A/N: OOPS! I said in the last chapter that Danny's eyes were green and a guest reviewer corrected me. So I googled it and found not only that Scott Caan and I are the same height, but that he does indeed have blue eyes. They seemed green in S 2 Ep 15. Sorry for the mistake. Thanks for all the reviews, and sorry to keep everyone in such suspense. I hate it when authors do that. (Slap on the hand to me.)
Disclaimer: Although Scott and I share the same height that is about it. I own nothing about him or H50. Anyway I couldn't own Scott because slavery is illegal. (Gee Starrgirl22 obsess much about Scott Caan?) YUP! I can't help it. Two week without the show has been driving me crazy!
Grace had been so anxious for school to end she almost couldn't concentrate on her work. She hadn't spent an entire week with her father since they had all come to Hawaii.
Finally, the bell rang releasing her and the other children. She walked along the hall with the other students and out the front door. Grace moved to the side so she could get a good view of the parked cars, and not get trampled by her school mates. It only took a moment to spot the silver Camaro. A big smile came upon her face as she saw her father wave. She rejoined the crowd of bodies.
When Grace got to the bottom of the steps she saw her Danno put his phone to his ear. She saw his face make a complete one eighty. His happy expression disappearing. Grace was confused, but continued toward him. Her dad, who was already moving, picked up speed. She saw him take his phone away from his ear and look at it. At that same moment a door opened up next to her. Two large hands reached out picking her up and lifting her inside the vehicle. It all happened so fast. One moment she was on her way to her father, and the next pulled into a strange vehicle.
Grace had started screaming the second the hands had grabbed her. She was set down on a long seat inbetween two stranger. She tried to get up off the seat, but was pulled back down. A large hand covered her mouth cutting off her scream. His other arm wrapped around her shoulders keeping her in place as the SUV peeled out into the street.
"Shut up you little brat," came a mean rough voice, "or I'll put your lights out."
He shook her a bit for emphasis. Grace looked up at the man who had pulled her into this car. Her large brown eyes full of fear. She gave him a quick nod. The hand pulled away, but the arm around her shoulders kept her firmly planted on the seat.
Grace saw that the other man next to her was holding something in his hand. Grace watched him bring the object up to her face and tie it around her eyes. All she could see was a bit of light coming in around the edges of the dark fabric. She heard the sound of duct tape being pulled from a roll. Her heart sank as she recalled the familiar sound from not long ago. The same had been used to confine her to a chair inside a storage unit. She then felt its sticky side wrap around her wrists, binding them together. More tape sound and then her ankles received the same.
Grace was still wearing her back pack. She heard the sound of her fabric straps being cut. A hand pushed her forward a bit so that her bag could be taken from behind. Grace thought she heard a zipper open and close but she wasn't sure. What she didn't see was one of the men pulling out her cell phone, giving a nod to his colleague, putting it back and dropping the bag on the floor.
At this point Grace couldn't stop herself from crying. She wanted her Danno. She knew he had seen her grabbed. She thought back to seeing him only minutes earlier. The horrified look on his face as she was pulled inside the vehicle was etched into her memory. He would come after her. Her Danno would rescue her.
As if to confirm her thoughts Grace heard the other man next to her say, "They're coming up behind us. We've got maybe 90 seconds before they cut us off."
"Just stick to the plan," the rough voice said.
Grace wasn't sure what the "plan" was, but she was relieved to hear the word "they". It meant that Danno wasn't alone. Uncle Steve was probably with him although she had only seen Danno at her school. She hoped they would catch up soon and get her out of here. The car suddenly made a hard turn. The force of it caused Grace to be pushed against the man who had grabbed her. The car continued at high speeds and took several more turns. It suddenly came to a screeching halt.
Had Danno stopped the SUV? Was he coming to pull her out now? She heard a door open.
"DANNO!" she screamed hoping that he was nearby to hear her.
"I told you to keep quiet!" the man who had grabbed her shouted in her face. Grace felt his hand grab her cheeks squeezing them between a finger and thumb.
"Let's go," a new voice said.
The man released Grace's face and lifter her off the seat. She felt herself being handed to someone else. Her small body was thrown over a strange shoulder. She was too scared to cry out. If no one was nearby these men might hurt her for it.
"Put her in the trunk."
Whoever was holding Grace began moving.
"Hey. . .what the. . . .you didn't tell us-"
"Shut up!"
It was the same voice that kept telling Grace to be quiet. The voice that had spoken before had sound shocked, maybe even a bit scared. Grace didn't have time to try and figure this out. She felt herself being laid onto a hard surface. With a slam, Grace heard the trunk close. She could no longer see any lights around the edges of her blindfold. She was in the dark. She heard two engines starting and wondered how many people had been apart of this. The car took off as quickly as the SUV had not long ago. She put her hands out to keep herself from slamming into the back of the car.
"Daddy," Grace tearfully whispered as any hope she had of her Danno coming to rescue her vanished.
Grace wasn't sure how long she was in the trunk of the car. She was so frightened and she couldn't stop from shaking despite the hot temperature. She had cried so much that the fabric around her face had become damp.
Grace felt the car slow, take one more turn and then come to a complete stop. Grace didn't want those men to take her anywhere, but it was too warm in the trunk. She knew if she wanted to get out she would need to cooperate.
The trunk opened. Grace first felt a rush of cool air. It was still warm outside, but the temperature difference made the outside air refreshingly cold. She saw a bit of light around the edges of the blindfold. Grace braced herself to be lifted again, but nothing happened. Instead she felt a hand on the side of her face. It wasn't a mean gesture. It gently wiped some sweat away.
"HURRY IT UP!" came a voice that Grace recognized all too well.
She felt herself being picked up and carried again. It was, however, different. This man was being careful. He hadn't thrown her roughly over his shoulder, but cradled her in his arms almost in a way that her father would have done.
"I want my daddy," she whispered.
The answer she received was a quiet and mild shushing. Grace saw the bits of light dim as well as feeling the sun no longer against her skin. Voices echoed all around her indicating that she was no longer outside.
"Take her in there."
It was that voice again. At least this time it wasn't yelling. The man continued walking and a few moments later Grace felt herself set down on something hard and wooden.
"I am so sorry about this," the kinder voice said to her "Just stay here and behave. Don't take off your blindfold-"
Grace realized she could take it down with her hands bound in front of her. She had been so terrified that it hadn't crossed her mind.
"And stay quiet. They'll gag you if you make any noise. . . . this should all be over soon."
All Grace heard after he finished was the sound of footsteps on concrete and a door closing. A moment later some kind of lock clicked.
It was a little cooler in this new place than it had been in the trunk of the car, but not by much. The temperature and being tied up in a dark place brought back some memories from not long ago. She didn't want to remember that terrible afternoon when Rick McGuire, her father's old partner and training officer, had come to her tennis lesson and told her that Danno was in the hospital. However her father had found her when that had happened and she was confident that he would find her again.
A/N: I actually wrote out a flashback from the episode mentioned above that was supposed to take place after this chapter. However, it turned out to be a lot longer that I had thought so I will be posting it as its own story after this one. It is not as dark as this story and took away from the main plot. As you can tell I will be refering to S 2 Ep 15 quite a bit in this story as it takes place not long after those events.
