"Kono, I don't think it's a good idea for you to be there while we're interrogating him."
But his words obviously meant nothing, as Kono was already out the door.
INTERROGATION ROOM ONE...
"I already told you, the drugs weren't mine. I was holding on to them for someone, so I've either gotta give it all back or pay him for them, and now I can't do either one." Kai Kalakaua explained, again, through gritted teeth to Danny and Steve who were sitting across from him in the interrogation room.
It was uncanny to both Steve and Danny that this messed up young man in front of them could look so much like his obviously wiser sister, yet be so completely different in every other way.
"Yeah, yeah, you said that already. But did you really think that beating up your sister was going to help somehow?" Danny said in a voice that was both loud and angry, despite him trying to control his anger as the sickening image of Kono's head colliding with brick flashed in his mind again.
"An Assault Of A Police Officer charge isn't going to look good added to your record, Kai." Steve added, with the same image in his head.
"Ya gotta believe me. I didn't mean for it to end up like that. She just wouldn't listen! She wouldn't help me!" Kai said, now with a pleading tone in his voice.
"And what,... you thought she could just go in, flash her badge, and get your drugs back for you?" Steve asked sarcastically while quoting Kono.
"Look,..." Kai began, resting his elbows on the table and running his hands through his shaggy hair, "I didn't mean to hurt her. She's my sister, ya know. I even tried finding 'em when she wasn't there and everything."
Steve and Danny looked to each other, to see if the other knew what the man was talking about. Clearly neither did.
"When was this?" Danny asked. "She come home early or something."
"No, no. Last night. I went to her apartment last night, while she was gone. Ya know, to look for 'em. Thought I could just take 'em back and she'd never know. But I couldn't find 'em." Kai explained, still with a pleading tone in his voice.
Danny and Steve exchanged looks just before Kono, who had been watching through the window, came busting through the door. They immediately saw the look of rage on her face and both stood to block her from reaching her brother, but she pushed them out of the way.
"You?" She began yelling. Kai stood up and she quickly had him backed up against the wall, shaking her fist in his face. "You're the one who ram-sacked my apartment? Oh my God, you idiot! Damn you, Kai!" She continued yelling, alternating between English and Korean and began pacing a bit as Danny and Steve both stood watching and letting her vent. "How could you do this to me?" She got in his face again, "This is what we've all been trying to tell you, Kai; that your problems effect the rest of us."
"Kono,... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... " He mumbled ashamed, but she cut him off.
"Didn't mean to? Didn't mean to? You break into my home, where I'm supposed to feel safe, and you trash it and destroy my stuff." She screamed at him.
"I'll pay for it, Kon..." He began, but she cut him off again.
"Oh, you'll pay for it huh? You'll pay for my laptop that you broke? And you'll pay for my tv that you smashed? Huh? Tell me, Kai, how are you going to do that when you don't even have a job?" She said, rubbing it in his face. "And what about the things that can't be replaced, like Grandma's antique mirror that you shattered? What about Grandpa Kalakaua's painting that was cut up when you threw the frame off my book shelf? Some things can't be replaced, Kai, just like the relationships you're destroying!"
"Kono,... I'm sorry. I just, ya know, you weren't there and I needed to find where you'd hid it, and I just got carried away." He said, fumbling through the words.
"Weren't there? You think I wasn't there? I've got a news flash for ya, brah,... I! Was! There!" She screamed, getting in his face again as he cowered against the wall. She paused, taking deep breaths through gritted teeth. "I spent nearly an hour out on the fire escape, while you ram-sacked my apartment. I'd just gotten out of the shower when I heard you break in, but I couldn't get to my gun, so I had to go out the window and sit out there with wet hair in nothing but a damp towel while you tore my place apart. I spent the rest of the night on a cot in the Sleep Room here at the precinct because I didn't feel safe in my own apartment." She backed away slightly and began pacing before grabbing his shirt again, "Damn it, Kai! Did it ever occur to you that I'm a cop,... that I carry a gun,... that I could have blown your damn head off?" She yelled in his face and pulled her fist back for a punch.
Danny and Steve both instinctively took a step forward to stop her before noticing she had froze in that position.
"Go ahead, Kono." Jason said in a surprisingly calm, low voice. "Just do it. You could kick my ass without even breaking a sweat. Just do it and get it out of your system. We both know I deserve it."
Kono slowly lowered her fist and took a step back, "No. I won't. Not because I can't, but because I refuse to let you have this kind of effect on me." The rest of her words to him were spoken in Korean in a surprisingly calm and low voice. Then she turned and walked out of the room.
HAWAII FIVE-0
Will things smooth out between the siblings?
You'll find out in chapter 4, which will probably be posted on Monday.