OMG, I loved all your hatred for Lori :L Wasn't expecting that at all... R&R again please.


{9th December, McGarrett Household}

"Steve, Phone!" Cath shouted moving it from underneath her body. Somewhere it always ended up. "Not got used to sleeping without it. Have we?" She laughed handing it too him as he appeared out of the bathroom, his hair wet and a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Unknown number?" he quizzed himself as he answered. "Steve McGarrett"

"Hello, Captain James McKinnon's, replacement for Captain Vince Fryer" Steve shook his head before agreeing, letting the Captain carry on. "I attended a crime this morning of a bombing of an evidence van. Your latest case 3029 has been damaged." Steve shock his head in disbelieve. Hiro Noshimuri's murder investigation had been solved and was being transferred into holding before Wo Fat's sentence was clarified in court.

"Are you sure?" He moved away from Cath and onto the Balcony. "I mean 100% sure?" It had taken nearly 9 months to get the case of Noshimuri's murder over to Hawaii. It was to be added to Wo Fats never-ending sentence which was to be heard in court when all cases were rectified.

"Sorry, Yes. 74% of the cases in the truck had just been collected from your office; however I was informed this case was of high importance." Captain McKinnon's spoke with a rather strong New Yorker accent, making it a bit difficult to follow. "HPD has decided to give you jurisdiction over the case and the evidence already collected will be sent to the Governor then redirected to you and your team. Good Luck"

"Thanks, Bye" Both men hanged up leaving Steve mind to wonder. Who would be trying to protect Wo Fat?


{Later that day, Five-0 HQ}

"Danno!" Steve shouted down the corridor, catching the man before he moved into his office. "My office" he pointed to his desk rather hurriedly, as the men scuttled into the room. "Look" He held his phone in his hand showing Danny the main screen. "Third time today and it isn't even noon yet." Lori was phoning him, and not for the first time. "13 missed calls yesterday, 8 the day before, 10 the day before that."

"Calm down! Breath, sit down" he pulled Steve's phone from his hand as his partner fell to the chair. "Does Cath know" Steve looked at him as if he was thick.

"Yes, I am living homeless and have turned to a life of prostitution, what the hell you think Danny!" Steve was tense; no scientist was needed to say that. He wished he had never invited her over to Oahu, she had brought so much trouble and quite frankly he couldn't care anymore.

"Hey. I wasn't the one who invited a girl who once loved you. Who – in my opinion shouldn't have been invited because she was vulnerable and still loved you! There said it" Danny leaned against the desk waving his hands around in the air, thrusting them towards McGarrett.

"How the hell was I meant to know? She left with a goodbye, not telling me how she felt, not saying 'I love you' but 'Bye'. It's her own fault! I didn't know! You were the one how told me, weeks after she fancied me and I believed you were trying to make a ludicrous little remark, just to piss me off!" The phone rang again in Danny's hand as he forced it towards his head.

"Answer it!" Steve shook his head. They were disturbed by Kono as she knocked on the door. "Can you come back in a minute please?" Danno questioned sighing heavily.

"No, we pulled prints off the bomb's container, you have to see this"

"You double checked this?" He asked looking at the id on the screen. Chin nodded as he rechecked it in front of Steve.

"See." He showed the result appear a match. 'Joe White' Why would he want to destroy evidence of one of his oldest allies/enemy death? It would have added more time onto Wo Fat's sentence.

"There is no address for him. Do you have any idea where he could be?" Kono looked at her boss as he continued to stare at the screen. "Boss"

"No, I haven't heard from him since I met Shelburne, in Japan a few months ago." Steve had decided best not to tell anyone what he was doing – as usual.

"You met Shelburne and didn't tell us?" Danno turned to Steve.

"Yeah, it's my mom." He walked off into his office.

The team went quite for several minutes before Steve reappeared into the main area. "Is the old Katur Warehouse still standing?" Kono opened up the search engine showing the old building. "That's where he'll be, but I need to get something first."


"Lori was round earlier" Cath appeared out onto the landing as Steve looked through a large cupboard at the top of the stairs. "She said I was lucky to have a man like you… We both were"

Steve stopped as he slowly came out to see she had been crying, and still was. "She said she was 'Sorry' to tell me that my man wasn't faithful to me, that he had found love with her because he was unable to find it in me" Cath stood leaning against the door with the tears running down her face.

"Cath, you don't believe her!" Steve looked at her with his eyebrows on end. He tried to move closer to her but she kept moving further and further away with each step. "Cath…" Steve reached out for her but she batted him away.

"Don't, touch me" she looked at him with water in her eyes, ready to pour out in any minute. "I told her that you wouldn't do that to us. You 'loved me' or was that just words flowing out your mouth. She said you call her all the time, asking to meet up so you can get away from me; it's not really cases you're away too. You are spending time with her!"

"Hold on a minute!" Steve pushed the door shut. "I call her all the time! Bullshit! Look" He pulled out his phone, shaking as he scrolled to his caller history. "Missed call, Lori Weston. Missed call, Lori Weston. Missed call, oh who from I wonder. Lori Weston." Steve held out his phone showing her the 73 missed calls. "I don't phone her asking for sex, I don't phone her up to get away from you. When I say 'I love you' I mean it!"

"How I'm I meant to know that?" Cath sighed as tears fell onto his screen. He picked up a black bag swinging it onto his back accepting his phone back from her.

"Look in my bedside table." He left her standing on the landing.

"You got it?" Steve ignored Danno raising his phone to his ear as the travelled along the streets.

"You need to let it go! You need to stop your sick little fantasy and the telling it to my girlfriend! You need to see that I found love in somebody, that I may have lost. And if you think I am even going to consider letting her go and come running into your arms you can fucking forget it cause Cath was worth a thousand of you! I never want to hear from you again!" He slammed his screen ending the call as the team sat in silence as they watched McGarrett's anger being relieved.


{Katur Warehouse}

"Put it down Joe!" McGarrett walked in behind the older man who sat with electrical supplies in front of him. "Joe!"

"Steve, just leave pretend you didn't see anything and go." His back remained turned away as he continued to concentrate on a small box.

"We know it was you who bombed all the evidence of the case." Worried Steve slowly began pacing towards him.

"I told you the rules! No more investigations that involved Shelburne! I told you from the start not to explore the past! Why wouldn't you listen!"

"I needed to know why… I wanted to know why! Wouldn't you?"

"NO! Go Steve." Joe swirled round with the small box in his hand. "I'll give you 20 seconds!" He slammed the button on the side of the black box. Steve ran right up to him pulling him away from the resting place of the bomb. Joe smacked him over the head as the men began to exchange punches and tackles. He pushed Steve closer to the exit.

"Joe! What are playing at?"

"Get out of here Steve, only way I am getting out of this warehouse is dead."

"McGarrett!" Danny called from the exit.

The bomb exploded only numerous meters from Steve and his ex-commander pounding them into a wall followed by the collapse of the roof. As it detonated Kono and Chin were blown out of the door and landed onto the hard concrete of the harbour.

Sirens blazed, heat could be felt and no building could be seen as Chin woke turning his sight to the pile of rubble. He was thankful for the suits Steve had collected, which helped protect him from being severely damaged. He sat up slightly as he seen the fire and rescue team begin to extinguish the flames. Looking over the harbour floor he couldn't see any of the team. He ran up to the Ambulance and seen Kono being treated for multiple scars as he was dragged in and bandaged up, covering the not so important cuts. He jumped out looking for Steve and Danny. Had they got out? Had they been caught in the rubble? Danny was just behind him.

"Danny!" Kono jumped out the ambulance as Danno's cries of pain could be heard. He was located just in the entrance of the warehouse in a small pocket which still stood. Danny was pulled out and transferred onto a stretcher.

"He's still in there!" Danny coughed and spluttered. His arm was unrecognisable due to the blood everywhere and his body was covered in black suet. "Steve… Joe"

The Fire crew raced to move the rubble away after getting rough co-ordinates of the two men. They heaved a body out the mess and threw it onto a stretcher before rushing back to the ambulance before flashing off before Chin could see who it was. Several minutes later, a second body was pulled out. This time they were slower and gently placed the body into a body bag. Whoever it was, was dead, leaving the cousins confused and apprehensive.


Gabby and Cath entered the hospital ward trying to avoid the many laundry carts that cluttered the place. The explosion was plastered over the news and Catherine and Gabby knew Danny and Steve were involved. They spotted Chin and Kono sitting waiting outside a small room. Chin faced them as they came darting up the corridor. He was covered in burn marks and cuts over his visible arms, while Kono sat with mascara running down her face with charcoal marks over her body.

"Hey. Catherine slow down!" Chin pushed his hands out in front of him as they reached the pair. "He's in there. With Danny"

She gradually pushed the door open and found Danny perched on his seat facing his partner, with his arm in a brace.

"Cat... Cath" Steve was weak and limp as he lay as straight as a pole on the hospital bed.

"What the hell you got into now!" She leant down and kissed in forehead avoiding his swollen jaw. She sat next to him holding his free hand tight. "ohhh Steve"

Danny stood up and turned round to exit the room when Steve's voice squeaked "T, Thanks D" he turned away from the door and headed to Steve's head as he struggled to keep a steady breathing rate.

"Just get better please for the kids' sake." Danny tilted his head down as he exited the room and pulled it up in worry as he walked further away from Steve and Catherine and into Gabby's arms. Catherine stood up and examined his total injures. After a heavy punching fight and being smashed off a wall and buried by a bomb; he had actually came off better than she thought! Several broken ribs, a broken jaw which had swollen up already, bruises all over his face, and faint lines of blood coming from his nose.

She kissed his forehead once more, it insure him he was safe, with her. "I found the box" She stated as he was lost in her beauty. "I found the other things too" she giggled as she found herself full of emotions unable to show the right one. The box contained many things; a receipt to a dress Steve had bought her for her first birthday they had shared, a watch she had bought him for his 35th Birthday, letters the pair had exchanged, photos of them, and a little white box – a white box with a silver ring with a small diamond on top.

He lay there wondering why he had been so stupid. He wondered why he had always been so stupid! There wasn't just him anymore, Catherine and the little one both suffered at his actions. But with him gone he could live a proper life, one that he wasn't scared of. One he could be free to find out his families past and keep in contact with his mom. Joe was dead and Steve was free.


R & R extremely appreciated