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It's time for another chapter. See what happens when IA interferes and I have to keep Kono busy... she goes undercover working with Vice and then goes missing. Geez! But our Kono is not exactly your typical damsel in distress type, that's for sure.

I've had a few requests to steer things towards a Steve/Kono ship, but I might as well tell you now, that as a Steve/Catherine fan that that won't be happening. Steve will be concerned for Kono, just like Danny and Chin are. That being said, there are a few lines in this chapter that you can lean in that direction, if that's how you wanna take it.

Since we all love carguments, I threw one in. I hope I did the guys justice and you like it.

My characters for this chapter: Steven 'Stevie' Hill & James 'Jimmy' Swanson.

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Chapter 4
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"These four men are our starting points." Eppes said, then Steve and Danny take their leave to start tracking them down. These women were cops, their colleagues, not just Kono, but all of them. They were unarmed, hell they barely had a place to conceal a badge in those outfits, and they were going to find them, no matter what.

The drive back to HQ was stressful and a bit, well, awkward. Both Steve and Danny still had the images of Kono in those videos bouncing around in their heads. Of course, the words they'd heard her say didn't help matters.

"So, what are we going to say to Chin?" Danny asked from the passenger seat of his own car.

"About what?" Steve asked with a brief sideways glance before turning his eyes back to the road.

"About what? Are you serious?" Danny began, hands already waving, "We both just watched the same thing, Steven. Those videos of Kono with those men, expecting... you know. And her saying,... you know. And you're asking 'about what'?"

"Right." Was Steve's simple reply. Kono was his colleague and he respected her, of course it was also obvious that she was a beautiful woman, hence Vice selecting her for the assignment she'd been given. So to say he preferred the 'speak no evil, think no evil' appraoch in this topic, would be an understatement. Yes, the big, bad Super-SEAL was uncomfortable at the moment.

"Right?" Danny repeated, a tone to his voice that Steve recognized. "So let's just lay the cards out on the table here and-"

"Lay the cards out?" Steve repeated.

"Are you going to keep repeating me?" Danny deadpanned with still hands.

"I'm just saying that-" Steve began.

"Zip it." Danny ordered. "Just, zip it. I know that this is an uncomfortable topic, because Kono is a colleague. But we need to discuss this and reach a united front before we are face-to-face with Chin. Because he looks like he's ready to kill someone, and I'd prefer it wasn't me."

"A 'united front'?" Steve repeated, earning himself another glare from the man in the passenger seat.

"What did I just say about repeating me?" Danny began, but seeing Steve about to speak, he continued, "No, let me just deal with this part since you obviously can't. One," He said, holding up a finger, "we all saw her when Jose was finished with her little, um, 'transformation' shall we say. And when I say 'all', I mean all of Five-0, all of HPD, all of Vice, and probably even the janitor saw her, too. She looked hot, okay, I said it, she looked hot in that outfit, not to mention those boots. She also looked a little pissed off, probably at Jose displaying her and the other women like pieces of meat in front of all of us. Two," Another finger went up, "she was unarmed. Not like she had any place to hide a gun in that outfit. Which means she's not only missing, but still unarmed. Three," Another finger, "If Chin asks about the video Vice showed us, we lie. Because we both know that if he knew the truth, he'd kill us. Well, he'd wanna kill someone, and we'd be in closest proximity. So, we just tell him that we have the names of the four Johns that we need to track down, and that's all. Four," He holds up another finger, "we are never going to repeat any of the words Kono said in those videos. I remember being shocked when she wrote a spoof text a while back on a case, and was shocked then... and I don't mind admitting that I was just now shocked as well." He adds, putting his hands back down.

Steve, sensing that Danny's long-winded rant was over as he was again looking out the passenger side window, decided that it was not okay to speak, "So, we tell Chin nothing."

"Right." Danny agreed.

"You really think she looked hot?" Steve asked in a teasing tone.

"Zip it." Danny replied, still without makeing eye contact.

MEANWHILE, 2:30am, IN A WAREHOUSE...

"Don't give me that bull shit. I wanna know who you're working for!" Stevie shouts at the three women as they all stand in the center of the warehouse.

The black van that had picked up the three women turned out to be driven by Stevie as his co-pimp in the passenger seat Jimmy held a gun on the three women that quickly realized they'd gotten in the wrong van only a second too late.

"There ain't nobody gonna squeeze our territory and get away with it, bitch. Now who ya workin' for?" Jimmy yelled directly into Miena's face.

"We already told you." Miena said, with an intentionally shaky voice. She knew that if she showed her true 'I'm-gonna-kick-your-ass' colors that they'd all be made as cops in a second. That fact was their ace, and they were gonna hold onto it for as long as possible. "We don't know anything about territories."

"Look." Kono spoke up, following Miena's lead, "We were just out to have a little fun, that's all."

"Your cutting into my profits ain't 'fun' for me, bitch." Stevie said, his hand balled into a fist as if to hit her.

"But,... we didn't know. Look, we're sorry. We were just out to,... well, to see if we could do it." Walton said, also playing along.

"Yeah right. Three grown women just out to prove they can score a John. You expect me to believe that crap story?" Stevie yells.

"But it's true." Kono says, concerned that Stevie's fist would soon collide with one of their faces. "Our husbands were all busy working, and we had a little too much to drink, and then came up with this crazy idea... just, ya know,... just to see if we could do it."

"That's all that happened. We've never done anything like this before. We even picked a random place, didn't know anything about it being,... well, taken." Walton adds, hoping their story will stick.

"Put 'em in the room with the others." Stevie orders Jimmy. They would deal with the women later.

BACK AT FIVE-0 HQ...

"You get anything yet?" Chin anxiously asks Steve and Danny as soon as they enter.

"No." Steve and Danny both answer at the same time.

"All 4 men's alibi's check out. Those sleaze-bags may be guilty of adultery, but not kidnapping." Danny answers.

"Well, I've got 3 possible combinations on the partial license plate from the street cam footage that go with that make and model of a black van." Chin informs them.

"Good job, Chin." Steve says before they get started on the newest lead.

BACK AT THE WAREHOUSE...

"You get anything?" Kono asks Walton as the three huddle quietly at one end of the long, narrow room. She so desperately wanted to take off the stiletto boots she was still wearing, but her badge was clipped to a garter and the thigh-high boots were the only thing concealing it. So she settled for rolling her ankles a bit and trying to stretch her calf muscles out as they talked.

"The women I talked to, well, just girls in many cases, are all here after being abducted." Walton quietly informed Miena and Kono. "And that one over there, the blond on the far cot, looks a lot like the Mayor's granddaughter."

"That's the same story I picked up from the ones I talked to. One of 'em even warned us to be careful so we didn't end up like Laura. I'm assuming she means Laura Hopes, the prostitute. HPD is working her homicide case." Miena surmises.

"I got told the same thing." Kono adds. "Now we just have to figure out how to get out of here. That door over there leads back to Stevie and Jimmy in the main part of the warehouse, and that door over there - that leads to God only knows where - has two locks on it. But neither door will do us any good without keys."

"I think I can fit through that window." Miena says, referring to a narrow window up very high on the wall. "I saw stars, so at least we know it leads to the outside."

AT THE LAB...

"Steve!" Chin calls out.

"You got something, Chin?" Steve asks, as he and Danny near the Smart Table.

"I think so. I've picked up a reflection of the drivers face in his side mirror. It's kinda blurry, but I think I can clean the image up a bit." Chin explained.

"Can you cross-check the image with those plate numbers." Danny asks, earning him an 'of course I can' glare from Chin. "Right, never mind."

AT THE WAREHOUSE...

"If we're gonna gain the trust of these women, we're gonna have to blend in, have opportunity to talk to them." Miena says, referring to the 20+ prostitutes locked in the large room with them.

"What about 'safety in numbers'?" Kono asks, "Should we stick together, or spread ourselves out in the room?"

"I agree with Jasmine." Walton said, "We should spread out, and even if something does go down, at least they won't have us all cornered."

The three agree on a plan and chose cots around the large room, wanting to talk to as many of the prostitutes as possible.

AT THE LAB...

"I got 'em, Steve." Chin says as he all but charged into his office, "I ran down the three partials, matched vehicle owners to their drivers license photos, and came up with a match to that image I got off the street cam footage." He explains as he's followed back out to the Smart Table.

"Steven Hill." Steve reads aloud from the file Chin had up on the large wall monitor. "Goes by 'Stevie'. He's a low-life pimp, workin' his girls in the warehouse district in this area." He says, gesturing to a map on the other wall screen.

"Okay, but I can't picture one pimp grabbing a cop, a detective, and a Vice agent all by himself." Danny says with corresponding hand movements.

"He's got a partner." Chin says, swiping another file up on the wall screen. "Meet James Swanson. He goes by 'Jimmy' on the streets and runs Hill's money laundering for him."

"We got an address?" Steve asks.

Chin shakes his head, "The only address we've ever had on him was at his mother's place in Wahiawa."

"Check into property holdings for both Hill and Swanson. It may give us a lead on where they're holding them." Steve says, rubbing his eyes. It was now early morning and none of them had slept. Nor would they sleep, until Kono was found.

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I hope you enjoyed the little cargument I threw in there. Can never get enough of those.

Do you think Steve and Danny wise for not telling Chin about the details of their trip to Vice's HQ?

Coming up in chapter 5 - The women have a plan, but will it work?

Now make my muse happy (and keep her typing) and leave a review before you go. Thanks!