Hawaii Five-0

Best Laid Plans

Chapter 9: Not According To Plan

Arriving at the scene in Manoa, Steve and Danny saw Chin and Catherine emerge from the house across from the address Chin had texted them earlier.

"Hey" Catherine greeted them. "Anything on April?" she asked.

"No not yet, besides I don't think she even wants to be found, but she did leave this behind" Danny replied as he pulled out the piece of paper with the list of names.

"A list of names?" Chin asked.

"We think that's why April took off from the hospital" Steve stated.

"To look for these people and see what they know" he added.

"Why wouldn't April just give us this list?" Catherine asked.

"She probably figured this something she had to do on her own" Danny replied.

"But what this list tells us is that whatever's going on, Queen's Medical Center is definitely fits into it" he added.

"We'll cross reference these names with our list when we get back to HQ" Chin stated, handing the list back to Danny.

"Where's Kono?" Steve asked.

"On the roof with Charlie" Chin replied.

"Did they find something?" Danny asked.

"Well, yes and no" Catherine replied before being met with two confused looks from Steve and Danny.

"When the sniper opened fire, the two officers who weren't injured took cover and fired back" Catherine replied.

"And when the Crime Scene Techs got on the roof, they found fresh blood" Chin replied.

"So the sniper was hit" Steve stated.

"Yeah, and judging by the amount of blood that was found, it looks like the bullet may have grazed them" said Chin.

"But unless the sniper's DNA is in the system we won't be able to identify them" he added.

"But at least we'll something to run it against when we have a suspect in custody" Steve stated.

"Okay, what about the note? Did they find a note?" Danny asked.

"No they didn't" Catherine replied.

"CSU and HPD scoured the whole property, nothing" Chin added.

"We're thinking after the sniper got hit, they panicked and ran; not even thinking to leave a note" Catherine suggested as Kono came over to join them.

"Hey Kono, anything else?" Chin asked.

"Aside from the blood and no note, we've got a couple of shoe prints; but like the blood unless we have a suspect in custody, we have nothing to run them against" Kono explained.

"Also once I got down from the roof, HPD said they found a trail of blood drops that went for about fifty feet down the street before it stopped; but no indication whether they fled on foot or by car" she added.

"This attack obviously didn't go according to the sniper's plan" Steve stated.

"They didn't have a chance to leave a note, so we have no idea if this is over or if they're planning to strike again"

"So we still have nothing on who our shooter might be" said Danny.

"But we do have April's list of names she left at her house" Steve stated.

"Wait, what list of names?" Kono stopped them.

"When went to April's house to look for her, we found this list of names on her bed" Danny replied, handing Kono the piece of paper.

"We're thinking April may be on to something" Steve stated.

"That maybe Queen's Medical Center may be a part of what happened to them" he added.

"April always says nurses have patients they never forget; we're thing April may have remembered these people for a specific reason" said Danny.

"That reason probably being concern of what they might do to deal with their grief" Catherine suggested.

Though it wasn't the case, April couldn't take the risk of being spotted because Danny put out an APB on her, so she tried to stick to the back roads and the alleyways as much as she could. But unfortunately, this plan of April's would not work out in her favour in more ways than one. After leaving her list of names at home, April was left to remember the names off by heart; though she had no doubt that her brother would've found that list by now, so it wasn't a complete loss. As she was walking through an alleyway in Waikiki to investigate the first name on her list she could remember, April was starting to reconsider what she was doing because she was becoming easily exerted and breathing was gradually becoming an effort and a real struggle. Spotting a shaded area from an over-hanging tree, April headed over to take a break. Standing under the tree, April was about to take a mouth full of water when she felt the sudden urge to cough; after her coughing fit was over; she pulled her hand away from her mouth to find pinkish-red-coloured salvia and then came the coppery taste of blood in her mouth. In no way was this good and April knew she had to get medical attention. But that plan would too be hindered because things were about to get a lot worse; as if they weren't bad enough already.

Making her way down the same maze of alleyways, Shannon Nichols was doing the same thing, but she was just trying not to get spotted carrying a sniper rifle over her shoulder; that and she was still bleeding from a wound on her arm from when she was grazed by that police officer's bullet. Being hit by that bullet was obviously not a part of her plan when she engaged her target. Although Shannon knew it could've been a whole lot worse than just a graze on her arm; but she still needed to patch herself up and going to any sort of medical care facility was out of the question. Shannon knew that a doctor was required by law to report a gunshot wound, and as soon as she couldn't tell a police officer how she got shot in the first place, they would suspect something more sinister was going on.

As Shannon was about to pass through an intersection in the alleyway, she heard the sound of someone coughing, most likely coming down the other alleyway. Shannon slowed when she heard the coughing sound and approached as quietly as she could. Peering around the corner she saw a woman standing under a tree coughing before taking a mouth full of water. Shannon looked more closely at the woman; she recognised her. She then recognised the woman as a nurse from the emergency department at Queen's Medical Center after the accident. Shannon remembered the nurse's name as April Williams and that she was one of the nurses who had treated her daughter. She also remembered that April had tried to console her after she was told by the doctor that her daughter didn't survive; though it hadn't done her any good. Shannon had lashed out at her and other medical staff and they threaten to call security if she didn't calm down; something they really didn't want to do considering the circumstances. In remembering this, Shannon formulated a plan in her head to grab April.

Shannon then approached April while she was distracted by another one of her coughing fits and pulled out her handgun. When April stopped coughing she felt a presence of another person close to her and then heard the sound of a familiar click of a gun. April froze at the sound and knew she was now in even more trouble than she first thought. Just as April thought to go for her gun which was tucked in the back of her pants, Shannon opened her mouth.

"I know what you're thinking of going for your gun; don't do it or I will not hesitate to shoot you April" Shannon stated.

"Shannon Nichols" April said as she put her hands up beside of her head.

"Turn around" Shannon ordered her before April co-operated and turned to face her.

"Stay where you are" she ordered as she walked over to April while keeping her gun trained on her.

"What are doing?" April asked the brunette who was beginning to frisk her.

"Making sure you're not carrying any other weapons" Shannon replied as she patted April down.

"I hate surprises" she stated as stood up and removed April's weapon from the waistband of her pants.

"What now?" April asked.

"You're going to come with me" Shannon replied.

"And go where?" April asked.

"To my house" Shannon replied.

"I'm going to take you down to my basement and tie you up so you don't interfere with the last phase of my plan"

"You're not going to kill me?" April asked. "You're just going to let me go when you're done?"

"That's right" Shannon replied. "I'm not going to leave your daughter an orphan April"

"So how do you plan on getting me to your house?" April asked.

"You think I'm just going to go with you?"

"Yeah I do" Shannon replied.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" April asked.

"You leave that to me" Shannon replied as she lifted up the weapon she had taken from April and smacked it into the back of her head before she dropped to the ground in a heap, out cold.

A/N: Sorry for the delay in this chapter and in advance for the next chapter. I have been having problems with my internet connection; which is fixed now. But I've also been unwell for the last couple of days. I have started chapter 10, but I don't know when it'll be finished; I apologise, so bear with me.