Task Force headquarters
New York City
Empty tables, empty offices, everything was changing. Price could only watch in upset as his building was being packed up, he knew this was the end. After the whole incident with his father, he knew where he had to be, he put in a transfer with the chief of police to go to Hawaii and be with Five-0, though he really needed to hold Kono in his arms again.
Mark walked into the door and barely managed to doge the movers carrying the parts of the smart table "So, this is it?"
Price nodded, his arms were folded over his chest "Yeah, this is it. They're going to move the stuff to a different location, and my plane leaves in a couple of hours."
"Did you call Kono? Let her know?"
Price shook his head "Nope, I need to pick something up before I go see her."
"Her Christmas gift?"
"Yup," his eyes looked out at the steel colored tile that was once home to his task force,
They were being moved and Price was going back to where he belonged, he didn't want to leave, but Kono was more important, the way he saw it, jobs were replaceable, it was difficult, but it could be done, but women like Kono….women like her came around once in a life time.
"Mark got something for ya." He reached into the pocket of his jeans and pulled out a white envelope "Marry Christmas bro."
Mark slipped open the envelope open and smirked as a pair of tickets came out of it.
"Remember when we were eighteen? Right before I got shipped out, we went to the AC/DC concert?"
"How could I forget that night?" Mark smirked
"They're having a show in February in Oahu, figured we could go, I'd fly you out, stay as long as you want and get your mind off of Caitlyn and the divorce."
"Ryan….I don't know what to say dude."
"Just bring it in."
Both men hugged each other, Mark was his oldest friend, ever since diaper days, and he knew saying goodbye would be hard, he just didn't know it was this difficult to say goodbye to the guy he thought of as a brother.
The rest of the goodbyes came and went; Lori was already gone, heading back to the Homeland Security building to put in her resignation and to have her stuff moved out to New York so she could help out with the team.
Robert and Demarco's goodbyes went well, Kelly was not that difficult, but he did have a few ideas for her and Peter since the wedding wasn't planned yet, they were too focused on the bowling ball of a baby in his cousin's stomach.
The plane trip was easier then he thought, he just listened to music from his new surface cell phone, it had been going on two hours for a flight from JFK to Oahu, and now the plane was descending to the surface of the airport, before he got up in the air, he shot Yusuf Osman a text to bring his car back to the parking lot, the airport never liked the idea of cars sitting in the parking lot, so he told Osman to keep an eye on it in the garage while he was gone and finished things up in the big apple.
As he left his seat, a chill was sent down his spine as he shot Chin a text letting him know he was back in Hawaii and would be at Kono's in about twenty minutes. He felt this feeling once before, but the last time he had this grim feeling, he had the nightmare of Kono's death at the hands of Ramirez and Adam Noshimuri.
He quickly made his way through the airstrip and looked out; he was half expecting to see Chin or at least Kono there to welcome him home, now he felt scared. He pulled his cell phone out and called Kono.
"Aloha this is Kono, leave message after the beep."
Price's hand began to tremble; the sinking feeling in his gut began to return to him once again, he ran out of the airport to the parking lot and looked out for his car, finding it in the front of the parking lot….but not even any sign of Osman.
He didn't let it bother him as he quickly began to shove his suitcases into the trunk of his car, his laptop bag into the back of his car and immediately climbed into the driver's seat, he knew something was wrong, his mind was telling him that but his heart wanted him to think Kono was just doing casework.
With breakneck speeds, Price pulled out of the spot and drove out onto the main road outside the airport, the lights from the top of the building slowly dimming in the distance as his cellphone went off.
He slipped his ear piece in and accepted the call "This is Price."
The voice on the other side was frantic, fear and panic spread in his voice "Price….Price is that you!?"
Ryan recognized the voice immediately "Chin, what's wrong? You sound like you're having a panic attack."
"How close are you to the harbor outside the maximum security prison?"
Price checked his watch and tapped on the GPS on his phone "About….ten minutes, why?"
"It's Kono…she's…" He could hear Chin's distraught on the other line
"Chin, just tell me what happened." Price flipped the sirens on and pressed his foot on the gas
"The case we were working on. The one that got Fryer killed, Delano was behind it, the partner team that took him and Max down were ex con's he and Fryer put away, they got out, they orchestrated this…Now Delano's out of jail….he's going to kill Kono and Malia."
"Why? I can understand Kono because of the undercover sting against Delano's organization, but why target you and Malia?"
"Because according to them I'm a dirty cop gone good…."
"And Malia's your wife, I got it, where are you?"
"Heading home to get her, I need you to go to the docks, there's a boat, take it two miles off the shore and you should find Kono."
"You got it." Price pressed on the gas again, swerving through traffic "Hey Chin, she's going to be okay."
Chin burs through the door, worry was clear on his face as he ran inside his house, a chair was turned over, and he didn't see Malia anywhere, everything just seemed normal.
"Malia!"
He walked into the dining room and he immediately ran over, Malia was on the ground, her entire body was bloody, from her face, to her hands, her clothes and even her legs were covered from a series of gunshot wounds in the abdomen.
He immediately ran over to her side, he scooped her into his arms, his hands stained with her blood "Baby…come on….open your eyes….It's Chin….open your eyes."
Malia's eyes slowly opened, no words were spoken, she couldn't speak as she looked up at her husband; her head slowly rolled back as her eyes closed.
Chin immediately grabbed Malia's phone from the stand above them "This is Lieutenant Kelly, I need an ambulance now!"
Raul Ramirez slowly paced the ground in front of Kono, his good eye full of hatred, his white shirt had a bit of blood on it, along with his jeans, he carried a sidearm in his pants and a SPAS-12 shotgun by his hand, he was waiting the call, the call about what to do next. He couldn't believe how he got out.
All it took was a few men disguised as police, they killed the guards and released him…and him alone, they didn't tell him much, all they said was for him to retrieve Officer Kalakaua and bring her to a specific location and wait for further instructions.
His phone began to ring as he looked down at Kono, her mouth, wrists and ankles were bound by duck tape, death in her eyes as she looked up at her capitor.
"What's wrong Delano?"
"It's time Mister Ramirez, dump her."
Insanity spread in his voice "No! I was told I could kill her!"
Kill her? Kono's eyes went wide with panic, she had to escape, but if no one was coming now….no one would. Did anyone miss her? Did Price? Would her Dark Knight save her like he did before?
"There's been a change of plans, I said dump her. Right now."
Ramirez growled in anger and threw the phone into the water "He said dump you…" he drew his side arm "Said nothing about injuring you first. Now, he will suffer as I have suffered!
He drew his pistol and aimed it at Kono's chest and pressed the trigger.
"Ramirez? Ramirez pick up the damn line."
Delano sighed and ended the call, this was all too ridiculous, working with this mad dog and former intelligence officer Raul Ramirez.
As he walked to the driver's seat of his truck, he looked at the security footage of Kono and Malia, laughing, he didn't even hear the gun's safety being removed.
He turned and immediately climbed into the car and drove off as the bullets slammed into the paint of his van.
Kono didn't hear the bullet, all she felt was a tug on her chest as she fell into the water, she struggled, that was all she could do.
She wasn't eighteen and be able to swim out of this without any problems at all, she wasn't that strong anymore.
Where were they? Why hadn't Chin or the other guys find her yet? Would Ryan even miss her? Would he even know what happened? She failed to tell him what happened with Ramirez breaking out of prison on purpose, to protect him from the horror of the last year, the last year of paradise for her.
The dog tags, Ryan's dog tags slowly began to rise, they were staring at her, almost like he was right there, the blood was oozing from the wound, the front of her white top was stained as her eyes slowly began to close, she had to give up. This wasn't the goodbye she wanted to give.
Well, thats a wrap! Redemption has been completed after a long year of work and I couldn't do it without all of my readers, you guys made this happen, and thanks to you all, the story almost hit 7,500 readers!
I do want to thank Ircam aka Leni, francis2, war sage, Detective XO, kyzen06 and all of my readers on twitter especially for all of your support with helping me get through these last few chapters.
This was a difficult ending to think of, but I think to think of it as a spin off to S2 if Ramirez and Price were there. Anyway, stay tuned, I won't leave you guys in the dark for too long. By the middle of May, the sequel should be started and stay tuned for another one shot coming out soon thanks to 3.21.
Aloha everyone and thank you so much for reading!
