Chapter 05 - Break in the Case.

"You didn't have to come over," Violet told Steve as she let him inside her home. It wasn't that she didn't want to see him, it was almost 1:30 in the morning and she was slightly embarrassed by her apartment. "I could've told you over the phone."

"I thought it would be better to have you show me." He said stepping inside. She closed the door and followed him into the small area she called her living room.

She watched him as he gave the small space a once over. "Not what you're expecting?"

"No." Steve shook his head. "I thought you come from a wealthy family."

"I do but I told them I wanted to use my own money that I've earned myself."

Violet did come from a wealthy family. She even had a trust fund with over $500,000 in it. Her parents still offered to buy her things, like a proper home. But Violet always thought her wealth caused more trouble than anything.

When people, mainly people that had moved from overseas since everyone in Hawaii knew who they Greyson's are, found out who she is and how much they were worth, she had everyone wanting to be her friend. In high school it was the worst.

Unlike her brothers who basked in the glory of being popular because of their family's fortune, she found herself with the only real friend she's had since kindergarten. She didn't want to be popular because of money, she wanted people to like her for her. And for that she was classed as the rich bitch that thought she was better than everyone.

When it came to College she wouldn't let her parents pay for that, it wasn't like they wanted to anyway since they were disappointed in her choice of school. She worked hard on her grades, harder than anyone else in her school, which lead her to winning a scholarship. When she decided to join the academy, she paid for it herself.

When she returned home, she had her parents fawning over her, wanting to buy her this and that so she didn't have to live in the 'dump', as they called it. But she insisted using her hard earned money from her job to pay for everything. Her trust fund money sat in the bank, she wanted to save that until she had a family of her own, maybe then she'd use it to buy a house.

But for now, she lived in a one bedroom apartment near the Five-O headquarters, it was always needed some kind of repair that took the super at least a couple weeks to get around to. But it was enough for just her.

"What did you find out?" Steve asked picking up on how uncomfortable she became when her riches were mentioned.

"You know how we looked into Mr Donaldson's ex business partner Martin Scotts and found out he had completely disappeared without a trace after they became bankrupt?" she asked. He nodded and let her continue. "Well looking at the notebook there doesn't seem to be anything out of place, except for this…" She picked up the notebook and flipped it to the back. "We never looked past the page that had the last order written down." She showed him a number that had been written on the forth to last page. "It's not written down like a phone number so I thought it could be a combination to something and-"

"What makes you think this has anything to do with Martin Scotts?" He interrupted her, frowning.

"I was just getting to that when you rudely interrupted me." She playfully frowned back at him.

"Sorry, please continue." He apologized, smiling a little. He liked that she wasn't intimidated by his solemn expression and could make him take a step back when he needed to.

"What I was about to say is - I went through some of the files we have from Donaldson and Scotts and came across the number here." She picked up a piece of paper and showed him. "From the looks of it, it's some of the number is a number to a safety deposit box and Honolulu National Bank, the other number is a pass code used for it and the other number I haven't figured out yet." She looked at him. He looked back at her, once again impressed by her work. "If my suspicions are right, Martin Scotts just made his return and somehow recruited Donaldson's drug dealer to help him."

His eyes moved back to the piece of paper. He frowned slightly, concentrating on the typed words. "We need to see if whatever is in that box is still there and you can have another nice talk with Dominic. He seems to have taken a liking to you."

"I am irresistible." She joked, making him laugh even though he thought it was true.

Coming to her apartment because he thought it would be better that she showed him what she'd found was an excuse to see her and see where and how she lived. It was a little like Danny's place, and even though hers was cleaner it looked like there was a lot of work to be done. Her apartment wasn't what he expected.

"Do you want a drink of anything?" he heard her ask, breaking him from his thoughts. "I probably should have offered you one when you go here but it completely slipped my mind."

"No, I'm fine." He said politely turning down the offer. He looked at his watch for the time. "I should head back home, we can fill in the others first thing when everyone gets to work."

"Okay." She smiled and followed him to her apartment door. "Sorry if I woke you up."

"Don't worry about it," He smiled back at her. "I'll see you at work."

She nodded then closed and locked the door behind him. After tidying up the files, keeping the important parts at the top of the pile, she made her way into her bedroom. She stripped out of her clothes and pulled on a pair of pajama shorts and her old police academy shirt. She pulled back the covers on her bed and laid down, pulling them over her. Within five minutes she was fast asleep.

-x-

"You think you can hide from me?" She could hear him call out to her. She was hidden in one of the wardrobes. She could see through the small gaps between the wooden slates on the door. Her whole body trembled with fear. This man terrified her. She saw his shadow come into the room before he did. His sick and twisted laughter filled the room.

"Do you really think I am that stupid?" he yelled when his laughter died down. "You're just making this worse for yourself."

She let out a gasp when she saw something glimmer in the light and noticed it was one of the large kitchen knives she left in the block on the counter. She placed her shaking hands over her mouth hoping he hadn't heard the gasp.

Unfortunately for her he had. The wardrobe door swung open as an arm reached in and grabbed her. She fought back as he pulled her out of the small area. When she got free of his hold, using all her strength to push him to the ground, she went to run past him but he grabbed her ankle making her fall to the ground.

He was quickly covering her with his body, the knife at her throat. "I told you this would happen if you didn't keep your mouth shut." He trailed the knife down her neck, along her body until it reached her stomach.

She felt the blade slowly and painfully pierce her skin. She let out a cry wanting to scream but she didn't want to give him what he wanted. He wanted to inflict as much pain as he could, he wanted to hear her scream even though he knew he'd only have a couple minutes to escape. Her apartment walls were thin and when she screamed he knew her neighbors would know something was wrong.

When she didn't scream he pulled the knife back and plunged it into her side.

Violet shot up in a sitting position, a cold sweat pouring from her body and her breathing coming out in short pants. She looked around the room reminding herself she was in her apartment in Hawaii.

She lifted her shirt revealing her two to three inch long scar just above her hip bone. She traced her fingers along the slightly raised skin remembering the night that could have been her last. She was grateful that her nosy neighbor had come to see why she'd screamed, finding her in a pool of her own blood. If the elderly woman hadn't, she wouldn't be here right now.

Looking at the clock on her bedside table she saw it was time to start getting ready for work. She dragged her tired body out of bed and towards the bathroom. After turning the shower on, she walked back out of the bathroom grabbing a couple towels. She walked back into the bathroom, checking the temperature of the water. Feeling it was as hot as she could stand it, she got in making sure her sore shoulder from yesterday got most of the water.

Getting out of the shower, she dried off and got dressed a white set of bra and panties, a pair of black shorts that stopped just above her knee and a white V-neck shirt. She liked her new casual look she got to wear to work. In New York it was all dress pants, a button up shirt and a suit jacket, even in the summer with the sun shining. She had to admit she missed the Hawaiian sun while she was living on the main land.

After she was dressed and her dirty-blonde hair was pulled into a ponytail, she grabbed her hand bag and, car and apartment keys and her cell phone and left her apartment deciding to get breakfast on the way to work.

Stopping at the cafe around the corner from her apartment building, she got everyone a coffee and got herself a strawberry, orange, apple and mango juice, the best juice on the island according to her. The small cafe was the only one that made that juice. She had become hooked on it after giving it a try the day she moved into her apartment. Once she was handed the drinks, she left the cafe and made her way to work.

Parking in an empty space outside headquarters, she got out of the car grabbing the drinks and made sure her car was looked. Making her way into the building she crossed paths with Chin.

"Aloha, Flower," he smiled kindly at her.

"Good morning Chin," she returned the smile and pulled a cup of coffee from the cup holder and handed it to him. "I bought you coffee."

"Thanks," he said taking it. "After the night I've had, I'll be needing as much as I can get."

"Bad night?" She asked him as they got in the elevator to head up to their office.

"I have new neighbors, let's just say they are very loud and rowdy."

"Did you flash them your badge? Scare them a little?" She smirked, it would be something she would do. She was grateful her neighbors were a sweet old couple that reminded her of her grandparents. She adored the elderly couple very much.

"I'll do that next time." He laughed.

When the doors of the elevator dinged open at their floor, they stepped out and made their way into the office, Chin opening the door for her and letting her walk in first. She thanked him and made her way to the table, putting the drinks down.

"Is that coffee?" Danny asked sounding like he could also use the caffeinated drink.

"No it's a sandwich," she joked and handed him and Kono their cups of coffee. "Looks like everyone could use a cup or two."

"Gracie was sick last night." Danny informed her. It wasn't usually his night to have Grace but Rachel had something on with Step-Stan, as Danny called him. Danny would do anything to have that extra time with Grace when he could.

"Is she okay?" she asked genuinely concerned for the young girl.

"Yeah I she had an upset stomach. She was feeling better this morning."

"That's good." She smiled and then looked at Kono. "Did you drink the bars liquor supply again?"

"Oh ha-ha," Kono said sarcastically rolling her eyes in a joking manner. "No I didn't, I just had a late night. A friend needed help with something."

Violet laughed at her and took the last two cups out of the cup holder before throwing the holder into the trash bin. "Steve here yet?"

"In his office." Danny said motioning his head towards Steve's office. She turned around to look past him into Steve's office. He looked frustrated about something as he looked over a piece of paper in his hand.

"Do you think it's safe to go in there?"

"I think you'll be alright," Danny smirked at her.

She ignored the cheeky blonde's smirk and walked into Steve's office. He looked up at her and smiled a little. She placed the coffee cup on his desk in front of him. "Thought you could use a cup after last night."

"Thanks." He smiled at her before picking up his cup of coffee.

"Have you told the others about the codes?"

"I was waiting for you to get here." He told her. "You can tell them."

"Really?" She asked surprised.

"Yes. You found it, you can tell them."

"Okay." She said feeling slightly nervous. The last three weeks, when she found something she took it to Steve and when Steve wasn't around it was Chin she went to.

Walking back out of his office with him behind her, she looked at the other three. "I uh... I took the notebook and a few files home last night because something was bothering me and I think I've found a huge lead."

Once she saw she had their attention, she grabbed the files out of her handbag and started showing and explaining what she had found. Once she was done, Steve told them what they were going to do. They all went in their different directions, Chin with Danny, Kono staying at HQ and Steve and Violet going find Dominic to bring him back in.