A/N: Note that in this story I am making Steve 34 and Danny 33. I don't know how old they really are but this note has relevance. So please Read! Also, Steve is a bit darker in this chapter. You've been warned.

Putting his phone away he ran a hand down his face, a headache coming on from all the shit that was hitting the fan.

He should have known she would pull something like this, when Dana didn't get something she wanted she did whatever she had to in order to acquire whatever it is she wanted, and this time around she wanted a sit down with Steve.

Fan-Fucking-Tastic!

Taking a deep breath he turned and walked back into the office, not bothering to hide his anxiety because it was expected of him to be anxious, one of his close friends had been kidnapped.

"Okay, we know that there are security cameras located all around this building, but we also know that there aren't any cameras in this office due to security risks. I want the footage from all of the cameras in this building and out, maybe one of them caught a look at our perp." he said, he knew that analyzing those tapes would take hours, giving him enough time to sneak away and meet up with Dana.

"I'll go talk to the security then" Chin volunteered, walking out of the office to find the security unit.

Danny walked over to him,

"We're going to find her Steve, and besides the Governor is a tough lady she's not going to go down without a fight" Danny assured him.

Steve knew she was, but Dana wasn't your tip of the mill kidnapper, she had ways of torturing people that are too gruesome to think about.

"Yeah, I know she is but if she's hurt then her chances of surviving are decreasing every second" Steve walked back over to the desk and took another look at the calling card.

She wasn't going to get away with this. Not this time.

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Chin had managed to get the security footage and Kono had gotten the results of the blood analysis; the blood on the wall belonged to the Governor and the blood in the bible was hers as well. They had dusted for prints but only came up with the Governor's, so they so far only knew that the Governor had been hurt, badly.

While the rest of the team was busy watching the security footages Steve managed to slip out without anyone noticing.

Or so he thought, Danny had noticed but didn't call him on it because he figured he was going to get some air; he was really stressed out by this case and they needed him to be as level-headed as Steve could get.

As Steve was walking towards his truck out of the corner of his eye he saw a black hooded figure standing on the other side of the parking lot. Whipping his head to the right he sees no one. He would love to say that he was only imagining it but he couldn't, the kind of people that his initiation would take place with were not, 'normal'.

Quickening his pace he quickly unlocked his door and jumped inside, loudly slamming the door behind him. His heart was racing and his breathing was labored; they really were coming for him, and the scary part was that he knew he couldn't fight them, he wasn't powerful enough.

Starting his truck he put it into reverse and backed out of his spot then put it in drive and sped out of the lot, his speed going well over the safe limit.

His path to the restaurant remained miraculously clear and he was glad for that, in this moment in time God was looking down on him, he just hoped that protection continued.

Finally arriving at the restaurant he got out of his car and handed a valet his keys, who in turn gave him a ticket stub.

Entering the restaurant he walked over to the hostess and was about to ask for a table but was stopped when a voice called out.

"Steven! Over here darling, I was wondering what was taking you so long" Dana called, waving to him from a table near the booth.

Walking away from the booth he approached the table for two, and stood behind the chair. A stony expression on his face.

"Please sit, sit! We have a lot to discuss" Steve pulled the chair out and sat down, a menu from a waiter was placed before him but he didn't pick it up.

The waiter stood beside the table, waiting for them to decide what wine they wanted.

Dana looked over the selection and chose the Abacus Wine.

The waiter nodded and wrote the order down and plucked the offered wine menu from Dana's hand, "I shall return shortly with your choice" he then walked away towards the kitchen doors.

She picked her meal menu back up and began scanning the pages for what she wanted to dine on.

Steve continued to sit there in silence.

"I think I'll have the Shoyu-Ogo Poke, it sounds absolutely divine, and you?' she looked up from her menu and noticed that he still had his stony expression on and hadn't picked up the menu.

Putting her menu down she leaned across the table and whispered, "at-least pretend to look at the menu, people are beginning to stare" sitting back she picked her menu back up and looked for a side dish.

Standing up from the table he spoke, "I'm going to use the restroom, I'll be right back" he stepped around the table and headed towards the men's room but with a quick glance behind him to make sure she wasn't looking he reverted his direction to the right towards the kitchen area.

The waiter that had taken their order was coming out with a bottle of Abacus Wine and two wine glasses on a silver platter, Steve made eye contact and motioned him to behind the wall so that they couldn't be seen by the diners, especially Dana.

He took out his badge and held it up for the man to see, "I'm with 5-0, listen that woman I'm with is a potential suspect in a case that I'm conducting and you need to know that she is extremely dangerous and possibly armed" he started, making up the story as he went, this guy looked gullible enough to believe it.

The man's eyes widened in shock.

"W-what should I do, should I call the police?" he asked, unsure and anxious about the situation that was going on, he hadn't been trained to deal with this kind of situation.

Steve tucked his badge away and calmed the man down, "just act as you normally would, take orders, bring out the food just do your job. I'll handle the situation" the waiter was about to go out and deliver the wine but Steve grabbed his arm, abruptly stopping him.

"The only way to safely take her down and get her down to the station is by knocking her out, she won't go quietly and she will likely put up a fight, and people could get seriously hurt or worse. Hand me one of the glasses" he requested, releasing his arm.

The waiter took off a glass from the platter and handed it to him, curious as to what he was going to do.

Digging into his pocket Steve produced a small plastic baggy with a white powdery substance inside. Opening the bag he sprinkled a bit of the powder into the bottom of the glass so that she couldn't see the flakes.

"What is that?" the waiter asked, afraid that it was possibly poison.

Steve noticed the tremor in the man's voice so he soothed his fears, through another lie.

"Don't worry, its just a sleeping sedative all it will do is make her drowsy and fall asleep" Steve pocked the bag and placed the glass back on the tray.

"Make sure to give her that glass, I can't afford a screw up that could let her get away" he instructed.

The waiter nodded and walked away from the wall and out into the restaurant dining area.

Steve waited a few minutes before walking back out into the dining area. He walked back to his table and saw the waiter placing the glasses down, he discreetly checked over Dana's shoulder to make sure that the glasses were right and he was pleased to see that they were.

"There you are! Whatever took you so long/" she asked as he took his seat.

"There was a line" he replied, watching the waiter pull out a corkscrew.

"The wine you ordered, fresh out of the brewery" the waiter popped the cork then poured a sip full of wine in each glass.

Steve watched her pick the glass up and inhale the aroma of the wine, then taking a sip.

She sighed in bliss, "delightful! Leave the bottle please" she said watching the waiter fill her glass to the appropriate amount.

Steve simply watched her as the waiter filled his own glass, counting down until the poison took effect.

Leaving the bottle on the table he then took out his ordering pad

"I'll have the Shoyu-Ogo Poke, with a side order of Cesar Salad" she smiled and handed the waiter he menu, she looked at Steve expectantly.

"Nothing for me thanks, I've all ready eaten" he wordlessly handed the waiter his menu, not once taking his eyes off of Dana.

"Your order should be ready in about 20 minutes" he then took his leave and headed back to the kitchen to place the order.

Dana took her glass back up and took another sip, Steve's eyes watched the movement in her neck as she swallowed.

"Tell me where the Governor is Dana, we can end this right now before innocent people get hurt" he requested, all ready knowing the answer by the uncaring smile that graced her poisonous lips.

She leaned forward in her seat, "you know I don't like to make anything easy, especially when it comes to you Steven" a look of shock started to cover that carefree look off her face.

Steve formed an evil glint of his own and leaned forward in his seat, his voice low and dark as he spoke,

"You feel that Dana? That's my own little concoction, took me months to find the right elements that would make a poison that affects even us" he told her, picking up his glass and taking a long drink from it.

Sweat began to gather at her brow and a barely concealed tremble rocked her body.

"You have exactly 20 minutes to tell me where your keeping the Governor or else all those chemicals running through your body will gather in your heart and kill you in a very painful and very bloody way. Or, you tell me what I want to know and I'll give you the antidote" he reached into his pocket and pulled out a vial with a light blue liquid in it.

The trembling became more violent and the lower part of her body began to go numb.

"P-poisoning St-Steven? I tho-ught th-that was a wo-woman's tr-trick" she stuttered, grasping the table to try and get some grounding.

Steve chuckled and took another drink from his glass then lifted the bottle of wine and poured himself some more.

"I figured that poison was a great opportunity to show you how I feel about you; to me you are like poison that is slowly killing me from the inside out. Now, you have approximately 18 minutes to tell me where your keeping the Governor" he repeated,

"Tick-Tock" he dangled the antidote in the air then re-pocketed it.

Dana looked around the room, some people were glancing over at them every now and then but continuing to dine. Humans, God's toys and the Devil's hand-me-downs, only receiving them when they were broken.

She looked Steve directly in the eye, to the best of her ability considering her vision was clouding up.

"You're goi-gong to have to dr-drag my cor-corpse out because I'm not tel-telling you shit!" she spat, managing a slight glare.

Sighing, Steve got up from his chair and walked around to her.

"You wanna play hardball? Let's play hardball then!" dragging her up from the seat he took the handcuffs that he kept in his pocket during his daily duties as an officer of the law.

He slipped the cuffs around her wrists and tightened them until she gasped in pain.

"Yeah, altered them a little, just for you" he pulled her away and around the table to the exit, dropping a hundred dollar bill on the table for the wine.

"Aren't you g-going to r-read me my r-rights?" she gritted, somehow managing to speak through the pain.

He laughed, "those rights are for every HUMAN being, last I checked the only thing human about you is your vanity. Besides, I'm not arresting you, think of it more as a hostage situation" he taunted, pushing her through the double doors to his truck.

Coming to the valet he handed the stunned valet his ticket, who wordlessly took the ticket and handed him his keys.

"Thanks" he muttered, continuing to lead him to his truck.

She almost collapsed when they made it to the truck but Steve caught her and leaned her against the passenger side door.

"15 minutes left Dana, the sand is halfway gone and that poison is now slowly entering your heart. Don't think I won't let you die because I will, after all I have other ways of getting what I want" he threatened, pulling out all his tricks.

Her eyes widened when a stabbing pain pierced her heart, the feeling reminiscent of a heart attack.

"You're n-not strong e-enough! Y-you hav-en't r-reached in for years!" she retorted, gasping when another pain stung her aching heart.

Pulling her up from the car he dragged her deep into the alley then roughly pinned her against the wall.

"It doesn't matter how strong I am, your all ready weak so it won't take much doing on my part" lifting his hand a chilling dark glow emitted from his hand.

Dana weakly tried to pull herself free from his grip but he didn't even let her make a budge.

"There's still 12 minutes left until that last grain of sand drops and 1 minute left until I forcefully take the answer from you and as you said before I'm out of practice so I might 'accidentally' scramble something up while I'm in there and leave you a drooling mess!" he threatened, moving his hand towards her temple.

His hand kept moving until it was a centimeter away from her until she finally cracked.

"Okay! Okay, she's in a st-storage u-unit at the docks! Now give me the anti-dote!' she exclaimed.

"What' s the number?"

"TR 18" she answered, slinking back against the wall.

The dark glow flickered out and he released her.

"You see, you could have just told me that and we wouldn't have had to through all this" he lectured, pulling her up from the ground and then proceeded to lead her out of the alley.

She weakly started to struggle but that didn't last long because her vision wavered again and she collapsed.

Her heart was on fire!

"G-give me the an-antidote" she whimpered down from the sidewalk. A crowd was starting to gather but Steve showed them his badge and ordered everyone to move along or else he would arrest them all for loitering. After the threat of being arrested people quickly scattered.

Steve re-clipped his badge and squatted down beside her.

"You'll get the antidote once I'm standing in front of a living Governor Jameson not a second faster; now c'mon your ruining that pretty little dress of yours" he grabbed her by the arm and roughly yanked her up and dragged her to his car, unlocked the door and pushed her inside, slamming the door behind her.

Steve jogged around the front of his truck then unlocked the driver's door and jumped inside, pulling the door closed.

"Better pray that traffics good because otherwise you might die before we even get there" pulling out from the curb he reversed to drive and turned the lights that he had recently installed.

The drive to the dock took 5 minutes, leaving Dana only 7 minutes to lead him through the maze of units until they reached the right one.

He checked the lock and saw that it was locked. Getting his lock-picking kit out he kneeled down in front of the lock and got to work.

Dana slumped against the storage unit on the opposite side. She was having trouble keeping her eyes open and her pulse was racing along with that it felt like she was trapped inside a sauna.

A click came from the lock and Steve quickly yanked the lock off then stood up and pulled the door open. Once the door was open he could see the Governor, slouched so he couldn't see her face but he knew it was her, tied down to a chair in the center of the room. What concerned him even more was that she appeared to be unconscious.

"Governor Jameson!"

Steve dashed to her and felt for a pulse, he was thankful when he found one but it was faint.

"Governor Jameson? Can you hear me?" he asked as he went about untying her.

There was no response.

Outside Dana was now laying on the concrete, her heart beginning to seize, mustering up the little strength she had remaining, she hollered,

"Steve!"

Inside Steve heard her cry and contemplated letting her die but the human and rational part of him knew that he couldn't let her die...yet.

Taking his time he walked out of the unit and sauntered over to Dana who's breath was coming out in shallow gasps.

He knelt down in front of her and took the vial out, popping the lid off he lifted her head up and, pulling her mouth open he dumped the contents into her abyss of a mouth.

She choked, and spluttered from the sudden liquid and as a resulted tried to spit it out but Steve clamped his hand over her nose mouth, forcing her to swallow.

"You want the damn antidote but yet you try spitting it out, life or death Dana, you choose!" he realized that he could remove his hand but he chose not to, he deserved to have a little fun.

Dana weakly struggled under his hand, frantic to get some air but she was too weak.

"I should kill you right now, keep my hand over your only ways to breath and watch you slowly suffocate...but you deserve a much more gruesome death than that! So I'm going to savor this for just a few more moments and then I'll let you breathe again" he said, his eyes piercing down into her heartless eyes.

As he looked down at her he thought back to the day that he had vowed to one day kill her...

~Flashback ~

A storm was brewing on the horizon, the waves were crashing against the rocks and the sky was black as oil.

Two fourteen year olds were standing on the beach, one with a gleeful look on her face, the other a nervous one.

"Dana, I'm not sure we should be doing this! Our parents said that its too dangerous! We should go back to my house and wait out the storm!" a young Steve yelled over the rumbling of the thunder.

A young Dana huffed and turned away from the violent tumbles of the ocean.

"Don't be such a wuss! Besides, the elders want us to practice so that when the time comes we'll be prepared, now be quiet! I'm concentrating!" she turned back to the water and closed her eyes.

Steve pulled his coat tighter around his body in order to obtain some more body heat.

This was a bad idea.

They had been out for about an hour now and the whole time was spent with her 'concentrating' and him wanting to go back home and go to sleep in his nice warm bed.

Just as he was getting ready to tell her that he was going home a loud boom echoed through the night air, startling both Steve and Dana.

He was about to pass it off as lightning but then a loud cracking sound came, seemingly from the water and the cracking became louder, almost as if it were moving towards them.

"Dana...what did you do?" Steve walked up beside her, staring out into the water.

Dana shook her head, "I don't know, but whatever it is...it's powerful" a dark smile crawled across her face.

Steve looked at her and he actually felt fear towards her.

Suddenly, the ground beneath them shifted, causing them to crash into each other and what followed next was both amazing and horrifying.

The water appeared to be disappearing and they soon saw why, a large open crack was making its way towards them and was sucking in sea creatures and water as it traveled.

Steve began to feel the pull of the strange wind, trying to pull him into the crack but he fought against it and pulled Dana out of the way just in the nick of time as the crack passed by them and continued its journey across the beach.

It was headed towards the road.

"Dana, whatever your doing stop it!" Steve shouted, rain splattering down on them and thunder and lightning rumbling and clashing in the clouds.

Dana just stood there, an empty look in her eyes.

Steve walked around so that he was in front of her and, grabbing her by the shoulders, shook her.

"Snap out of it! You need to stop this now before people get hurt!" a loud strike of lightning struck overhead, illuminating her vacant face.

"I can't" she whispered, almost too low for Steve to hear.

Letting go of her Steve looked back to the direction the crack had gone.

Car alarms went off, the sound of brakes screeching and helpless cries of people ghosted through the air.

They both remained frozen, unable to move.

+~1 hour later~+

Steve and Dana were back at his house, seated in the kitchen, two mugs of hot chocolate in front of them but neither of them were moving to drink from them. Steve's dad was out in the city, helping the fire department and FEMA help and rescue people.

A knock on the door startled them but Steve stood up and went to answer it.

Unlocking the door Steve was taken aback when he saw that it was his father, and by the look on his face something was wrong. His eyes looked haunted and it looked like he had been crying.

"Dad? What's wrong?" he asked, though he would later regret asking.

His dad suddenly pulled him into a hug and cupped the back of his head, not knowing what else to do Steve hugged him back. Loud sobs wracked his father's frame and Steve became even more concerned.

"Steve...Your mother...she's gone" he choked.

Steve froze. No, he didn't mean what he thought he meant.

"I'm so sorry son" his father pulled back and showed his teary eyes to his son.

"You don't...she can't be...No! No!" Steve denied, stumbling back.

His dad followed him and wrapped his arm around him but Steve tried to get out of his embrace but his father held on tighter.

"I'm so sorry so so sorry" his father shushed.

Tears were pooling from Steve's eyes and his body was shaking. Slowly he sunk to the carpet, his father going down with him but continued to hold him.

Dana stood in the background, looking on at the scene of a grieving father and son.

Some would expect her to feel guilt, remorse, sorrow but it instead a small spark of pride flickered inside her, somehow she knew that she was the cause of Steve's mother's death and the fact of having actually taken the life from someone, or even various people was surprisingly seductive and thrilling.

Steve looked over his father's shoulder and saw Dana, she looked right back at him and in that instant it clicked, she had killed his mother.

~End Flashback~

It was in that moment that he had vowed to kill her.

Wordlessly lifting his hand off of her mouth he stood from the ground. He didn't even register the sound of Dana coughing and gulping in air.

"Get the hell out of Hawaii Dana" he ordered.

He walked back inside the unit and helped the Governor up from the chair and walked her out of the unit and into the sunlight.

He wasn't surprised when he saw that Dana was gone.

"I'm going to sit you down here and I'm going to my team and an ambulance. You're going to be fine Governor, just hang tight" taking his phone out he hit Danny's number and brought the phone up to his ear.

The call was picked up on the second ring.

"Steve, where the hell are you? You've been gone for almost an hour!" he ranted, sitting in his office going over a list of possible suspects.

"I found the Governor Danny; I need you to call an ambulance and come down here with the team. We're at the docks in front of Unit TR 18" Steve reported, turning back to kneel in front of the Governor and check her pulse again. It was still there but still faint. She needed medical attention stat.

Kono was walking past his office and Danny told her that Steve had found the Governor and needed an ambulance out at the docks. She pulled out her phone and did as requested, giving the news to Chin who was standing in front of the computer.

"An ambulance is on its way...how is she?" he asked, getting up from his chair and exiting his office.

Steve gently lifted the Governor's head and saw various cuts and bruises on her face and around her neck, he was sure that there were other hidden injuries.

"Her pulse is faint and she's pretty beaten up, she needs help Danno, just hurry up please, I don't know how much longer she'll last" before Danny could speak Steve hung up and pocketed his phone.

"I'm so sorry Governor, it's my fault this happened to you but I promise you she's going to pay for this, for this and so much more" he vowed.

Next time he saw Dana she was dead.