Disclaimer: Reference to NCIS Season 9 Episode 24 'Till Death Do Us Part', do not own.
Chapter 2
1 Hour Before the Explosion at NCIS Pearl Harbor. Hale Koa Hotel - Rm 317. Honolulu, Oahu.
Yellow DO NOT CROSS crime scene tape is blocking off the entrance to one room in particular. Two HPD uniforms are standing outside the room guarding it, waiting. Five-0 is walking down the hall toward the room. Steve and Danny are up front Adam and Lou bringing up the rear. Tani and Junior right behind Danny and Steve.
"I wonder why we got called in. This isn't normally a case we'd investigate." Tani tells Junior.
Junior nods in agreement with his partner. "I know, but it must be something important if we were called in. It always seems to turn out that way." Junior replies.
The six members of Five-0 arrive at the door to the hotel room, "Five-0, we're here about the body that was found." Steve says to the younger looking HPD officer.
"Yes Commander right through here." The officer lifts the yellow tape to allow the members of Five-0 access to the room.
The one officer leads them into the room, it's a nice room like really nice Danny thinks looking around the spacious room and view of Waikiki beach and the surrounding area outside. Then he sees the body on the bed, male about early to mid-20's, caucasian probably over six foot judging by how his feet are about hanging off the end of the bed. White foam is left on his lips, like he's had a seizure, and then Danny notices the pill bottles on the nightstand.
Steve looks at the body on the bed laid out in dark wash jeans, and no shirt. Though the victims' chest and arms are covered in tattoos. Not just any tattoos, but Marine Force Recon tattoos if he didn't have a brother who had Jarhead friends in special operations he'd never know what those tattoos symbolized.
Steve takes out his phone and snaps several pictures of the tattoos on the body intent on sending them out to his brother. See if he may know this Marine or not. Steve turns back to his team and the HPD officer.
"Why wasn't NCIS called? This is their jurisdiction normally. I was told explicitly by Special Agent Emma Warren, the next time I tapered with an investigation she'd personally put me behind bars in an actual cell, Governor's special task force or not." Steve tells the officer a bit embarrassed remembering the last time he'd tapered with an NCIS investigation. Even though it had eventually all worked out. Maybe not in his favor exactly seeing as one of his SEAL buddies ended up dead.
"We tried calling them Commander after the maid found the body. Nobody picked up on their end."
"What do you mean nobody picked up on their end those Navy cops can't be that busy." Lou asserted.
"Special Agents." Steve mutters under his breath in his brother's defense. He knows Scott hates it when civilians call him a Navy cop. He's as federal Agent, and a damn good one.
"I mean Captain Grover it's like their phone lines are jammed or busy. We tried multiple times. no one could get through." The officer replies.
"That still doesn't explain why we the Governor's elite task force tasked with taking on high profile cases HPD can't, were called in." Danny says.
"Uh boss." Tani calls from the bathroom. "I think you'll want to see this." Steve walks over to the bathroom with Danny in toe and sees Tani crouched down with a pair of black disposable gloves on kneeling over a pair of denim shorts. It's not the shorts that have Steve's attention it's what's in her hand. It looks like a business card. "It's a business card, an NCIS business card to be exact, from your brother."
Steve with a pair of gloves on himself takes the card from Tani, and looks it over. This is his brother's business card no doubt, says his name and everything has both his office phone number and his cell and fax number on it, and work email.
Why would a Marine have your business card, Scott, what were you up to? Steve asks himself in his head. Well it's not so out of the realm of responsibility you do interact with Marines and Sailors almost daily.
Steve turns the business card over and there's his brother's handwritten scrawl on the back, it's an address, and a time. Also written on the back of the card is 'Call me anytime, anywhere, anyplace.'
"What do think it means?" Tani asks.
"I don't know yet Tani. But we'll find out. Tani I want you and Junior to go find the maid that found the body, ask her what she saw, what she remembers, see if you can't get the security cam footage from the hall." Steve tells Tani.
"Right, got it come on Junes." Tani says and pulls Junior along by his arm out the room into the hall.
"Danny, Lou, Adam you got any idea who this Marine is yet?" Steve asks the remaining members of his team in the room.
"I've got his wallet here Steve. His I.D., cash and credit cards are all here. So this wasn't a robbery gone wrong."
Steve walks over to his partner and looks over his shoulder at the wallet in his hands. "Who is he Danny, what's his CAC card say?"
"His what?" Danny asks a quizzical look on his face.
"His common access card, it's like an I.D. card they give out to active duty service members and select reserves, I've got one it's how I get on the base all the time."
"Well why didn't you say that then, meet Corporal Eli Barnes, lives...lived...in San Diego County, California MCB Camp Pendleton, Active Duty." Danny reads the information off the dead Marine's I.D. card.
"There's a Marine Reconnaissance Battalion stationed there, makes sense. We should probably call his CO let him know what happened."
"First we should find out what actually happened Steven before calling anyone I think that'd be best." Danny replies.
"Okay, there's no signs of forced entry, no signs of a struggle, so that means Barnes here knew who ever did this to him or he let them in." Steve says.
"Or someone swapped his pills before he got back to the room, and poisoned him." Lou suggests
Danny looks back at the bottle of pills on the nightstand. "Or this young Marine here OD'd on pain medication. There's enough drugs here to take out an elephant." Danny explains to Steve.
Steve thinks about it, but that doesn't explain why Barnes has his brother's business card there has to be more to this than a simple OD case. They have to find out all the facts before they jump to conclusions like this.
"I don't like this Danny, this isn't adding up my brother wouldn't just give out his card to anyone. He had to be into something with Barnes."
Steve turns to Lou and Adam, "Lou, I want you to call Noelani and the crime scene guys get them down here fully process the scene then have Noelani take the body and find out how Corporal Barnes died."
"You got it Chief." Lou says pulling out his cell to call HPD and the crime scene guys.
Steve looks at Adam, " Adam I want you go back to the palace try and contact NCIS again, and try and pull up everything you can on the Corporal here, financials, personal history, service record the whole nine."
Adam nods. "And if I can't Steve?"
"Call me we'll figure that out when we come to it." Steve tells Adam. Steve watches the other man leave.
"And where pray tell are we going to go Steven?" Danny asks his partner arms crossed over his chest looking from the body on the bed to the pills on the table.
"To NCIS, to find my brother and find out what the hell is going on. I told you I didn't like this."
"You're referring to this morning." Danny realizes, as they exit the whole hotel room.
"Yes Danny I am."
Flashback - Earlier this morning 0800 hours. Iolani Palace - Five-0 Headquarters - Steve's Office
Steve jams the phone line down in irritation. This is the fourth time he's tried to call his brother at the office and he can't get through. Danny walks over to Steve's and sees his frustration.
"Something wrong Steve, what'd that phone ever do to you?" Danny asks leaning against the door jamb of the other man's office.
Steve gives his partner a scathing look. "It's not funny Danny. I'm worried."
"Why because you've tried to call Scott four times within the last twenty minutes. He's probably wrapped up with a case. It's what 8 in the morning."
"Yes and normally work for him starts at 0730, but I know he likes to get in an early workout at work so he goes in an hour early."
"So he's been supposedly at work for almost two and a half hours and hasn't called you."
"Exactly."
"Did he say he'd call you, have you tried his cell?"
"Well, no but that's not the point Danny, gee you think I haven't tried that!" Steve exclaims. Then he sighs, "Sorry, it keeps going to voicemail. I've left him like six messages."
"Didn't you just speak to him on Wednesday what did he say to you then?" Danny asks walking into the office now and leaning up against the edge of Steve's desk.
"I went over to his place to have dinner with him, Brooke and the kids. Everything was normal. After dinner we went out to the lanai and talked, you know like we normally do."
"And...come on Steve it's like pulling teeth with you what'd Scott tell you."
"I could tell he was anxious or nervous about something, so I asked him what it was, and he told me it was about a case he obviously couldn't give me details, but it was about a raid to be more specific that they were going to conduct in the next two days. That day being today."
"You think something's come up and gone wrong, that's why he hasn't answered."
"Precisely I also tried calling Agent Sullivan, Scott's partner. No answer either."
"I'm sure Scott's fine he just got caught up with the preparations or he left his phone in his locker or his car. You'll see Steve everything's going to be just fine. Now come on I brought malasadas this morning."
Steve and Danny leave Steve's office to go back to Danny's office and enjoy their breakfast pastries. Scott is on Steve's mind the whole morning. He can't get this sickening feeling out of his stomach. Something's wrong.
End Flashback.
Present Day Immediate Aftermath of NCIS Pearl Harbor Explosion
Steve and Danny leave the Hale Koa Hotel though not before checking in on Tani and Junior to get the maid's statement. Steve of course hops in the driver's seat of Danny's Camaro, and the two are off towards NCIS Pearl Harbor.
Twenty five minutes later Steve pulls up to the main gate of Joint Base-Pearl Harbor Hickam. He rolls down his window and flashes his badge to the Air Force security forces Airman. "Five-0, we need to get to the NCIS field office."
The security forces Airman actually walks out of his little guard cubicle and up to the black Camaro. "Sorry Commander only EMS and Fire vehicles are allowed over there right now."
"EMS and Fire what's going on over there?" Steve asks the Airman.
Danny looks at Steve, and back to his phone. "Steve you're not going to believe this."
"What Danny what am I not going to believe." Steve asks slightly worried.
"There's been an explosion at NCIS Pearl Harbor." Danny announces next to Steve.
Steve's face goes from neutral to blood curdling red in seconds. Steve looks at the Airman and looks at his name tape and the rank insignia on the man's chest. "Look, uh Technical Sergeant Owens, I'm only going to ask this once and this is me asking nicely. My brother's an Agent at that office I need you to let me and my partner through."
"There's an urgent matter he needs to be informed off, a part of one of our investigations." Danny adds hastily.
"Of course Commander, Detective, sorry for the delay." TSgt Owens apologizes to the two and waves them through the gate.
Steve despite his need for urgency and growing concern for his brother, and the fact Scott's been in an explosion he drives like a normal person. According to Danny anyway, and gets to another blockade, actually in front of the building.
"Commander Steve McGarrett Five-0, I need to get through." Steve says tersely to an EMS worker.
"Right over there, Commander you can park, but stay out of the way." The EMS worker tells Steve. Steve parks the Camaro off to the side of the destroyed building. Steve and Danny exit the Camaro and survey the scene from afar for a minute.
"Oh my god Danny." Steve whispers quietly seeing the destruction of part of the building.
Danny sees the look on his partner's face and needs to get him refocused. "Come on Steve focus Scott's going to be okay look let's find someone who's in charge and find out what they know."
They find the chief firefighter and ask him about the building. "Can we go inside?" Danny asks.
"Most of the structural damage was done to the outer walls, and most of the office spaces are still intact. The building is structurally sound to go in. You can go through the front right over there." The chief tells them.
Both men nod and try not to run straight into the building. Steve and Danny are not even ten feet into the building when a second explosion occurs knocking both Steve and Danny flat on their stomachs onto the hard concrete floor of the building, the windows blown inwards towards them, shattering.
In another part of building Scott is just getting up. Scott is blown back through SAC Blackburn's office door. He's halfway in and out of the office. His head is throbbing something fierce. He groans as he sits up, "Ah fuck, that smarts." Scott gingerly sits up and takes stock of his injuries he brings his hand up to his forehead and comes back with a really big bump feeling. "Oh oww."
Then looks over and to his left and sees SAC Blackburn on the floor in front of his desk just trying to get up himself. Scott crawls over to his boss carefully. "Ag-Agent McGarrett, what the hell hit us?" Blackburn asks as he tries to stand up, and wobbles a bit but remains upright.
Blackburn helps his Agent up and sits him in a chair near his desk. "What the hell happened?" Blackburn asks again.
"Explosion somewhere in the building. We...we gotta get you outta here sir." Scott tells Blackburn.
Blackburn shakes his head to clear it. "I think you're the one who needs the help Agent, come on." Blackburn helps Scott up and supports him. The two men slowly make their way out of Blackburn's office and into the hall. The two walk around the corner and see the destruction and devastation Agents and employees alike helping each other up. Off in the distance another explosion goes off, and Blackburn and Scott get knocked back down.
"That doesn't sound so good. That was a second explosion." Scott realizes.
"This is like the Washington Navy Yard all over again." Blackburn responds.
"We don't know that sir, but it very well could be, come let's keep moving." The two men finally come open the entrance and see two very familiar bodies on the floor.
"Steve!" Scott calls out alarmed.
"Danny!" Blackburn exclaims in alarm.
They rush over to their down friend and brother. "Scott you're okay." Steve says as he helps Danny up and than goes to hug his younger brother.
"Not that I'm not happy to see Five-0 here, but we really need to get Agent McGarrett to a bus. He took a hit to his head in my office." Blackburn informs Steve.
The four men make it outside and there they can see just how bad the damage to the exterior of the building is and they also can see the cause of the explosion. As Steve is helping walk Scott to an ambulance and about to help him on a gurney Scott stops him.
"That's our car!" Scott exclaims. "Well that's the MCRT's pursuit vehicle. Oh god we...they drove it straight here."
"Someone planted a bomb in your unit's car?" Danny asks in disbelief as he helps Scott on the gurney. What used to be the black Camaro is now a smoldering melted burned up wreck.
"Danny, you have to find who did this and why." Scott says as an oxygen mask is fitted over his face. Steve is already in the ambulance waiting for Scott to be loaded up.
"We will Scott don't worry, we got this." Danny says and squeezes his friend's brother's shoulder. He closes the doors to the ambulance and taps the back of it. The ambulance drives away. Danny looks over at Blackburn. "Where are your people being transported to?"
"Tripler, they have the most experience with blast related injuries." Blackburn says swaying a bit on his feet. Danny knows that, that's where all HPD officers, employees and Chin went when HPD headquarters was blown up, seven years ago back in 2012.
"Whoa there, buddy. Think we should get you looked at too, Agent Blackburn." Danny waves over another paramedic and gets Blackburn into an ambulance without much fuss from the other man thankfully.
Danny watches the ambulance leave and then stands there with his hands on his hips just looking around at everything. He sees the black Camaro that's exactly the same make and model of his own Camaro. It's jarring to see it blown up like that. That someone would go to great lengths to do this to a lot of good people. It makes him sick.
Danny refocuses himself, since the Special Agent in Charge of this whole office is carted away in an ambulance, Danny knows he has to take point, take charge. Since Steve has gone off in the ambulance with his brother to Tripler.
He finds the fire chief again who's actually a Senior Airman. and finds he's busy ordering his men around. He's focusing on getting the rest of the injured out and taken care of. Now Danny is normally a patient man considering who his partner is, but considering what's going on he uses what Steve affectionately calls his loud Jersey charm.
Danny puts his thumb and his pointer finger between his lips and lets out a loud whistle to get the fire Chiefs attention. "Detective Williams, Five-0." Danny reintroduces himself again to the fire Chief.
"What's Five-0 doing here?" The fire chief asks. "I'm kind of busy here, dealing with all this." the Chief gestures around to the building and all the minor injured Agents and employees. Those seriously injured were rushed to Tripler as soon as they are found.
"I can see that, has anyone checked out the car where the bomb originated?" Danny asks the thirty something year old fire chief.
"Haven't had time I'm stretched pretty thin here. I'm doing the best I can."
"I'll take care of that I'm calling HPD get bomb squad down here to check it. That car we think is part of an investigation we're running."
"You mean all of this." The chief gestures to the half destructed building. "Is part of case you're working."
"It's part of it, the NCIS MCRT and CRT unit, were working a case, we just got a case this morning that may have a connection to do with their case"
"All Agents of that unit have been transferred to Tripler for medical care, if Five-0's taking over the car bombing you do what you need to do, I'll deal with what I need to." The Chief tells Danny glad to have at least one thing off his plate.
"Glad we've got an understanding, Chief." Danny says pulling out his phone and hitting HPD on speed dial. "This is Detective Danny Williams Five-0 I need bomb squad down to NCIS Pearl Harbor and I need them down here yesterday."
Danny waits the agonizing 20 minutes it takes for the bomb squad to get here. There's a lot he needs to do but he's gotten good at multi-tasking over the years. "Detective Williams, I'm Captain Kai Akamu." A man of clear Hawaiian descent, with his tanned skin and short black well groomed black hair addresses Danny.
"The primary explosive device came from that car over there, it used to be a black 2019 Camaro..." Danny starts.
"Don't you drive a Camaro detective?" Akamu asks.
"Yes I do, but it's not mine, it belonged to the MCRT that works here, they were transporting a perp for their murder case back here, that's all I know. There was also a secondary device that went off when Commander McGarrett and I entered the front of the building." Danny tells Akamu.
"You and Commander McGarrett went back into the building after the first bomb went off. That's not something I would have advised."
"We didn't know about the second bomb, we were told it was safe to go inside, we had no idea it was there!"
"Easy Detective calm down, my team will split up and search, both the car and where the secondary device was found. We'll call you with our findings. This is your number right?" Akamu asks rattling off a phone number that is indeed Danny's. Danny nods his acknowledgement.
Danny makes his way back to his own Camaro, and once inside he just sits there for a minute breathing deeply in and out. The amount of times his own car has been blown up he and Steve have thankfully never been in it just near it at times.
The one the MCRT was driving the charred and burned remains of the car, it could have been blown up at any time probably. He thinks he's having a secondary exposure freak out, or something, because he startles at the sound of his own phone ringing.
He picks it up on the second ring. "Williams." He answers not looking at the caller I.D. "Hey Tani, what do you have for me anything? She didn't see anything suspicious. They were well, this is unfortunate, I suppose we'll have to try a different angle, someone must have seen something. You and Junior go back to the Palace regroup with Adam and Lou see what Adam's found out about our dead Corporal."
"Where are you right now Danny?" Tani asks over the phone. She and Junior are sitting in her car outside the Hale Koa giving Danny a sit-rep. She'd tried to call McGarrett, but it went straight to voicemail.
"I'm at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Steve and I went to see if we could get answers out of his brother Scott, but we ran into a roadblock, there was an explosion at the NCIS office." Danny informs Tani.
Danny hears Junior in the background asking if they're both okay. Danny swallows and answers carefully, not wanting to worry his teammates, "Steve and I were caught in a secondary explosion when we went into the building looking for Scott." Gasps of shock and worry are heard over the line. "I'm fine Tani and so is Steve, just a few scraps and cuts, Scott and the head of the field office SAIC Blackburn were taken to Tripler. No I don't know about any other casualties yet, or confirmed fatalities."
"Update us when you can?" Tani asks.
"I will Tani, tell Junior I'm fine and I'll take care of our SuperSEAL." Danny hits the end call button and leans back against the headrest of his seat.
He closes his eyes tight for a minute and breathes in and out of his nose. He opens his eyes a minute later, and blows out the breath, this is not how he expected the case to go when they got the call this morning. The fact that they got in the first place doesn't make sense. This is the case they're working now and they'll all see it through to the end, find Barnes' killer and make everything right again.
Danny turns the ignition in his car and revs the engine as he drives away out of the parking lot of NCIS. He's heading to Tripler Army Medical Center to check on his partner and make sure his partner's brother is okay. He knows Steve gets touchy and tends to get more err irrational when it comes to his younger brother. He's the same way with Mary too.
He gets tunnel vision at times and it takes Danny every time to bring Steve back into focus. Danny hits the lights and sirens about halfway willing the Camaro to go faster.
Tripler Army Medical Center - ER, Moanalua, Oahu.
The ER is a place of controlled organized chaos on any given day, but today it's like ten times what it normally is. Half the ER is filled with federal agents and employees of the NCIS office, along with the regular junkies, drug abusers, the ER is filled with everything from sprained ankles to severe gunshot wounds.
Lane is sitting in one of the little curtained off cubicles in the ER waiting for the nurse to get back with the suture kit for the deep laceration on his right arm. Lane had been in the armory when the bomb went off with a bunch of the armorers that work there. This isn't how he expected his day to go. Well possibly end up in the ER, but not because of anything he did, but because of his partner. That's usually how it happens.
He can hear all the noise and hustling and bustling about outside his cubicle. It's making him antsy he has no idea where the rest of his team is or if they're even here, much less their conditions. Everyone is so busy they're pretty tight lipped. His curtain gets pulled back and a young looking nurse about twenty something comes in with a suture tray and begins working on his arm.
Lane sees the young nurse shaking a bit and can get sutures just right. Lane reaches over with his left hand to steady hers. "First day?" Lane asks a kind smile on his face.
"Yes I'm sorry." She replies.
"No need to be sorry, helluva a first day for you huh, I'd be nervous to. Tell you what you let me stitch myself up and you can watch how it's done right. It'll be our little secret." Lane tells her putting his fingers to his lips in a shhh motion.
"I don't...I'm not allowed to do that."
"Barbara is it?" Lane reads her name on name plate on her blue scrub top. She nods. "I was a Special Operator combat medic, I've fixed up worse injuries than this I know what I'm doing." Lane says.
"Okay if you're sure we won't get caught." Barbara says and hands over the kit to her patient. As Lane is finishing up suturing his arm closed, he hears his partner loud and clear before he sees him.
"I'm fine doc. I'm telling you I'm fine, I don't need to be here." Scott is shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Man can't I have one day without my partner making my life harder." Lane groans and gets up from his bed.
"Oh, I didn't realize you were in a relationship or married. I didn't see a ring." Barbara says shocked.
Ah the conventions of work relationship partnerships. "Oh, Barbara that man yelling and hollering down the hall is not my boyfriend or husband in any sense of the words, we work together. We're work partners."
Barbara blushes furiously embarrassed, "Oh! I'm so sorry I shouldn't have assumed."
"It's alright well if I'm all clear to go I better go get him to settle down before he decides he can walk outta here by himself." Lane gets up off the bed waves to Barbara and heads towards the sounds of his irate partner.
Lane makes it to Scott's little cubicle and pulls back his curtain. "Dude what are you making all this damn noise about you trying to make the biggest ruckus in the ER or what?"
Scott looks towards the sound of the new voice. "Thank god Lane someone with some sense tell the doc here I'm fine. I don't need to be here. I've got a case to wrap up."
"Hate to say this man but the case is the last thing you should be thinking about right now." Lane tells his partner. "Your health comes first."
"But I'm fine, no headache no dizziness none of that." Scott protests.
Steve wishes his brother hadn't taken after him the whole playing off 'I'm fine' thing when it came to injuries. He guessed it was just in their blood or something. "Scott bro seriously just let the doc here check you out. You hit your head you could have a concussion."
"Let the doctor be the judge of that man seriously we're all getting checked out we were in a building explosion not too long ago remember." Lane reminds his partner.
Scott slumps back on the pillows and crosses his arms and tries not to wince in pain. Okay he may have hurt his arm. "Really no need for all this fuss there are patients, Agents out there worse off than me I'm fin...uh oh...I don't feel so..." Scott didn't finish his sentence, because instead of speaking he projectile vomits all over his partner's front.
Lane is taken aback and looks down at his vomit covered shirt. "Well this isn't the first time you've thrown up on me and I'm sure it won't be the last." Lane sighs. A nurse leads him out to get a fresh shirt.
"That proves it you're not okay Agent McGarrett." Dr. Blake Carson tells him. "You've got a concussion and I'm going to bring in a nurse to look at your arm and get it splinted. We're getting you admitted and you're staying overnight for observation is that clear Master Chief."
"Aye aye sir." Scott says with a smirk on his vomit covered face.
"I was in the Army you know that."
"Do I? Huh must be this concussion, I'm not remembering stuff so right."
"Scott bro don't joke like that." Steve scolds his younger brother seriously.
"Sorry Steve, hey help me up I gotta piss and get this vomit off me." Scott says. Steve doesn't move right away because another nurse pulls open Scott's curtain and she looks pissed.
"Scott!" A female voice yells in shock and anguish the woman with straight blonde hair and green eyes in Army scrubs rushes over to his bedside. She leans over him and hugs him tightly, then she pulls back and slaps him across the face. "Don't you ever scare me like that again."
"Hey." Scott whines petulantly. "Wounded here, you gonna patch me up Brooke?" Scott asks with puppy dog eyes. Brooke smiles at her husband good naturededly.
"I swear it's like I have six boys instead of five." Brooke shakes her head and gets to work on setting and splinting her husband's left arm. "Okay you're all set, I'm going to be busy the rest of the day so please make sure you take your pain meds. I'll see you tomorrow at home. I'll try and stop by after my shift." She places a light kiss on Scott's cheek and then leaves the cubicle.
"Okay she's gone doc do I really have to stay here?" Scott asks. Before Dr. Carson can answer, Scott's phone rings he pulls out his slightly damaged phone from his pocket, and hits the answer button without thinking. "Agent McGarrett, yes sir. I realize that sir, but...no sir I understand, yes full cooperation. Whatever means necessary of course sir. Thank you."
"Who was that? That was a lot of sirs." Steve notes curious.
Scott looks over at his brother and at Lane who's now taken up residence in the only other chair in the ER cubicle. "That Steve was our boss. Director Leon Vance from Washington D.C., he obviously got wind of what went down and he wants whoever did this taken out permanently."
Lane looks into his partner's blue hazel eyes and says with a certain determination. "You don't have to worry about the team Scott we got you covered. We got the McManis case covered, all wrapped up in a nice little bow."
Lane's phone goes off in his pocket, just as another nurse this time not Scott's wife comes in. "We're ready to move you now Agent McGarrett."
After almost nine years of his brother being in NCIS, Steve still hasn't gotten used to his last name being attached with the title Agent. It sounds good for Scott and he likes his job, he's home with his kids more, that's one of the reasons he retired from the Navy and from the teams. Plus that whole almost dying overseas thing ordeal a few years back, really put things in perspective for all the McGarrett's. Steve's already lost his father, he can't loose either Mary or Scott.
"Agent Sullivan." Lane answers his phone. "He's what!" Lane exclaims done the phone. He looks at the nurse and her expression. He then signals to Steve and Scott that he'll take his call outside. Lane walks down the hall and outside of the ER. "Are you absolutely sure?" Lane takes a deep breath to collect himself sighing before speaking again, this day isn't even half over and it's only going to get longer from here. "I'll notify the rest of my team and my unit chief, my team lead's being admitted to the hospital though. He's not going to like not being kept in the loop. I know, I know it's in his best interest. Alright, alright I'll be over in twenty." Lane jabs the end call button with his thumb.
He turns around to the concrete wall and stops himself right before he punches it just, places his palms on the cool concrete wall. Having a broken hand won't help anyone plus his right hand is his dominant shooting hand. He breathes in deeply again and then out before heading back into the ER.
Lane finds out the status of his other two team members and the status of his unit chief and the MCRT from a nurse. They're all stable and all only sustained minor superficial wounds and injuries and were immediately released after they were treated and told to go home. Looks like Lane is now numero uno on the team, and has to take care of everything. Lane walks back to where Scott's cubicle is, situated but it's empty now.
He flags down a nurse. "Excuse me, ma'am I'm looking for a friend of mine McGarrett, uh Scott McGarrett, he's being admitted to the hospital for observation due to a concussion he sustained in the NCIS bombing."
"Yes, he's on the fifth floor room 507." The nurse replies.
"Thank you." Lane than sends off a quick text to Steve to let him know where he's going and where to find him if need be. Since Lane was driven by another co-worker to the ER, he doesn't have his car so he calls an Uber to take him back to NCIS, so he can grab his car.
Lane takes an Uber back to NCIS, and it's still quite the scene there, he finds the Agent who called him just to make sure what he heard on the phone was right. Both Agents are standing off to the side of the building away from all the rescue crews out of the way. "Are you absolutely sure McManis isn't accounted for?"
"Yes sir, Agent Sullivan, I was watching the room he was in, but then the explosion happens and I'm knocked unconscious. When I come to moments later, he's gone."
"This wasn't a terrorist attack like the Washington Navy Yard in D.C., the bigger the distraction, the more chaos there is, this was huge, that son of a bitch McManis planned this."
"Planned it sir? What do you mean?" The agent asks.
"I mean the bomb in the MCRT's car, this whole explosion it was a distraction so he could escape our custody. All this so he could escape." Lane's eyes shot up in realization at something he thought of. What all this means, "Now there's a serial killer loose on the island."
Lane turns and starts running towards his car. The agent he's talking to calls out to him. "Where are you going sir?"
"Five-0, I've got to warn them!" Lane shouts back.
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