Kokua
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An: Please review , sorry it took so long to get it posted. My muse took a bit of a vacation among other things. Enjoy! Oh and Grace is at least nine not eight.
Chapter 9
For a moment, she thought she was at home cocooned in the sheets that smelled of sunshine and of Steve, wrapped in Steve's arms tangled up in the sheets and in him. Steve was always warm and she teased him often for being such a furnace, he would always reply with that cocky smile of his that he is a hot-blooded man after all. She turned to curl into him only to have pain shoot up her leg; a straight shot from her ankle to her knee before dulling to ache at her hips. She opened her fevered eyes with a scowl, blinking to clear her blurry vision as she tried to make out the shape of a tall man in a well-tailored suit.
"Ahh, Miss Rollins you are awake, " The man said in a dark and languid tone. "Or should I say Mrs. McGarrett?"
Catherine snorted a laugh, her feverish mind deliriously wished that his statement were true, as she heard herself say, "That's rich…"
"And here I would have thought our Commander McGarrett to have made an honest woman out of you before he impregnated you," the man said.
"Sorry to burst your bubble," she said with a roll of her eyes. "We all know how slow McGarrett can move when it comes to love…"
"Rollins…" her partner hissed at her. "Shut up…" Catherine's fever was going to get her in trouble if she didn't keep quiet. His shoulder was aching in protest as he had shouted when their captor had entered and kicked his fancy leather shoe at Catherine's injured leg jarring the lieutenant from her sleep, one of the man's lackey's had rammed the butt of his rifle at the medic's shoulder.
"It is McGarrett's baby isn't it?" the man poised as if to mock her as he ran a hand through her shorn locks and stroked a thumb over her cheek. "Does our Commander even know you are carrying his child?" Catherine glared at him and jutted her chin out at him only to be rewarded with a backhanded blow to her cheek, which had her head snapping back against the pillar behind her and the ring on his hand splitting the feverish skin. Her eyes glazed over as she shook her head to clear the stars and dimming grey edges of her vision.
"Is that the best you've got?" she smarted back at the man. "Hitting a pregnant woman? That's pretty low…even for you…"
He cut her off with another back handed blow, David winced at the force the blow that rendered the sitting lieutenant to a crumpled heap on the floor. The man aimed a blow to her stomach before pivoting and delivering the strike to her already injured leg. He looked at the medic as if daring him to speak.
"She needs a doctor." David spat out. "She's delirious and doesn't know what she is saying. Just let us go and we'll forget this ever happened…please."
The man laughed and nodded as his lackey knocked the medic over the head with the butt of his rifle. "We'll do just that…" the man said surveying the scene before him and snapping a picture of the two unconscious lieutenants. Typing the coordinates in, he attached the picture and hit send before destroying the phone.
****H50****
"So what did the coconut wireless have to say?" Danny asked to Kono as she came in the door of the McGarrett family home.
Her expression was grim as she said, "You were right Danny, it was some low-levels kolohes who took Catherine and her team."
"What is it Cuz?" Chin said looking at how pale the girl looked. "What else is it?"
"She's pregnant," Kono said her voice was shaking. "How could someone kidnap a pregnant woman? And keep her hostage? What kind of sick and twisted person does that?" she swiped angrily at the tears threatening to spill before sucking in a deep breath and running a hand through her hair. "Sorry…" she said softly apologizing for her outburst. "There's some talk about a plane flying into one of the more remote Islands from the Middle East. Someone trying to be real hush-hush. Bad fish."
"I'm sorry," Danny interrupted "Bad Fish? Kolohes?"
"Bad news and punks," Chin translated as he placed a comforting hand on Kono's shoulder. "Anything else."
"They're calling them the faceless," she said. "No one seems to know much. Brash and smart. One of Kamekona's distant cousins said that these kolohes were real tight lipped about it until they started talking about how they had something of Five-0's."
"So where are these kolohes then?" Danny said crossing his arms over his chest to keep himself from lashing out.
"Nobody knows," Kono said, "Well not a physical location. They tend to broadcast via the internet and social medias…" she moved into Steve's home office, where they had set up a mobile base ops. Danny and Chin hurried after her as her fingers were flying across the keyboard as she pulled up the links that Kamekona's connection had provided. "See?" she said pointing to a note on a message board.
"Got something precious," Chin read aloud. "Someone else wrote, precious to whom. Then our guys write precious to the elite ones of the island…"
"Yada yada yada…" Danny read as he peered over Kono's shoulder. "You shouldn't mess with them, well at least someone has a brain…Governor's tapped down on his exercise of full m&i…shit they're smart, sorry…McGarrett will not be friendly…no duh there. Who's afraid of the seal? The seal won't dare to hurt the hand that rocks the cradle…" Danny ran a hand through his hair as he paced the room. "Kono, forward these links to Lori and the Admiral. Then if possible trace these messages to track where these messages originated from…" Danny trailed off as he realized Steve was standing in the doorway to the office, Grace clutching one of his hands with both of hers, both wore wide-eyed expressions.
****H50****
"I take it you have made some progress?" Steve said after a moment.
Danny nodded and said, "Why don't we go into the living room…Aunt Malia made some cookies Monkey, why don't you go into the kitchen and get some."
The little girl looked up at her Uncle and then to her father before Steve nodded and she released his hand and headed to the kitchen to get some cookies.
"How are you feeling?" Danny asked as he took a seat on the couch. Steve shrugged and lowered himself into his recliner.
"As well as can be expected," Came his reply after a moment. "Restless…" Danny nodded. "What's the status?"
"You look better," Danny sighed and said, "I guess you could say it's been positive to confirm that it's some low level punks wanting some attention. Kono's working on a lead, apparently our guys are a little on the cocky side. They know that Catherine is connected to you. They also know that Denning's has limited your range of control when it comes to full means and immunity."
"What's the Governor's stance on this?" Steve asked shifting in the recliner and interlocking his fingers together in front of himself.
"The Governor is willing to grant full means and immunity, given that this is a joint operation between us and the Navy since Catherine is both a citizen of Hawaii and a member of Naval Intelligence, as well as the fact he has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to kidnapping." Steve nodded as Danny continued looking Steve in the eye, "However, both he and the Admiral are in agreement with this, when it comes to the search and rescue of this, you are not to be first in command. They have agreed that in your current given state and because you are directly connected that, your rationale and clarity will not be best at hand. Chin and a Commander Travis Parker, who is apparently the Admiral's son, who you went to Annapolis and SEALs with will be leading the mission. Chin for his tracking and knowledge of the islands. You and I will be second in command, and you are to do exactly as we say. So you've got to keep calm on this babe, do you understand?"
Steve nodded and said, "Yeah, I understand. Travis Parker is a good man, a good friend too, glad he and Chin are heading this." With that being said Steve rose and walked out of the living room to the lanai and down the stairs to his beach.
Danny ran his hands through his hair and looked up to see Chin hovering in the doorway. "He says he's fine with it." Chin raised an eyebrow as Danny said, "Yeah, I'm worried too…" he exhaled slowly and rose to his feet.
An: Chapter 10 should be posted within the week if not sooner, let's just say there were some inspiring stills from 2x16...
