Chapter Eleven
Thank you for all of the lovely reviews, sorry for the delay- have been very busy at work during the last week so have struggled to post anything! Anyway at least I didnt leave the last chapter in a cliffie!
Chapter Eleven
Steve stretched his aching shoulders, he had been laid beside his partner for the entire night and his body was protesting at the cramped position, but Steve didn't mind- his partner was worth every bit of discomfort. Danny had barely stirred once he had succumbed to the much needed sleep. He was in a quandary as to what to do next. Ideally he wanted to wrap Danny up tight and snug in cotton wall and never let any bad people get near him again, but he knew that wasn't going to happen. He knew that his friend's ordeal would never truly end until they had Turner where he belonged- behind bars, or dead whichever he could achieve the easiest, but he was so loath to place Danny back in harm's way by helping him to find the man. He was pulled out of his thoughts by the object of them stirring.
"Hey Danno" he greeted softly. Blood shot eyes locked on to his, and Danny struggled to get himself upright.
"Hey" he finally greeted in return.
"How you feeling?" Steve asked him softly.
"Like I got my brother killed" Danny replied, his voice cracking at the words. Steve gasped at the sheer depth of emotions he heard in those six small words he had uttered. Before he could reply his cell emitted a beep. He answered it as quickly as he could.
"Hi Kono" he greeted the female officer.
"Steve, Chin has just contacted me. He has tracked Turner, he flew from Newark to Hawaii last night. He is now using the name of Simon Williams" she told him. "Chin has arranged a covert HPD detail to tail him" she continued. Steve sighed, at least the immediate danger had apparently passed.
"Good work Kono, will you sort some flights out for us?" he asked.
"The two of us, or all three?" she asked carefully.
"All three" Steve replied, before signing off.
"Back to Hawaii?" Danny asked without opening his eyes.
"We all are" Steve replied in a tone that left no room for argument.
"I can't just leave Sylvia" Danny replied, his voice weak to even his own ears.
"She is with her parents Dan. They are helping her with the funeral arrangements. NJPD will be by this afternoon to get your statement and then we can fly home tonight" he stated, hoping that Danny would go along with him.
"Any word on Turner?" Danny asked with mixed emotions written all over his face.
"He landed back in Hawaii this morning. HPD are tailing him" Steve told him, deciding that he didn't want to risk losing his friend's trust by not telling him the full story. Danny nodded in a calm acceptance.
"Hawaii it is then" he replied softly.
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"Flights are booked Steve, we leave Newark at 20:20hrs, Chin is meeting us at the other side" Kono told the commander as she joined him back at the hospital.
"Fine, thanks" he replied distractedly. The two were sat in a waiting room while Danny relayed his account to the New Jersey officer.
"How's he doing?" she asked softly.
"Hard to tell" he replied honestly.
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"So did you recognise any of them?" the detective asked Danny softly.
"No" he replied, his answers struggling to get out passed the lump in his throat. Detective Bowers sighed, he had known Williams briefly when he had worked in Jersey and he sympathised for what had happened to the man.
"Danny is it easier for you to just tell me, rather than me asking you questions all of the time?" he asked softly. Danny sighed.
"Nothing about this is easy Ron" Danny replied quietly. "I know it has to be done so here goes. After I had taken Sylvia and John to the office, we were just waiting for Steve and Kono to join us and then we were all going to go to the airport and get back to Hawaii where I knew I could protect them easier. Whilst we were waiting John was telling about Maria- our cousin. She had contacted him out of the blue and asked him to meet her. A few months ago she had e-mailed him and asked him to send her through a picture, she told him that she was doing some sort of family album and she didn't have one of him and Sylvia- he thought nothing of it and e-mailed her through a shot. Anyway he didn't hear anything else from her until the day before yesterday when she called him and asked him to meet her for a coffee, a few hours before they were due to meet she called again and changed the venue to the Theatre Cafe. He thought it was strange, but since she had always been a little bit kooky he didn't think of it as anything out of the ordinary. Anyway they sat and chatted for a while and the next thing he knew I turned up" Danny told the other detective, having already explained about Turner's visit to the hotel and Brau meeting him. "Anyway I managed to get them away and we were sat in the office which is when John filled me in on all of that. As we were talking I got a call on my cell and it was Turner" Danny told him, and relayed the gist of the conversation. "Just as we ended the call, two men came bursting in, both dressed completely in black and brandishing hand guns" Danny told them, a feeling of queasiness overwhelming him as he remembered what happened next. "They just started shooting, one of them didn't even pause he just shot John in the head and he went down" Danny told them, his eyes filling with tears and his voice hitching.
"What happened next Danny?" Ron asked softly.
"Then they turned to Sylvia, and I don't really know what happened, but somehow I got between him and Sylvia and got off a couple of rounds and he went down" he told him. "The other one then turned towards me so I shot him" Danny continued.
"Was that when your colleagues arrived?" the detective asked.
"I think so" Danny replied.
"Thank you Danny, I think that's all that we need" Ron replied, he got to his feet and squeezed the shoulder of his former colleague. "I am so sorry Danny" he commented softly before he left the room, leaving Danny alone with his thoughts.
End Chapter Eleven
