A/N: Thank you once again to everyone reading and reviewing and alerting this story. You are amazing.
This chapter, I will apologies, is very much a filler chapter. It had a lot of development in it and the next chapter will be able to move forward because of it. I hope you enjoy it.
As always, I do not own anything.
Chapter 3: Come Around
Liliana stirred, felt the cold hard floor against her cheek and tired to rise from her position. The shooting pain in her head made her blink a few times but the darkness didn't disappear. She felt her head, felt the bump developing there and could smell the coppery sent of the blood that coated her cheek. Then as she moved she felt her cell slide down her belly and out of her blouse onto the floor. It made a clattering sound, but the screen flashed to life and the light sent her reeling in pain.
She picked it up hurriedly and scanned the floor remembering what had happened. She found Grace, curled up in a ball, sound asleep and move hesitantly before deciding not to wake her up. Liliana waited for the darkness to sooth her aching head once again before she closed her eyes tightly and dialed the first number that came into her aching head.
5-0
Malia jumped when she felt the pager in her lab coat pocket vibrating. She looked at the number, smiled to knowingly to herself and turned back to her patient.
"I'm sorry Mr. Onaka, I must excuse myself. I'll return shortly to check on you once more before your treatment. Your treatment is scheduled for this afternoon." Malia smiled cheerfully as she looked down at the balding old man in the bed before her.
"Thank you very much Doctor." The old man forced a smiled and turned his face to the sun that was shining in his hospital window.
Malia left the room, taking long strides, as she walked toward the end of the oncology ward to her little, and secluded, office. She sat down at her desk, picked up the receiver of her office phone and dialed the number she spotted on the pager.
5-0
Liliana jumped as she felt the phone vibrate and make more noise than she anticipated as she quickly answered it.
"Why are you whispering?" Malia giggled into the phone.
"I'm being held captive, Malia, you have to help me." Lili whispered.
"Lili I'm not playing games, I'm at work," Malia stated angrily.
"I'm not either. There was an abduction from my school today. I was taken with one of my students. You have to get help." Liliana stated frantically.
"You're not joking," Malia stated hearing a familiar fear in her little sister's voice, "why didn't you call the police."
"Because I don't know where I am," Liliana stated as she started to cry.
"Lili stay calm, are you ok?" Malia asked fearfully now.
"I have bump on my head," Lili stated through her tears.
"More specifically, please?" Malia asked.
"A minor head trauma and a small contusion on the right side of my forehead," Lili sighed.
"Do you feel concussed?" Malia asked.
"Stop doctoring me and get help please," Lili stated frantically again as she hung up.
Lili held her breath, fumbling with the phone as something jostled at the door, but pasted it by. She sighed heavily, forced herself to her knees and felt around the floor of the dark space. She forced herself to her feet, felt the stinging in her head again and leaned heavily on the wall to regain her balance. Slowly she walked a circle around the room, feeling every wall, every surface, and trying to see if she could reach the tiny windows high up on the wall.
"There is no way out," Grace said quietly as she watched the dark figure of her teacher cover all of the same places she had in her search for an exit.
"Are you alright Grace?" Lili asked as her eyes focused and she saw the little girl before her.
Grace shrugged; she didn't know how she was. She was scared, she was trapped, she had seen and heard things that would have driven her father to kill, but she could describe the calm she was feeling. She heard her father's voice in the back of her mind. "I'll find you Grace," Danny said, "you'll be ok, Monkey, Daddy is coming to get you."
"I don't know," Grace sighed.
"We're going to get out of here," Lili said tearfully as she retraced her steps around the room and found the solid metal door that locked them into their cage.
"Who did you call?" Grace asked softly.
"I called my sister, she has a friend that worked in the HPD, and she may be able to get help." Lili stated frantically as her tears coated her cheeks.
"I used your phone," Grace said as she found Lili's hands in the darkness and latched onto it. "I called Daddy," she said, "Five-O is looking for us."
"You are so smart," Lili sobbed letting her fear take over. "I want you to take this, hold it on you and keep it hidden," Lili said as she reached out and lowered herself to the floor to sit beside Grace, placing her phone in the little girl's hands. "If anything happens to me at least they won't find that on you and you can call for help again." She added as she wrapped her arms around Grace and hugged her close.
"I am scared Lili," Grace whispered in the darkness.
"I am too," Lili confessed and whipped the tears from her wet cheeks.
5-0
Kono typed and shifted through vehicles and registration tags as Steve paced before the Smart Table, his eyes always on the TV screens that shouted out information on what had happened. When Five-O was mentioned as on the case he shivered a little and hoped that it wasn't a hindrance that they had jumped onto this. He worried more than he had every worried about a case before. This one was too personal, too innocent and sickening. He felt his stomach churn at the sheer thought of not knowing where Grace was and that she was in danger. There was no question in his mind; if he failed at this mission then he would have failed in everything he had ever done. His goal had always been to save lives and Grace's life was the most precious to many of the members of his team.
"Lots of hits on the plate," Kono sighed as she ran her hands through her hair, "unless I can narrow it down to a type of vehicle I don't know what to do."
"I have surveillance," Chin stated as he walked back into the office and placed the DVD's down on the Smart Table, his hands shaking.
"Load them up," Kono said a new sense of hope and purpose coming over her. "There has to be something on these."
"There has to be," Steve sighed and looked down as videos started to spring up.
5-0
Malia sprinted across the floor of the Palace lobby and up the steps that led into the Five-O office. She spotted the one person she had hoped to see leaning over a computer as she had always imagined him and she walked in the doors.
Three head turned to stare at her as she walked in.
"Malia?" Chin asked confusion in his tone.
"Chin, it's Lili, she's in trouble," Malia said and rushed across the floor and fell into his arms.
