Okay, this is my first shot at a somewhat larger, more complicated story.

Summary: The team is on a case, and Kono disappears when she's undercover. Steve goes three types of nuts trying to find her, alerting Danny and Chin to his feelings.

Lost and found

Chapter 1

'Listen up boys and girl, we have a case.' Steve walked into the precinct with a big smile on his face, happy they finally had some work to do. It had been rather slow since the whole Victor Hess case.

'Don't sound so damn chipper about it, if it's anything like any other case we've handled so far, I'll probably get shot again.' Danny answered in his usual grumpy ways.

Steve just shrugged his shoulders and handed out the case file. Chin and Kono immediately started to read while Danny took his time glaring at Steve for interrupting his donut festivities.

The case was unusual. Three local girls had been murdered near a private beach called Hono-cove. As far as HPD had found, there was no real link between the victims. The first victim, Joana Wailun, was killed a week ago by strangulation. Some defensive wounds but nothing else. The same with the other two victims, Allia Gung and Jesse Bergs killed 3 and 5 days after the first. The girls were all pretty but that was the only similarity, all three were from very different backgrounds.

As the team read the case file they compared ideas about possible scenario's and suspects. As the team split up Steve did something unexpected. Usually it was Steve and Danny, Chin and Kono. But not this time as Steve said:

'Kono you're with me, Danny go with Chin.'

The three other team members raised their collective eyebrows and looked at each other. Danny of course being the one who spoke up.

'Why?' 'Very eloquent Danny', he berated himself.

'Because I said so. Besides we're going to speak to the families, I realized that Ms. Wailun's family consists of only women, I would expect they feel more comfortable with female law enforcement there.'

Steve glared at his partner for a second before turning to leave the precinct.

Kono shrugged her shoulders once more to Chin and Danny, silently indicating she had no idea what was going on in her Boss's head, and moved to follow him.

'Is it me, or is there something he's not saying?'

Danny only nodded to Chin, silently promising to get to the bottom of Steve's weird behavior.

There was an uncomfortable silence in the car as Steve and Kono drove to their victims house. Kono wasn't sure what to think. Sure McGarrett was the boss, and his reasons for changing the composition of the partners was his call, but this was the first time he'd ever done it. And why didn't he just sent Kono and Chin to this house? Did he think Chin couldn't handle it? It was rather confusing, until a certain thought hit her. All the murdered girls, they were all locals, she was local, and her favorite beach was Hono-cove, but did he know that? Is that why he was so moody all of a sudden?

Steve was bristling, calling himself every other name under the sun. 'Sure Steve, make it even more obvious you've got feelings of an unprofessional nature for one of your partners!' It hadn't been his intention to change the dynamic duos but when he had read the report and come across the body dumpsite, he was shocked. He knew Kono spent a lot of time on that beach, and suddenly his heart had constricted. What if it had been her? What if she had been targeted as well, and he wouldn't be able to protect her?

Coming to the conclusion that there was more to it than what he had told Danny at the precinct, she looked over at Steve. His arms were stretched further than they needed to be, his knuckles were white from the iron grip he held the steering wheel with. His face was tense, and he was frowning as if debating something within himself.

'Boss are you ok?' No reply.

'Boss!' Steve was startled out of his thoughts and swerved on the road. Quickly recovering he took a deep breath before sending an annoyed 'what?' in Kono's direction, immediately cringing at the reprimanding tone he had given her.

Before she could reply he apologized and asked her what was wrong.

'That's what I was asking you. You seem a little tense.' Kono used a soft tone of voice, afraid that maybe she shouldn't be asking.

Steve debated his answer for a split second, the truth was out of the question, so how about a semi-truth?

'This case just frustrates me, it makes no sense, besides that I hate dealing with serial killers, they're just that much more crazy than the regular kind.'

Congratulating himself at how convinced he sounded, he grinned at her. It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the truth either. What bothered him was that he felt Kono was being threatened somehow. He couldn't explain why or how he knew, but the feeling was enough to put him on edge, and apparently she had noticed.

Kono knew for certain then, that she was right in her assumptions. He was worried, for her. She felt her heart blossom at the idea of Steve McGarrett caring for her in such a profound manner. 'Don't get your hopes up girl, he's just looking out for a team mate.' Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she realized they had arrived at the house.