AIE MANAWA – BORROWED TIME
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Hawaii Five-0 or the Characters.
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-eight: Never Say Never part I
Danny ignored Jerry's question. He looked at all the other folders, within the "Williams' folder, that had popped up. David had been colleting a lot of information on Danny that was one thing for sure. He couldn't figure it out why he would have it on his work computer though. Maybe it was because he spent most of his time at work or something. Danny opened a folder with the tag 'Surveillance'.
There were a lot of JPG files and some MP4 files. Even Danny knew those were photos and videos according to the abbreviation. Danny clicked on one of the JPG files to enlarge it. His stomach turned around and he closed his eyes for a second, focusing on his breathing because he did not want to empty his stomach on the keyboard in front of him. Not that there was much in his stomach, but still he wasn't planning on breaking his streak. He swallowed, took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
He looked right at a crime scene like photo of a wall full with pictures of himself and his family, there were knifes that pinned down some photos. It must be the wall Steve told him about. Only Steve left the knife part out. It was cruel to see for himself, his hands were shaking and he wiped the sweat off his forehead. He could still feel his heart pump rapidly in his chest. He closed the picture file.
It took a moment before he realized they were actually crime scene photos. There were tags and measurement lines. How did David get his hands on these? He didn't know why he did, but Danny clicked on a MP4 file. He was definitely not prepared for what he was about to see. A media player opened the MP4 file and it started to play automatically. There was no sound only a visual. There was a time stamp in the right upper corner, showing the date and time. At first Danny didn't know what he was looking at. It for sure was surveillance footage, but where? It was a room, with a desk standing in the middle, but that was all about it. There were no people, nothing.
Danny couldn't figure out where that room could be, so he just watched as the video continued to play. The screen went all-dark and Danny thought the video ended, but a second later a light went on in the room, so there was a visual again. There were people in the room, people he recognized. It were Steve, Lou, Chin and a few HPD officers. What was he looking at? Why would they show up and where was the damn room? Out of the blue the sound went on, he could hear people talk. He couldn't hear them clear, but he could definitely make out Steve's voice. Danny looked at the time stamp. The footage was from the day after David attacked him. Danny knew it; it was David Tilwell's house.
From that point everything seemed to speed up, Five-0 had left the room and before Danny knew it a loud bang appeared and the room exploded. Right before the video got cut off and went black he could see someone getting blown up. The sound stayed on somehow. There was a lot of noise, he could hear people scream for help.
Danny stared at the black screen, he just witnessed the dead of the three HPD officers that were there because of him. His stomach contracted so violently that he had no time to reach a bathroom, so he grabbed an empty trashcan standing nearby. He emptied his whole stomach content in the trashcan. He hadn't eaten in a while so there wasn't much, but still he hadn't thrown up since 1996. He hated to throw up, the feeling, all of it. When his stomach stopped contracting, he just waited a moment before he got up to clean up this mess. He took some deep breaths and made his was, a little unsteady, to the bathroom at the end of the hallway.
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When Danny returned to the open workspace, Jerry was sitting in front of the computer Danny just had been sitting. Jerry looked up as Danny approached him. He looked a bit weird at the fact that Danny was holding a trashcan in his hand, but he didn't say anything about it, so neither did Danny.
"There you are. Why didn't you respond?" Jerry didn't seem to notice the white but greenish color on Danny's face.
"Yeah I uh… I had to go to the bathroom." Danny didn't owe Jerry any explanation, so he just skipped the throwing up part. "Did you find anything?" Danny looked at the screen from a small distance, he hoped Jerry didn't see the video as well. Or the fact he opened the file with the tag 'Williams', but it was Jerry he was talking to, so he probably did. The video was gone though and Jerry had opened another file.
Danny could see MP4 files. Danny walked up behind Jerry so he could see it a little better. He looked at the file name. It was named 'Edwards'. He could feel a shiver going down his spine. "What are those?"
"Nothing." Jerry clicked the file away.
Danny cleared his throat. "Why would you do that?"
"Not relevant." Jerry put on his most innocent face as he looked at Danny.
"Not relevant? Let me tell you this Jerry, I for once am not in the greatest mood, if you haven't noticed yet, so if you don't open that file in the next five seconds, you're the one who's not relevant anymore." Danny threatened because he was tired of being the one to be left out on information. Jerry took the threat serious and opened the file again.
"Thank you. Now what's there to see?" Danny held onto the chair Jerry was sitting on, he was still a bit shaky and throwing up drained all the energy out of him.
"I'm not going to be the one that showed you. You can open them yourself, but I'm not going to do that." Jerry took his hands of the keyboard and held them up in the air, surrendering himself.
"Open them Jerry." Danny demanded and Jerry opened one of them obediently. Just like before, the MP4 file opened and started to play automatically. There was again no sound only a visual. He recognized it immediately. It was Rachel's old house. The footage was centered on the front door. He could see himself standing in front of the door, Grace opened it and hugged him tight. She said her mom goodbye and left with Danny. Grace looked so young in the footage. Danny looked at the time stamp. The footage was from 2010. That was six years ago.
David had not only taken pictures of them. He had access to Rachel's security surveillance as well. In- and outside their house. He had been watching them, on their most private moments. The one place where his daughter was supposed to be safe turned into a peephole for David for years.
"How many files?"
"1094." Jerry knew he had to be accurate, because Danny wasn't the one to mess around with at this point.
Danny couldn't help it, he felt so much anger, but at the same time he was frightened. He couldn't protect his children like he thought he could. His stomach turned around again. He could just get hold of the trashcan and threw up once more. He didn't know a human being could throw up when there was absolutely nothing left in his stomach, but he did. Jerry looked with some disgust, but caring at Danny.
Jerry grabbed Danny a plastic cup of water from one of those water tanks that were standing on every floor. "You okay?" He asked as he offered the cup of water.
"Yes, I just like to throw up, for fun you know." Danny said sarcastic because he was a bit embarrassed that Jerry witnessed this.
"You do?" Jerry took the sarcastic comment serious.
"What?" Danny looked questionably and in disbelieve at Jerry. "No you putz."
"Oh, you're being sarcastic." Jerry responded when he got the comment. Danny didn't have time to argue he had to call Rachel, but first he needed to clean up the trashcan once more, so he did. After he returned, Jerry was back at the computer and working on the laptop at the same time. Danny took his cell phone out of his pocket and called Rachel.
"Rachel, you home?" Danny asked immediately when Rachel answered her phone. Jerry could hear Rachel answer and ramble on the other side of the line. "No I'm fine. Do me a favor and disable your security system. Camera's, just everything."
"Would you trust me for once?" Danny really needed Rachel to turn off those cameras. "No I'll explain later, just disable it and find another company to secure your house." He couldn't care about the case anymore, he needed Rachel to bring their children to safety again. He knew David was gone, but somehow it didn't feel right. Rachel agreed, not getting Danny's point, but she listened to him and Danny disconnected the call.
"Uh you want to see this." Jerry asked it careful, but sounded enthusiastic. Danny walked back to the computer. He studied the computer screen, but once again he couldn't make anything out of it. There were a lot of numbers on the screen.
"It's like seeing Stars Wars isn't it?"
"Huh…?"
"You know, when you have seen a specific movie so many times that you know what's coming, you can tell every scene and you recognize what you're looking at. That's Star Wars for you isn't it?
"Yes, I guess?" Jerry had no clue on where Danny was going with this.
"For me, I haven't seen that movie, so I don't know what I'm looking at. You, uh you might want to give a little teaser." Danny signaled to the screen. Jerry got the moral code of Danny's usual unguided ramblings.
"All right, I found more login files. Ones that were changed and they match with some of the burglaries."
"They connect?"
"Yes, I haven't found all of them though, but I'm sure it's somewhere…" Jerry typed very quickly as usual, but he suddenly stopped. "You might want to get McGarrett here too." This time even Danny knew what he was looking at.
"That's… that's great work." Danny activated his earpiece. "Steve? We need you up here."
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Danny looked up as the elevator door opened and Steve stepped out. He was alone, Parker wasn't with him.
"Where's Parker?" Danny sounded hostile.
"Lou's with him." Steve eased him. He didn't need Danny to kick Parker's ass.
"What did he want?" Danny could feel his blood boiling through his veins.
"Mister Parker thought he would offer the island's finest some help." Steve quoted Parker.
"Oh he did? How generous of him. What about he turns himself in, how about that, huh?" Danny used an underlying sarcastic tone. Steve could also hear hostility in Danny's voice.
"Sounds good to me. Where did you need me for?" Steve knew Parker wouldn't turn himself in, so Steve better change the subject before all hell broke loose again.
"I found more login files. They connected with some burglaries. Haven't found all of them, but I just discovered this list." Jerry signaled that Steve should come and look at the list on the computer screen.
Steve walked over and studied the screen. "Is this what I think it is?"
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A/N: This chapter turned in to a very long chapter, or two smaller ones and I went for the last one obviously. I did not intent to write such a long story at all, it just seems to have a life on it's own. Hopefully you guys still enjoy it. Part II will be uploaded soon. MAHALO for reading.
