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Chapter One
Lewi Keilani and Amoka Keala entered the ER at Queen's Medical Center. Wanting to look inconspicuous they made their way through the busy waiting room to the reception desk. Lewi booked himself in under a fake name with made up stomach pains, then they took a seat that gave them a good view of the ambulance bay, and waited for their plans to unfold.
They had spent the last month planning how to break their fellow gang member out of jail. The two friends had grown up with Kale Ola, and they had been as close as brothers. So when Kale had been arrested, and subsequently convicted, for the murder of a rival gang member, they had started to plan his escape. Unhappy with how the rest of the gang had sold their friend out, they had obtained new I.D.'s for themselves and secured a boat to get them off the island. Now they just needed to break Kale free. Knowing their best chance of achieving that was to get him out of Halawa Correctional, they had formulated the plan to make their attack at the hospital.
The two friends had paid one of Kale's fellow inmates a hefty sum to shiv Kale in a none life threatening place. Any less serious injury would have resulted in a trip to the prison infirmary. The decision to injure their friend hadn't been taken lightly, but the emergency situation would result in less security, and make their plan more likely to succeed. Lewi had gotten the idea while reading an old newspaper clipping of how Commander Steve McGarrett had escaped from Halawa, in a bid to prove his innocence.
If their plan had been set in motion, Kale would be arriving anytime now.
"What if they don't bring him here?" Amoka started to worry.
"They will. They have secure rooms here for prisoners. We just have to time it right. Give them enough time to patch Kale up, then we will storm in and kill anyone who gets in our way. Just a few more hours and we'll be on a boat to freedom." Lewi glanced at his watch to check the time.
A few minutes later their plan came to fruition. The wail of an ambulance siren filled the air, as hospital staff ran to greet it. A prison guard jumped out of the back and allowed them to pull the gurney out.
Lewi and Amoka watched as the gurney was pushed into one of the trauma rooms. "Come on, let's move closer." Lewi checked the gun, hidden in his pants pocket as he rose from his seat.
The rouse of getting a drink from the water fountain allowed them to move closer to the trauma rooms. Able to see through a window in the door, they saw Kale lying on the gurney. The guard stood close by while a doctor, and two nurses, quickly assessed their friend. The team continued to treat their patient, X-rays were taken, and the pair were relieved to see the doctor start to stitch their friend up. The guard checked the handcuffs attached to Kale, and the gurney, then took a moment to step away, leaving the room. No doubt updating the prison of his charges condition.
"Ok, we go now." Lewi ordered. He pushed the door open and led the way into the room.
"I'm sorry you can't be here." A dark haired, male, nurse attempted to show them back out of the trauma room.
"Everyone get back." Lewi yelled as both men drew their guns.
The two nurses, and doctor, instantly complied and backed away from the patient on the gurney.
"Dudes, what's going on?" Kale asked.
"We're getting you out of here bruddah." Amoka attempted to release the hand cuffs, but immediately realised the flaw in their plan.
At that second the guard returned to the room. "What the hell?" He yelled, only for Lewi to shove his gun in his face.
"Undo the cuffs."
"No, not gonna happen." The guard stood his ground.
"Release him now." Lewi pushed the guard in Kale's direction.
"No, I won't do it. He goes free over my dead body." The guard refused again.
"Ok, if you say so." Lewi pulled the trigger. The bullet hit the guard in his chest, as the female nurse and doctor screamed. The male nurse backed them all away a little more.
Amoka started riffling through the dead guard's pockets, and finally found a key to release his friend.
Lewi returned to the door, while keeping his gun trained on the medical staff. The gunshot had sent the waiting room into chaos, people were running away from the trauma rooms to seek shelter. What the two gang members hadn't counted on was the overweight police officer, that must have been somewhere in the ER, running towards them, gun drawn, and already radioing for back up.
"Shit, the cops." Lewi pushed open the door and fired at the cop, who quickly took cover behind the reception desk. It was the perfect position to provide cover, but give a great view of the man with the gun. Shots were fired back, forcing Lewi to retreat.
Amoka had released Kale from the handcuffs and helped him off the gurney. He was helping him across the room when Lewi ducked back in, and slammed the door. Grabbing a nearby drip stand, he barricaded them into the room and pulled the blind down at the window.
"What the hell?" Amoka yelled, helping Kale back to the gurney. He then pulled out a second gun and handed it to his injured friend.
"Cops man, we can't get out without him shooting at us."
"Some plan you two cooked up. Do I have you two to thank for this?" Kale did not look happy as he pointed to his abdomen.
"It's ok, it'll be ok." Lewi responded.
"How will it be ok, Lewi? We're trapped." Amoka started to panic. The plan was to get in, and get out, before any cops arrived. Now they were pinned down with their injured friend.
"Because we have them." Lewi pointed to the medical team who were huddled towards the back of the room, trying to look nonthreatening. "They're our way out of here. We use them to get safe passage off the island."
5-0-5-0-5-0-5-0
The 5-0 team had just finished up a big case, and after completing all the paperwork that morning, they were sat enjoying lunch together at Kamakona's shrimp truck.
"We should all go surfing together this weekend." Steve suggested.
"That sounds like a great idea." Kono never said no to a chance to ride the waves.
"I'm in." Chin nodded.
"Danny, you up for it? I know you don't have Grace and Charlie this weekend."
"No, it's Rachel's weekend." Danny answered before having a drink. Sometime he thought Steve knew his schedule with his children more that Danny did himself.
"So, you in?"
"Depends."
"Depends on what?" Steve pushed.
"Are you going to hog all the waves?"
"I don't hog the waves." Steve responded, insulted.
Chin, Kono, and Danny all laughed.
"What?" Steve frowned at them.
"Sorry brah, but, you kind of do." Kono replied.
Steve looked to Chin for support. "Hey, I'm with them on this one." Chin held up his hands as he spoke.
"Fine." Steve threw down his napkin onto his finished plate. "I promise not to hog the waves."
"Then I'm in." Danny smile as Steve looked like he was sulking. Pushing Steve's buttons was always something Danny enjoyed doing.
"What about you, Lou? Can we persuade you to get up on a board?" Kono had been dying to get Lou to join them surfing.
"Are you kidding me? You really think I could get up on one of those things? No way. I will, however, watch you from my nice comfy sun lounger, with a nice cold beer in my hand."
"Come on Lou, if Danny can do it, so can you." Steve joked in an attempt to get his own back at his partner's earlier dig.
"I don't know. They say you can't teach on old dog new tricks." Danny jibed back, refusing to rise to the bait.
"Old dog, who you calling an old dog?" Lou scowled, but knew it was just playful banter.
Before Danny could answer, their conversation was interrupted by the ringing of Steven's phone.
The team collectively groaned. If the governor had a new case for them, their weekend plans were about to go out of the window. From the look on Steve's face, whatever it was, was serious.
Chin stood up and went to settle their bill, knowing they were about to head out. By the time he got back, Steve was just hanging up the phone.
"We need to go. There's a hostage situation at Queen's. A prisoner from Halawa was attacked and taken there. His friends are trying to break him out. They have barricaded themselves into a treatment room, and HPD are on scene. Shots have been fired."
The team all stood and started to make their way to the cars.
"Do we know how many hostages?" Lou asked.
"Possibly four, the prison guard, a doctor, and 2 nurses. However, one of those could already be down. A shot was fired before HPD interjected."
That was enough information to get the team moving faster. Steve slid into the driver's seat of the Camaro, and Danny took his seat alongside him. Halfway towards Queen's Steve glanced over at his silent partner. "You ok?"
"I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?" Danny refused to look at his partner, instead he was looking out of the window.
Steve replied as he turned a sharp corner, excessively fast, "because at this point you are usually screaming at me about my driving, but instead you're unusually quiet."
"Just watch the road, and get us there, will you."
Steve frowned, he knew something was bothering Danny.
"Did they say anything more about the hostages? Do we know who they are?" Danny suddenly asked.
"No I didn't ask. Does it matter who they are?" Steve glanced at his friend and saw the tension in his posture.
"I guess not." Danny replied and went back to silently staring out the window.
Minutes later they arrived at the hospital and Danny was the first out of the car. Duke came out to meet them. "Thanks for coming guys. SWAT are on their way, but the Governor wanted you here too."
"What we got, Duke?" Danny asked as the rest of the team joined them.
"Officer Pua Kia was following up a RTA to take statements, when he heard gunfire. He investigated, and was fired upon."
"Is he ok?" Kono asked concerned. While she wouldn't admit it aloud, she had a soft spot for the young officer.
"He's fine, he was able to take cover and return fire, while radioing for back up. However, they have barricaded themselves in a trauma room, and closed the blinds. They are threatening to kill the hostages if we breach. They say they have already killed the guard, so mean business."
"Damn." Danny sighed. "Duke, do we know who the hostages are?"
"Yes, we know that two nurses and a doctor were tending to the patient. The nurses are Jackie Young and Noa Akuini."
"And the doctor?" Danny pushed, hardly daring to breathe as he waited for the reply.
Duke sighed, knowing the team wouldn't take this well. "I'm sorry guys, but the doctor is Andrea Pearce."
Steve saw the anguish in Danny's face, and his partner's unusual behaviour suddenly made sense. Danny had been concerned that his friend was caught up in the situation, and now his worst fears were being confirmed.
TBC
Wenwalke A/N: This plot came about because of Steve's thoughts near the end of 'That was Loud'. I believed Steve was right and Danny did have stronger feeling for Andrea. So I sent Beth a plot and figured, if she liked it, she would run with in. Instead she asked if I'd help her write it, and a co-authored story began. Working on this together was fun, and I think the results are great. Ninety percent of this is Beth's work, I just added bits here and there, as I beta'd it for her.
Topazicatzbeth A/N: I'd like to thank Wenwalke for the new challenge and everything she has brought to this story to make it what it is. Her plot was great so of course I was going to run with it and we had fun working out the details. She also added some great dialogue to make the story more whole. I hope you enjoy where this goes, I know some of you have been wanting it for some time.