It had been two days since the disastrous party/almost capture of one Christian Iona. One day since McGarrett had received the "threat" against his second-in-command, and an hour since that same sandy-haired detective had gone to grab lunch, and had failed to return.

Even though Steve didn't buy into the threat against Danny, he was still feeling a little on edge as the time went on. The "threat" was making him push the case even harder. Nobody just got off with making threats against his team. Even if they were empty ones. Steve wanted nothing more than to get this smooth criminal off the streets, and into his rightful place behind bars.

McGarrett's conviction about how Iona's little charade was a hoax, was enough to satisfy his team. Danny continued to believe that the threat was not something Iona would want to make good on, due to the extreme repercussions it would cause against him. Chin agreed too, focusing on the newspaper picture Iona had used, pointing out that if Iona had truly wanted to make a threat against Danny, Iona would have chosen to take a picture that proved he was actually stalking the detective. Kono agreed, but quietly thought that perhaps they should be a bit more cautious, rather than trample all over the threat. But Steve was certain, so that was going to have to be good enough, he had decided.

Steve looked up through his office door, when he saw Danny bursting through the doors, bee lining for his own office, and shutting the door. He raised an eyebrow at the odd behavior of his younger counterpart, but ultimately decided to let it go for the moment. It's not like he's going to stay in there forever.

Kono's not-so-quiet protest about the appearance of Danny Williams and the devastating lack of food interrupted his thoughts.

Steve wondered about where Danny had been then, since he apparently hadn't brought back lunch. He was about to call his second when Danny's door came flying open again, a flurry of papers in hand, and a wild, determined look on his face.

Steve knew that look. It meant he was on to something. He just hoped whatever it was, was enough to get Iona, book him, and call it a day. He had gotten a call from the governor the day after the Apuku party. Apparently the Apuku's were friends of the governor and his wife, making the case a little more personal. The governor had already asked Five-O to take this case, and was now asking Steve to personally see it through. Steve gave his word to see this one through, despite his personal preference of giving the case back to HPD. There were other cases demanding their attention, ones that actually involved a dangerous criminal.

Almost as an echo to his thoughts, Danny marched into his office.

"Steve," Danny said. "I think I know where Burke is!"

"Burke?" Kono exclaimed, walking up behind Danny with Chin. "You sure?"

"Not one hundred percent, but pretty close. A while back I got a lead from a contact. I didn't think it would be much, but I followed up on it anyways. It led me nowhere, but about a week ago, I got another lead from the same guy, which also led to nothing. But it gave me a pretty good idea." He spread out the papers on McGarrett's desk. "None of it made sense on its own, until I checked with HPD on a couple things and put the leads together. And now, I think we've got him."

Steve walked around his desk, eying Danny's papers, and debated his choices.

Frank Burke was the drug dealer they'd been after right before Christian Iona stepped into the picture. When the trail had started running cold, despite Five-O's best efforts, they had been forced to put it on the back burner, and focus on something new. He was the reason Steve had been so reluctant to rake the Iona case; he felt Burke took precedence over a jewelry thief. However, the governor had explicitly told them to let go of the Burke case for the time being. The trail was cold, and there were other things to worry about. Namely Christian Iona and his sticky hands. Steve couldn't personally do anything about the Burke lead. Unless...

"Danno. You're off the Iona case. At least until you follow up on this. I gave the governor my word that I would personally see this Iona case through, and that's what I'm going to do. See what comes of this though, Danno. We'll keep working on finding Iona, but I hardly doubt the governor will be upset if we put Burke away at the same time as our little thief." Steve jabbed the papers, and nodded. "Call me if it starts to look promising."

Danny nodded, gathered up his papers, and promptly left McGarrett's office.

"Chin, Kono. We're going to have to push harder on getting Iona. I want him brought in yesterday. The sooner we deliver Iona to prison, the sooner we can get back on Burke's trail."

"Right, boss."

"On it, Steve."

The phone rang.

"McGarrett."

Steve's face became more resolved, and he slammed the phone down.

"There's been another robbery. Let's go."

H50

"In and out! Cleaned out my whole case! That's thousands of dollars' worth of jewels in there, Mister McGarrett, and I'd like to know what you plan on doing about it!"

There was something off about the latest robbery to Steve. The fiery little man who owned the shop looked like he might blow up any second. His shop wasn't as high end as many of the other robbed shops had been, but it still had housed lots of jewels. But there was something different about this shop to McGarrett. He just couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Look, Mista O'Reilly. We're doin' everything we can right now to find da man behind these robberies. You not the first one ta get robbed, bruddah," Kono said, slightly scared of angry man. Despite O'Reilly being only twice his size.

"Everything you can?! That isn't good enough! I want my jewels or I want compensation! It's not my fault the cops can't catch a thief! And don't you "bruddah" me either!"

"Mr. O'Reilly. Please calm down so we can do our job. Your cooperation could help us catch the robber," Steve tried to reason, trying to keep the lid on his own short temper. O'Reilly's temper visibly fizzled out, but he still appeared agitated.

"Can you tell us if this man was in your shop?" Chin handed him Christian Iona's photo.

"This the guy who robbed me?"

"If he was in your shop before you noticed the jewels gone, then we're pretty sure it was him," Steve said.

"You haven't caught him yet though? So he's free to roam around, stealing people's livings?"

"Mr. O'Reilly. It might be easier to catch him, if the people he robbed from would stop putting up so much resistance when questioned," Steve bit out.

"Amen, bruddah," Kono whispered under his breath.

O'Reilly glanced at the Hawaiian detective, then back to McGarrett and sighed. "Yeah, okay. He was in here. But he was a real nice guy. Shopping for his girls he said. He wasn't the only one in here, you know. There were two other people...you sure it was him that took the jewels?"

McGarrett's lips twitched slightly. "Oh, I'm positive it was him Mr. O'Reilly. Did he happen to mention anything other than 'shopping for his girls'?"

O'Reilly considered and shook his head. "No, nothing much. He went on and on about his girls though. His wife Elizabeth, and his daughter Kiana. He wanted to surprise them with a special treat on a picnic tomorrow. Think he was taking them up to some beach up by Waikiki."

Steve shook his head. "Thank you for your time...and cooperation Mr. O'Reilly." He shot him a pointed look and turned to Chin.

"See if you can find out if anyone around here saw Iona leave. And check on those other shoppers too. Maybe one of them saw something."

"Right, Steve. Think there was anything to the story he told O'Reilly?"

"No. Iona's smart. He's not going to just give away any incriminating information about him. Unless he wants us to know it. Not to mention we already know he's never been married. Chin, I feel this might be evolving into some sort of game to him. Cat and mouse, in his eyes."

"Maybe Steve. The threat against Danny really wouldn't make sense if that were the case though. Though I suppose it just doesn't make much sense, no matter what light you shed on it."

"You're right, Chin, it doesn't. But maybe it's part of his little 'catch me if you can' game. We'll find out. Have Kono check the names though. It is possible he put one truth in a web of lies. I'm going to head back to the office. I'll see if there's anything going on around Waikiki tomorrow."

"Okay Steve, we'll see you back at the office."

McGarrett was halfway to the Iolani Palace when the dispatcher put Danny through.

"McGarrett."

"Steve. You're not going to believe this."

H5O

Hello again! Here's the second installment of this little story. This wasn't quite what I had planned to write for this chapter, nor was it quite what I wanted, but I think it worked out okay. Hopefully I'll be a little more prompt about updating future chapters. Right after starting this story, I got caught up in trying to finish up registering and arranging for my next semester of school…That's all taken care of now, so yay for that. Anyhow. Thank you so much for reading! Please review, if you feel up to it! Hope you enjoyed this chapter. :)