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"Think dammit!" Steve was shouting at Officer Akuna when Chin and Kono pulled into the lot that was now filled with police and frantic activity. "Did you see anyone else in the area? Anyone at all?"
"I didn't see anything Sir!" The rookie cop said nervously. His head was down and his face was a mask of guilt. "I only took my eyes off of him for a couple of seconds!"
"You're not supposed to take your eyes off of him EVER!" Steve yelled angrily.
Chin immediately went up to Steve and started pulling him backwards, away from the terrified officer. "Come on Steve," he said calmly. "We're going to find Danny but you need to stay calm. What happened?"
"I sent him here to investigate an anonymous tip because his apartment was close by and Duke told me Akuna was out here alone," Steve reported. "He's been gone about twenty five minutes. I was on the phone with him when he was taken."
Steve led Kono and Chin over to the blood pool.
"This is what they found when they got here," he said.
Chin knelt down and studied the entrails. "We've got to get this over to Max," he said. "See what he can manage to get from it."
"Over here!" Kono called from a few steps ahead of them.
Steve and Chin ran to her immediately. "What is it?" Steve asked.
Kono pulled on a latex glove and showed them what she found. "Danny's phone and badge..." She said, looking up at them with a grim expression on her face.
Steve took the badge and squeezed it tightly in his palm. He took a deep breath.
"We've also got to give these to Fong," he said eventually. "See if he can get prints off them."
The three Five-0 members looked up as an HPD officer jumped out of a dumpster nearby. "The dumpsters clean," he reported. "No apparent blood or body parts."
Steve nodded at him before turning back to look at the entrails. Something was off about them...
"Steve?" Kono asked, noticing the faraway look on his face. "What are you thinking?"
"Take a look at this..." He replied, bending down. "This looks contrived to me."
"What do you mean?" Chin asked.
"The blood pool is too perfect..." Steve explained. "I've seen a lot of things like this... Body parts... Especially back in my SEAL days. There's no spatter here, but there should be."
"So you're saying it looks like somebody placed that here?" Kono asked.
Steve nodded. "Exactly."
"But why?" She continued.
"A lure," Chin replied. "To grab Danny. That's why they called it in here, so close to his apartment. They wanted him here. It's isolated and dark, the perfect place to snatch somebody. And whoever it was called it in late when there aren't as many officers patrolling around. This was definitely premeditated."
Steve turned around when he heard Max's voice.
"Commander!" Max said as soon as he found them. "I got here as fast as I could. Any word on Detective Williams?"
Steve shook his head. "Not yet Max. I need you to take these entrails back to your lab and get me something, anything I can use to help figure out who took Danny."
"Right away Commander! You'll have my findings as soon as possible!" Max promised.
"Thanks Max." He replied.
"Steve!" Duke called, approaching them. "I want you to know that you have the entire Honolulu Police Department force behind you. Every one of my men is focused on getting Danny back safely and as soon as possible."
Steve nodded his thanks. "There's something I need your help with Duke."
"What do you need me to do?" Duke asked.
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"Jesus what a hangover..." Danny muttered to himself as he slowly returned to consciousness. "I'm gonna kill McGarrett, always getting me drunk..."
A sudden bump sent Danny up in the air and he landed hard back down on the ground. His eyes flew open when he realized he wasn't in his bed or even on Steve's couch where he often woke up after a night of drinking with his partner. He was in the trunk of an SUV. That was definitely a new one...
A flash of pain went through his skull and he groaned, closing his eyes again. He tried to lift his arms only to realize that they were zip tied behind his back. A quick glance at his feet showed the same thing.
It took him a few seconds to focus with the pounding in his head, but he soon remembered going to investigate an anonymous tip in an abandoned parking lot with a rookie cop that couldn't seem keep his dinner down... He also remembered the entrails and calling Steve but his mind was drawing a blank and he couldn't remember anything past that.
Another bump in the road jarred him forcefully.
"Never thought I'd say this but this guy drives worse than Steve..." he whispered to himself, closing his eyes again and trying to shake off the renewed pain in his head.
Danny tried to regain his focus. The seasoned cop side of him immediately took control. Who the hell took him? And what did they want? Maybe it was random... No one but Steve, Duke and that rookie cop whose name he couldn't remember knew he would be in that parking lot tonight. If it was even still tonight... He had no idea how long he was out of it for, but it was still dark and he doubted he'd been out all day so he figured he couldn't have been gone that long. He just wished he'd been able to see the face of the person who grabbed him. He had no clue what he was up against.
He could feel the panic building up inside of him and tried to push it back down. He couldn't lose focus if he wanted to get out of this alive. And he had called Steve. Steve would know that he was missing and he'd come after him. Danny knew his team wouldn't let him down. They never had before.
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Steve quickly jogged to the Camaro and opened the trunk. He pulled out the familiar rain jacket and smiled despite the helpless situation they now found themselves in.
Danny's mother had sent him this jacket during his first year in Hawaii because he was always complaining about the random and frequent rain showers on this "too hot and too wet godforsaken rock".
Steve, Chin and Kono, who had grown up with the rain showers, often teased Danny about his jacket. There were even fewer people in Hawaii that wore a rain jacket than wore a tie. And for a while, Danny had worn both. Steve praised himself of course, for getting rid of Danny's tie habit, but he never managed to get Danny to give up on his rain jacket no matter how hard he tried. Danny always insisted that is was one of his last connections to his mainlander roots.
Now Steve took the rain jacket and brought it over to the HPD's team of hounds. Chin and Kono couldn't help smiling as well when they saw what he was holding.
It had rained recently, so Steve knew that Danny's scent would be fresh on the jacket. The dogs sniffed it for a few seconds before taking off towards the back of the parking lot.
"Good dogs!" Steve said. Holding the jacket like it was a last lifeline to his missing partner, He quickly went after the dogs with Chin, Kono, and several other HPD officers in tow.
At the end of the parking lot, the dogs turned left before stopping abruptly and sniffing the ground. They were crying and barking but made no further movements.
"They lost the scent," Steve said in dismay.
"This might be as far as it goes," Chin replied.
"Look," Steve said, leaning down and pointing at the pavement. "It was raining recently. You can see the outline of some sort of large vehicle here."
Chin, Kono and the HPD officers surrounding him all nodded in agreement.
"There were tire tracks found not far away from the entrails," Kono told him. "They've been photographed. Hopefully we can figure out what kind of car was used."
Steve nodded. "Get me a measuring tape," he ordered the nearest officer. "I want these measurements. If we find the car we can trace it back to the owner and find the son of a bitch who took Danny."
Steve stood back up and looked around him, trying to see if there was anything they had missed. He wanted his partner back, and he wanted him now.
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Danny finally felt the car coming to a stop. He quickly rolled onto his back and put his feet out in front of him, hoping to surprise his captor and kick him when he opened the trunk.
However, Danny was the one taken by surprise when a gloved hand grabbed him from behind and shoved a white cloth over his mouth and nose.
He struggled and tried to get the sweet smelling cloth off his face but he knew it was no good. Black spots quickly flooded his vision as he was forced into unconsciousness once again.
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And there we have it! No idea where that part with the raincoat came from it just popped into my head and seemed so Danny to me so I had to put it in here!
Hope it's not moving too slow. I'm already working on the next chapter so you won't have to wait long.
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