Author Note: I mixed seasons 2-4, I have a bunny that cames in my sleep and I can't get it out of my head, so bear with me, and enjoy Danny's angst.

Disclaimer: These characters are not mine, but the plot is… Poor Danny though.


Sitting in the car as night came, Danny waited, hoping that something will come up, and maybe he will be able to do something about it. perhaps there was going to be an armed robbery he could intervene in.

Then a voice startled him, as he rolled down the window, he was met by the sight of one of Kawika's men watching him.

"What are you doing here, haole?"

"Just watching, why?"

"Nothing."

Curiosity got the better of him as he wondered what the real reason for Kawika and his men was to be there, "Okay, I'm listening."

"Sorry for startling you but based on the pattern of the last robberies around the street, we thought that you had a part in them, but apparently we were wrong, you are 5-0 after all."

"Not anymore, and if you need help in catching those responsible, I'm available."

"Good, we are sitting close by, don't get shot."

Danny's eyes sparkled with a small smile as he told him, "I'm good."

Two hours later, something was finally up.

Three men approached the jewelry store and tried to disarm the alarm and open the door, but something looked strange to Danny, it was as if they were looking for more people to show up, or it was a diversion for something else. His instincts told him there was more to it, and he always trusts them, so he decided to act, knowing that he has a backup of sort waiting around.

"Hey, are you looking for someone else or are you going to rob this store?" Danny asked, and raised his gun.

"Stay out of it, unless you want to be dead." One of the robbers told him, while two of them moved closer to the ex-cop.

"That's enough!"

Danny smiled; he hates when he's right.

"I heard that 5-0 has some reputation, never thought I will catch a cop."

"He's a 5-0?" one of the men asked.

"Well, we have no time to spare," he turned toward the other two men and gave some orders Danny could not hear, and then he turned toward Him and said, "Once we finish here, you are a dead man."

"Promises, promises…" Danny mumbled and then he raised his gun and shot the man in charge in the leg, while Kawika's men showed up to deal with the other two.

Once they secured the would-be robbers using their own zip ties Danny walked back to his car, knowing that he needed to move it elsewhere. he didn't want to see any HPD around.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"I can't be near when HPD arrives on the scene, I'd better move somewhere else."

"Wait, do you have anywhere to sleep?"

"No, but I can handle myself, I'll be fine."

"Well, we know where to find you." They smiled at him, he smiled back and walked to his car.

Once he rode away, and found a quiet road, Danny parked the car and shut it down, and then tilted back the driver's seat so he could rest till the morning. Hopefully tomorrow he might find another scene to pursue. hopefully alone and without Kawika's men around.

He felt he didn't deserve to be saved again, he had nothing to live for anymore.


On the next day, 5-0 heard about the armed robbery and how it had been handled. From what Duke told them, this sort of thing was going to spread quickly, but they had instructions from the governor not to pursue this investigation.

Lou didn't understand what is going on and he asked, "Steve, what is going on?"

"It seems as if someone decide to appoint himself to be the law in the street."

"And do you know who this is?"

"Yeah. I think I do," Steve replied and added, "One of the would-be robbers told duke that the man who shot him was 5-0 and after that, two men appeared from nowhere and helped him."

"So, what are we going to do, boss?" Lou asked.

"Nothing, the governor asked us not to deal with it, and Duke said that HPD been looking for those guys that were caught, he told me that they are suspected of multiple robbery attempts both during the day and during the night, so maybe Danny did us a favor by catching them."

"Do you think that he was hurt?" Lou asked.

"I didn't ask, and honestly, I don't give a damn." Steve answered and left toward his office.

Lou walked after the boss, wanting to ask a few questions.

"Hey boss," Lou called and caught Steve's attention, "Do you have Danny's address?"

"What you need it for?"

"Just checking things, something all of you said is not making much sense to me."

Steve checked in his office and then wrote down Danny's last address on a note and gave it to him, "Tell me if you find anything."

"And why would I do that? Just a couple of minutes ago, you said that you don't give a damn, what changed?"

"Look, something had happened before he disappeared and was kicked out of 5-0, we were coming closer, more than friendship, but then he seemed to be needing more than love, the money issue."

"So, you prefer him dealing with his own demons, God knows where, and you have feelings for him, just like that. I think that you need to check your feelings, is the love you have for him or is it for someone else in your life, because you switching your allegiance very fast, you need to decide about your feelings when it comes to your heart," Lou said more than he meant to, as he added, "If I was Danny, dealing with everything I lost, and that included you, I wouldn't want to be around you, or close to you."

With those words Lou left the office. he needed to follow the lead and he thought he may find more info about Danny, so far, the man seemed alone, lost and might have a death wish, just like his boss.


That night, Danny rode his car around, and noticed something flash in the dark. well, he thought to himself, crime fighting was in his blood, and maybe stopping crime would give him a chance to survive the street in this hell-hole island.

Danny left his car, not noticing the two men walking close by, shadowing him.

"Let Kawika knows, he's here again, as I see it, the haole will take our night jobs if he continues like this."

Meanwhile, Danny was approaching a couple of men who appeared to be fighting one another. "What's going on in here?" Danny asked, only for the man who held the knife to turn and try to stab him, while the other tried to beat him up.

"Come on, we've got to help him." Kawika's men hurried toward the haole, they will deal with Kawika later.


As Lou left his car, he noticed the lousy apartments, and he couldn't understand how Danny Williams chose to live there.

He walked toward the yellow police line and snapped it as he opened the door and noticed the messy apartment.

It seemed that there was no sign of Danny being back there.

"McGarrett, Danny's not here, and in fact, I don't believe that he slept in here since the event that started this whole thing."

"I'll keep you updated."

A door was opened, and a neighbor walked into Danny's apartment.

Lou turned around and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Andy, Danny's neighbor, and you?"

"I'm Lou Grover with the 5-0."

"Funny," Andy laughed, "No one in 5-0 is taking matters into their hands to try to clear Danny, why would you care about him?"

Lou sighed heavily, "Look, I'm the new guy, I just want to know what really happened."

"Do you think it will help? Because the last time I told this McGarrett guy that I have a video surveillance and he just went away and didn't come back."

"McGarrett knows?" Lou asked, and then he asked, "Do you have a copy of that tape?"

"I can make one, come by tomorrow and I'll give it to you."

"Good, because I need to speak with my boss, thank you for telling me this Andy."

With that, Lou left heading toward his home, Renee was waiting, and he didn't want to be in the doghouse with her.

TBC...