CHAPTER 2 – Welcome to Our Lair

Steve McGarrett looked up from his papers as he heard the outer door to the office shut and called out "Danno, that you?"

A large head appeared at the door and Kono Kalakua walked in. "No boss, just me."

"Oh morning Kono. Danno in yet?" Steve said, disappointed not to see his second-in-command. He looked at the clock on his desk, it was 8.25am.

"No sign, Chin was right behind me though. We still on for that meeting?"

"Yeah, I thought Danno would be here by now, he was supposed to come in almost an hour ago to go over these files with me before we met up. We'll have to wait for him. As soon as he arrives tell him to come right in would you?"

"Sure thing Steve, not like Danny to be late!"

"No Kono, it's not." Steve said and a small niggling worry started creeping into his head.

Dan heard the clunk of the roller door closing and prayed someone would think it strange the garage had shut so early in the morning. All he needed was an obstreperous customer or a curious HPD officer to check. His car was out front; someone was bound to spot it.

If necessary he would yell his head off until someone heard him.

Lupe leaned into his body and gripped him painfully through his clothing as his sour breath wafted over Danny's face. "I'm gonna enjoy this cop." He whispered. Danny turned his head away from the smell and kneed the man in the groin as hard as he could. The Samoan doubled up, his hands immediately clasping his own genitals as the pain shot through them.

"Lupe, Lupe you ought to take care there man, this one's feisty. Don't you know you have to truss them first – make them pliable! Ain't no good trying to have him like this. He's too strong bruddah!" Koa said, grinning as his friend's discomfort.

His fingers dug into Danny's arm, bruising him and sending searing shock waves through his broken wrist.

A foot into the back of Danny's knees made him drop to the floor, arms straining in their grip. Mano instantly grabbed Danny's hair and pulled him up to look at him. "Whatever way you cut it cop you ain't getting out here without damage. You think you've found something here? Well you have and this nest of vipers isn't about to let some nosy good-for-nothing white man spoil our game. But just maybe we can go easier on you if you co-operate, you make it worth our while pretty boy and we might even spare your worthless life!"

Danny's heart was hammering in his ribcage and he couldn't think of anything that would stop what was likely to happen. "You don't want to do this. The police are on their way - McGarrett will find you; whatever you do to me, and then your lives will be over! You kill a cop and there will be no mercy. He will come after you!" He said bitterly.

"No mercy?! No mercy for you then. If we're gonna do it we better do it right eh fullahs? We wouldn't want this McGarrett guy finding out who we are! But we can still have some fun eh!" Mano said and pushed his groin into Danny's face.

The men laughed as the injured detective found it hard to breathe and instinctively opened his mouth and bit through the material, grazing the man painfully. Mano yelled at him and clubbed him on the back of his neck.

Danny's vision blackened briefly and he went limp, surprising the men holding him who dropped him to the concrete.

"Get him up, he's dangerous." Lupe said straightening up, the throbbing where he was kneed easing. "We need to tie him up."

"Hey man, what about his handcuffs?" Koa said and bent to check the dazed detective for a pair. "Nada, must be in da car."

"Okay, get Sammie to take da cop's car round da back out of sight and see if he has some bracelets in there, otherwise we use rope. Haul his ass up again!"

As Koa went to find Sammie, Ratchet and Lupe grabbed Williams again and as they pulled him up he wobbled on his feet, only the strong arms keeping him standing. Gripping him tightly they frog marched him over to the Mustang and pushed him face down against the hot metal, the engine's heat searing his skin. His wrist was agonizingly painful but neither man took any notice of his gasps. Lupe laughed. "I need some tail, my wahine went with another fullah so I kicked her out!"

"So how do you like da car now eh cop? You were snooping around it well now you can get real close and personal." Ratchet said and pushed Danny's cheek with a thud onto the waxed surface again, making his teeth jar.

A minute later Koa pushed the door back and came in dangling a pair of handcuffs from his finger. "Look what I found, shiny like new; we can truss him good now."

"Did you tell Sammie to move his car?" Mano asked, trying to keep a cool head on the situation rather than risk getting caught. It was all very well playing with the cop but his turning up there was a serious deal and sometime they were going to have to face the fact that they were done in that location. It irked him to consider the time and money they'd put into the place and the number of stolen vehicles they'd run through there without incident. One stupid mistake and the whole thing was blown.

He looked at the prone cop on the bonnet of the car and hated him even more. If it wasn't for Five-0 and people like him Mano's life would be a whole lot simpler.

"Yeah, he's moving it now. All quiet out there – not a soul!" Koa replied. "So what now?" he added, nodding his head in Williams' direction.

"Now we have that fun!" The big Hawaiian took the cuffs from Koa and approached Dan with them, "A warrior subdues his enemy, brings them to their knees. This haole cop is our enemy - so we make him see who is stronger! First we have pleasure - and then we kill him." Mano said with such a cold matter-of-fact tone that it made Danny shiver. "Get his hands above his head."

"Don't do this!" Dan said weakly, his body trembling. "Please for God's sake don't do this!!"

But they neither cared, nor listened. His arms were pulled awkwardly above his head and when the cuffs were linked around his broken wrist Danny screamed with the pain, tears leaking from his eyes. He didn't feel like a policeman, he felt like a vulnerable man; just an ordinary human being and he was very, very scared.

"Jeeze man, he's going to bring the whole damned neighborhood down on us. Tape his mouth up will ya?" Lupe asked, wincing at the noise. Koa went to find some tape.

"You've still gotta hold him Lupe, he's slippery this one."

"Don't tell me what to do Ratchet you just keep your hands on him."

"Hey supposing the cop did call this in when he followed Sammie?"

"You think we wouldn't have heard da sirens by now? Come on Ratchet – they'd be all over us like a rash bruddah."

As Koa brought a piece of tape to put across Danny's mouth the young detective moved his head from side to side, avoiding the plaster as he tried to reason with them one more time, "Look, if you do this you're in big pilikia don't you understand me? Stop now…please just stop now…I'll say things just got out of hand - you changed your mind - anything just let me go…I'll speak up for…mmfpph!"

"Mahalo Koa, all that noise was doin' my head in!" Lupe laughed as his captive's mouth was tightly bound. "Now let's see what we have here." As Ratchet held Danny against the bonnet of the Mustang Lupe leaned his thick chest against Danny's back and put his hands underneath the detective's stomach, opening the waistband on his pants and unzipping his fly.

"He feels good already bruddah! I reckon I should go first, seeing as da pig hit me." Lupe said and wriggled against Danny's backside. Dan closed his eyes, and whimpered with terror.

"You take him first Lupe but I'm next, I'm da boss here!" Mano said sharply and Ratchet chuckled.

Grabbing Dan by the waist he turned him round so he could face his captors. The tape on his mouth was puffing in and out as the young man's breathing became erratic. He stared wide-eyed at Lupe standing over him, close-cropped black hair framing the craters in his face. His white vest was slathered in a cocktail of grease and sweat, the overalls pulled down to his waist, sleeves dangling about his short, stocky body. He looked like a shaved gorilla; all muscle and no brain.

As Danny tried to get free again Mano helped Ratchet to keep him in place, his back bent over the hood of the car, legs kicking as Lupe's eyes darkened with lust and he pushed the elasticated overalls down over his hips, leaving his boxers showing.

"Now strip him" Lupe ordered and Koa happily complied. Every time Williams moved to kick the tall Hawaiian, Ratchet touched his swollen wrist and Danny whimpered beneath the tape. In too much pain to continue, he reluctantly stopped threshing and waited for what was to come.

With his chest exposed and pants pooled to his ankles, Danny Williams felt more vulnerable than he had in his life before. He prayed that Steve would come looking for him but felt that his time was up, that the assault was inevitable and death shortly thereafter. He tried to calm himself but it was impossible. He was being held by four men who hated his guts and were determined to make him pay for what they perceived to be his doing – he was an enemy and had walked into their pit unawares. The slightest provocation had set them off, like a time-bomb waiting for someone to light the fuse.

Danny closed his eyes, trying to block out everything but the beat of his own heart.

"Go on Koa, let's see if you can work your magic! I'll pay ten bucks to da first one who makes him react."

Dan moved back and forth across the bonnet of the car, trying to escape but Ratchet and Mano held him there whilst Koa bent to his work.

The young Hawaiian took the twigs out of his hair, releasing long strands of black around his face and as he bent down the cloak wrapped itself around them both, covering Danny's groin with fine silk.

Danny gasped and felt completely humiliated. He was horrified at the thought of what he was about to endure. It was going to get much worse if someone didn't stop them.

Koa went about his task with a professional eagerness as Lupe looked on in pleasure and Ratchet couldn't help but smile.

Mano watched his cousin work on their victim and although Koa appeared to be enjoying himself it was apparent that the cop wasn't. Danny's face was a mask of hatred and Mano couldn't help but sympathize a fraction with him, he knew that being taken against one's will was a degrading experience, still it didn't bother him to do this to a haole, the modicum of sympathy for the act itself turning to a loathing of all things the white man had done to his islands and his people. Officer Williams in his mind was just a symbol of that - to be used up and thrown away.

Koa suddenly complained as he found himself pushed away and fell on his butt, hair flying around his face when Lupe decided enough was enough and growled at the fey islander, "Me first remember bruddah? You're way down da pecking order."

Koa moaned painfully, waiting his turn. He knew his place and before he ever got a chance at the cop, his cousins and the dangerous Samoan would have their turn at the man. He looked back at the victim on the car, he liked the blue eyes and the fair, tanned skin; the cop was handsome and Koa liked handsome men.

Danny opened his eyes, grateful that he didn't have to concentrate any more, he was desperately trying to control his feelings and only hoped that he had managed; the pain in his wrist and head were making things fuzzy and he could no longer tell what his body was doing. He didn't want to think about what might be coming next. If only someone knew he was there, if he'd just called it in. If only Steve knew.

"Okay, enough playing, let's get to da point of all this shall we?" Lupe said and approached Danny once more. "Koa hold his arms and legs. We gonna make this boy ours." He ordered and Koa leaped happily onto the top of the car and pulled Dan's arms over his head by the cuffs. Danny's body spasmed with agony and he almost passed out.

`Don't do this…please I'm begging you…dear God don't let them do this to me!!' Danny prayed but could say nothing as he found his legs lifted. He tried not to look but was transfixed as Lupe came towards him.

Recalling the swipe to his chin and the knee to his groin, Lupe was violent in his assault and Danny screamed and thrashed, his broken wrist forgotten as the pain burned into his blood. To Lupe it felt more than good; it felt like retribution and revenge.

Beneath him, Danny Williams was crying, tears leaked from his eyes and the pain burned into his soul. The agony in his body was unbearable. He looked up at the ceiling of the shed, past the grinning face of Koa, hair dangling over him as he watched with pleasure. Danny looked at the roof of the garage and up into the rafters – to the sunlight leaking in through rusty holes in the corrugated tin and saw a bird sitting high up on a beam, its tiny feathered body nestled against the wood. The shining eyes looked below to where Danny was being tortured and it cocked its head on one side, as if it understood the pain of the man staring up at it. Danny latched onto the bird like a lifeline, leaving his body for a fraction of a second and the pain eased but it was temporary and with the next agonizing thrust he was brought back to the world and his destiny.

When it was finally over, Lupe leaned over Danny's chest and Williams would never be allowed to forget the malice in that face "You are nothing now!!" Lupe yelled at him and laughter reverberated around the shed. The Samoan grabbed an oily rag from the top of an oil drum and wiped it over his sweat-sheened face. "Man that was good!" he commented and sat back on the drum, getting his breath back.

Koa literally dropped Dan's head back on the bonnet and he almost passed out, his insides were on fire and he felt violated beyond his control. He was sobbing and gagging and felt his sanity challenged but in that moment of desperation he looked up to the rafters again and the bird was still there. He felt ridiculously grateful for it as it peered at him from the shadows.

But Danny wasn't to be allowed the pleasure of a respite as the bulky figure of Mano swiftly took Lupe's place. Danny's eyes grew wide with shock and he shook his head violently – his only way to say `no don't do this' but Mano smiled like the shark of his namesake and stared down at his victim.

Ratchet wolf-whistled, teasing his brother.

"Now it is my turn to show him who is in control here! Gimme his badge."