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Chapter Four

Danny paced in front of her, and she stared at him with a blank look. Lou, Tani and Junior were leaning against the wall behind him, and he was trying to come up with something to say.

"You going to ask me something or just stare at me all day?"

Danny stopped short and snapped his head to her, and a shiver ran up his spine, giving him goosebumps and making the tiny little hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

Her voice bothered him. It was calm, smooth and beautiful, and he knew why they called her Silvertongue. It was low and slightly high, but not where it was ridiculously annoying and high pitched. It was exactly how a McGarrett kid should sound, like Mary and Steve. And probably John McGarrett, too. Doris not really.

"When did you arrive in Hawaii?" He blurted out and her lips twitched but she remained straight faced.

"Thursday afternoon." Danny clenched his jaw.

"What were you doing all day Thursday and Friday?" Alyx blinked a bit before leaning her head down and rubbing her cheek against her shoulder.

"I went and had some lunch, then spent all day in my hotel room on Thursday. Then Friday I was working up the nerve to tell my father."

"Working up the nerve?" Lou asked quietly. "You mean you didn't premeditate the shooting?"

"No." She took a breath. "I was trying to figure out how to tell him when I got a call asking for my help. I went and met a man who asked me to kill him and bring his heart in a sack as proof. He told me the money he'd been willing to pay me and then told me the target after I had already accepted."

"Who was this man?" Junior asked and Alyx looked down a bit.

"Sato. But you already know him." They stared at her long and hard before Danny took her chin underneath his hand and lifted her head.

"What?" He hissed. Her skin was soft and her breaths were uneven, but she stared straight into his eyes, burning with fire, but not with hatred.

"Sato hired me to kill Commander McGarrett. I didn't want to do it, but if I didn't, he would find out and come after me and all of you. I didn't want to risk that." She replied lowly, then diverted her eyes.

"So you shot him instead?" Danny asked quietly and she looked at him again. "He is laying in a hospital bed, recovering from the wound you inflicted and suffered a panic attack after I told him he had a daughter that he didn't know about!"

"I didn't want to shoot him!" She yelled and the room stilled. Danny was taken back at the outburst and her eyes were dark with anger, like the way Steve's eyes darkened when there was something he despised in front of him. They were no longer the bright silver he first saw, but now a dark stormy gray and he felt his heart pound against his chest.

Alyx relaxed back into the chair, straining against the handcuffs, her fists clenched together. Her chest heaved and her eyes were quickly analyzing them all, as if figuring out their weaknesses, but she probably already knew that from the hotel room.

"I didn't want to shoot him." She said slowly and calmly. "I didn't want to shoot him, but I had already taken the offer and knew if I didn't Sato would come and kill you all. I didn't want that because I know you all are important people. If you don't believe me, search my belongings and then that'll show you that I'm tell you the truth. And I'll tell you once more, I didn't want to shoot him."

"Sadly, she's telling the truth." Tani said and Danny looked down. A part of him had hoped she was lying, and he knew she could lie easily,

"How do we know?" Lou asked.

"Crime lab went through her suitcase and duffle bag and they recovered multiple balled up letters. When they straightened them out, they found sentences starting out like this one." Junior said and swiped up, a few wrinkly papers appearing on screen.

"'Commander McGarrett, I was hoping we could talk about a few things. I am not press and I'm not a fan, I just would like to'- and then it finishes there." Tani said. "There are five more just like it." Danny pinched the bridge of his nose.

"There was also this on top of the fifth page." Junior said, zooming in on it. In the top right corner was phone number in elegant writing.

"Lemme guess, the phone number came back to a burner phone?" They nodded, making Danny sigh. "Just great."

"But," Tani said, grinning. "Kyoshi was smart to record the phone call, and even though it was spoken in Japanese, Eric was able to translate it. Basically it was a man asking Kyoshi if she would like to meet a person who would like her to do a job for him. Kyoshi complied, and then the man said there would be a town car waiting outside of her hotel for her. We pulled the footage from the security cameras and a black town car showed up. Kyoshi got into it and we managed to get a plate." Junior pulled up the stand still photo and zoomed in on the plate.

"It does belong to one of the Yakuza members here on Oahu, but unfortunately we weren't able to track it." Danny sighed and rubbed his forehead. He suddenly felt old, with the anxiety about Steve in the hospital, this whole thing about Steve having a daughter he didn't know about and now about the Yakuza hiring her to kill him. Why would they have a grudge against Steve? What the hell?

"Also, we went through her phone records, and we found at least twenty cancelled calls all to Steve's phone." Lou said. Danny furrowed his eyebrows and looked up at the letters and other items.

Danny sighed, standing up straight and really hoping he wouldn't regret what he was about to do.

Alyx was staring at the drain when Danny opened the door. She lifted her head and tracked Danny as he walked behind her. Lou, Tani and Junior waited at the door, watching carefully. Danny held up a key in front of her and she flicked her eyes in between the key and Danny.

"I am going to let you go, and then bind you again. If you try something, you will get shot. Understood?" Alyx stared before nodding slowly. Danny leaned down and slid the key into the cuffs, unlocking them before going to the other. Then her pulled out his own cuffs and lifted her up by the arm, pulling her hands behind her back and adjusting the cuffs to where they were tight but didn't cut into her wrists.

"Where are you taking me?" She asked quietly, and her voice sounded defeated. He took her arm, staring up at her, a bit mad about the height difference but got over it quickly.

"The hospital."

Danny handed her over to Lou and SWAT was glaring at her, probably debating whether or not to threaten her because of how she so easily took down the other members. After clearing it with Dr. Yun, Danny stepped into Steve's room.

Steve lay in bed, staring out the window as the rain lightly pelted against the window. The monitor beeped quietly and steadily and he now had the oxygen cannula after his panic attack. He looked tired and stressed for once, and Danny was starting to rethink about this whole thing. He was still a bit weak, and meeting her in person might give him another panic attack, perhaps even worse than the last.

Danny swallowed down the thoughts and bad feeling, before clearing his throat.

"Steve?" Steve looked over and smiled a bit.

"Hey..." He greeted quietly. "How's it going?" Danny chuckled, walking up to the bed and laying his hand on Steve's shoulder.

"How are you feeling?" Steve nodded a bit.

"Better. I ate a little bit, but I'm feeling a bit groggy from the medications and stuff..." He coughed a bit and Danny winced.

"We found Alyx Kyoshi." Steve paused before looking up at him.

"You did...?" Danny nodded and hesitated before rubbing his back.

"Do you think you're strong enough to meet her?" Steve stared, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.

Then Steve nodded and Danny took a breath, smiling reassuringly at him before helping him sit up a bit, adjusting his blankets and Steve took in a deep breath, looking up at Danny and giving him a nod.

"I'm ready."

Danny walked over to the door, waving them in, and then walked back over to Steve.

Alyx walked in, her head down, her hands now in front of her, and Steve tracked her with his eyes.

Steve could feel the instant familiarity with her as soon as she stopped in front of his bed, lifting her eyes to meet his. Alyx Kyoshi looked remarkably looked like him and Kai together, with Kai's pitch black hair and tan skin, with his eyes and both their intelligent minds together. Her eyes were practically silver and so beautifully bright, his heart pounded against his chest, making his wound ache and his body shiver. And he totally forgot this woman shot him and he felt... God, what the hell was this feeling?

Steve felt the others' eyes on him, and they stared at each other for a while before she spoke.

"I was 17."

"Huh?" Alyx swallowed and looked down, shifting comfortably as she tried to think.

"Four years ago I got word that my birth mother was sick in the hospital. She was dying of lung cancer, so I flew out here to meet her and spend her last days with her." Alyx took a breath. "I was getting a snack from the vending machines when a trauma rushed in. I was curious so I stuck around, and then I saw you."

Her eyes flicked back up to him and his shoulders slumped a bit.

"You and your team came in, and when I saw you, I knew immediately that you were my father. I... I watched you give out instructions, and I felt compelled to go up to you and tell you, but I was frozen. I was frozen with fear and the thought that you would reject me, and I regret every moment of that day, but I remember every detail of that day." Then she bowed in a Japanese style, a tear falling from her eye.

"I'm so sorry."

Steve's body numbed and he could see the others look down and Alyx looked up at him, her eyes shiny with tears.

"I will accept whatever sentence they gave me, but I am so sorry. I didn't want to do it." She bowed again and then straightened, nodding at the officer and he gently lead her away. Internally, Steve panicked. The only word he got out was a stupid "huh" and now she was leaving.

"I wouldn't have rejected you!"

Alyx stopped, halfway to the door. Danny looked at him and stepped back, allowing him to get a full view. Alyx hesitated, before stepping back and turning around.

"I-I wouldn't have rejected you." His voice shook and sounded pathetically weak and felt like it, but hoped she wouldn't turn around and leave again.

"What do you mean?" He gulped.

"If you had spoken to me that day, I would have been scared and surprised, but I wouldn't have rejected you."

Gray were on gray as they stared each other, before she looked down, a shadow casting over her face as she smiled a bit.

"Thank you."