Chapter 8 :: Wonderland? Reality?

Ana and Steve came in with breakfast in tow. They had spent the rest of their night talking about the art that Ana had done. She had a small messenger bag over her shoulder.

"Is it cool if I slip in your office to do my job while you do yours? Dad understands the reason I'm here."

"Yeah, sure thing. Go ahead and use as much of the couch space as you need."

A smile crossed her face and Chin spotted him as she stepped inside his office. Chin met him at the computers, looking at her and then at him.

"Yo man, your still doing the protection detail for her."

"Yeah, her father said it was cool. We talked this morning after she told me that the reason they could have kidnapped her was because the bank was family inherited."

"That is exactly the reason why. We found a note after combing over the house of Ana last night again, just to make sure HPD didn't miss anything. It had fallen in a vase that Danny had turned over quite conveniently."

He slid up a letter on the screen and it was neatly written, almost like...

"Calligraphy."

He went on to read the letter. In it, it stated that the bank was to be turned over to Ana's mother and that Ana was to come live with her by the end of the month or the father would be killed.

"This had to be the work of Miss Meyers. That calligraphy is the same that Ana does. Either she was self taught or her mother taught her."

"You know you have to ask her Steve. She has been traumatized enough."

"She is the one who told me about the bank and how it was passed to her and her father. The girl is a tough cookie, even after all she has been through."

The door came open and out stepped Ana, to stretch. She turned and smiled at Steve, noticing the letter on the computer screen.

"Mother...dirty bitch. Knew she had to be in on it. My mother taught me that style of calligraphy writing when I was nine...the last time I ever saw her."

Steve smiled, knowing that the full cooperation of Ana would help them get to the bottom of this and fast. Ana walked back in the office, sitting on the couch and getting back into her sketch pad.

"We have a BOLO out for Jonathan Keys and all of his cars. He will not be getting off the island and answering to his charges."

"Ana knows that. She has placed all her trust in us. Told me she was safer here than at work or the parlor for a few days. She is staying with me while looking for a place. Things should get back to normal soon."

Chin noticed the uneasy feeling that was sitting in the gut of Steve McGarrett. He knew that where Wo Fat was concerned there was no normal. As long as Wo Fat was around, there was a fine line between real and fantasy.