Hawaii Five-0
Human Targets
Chapter 1
After a long day at work, having dinner and drinks with friends always seems to be the perfect way to finish the day, especially when it's your birthday. Danny's sister April, who had come along for the pure fun of embarrassing her big brother was nice enough to pay for Danny's drinks, seeing it was his birthday. The brunette nurse had been in Hawaii for about nine months now, after escaping an abusive relationship and nearly paying with her life for doing so.
Everyone was having a great time laughing at the hilarious tales Danny's sister had to tell about their childhood in Newark. What was even funnier was Danny trying to defend himself and trying to push the blame onto April.
With the laughter, came the mouthfuls of beer and wine; except for Catherine. After Catherine's weekend of shore leave had been interrupted by case; Steve decided it was a good time to do his training drills on the Enterprise; the ship Catherine just so happened to work on. Anyway, one thing lead to another and well… the next thing they knew, they were going to be parents in nine months' time. Catherine was now about five months along and was sipping at orange juices while everyone else enjoyed a beer or wine.
Chin and Malia were also there, along with Kono, Kamekono, Max and Gabby. Being pregnant, meant more trips to the bathroom; so Kono had accompanied Catherine to the ladies' room while April and Gabby went over to the bar to get the next round of drinks. Danny was going to take full advantage of his sister paying for his drinks tonight and April now was hoping she wasn't going to regret it.
Finishing up in the bathroom, Kono and Catherine were washing their hands and fixing up their hair. Just as Kono was heading towards the bathroom door, she and Catherine heard what sounded like a car, screaming and people yelling to get out of the way. Just as the two women went to investigate what was going on; the sound of a car got louder and the next thing they knew, they were on the floor after the car slammed straight into the wall, just outside the bathroom.
When the two women felt it was safe to move, they got up from the floor.
"Are you alright?" Kono asked Catherine.
"Yeah" Catherine replied. "I think so"
"You're sure?" Kono asked.
"Almost" Catherine replied as she looked down at her forearm.
"What the hell happened out there?" she asked in confusion.
"I don't know" Kono replied. "But we're going to find out"
Kono walked over to the door and pushed it open. She got the door open, but it wasn't enough for her or Catherine to get through. The door was being blocked by a stack of fallen debris.
"Something heavy's blocking the door" said Kono. "I can't get it open"
"Well, what can you see?" Catherine asked.
"Looks like a car crashed through the dining area" Kono replied.
"Can you see anyone?" Catherine asked.
"Yeah" Kono replied. "A lot of them are hurt though"
Meanwhile, everyone left sitting at the table was okay; the car had narrowly missed them. But they were now concerned for Kono, Catherine, Gabby and April who weren't with them at the time of accident. Danny went looking for Gabby and April. Steve, Chin, Malia and Kamekono headed for the bathroom in search of Catherine and Kono. Max made use of his medical training to help the people who had been hurt.
"April!" Danny yelled. "Gabby!"
"April!" Danny yelled again as he still frantically searched for his sister and his girlfriend. "Gabby!"
Danny's worst fears were washed away, when suddenly spotted the two women heading towards him.
"You two okay?" Danny asked them.
"Yeah we're fine" April and Gabby replied in unison.
"Okay" April replied.
"What about Cath and Kono? They were in bathroom when this happened" April asked as the three of them made their way over to the ladies' room.
"I don't know" Danny replied. "That's what scares me"
Over at the ladies' room, Kono and Catherine were still as hard as they could to try and push the bathroom door open. While on another attempt, they heard yelling and it sounded familiar; it was Steve, Chin and Malia.
"Cath!" Steve yelled.
"Kono!" Chin yelled.
"We're in here!" Catherine yelled to get their attention.
"The door won't budge!" Kono yelled.
Steve, Chin, Malia and Kamekono finally arrived outside the ladies' room door to see that Kono was relatively unscathed. Whereas Catherine had cut her up pretty badly.
"How are you going to get them out?" Malia asked.
"They need to get checked out; especially Catherine" Malia stressed.
Steve, Chin and Kamekono were trying desperately move all of the rubble as quickly as possible, so they wouldn't have to wait for the fire department. Their desperate rescue attempts were briefly interrupted when Danny, Gabby and April appeared from around a corner.
"Hey!" Danny yelled. "They okay?" Danny asked with concern.
"As far as we can tell" Chin replied.
"How far out is help?" April asked.
"Cath's cut herself pretty badly" Steve replied.
"In other words, not close enough" Malia added.
"Yeah, that's Steve" said Danny.
Danny then made his move to help Steve, Chin and Kamekono.
"Hey, has anyone checked on the driver of the car?" Gabby asked.
The pure silence that followed the question said it all, no. With that, April and Gabby made their through the rubble towards the car.
"Can you see anything?" Gabby asked, watching April close in on the car.
April arrived outside, what was left of the car and bent down to look through the driver's window and was stunned at what she had discovered; she was left speechless, how did this make any sense?
"April, what's going on?" Gabby asked. "April?"
"There's no one here!" April replied.
"What are you talking about?" Gabby asked.
April pulled her head from out of the car to confirm her findings to Gabby.
"There's no one in the car" April replied.
"Which means either the driver amazingly didn't get hurt or…"
"The driver somehow got out before the car crashed into the building" said Gabby.
"What's going on?" Gabby asked.
"I don't know, but I don't think this was an accident" April replied.
Outside the ladies' room, the guys had moved just enough rubble to get a trapped Catherine and Kono out. When Gabby and April saw that Catherine and Kono were out and in the arms of their loved ones; they felt a wash of relief but what they had just discovered dampening the happy moment.
"Hey guys, good work" said April as she and Gabby made their way over to them.
"But now you medical attention on those hands"
"And please don't say you're fine, because you are not" Malia added.
"Let's go guys" said Kamekono. "You heard the professionals"
Walking over towards the ambulances, the group of nine caught sight of Max standing next to one.
"Hey Max!" Danny yelled, getting his attention.
As Max walks towards his nine friends, he sees that some of them are worse for wear.
"Are you guys okay?" Max asked.
"We're fine" Steve replied. "Cath and Kono need to be checked out though"
"Okay, well follow me then" Max replied, not convinced that Kono and Catherine were the only one's needing medical attention.
While watching Steve, Catherine, Chin, Kono, Malia and Max walk over towards the ambulance's, Danny realised he hadn't yet asked about the driver of the car.
"Hey, how's the driver?" Danny asked.
Gabby and April looked at each other, unsure of how to answer Danny's question.
"What? What's the look?" Danny asked, confused at why the two woman were finding hard to answer his question.
"The driver" April replied.
"The driver what?" Danny asked.
"There was no driver in the car" April replied.
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Danny asked.
"When we got there, there was no one in the car" Gabby clarified.
"So, let me get this straight" said Danny. "Just so we're clear, no driver in the car?" Danny asked.
"No" April replied. "This means they got out somehow or they didn't get hurt and escaped"
"This was planned" said Danny. "Which means this was no accident"