Author's notes: Its me again! :) Here is chapter four, chapter five is almost done should be finished and posted by the beginning of next week (too much work to do). Soz about this chapter being short than the others, I swear it looks long on paper! Anyway here is chapter four hope you enjoy x

Chapter Four

As much as he tried doing his paper work, Steve couldn't help but look up and watch Danny and Emily through the glass. They seemed to joke and laugh a lot, throwing paper balls at each other's head while the other was busy with something, just to past the time. 'So much for work,' thought Steve.

Although it clearly pained him to watch a part of Danny's life he knew nothing about, Steve couldn't help but smile at the familiar interaction between the two. A clear example was when no sooner had Emily hung up the phone after clearly what was a distressing phone call than Danny pulled her into a tight embrace for several minutes.

It was around lunch time when Chin popped his head into Steve's office and said "We have a case," then headed back to the computer table and Kono.

"What have we got?" Steve asked joining the cousins.

"HPD have been dealing with three homicides, the latest one happening early this morning." Replied Chin as he brought up the victims' profiles on the monitors. Each man was in his early 30s, with dirty blonde hair, dressed in business attire suggesting that they were here for work and not pleasure. Looking back at the computer table, Steve could see the photos from each crime scene and of each body. Each man had been brutally beaten before being strangled and left tied to a bed. "Ok? So why has it been passed onto us?"

"The last victim, David Walker, was a business associate with the Governor," said Kono typing something into the table to bring up the last few deals that took place between the two. "There doesn't seem to be any connection between the three men apart from the fact that they look similar and come from the East Coast." She continued. "They are all single and work in high end jobs but vic. one lives in Brooklyn, vic. number two lives in Newark and Mr Walker lives in Trenton. Nothing suggests that their paths have ever crossed."

"Have we got any evidence that leads to a suspect?" asked Steve only just noticing that Danny wasn't next to him. But, before he could act on it, Chin responded with "Not from the first two crime scenes though they found half a bloody finger print at the last - which belongs to this guy." Chin put up another photo up on the monitor.

Just like the victims he was in his early 30s. However, he was sporting jet-black hair and a frighteningly pale complexion.

"His name is Joshua Anderson," said Chin as Danny and Emily walked out of his office.

"Guys we're going to go get something to eat did you-" Danny stopped midsentence when he saw the photo on the screen. "Do we have a case?" he asked instead, hoping the others hadn't noticed his stumble. Judging by the looks Steve and Emily were giving him, they had noticed.

"Three homicides, Joshua Anderson's print was found at the last scene." Chin said bringing Danny up to speed. "Went to jail for 15 years at 18 for the rape and murder of a 16 year old girl; he is also known to have quite a temper and has been thrown out of many a bar by the police after starting fights."

"And domestic violence," whispered Danny looking down at his shoes. All four heads turned to look at him.

"It doesn't say anything about that in his record." Chin stated, giving the record a quick read over to double check.

"Well it wouldn't," Danny said looking up at the confused, concerned faces "I didn't report it."

"He's the one who did that to you isn't he?" asked Emily, gently placing a hand on Danny's arm, who looked at her and gave a little nod.

"Danny?" said Steve, taking a step towards him. "What are you talking about? How do you know this man?"

"Let's just say first impressions don't mean everything." Emily gently squeezed his arm and glared at Steve when he asked "What did he do to you?" Instead of answering his questions, Danny seemingly pulled himself, trying to hide the hurt in his eyes and asked Chin "Do we have a place to go to se we can question him?" The three team members seemed taken back at how quickly Danny could bounce back from looking ten times smaller since seeing the photo of Anderson. Emily just stood next to him, a protective, worried look in her eye, all four noticing that Danny refused to make eye contact with any of them. "Uh yeah" replied Kono writing an address down on a piece of paper, "he's rented a holiday home, with his credit card, on the North Shore."

"Come on Super SEAL," said Danny as he grabbed the piece of paper from Kono and headed to the main doors. Before Steve could ask what the hell was going on he felt a hand on his elbow and looked to see Emily staring at him.

"Please look after him, I know he hasn't told you what happened and you would like to know but all you need to understand, right now, is this man hurt Danny deeply. Don't make him do it again." The plea left Steve shocked and a whole new level of anger for Anderson rose in the pit of his stomach. This man had hurt his Danno in the past and was killing innocent men on his island; he was going to be lucky if he only got broken bones. "I promise," replied Steve, giving her hand a quick squeeze before running off after Danny. Kono waited for Emily to go back into Danny's office before turning to her cousin and asking "What do you think is going on?"

"I don't know cuz, there seems to be a lot about our little Jersey detective we don't know about."