"Detective Williams, my name is Danny Ocean and I think that we are in need of each other's assistance."

Danny lifted his eyebrows, not lowering his gun. "I don't even know who you are, what makes you think that I need, or want your assistance?" He said in an angry growl.

Ocean was standing with his hands in the air, trying to look harmless. "Well, the fact that you recently got a visit from Terry Benedict, that he kept addressing you by a different name and that he seems to have far too much information about your family, just to start."

Danny would have laughed, but nothing about this day seemed funny. "You are not far behind on having too much information about me. You also broke into my house, which doesn't exactly give me a trustworthy vibe." He said, looking around the room. "Speaking of family, where is Eric?" He asked in a threatening tone. Eric had been crashing at his place since Danny was out of the hospital, wanting to be around in case Danny needed something.

Ocean smirked. "I'm guessing Eric is E-Train? He left a note saying he had a date and he 'might get lucky' so he didn't know if he'll be back tonight." He said, pointing at a small piece of paper on the coffee table.

At least that was one less thing to worry about. "You haven explained what you're doing here," Danny asked in a flat tone.

"I guess your lock is not a very good one." Ocean said dryly. "Listen, if I wanted to harm you in any way, I would have done it by now. I am unarmed, and I have useful information for you."

"What kind of information?" Danny asked, knowing that it was a very bad idea to let a suspect talk, but he wanted answers, and maybe this guy could give him some.

"Well, I would be much more comfortable if I didn't have a gun pointing at my face." Ocean said, looking pointedly at the gun on Danny's hands.

"Yes, just like I would be more comfortable if someone hadn't broken into my house! Now start talking!" Danny griped, not making any move to lower his gun.

Ocean gave him the same annoying grin again. "Alright, Mr. Benedict carries an old grudge with me and a few of my friends. Every few years he remembers this grudge and comes knocking at our doors to request our services."

Danny lifted his eyebrows. "What kind of services?"

"He needs us to collect an item that he misplaced." Ocean's expression didn't give anything away.

Danny rolled his eyes. "He wants you to steal something that was stolen from him. I've heard the name Black Fox before. I'm not as clueless as you think I am, it still doesn't explain what's that have to do with me and why he brought my family into this mess." Danny finished with an angry growl.

Ocean looked impressed with Danny's knowledge. He was trying to come up with an explanation that wouldn't make the detective in front of him arrest him on the spot when the lights suddenly went off.

Danny looked around, his gun in front of him. He jumped at the sudden sound of his door splintering and took cover behind a chair.

Dark figures with flashlights started pouring into his apartment, but a chorus of familiar voices yelling "FIVE-0! DROP YOUR WEAPONS!" made him realize that his apartment was not under attack, it was just his team overreacting. He moved away from his cover, lowering his weapon. "What the hell is the matter with you? You ever heard of knocking?" He yelled in annoyance.

Kono and Chin lowered their weapons as well, looking around the room and seeming a bit disappointed at not having the chance to shoot at anything. "Danny, you ok? We thought that someone had broken into your place and were holding you hostage!" Kono asked in concern.

Danny shook his head, turning around to address Ocean. "You see what I have to-" only Ocean was nowhere to be found. Danny whirled around, but he couldn't see much with the lights still off. "Where the hell did he go?"

Chin had already moved into the house, doing a sweep of every room with the light from his gun. When he reached the bathroom, he called out. "Danny, over here!"

Danny moved to the bathroom and looked inside, seeing that the window was wide open, posing as the perfect escape route. "Damn." He said, rubbing a hand down his face.

"Are you alright, brah? Can you tell me what happened?" Chin asked gently, putting a hand on his friend's shoulder.

Danny rubbed his forehead tiredly, not really sure where to start. "Honestly? I have no fucking clue." He said in annoyance. He started moving back to the living room, stumbling with his own furniture in the dark and discreetly using a hand to lean against the walls, since his knees had decided that he'd had enough excitement for the day. He could hear what sounded like Lou and Abby clearing the backyard. "So where is our fearless leader anyway? Checking the perimeter? Torturing a neighbor?"

Chin chuckled, moving with Danny towards the living room and leading him to the couch, while Kono went back outside. "Believe it or not, he's waiting outside in Lou's truck." He said as he nudged Danny to sit. The lights chose that moment to come back on, and it only helped to give an extra punch to the headache that Danny had been fighting for the last hour.

Danny sat down with a groan, closing his eyes to avoid the glare from the overhead lamp. "Really? How'd you manage that?"

Chin grew serious, studying Danny. "I told him that we'd be distracted if we had to keep an eye of him." He said seriously, which only served to make Danny feel even worse about this whole clusterfuck of a day. He turned at the sound of some loud voices coming from outside.

"Chin cleared the house and you and Abby cleared the backyard, so I'm free to go inside and check on my partner!" They could hear Steve's annoyed voice coming closer.

"Oh, so you think you're free to go inside because Chin gave us the all clear? Well, let me tell you right now that you're wrong, because the all clear was meant for the four of us that are not recovering from getting shot just over a month ago!" They heard Lou grumbling from outside.

Chin waved at Danny to stay put while he moved closer to the front door. "Ladies, if you're done arguing, maybe you can get in here and see for yourself that your partner is no worse for wear." He said in amusement.

Steve stepped through the door followed by Lou, Abby and Kono. He looked around the living room, checking for signs of struggle and breathed a relieved sigh when he laid his eyes on Danny. "Hey buddy. You alright?" He asked gently, moving to sit on the coffee table in front of his partner.

Danny nodded tiredly, lifting his hands to rub his throbbing forehead.

Steve didn't look too convinced. "You sure? Maybe we should get you checked out at the hospital."

Danny lifted his eyes to glare at his partner. "Maybe you should get checked out at the hospital, by a shrink!" He grumbled, losing steam pretty quickly. "You shouldn't have come here. You just overreacted."

Steve's expression turned stony. "Right, because you wouldn't have rushed here after your call with your partner gets interrupted by someone breaking into his house!"

Danny lifted his hands to rub his eyes tiredly. "Damn, I forgot about that," he said with a groan. He leaned to the side, looking for the things he dropped when he was startled by Ocean in his living room. He only found his phone still there on the floor. He got up from the couch and moved to pick it up, crouching to take a look under the furniture. There was no sign of the folder that Benedict left behind with the information on that Malloy guy and the pictures and documents of Grace and Charlie. He looked around the room at his teammates, thinking that someone may have picked it up, but it was nowhere to be found.

Steve got up after Danny, seemingly concerned at his behavior. He looked at Chin for an explanation, but the other man only shrugged in confusion.

Danny looked at his teammates helplessly. "There was a folder. I think the guy took it," he muttered quietly, dropping tiredly to sit on an armchair and dropping his head on his hands.

Chin and Steve shared a look, and Chin motioned for Kono to follow him to Danny's room, while Steve moved back to Danny's side. "Do you know what the guy wanted?" He asked gently.

Danny shrugged, not lifting his head from his hands. "I wish I knew," he was too tired to make sense of the whole mess, and even if he could, he wasn't sure what Benedict or Ocean really wanted.

Steve squeezed his friend's shoulder in comfort. "OK, and where's Eric?"

Danny nodded to the coffee table. "He's out on a date," He said quietly. Abby took Eric's note and confirmed it.

Steve stood up when Chin and Kono came back with a gym bag. "Alright, Danno. We're going to my place and we'll give Eric a call so he meets us there if he wants to. We'll see what else we can find out tomorrow."

It was a sign of how done Danny was with the day that he didn't argue over heading to Steve's. He wasn't so far gone that he'd let Steve help him to the truck, but in the end he accepted Chin's help.

He got in the back and didn't even notice his team's worried glances when he just leaned his head against the window and closed his eyes. Hopefully tomorrow he'll have the energy to figure out what the hell that damn Danny Ocean wanted.