A/N: Thanks again for all the amazing reviews. I haven't been able to reply to any today as RL is getting in the way, but I've found a little time to get this chapter up.

Chapter Eight

Steve paced back and forth in front of his office door. Chin and Kono had been working on the computer table for what seemed like hours. Chin was running background on both Ahuna and Kaleo, looking for where Danny could have been stashed.

Kono had reviewed all the video around Aloha Towers and finally managed to isolate footage of the Camaro being driven into the parking lot. A man exited the vehicle and Kono captured an image of him to run through facial recognition. She also managed to get an image of the licence plate, but the car had been reported stolen hours before.

It was dark out now and Danny had been alone and injured for hours. Steve couldn't stand the thought of the blond detective thinking he hated him. That he believed his best friend had betrayed him. He needed to find Danny and tell him he was sorry. He didn't mean what he'd said, that he knew he'd never betray him like that. He needed to give his partner back the badge that now burned a hole in his pocket.

"Steve, I have him." Kono pulled up an HPD file picture of David King. "This is the man who drove Danny's car to the Aloha Towers."

Chin also went to work, finding known associates of King. One name stood out. Keith Cole, the owner of the supposedly stolen vehicle.

"Let's go," Steve said. "Have HPD meet us at Cole's address." The three teammates ran for Steve's truck, Chin talking to HPD as they went.

By the time they arrived at Cole's house a standoff was already underway, the supposedly stolen car, parked in the driveway. Steve raced to where Sgt. Duke Lukela stood. "What happened, Duke?"

"They saw us coming and barricaded themselves in."

"We need them alive." Steve stated. "They know where Danny is." He didn't believe it, this could not be happening again. He'd already lost one man who could tell him where his partner was. Now the only other two were in a gun battle with HPD.

"Alright, let's see if we can talk them out of there, then." Duke moved to the Command Post van that had just pulled up and came back with a megaphone.

Steve took the megaphone when Duke held it out to him and then moved closer. "This is Commander Steve McGarrett, Five-0. Throw down your weapons and come out with your hands raised."

There was no response.

"You'll not be harmed if you come out now," Steve continued. "We simply want to talk to you about Detective Danny Williams." Again, nothing. "We know you were involved in his abduction, along with Detective Ahuna. You tell us where Danny is, and I'll personally speak to the DA on your behalf."

Gunfire was the only response as bullets hit the police car Steve crouched behind. HPD returned fire.

"We need a plan," Steve said as Chin and Kono came up beside him. "Find a layout of that house, Chin. We need a way in there." He knew the only way to get the men out alive was for his team to go in and get them.

But before Chin could even respond an explosive blast sent everyone diving for cover. When Steve pushed himself up to look again, the house was a pile of rubble.

Debris lay everywhere. A number of HPD officers were down, hit by flying rubble. Steve could see that Kono had a cut on her upper left arm. Chin seemed to have gotten away unscathed.

"No!" Steve gasped. "Duke, what the hell happened?" he yelled as the man ran towards him.

"We don't know, Steve. But it looks like they may have set off an explosion." Duke didn't stay as he continued on to his injured officers.

Steve slid down and sat against the side of the car next to him. He watched, as if in a daze, as fire trucks and a number of ambulances pulled up. Chin was talking to him, but he couldn't hear him due to the buzzing in his head. He didn't remember being hit, but the way his head felt, and the look on Chin's face, he knew he must've been. His only thought, as darkness closed in on him, was that this was it. They'd just killed Danny, because now they'd no way of finding him.

Steve woke in the back of an ambulance. He sat up abruptly, bushing away the medic who was trying to start an IV.

"Steve, let the man help you," Chin said from where he stood just outside the back doors of the ambulance.

"No. I'm fine." Steve swung his leg over the side of the gurney and stood up. Dizziness assailed him briefly, but it soon cleared up.

"Sir, you need to go to the hospital and have that head wound looked at." The medic attempted to have Steve lay back down on the gurney.

"What I have to do is find my partner," Steve said adamantly. "Now, tape up the wound and I'll be going."

"You better do as he says," Chin supplied helpfully. "Patch him up, I'll look after him. If he shows any signs of being in trouble I'll bring him in. Okay?"

The medic shook his head, but did as Chin asked. A few minutes later Steve exited the ambulance, three butterfly bandages holding the cut on the right side of his forehead closed.

Kono, who had a bandage around her left arm, walked up to Steve.

"They're both dead, Steve." The look of devastation on her face told Steve that she realised what that meant for Danny.

"Run a check on both of them. See if they own any property in the Wahiawa area." Steve headed towards his truck as he spoke. "I'm heading up there."

"Wait!" Chin called after him. "Give me a minute and we'll come with you." Chin ran over to Duke and spoke to him then headed back towards Steve and Kono.

Kono had climbed into the back seat of Steve's truck and was already busy on her laptop, while Chin spoke to Duke.

Steve had the truck running and was tapping impatiently on the steering wheel when Chin climbed in the passenger side. Before Chin even had his seatbelt on, Steve pealed away, siren and lights on, as he headed to Wahiawa.

"Steve. We need to get there in one piece," Chin cautioned. "Our getting into an accident isn't going to help Danny." All three teammates stopped breathing for a second, Chin had sounded so much like Danny in that moment.

"It's been hours, Chin." Steve ran his left hand through his hair. "Danny needs to be in a hospital. That wound in his leg will be infected by now with these humid temperatures."

"Duke is pulling the GPS unit from Cole's vehicle and running it over to the crime lab." Chin put a calming hand on Steve's right arm. "If it isn't too badly damaged by the explosion, they should be able to tell us where the car was today."

"That's good." Steve sighed, and wondered why he hadn't thought of the vehicle's GPS.

"Yeah, because I've got nothing up in Wahiawa, belonging to either man," Kono added.

"Damn!" Steve swore. It would be dawn by the time they got to Wahiawa. Danny would have spent the whole night alone, hurt, thinking that Steve believed he'd betrayed him. They had to find him, alive, nothing else was acceptable.

TBC