I originally intended to get this up Thursday night but then a friend decided to come over and she stayed the entire weekend so I had no time to finish writing it until now! Sorry for the delay!
sorry about posting this twice btw. I tried to fix something and then the chapter just disappeared so I needed to repost it.
Thanks for the reviews! Really appreciate every one :)
Btw you know you're totally H50 obsessed when you go see Monsters University and can't stop comparing Mike and Sully to Danny and Steve! Or maybe that's just me lol...
Enjoy :)
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(Prologue:)
The dark smoke billowing into the bright blue sky could be seen for miles. But in the middle of the desert on the southeast coat of Hawaii, not many were around to see it.
The smoke led back to the remnants of an emergency Medivac helicopter. The chopper was now reduced to a smoking pile of metal and glass, having been destroyed when it fell out of the sky and hit the ground at high speeds.
It was a gruesome sight. At least two bodies could be seen strewn among the wreckage, lying there under the hot Hawaiian sun.
A lone object sat half buried in the sand, its gold plated front glistening in the sun. It was a badge.
'State of Hawaii Investigator Five-0 Unit.'
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Chin and Kono couldn't help but grab onto something as Steve sped the Camaro, sirens blaring, over the old and unreliable dirt roads towards Winston's Wild Village.
"Chin!" Steve called, never taking his eyes off the road. "How close are the rest of the HPD squad cars?"
"Five minutes behind us," Chin assured him.
"Good," Steve replied. "We don't know how many people are going after that chopper. I want an army ready to back us up."
"You'll have it boss," Kono said. "Everyone is willing to do whatever it takes to get Danny back safe and in one piece."
Steve nodded. He couldn't focus on anything other than getting to that old theme park as soon as possible. He didn't want to think about what could happen to Danny if he didn't make it in time. He wouldn't believe that Danny hopping on the chopper was the last time he'd see him alive. After everything Steve had already been through in his life, he absolutely refused to lose Danny too. He would never forgive himself, and he was sure Grace wouldn't either.
Steve pushed the gas down until it was almost flat and sped on towards their destination.
"I'm coming Danny," he said determinedly.
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"Oh god," Danny whispered as he blinked his eyes open slowly and found himself lying face first in boiling hot sand. "Oh god."
The pain in his head was nearly blinding and when he was finally able to lift it, his face felt wet. With his own blood he figured.
He slowly rolled himself onto his back and took in his surroundings. There were shards of metal and glass everywhere and smoke was slowly rising up towards the sky. There wasn't a part of Danny's body that didn't hurt. From his toes all the way up to his head, especially his head now that he thought about it. He got to his knees and slowly crawled out of the helicopter, careful to avoid the small fires that seemed to be everywhere.
He looked around him and gasped when he saw Sam lying amongst the ruins of the chopper.
"Sam!" He cried hoarsely, as he dragged his aching body towards the injured man. Ignoring the pain coursing through him, he knelt by the fallen man's head. "Sam! Can you hear me?"
He quickly put two fingers to the paramedics throat. "Come on," he whispered. "Come on!"
But it was no use. He didn't feel a beat under his fingertips and he knew that the man was gone. Danny lowered his head. "I'm so sorry man," he said. "I'm so damn sorry."
Danny wanted to just lay back down and stay where he was until help arrived, but he knew he had to move before whoever shot them out of the sky came over here looking for them in order to finish what they started.
"Okay Danny," he said to himself. "Time to get up, you can do this."
He cried out in pain as he finally managed to push himself off the ground and onto his feet. A sharp pain in his side made him aware of the very real possibility that he had cracked his ribs at the very least. He just prayed they weren't broken.
He tried to take a step forward, and let out another cry as his ankle screamed in pain when he put too much weight on it. As if he didn't have enough problems to deal with at the moment...
Careful not to make the same mistake again, he gingerly backed away from Sam's body and searched the rest of the wreckage. He quickly limped to the front of the ruined chopper, and spotted the pilot immediately. His body had went through the front window on impact and was now hanging limply out of the front of the helicopter.
Danny knew he was too late to the help pilot as well. But he felt for a pulse anyway, and was never so upset about being right in his life. He ran his hands through his messy and unruly hair as he surveyed the damage in and around the wrecked helicopter. Two men were dead and it was all his fault. But where was Frank? Danny hadn't spotted him yet.
As he was standing there, Danny suddenly heard the sound of at least two cars' engines coming towards him. He began limping away from the rubble and started towards the old fashioned stores. He turned back to the sounds as they got closer and saw a dirt road leading into the town, and the two black SUV's were racing down it, right towards where he was.
"Shit," he whispered. He wasn't exactly in the best shape for any kind of fight right now. He wasn't Steve for gods sake! He couldn't be in a helicopter crash and then just get up and slay a thousand dragons! Or in this case, bad guys with big automatic weapons.
He turned back around and ran right into Frank Teilor, who was standing there, just as bloody as Danny imagined he was at the moment. Danny immediately saw the gun still in Franks's hand, pointed right at him. Of course. The chopper crashes and the only other person that manages to survive is the same person who got them into this mess in the first place. And he just happened to be able to hold onto the gun the entire time. Typical. Just Danny's luck.
"Follow me!" Danny said, not wasting time on pleasantries. "They're coming. We have to hide!"
Frank didn't say anything, but gave Danny a look that he didn't have the strength, patience, or time to decipher at the moment.
"You've got the gun man!" Danny said. "I'm not going anywhere! Lets go we've got to hide now!"
Danny ran as fast as he could manage with his busted ankle around the side of the village to one of the buildings that looked like a barn. He could hear Frank following a few steps behind him. He pushed the door open and turned to look at Teilor. He didn't look good. Danny knew he wasn't winning any beauty pageants himself, but Franks's bullet wound had begun to bleed freely again and he was way more unsteady on his feet than Danny.
"Come on!" Danny said urgently, grabbing Franks's arm and pulling him into the barn. He shut the door quickly behind him and looked around for a good place to hide. He grabbed Teilor again and started limping towards a stack of wooden barrels. Actual olden day alcohol barrels. What the hell was this place?
"Come on man, I got you!" He said. He lowered Frank the floor slowly and looked through the gap in the barrels to see if they were followed.
"These guys friends of yours?" Danny asked.
"Probably the same guys that left me for dead last night," Teilor replied. "I bet you wish they finished me off huh?"
"Yeah smartass." Danny replied. "And I bet you wish you were in Cabo right now. Guess we both had to learn the hard way that Hawaii isn't for everyone."
Frank laughed. "You know, for such a small guy, you have one big attitude." He replied.
Danny snorted in response. "Have you been talking to my partner?" He asked sarcastically.
Danny shut up quickly when heard footsteps right outside the barn door.
"Dammit!" He whispered. "How do they even know we're here right now?!"
"Samantha." Frank said sadly.
Danny looked at him shock. "You really think she would do this?"
Frank nodded.
"Great kid you raised buddy," Danny said, sarcasm creeping back into his voice. "I hope you ground her for a really long time after this."
Frank laughed again, and the laugh immediately turned into a harsh and loud coughing fit.
Danny leaned forward to try and silence him but it was too late. The door of the barn was slammed open and Danny heard the telltale sound of footsteps fill the room.
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Steve nearly crashed the car in a panic when he saw smoke billowing into the sky.
"Where's that smoke coming from?!" He asked frantically.
Chin just shook head. "I don't know man," he replied.
"Do either of you see the helicopter?" Kono asked.
Neither Chin nor Steve said anything, and that was answer enough for Kono.
Steve saw the flashing blue and red lights in his rear view mirror suddenly and knew that HPD had finally caught up to them.
He continued speeding towards the smoke until they reached where it was originating from.
Steve gasped. All the dread, fear, and anger he'd been struggling with all day boiled back over to the surface. He heard Chin and Kono respond similarly before he jumped out of the car.
"No!" He screamed. "NO! Danny!"
He took off at a dead run towards the ruined chopper, hearing Chin and Kono not far behind him.
"Danny!" He called out desperately. "Danny where are you?!"
He wouldn't believe that Danny was dead. Danny couldn't be dead. Steve couldn't do this without him.
He saw HPD begin to circle the fallen chopper. "No!" He called. "Go search the buildings!"
The officers immediately scattered to search the entire village, while Steve continued to look at the remnants of the helicopter he had sent his partner on that very morning. Steve couldn't believe that it had only been a few hours ago... It felt like a lifetime.
"Oh god," he said when he saw the bodies of the pilot and the paramedic. But still no Danny.
"Boss!" He heard Kono shout frantically. He immediately ran over to her. Her eyes were wide and full of unshed tears and she shoved something into his outstretched hand. Steve looked down at it. The knot in his stomach clenched even tighter. It was Danny's badge.
"Steve..." She whispered. "Steve!"
"He's not dead Kono!" He assured her as he squeezed Danny's badge hard in his fist. "He's not allowed to be."
"Did you see Teilor anywhere?" Kono asked.
Steve shook his head. "He must have made it too. He's probably out here somewhere with Danny," he replied.
"But who's the one in control now?" She said.
"I don't know..." Steve said. "We need to find them both. Now."
"Guys!" Chin called. They both turned towards him were he stood pointing at something.
"Black SUV's!" He said. "One's a porsche Cayenne! The Samoans! They're already here!
The sound of gunfire sent all three of them at a dead run towards the buildings over on the side of the village.
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Danny jumped in alarm when the sound of gunfire suddenly filled the air.
"What the hell is that?!" Frank asked.
"They're looking for us!" Danny told him. "Stay low and stay quiet."
Danny stood up and looked though the space between the barrels. He saw the shadows of the men getting closer to where he and Frank were hiding. Gunfire was raging outside of the barn but Danny had no idea who they were shooting at. Did he dare hope that Steve had finally found him?
He knelt back down by Frank, ignoring the sharp pain in his ribs. "Come on! We've got to go!" He said, trying to pull the man to his feet.
"I can't!" Frank replied, trying to push Danny away.
"We've got to go!" Danny said more insistently.
Frank shoved the gun into Danny's chest, eliciting a pained wince from him. "I said I can't!" He growled.
Danny looked at Frank desperately. If he stayed where he was he was dead. If he tried to leave, he was dead. He hadn't actually made it this far just to die here, had he?
Frank was staring blankly at Danny and panting heavily.
"I'm sorry," he said suddenly, and just like that, he handed Danny the gun. "Take it. I have nothing left."
"Frank..." Danny said in shock, not believing what had just happened.
"But you do. You have your daughter. Save yourself, okay? Take the second chance I never could."
Danny looked at Frank briefly before grabbing his gun and holding it out in front of his body to protect himself.
"I'll be right back man," he told Frank. "Just stay hidden as best as you can."
He inched slowly towards the barrels and prepared himself for a fight, hoping he had enough energy not to keel over in the middle.
A man jumped out suddenly and took two shots at Danny. He barely had time to duck as the bullets whizzed by his head. He quickly shot off two rounds from his own gun, hitting the man in the chest and killing him instantly.
Danny carefully moved forward, ready to take on the next guy when he suddenly felt the barrel of a gun push into his side.
"Drop the gun cop." A voice said threateningly. "Or I shoot you dead right here."
When Danny refused to drop the gun, the one in his side was pushed in deeper. He hissed loudly and winced in pain.
"I said drop the gun!" The man shouted.
Danny sighed. He did everything he could, but it was over. He sent out a quick mental apology to his daughter, to Steve, and to everybody who cared about him and loved him.
He was about to give up and drop his gun when the deafening sound of a gunshot filled the small space.
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Ouch... Sorry about that one guys! You know how I love to keep you on your toes :)
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