Kaneohe

"I don't like this."

Steve smirked at Danny's comment, heard through the SEAL's earpiece. He stood next to his truck on a dirt road in front of the location that Charlie Raymond had given them. It was a two story white vacation home that didn't look the least bit suspicious. Even though it was close to 4:00 in the afternoon, there were no cars on the road. Steve was partly thankful for it as if the meeting didn't go according to plan, there'd be no civilian injuries or causalities.

"Ignore him, Steve, and just focus on the meeting," Chin said through the earpiece. To follow through with their caller's demands, the remaining members of the team were sitting in Kono's car along with two unmarked police cars four blocks away.

"It's hard- Danny sounds like my conscience with this earpiece on," Steve replied as he zipped up his jacket over the bulletproof vest that he wore. He pocketed his Glock as he heard, " So it takes a bloody earpiece for you to listen to me now?"

"Ignore him, Steve."

Danny groaned. "Chin, don't put that idea back in his head when we almost got it out. You ready, buddy?"

Steve nodded and started walking down the road to the house gate. It was way too quiet for his liking for a normal neighborhood. He pushed open the front gate and slowly stepped onto the front lawn. The lawn was unkept with the blades as high as Steve's ankles.

This doesn't feel right at all, Steve thought as he continued to the front door. When he reached the door, Steve saw dark eyes peeking at him from a window on the first floor. Steve knocked on the front door and saw the eyes disappear from behind the curtains. A minute later, the front door creaked open and a man that looked like the suspect currently sitting in 5-0 custody appeared in the doorway.

"I'm here for Charlie Raymond," Steve stated out.

The man nodded and stepped aside. "He's in the back on the porch," the man said, " You're carrying, aren't you?"

"No-"

"Liar. Charlie knows that you're a military man. It doesn't matter though- Charlie's a hell of a shot and will kill you if you even think about going for your gun. Head down the hall and through the door and you'll find Charlie. Enjoy."

Steve swallowed before starting at the short trek down the hallway. He pushed the door at the end of the hall open to find a blonde haired man sitting out on the porch.

"Commander McGarrett, I'm glad you decided to come," the man said. He turned his head and added, "I'm Charlie Raymond."

"I figured."

"Come take a seat. Let's have a chat." Charlie pushed out a chair from the table where he sat. Steve eyed the chair suspiciously before walking over to sit. Charlie smirked as Steve scooted his chair up to the table and cupped his hands together on the table.

"You called me," Steve stated, " What did you want to tell me?"

"I actually wanted to hear what you know about Doris McGarrett before I tell you anything," Charlie replied.

"You called me….to hand over all of my information just like that? For what?" Steve exclaimed. He put his hands flat on the table to get up and leave, but quickly heard the cock of a pistol from under the table. Across from him, Charlie raised a Glock from under the table and kept it trained on Steve.

"This isn't up for discussion, Commander."


Four blocks away, Danny's eyes widened when he heard Charlie's threat. His hand flew to the door handle as he exclaimed, " That sounded like a threat. Let's go-"

"Wait," Chin said. He pulled out his tablet and clicked the app that pulled up a satellite image of the area. Chin quickly scanned over the image and said, " Looks like Steve and Charlie Raymond are the only ones there. Something doesn't feel right about this."

"Which is why we should go!"

"Cuz," Kono called out, " if we're going to do something, we need to do it now."

Chin bit the inside of his lip and looked between his tablet and the road that led down to the house. Damn- I hope my gut isn't right about this, he thought before saying, " Ok, let's do it. Kono, you get our two HPD cops to follow us for backup and then take the side entrance. Danny, you take the back and I'll take the front. Let's just hope that we're just overreacting and everything's fine."


Back at the house, Steve kept an eye on the gun, remembering what the man at the front door had said about Charlie being a good shot.

"All we know is that my mother might be alive," Steve said. Charlie nodded, not moving the aim of his gun one bit. Steve quickly decided that his statement should be enough and closed his mouth. Charlie blinked a few times before he suddenly turned his gun ever so slightly and fire a bullet onto the porch, only inches away from Steve's injured leg. It took all of Steve's SEAL training to not jump out of his chair and try shooting Charlie.

You can't go guns a blazing anymore. Keep it together, Steve told himself as he calmly locked his gaze on Charlie. Charlie shook his head in disbelief at Steve's composure and asked darkly, " Is there anything besides My mommy might be alive that you want to add, Commander?"

Steve didn't even blink in response. His ears did perk up, however, at the sound of grass crunching below the porch. He turned his head slightly to see three tall and muscular men appear from under the porch, all donning AK-47s. What the hell- where did they come from? Steve thought in a panic.

"I'm surprised, Commander, " Charlie stated as he slowly rose to his feet, " You're supposed to be the best of the best- the governor's super task force. Yet, this handy dandy team willingly sent their leader- sorry, ex- leader- into a trap."

Damn it. "You aren't with the US Marshalls….and based on you not killing me yet, I assume that you don't work for Wo-Fat or Haluu either. Who the hell are –"

"Five 0! Hands where I can see them!"

Steve whipped his head towards the hallway where he could see Danny aiming his assault rifle at two men that had suddenly appeared at the doorway. Without thinking, Steve yelled out, " Danny!" before he felt the butt of the Glock slam into the back of his head before everything went dark.