A/N: Sorry I haven't updated. I would have yesterday, but I was grounded. (sighs) But I'm back with another chapter! And I must say, this has got to be the longest chapter I've written thus far. But anyway, on to my favorite part of each chapter - the shout outs!

Katydidit: What! (stares in fake disbelief) How did Dave and Danny get over there? Why, I'm completly and totally shocked! Come back here you two! (smacks them each up-side of their heads)

future cop: Just as I suspected, you do hate me! Lol! But that's okay because as soon as you and everyone else reads this next chapter, you'll all love me to death! Well, Katydidit might, anyway. Lol! And you're quite welcome.

Misha: Monk really is trying to save her! Really he is!

bringirl2001: First off, I'm glad you're enjoying ". . .Hawaii". Secondly, sorry for giving you all heartattacks. Lol! But my cliff hangers are like a promise for me and all the readers - A promise for me because cliff hangers mean you'll be waiting for the next update and that means you'll read it and leave me a review, and a promise for you because the cliff hanger usally means something big, and I mean BIG will probably happen in the neaxt chapter. And you wouldn't want to miss that, now would you?

Chapter Nine: Secrets Revealed And A Kiddnapping

I knelt down in front of the door, wiped off a spot on the door with a wipe and placed my ear on it.

"Yeah yeah I know, bradda." There was pause. He's on the phone. . .

"Look, I tried to get de wedding over with today but. . .but that Natalie Teeger is one tough broad. . .Yeah I know. . .Yeah bu-. . .Yeah but bra!-. . . Will you let me talk to you!. . .Thank you. Now don' worry about Monk. Once Natalie and her bratty daughter are out of de way, he'll be too easy to get rid of!" I gasped. I knew it! He's going to kill Natalie and Julie! I was too busy trying to come up with a heroic plan to save Natalie and Julie, that I didn't notice when the room door opened.

"What are you doing here Mr. Monk?" A Hawaiian voice said above me.

I looked up to see a frowning Danny. I stood up and brushed my pants leg off. "Can't an employer come see their employee's wedding?"

"Not when they ain't invited."

"I am invited."

Danny stepped closer to me. "Oh yeah? Who invited you?"

"Julie did." Danny didn't seem to like that. . .at all. . .

"Arggh!" He grabbed me by my throat and slammed me against the wall. I tried to escape by wiggiling and scratching his arm, but to no avail. "Stay away from Natalie!" He whispered angrily. "Do you understand me?" When he didn't get a response from me, he thightend his grip around my throat. "I said do you understand me?"

Just then, Natalie's door opened. "Danny!" She ran up and pulled on Danny until he let me go. I fell to the floor on my back gasping for air. "Do you mind telling me why your hand was around my boss's throat?"

"He was saying some crazy things about me!" He lied.

"Well that's no excuse for hurting him. Now apologize to him!"

"But Natalie I-"

"NOW!"

Danny turned to me on the ground and mumbled, "Sorry." Then he stormed off to a location unknown to me.

Natalie bent over and held out her hand. I grasped her hand and she helped me stand back up. She placed a hand on a bruise on my neck. I took a sharp intake of breath. "Oh, I'm sorry!"

"It's okay. . ."

I watched her face as a strange look came across it. Before I knew what was going on, she leaned her head foward and placed her lips gently on the bruise and kissed my neck. Did she just do what I think she did? She pulled her head back and looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry. . .I don't know what came over me. I mean, for goodness sakes I'm getting married tomorrow! I really am sor-"

Natalie was quickly hushed by my lips crushing down on hers. She seemed to hesitate for a moment before she wrapped her arms around me.

"Mom?" A small voice came from behind us. "Woah, baby! Alright Mr. Monk!" I recognized that excited voice cheering me on, it belonged to (a very nosy) Julie!

Natalie hurridley broke away from me and turned around. "Julie. . .hee hee. . .sweetheart. . ." She said as she straightened out her shirt. "Ho-how long have you been there?"

Julie beamed. "Long enough to get an eyeful of you making-out with Mr. Monk."

"Hee, hee," She turned to me and said. "Um, I need to do some damage control so. . .See ya."

She dissapeared into her room.

Stottlemeyer came up from behind me then and patted me on the back. "We need to stop her from marrying Haze."

"But she won't listen to me and besides. . .she dosen't love me. . ."

"Monk, she wouldn't have kissed you if she didn't."

My smile came back. "You think so?" Than a thought came to me. "Wait a minute - How long were you standing there?"

The captain gave a mischievous half-grin. "Long enough to get an eyeful of you making-out with Natalie." He patted my back again. "Come on. I have Randy on stake out so you can get some sleep." He handed me a room card-key. "Room two-oh-four." I nodded my thanks. He was about to leave when his eyes settled on my left hand. My ring finger to be exact. "You must really be in love."

"Why?"

He pointed to my finger - that was bare. . . "You took off your wedding ring." He patted me on the back and headed off down the stairs. I turned and (after I unlocked the door) went into my room to sleep.

"Monk. . ."

I sighed and rolled over in bed. Who ever was calling me was going to have to try harder to wake me up. I was having too good of a dream.

In my dream, Natalie was standing in front of me, a veil covering her face. I pulled the veil up and was leaning in to kiss her when all of a sudden we got tossed in to a body of water!

I sprung up in bed sputtering like I was drowning. "Monk, hurry up! Were gonna be late!" It was Disher. I looked in his hand - in it, he held an empty pitcher.

I spit water out of my mouth. "Late for what?" I asked.

"To stop Natalie from marrying that homicidle maniac!" He threw a towel at me, along with my pants and shirt. "Get dressed now! The wedding's gonna start soon!"

I didn't hear anything after he said that. I was too busy trying to get dressed. . .and worrying that I was too late to stop Natalie.

"Monk, I've got to go find Captain," He rushed to the door. "Can you find the courtyard yourself?"

I nodded.

"Good." He then ran out the door and shut it quickly behind him.

Soon after he left, I ran out of my room and down the hall to the stairs.

As I rushed outside to find the courtyard and stop the wedding, I felt something hit me in the back of my head and I fell to the ground. . .uncouncious. . .

Disher soon reached where the wedding was about to take place. He spotted the captain and ran up to sit beside him. "Hey, Captain." He said as he turned his head to the left and then to the right.

The captain stared at Randy, waiting for him to say something else. "Well?"

"Well, what, sir?"

Stottlemeyer took a deep breath. "Where's Monk?" He asked.

Randy took a few more peeks around before he answered, "Don't know, sir. He should have been here by now."

Stottlemeyer grabbed Randy by the collar. "Didn't I send you to get him?" He said through clenched teeth.

Randy looked nervously at Stottlemeyer's hand. "Sir! Please calm down," He pleaded.

Stottlemeyer looked at his hand and let go. He smoothed out Randy's shirt and straightend out the collar so it would lay flat again. "Sorry, Randy," he apologized. He stood up and pulled down on his suit jacket to straighten it out. He pointed a finger at Randy. "Find a way to stall the wedding." His face became the picture of determanation. "I'll go find Monk."

Randy stood up, and watched the captain leave in a desperate hurry. He scratched his chin thoughtfully. "How am I supposed to stall a wedding?" He looked behind him when he overheard a conversation between Danny and a hotel staff member.

". . .What do you mean you can't get the minister away from the buffet!" He shouted at the poor waiter. Danny punched his left index finger into the poor man's chest several times as he said, "You better get that fat, tub of lard away from the food and out here!" The waiter nodded quickly and nervously and ran off. "And I mean in the next thirty seconds!" He turned around to face his best man while rubbing his temples with his hands. Disher took that oppurtunity to act out the brilliant idea that suddenly ran through his mind.

He reached the dinning hall minutes later. He searched all over until he spotted a man with a rather large body holding a Bible in one hand, and a plate piled high with all sorts of foods in the other. "Uh, excuse me?"

The man turned around and faced Disher. He had a piece of sausage hanging out of his mouth. He sucked in the link, chewed it and said, "Who the devil are you?"

Randy had to think of something. He held out his hand for the minister to shake. The minister placed his Bible under his arm and took Randy's hand. "I'm Randy. The, uh. . .wedding party sent me to tell you that things are running late," He ran a hand through his hair. "Something about one of the bride's maids being depressed and locking herself in the bathroom or you know. . .something like that." He smiled evily as he watched the minister go for more food. "They told me you could stay here for say. . .another half-hour?"

The minister smiled and moitioned to a chair behind Randy. "Sit down, son." He said.

I woke up in some sort of barn. I looked around and saw garden tools and lawn tractors surrounding me. The hotel must use this as thier garden shed. . . I realized that the back of my head was throbbing with pain. And the pain didn't stop there. . .

My stomach was also in pain.

I slowly and painfully lifted my head. There, sitting in a chair across from me was David. . .had to be. . .Danny was off tricking Natalie into marrying him.

It was then I realized the grueling pain in my shoulders. I tried to move them, but I quickly found out that they were tied behind the cair that just that moment I found out I was sitting in. The only tought that came to my mind was Natalie and Julie and rather they were safe or not.

"Where. . ." I tried hard to talk, but apearantly, I had obtained a bloody lip. It didn't make talking impossible. . .just. . .diffuicult.

"Where. . .is Natalie and Julie?"

David reered his head back and laughed sinicterly. "By now, they're probably six feet under."

I swallowed hard as I felt an angry hot tear roll down my cheek. "Why you-!" With all the strength that I had left in my beaten body, I lunged foward.

Several times.

While David just laughed and taunted me.

After unsuccessfully trying to kill the spawn of satan, I leaned back in chair. . .and tried to catch my breath.

"Monk!" Called a famillar voice from outside.

It took a moment to register the voice. . .it was the captain!

"Captain!" I yelled as loud as I could. "Captain I'm in here! Hur-"

I was quickly silenced by a fierce hand covering my mouth. "If you know what's good for you, you'll shut up, and now!

"Monk?" He practically whispered it now.

Feeling as though his old friend and collauge was in mortal danger, he walked up to the side of the barn and cautiously pulled out his gun. He slinked to slowly up to the front where the big wide, double doors and quietly pushed one door open.

I heard a faint crack, like a door was opening. I prayed that Haze didn't hear it too.

"Now you've done it!"

I guess not.

He grabbed a gun, seemingly from nowhere and pressed it to my temple. I winced and piched my eye lids shut. "Back off!" He shouted into the darkened barn. He cocked the gun. "Or you can say goodbye to Mr. Monk!"

Unknown to Haze, I had been trying to loosen up the ropes that were tying me down, and I only needed a few more moments and I'd have it. . .

"Captain! Save yourself!" I shouted.

"You know I can't do that, Monk."

I worked some more on the ropes. . .I. . .almost. . .had. . .it. . .

There!

While Haze was busy watching out for the captain, I quickly grabbed the gun out of his hand and aimed it at his head.

Anger swelled up in me. I wanted to kill him. Oh. . .how I wanted to. . .

But I couldn't. . .

Haze looked at me and smirked. "What are you gonna do? Shoot me?"

I bit my lip hard, and pressed the gun harder into his head.

"Ha! You don't have the guts!"

I was so close to pulling the trigger, when I heard Leland's voice. "Forget it Monk!" He yelled franticlly. "That scum bag's not worth it!"

"But Captain! He killed them!" More tears ran down my face. "He killed Julie. . .and Natalie. . ."

"No he didn't! They're still alive! The wedding hasn'teven started yet!"

I laughed and smiled. I felt like the darkness that threaten to take over my soul had been penetrated by the light of the most wonderful news I could hear.

A second later, Leland found us. He aimed his gun at Haze, as I threw mine to the ground. Without letting Haze out of his sights, he moved closer to me and patted me on the back. "Good job, Monk."

I rolled my shoulders and smiled.

"I'll take care of him, you go stop that wedding."