Hawaii Five-0

Stuck

Chapter 2

"Cath!" Steve yelled over the phone in another desperate attempt to get his pregnant girlfriend's attention, only to get no reply; he then felt sick to his stomach and Danny wasn't far off.

"We need to get to Ala Moana Mall right now" said Danny, making his way out of Steve's office and then towards the main office doors.

"Yeah" Steve agreed, following his partner out of the office.

"Chin, Kono!" Steve yelled, knocking on their office windows.

"What's going on Steve?" Chin asked as he and Kono emerged from their offices.

"We got a shooting at the Ala Moana Mall" Steve replied as Kono and Chin followed him out of the office.

"How long ago did the shooting start?" Kono asked.

"Less than five minutes ago" Steve replied.

"How'd the Governor and HPD catch on so fast?" Kono asked.

"I wasn't speaking to the Governor or to HPD" Steve replied as the emerged from the building and caught up with Danny who was waiting impatiently by his car.

"Then who were you talking to?" Chin asked as the three of them stopped in front of Danny.

"He was talking to Catherine" Danny replied.

"Yeah and while I was talking to her, I heard gunshots in the background" said Steve.

"After that, I put my phone on speaker then Danny and I heard more gunshots and then …" he added.

"And then what?" Kono asked.

"And then we heard April screaming out Mary's name and that was it" Danny finished.

"I think Cath may have dropped her phone" Steve stated.

"I'll call HPD" said Chin, pulling his phone out of his pocket and heading for his car.

"And get SWAT out there"

"Okay" said Steve. "Let's get down there"

As Steve and Danny climbed into the car; Danny wanted reassure this partner that everything would be fine.

"Look Steve" said Danny, getting Steve's attention.

"If Mary's been hurt, I'm sure my sister will take care of it"

"How are you not panicking about your sister being in the middle of this shooting, Danny?" Steve asked as he reversed out of the parking lot.

"Believe me Steve, I am panicking" Danny replied.

"But I'm not going to let it get the better of me because I want to get April, Catherine, Mary and everybody else in there, out alive; just as much as you do"

"Yeah and how are you managing that, Danny?" Steve asked.

"By thinking about how we're going to take whoever's doing this down" Danny replied.

"Yeah?" Steve asked.

"Yeah" Danny replied.

"That and praying like hell that one of them calls us back to tell us that they're okay" he added; because he and the rest of the team knew that calling any of them could put them at risk at getting found by one of the shooters; neither one of them could live with themselves if either Mary, Catherine or April got killed because they tried to call them.

After being shot at as they tried to escape the gunmen, April ran to Mary's aid after one of the gunmen shot her; once in her thigh and again in her shoulder as she fell to the floor.

"Cath!" April yelled as gestured for her to come over and help her lift Mary.

"It's okay Mary" Catherine assured her as she and April watched her cry in pain.

"You're going to be okay"

"Where do you think we should go?" April asked as picked up her shopping containing the baby blankets she had bought earlier.

"There!" said Catherine, pointing to the ladies room.

"The bathroom?" April asked. "How long do you think we'll be safe there?"

"Not long" Catherine replied.

"But it should give us some time to patch up Mary; and then we can find somewhere safer to wait this thing out" she explained.

"Alright" April agreed. "Grab your bags; we're going to need those blankets and sheets"

"Okay, on my count" said Catherine. "1…2…3" she counted before she and April did their best to lift Mary and help escort her to the bathroom.

Every step Mary took on her right leg to the bathroom was utter agony, even though Catherine and April were helping her. Being a nurse, April was more concerned about the amount of blood Mary was losing as she watched more and more blood stream down her leg every time she moved her right leg. Catherine was supporting Mary's right side and was starting to feel the warmth of Mary's blood down her left side.

Entering the ladies room, April and Catherine walked Mary over to the wall next to the sinks. All Mary could do was sob as the pain from her gunshot wounds, because she was in fear of the gunmen hearing her. Catherine and April then opened up their shopping bags and pulled out the blankets and sheets they had purchased earlier from the children's store. April then pulled up her long summer dress so she could kneel down on Mary's right side and assessed her wounds.

"Alright" said April. "Looks the bullet went straight through your shoulder" she added as she gestured for Catherine to hand her a sheet.

"How bad is it?" Catherine asked, handing a white sheet to April.

"It shouldn't have hit anything major" April replied as she began to rip up the white sheet.

"But she's still losing fair bit of blood" she added as she made a makeshift bandage with what she had.

"What about my leg?" Mary asked, still shaking from the shock of what happened.

"I don't see an exit wound" Catherine replied as she looked the leg wound over.

"Damn!" April exclaimed as she continued to patch up Mary's shoulder as best she could.

"I take it that's bad?" Mary asked.

"It's not good" Catherine replied.

"The bullet could've hit your artery and it could be stopping from bleeding out"

"Well isn't that a good thing?" Mary asked, panicking.

"Yeah, but the bullet could still move and then we'll have a problem" April replied.

"But we're going to make sure that doesn't happen, okay; we're just going to have to be careful" she said to reassure Mary, Catherine and even herself that everything was going to be okay.

"Okay" Mary replied. "Do you think we should call them back and tell them we're okay?... Ow!" she asked as April and Catherine did their absolute best to stop her leg wound from bleeding.

"Sorry" April apologised. "And yes I think we should call them back; do you have your phone Cath?" she asked.

"No, I dropped it when they started shooting at us" Catherine replied.

"That's okay we'll just use mine" said April. "I'll call Danny" she stated as she pulled her phone out of her handbag and selected her brother's name from her contact list and put it on loud speaker.