A month and a half had passed since Steve received the phone calls and since that day ( the same day that he proposed to Catherine ), not one single call from an unknown number had been received. They were never able to find the location of the calls. Steve and Catherine both aknowledged that if was just a bad joke, a very bad one, but now, 1 month and a half later, they were more serene.
It was Friday and the whole team decided to eat at the spot where Kamekona had his shrimp truck. They just wrapped a case and they were all relieved to finally sit down, talk and laugh. Catherine was there as well. For the last month, she helped Five-0 with almost every cases but she still wasn't an official member, even if she thought she would feel comfortable in the task force. As Kono officially left for the mainland, she could be a good female ingredient.
« Why are you always eating so fast Steve ! » Danny complained and shook his head as his partner was, indeed, eating faster than everyone else.
Steve rolled his eyes « 'Cause I'm hungry ! »
Catherine laughed. Steve had his own way to eat and it wasn't always very romantic, but it was comical to watch and she always loved seeing him so concentrated with his food.
« Seriously Catherine ! You have to tell him something ! »Danny continued
« Well..I find this kinda cute actually ! » She confessed. Steve winked at her.
« See, my girl says it's cute ! » Steve replied, amused.
Danny mumbled something as everyone else laughed.
« So, tell us...how is the wedding preparation going on ? » Chin asked
Catherine felt like a little girl everytime she had to talk about the wedding, and Steve loved to see her that way.
« Well...we agreed on the date, the location, the guests, the orchestra, the bridesmaids, the groomsmen, and even the flowers ! You will all receive the wedding invitations in like...a week or two...right Steve ? »
« Yeah right ! We also decided not to say any vows and I'm still very unsure about a bachelor party- »
« What ?! No ! Come on ! You need to have a bachelor party ! » Grover interrupted, followed by Danny and Chin !
« Yeah you have to ! » « Come on Steve ! » « I was ready to plan everything ! »
« I'm 41, guys...that's not someting for me ! » Steve replied, as Catherine laughed.
« Oh sorry grandpa I didn't know that the fun would stop when you're 41 ! » Danny complained.
«Did you tell Doris yet ? » Chin asked
« Yes...yes...we were able to catch her on the phone and she told us she wouldn't miss it...same for Mary and for my parents » Catherine began « They were all a bit shocked by the announce but they were all like 'it was about time' you know ! »
« Of course it was about time ! » Lou agreed as the others nodded.
« You know...I think that in life, you need to sometimes be with the wrong person. I think you need to fight and cry and sweat and bleed and fail. I think you need to have bad relatioships and bad breakups. I think you need all of that so that, when the right person and the right relationship comes along...you can sigh with relief and say 'Ah yes...That is how its supposed to feel' » Catherine said as she looked at Steve with so much love. He had been very touched by her words and smiled shyly.
« That's so true ! Maybe it will help me to figure out my love life right now... » Danny sighed, as he was still very uncertain about Rachel and Melissa.
The group of friend spent hours talking and laughing and then all headed to their places to enjoy their weekend.
The movie had just finished. Steve looked at the time and realized how late it was. He looked down at Catherine and realized she had fallen asleep on him, she looked so peaceful that he didn't want to wake her. She barely slept the previous nights because of the Five-0 case, so she was exhausted. Steve knew she would probably be more comfortable in bed so he would have to wake her up. Steve gently rubbed small circles on Catherine's back while he whispered.
« Cath...wake up... »
Catherine stirred a little and yawned, then looked up at him sleepily.
« Hmmm...is the movie over ? » she asked, still half asleep.
« Yeah... » Steve chuckled « Come on...let's get you to bed... » He said as he still lovingly rubbed her back.
They both got ready for bed quickly then got into it. Steve laid on his back as Catherine laid with her head on his chest.
« I'm so tired , like...so...so tired...» she whispered, half asleep.
Steve put his arms her« Sweet dreams... » He whispered while he rubbed her back.
Both of them fell asleep peacefully after long days of work.
They were awakened by Steve's cell phone ringing. It was Duke from the HPD.
« Oh no...I thought our weekend would have been so quiet ! » Catherine said, groggy and not fully awake.
« Me too... ». Steve looked at the clock on his phone before he answered. It was 2.52 am.
« McGarrett ! On my way ! » he quickly said « Cath you just keep sleeping alright ? I have to go » Steve apologized.
« Alright..you call me if you need me there...» Catherine told him in a sleepy voice, eyes closed. He laid down to kiss her rapidly on the cheek « Be safe ». He walked towards the door.
« I will...now go back to sleep.. » Steve said, and with that, he was gone. In a hurry, he forgot to set the alarm of the house. That's something he would soon regret.
He didn't notice the 2 men who had been waiting in a van, a few houses down. He didn't knew the same men had been spying the house a lot for the past weeks. They were just waiting for a good moment to make their move. They wanted her to be alone. Him to be gone. In the middle of the night. And that night was the perfect moment. They pulled the van up so it was right in front of Steve and Catherine's house, then they grabbed their guns and made their way to the front door.
Those men were very dangerous men. They used to work for Desmond Abati, the uranium bomb maker that Steve was in contact with and, the notorious criminal, the terrorist. Abati was dead. Steve didn't kill him, but he did kill many others in the jungle, the day him and Danny were looking for Abati. And now, the 2 men that were about to hurt Catherine, well, they wanted revenge. The whole group wanted revenge. Steve killed several men during this mission. Dangerous men. Brothers or friends of other dangerous men. And here they were, after weeks of preparation and spying.
They entered the quiet house very easily, not doint any single noise. Catherine was in a deep sleep in her bedroom. The men made their way upstairs and approached the first room. One of them swung open the door and saw her. There she was. Suddenly, they grabbed Catherine by the hair and ripped her up.
Catherine didn't know if she was still sleeping and having a nightmare or if all of this was happening, she was in a blur, she was in a deep sleep and now she was in the hands of two men trying to do something to her. She then finally screamed and fought back, but they were two and they harshly began to pull her towards the doorway. She fought back so hard that one of them let go of her hair, and she took this chance to kick the other in the face and made a run to the bottom of the stairs but the men were too quick for her. She suddenly felt something push her from behind. One of the man had caught up to her, knocking her into the table of the living room and then onto the floor. When she hit the table, she knocked everything off of it and knocked one of the chairs over as well. Once on the ground, one of the man instantly got on top of her and straddled her while the other pulled out the duct tape he'd been hiding.
« No, please...what did I do to you ? » Catherine questioned, out of breath
« It's not about you...it's about what McGarrett did...he killed lots of us, he will pay for it ! »
Catherine was fighting them, trying everyway she could to get away, but they were too strong for her. Even if she was very good at fighting, at this right moment, there's nothing she was able to do.
They duct taped her mouth shut and brought out some rope they had in their pockets. One of them grabbed her forcefully by the shoulders and flipped her over so she was now laying on her stomach and he tied her hands behind her back.
He then stood up and grabbed her roughly by the arm and pulled her up too.
« Let's go » he said to his accomplice.
But Catherine wasn't done fighting them. She ripped her arm away and tried to run again but this time, one of the man tackled her from behind and they landed on the couch, her on the bottom and him on top. He had his knee in her back, and pushed her head hard into the cushion. The man then bent down slowly and traced circles on the side of her face with his tongue as he ran his hand up her nightgown, before he whispered angrily in her ear.
« Listen..you're making this impossible...cooperation is key my dear... »
Catherine was sobbing the entire time. They had her completely trapped. She didn't know what else to do. All she wanted was Steve to come and rescue her.
The man then pulled her up the couch with more force than before and pulled the gun out of the back of his pants.
Catherine's eyes widened, she was totally terrified. The other man let out a menacing laugh when he saw how scared she was. And with that, the other one reached up and hit her hard across the face with the butt of the gun, instantly knocking her to the floor and unconscious. He hit her so hard that blood was already trickling out of the gash above her left eye, leaving blood on the hard wood floor.
The men carried her outside, in the night, threw her into the back of the van and left.
Catherine woke up only to find herself lying on a cement floor. Her mouth was still duct taped and her hands were still tied behind her back. She sat up slowly so she wouldn't make her headache worse. A tear made its way down her face. She looked around the room for something that could help her get the rope off but she saw nothing that would help her. She was alone, in what looked like a basement. The floor and walls looked to be made of cement. It smelled as if something had died and there were no windows. The only light was from a single light bulb. There were old wooden stairs that led up to what she assumed was the first floor. From what she could tell, the only way out of here was through that door. Catherine tried to free herself but the rope was tied too tightly. She then began to cry, there was no way for her to escape, she was trapped. She was shivering in both fear and from being cold. All she was wearing was her nightgown and had no shoes on.
Suddenly, she heard footsteps upstairs. They were making their way to the door. She tried to think of what she could do but found no plan. Only one man made his way down the steps and walked towards her. Even if she was tied up, Catherine began to scoot away from him . The man found this amusing.
« Where do you think you're going ? » he chuckled
Catherine began to cry again when she could no longer crawl any farther away. The man suddenly slapped her across the face. She winced in pain as he slammed her head into the cement floor. Catherine screamed out in pain. She sobbed and tried to sat up.
« I don't remember giving you the permission to get up ! » the man sneered as he again pushed her head back down to the ground, this time even harder. Catherine could feel the stream of blood coming from the wound now in the side of her head. She remained laying on the ground like he told her.
The man clearly wanted to make her suffer. He kicked her square in the back as Catherine let out a muffled scream as pain exploded in the area he kicked her.
« STAND UP ! » he shouted, but she didn't even had the energy to do so.
« YOU STAND UP ! » he yelled as he again kicked her in the back. Catherine screamed out in complete agony but still wouldn't stand up. The man reached down and grabbed her bu the throat and pulled her up. He was completely cutting off her air supply. He then spat several times in her face, she had tears pouring down her face and couldn't speak since she still had duct tape on her man laughed when he saw how much she was struggling to breath. The man finally released his grip on her and allowed her to fall to the ground, where Catherine passed out.
« I think it's time for me to call someone... » he said to himself. The man took out the phone from his pocket and dialed Steve's number.
It was 4.20 am. Steve was at a crime scene with Chin and Grover. A man had been murdered and left dead in his hotel room. They were trying to figure out what happened. That's when his phone rang and that he saw « Unknown ». Steve immediatly knew that something bad had happened.
« I told you...she'll pay for your mistakes...» the man said then hung up.
Steve heart began to beat harder and harder, everything became blur. He tried to call Catherine. Once. Twice. Three times. She never answered. He knew someone took her.
« You son of a b*tch ! » Steve screamed. Duke, Chin and Grover went to him. He was shaking and they tried to calm him down as they didn't understand what was going on.
« HE TOOK HER ! SOMEONE TOOK CATHERINE !» he was enraged. « WE NEED TO FIND HER ! Duke get some men over my house ! Chin, call Danny and Abby ! Lou, call Jerry ! I want to know where she is ! NOW ! » Steve was angry, he was agitated, tensed, scared. I should have never ignore these phone calls ! I should have never let her all alone ! But I set the alarm...holy sh*t ! No ! I forgot !
Steve was now petrified. He went to his car and threw his phone down on the passenger seat and sped even faster down the road hoping to make it home fast to find some evidence of where she could be trapped. He didn't even noticed the tears on his face.
He finally arrived home, parked his truck and jumped out of it. He didn't even bother closing the door of it. He ran towards the front door, it had been left wide open. Steve hurriedly made his way around the house. Steve noticed the chairs from the living room were knocked over, things in this place were smashed or moved out the way, he knew she had been fighting, struggling. He needed to find her, he needed to hold her, he needed to tell her she was safe now. That's when he noticed the blood on the floor. He bent down and looked at the amount of blood that was on the floor. « Oh no...Cath... » he whispered as more tears made their way down his cheeks.
Some HPD agents soon arrived, as well as Danny and Duke.
« Steve ! Steve ! » Danny shouted as he rushed to his friend. « We'll find her ! We'll find her okay ! The HPD is trying to look for some fingerprints ! »
« This is all my fault Danny... » Steve said, defeated, he looked so sad.
This was his life. The people he loved always died. And now it was Catherine's turn.
« Steve, this is not your fault ! We'll find her ! »
A few minutes passed and Steve had his mind everywhere, he was giving orders, calling Chin, calling Grover, he had no time to lose ! That's when an HPD agent told him that they found several DNA on the scene and that they will send them right away to the lab. So, he jumped in his truck and made his way to the headquarters, followed by Danny.
Flashback
Catherine sat across the table from Steve, just gazing at him. It felt so good to be with him, enjoying dinner, enjoying him. Since she was back from Washington and living with Steve, they were very open about their feelings. She was committed to him. Heart, body and soul.
Steve ran up his fingers up her arm and placed his hand on the base of her neck. His other hand rested on her thigh. Catherine got chills. She leaned forward as he kissed her. The kiss was soft at first but quickly became passionate. She felt herself starting to lose control but she didn't care. She wanted him.
« Mmm...Cath...slow down... » Steve said breathlessly to her. He pulled back and looked at her. There was something in her eyes that thrilled him. « You're ruining my plans Miss Rollins. Dinner, dancing and THEN dessert. » Steve stood up and held his hand out to her. « May I ? » He asked. Catherine smiled and took his hand.
The band had started playing a few minutes ago but she had barely noticed. Steve walked her a few feet from the table. He placed one hand on the small of her back and took the one that held her hand and pulled it close to his chest. They began to sway slowly to the music. Catherine gazed up at him for a moment and then rested her head on his shoulder. Her pulse quickened as he hummed softly along with the music.
Later, as they were back home and in their bedroom, Steve was laying on the bed wearing nothing but his black boxer briefs. He was looking at some random stuffs on his phone when she appeared in the doorway. Steve's mouth fell open at the sight in front of him. Cathering was standing there, wearing a black babydoll nightie. Her hair was down and falling onto her shoulders.
« Wow... » was all he could say.
She walked over to the side of the bed as he sat up and put his feet on the floor. He reached out for her as she stood directly in front of him and placed her hands on each side of his face. Steve looked up at her. With each of his hands on her waist, he leaned in and kissed her stomach.
« Wow... » he whispered again. Smiling, Catherine kissed him passionately. She desperately wanted to continue the kiss he had halted at the restaurant. Steve wasn't ready for the intensity but quickly caught up. Their hands had no boundaries and moved all over one another. Suddenly, Steve stopped.
« What's wrong ? » Catherine asked. Steve just smiled at her as he lifted her from his lap and laid her out on the bed. Starting at her lips, he allowed his mouth to meet with every inch of her skin. They then made love all night long. It felt great...
Catherine felt great...but now something was wrong, she was sleeping so deeply...what time is it ? Why do I feel so bad ?Where is Steve ? Catherine heard a noise behind her. It sounded like the scraping of a chair against a cement floor. She turned over. The cold was becoming unbearable. She would have to get more blankets, she thought. But she felt oh so drowsy.
« Wake up ! » someone said. Where was that voice coming from, Catherine thought, confused.
« WAKE UP ! » The voice was louder, insistent and coarse.
Then Catherine felt a splash of icy cold water in her face. She coughed and gasped for air while her eyes blinked widly. She remembered where she was. Catherine sat up and with the back of her hands, still tied, wiped her eyes. Salty tears, mixed in with the water her captor had thrown in her face, began to fall. Please Steve, help me...help me...she thought.
To be continued...
Hello everyone ! I want to thank you all for the reviews on the last chapter and especially for your thoughts about H50 season 8 without Chin/Kono and maybe a possible return of Catherine ! I always love to know what you think about the show as well ! Special thanks to Laura and Cath for your deep analysis! And for all the others for your reviews! :) It means a LOT LOT LOT ! Without you I would have never continue the writing.
I feel like Catherine WILL be back one day or another, most of you saw Peter Lenkov reply to a very smart question about McRoll « It's chapter 5 in my book. Coming soon » so I'm extra excited, even if I don't know what he really meant ...and as Sarah Carter ( Lynn ) is pregnant with her first child, I wonder if she would continue her role as Lynn ? I can't cope with seeing Steve with another woman than Catherine. Hopefully she'll be back soon...what does your gutts tell you ?
Now, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.I wanted to make this since the beginning, like...to put them through one last big drama, then I promise it would be it:p ! And I hope you liked the Flashback!
Next chapter coming soon !
xoxo Vanou