Chapter Three

Steve:

He had messed up.

If Nikki was telling the truth, and Kalani set that bomb, then it was a blessing it went bad.

The structure had suffered minimal damage; A whole load of windows needed to be fixed, but it could have been worse. If that bomb had gone off, according to plan, the entire building would be a pile of rubble.

Before Nikki arrived, we had been talking about Kalani and his various thugs.

We had evidence that something was going on in his clubs, but nothing solid to pin him with.

Now that a victim laid in a hospital bed, with a knife wound inflicted by Kalani, we could at least arrest him for attempted murder.

If we could find him.

''He hasn't had time to leave the Island, and he was at least hurt pretty bad.'' Danny said, gesturing from the passenger seat.

''Yeah, he will most likely go to a Street Doctor, get patched up that way. But Ramirez is right; He tried to kill her once, he will try again. Same goes for us.'' I replied, watching the road.

''You said, HPD is watching the vic's room?''

I nodded, ''She's safe as long as she's in the hospital. After that...'' I trailed off.

''Things get even more complicated.'' Danny finished.

Once she was out, she would go into Witness Protection, but whether she would listen and accept help was up to her. Back in the hospital she seemed to be hiding something, but what?

She really did sound like she hated him.

''How do we know, this isn't some kind of set up? Huh?''

I opened my mouth but Danny carried on.

''No let me finish; How do we know that Kalani didn't send Ramirez in as a victim, make it appear as though she's willing to to help, then she tries to do something, like...oh I don't know, kill us?'' He proposed.

I kept quiet, thinking.

It was possible, but why stab her?

He could have sent her in with information.

I told Danny as much, ''But you're theory is possible. So keep your eyes open.''

Chin and Kono was meeting us at my place, to discuss what had happened and make plans. It was already late, but this needed to be done by tomorrow.

After a few minutes I noticed Danny was quiet, I looked over at him. He was staring out of the window, frowning.

''Hey, you ok man?'' I asked. I saw him nod.

''Yeah. Just thinking...'' He said.

I felt like smacking myself in the head; he had been in a building that was about to blow up. Of course that must have affected him. And Chin and Kono. I would ask them later. It was pretty hard to admit, but I was almost used to being in that situation.

''About what could've happened.'' I stated.

He nodded again.

''Grace was seconds away from losing her father.''

''I know. But that didn't happen. Now we just have to find him and put him away. Grace isn't going lose anybody.'' I assured him.

It wasn't good enough. No words would be, but I didn't know how he was feeling. I wasn't a father. I had no idea how to act like one.

We arrived at my house then and went inside. Chin and Kono were already there.

''Hey, how's the vic?'' Kono asked.

Danny and Chin had gone to the kitchen in search of beers.

I ran a hand down my face.

''Alive. But we need to catch this guy. Fast.'' I answered. She agreed with a nod and sat back down on the sofa.

''Tell them I'll be back in a minute.'' I said, going upstairs.

I went to my bedroom and stripped out of my clothes. They were covered in dried blood, from Nikki.

After I got into some clean clothes, I stepped on to the landing, an idea hitting me fast.

I turned and headed in the oppsite direction down the hall, to Mary's old room.

Thinking the idea through quickly, I turned and went back downstairs.

As I entered the living room, I caught Chin's words.

''What happens when she's released from hospital?''

I opened the longboard Danny was handing to me and said, ''She stays here.''

''What?'' Danny said.

''Putting her in a hotel is too dangerous, he could get to her in any munber of ways. Here I can keep on eye on her, and see if she knows more than she's letting on.'' I reasoned.

''That could work.'' Chin said, sitting in the chair.

''Don't you mind a stranger coming to live with you?'' Danny asked, amused.

I shrugged, ''No, it won't be for long, if she's here and he contacts her we will know.''

''What if she refuses?'' Chin asked.

''How could anyone refuse Steve's charm?'' Kono joked.

Danny and Chin laughed, but I just scowled.

''Let's get to work.''

A/N: Hiya :) Chapter 3 is up! So forget what I said in chapter 1 about updating once a week, cause so far I've updated 3 times in 2 days...lol so anyway, Thank you for reading! Please leave a reivew, telling me what you think... ^_^

~Abbey