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I cannot express how grateful I am that you guys are enjoying this story. I love reading each and every one of you guys reviews. So thank you so much!
I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. This chapter clears up some questions and adds questions.
I got the idea for what happens in this chapter while watching some old Grey's Anatomy episodes.
Originally this story was going to end at 10 or 11 chapters but I got some more ideas.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hawaii Five 0. Only Mackenzie.
"Hi Mackenzie," Lori greeted as she walked into the room, her hand in a cast.
"What do you want?" Mackenzie spat.
"Didn't your dad tell you?"
"Oh yeah," she grumbled, knowing she had to apologize for something she didn't exactly regret doing.
"Uh huh. So start. I'm waiting," she crossed her arms.
"I'm-I'm sorry- this is hard to do,"
"I know. I'm enjoying it. So continue," Lori chuckled.
"I'm sorry" Mackenzie began.
"For?"
"Nearly killing you"
"And?"
"kidnapping you. ,"
"Now say it all together,"
"I'm sorry for nearly killing you and kidnapping you"
"Apology accepted,"
"Why didn't you press charges?" Mackenzie asked as Lori began to leave. She turned, a smile on her face.
"Because, if I do, then it'll be harder to gain your father back. You see, by kidnapping and crashing the car, you helped me. Now your dad sees me as someone so so nice and humane and someone willing to let go of something so bad. Think of it this way, you crashed the car, I didn't press charges, and,"
"Now you seem like the bigger person in the situation,"
"You catch on fast don't you?"
"but why not press charges?"
"If I did and your father and I got back together, everyone on this island would see me as the woman who pressed charges then got back with the suspect's father. It would make me seem like someone with a plan. Now If I don't, I just look like the bigger person. Something willing to forgive and move on,"
"It won't work,"
"Why not? When Steve sees what a worthless thing Kono is he'll break it off,"
"Shut up. That won't happen. They love each-other,"
"Steve did it once, what's so different about this time?"
"Just shut up,"
"You need to face the truth and the facts,"
"You don't know anything,"
"In a few months I'll be your new mom and I'll be known as Lori McGarrett. I like the ring of that. Lori McGarrett wife of Steve McGarrett. Imagine all the respect I'll get once I have a ring on my finger," Lori looked down at her left hand on her ring finger imagining the diamond he would give her.
"Lori McGarrett," Lori repeated, tasting the name. She smiled.
"Not unless I have anything to do with it," Mackenzie hissed.
"Threats. Lousy threats,"
"I nearly killed you. That was a threat,"
"But you didn't because I won and your still stuck in the hospital. I'm returning to Five-0 and your mom is going to leave because it's my job and I'm part of the Ohana,"
"First of all, no you didn't. Second of all, you will never be part of our Ohana because that place you have on Five-0 is my mom's,"
"Sure. Let's go into the truths of your life"
"You were a mistake. You know that. Everyone knows you were the result of a one night stand," Lori began.
"That's not true"
"Really? Because I'm pretty sure you know that's the truth but you are hating the way I say it,"
Mackenzie looked away at the window, desperately trying to ignore the words Lori was throwing her way.
"When your mom is gone then I'll be Steve's girlfriend and your mom will go back to her crappy job and everything will back the same. You'll be ignored, Steve will be with me 24/7, and your mom will be an ex Five-0 cop. Make that dirty ex Five-0,"
"My mom isn't a dirty cop! Now shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Mackenzie screamed, covering her ears as best as she could with a broken arm/dislocated shoulder as she shook her head with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"I'll be the woman your dad loves and you'll be the mistake left on the side. No one loves you. Everyone is forced to love you. Your nothing but a mistake everyone has to deal with. No one loves you. Steve and Kono are forced to love you because they have to and if they placed you in foster care, it would make them look bad. Steve could be doing bigger things if it wasn't that he had you around. The only thing you've caused him and the rest is trouble. Why do you think he wants to send you to a boarding school on the main-land?" Lori hissed.
"Shut up! My parents love me!"
"It's not because he wants you to change, it's because this accident has given him a way to get rid of you. If he gets rid of you then he only has to deal with your mom," Lori finished, a smirk on her face before she left.
"Shut up! Shut up!" Mackenzie continued to scream. Nurses filled the room as they heard her scream, trying to calm her down.
"Mackenzie, please take a deep breath," one of the nurses said a cup of water in her hand. She smacked the the cup of water away with her broken right arm and began to take out her IV, and other wires with her left hand.
"They love me. They don't love me. She's wrong. They love me. No. No. He wouldn't send me away unless he cared. No. No. I need to get out of here. She can't do that. She cant. I need to stop her," Mackenzie yelled, as the nurses tried to hold her down. She continued to fight until she felt something prickle her arm and fell into darkness.
"What happened?" Steve asked as he rushed into the ER, Kono behind him. He had received a call from the secretary telling him he needed to get to the hospital immediately.
"We have temporarily admitted her to the psych ward," Dr. Jocelyn answered. Kono gasped and Steve looked at the doctor like she had grown another head.
"Why?" Kono asked, her hand on her mouth. The thought that her daughter was crazy was out of question.
"Let me show you," Dr. Jocelyn motioned for them to follow her.
"Here she is," the doctor said as he opened the door of a gallery. A large window made of glass separated them from the room below. There sat Mackenzie, curled into a ball, rocking back and forth, in a middle of a bed as best as she could with her situation. She wore a large white gown and kept looking around the white walls.
"What happened?" Steve asked, not sure how to respond. The past two days had been hell and it didn't seem to be getting any better. Now his daughter had been admitted to the psych ward.
"She had a breakdown. Began tearing out her wires and IV, fighting the nurses, and refused to calm down. We were forced to sedate her. She's been repeating 'they don't love me' for the past half hour since we placed her in the room. Originally we were going to place restraints but we doubt she could do much damage with the broken bones,"
"How did this happen?" Steve asked running a hand over his face as he stared at his daughter, trying to figure out a logical reason for this.
He didn't know what to think. First his daughter crashed a car and now she was in the psych ward because she had a breakdown. All Steve could think was that this was somehow his fault. Maybe he hadn't done a good job at parenting. As a parent, Steve never thought he would end up seeing his only child in the psych ward. He had always seen the psych ward for people mentally unstable and pretty much crazy but seeing his own flesh and blood in it gave him a new perspective of the place.
"There's a lot of factors that contribute to a breakdown. We don't know what made her snap but whatever did, she wanted to leave immediately,"
"What's next?"
"That all depends on what you two as parents want for her. I highly recommend seeing a family therapist though. This seems to track back to you two,"
"Are you saying it's because of us that Mackenzie is in the psych ward?" Steve said, anger clear in his voice.
"I'm saying it may have contributed to her breakdown," Dr. Jocelyn answered. She knew Steve was someone not to mess with.
"Anyone you recommend?" Steve asked.
"Dr. Cristina Robbins is a very good therapist. Very recommended and well-known,"
"I want to see her," Kono demanded.
"She could hurt you-" Steve began.
"She's our daughter. I want to see her. Now," Kono threw a look and Steve knew he had lost.
Steve looked at the doctor who nodded.
"If that's what you want then so be it. Be aware, she may not be how she normally is," Dr. Jocelyn warned leading her to the room below.
Steve McGarrett, never thought his life would end up like this. He loved his daughter but lately things had been going downhill and he didn't even know what to do. He thought he had done everything correctly minus the abandonment but he had clearly done something wrong in his parenting skills. As someone who had only grown up with an Uncle, he didn't know how to teach his daughter right from wrong. Personally, he thought he'd done a good job at it but as he stood from the gallery looking down at his daughter and girlfriend, he knew he'd failed.
He had tried to everything and provide his daughter with everything she wanted but clearly that had not made a difference and if it had, he hadn't seen it.
He thought back to the past two days. It had been like going to hell and back. He had HPD on his back, the governor wanted answers, and the possibility of sending his daughter away. That and Lori was back and things were bound to get bad. Then again, in less then 24 hours after she was back in Hawaii she was in a car accident.
Steve sighed, now wondering if this was a punishment for leaving all those years ago. He hadn't slept in the past two days with having to deal with a new case and everything else.
All he wanted was for things to get back to normal and to be happy with his family. Steve knew that at this point, it would take a lot of work to get things back to normal. He would have to work hard to fix everything that had been broken.
He knew that what he and Kono had done to her had damaged her and probably was one of the reasons she had broken down. After their split, the two had refused to secure any open relationship with her. They were both hurting and trying to come to terms with their broken relationship. Unfortunately they didn't realize that keeping their emotions closed off meant closing their relationship with their daughter. They were guilty of breaking that relationship with their daughter. In a way when they broke up, they practically began to live separate lives. Steve nor Kono didn't think of the consequences that decision would make on their daughter. Now they were paying for that decision.
He wished, he could go back and take back the decisions the two made. He wanted their daughter to be happy but instead of doing that, they destroyed her. They had molded her into what she was today, someone willing to do whatever to protect her family.
If seeing a family therapist meant that relationship that they were going to be able to repair that relationship with Mackenzie then he would do it. As much as he disliked the thought of a therapist hearing them talk about their lives, it was the only way to mend the problems.
He loved his family too much to go down without a fight and leave them like he did when Mackenzie was a child.
"Honey, it's me, your mom," Kono whispered taking a seat on the edge of her bed. She gently placed a hand on her shoulder, careful not to upset her.
She looked up, her eyes bloodshot and fresh marks of tears on her cheeks,
"M-mom do you love me?" Mackenzie stuttered.
"Of course I do,"
"Don't lie. Please. Don't lie,"
"I'm not lying,"
"Then why are you and dad sending me away?"
"We were considering it but only so you could learn your lesson. Everything we do is because we care and we want the best for you,"
"Was it so you and dad could get rid of me?"
"Honey, that is not true okay? Your dad and I love you very much," Kono said
"Was I mistake?" Mackenzie sobbed.
"No you weren't. You weren't planned but you weren't a mistake. Never think that okay?"
"I am a mistake though. I ruined your life and dad's,"
"You didn't ruin either of our lives. You made our lives better. Because of you, your dad and I are together,"
"Would you have gotten rid of me if it didn't make you look bad? Would you have gotten rid of me if dad had decided not to be part of my life?" Mackenzie questioned.
"Never. I would raise you as a single mom,"
"Please don't lie to me. I can't take it,"
"I'm not lying. Look into my eyes," Kono waited until their eyes met before speaking again,
"See? I'm not lying,"
"Now who put the thought that your dad and I didn't love you?" Kono asked, hopeful to get the answer to the lingering question in her mind.
"Lori. She came into my room and I apologized then I asked why she didn't press charges. She told me that if she did and she got back together with dad that it would make her look bad. If she didn't press charges, she would look like the bigger person. Then she began to tell me how dad didn't love me and that I was a mistake. She said that the crash was giving dad a reason to get rid of me by sending me to the mainland and that once that happened, all dad had to do is get rid of you. She told me that you guys were being forced to love me because if you put me in foster care, it would tarnish your reputations. If he didn't send me away, he'd break up with you and everything would go back to how it was," Mackenzie revealed. Kono held her daughter and began to think of the millions of ways she was going to hurt Lori for what she'd done. She looked up at the Gallery to see Steve and the doctor looking back at her.
"Sweetie, don't believe her okay? She's lying and she took advantage of your situation. Everything will be okay. I love you and your dad loves you," Kono hugged her kissing the top of her head.
"I love you too," Mackenzie sniffed wiping the tears with her hand.
"I'll be back okay? I'm going to take care of a few things,"
"Okay. Please don't let her take away dad,"
"You have nothing to worry about. Once your dad gets word of this, Lori will no longer be a problem,"
"Okay. Just please don't break up,"
"We won't. I promise," Kono kissed her forehead once more before leaving the room.
"What did she say?" Steve asked once Kono entered the gallery.
Kono turned to the doctor, "she's not crazy. She was just lied to. She won't be getting admitted,"
She then turned to Steve, "She said enough,"
"Like?"
Kono turned to leave and Steve quickly took hold of her arm.
"Where are you going?"
"To find Lori,"
"What did she do? What does she have to do with what's going on with Mackenzie?" Steve asked.
"You know why our daughter is the way she is? Because Lori made her believe, your sending her away to the mainland to get rid of her and that we never loved her. As far as Mackenzie is concerned, she was a mistake and she's ruining our lives. So don't even try to stop me from ripping that bitch to shreds when I get my hands on her. No one messes with my family,"
What did you guys think? Good? Bad? Review!
Hopefully you guys don't think it was too over the top or unrealistic. Then again this is Fanfiction. Mackenzie isn't crazy, she just had a breakdown. I've had one of those before. It's just when you become so overwhelmed, that it just becomes too much.
Don't worry things will get better. These are just some bumps in the road.
Mackenzie easily believed Lori because all her life, she's known she wasn't exactly planned. Adding to the fact that Steve left them for a few years along with what's she's been through in the past two years and now she may be going to boarding school, really makes her vulnerable. That's why she believed her so easily.
Lori used the fact that Steve was thinking of sending her away as a method to tell her "hey he doesn't love you. That's just his way out of parenthood" and Mackenzie believed it because in her head, it makes sense. She goes to boarding school and that's the end of parenthood for her dad.
In the next chapter, Kono faces Lori and Steve talks to Mackenzie and we also see Steve, Kono, and Mackenzie start seeing a family therapist, a few days after she's released from the hospital.
Don't worry, Mackenzie will still be punished for her actions.
Now who's excited to see Kono tell off Lori?
McKono, Mikita, Music, Crowen,
Nina
