A/N: It's still Friday…getting very Late on Friday, but I am going to make it, I swear!
Chapter 21: Another Trap
"Do not go into that house!" Toast yelled as Danny answered the phone.
"Steve, Stop!" Danny jumped and grabbed his partner by the back of his shirt. "We're here Toast. What's the problem?" Danny asked into the phone before Steve could protest.
"Wait for the bomb squad," was Toast's reply as the phone was set to speaker. "Get away from it. Get to a safe distance. Just get yourselves to safety and watch your step."
All at once Steve and Danny became overly aware of where they were with regards to the house, the fence, the driveway and the overly manicured lawn and garden.
"Look," Steve said and pointed to a nearly invisible line of wire just inches from where he'd been standing. "Had you not grabbed me I would have tripped it."
"How did you know?" Danny asked into the phone as Steve slowly and cautiously lead him back to the Camaro.
"I think we've pieced it together rather well," Toast answered. "There was a camera on the back side of the church that backed onto the parking lot of the Dive shop. It caught the truck, the tanks and a secret maneuver two nights ago as Gus Stanton himself took the truck. I followed him using cameras all through our network and he went back to his house. So I watched more feeds, found more cameras and watched him set the traps outside his house. I have no idea what he's done to the interior of the house, maybe nothing, maybe there are secondary and third charges or boobytraps. I know, however, that you two need to wait for the bomb squad," Toast explained.
"What about the other weapons?" Steve asked.
"I only have one set of eyes and I figured that you staying alive would be priority number one," Toast retorted indignantly. "I'll find the other stuff now that you are safe. You're welcome by the way, for not letting you get blown up," he huffed. "Just wait and be patient. Your back up is on the way," he finished and ended the call.
"This could be just another distraction," Steve said as he turned and leaned on the Camaro so that he was facing the house. "Do you think it was meant for us?"
"Absolutely," Danny said as he joined his partner. "The mailbox is on the street so no one would have to walk up to the house. The car is gone, so clearly no one is home. If Mick were to have shown up here to check on Gus, he would have been blown up by now, but instead he called the burner phone once he'd contacted Stanton directly at the realtors officer and found that he was arrested. He told Sarah to find him the weapons, he wasn't coming out here because he doesn't want to be caught. The bomb, or whatever boobytraps there are on that house, are absolutely meant for us," He reasoned.
"Because this case is tailor made for Five-O. There is no question at all that we would be handed this case and because of that, because of how high profile it is, or because we would put together the fact that Gus was the mastermind behind it, you and I would ultimately be the ones to come here for questioning. This trap is meant for you and I specifically."
"Had Stanton lived, he would have sent us here under the pretence of cooperation just to see us blow ourselves to smithereens," Danny added.
"So what are we going to find in that house?" Steve asked.
"Everything or nothing at all, that is the real question because Stanton expects us to die on his perfectly manicured front lawn," Danny answered.