This is not tagged to any particular episode and is probably a bit OC. Also I haven't seen the last two episode of the season yet so it might also be a little AU.
Disclaimer: I do not own Hawaii Five-O. I am not making any money off of this story. All rights go to whoever it is that does own Hawaii Five-O.
The warm water caressed her skin as she paddled out to the deeper water. A couple of cuts from their last case stung as the salt water washed them clean. She needed to forget, just for a while she wanted to feel nothing. Slowly even the sting from the cuts faded as she released her emotions into the welcoming arms of the waves. Tears ran down her face and mingled with the ocean as she remembered each moment, each look, each word and let it go.
An hour later she finally felt numb. Exhaustion halted the flow of tears and stopped the constant stream of images behind her eyes.
When she could no longer go on, when her arms felt weaker than strings of spaghetti, she would go home, shower, then collapse into bed. Sleep would quickly overtake her and fatigue would ensure that she would not wake up. As she slept, her mind would process through the last week and she would twitch occasionally from a nightmare but not wake.
When she woke she would get up and it would hit her again. This time however, the previously crippling ferocity would be conspicuously absent, swallowed up by the ocean surf. She would change and go for an early morning swim, the tropical water once again embracing her, swallowing her hurts and washing her soul clean of the nightmares and stress of the last week, gradually reassuring her they would not reappear again. The week would fall from the present to the past, the roaring of the waves demanding that it be left behind her.
For now though she would swim. For now she would forget. For now, she would surf.
