Note: Thanks for all the reviews on this one. Sorry it was so long in coming but life has been crazy busy for a bit.

Chapter Two

"He has lost a lot of blood, so is rather weak at the moment. I also have him on a lot of painkillers. There was extensive muscle damage, and he is going to be in pain for some time. You can have a few minutes with him, and I mean only a few minutes, gentlemen." Dr. Chu was laying down the law to the two 5-0 members.

"We understand doctor. We just want to get an idea of what happened." Steve explained then both men entered the room. Pua seemed to be resting comfortably. He had two IVs running into his right arm, one providing fluids, the other blood.

"Officer Kai." Steve spoke gently so not to startle the injured man. Slowly two hazy eyes appeared. "Good to see you're doing well man. You think you're up to telling us what happened?"

"Try." Pua was doing his best to focus on the two men in front of him but the painkillers left him with a fuzzy feeling.

"We guessed that you pulled the driver over, why did you stop them?" Danny asked.

"They...erm...they were driving suspiciously. Once they," Pua paused and cleared his throat. "When they realised I was behind them they started driving slower. Making sure they signalled early. My gut told me something was off."

"You said they. There was more than one?" Steve wanted to make sure they had the facts correct.

"Two. Young guys. I told them to get out of the car and one started to panic, pulled out the gun."

Danny helped Pua with a drink and he continued. "He shot me before I even knew what was happening. Some cop, eh?"

"Hey, stop that. Your gut told you something was wrong. You can't train that. You are going to make a fine detective one day. You couldn't have known they would panic and shoot." Danny wanted the young officer to know this was not his fault.

"I...I...thought he was going to shoot me again." Pua stammered and his heart rate increased, given away by the beeping of the machine, and Danny could see Dr. Chu hovering in the doorway.

"But he didn't." Steve reassured.

"No, he shot at the car then they just left. They left me bleeding out." Pua grimaced, obviously in pain and Danny reached over and pressed the man's pain pump.

"That's enough for now. You get some rest. Don't worry we will find them. Come on Steve." Pua nodded and let his glassy eyes close.

Once outside the room Steve turned to his friend. "What the hell, Danny? We needed a description of these guys, a make of car, anything to help us catch them."

"I know we do, but not now. He's had enough. He was in pain and his heart rate was spiking. It was only a matter of time before his doctor kicked us out. Let him sleep for a bit. We can come back later if we need to. Let's see what Chin has managed to get. Between him and Fong working their magic they are bound to have got something off the camera, and then we won't need to put him through it all again."

Steve relented and followed Danny out to the car ready to see what the rest of the team had.

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"How's he doing?" Kono had seen the two partners return to the office, and was keen for an update.

"He'll be fine. He's pretty doped up at the moment but we did get that there was two guys. He pulled them over because his gut told him they were suspicious. One of the guys panicked and shot him, shot out the camera, and fled." Danny explained.

"Did you get a description?" Lou asked. Nothing motivated the team more than an attack on one of their own.

"No. Danny pulled the plug on the interview before he could fill us in any more." Steve said frustrated.

Danny let it go. He knew Steve was frustrated at him for not pushing harder, but he knew he had done the right thing. Pua wasn't well enough to be pushed further. Chin understood where Danny was coming from so came to his friend's defence.

"We shouldn't need it anyway. Fong and I managed to pull some video. I'm just running it through a program to clean up the picture."

The team gathered around the big screen to watch the video. They couldn't help a little giggle listening to Pua singing away to himself as he cruised around the streets. Taking a right turn away from the neighbourhood and onto the back road where the attack had taken place, they all understood why Officer Kai had decided to pull over the car. The car in front suddenly slowed below the speed limit, and the driver could be seen glancing nervously into the rear view mirror.

The scene played out just as Pua had described it. The driver of the car had panicked and shot him. Kono gasped as she saw the driver stalk over to the car, and had to remind herself that Pua had only been shot once and was going to be ok. The driver disappeared from view and suddenly the screen went blank.

"He took out the camera but didn't realise it was downloaded into a hard drive." Chin started to rewind the video freezing it and capturing an image of both men and the car licence plate. A few more taps and he had several searches running.

"Did you guys get anything from the gun shop owners?" Steve asked Kono and Lou.

"Nothing man, if they knew anything they weren't going to tell us."

"Guys." Chin interrupted. "The licence doesn't match the car, it's a fake. And I'm not getting any hits on the facial recognition programs. These two aren't in the system."

"So we're no better off. We don't know who these two are." The anger was evident in Steve's voice.

"That's not true, we have a face now and a description of the car, we can put out a BOLO and maybe swing by Kamekona and see if any of his old contacts know anything." Danny said.

"That's not a bad idea. But it's probably gonna cost you." Steve knew Kamekona's previous information had ended up costing them the price of an expensive ukulele.

"Cost me?" Danny asked incensed. "Should have expected that one, would it be too much to expect you to part with some cash every once in a while, you schmuck."

"You want me to pay? Fine, I'll pay this time and you can get the next one." Steve marched out of the office leaving Danny surprised, and hurrying to catch up.

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"Howz'it bruddahs." Kamekona greeted. "Twice in one day, I'm honoured gentlemen."

"Sorry we had to cut out earlier, we got called to a case." Steve explained. "Listen man, we need your help. Officer Pua Kai was shot earlier today when he pulled over a car. These guys had armour piercing bullets in a handgun."

"We were hoping you might be able to touch base with some of your old contacts, see if anyone knows anything about who is supplying them."

"Sure thing. Anything for my favourite Haole's."

"That's great. Thanks. So err... How much is it gonna cost me?" Steve started to pull out his wallet.

"Put your money away, brah. This one is on me. Shooting a cop, that's low man. He gonna be ok?"

"Eventually." Steve slipped his wallet back into his pocket grinning at Danny.

"You realise that doesn't count as your turn, right?"

"What do you mean it doesn't count? It counts. I offered." Steve teased.

Danny shook his head and whispered "schmuck," under his breath. He then pulled out the pictures of the two guys. "Don't suppose you recognise these two do you?"

Kamekona took the pictures, ignoring the banter between the two friends and signalled Flippa over.

"Yo cuz, isn't that Kahale Kalili and his brother Tua?

"Sure looks like them. They in trouble?" Flippa looked at the picture then handed it back to Danny.

"Wait, you actually know these guys?" Steve couldn't believe their luck.

"Sure, their momma is good friends with our Auntie. They work at the docks. Good kids until they got into drugs last year."

"They aren't in the system." Danny pointed out.

"Just means they ain't been caught, brah." Kamekona pointed out.

"Thanks Kamekona. You've just given us the break we needed." Steve clapped the Hawaiian on the back to show his appreciation.

"Just try not to kill them, would break their momma's heart." The large man called out as Steve and Danny headed to the car, Steve already calling the rest of the team.

TBC

dont worry there will be whump but there is more story to tell first.