Gone

By

Landon Richardson

Official Disclaimer

The characters of Lieutenant Commander Steven 'Steve' McGarrett, Detective Chin Ho Kelly, Officer Kono Kalakaua and Adam 'Toast' Charles do not belong to me in any shape or form. I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes.

The character of Detective Sergeant Danielle 'Danni' Williams probably can be considered to be mine by now. Although she was originally based on male Danny, she soon evolved becoming her own person. She has her own background, her own family, her own history and her own distinct personality. This isn't to say that the Danny Williams we all know and love is completely gone, he still emerges through her at times. I like to think of female Danni as what Danny could have been if everything in his life had gone his way. As in full custody of Grace and a decent relationship with his ex.

The character of Grace has also changed slightly due to the change in Danni. Her surname is Taylor as this is her father's surname and was Danni's married name (Danni reverted back to her maiden name when she was divorced). Her parents also are amicable which has also impacted Grace but never fear, she's still the sweetheart we know and love, if anything she's more a sweetheart now.

The character of Supervisory Special Agent Jack O'Connor, Doctor Abigail 'Abbie' FitzGerald and Doctor Elliot 'Eli' Lloyd also belong to me as does any other character who you do not recognise from the show. Please do not use them, or my version of Danni and Grace without first asking for my permission to do so.

Thank you.

Author Note

Here's the second chapter for you all!

It strange for me to be writing Steve and Danni arguing together!

Please enjoy.

Official Summary

Steve McGarrett thought he had all the time in the world to build a relationship with Danni Williams but when she begins dating someone else he realises that he may be too late. Maybe everything which he wanted is gone from him… or is it? (Part two of the Matthew Clare saga, features a female Danni (OC))

Chapter Summary

Steve waited until the rest of the team had gathered around the computer table before he spoke, directing his comment towards Danni who was standing still, watching him closely with a thoughtful look on his face which he still couldn't read even after all these months.

Official Romances for the story

Steven 'Steve' McGarrett/Danielle 'Danni' Williams (McDanni)

Steven 'Steve' McGarrett/Catherine 'Cath' Rollins (McRollins)

Matthew 'Matt' Clare/Danielle 'Danni' Williams (Mattelle)

Romances mentioned during this chapter

Hints of one sided Steven 'Steve' McGarrett/Danielle 'Danni' Williams (McDanni)

Steven 'Steve' McGarrett/Catherine 'Cath' Rollins (McRollins)

Matthew 'Matt' Clare/Danielle 'Danni' Williams (Mattelle)

Other notes

I do not have a Beta so please forgive any mistakes which may creep in, I always do my best to edit the story and check it but sometimes mistakes do creep in.

The places I've mentioned in Hawaii are ones which come from google, including the addresses. I've never been to Hawaii myself in person so I apologise for any mistakes which I may make, these are not intentional.


Chapter Two

Not what he was hoping for


Steve waited until the rest of the team had gathered around the computer table before he spoke, directing his comment towards Danni who was standing still, watching him closely with a thoughtful look on his face which he still couldn't read even after all these months.

"Danni, what have we got this time?" He questioned.

"A case has come in from the big island for us" Danni stated as she looked away from him to look at the other members of the team. "There have been three murders over there in three days, one every day and each one done in the same fashion which indicates to the officers over there that the same person has committed each murder."

"What happened to the victims?" Jack asked.

"I'm just getting to that" Danni remarked, flashing the blond man a smile to soften the remark before she turned to Toast who was standing beside her. "Toast would you mind bringing up the information for me?" She asked. The comment caused Steve to smile though he quickly hid it. It was no secret to anyone on the team that Toast would do anything if it meant helping Danni with something. The tall man loved her, the same way that you would love a big sister. It didn't surprise Steve, from what he had gathered from bits and pieces which Toast had said in the past about his life growing up, Danni was one of the most reliable and supportive people in Toast's life.

"Not a problem Blondie" Toast answered, leaning down towards his keyboard, his fingertip moving swiftly over the keys, bringing up images of three separate dead bodies on the large plasma screen to the side of them.

"These are our victims" Danni stated, her eyes flickering towards the pictures for a moment before she looked back at the team. "Tammy Wallace, Gretchen Thyne and Annabelle Carter. All the victims are in their mid-twenties and as you can see all three of them have been strangled and sexually assaulted."

"Are there any linked between the three of them?" Chin asked curiously, frowning when Danni shook her head.

"The police over there couldn't find any. The victims didn't work together, their social circles didn't collide from what they could see and both Gretchen and Tammy were tourists to the island who arrived on different dates. Annabelle was the only one who lived out here, according to her record she moved here two years with her job from the mainland."

"So, they are random victims?" Kono asked, sighing when Danni nodded at her. Random victims were always more difficult to deal with.

"It appears that way" Danni replied. "But the police over there also don't have the same resources we have here. Toast and Jack may be able to find a connection between the three which the police didn't." She said, looking towards the two men in question who nodded at her.

"If there is any connection to find Blondie than you can guarantee that we will find it" Toast told her confidently, the comment bringing a smile to Danni's mouth as she nodded.

"I know that you will" She responded.

"We're going to have to head over there and have a look at the bodies and the crime scenes. Danni, who is on duty today in the ME office?" Steve asked, taking control of the briefing. Danni looked towards him, remaining quiet for a moment clearly considering his question before she spoke.

"Doctor White, Doctor Jacobs and Doctor Lloyd" She answered.

"Good, contact Doctor Lloyd Danni and tell him that he is coming to the Big Island with us, I want to get his opinion on the bodies. Then go home and pack, you and I are heading to the Big Island." He stated, watching as Danni's eyes widened at the comment.

"We are?" She remarked, glancing towards the others.

"Yeah, we are, I know that Grace is with her father this weekend so you won't have to worry about arranging any form of childcare for her. We don't know how long this will take but probably a couple of days at least" He stated, meeting her eyes for a moment before he turned his attention to Chin and Kono. "I want you both on standby, ready to come out to join us if the situation over there requires it. Until then see what leads you can run down here."

"Okay then" Chin answered for them both while Kono nodded her head, her eyes flickering over to where Danni stood silently with a concerned look which Steve chose to ignore. It was no secret that both Danni and Kono were good friends in and out of work and were both protective of one another. It was something he approved of.

"Jack" he said, turning to the tall blond who stood quietly. "I need you to stay here and man the fort, help Toast out with the details of the cases starting out with what links out victims. I don't buy into the whole random victims' story, there must be something about each of these women that they share in common which have attracted their killer to target them. We need to know what it is."

"That's fine, as Toast said, if there is something which links them then we'll find it." Jack assured him, an undercurrent of sureness to his voice which experience had taught Steve was not misplaced, Jack was a genius on the computer system and as much as he hated to admit it, the blond was an essential part of their team now. One who he would fight to keep if the NSA director ever decided he wanted him back. He focused his attention back on Jack when the other man continued to speak. "Do you want me to have a bag packed in case you want me to come over with Chin and Kono?" He queried.

"No" Steve said with a shake of his head. The four of us out there should be enough if it comes to it. I need you here not to mention the fact that your daughters need you here as well. What I need you and Toast to do is to book a room for me and Danni to stay in while we're out there. We're going to need somewhere to crash."

"I'll get onto that now" Jack said, turning from them and heading towards his office where Steve knew his laptop was.

"Danni, can you drive me back to mine" He asked his partner, she looked briefly surprised by the request before she nodded at him.

"That's fine, let me just grab my bag and keys from my office and we can go." She agreed before she moved away from the table. Steve watched her from the corner of his eyes before he looked back at Toast.

"Book us airline tickets for the next available flight to the big island and email the case files to both Danni and I, we'll need the digital copies as the hard files will have to remain here so the others can view them."

"When will you know if you need us to fly out there?" Kono asked, speaking for the first time since the beginning of the meeting.

"I should know by midday tomorrow, we'll have to assume that there will be another victim tomorrow since the killer has killed every day for the past three days." Steve told her. "Head home and pack a bag just in case and bring it into work with you tomorrow." He advised, his mouth curled into a slight smile when Kono nodded, her dark eyes looking bright in the light.

It was rare for them to travel to the other islands even though they were responsible for them, normally Steve would go and take Chin with him as well, aware of the fact that normally Jack and Danni's child care issues excluded them from going. Kono, although smart and already good at her job, was still at the end of the day a Rookie who he preferred being on the main island, near Danni so that his partner could continue supervising Kono's on the job training.

This would be the first time the Rookie had left the main island to travel on a work-related issue.

He turned and looked towards Danni as she came up beside him, noting that she had placed her heels back on her feet. She turned to look at him.

"I've just spoken to Abbie FitzGerald and she's agreed to release Elliot to us to help us with the case." She stated, speaking of the chief medical examiner of Hawaii. "She's telling him now, I told her to tell him that we would pick him up on the way to the airport. Toast" She said, turning to Toast who instantly looked up towards her with a questioning look on his face. "Could you make sure you book him an airline ticket as well, preferably on the same flight as Steve and I since we'll be heading over there together. He'll need a room in the hotel as well since I'm guessing he'll be with us for the duration of our stay."

"Yeah I can take care of that for him, I know his details so I can book it for him." Toast said with a nod of his head.

"Let's head out Danni" Steve said, directing his comment towards his partner before looking at the others. "We'll be available via our cell phones so make sure that you keep us in the loop."

"The same goes for the two of you." Chin commented with a nod. "Good luck to you both."

Steve nodded, turning and heading towards the exit with Danni at his side. They remained silent as they made their way down to the ground floor of the building, leaving through the foyer and stepping out into the warm sunshine.

It was only once they were in the car heading towards Steve's place that Danni finally spoke, her voice quiet and thoughtful.

"So, how are things with you?" She queried lightly.

Steve blinked, turning to look at her from his position in the passenger seat, normally he would be the one in the driver's seat but Danni had headed straight there with a look on her face which had warned Steve not to push the subject over who should drive that day.

"Things are fine with me, why are you asking? Has someone said something to you?" He questioned back. She shrugged at him, reaching up and hooking a stray curl which had managed to escape from her hair style behind her ear.

"No one has mentioned anything to me, why would they?" She responded. "I'm just asking because we haven't really spoken this week since you started avoiding me. Is Catherine still visiting?"

"No, Cath is currently back in Chicago seeing her family while she can. Her brothers are all in the armed forces as well and it's the first time in God knows how long that they've all been on shore leave at the same time which is why she hightailed it back there once she realised." Steve remarked.

"How many siblings does she have?" Danni asked as she pulled onto the main road, taking the route which would lead them directly to Steve's house.

"I think she has three brothers but I'm not hundred percent sure. I know she's the only girl and I think from what she has said before that she's in the middle of the pack or something." He remarked with a slight frown.

Danni raised an eyebrow at him, remaining silent for a moment before she spoke.

"You don't know how many siblings Catherine has or where she comes in the pack?" Danni remarked. "That's kind of surprising to hear."

"Why is that surprising to you?" Steve demanded. She glanced towards him for a moment, clearly taken back by the sharp tone to his voice before she focused back on the road again.

"You said that you've known her for years and the two of you are close, in more ways then one" She remarked wryly. "I just would have thought that maybe details like the number of siblings she had would have come up in conversation. Clearly, I was mistaken, it's not a big deal or anything." She said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Some people don't talk about themselves Danni. I doubt you know anything about Matthew's family" He retorted, his hand curling into a fist on his thigh when she answered.

"That's where you're wrong because I actually do know about this family because Matt and I do have conversations about our lives and our pasts. He has two sisters, an older one and a younger one. His parents split up when he was twelve and divorced when he was thirteen. Both his parents ended up remarrying within two years of the divorce. His Dad had two sons with his new wife while his mother went on to have three girls. So, he comes from a big family."

"Just like you" Steve stated.

"Just like me" She agreed quietly. They drove in silence for five more minutes before Danni spoke up again. "I'm sorry that Catherine is gone though, it would have been good if you could have spent more time with her. Matt and I liked her when we met her last week, I can see why you would want to be with her."

"I've told you before Danni that Cath and I aren't dating each other and don't consider ourselves to be in a relationship." Steve replied instantly. "We're just two friends who scratch an itch with each other when we're not in a relationship with someone else."

"Well that's fine then" Danni responded with another shrug which made Steve grit his teeth together, filled with the sudden urge to shake Danni to try and break through the polite way she was treating him. A way she had never treated him before. He thought back over the conversations before he frowned and looked towards her.

"I haven't been avoiding you" He stated, surprised when she laughed in a disbelieving manner at his comment, looking towards him as she pulled to a stop outside his house.

"Please tell me that you are joking with me? You can't seriously be sitting there, stating that you haven't been avoiding me and actually mean it." She remarked.

"Thar's exactly what I mean, how exactly have I been avoiding you? Why don't you tell me since you have all the answers it seems?" He retorted back, watching as her eyes narrowed at him, a flush of pink spreading across her cheekbones in a way which indicated that she was growing angry. He welcomed it, anything was better than the indifference he had been experiencing. She opened her mouth to respond when her cell phone beeped at her, attracting her attention from him. She picked the phone up, swiping her thumb across the screen and read the message before looking back at him.

"That was Toast, he's booked us onto a flight which is leaving in an hour and thirty minutes. I need to get home and pack for the trip now since we need to pick Eli up from the medical examiner office on our way to the airport. We can continue this… discussion with each other at a later date." She told him, a cold tone to her voice which made him want to wince.

He wanted to stay where he was and hash it out with each other but he knew she was right, if they were going to make that flight then they needed to pack and head over there now.

"Fine" He said as he reached down and undid his seatbelt. "But this conversation isn't over Danielle, we're going to finish it and we'll finish it soon."

"Sound great, I can hardly wait for it" She replied sarcastically.

Steve climbed out of the car, growling under his breathe when she drove away the instant the door was closed leaving him standing at the kerb staring after her. He watched until her car disappeared from his sight line before he turned towards his front door, resisting the urge to punch something.

That conversation could have gone better.


Author Note

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