jerry and Danny. That way the others don't have to hear everything and if they can't help then it won't be a complete waste of their time. "Actually, guys maybe it would be best if I took this into Steve's office with Jerry and Danny, that way if you can't help then it won't be boring you."
Steve looked over at me before nodding and walking towards his office. "The rest of you get back to work. If we can do something, then we will inform you."
When all of us were in the office he turned to me waving his hands telling me to go on.
"So, this case goes something like this. You know Kono and I were trying to stop a smuggling and human trafficking ring on the main land, right?"
They all nodded to me. "Your search brought you back here?" Steve asked.
I nodded. "Ya, I have been following one girl." I opened my bag pulling out the case file that I had with me. "She was 13 when we caught up with her, now she is 14 and from all indications she is on this island right now."
Danny took the file looking at it. "But what does she have to do with the smuggling and trafficking?"
I hung my head for a second, this was a part of the Yakuza that they didn't know about. One part that I had managed to keep hidden from them. "She is what they call a Chimera. Her name is Lynalyca which actually suits her quite nicely. As for the human trafficking she is around to help teach the girls that they bring in how to act and work respectively. She is their teacher for the time being and someone who the Yakuza would have brought in."
Steve shook his head looking down. "We are back at the Yakuza again?"
I shook my head. "Not to my knowledge but it was her Yakuza connection that drew me to this girl in the first place. She was sold when she was 4 to the Yakuza and was eventually traded around until she belonged to Michael again. When he died, she was sold again and was brought into this life because of me and my actions."
Steve got up placing a hand on my shoulder. "What you did was self defence but now tracking this girl down if she has helped them kidnap kids then we can't overlook that."
I shook my head. "Kono and I have talked to her. She has never been involved in the kidnapping only teaching and trying to keep them safe. But there was an issue in LA, and that is why she is down here right now."
Danny shook his head. "What kind of an issue?"
I shifted in my spot for a second. "Well her employer found out she was talking to a cop and she was beaten and sent down here as punishment. The guy who runs the one down here is let's just say more violent than the one in LA. He keeps them in cages not cells. They are treated like dogs unless they are working. Plus, they have cops on the payroll down here to prevent any of them from getting into trouble with the law. Just before she left, she informed us that she had been teaching the girls up there some kind of code, but she didn't have time to explain she only handed me a letter that I didn't understand at all." I turned to Jerry. "This is where you come in, if anyone can decipher this it is you."
He held out his hand looking at me. I handed it to him in a sealed evidence pouch. "Whatever she was trying to tell you I'll see what I can do."
I nodded to him. "That's all I can ask."
Steve smiled. "I think this is a case for us. Not just help you find this girl again and make it right with her but to actually help rescue these girls that are being held here." He went to the door of his office opening in going out into the main room calling everyone there.
Junior smiled. "Please tell me this is a case that we can work?"
He smiled back at him. "Yes, it is. Now I am going to let Adam explain as much or as little as he wants to you guys about the case and his personal involvement in it. Though I think all of it is nice he might not think so."
They all turned to me waiting for me to start. "Jerry can you pull up the file on Lynalyca for me please? Everything you have on her."
He nodded. "She was born in an unknown place. Spent the first few years of her life with her parents then was sold to the leader of the Yakuza for his personal use. From there we don't know much about her life until she turned up on Kono's radar about 6 months ago. She was listed as a CI up there for a time and then the name was removed, no more payments were issued, and she seemingly vanished from LA entirely." He turned to look at me a bit suspicious as to exactly what happened. "That was about 3 months ago."
I nodded. "We kept her on as a CI but took her name off to try and protect her. She showed up to one meeting beaten explaining that if we wanted anymore information, we had to come up with another way to pay her for it. So, we did, I started meeting her in a club along with Kono to try and talk to her and for a while it actually worked. Occasionally we would "run" into her at her work and sit there and talk for a few minutes. We would give good tips in those things, so nothing would appear different for anyone. But it was hard cause so many people knew who we both were on the taskforce, so we had to be careful. But eventually her boss found out and she was severely beaten and whipped for talking to us entirely. She was on her way out when she stopped and handed me a letter which Jerry is going to try and decipher for us."
Tani looked at me. "How do you know that she is here? It's not like you guys could send her photo out to anyone really if they have cops on their payroll."
"No, we couldn't but we sent messages out to a few people and a few contacts that I still have in this world and we found out from Chin that she was being shipped down here as a result of a punishment she was given. I can only assume it was for talking to cops but honestly I don't know."
Steve knew that this was going down hill, so I was grateful when he gave everyone their orders for the rest of the afternoon. Jerry was going to stay around base and see what he could to about deciphering the letter that I was given. I was going to join Steve for a bit of down time and tell him more about this girl. Danny had to go pick up Grace and Charlie from school, so he was out of the picture. And Lou still hadn't returned which mean that Tani and Junior were going out to see what they could uncover by talking to some of Five O's informants.
When we got to Steve's house, he led the way to the back yard and grabbed 2 beers from the fridge handing me one when he got outside. "Here is the deal, you know more than what you said there, and I want to hear all of it Adam."
I sighed shaking my head having a seat. "Alright, I'll start from the beginning. I had heard Michael talk about this slave girl named Lyna that he had. One that he could beat and do anything he wanted to and in 2 days she would be healed. Chimera's can heal very quickly what would take us months to heal they can do in a matter of days. Makes them almost ideal to be sex slaves. She was the one that no matter what happened he wouldn't share around. She was his and when he died, I assumed another member of the Yakuza would take it over and do whatever to her. Though as she was his she was considered to be loyal only to him they sold her, got a big payday for her too." I leaned back in my chair and took another drink of the beer.
Steve nodded. "So, you blame yourself for not taking her in then?"
I nodded. "But there was no way that I could afford the actual payday that they got for her. Michael had branded her a Chimera which helped them sell her. There are very few of them out there and she has a conscience which is a good thing but if anything should have happened to Michael, he should have had a plan for her. She was the only person he ever seemed to care about. Though when he attacked me and I killed him she wasn't around, or I may have just taken her at that point."
"What do you want to do if she is here?" He looked down at his beer. "I mean if we can somehow manage to get her out of this life?"
I gulped this is the part that Kono and I had been arguing about the most. "I want to buy up a house and then get her to live with me. Send her to school, get her a proper education. She is quite smart, and if she has managed to teach the girls here like she did in LA then maybe we might have a chance of succeeding at this."
Steve nodded as we heard a car pull up. "It is only Danny. He said he would come and join us when he had dropped Grace and Charlie off with Rachel."
I nodded as Danny joined us outside. "So we are going after a group of children who are trained as strippers?"
I laughed for a second, before nodding. Though I had never seen Lyna as that. "I think the best way would be for you to host a party. They have been known to do private events and then we invite some of them. We can make a request that she comes here and though a few others will have to come too it shouldn't be that hard to talk to her alone."
Steve glared at me, though I doubt it was completely about the idea. He wasn't happy with me already having a plan. "I appreciate the idea Adam but are you sure that it is the best idea, I mean how do we insist on her coming?"
"I'll reach out to the local head of the Yakuza explain that we want a Chimera for a night and then see what he says. That should almost make it certain that we do get her. I mean it could be my welcome home party."
Danny laughed. "Your welcome home party? Well I mean that could work, no one would suspect anything if we called it that."
Steve nodded. "But we don't do it here. We can do it at the beach, I mean it is Hawaii right. We can have a bar b que and everything."
Danny shook his head for a second. "I was joking. Throwing a party like that and inviting strippers Rachel would have my head."
Steve grinned just as his phone went off, "It's Jerry." He answered it putting it on speaker. "Ya Jerry what's up?"
'You and Adam might want to get down here. I have decoded part of the letter and if this thing is right, we have some trouble.'
He turned to Danny and he nodded. "Sure we'll be down in a few. Danny is going to drive us."
We had each not even finished one beer but still he didn't want to really drive to the head quarters.