this is continued from the last chapter
Catherine took the offered tablet from Kono and pulled out her phone at the same time frowning as she walked off towards Steve's truck where she sat down in the passenger seat where an officer was standing by at the request of Steve to stick close to her and she took a sip of her water talking to someone. Steve followed rest of his team to where the body was, "Any id on the man?"
Chin answered him, "David Holmes but seems he has no record criminal or service."
"And the only reason his prints are in the system is because he's a bartender," Kono continued. "The reason his prints are in the system is because he's bartender which required him to give his prints but were having trouble finding a connection between him and Montoya at the moment."
"You two going to spill the beans about this guy?" Danny asked his partner. "His personnel files are all classified which is where you two come in."
"Catherine is running a few things and getting us his files that the Navy has on the man."
Catherine shook her head as popped some Tylenol as got off the phone but her head was killing her so didn't want to walk around so looked in the glove box for her sunglasses, "Officer Connor can you find me Commander McGarrett for me and ask him to come over here for a minute?"
Steve was kneeling down looking at the man as officer walked over, "Commander the woman you asked me to watch is looking for you."
He nodded and headed back to his truck seeing her yawn, "Should get some sleep but what you find?"
She handed him the tablet, "My CO sent everything that had on the case to us and said if need to can call and use their resources but wants to be kept in the loop."
He sighed and kissed her on the lips, "I got this just get some rest."
She rolled her eyes at him but knew what he meant, "I will head back to HQ and get things going there," she told him snatching the truck keys from him. "Will need to catch a ride back with Danny."
Danny looked up as he walked back over, "Now you know how I feel when you steal my car keys and want to take off."
"Have no idea what you're talking about Danno but she's headed back to headquarters to get things going there."
Catherine was driving to the Palace and couldn't help but shake the feeling someone was following her and looked to see her phone on the holder on the dashboard and clicked it dialing Steve's number as it was ringing she took a sharp turn seeing a car make the same turn. Steve looked at his caller id and answered, "Yea, Cath?"
"Seems to be someone following me since left the scene," she told him. "Red mustang but seems that he's making every turn I am."
"Cath, where are you right now?" he grabbed Danny's car keys and his partner followed him speeding down the street. "Cath?"
Just as she was about to respond someone slammed into the side of the truck causing it to flip on its side sliding knocking her head against the window she could hear him yelling into the phone but blood was coming from a gash on her forehead as she heard sirens coming. Steve turned a corner and didn't miss seeing his truck on its side he slammed on the brakes not far Danny grabbed the fire extinguisher from the trunk of his car to stop the fire under the hood as Steve ran over and carefully pulled her from the truck and away from the wreckage, "Danny, grab my gun from glovebox before can't."
Danny did as he told him and the first aid kit from his car and raced over to his partner, "She doing okay?"
Catherine opened her eyes but not focused, "Hey Cath, look at me."
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The ride to the hospital was slow because traffic seemed to be heavy with a few other major car accidents that seemed to be around the area but Steve was forced into the waiting room as she was whisked away to another exam room and he pulled out his phone as it was ringing seeing Bryan was calling, "Hey Bry, what's up?"
"Thought your plane was landing earlier and called to see if wanted to get some lunch?" he asked.
"Got caught up in a case but will see about getting some lunch soon," he said and hung up as a doctor came over. "How is she?"
The doctor sighed, "She has come cuts and bruises but biggest concern is the knock to her head she took that gave her a mild concussion."
"How is the baby? When can she go home?"
"We will watch her for a while more but should go home in a few hours and the baby is holding up just fine to the trauma."
He followed him to the a room where she was laying on her side facing tech window, "Cath, how you feeling?"
She didn't turn to face him, "My head is killing me but just even more tired than was feeling when got back here earlier."
He handed her back her tablet, "Kono suggested might want that to help finish what you had left off earlier."
She yawned as he sat down in a chair facing her, "I can try to get more of an idea but-" she stopped talking for a moment. "The car was a red mustang maybe '08 plate started AZU 9 but that's all that could see before he hit the side of the truck and I hit my head on something."
He leaned over kissing her, "Good thing have a hard head but was on the window. Get some sleep Duke has some men here watching the door."
Danny looked up from the smart table as he walked in, "How are they doing?"
"Cuts, bruises and mild concussion but doing just fine and yes had Duke put someone on her room with a new phone."
Kono walked over, "Seems that had found nothing on Montoya or any of his aliases but APB is out to every precinct in California."
Danny ran a hand down his face, "You talk to the kids?"
"Talked to Bryan whose wondering about getting some lunch but think will pick him and Matt up after school when bring her home and get something to eat."
"Little man has been wondering when you two would be coming home," he told his partner. "So would love even few minutes with you."
He put his tablet that Catherine had sent everything she had found to on the smart table and everything popped up, "This is everything we had eight years ago-"
Danny held up his hand, "Thought you were a seal back then?"
"I was working Naval Intelligence at the time as a seal and was the first case Cath and me worked together on."
Danny shook his head, "Oh, so this is a little special?"
Kono pulled something up on the table, "Seems that he was working on each of the bases during the 18-month stretch since they are all about 3 hour car ride from Coronado where you caught onto his real identity and where he had no choice to but to go underground leaving everything behind."
"Chin run the names that had got from the bases and boats at the time against each other and see if there are similarities between the lists."
"We have a mug shot that maybe a few years old but take it to Fong and see if can age it. Run both through face recognition and see if can find something."
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Steve had left the team to do their own thing for a while as he headed to the hospital after grabbing both of them a change a change of clothes he headed to the hospital and made sure everything was okay for him to check her out of there and headed to her room excusing the guard he found her not facing the door, "Ready to get out of here?"
She turned smiling at him, "Thought had forgotten about me being in here and springing me sometime today."
He moved to change into clean clothes as nurse came in to talk to her and she did the same, "Thought would go pick up the boys and get something to eat before head home so you can get some sleep."
The ride to Matt's preschool was in silence as he noticed she was asleep so he headed inside looking around, "Commander McGarrett, Matt has been talking nonstop about your wedding last week and how can't wait for you to come home but has missed you like crazy would say a daddies boy," his teacher assistant said. "Seems that has been expecting you all day."
Matt was sitting at a table coloring when teacher stopped in doorway, "Matthew someone is here to-"
He turned around to see him standing there and took off running into his arms, "DADDY!"
Steve picked him up, "Missed you too buddy."
The teacher collected his things, "Good to see you missed him."
He carried him outside and set him in the rental car, "Where's your truck?"
"Was in a car accident so need a new one," he told him. "How has school been? Helping Danny and Gabby?"
Matt played with his teddy bear, "Danny and me had so much fun. We stayed up late watching movies and eating junk food."
"Of course uncle Danny did but at least you had some fun. You want to get something to eat?"
"Yep, but Cath feeling okay? Seems really sleepy."
"She just bumped her head earlier so her head hurts a little but don't be to loud tonight."
Bryan finished his classes for the day and headed outside noticing that his brother was leaning against a rental car, "Hey, crash your truck or something?"
He clapped him on the shoulder, "Haha, you're so damn fun but let's get something to eat before need to head back to work."
They headed to a café not far from the house and Matt sat down in his lap as Catherine sat across from him, "So what happened to your truck?"
A waitress came over to take their orders, "Just car accident so going to get a new one."
"You wont be working this weekend and miss my party, right?"
"No one is going to miss the party and you get the invites all out already?"
"Yeah, finished them other day and mailed them out," he told him. "How come you went to New York for honeymoon?"
"Because we have been all over the world," Catherine answered him this time. "And a lot of the places we had gone to were romantic so was one place hadn't been that both wanted to go."
After eating he paid the bill and by the time they got back home he had to carry her inside to the master bedroom undressing her down to tank top and didn't miss the few bruises that were over her left side from where she had hit the door but kisses side of her head and saw Bryan had put Matt down for a late nap, "Going to be a long night if need something give me a call but let her sleep."
"Sure thing but what happened that crashed the car? What's with the undercover cops around the block and house?"
He poured himself some coffee, "Someone from Catherine and mine past came back and may have crashed into the truck just more of a precaution."
He nodded and grabbed a soda from the fridge, "Sure, I have quite a bit of homework to keep me busy and if anything can call you for something. So I you figure out anything about my party?"
"Sorry bro, not spilling anything about your party this weekend and have a whole week for this case so will be done by then."