Chapter three

Raven

I watched the man Steve called Wo Fat pace the room. It's been three hours since he last shocked me, but I can still feel it. He walked to a table.

"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked him weakly.

"To get under McGarrett's skin," he answered, picking up something.

"He didn't do anything to you! Why do you do these things?!" When he turned back to face me, I lost all will to talk. He had a butcher knife in his hand.

"What's the matter? Are you suddenly afraid?" I gulped as he approached me, my heart pounding in my chest. "Where's all that bravado you just had? Lost it suddenly?" I shrieked softly when he grabbed my belt loop to pull me closer.

"Wo Fat, it's time," one of his helpers said. I let out a shaky breath as he walked away from me. When I looked up I saw Steve and Ziva on the screen. With Ziva's co-workers.

"I knew you 2 will figure out where I am," Wo Fat greeted.

"Why do you have Raven?" Agent DiNozzo asked. He walked back over to me with the camera behind him.

"She is the one thing linking NCIS to Five-O. That's not why I called though." Somebody kneeled in front of me and held my feet down. My heart started pounding even harder; he held the knife more firmly in his hand.

I looked up at Ziva and Steve with fear in my eyes right before pain shot through my right thigh. I closed my eyes as I belted out a scream. I heard my name being called as pain shot up and down my leg. He switched to my left leg and started the whole thing over.

"RAVEN!" The pain suddenly stopped mounting, and my feet were let go. I just hung there with tears streaming down my cheeks.

"Please help me," I whispered.

"We will, Rae. We…." Ziva's words were cut off by Wo Fat ending the call.

~Line Break~

Steve

I sighed, sliding my phone back into my pocket. I just got off of the phone with Danny; they couldn't find anything in the house. And Kono couldn't further trace Wo Fat.

"Here," a voice said. I accepted the cup of coffee from Agent McGee. "Still nothing."

"I wasn't expecting anything. Wo Fat is sneaky, slippery. He's gotten past us more times than I care to count. Even when we think we have him, he manages to get away." The elevator doors opened; I turned around when I heard barking.

"Sheppy, sit!" Ziva's voice came from the stairway. The German shepherd sat. "Stay!" She walked down the stairs and to her desk. "Come." The dog sat her feet as she sat in her chair.

"Trained to a police dog?" I sipped on my coffee.

"Yeah. Figured Rae would need one." Tony looked up from his computer.

"How do you 2 know her again?"

"Her father is a retired SEAL. We met her mother during a case," she answered. I thought back to Raven's birthday party. One of her friends wanted to know the same thing.

"Yeah?... Ok. Ziva, Steve. Abby said she needs you. She found something," McGee told us. We took the elevator down to the lab with Sheppy at our heels.

"What you got for us, Abby?"

"I was watching the video from the last call when something caught my eye. Look." She zoomed in on the necklace I gave Raven.

"I gave her that for her birthday. So?"

"You see that red dot? It was there during the entire call. At first I thought it was reflection, but then I saw this." She played the video. The red dot started blinking.

"That's an SOS signal," I realized. Something started niggling at the back of my mind.

"Exactly. That started when that guy approached her. It's as if her necklace…." That something clicked.

"Was designed to transmit a distress call whenever she's in trouble," I finished for her. How could I forget that?! I pulled out my phone.

"Yeah, exactly. How did you know that?" I dialed a number and put the device to my ear.

"Because I designed it."

"Steve?" Cathy's voice came through the line.

"Cath, have I been receiving distress signals on my computer between yesterday and today?"

"Hang on. Let me check." I thanked Abby and followed Ziva back up to the other members of the team. "You have seven actually. One came from the governor's house. The other six from near where you are now." Ziva rounded the team and I put the phone on speaker.

"Where Cathy?" She read out the address as I put on a vest.

"Why did you need that?" I put my guns in the pockets.

"We just found Raven."