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Chapter 10

Piano music belted through the air as Max's mind was stuck in the facts failing to find the connections. They had searched his financials, phone records but there was nothing connecting himself, Chin, or the clue to where Grace was hidden. Kono was upstairs still at the smart table staring at it, but she was exhausted. They had all been refusing to rest until their entire o'hana was together and safe again. As she stood her eyes would slide closed for a second then she'd jerk, blink and try to reclaim her last coherent thought. The cycle repeated unchanged for a good half hour.

"Hey!" Kono jerked awake and hit the deck with a thud.

"Danny?" She groaned and scrubbed her head.

"Hey how long has it been since you slept?" He helped her up look even more haggard, with blackened circles under his eyes, unshaven face and greasy hair, than her.

"Well um, I don't remember. What're you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at the hospital with Chin Ho?"

"Ehhh, they said take time to eat sleep and shower or leave."

"So you left? Who's with Chin?"

"Steve is with him. Said he's letting Sam White sweat a little while longer before he squeezes that living daylights and information out of him." She smirked.

"You look awful. You should eat something, and sleep."

"If you think it looks bad try feeling like this but I can't sleep. Not while Grace is missing."

"We'll find her Danny. Promise brah."

"What is up with Max? It sounds like the piano could use a rescue."

"We can't figure out the link between him and Grace's location."

"This is because we are looking in the wrong direction." Danny and Kono nearly leapt out of their skin shocked by Max right behind them, piano playing till blatantly audible.

"Max, when did you get here? How are we still hearing piano?" They eyed him warily.

"Oh, I have this." He pulled a portable speaker out of his pocket which was vibrating with volume. "Sometimes I need to think when I'm away from my piano so I play air piano."

"What do you mean we're looking in the wrong direction?"

"It would be more logical that the clue leading to Grace is hidden in his own financials or phone calls and relates to me."

"Wait a minute," Kono muttered pulling up Chin's bank record again. "There was this one purchase that I thought was a little odd."

"What was it?" Danny leaned in to read the screen.

"It was a wrist watch. I thought it looked more like a watch you would choose Max and I remember seeing the box but not the watch when we searched the house."

"What did you think was so special about the watch?"

"It had a temperature gauge, alarm clocks, pedometer, but more importantly it had GPS."

Everything was heavy, too heavy. He couldn't move under all the weight. He could feel a growing ache. It was everywhere, pervading every fiber, every bone. He could hear muffled distorted sound but everything was too distant. There was groaning somewhere but he couldn't track it as the growing pain distracted him. He sucked in a sharp breath startled by a palm pressed to his forehead then cried out in pain from the action.

"Hey hey take it easy." He knew the voice but he could find the name. He couldn't think straight, couldn't formulate coherent thought. "Chin, buddy, c'mon wake up." He finally realized the moaning came from him. "There we go Chin, keep your eyes open."

"Whaaa?" He croaked confused realizing he'd opened his eyes after the fact.

"No don't talk yet, sip this first." Chin complied rotely as a straw was wiggled between his lips. The water was cool but not cold and glorious relief to his raw burning throat.

"Better?"

"Yeah." He still grimaced when speaking and tried to sit up higher only to grunt and yelp giving up quickly.

"Yeah, you don't want to move much right now, just sit tight I'll raise the bed a little." Steve clicked the button and raised the bed slowly but Chin still hissed as his body moved.

"Wh'ts...going on?" His head felt fuzzy. Just tracking Steve's movements took everything he had.

"You don't remember anything?" Steve looked worriedly at him.

"Can't...th'nk."

"Well you are on some pretty heavy meds. All you need to remember is it's over and everything's going to be okay." Steve reassured seeing him drooping quickly to sleep. He sat back pulling out his phone as it beeped eager not to disturb Chin's rest again.

We've got Grace. She seems fine but we're having her checked out. We're downstairs. He felt an intense pressure he'd almost forgotten was there he'd held it so long suddenly release. He glanced back to Chin but he was deep asleep again.

"Sit tight buddy I'll be back." He whispered palming his forehead again one more time reassuring himself he'd be fine. "Call me if he wakes before I get back." He instructed the guard he had outside the door. He sprinted down the stairs to the pediatric wing. He could hear the high pitched wail of a little girl crying before he made it through the doors. His throat clenched in a knot seeing Danny clutching his daughter to his chest as she sobbed hysterically.

"Shhh, it's okay monkey, everything's okay now, it's all over." Danny cooed softly.

"Danno, she okay? Where was she?" He grabbed Danny's shoulder trying to get a better look at Grace but she was crushing herself against him and quivering.

"Yeah, she's just upset, but we're going to have a doc check her out just to be safe." Kono hovered close making phone calls he presumed informing relevant parties that she'd been found. He glanced at a nurse waiting patiently with a sympathetic look.

"Hey Grace, you're gonna be okay now. We've got you." Steve tried. Grace took a shuddering breath exhausted by the sobbing and began to settle.

"Wh-where's Uncle..." She gasped and hiccuped, "Uncle Chin."

"You can see him later okay monkey. We need to have the nice nurse check that you aren't hurt or sick." She sat back and he brushed her hair, damp with tears out of her face.

"I want to s-see Un-Uncle Ch-Chin." She sniffled.

"You can't right now monkey, not today. Now we need to go with this nice lady and let her give you a check up okay?"

"They hurt him didn't they? Those men hurt Uncle Chin because of me. They said they just w-wanted me but h-he wouldn't l-let th-them leave w-with me." Danny exhaled sharply and set her down kneeling in front of her then pinched the bridge of his nose. He could feel a serious migraine coming on.

"Yeah monkey, he's hurt but he'll be okay. This isn't your fault. Okay. You tell me you understand that this isn't your fault Grace." He anxiously brushed his fingers through her hair. Her lip quivered but after a moment she nodded.

"I understand Danno."

"Good, now we're going to go in there and get the check up, then you and me are going out for dinner and shave ice and then we're going home and getting some sleep okay?"

"Okay Danno." Steve sighed overwhelmed with relief and worked his way back to Chin's room and settled in for the long vigil.