AIE MANAWA – BORROWED TIME
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A/N: Thank you all for the lovely reviews, favs and follows. I really appreciate it! The story is set mid Season 6.
Mahalo and Enjoy.
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Chapter Twenty-five: Never The Way We Imagined It.
"What do you want Parker?" Steve stood in the elevator, but he could hear Danny speak over their comm. "Danny?" Steve tried to make contact with Danny, but he didn't get a response.
"Jerry? What's going on?"
"I don't know, there are no cameras up on the 21st."
"Chin? Abby?" Steve tried desperately to get an answer on what was going on. Only he didn't get a response. Kono and Lou's comms were off too. Steve focused on the conversation between Danny and Parker.
"…Remove one of your kidneys, right?" Steve could hear Parker talk big. He had control over Danny, only Steve didn't know how. It pissed Steve off.
"Son of a bitch." He let out under his breath. He called chin, because he was stuck in the elevator till it would reach the ground floor and than he had to get back up to the 21st.
"Chin! Check on Danny!"
"What's going on? Where is he?"
"I don't know, something is off. He's with Parker, alone, on the 21st in the open workspace, I think."
"Where are you?" Steve could hear Chin started jog.
"I'm in the elevator, almost on the ground floor, I'll be up as fast as I can!"
"Copy!" Chin disconnected and Steve pushed the button of the 21st floor a thousand times.
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"What do you want?" Danny arched his back when he felt his gun poking in his back.
"I asked you a question." Parker hissed in Danny's left ear.
"I'm fine, thanks for asking." Danny said it sarcastic, answering the question of Parker asking how Danny was doing.
"No the other part." Parker pressed the gun tighter against Danny's back. Letting him know he was in charge.
"Oh, I, uh I'm sorry, I thought I was clear, I can't share it with you." Danny was not about to lose his attitude for this man.
"I figured that you would know when to shut up, after David stabbed you almost to death, guess I was wrong." Parker whispered in Danny's ear. It silenced Danny. "Lets see he stabbed you seven times right?" Parker started to poke with the gun repeatedly in Danny's back. "Right here? And here?" With each poke Danny felt the stabbing all over again. Parker was poking with just as much anger as David did. Some were right in the same spot as the actual stab wounds.
"What do you want Parker?" Danny was shaking on his legs, he closed his eyes and tried to focus on his breathing.
"Something wrong, Detective?" Parker's voice sounded ice cold. It gave Danny chills and it froze him. "They had to remove one of your kidneys, right? That means you only have one left, the one that's keeping you alive. You can't live without a kidney. Sure they find a way to keep you alive, for a while, but they can't find a donor that quick. You'll die, within hours." Parker pressed the gun tighter and tighter. Danny was breathing heavily through his nose. Danny never thought about it that way, he never imagined it could come to that.
"If I only knew which side I had to shoot." Parker pressed the gun left on the midst of Danny's back, right with the loop poking right in the incision, where the knife tore down his left kidney. Danny clenched his jaw in pain, he grunted. "Oh I'm sorry, this one is already gone." He transferred the gun to his right side.
"One more time Detective, did you find anything yet."
"No, we did not, alright!" Danny let out a scared breath. "We are here to poke around and see you sweat, that's all." Danny tried to convince Parker that they didn't have anything yet.
"Really?" Danny could hear doubt in Parker's voice and he loosened the grip of the gun. Danny turned around, punching him in his stomach, kicking the gun out of Parker's hand, but before Danny knew it Parker punched Danny in the stomach with his fist and again punching him on his right side. "AH" Danny doubled over in pain. The air got kicked right out him. It was right at the spot where Travis had hit him a few hours ago. He was on his knees, leaning with his right hand on the ground and his left arm wrapped around his abdomen. He was not able to fight Parker back. Danny was panting and he felt dizzy.
"It has its limits." Parker was standing over Danny.
"Parker! Hands where I can see them!" Chin yelled while he closed in on both men.
"What? No, I defended myself, that man, he's crazy!" Parker raised his voice and sounded confused. He held his hands in the air to surrender.
"Danny are you okay?" Abby was beside Danny, with her hand on his shoulder.
"Chin, don't listen to him! Arrest him!" Danny barked, trying to get back up on his feet. The elevator went open and Steve popped up with his gun drawn. He rushed towards Danny. "You alright buddy?" Steve helped him back up together with Abby. Chin walked towards Parker to arrest him.
"Hey whoa, no, what are you doing? He held his gun to my face and I fought back in self-defense." Parker sounded perplexed and was pointing to Danny.
It even brought Danny off his game. "Don't listen to him Chin!" What was Parker trying to do? Turning his friends on him? That would never work. Danny was now standing and watched Chin cuff him.
"Chin let him go." Steve held onto Danny's bicep as he held him steady. He could feel Danny stare in disbelieve at him.
"What?" Danny looked betrayed at Steve.
"Chin do it." Steve demanded and Chin let Parker go.
"Thank you Commander." Parker sounded polite and appreciative for the first time ever. "Am I free to go?" Parker rubbed his wrists, like he had been wearing cuffs for days.
"Yes." All eyes were on Steve. What was he doing?
"Can I have my phone back in that case?" Parker reached his hand towards Steve and Steve reached in his pockets, pulling it out and dropped the phone back in Parkers hand. Parker walked to the elevator.
"What the…!" Danny tried to go after Parker, pulling his arm out of Steve's grip, but Steve tightened his grip on Danny's bicep and withdrew Danny. "Steve!" Danny yelled against Steve, what the hell was he thinking. Danny was not letting Parker go that easy.
"Let him go Danny!" Steve pressed his hand on Danny's chest to hold him back. "We have nothing on him." Steve spoke as soon as the elevator door closed.
"What do you mean we have nothing on him?" Danny raised his voice in disbelieve. "He obstructed the investigation by withholding crucial information and if that's not enough for you, he just pointed my gun at me, he threatened me. That's what I would call assaulting a officer and for me that would be enough to book him!" Danny was now standing in front of Steve.
"I do know all of that, but when this guy sets one foot in HPD his lawyer will show up and he will be out within one minute and all charges will be dropped. Everything what just happened didn't really happen, because you are not officially back at work, he doesn't know that, but if he finds out he'll be a free man. He wasn't going to shoot you, because that would ruin everything for him. We need to build a strong case against him before we arrest him, so we are letting him go for now."
"Let me just get this straight, so I'm clear. You are letting him go, but you think that we, yes look at me, you, me, all of us standing here, watching Parker leave this building, that we are going to arrest him eventually?" Danny sounded furious.
"Yeah that's right." Steve hoped for some support from Abby or Chin, but that didn't happen.
"That's right?" Danny placed his hands on his hips, blowing air out of his nose. He was really pissed off. "What're you, are you nuts? He's going to catch the first flight to somewhere on this planet where we, this task force of yours, have no rights. None, you hear me?"
"I do hear you and he's not going to catch a plane alright."
"He's not? Hell he's not!" Danny walked past Steve, he was about to go after Parker. Steve pulled him back by grabbing Danny's left arm. Danny tried to escape from Steve's tight grip by pulling his arm out, making a weird swing, causing his own elbow to end up in his abdomen, right at the spot where he had been punched today, twice. "Ah!" Danny grunted, clenching his stomach. Steve immediately let go of Danny's arm, causing Danny to stumble a bit over. Chin was standing closely enough to kind of catch Danny. "Danny? What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Danny clenched his jaw and took a deep breath through his nose. "What's wrong is that you're letting him go!" Danny was back on track.
"Here" Abby offered him a desk chair. Danny took carefully place.
"Listen to me!" Steve shook his head in disbelieve, he had to get it straight, he was still worried about Danny though. Something was wrong, but Danny didn't tell them.
"Enlighten me Steven!" Danny raised his voice even higher, still doubled over in pain.
"He's not going to catch a flight, because Parker is going to call his lawyer and he's going to fight this, because that's what he's been doing from the start. He thinks he's smart and that all of this is just a bump in the road, but he doesn't know we have David's laptop. Which has the evidence of the login system. We can book him right now and charge him for that, or we can let him go and arrest him when we find more evidence connecting all cases. And if we do we will include the charges for obstructing an investigation and assaulting an officer and he'll never see the sunlight again."
"I hate it when you think you're right and not share it. The heads up would have been nice, okay."
"Alright you sit tight." Steve pointed to Danny. "Abby can you bring this to Jerry?"
"Yeah, sure." She got the USB stick handed by Steve.
"You good brah?" Chin handed Danny his gun back, looking worried at Danny, who was still clenching his stomach. Chin could see the sweat on his forehead. He was obviously in pain.
"Yeah, don't worry. Go check on the poor people we locked in those rooms." Danny nodded towards the conference rooms. Chin agreed silently.
"Drink this." Steve offered Danny a bottle of water.
"Thanks." Danny thought about taking more pain meds, because his whole body hurt, but Steve was watching him, so he just took a few sips.
Steve glanced at Danny he looked damn exhausted. His glassy blue eyes had changed into a snarl greyish color. He looked pale and Steve could see the pain lingering on his face.
"You can take them." Steve tossed a medicine bottle towards Danny. Danny caught it, he winced, regretting his sudden movement. Danny managed to give Steve a questioning look.
"They fell out of your pocket in the car." Steve explained why he would have Danny's pain meds instead of Danny. Danny felt his pocket in a reflex to check for himself, but they weren't there anymore.
"Ah, thank you." Danny opened the medicine bottle. "On one condition though." Steve was just in time before Danny popped one in his mouth. "That is?" Danny waited for Steve's probably insane request. "That you go lay down for a while." It was the only leverage Steve had right now to get Danny to rest for a bit. Steve knew he'd already had the doses for today, but Danny was visibly in pain.
It indeed was a request, but it was not a completely insane one. Danny was exhausted, his whole body ached by now. Steve was probably right and besides, he wouldn't be missed if he would lie down for half an hour or so. Chin and Abby were almost done with the staff, so they would continue to help the rest. He wouldn't be much of a help if he would be even more exhausted than he was right now, so Danny gave in. "Alright fine." He took his pain meds and tried to stand up. Steve offered him some help.
"Go lay on the couch in Parker's office." Danny agreed and they walked, taking their time, to Parker's office
"Thanks, I'll be fine." Danny dropped on the couch, it was a comfortable one.
"Alright, take it easy okay?" Steve left the office leaving Danny alone to rest for a bit.
He hadn't seen Danny like this in weeks. He actually looked almost the same right after his surgery. Which made him worry even more, because this time, there was no explanation like a twelve-hour surgery. He didn't like to go behind Danny's back, but if he would continue to be in pain, after he rested, Steve would call doctor Murray.
Steve didn't know what happened exactly, neither in Travis Malone's house nor just now. All he knew was the fact that Danny had been hurt, both times and that he wasn't telling them the whole story. Steve should have never let him come along. He should've known better and should've sent Danny home.
Danny waited till Steve was out of sight. He unbuttoned his shirt, so he could examine the damage that had been done by Parker. Two deeply colored bruises littered Danny's torso, one on his right side and one on his abdomen. He was a bit concerned about the one on his abdomen. The scar looked irritated and it was reddish. Maybe he should get some medical attention. He would rest first, it would be fine after, right. He touched it lightly.
"Oh, shit!" Danny hissed to himself to ignore the pain. He buttoned up his shirt. He lied down on his left side, to unburden his throbbing right side. He could feel the meds kicking in, his body relaxed and within the minute Danny fell asleep.
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Steve waited for Abby to return with the USB stick, in the meantime he took over Danny's work and continued the search. As soon as Abby returned she helped Steve. Chin was almost done so there was no use for her to help him. Chin went down with the last employee to get a USB stick for himself and started to check computers as well.
After almost four hours Lou and Kono came up to the 21st floor. Not that Steve, Chin and Abby had been there the whole time, they had checked the computers on several floors, only to come up with nothing. Danny had been resting the whole time. Steve wanted to check on Danny, so that's why he asked for a brief meeting on the 21st.
"Where's Williams?" Lou asked when he didn't see Danny amongst them. He and Kono missed the whole conflict between Danny and Parker.
"He's sleeping in Parker's office, Parker pulled his gun on him." Steve nodded to the office. He hadn't checked on Danny yet, and he couldn't see the office from the point where he was standing.
"Whoa, is he okay?" Kono was worried about Danny and started to walk towards Parker's office.
"He's hanging in." Steve appeased Kono. Steve didn't want to wake Danny. He could really use the sleep. "Just letting him sleep is the best thing right now." A loud gunshot reverberated through the building. It filled the silence moment. Steve looked startled at his team, it came from Parker's office.
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A/N: Thank you for reading as always! I know, another cliffhanger, next chapter will be up in a few days! And oh my the new episode… I loved it! All of it, the humor, the cargument and the Ohana spirit, just everything! What about you guys? Have you seen it?