A/N Thanks go out to everyone reading this story. I know there are a few of you. I was debating on whether or not I should carry on with this story cause I've gotten so little responce on it but the plot and the characters just wont leave me alone so I will be finishing it if only to please myself.
I was going to write some whump into this chapter but it ended up being a close call. Sorry about that, I'll try harder next time.
The title of this chapter is from a Cher song, and kinda has a double meaning for this chapter. You'll just have to read it and see if you can get the meanings. The exact lyric I have stuck in my head, and that inspired the chapter, is:
Bang, Bang. He shot me down. Bang, bang. I hit the ground. Bang, bang. What an awful sound. Bang, Bang. My baby shot me down.
Chapter 4: Bang, Bang, he shot me down
Danny sulked the whole way to the crime scene, while Kono smirked to herself. She knew she had gotten the upper hand. Danny, and the whole team for that matter, was feeling quite out of their element all day. Things hadn't gone quite as any of them had planned and the mood has been like a dark cloud over all of their heads since the sun had risen that morning, but Kono was young and vibrant, and she couldn't let the opportunity pass her by. She wanted the normalcy of the cat and mouse game that they always played with one another and if Danny had to be the one to be teased, as a way to lighten all of their moods, then she was going to do it. He didn't see things quite that way, at the moment, but he would eventually. It was all in good fun, and at least his thoughts had been redirected from everything else that had been going on.
They arrived at the office, still cordoned off by yellow hazard tape, and they stared for a moment from their parking space out front. Kat's office had yet to be released, as the investigation was still ongoing into her murder, and the bonds business she ran had been taken over and relocated for the time being. The underground gym was deserted, as it belonged to the same building as the bonds office and the crime scene. A pack of flowered leis, cards and candle had been laid out, at the closed gym entrance, in a make shift memorial for the woman who had fallen to the violence of the islands. Mourners still came, lit new candle and laid out new flowers daily and as Kono and Danny pulled up they noticed another group, made up of men in dark business suits and of Asian descent, laying a wreath among the flowers and glancing suspiciously up at the bond office. They waited a moment, giving the mourners time to lay their offering before they became suspicious.
"Time to move along gentlemen," Danny said as he and Kono exited their vehicle and walked toward the stairs that led up to the bonds office.
"Wouldn't go up there if I were you," one of the men stated his accent thick and his eyes set.
"You're crime scene has been compromised," another added.
"Been watching two thugs rummage around, they popped the window out of its casing and the smaller of the two scurried in and let the bigger one in through the door." The first one stated.
"Why didn't you call the police," Danny asked setting the field kit down and drawing his weapon.
"We did," the first man stated. "They haven't arrived yet."
"Who do we look like?" Danny asked.
"Five-O," the first man answered, "not going to wait for backup?" he asked as he watched Danny nod to Kono and they motioned for the men to move away.
"If you've already called the police, backup's on the way." Danny said and began mounting the stairs.
"Be careful Detective Williams, they looked like they were armed and quite determined," The first man said in hushed tones as he and his partner began to move around the back of the building.
Danny and Kono moved cautiously up and across the balcony of the building as the men below moved into the parking lot and around the side of the building, but did not leave. Danny crouched down beside the window to pass underneath it as Kono looked over her shoulder and inside the office space. Kono could see the smaller of the two men sifting through files as Danny stood and looked over his shoulder into the other side of the office space, he could see the other thug pulling at the couch cushion and tearing them apart clearly looking for something. Danny gave Kono a silent count down before bursting through the door.
"Freeze, Five-O!" Danny yelled as he and Kono rushed into the office space.
One man froze, clearly shocked to have been caught, but the second, the larger drew his weapon, fired at random and bolted, crashing through a back door before Danny or Kono could react. Suddenly there was the loud popping of gun shots and silence from the back of the building.
"You ok?" Danny asked as he and Kono had ducked when the gun around them had started going off.
"Yes," Kono stated as she listened for a moment, and watched the first man come too his sense and pull out his own weapon, "Put it on the floor and show me your hands!" Kono stated; both her weapon and Danny's trained on the first man now.
"Don't move," Danny stated to the smaller man who had placed his hands behind his head and Kono cuffed him.
Slowly they left the first fugitive and moved cautiously to see what had happened. On the back balcony, hunched over the railing, almost ready to fall over, was the larger of the two men. Blood dripped down from his upper body to the parking lot below. In the lot the two business men stood, weapons drawn as the sounds of police sirens could be heard in the distance.
"You're aware I'm going to have to confiscate those weapons," Danny said looking down at the business men as Kono checked the victim and determined he was dead.
The two Asians nodded, lowered their weapons to the ground and put their hands in the air.
"It sounded like you needed a little backup," One of the Asian business men shouted from down below. "He would have gotten away."
"We heard shots fired and when you didn't follow we assumed the worst," the second man stated.
"Yeah, thanks," Danny sighed as the first police vehicle pulled into the back parking lot. "Talk to those guys," he added as the two business men turned and put their hands above their heads for the HPD officers.
Kono walked back into the office to find the smaller of the men still pawing around in the mess of couch stuffing the littered the floor of the office.
"What are you doing?" she asked aiming her weapon at him once again and stopping him dead in his tracks.
The man shrugged.
"Oh you are in big trouble," Kono stated, grabbed the guy by the cuffs and pulled him out to the awaiting HPD officers, "Wait till my boss and his partner lay into you." she added as a threat and handed him off to the awaiting officers.
"What was he looking for?" Danny asked, when Kono had returned with her field kit, and he spun in a circle looking at the disorder that now lay around him.
"I don't know," Kono sighed, "but our beautifully preserved crime scene is ruined."
"We have documentation of what it looked like before it was disturbed so don't worry. Now you have a second crime scene to document," Danny smiled wickedly, "because, clearly we missed something before."
"Something of either high value or great importance," Kono said and looked around just as lost as Danny was in the mess of couch stuffing and scattered files.
"You get started, and I'll get the rest of our crew out here," Danny sighed, gave a sympathetic look to Kono and walked to the door.
"Does this mean you aren't mad at me anymore for my pants comment?" Kono smiled teasingly.
"No, baby girl, cause I'm pretty sure you're going to hate me when I leave you to all the work!" Danny winked and mockingly blew her a kiss.
"Watch yourself Williams," Kono stated but couldn't help laughing.
Did you get the chapter title and the two little references? Anyway, this chapter was inspired by that song and I hope that it was exciting enough. Till next time!
For those of you who don't like the Danny/Kono pairing, don't worry. This is not a Danny/Kono story, I just love their playfulness that we are starting to see in the show and wanted to play on that.