Hawaii Five-0

Midnight Harvest

Chapter 10 – Back in the Land of the Living

0900 Hours

Queen's Medical Center Intensive Care Unit, Honolulu

It had been several hours now without a single lead on Kono, Mary and Melissa's location; their worst fears were coming true, that they had been taken by the people who had killed Laura Brennan and god knows what was happening to them. The grid search was still being carried out by HPD, but it was looking very unlikely that they would find the girls. Right now, the only person who could give the team any clues on who took Kono, Mary and Melissa was April and that was going to have to wait until she regained consciousness; provided that she could actually remember anything given that April had been drugged and had suffered a concussion from the crash. The doctor had been very clear that there was a possibility that April may never remember what happened that night; only an indefinite time will tell.

Danny went over this in his head over and over as he sat by his little sister's hospital bed. He had tucked his left hand under the blankets to hold her still cold hand. Emma had just come in to check on her and said that she was a little concerned that April hadn't yet regained consciousness, but assured Danny that she should be waking up soon; so he wanted to be there when she did and watch for any signs that April might be waking up. Steve was sitting just outside the room, talking with Chin and Lou on his phone. Chin and Lou had been combing through the surveillance footage with a fine toothed comb of Laura to determine who she had last come in contact with who could've potentially drugged her before she was taken. They had been able to identify two people, through facial recognition, with the opportunity to drug Laura.

"Eddie Paxton and Sam Mokoani; they share a rental property in Makakilo" Chin stated.

"They both had the opportunity to drug Laura when she went out Rumfire for dinner before she was taken" Lou added.

"And considering how long it takes for Nitrazepam to take effect, it's the only possible place she could've been dosed with the drug"

"We're going to head over to Eddie and Sam's place and see what they have to say for themselves" said Chin.

"Okay, sounds good text me their address, I'll meet you guys there" said Steve.

"Okay, how's April, any change?" Lou asked.

"No there's no change; doctor's a bit concerned she hasn't woken up yet, but thinks she should wake up soon" Steve replied.

"Danny's going to stay with her until that happens"

"That's understandable; we'll text you and meet you in Makakilo" said Lou before disconnecting the call.

Steve got up from his plastic chair and entered April's room to find Danny resting his head beside April's legs as she still lay unresponsive in the hospital bed.

"Danny" Steve said as he lightly tapped Danny on the shoulder, getting an immediate response when he raised his head off the bed and looked up in Steve's direction.

"Chin and Lou got a good lead on who drugged Laura; two guys named Eddie Paxton and Sam Mokoani; they rent a house in Makakilo; must have drugged her when she went dinner where they work, at Rumfire"

"Didn't Kono say that's where they were going for dinner last night?" Danny asked.

"Yeah, and that can't be a coincidence" Steve agreed as his phone lit up with a message from Chin.

"Chin just sent me Eddie and Sam's address, I got to go; call me if you need me"

"Will do" Danny said before Steve left in a hurry.

"Looks like it's just you and me Sis…and that machine" Danny stated, pointing at the ventilator as it continued to breather for her.

"You need to wake up; you've got everybody a bit worried…who am I kidding, very worried" he said, squeezing April's hand, hoping she would squeeze his back.

"What the hell happened out there Sis…why did they leave you out there?" for a second, he thought April wasn't going to give a response to his pleas, to his questions; that was until he felt April give his hand a gentle squeeze.

"April? Can you hear me? Squeeze my hand if you can hear me" Danny pleaded, hoping for April to squeeze his hand in reply; and sighed in relief when she did; pressing the call button the bedside remote.

"That's good" he said before sitting back down to find April had opened her eyes and was looking at him with bleary confused eyes.

"Hey, you're okay, you're in the hospital; don't try to talk, they had to put a tube down your throat…in case you haven't already noticed" Danny reassured her just as a nurse came in.

"Hey, she's just finally woken up" Danny smiled at the nurse.

"I can see that. Welcome back, April, you had us all worried there for a second" she said as she checked April over.

"Yeah, she has a way of doing that" Danny pointed out.

"Are you in any pain April?" she asked her who then nodded in reply and held up her hands to show seven fingers.

"Okay, I'll get you something for that; now, how about we get that tube out for you huh?; I'll go page your doctor"

April then looked back over to Danny with a questioning look.

"I'll explain everything to you the doc gets that tube out of your mouth" said Danny.

0905 Hours

Queen's Medical Center Emergency Room, Honolulu

Steve made his way out of the hospital through the E.R. doors and headed for his truck parked across the road. After crossing the road, unlocking his truck and climbing in, a dark, old brown van comes from around the corner in front of him and suddenly comes to a stop right across from his truck. Steve watches on as the driver and back doors suddenly burst open. Seeing no one getting out the back, he focused on the driver, who was unidentifiable because they had their face covered with a ski mask, but by their body structure, Steve could tell it was a man, about 5 foot 10. The driver ran for the back of the van and climbed in. He then backed out slow and steady; it appeared that the man was carrying something, but he couldn't make out what. It only took another second for Steve to realise that he was helping someone carry a person from the van. Like the man, the other person was also unidentifiable because they were also wearing a ski mask, but by their body structure, he could tell that it was a woman of a similar height to the man's.

Steve couldn't tell who they were carrying out of the van because they were wrapped up in white blankets. Once they out of the van, the man and woman carrying the person quickly laid the person down on the sidewalk and quickly ran back to van, climbed in and sped off. Bystander's looked on in absolute shock. Steve then pushed open his door and burst out of his truck and ran across the poor person dumped on the sidewalk. As he ran over, Steve tried to get a glimpse of the van's number plate, but there wasn't one to get. Once he reached the person, before he even knelt down by their side to see who it was, he saw that it was Melissa, looking extremely pale. Putting his fingers on her neck to check for a pulse, he was relieved when he found one, even though it was way too fast. Steve then scooped her up off of the sidewalk and headed straight for the emergency room doors.