Chapter 11

"I can walk you know," Kalani grumbled the next day as she was being strapped down to the gurney.

Steve gave his daughter a pointed look. Kalani shivered, it wasn't unusual for him to give her a pointed look. She never encountered the look in a medical setting before.

She looked to Catherine and sighed. "Can you please tell Dad and these other morons I am perfectly capable of walking."

Catherine gave a small smile. "Kalani, you're being impractical. You just had reconstructive reproductive surgery, reconstructive intestinal surgery, your arm is immobilized and you have broken ribs. Not to mention a punctured lung. You by all account should be dead right now. You are in no condition to walk. Just do what you are told."

Kalani didn't hear all of Catherine's speech as she had fallen asleep from fatigue. Steve and Catherine chuckled.

"We may want to move on to the plane now that she's out," Danny interrupted the two gigglers.

Steve agreed with his best friend. "You're absolutely right. Let's get our girl on that plane."

Danny, Catherine, Kono, Chin Ho, Sam, Charlie and Gracie followed the medical crew. Steve and Grover had gone ahead to the plane.

Bear, Buddha, Alex, and Fishbait were waiting anxiously for their package to arrive. Robert stood stoic behind his new brothers, a sentinel keeping the other five federal agents at bay,

Bear, Buddha and Alex all slapped Steve and Sam on the backs as they boarded the plane.

"How's she doing," Alex asked no one in particular.

Steve nor Sam had time to answer as the chaos of getting Kalani on board distracted the group. Kalani was once again conscious and trying desperately to get out of her restraints.

"Get these god damned restraints off of me," Kalani roared struggling in her restraints and howling in pain from her stitches. "I swear when I get out of this contraption I will hunt you down and mutilate you both."

Catherine was whispering in Kalani's hair beseeching her to calm down but not without failure.

Ignoring Catherine, Kalani turned to the two most important men in her life, "Godpa, Dad tell these morons to get away from me. I don't give a damn what my condition is. I want out of this god damned piece of shit bed now!"

Chin Ho and Kono glared at their niece. It was highly unusual to see this teenager act out.

"Let the medics do their job Kalani Adelle-KaPua McGarrett!" Kono ordered. The raised voice was out of character but so was Kalani's behavior. Kalani immediately and sullenly obeyed her Aunt's order not wanting to face the older woman's wrath..

"Danno, Kiki used bad words," Charlie admonished, looking up at his father.. Seeing his favorite cousin in this state was scary.

Danny knew this was a new experience for his young son. He believed in honesty being the best policy. "Kiki is feeling really scared right now little man. She's in pain and is feeling helpless. She's going to say a lot of bad words. We know its not okay. We need to ignore it right now and let Uncle Steve punish her later okay?" Looking down Danny saw his son nod in understanding with anxiety present in his young eyes. Danny took his son's hand. "Let's meet Kiki's brothers okay," he whispered in Charlie's ear. Charlie nodded.

Charlie reached for his sister's hand. "I thought Uncle Steve only had one child?" He asked innocently. His anxiety turned to frustration when all the bigger people began laughing. He decided to quietly stew not letting them know how he was feeling.

Gracie feeling her brother's tension ruffled his hair and smiled. She spotted their father stopping with concern in his eyes. She shook her head and shooed him on. 'I got this,' she mouthed. "They're Kiki's really close friends. They look after each other like our ohana. So to Kiki these guys are her brothers." She explained. "You are still her Charlie. That's not going to change little man."

SEAL Team VI all laughed at the spectacle before them as they all individually introduced themselves to Little Bird's entourage. Sam, Catherine and Steve all slapped them on the back.

"I think the gravity of the situation is actually hitting her," Catherine grimaced. "She wasn't acting like this last night."

"Didn't she take a Helios to Sigonella? Maybe she's having an anxiety attack about the transport." Robert reasoned. "She may claim she's fine but what's really going on in her mind? We don't know."

Sam and Steve agreed with Robert but still couldn't shake the urge to protect her and knock some sense into her at the same time.

Grover, Kono, Chin Ho, Charlie, Gracie and Danny all settled into the main cabin as the medics hooked Kalani up in the medical cabin.

Ignoring the Secret Service and FBI Steve, Sam and the men of SEAL Team VI reached the medical cabin just as Kalani was trying to raise trouble again. This time the medics didn't waste time and sedated her.

"I can't believe she bit me," one of the medics grumbled once he and his partner had finally sedated their charge.

Robert shook his head, looking to his brothers…they were doubled over in laughter. He saw Catherine slapping the imposing Lt. Commander upside the head and making the NCIS Agent run for safety. Shaking his head he started toward the conference lounge to bunk down until they landed. With Little Bird being like this, this flight was going to be the longest ones of their lives.

"The Presidential plane has arrived but he doesn't seem to be on board," an armed man stated to a figure in shadows.

"That's unusual," Doris McGarrett stated stepping out of the shadows. "Why would the plane be here in Italy without it's primary passenger?" She looked to the men in the room. These men were kind enough to let her seek asylum.

The encounter with her granddaughter had rattled her. She never went into missions without knowing all the pieces of the game. How her son raised a child for 15 years and she hadn't clue made her intelligence skills rusty.

"Did you witness any suspicious looking characters boarding the plane?" She asked; snapping herself out of her reverie.

"We saw brass badges on nearly person and it looked like the teenage girl who's been blasted on every news channel strapped to a stretcher."

Mercenaries had no need to lie to her. If what Kalani said was true and she was Steve's daughter, all the "Brass" were the Five-O task force. This temporary hide-out would work only because Kalani was incapacitated. Being stubborn was a McGarrett trait, Kalani wouldn't let her condition deter her from her objective.

Doris McGarrett was now public enemy number one. The United States didn't want a loose cannon at large. Doris knew she had to find a more permanent hide-out.

"Our surveillance also determined they had FBI, Secret Service and a SEAL team on board." Another armed man surmised.

If they had a SEAL team then they also had a fighter squadron on call. Each fighter would probably have aremote operated drone covering it. No one was going to get within fifty yards of the package …who or whatever itmaybe..

President Saunders received word that Kalani and entourage had boarded ERIS 1. SAM 2900's call sign for Kalani's rescue operation..

He turned to Admiral Falcone. "The package is wrapped and being posted now. I don't want anymore surprises Admiral. I want that aircraft wrapped tighter then a pickle jar."

Falcone nodded in affirmation. He turned to the inferior officer next to him, "You heard Mr. President get more reinforcements up in the air now."