Yay, the glitch is gone! Thanks for reading, hope you guys like this chapter as well! (Also, Steve and the others might be a tad bit OOC in this chapter but you'll understand why in the next chapter).

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Chapter Six

Steve and Danny got out of the Camaro and headed inside the warehouse to meet Lou and Tani, who were already inside looking at the crime scene. They saw Junior talking to a few civilians and they saw Naolani's van's doors opened, so she was probably already inside.

It'd been about two and a half months sine Steve was shot, and he was healing up nicely, minus the scab over the wound, but the doctor cleared him to start moving around normally, and all four of them decided to make sure Steve didn't do anything reckless until it was fully healed. Which was hard because, well, it was Steve McGarrett, after all. Meanwhile, after talking with the warden (and threatening him too), Steve was able to set up two days where he and Alyx could have an hour to talk and just get to know each other. They used Mondays and Fridays, and after a few sneak ins of malasadas to the guards and warden, he managed to get in food as well. It was breaking the rules, but to see Alyx's face light up in joy at the taste of a Loco Moco was the best rule he could ever break. And he broke a lot of rules, too, so that was saying a lot.

They'd grown extremely close in just two months, after finding out that they liked the same things, talking more of their pasts, and just getting to know each other was the best thing ever. They would play chess, and currently it was 10-0, and Alyx won every time. He had yet to win and got frustrated at the tenth game, because she mocked him by saying, "Mother said I got my intelligence from you, but I think I got all of it from her! You're a baka!" And he couldn't be mad at her because once she started laughing everything melted away. He loved how she occasionally she switched to Japanese when she talked, and sometimes when there was a guard she didn't like escorting her to the visiting area, she would tell him off and he would look confused before getting mad. Then she would give him her smile and that'd shut him up very quickly, and no one could stay mad at her for long. The warden even said she's a model prisoner, and Steve couldn't help but feel like an actual father because of the pride that swelled in his chest, and he had no right to be that way.

Sigh.

"What do we got, Lou?" Steve asked as they met up with them. Lou and Tani turned around, giving them nods of greeting before beginning to walk toward another room.

"Male, mid twenty's, running his prints through the database now." Tani said. "Before we go in, though, there's something you two should know..."

"What?" Danny asked. Lou and Tani looked at each other.

"According to Naolani, it looks like he was tortured. And bad too." Steve and Danny looked at each other before stepping into the room, and Danny looked away immediately, Steve shutting his eyes briefly.

Naolani looked up from her tablet and saw them, walking over.

"Commander, Detective." She greeted and Steve nodded, glancing down at her then back up.

"Prelims?" He asked shortly and she nodded.

"Cause of death was a single gunshot through the head, after being horrendously tortured. Once I do a full autopsy, I'll know what happened to him." Steve nodded.

"Thanks, Naolani." She nodded.

"However, I noticed this during my preliminary examination." They walked over and she carefully opened the shirt, revealing two letters carved into his chest.

RM

They tilted their heads.

"RM?" Danny asked. "What, is that some kind of initial?" Naolani shrugged.

"I'm not sure, but I'll have Eric run it through to see if it matches anything in the database."

"Alright, thanks, Naolani." She nodded and gestured to CSU, who got their tools and walked over. Steve looked at the man again, taking notice of his broken fingers, bruised chest, and his awkward arm.

Steve narrowed his eyes and Danny shifted to look up at him.

"What?" Danny asked quietly.

"I think he was tortured for information." Steve replied and before the others could ask what he meant, Junior walked up, his face solemn.

"Hey, I think you've been living with Steve too long." Danny commented and Junior managed a tiny smile before looking down.

"The vic's name is Will Colson. He... He just graduated from the police academy a week ago."

Immediately, the mood soured and everyone looked at CSU gently laying the body in the body bag, and they gritted their teeth.

"What kind of sick bastard would do this?"

The car ride back to the palace was silent and horribly tense. Multiple times Danny wanted to start a conversation but then he would glance over at Steve and see his face and rethink his decision about what to say.

Tani and Lou were waiting for them when they walked in, looking at the vid screen and the monitors, talking quietly. Junior was in his office, on the phone with somebody, tapping his pen rather rapidly.

"Hey." Steve greeted, and Lou and Tani turned to look at them, their faces solemn. They turned the corner and Steve frowned, Danny's mood souring.

"Why is she up there?" Danny asked sourly.

A picture showed Alyx and a man sitting at a table, Alyx's face displeased at whatever the man was telling her. Her hair was shorter in the picture, and her eyes were just as terrifying as they were when Danny first met her in that hotel room.

"The mark that was on our victim's chest is a signature of a drug dealer named Rico Montoya, and Alyx Kyoshi knows him, judging by this picture. According to some police reports from Mexico, the signature has been left on multiple bodies, but they can never seem to find Montoya. He just disappears, resurfaces and then disappears again. His business has caught the eyes of both the Mexican and U.S. governments, and the U.S. is afraid that he'll try to move his business onto soil." Tani informed and Danny glanced up at Steve's face. Steve was hard to read at the moment, because he was staring at the picture with a blank gaze, so Danny cleared his throat.

"Okay, but why kill a cop if you're going to expand a business?" Danny asked. "And torture him. Did the cases in Mexico have anything similar to this?" He gestured to the photos of the victim and Tani shook her head.

"They were all just kills." Lou replied. "Bullet through the head, with the RM engraved in their chest. I spoke to the detective who was on the last case before Montoya disappeared again, and he said that Montoya hires people to do his dirty work. That's why they can never pin the murders on him, even with the signature." Danny stared before looking at the photo of Alyx and Montoya again, then glanced at Steve. He was still blank faced and Danny hesitated before speaking again.

"And what, we're thinking that Kyoshi could've done a job for him?"

"It's possible." Lou said, also looking at Steve worriedly. Steve finally looked away from the picture, and finally Danny could see he was thinking, but he decided not to ask.

"I need to go run an errand." Steve said suddenly, and he was out of the office before they could ask what kind of errand, and Danny looked at the others, but they simply shrugged, and then sighed and continued their work in silence.

"The last time I checked, I believe it's Wednesday, not Friday."

Steve looked up to see Alyx in the doorway, her cuffs being taken off by the guard, a smirk on her face. He managed a tiny smile and watched as the guard bent down, unlocking her ankle cuffs and then she thanked him and strode over, happily sitting down.

"But judging by your face, this is business, not personal." She leaned back and crossed her arms and he blinked.

"How'd you know?"

"Your face tells all." Alyx waved. "What's up?" Steve pulled up the photo and handed her the phone and she zoomed in on the screen.

"Do you know that man?" Alyx glanced up at him before back at the phone, nodding.

"Yeah, that's Rico Montoya. He's a huge up and coming drug lord in Mexico. Why?" He reached and swiped over, showing the body and she quickly put it down, looking away.

"That man was murdered. He just graduated from the academy, and according to our ME, it seems like he was tortured." Alyx stared at him, before looking back down at the phone, sighing and closing her eyes.

"If Montoya is planning on moving his business onto U.S. soil, please tell me if you know something."

Alyx stared, before taking a breath.

"I was travelling in Mexico after I got discharged from the Navy, and then I was encountered by the police department. A U.S. ambassador had been blabbing about my superior skills of how I managed to keep cover and how well I did in the Navy, and they had been after Montoya for a few months already, but could never grab him fully." Alyx paused, searching his face cautiously. "I went undercover to find out what his plan was, and once I did, the next thing I knew I was standing in a warehouse with him and some of his lackeys while some of his lackeys were pressuring this guy into giving up something, and then they shot him. But they were never able to arrest anybody but it did help that I was a witness to the murder. But Montoya is a dangerous and persuasive man."

Alyx leaned close, and Steve felt a shiver run up his spine at the way the light caught her eyes. Small strands of black hair fell in in her face, and her eyes were like a wolf's when it was about to attack.

"You must stop him."

Her eyes were stuck in his head. Those bright, unusually intelligent, and vicious silver eyes that sent shivers up your spine and made you fearful for your life were terrifying.

As he walked in, pretty much all conversation stopped and Tani and Junior looked away as if they committed a horrible crime. Tani quickly tapped the vid screen and everything pulled off the monitors and table, then immediately tried to avoid his eyes. Danny was doing everything he could to try and avoid his eyes, despite the suspicious squint Steve gave. Lou suddenly seemed fascinated with the ceiling.

"What?" He snapped, and they jumped. "What are you all hiding?" They all looked at each other.

"Steve, I don't think you're going to like this." Danny said, almost gently, as if making sure he didn't blow a fuse in Steve's head.

"What's that supposed to mean?" He hissed and Danny flinched a bit.

"We found something on Alyx." Danny said and Steve raised his eyebrow. Oh, he couldn't wait until he heard this.

"The picture of her with Montoya revealed something. After she met with him, a body turned up, and according to a witness who saw them together, they said Alyx and Montoya got in a truck and drove away. Then a body turned up two hours later." Danny said and then looked down. "Steve, if Alyx is the one who committed this murder... She's gonna be in a lot of trouble with the Mexican and U.S. governments."

Steve stared at the four long and hard, before looking at the monitors, clenching his jaw.

"She was undercover." He said quietly, and they all looked at him.

"What?" Steve looked down.

"I... I went to see her today. That was my errand. She told me that she was travelling in Mexico at the time and the police department found her after a U.S. ambassador was talking about how well she did in the Navy. The detectives had her go undercover to see if she could get close to him, and then once she got enough information, they pulled her out! I know what you all are thinking, but she was telling the truth when she told me." Steve glared at Danny when he made a move toward him, making him back off. "I don't care if it's me being overprotective because she's my biological daughter, but she is telling the truth, so let's just catch this asshole before he strikes again, alright?"

They stared at him in shock, before murmuring agreements and going back to what they were doing. Steve took a deep breath like the stress consultant told him to do if he got worked up, and tried to steady his beating heart. He thought of Alyx's bright and almost baby like face when seeing a malasada, and immediately calmed down. He resisted smiling at the memory, and was snapped out of it when his phone begin to ring. Steve pulled it out and furrowed his eyebrows at the caller ID, which showed it as unknown. He looked at the others and showed the ID before walking up fully to the vid screen and answering it, putting it on the screen and putting it on speaker.

"This is McGarrett. Who is this?"

It was quiet before there was a small chuckle on the other line.

"You should already know, Commander." A shiver ran down his spine and he looked at Junior, who immediately started to run a trace.

"Pardon?"

"I have to admit, your daughter is quite cute. That was my first thought when I met her, after all."

His heart stopped.

"Pretty, soft hair, smooth and tan skin, not to mention her body. It's quite astounding, I must say. It was quite a shocker when I found out who she really was, though, and it was a shame. I was planning on making her my partner, but that didn't work out well."

Steve's grip almost broke the table.

"Eh, but I suppose she'll look better once there's a bullet in her head. And I can't wait to see the look on your face when I pull the trigger! It'll be hilarious!"

"-You son of a bitch!" They all jumped at the sound of Alyx shouting in the background, and grunts before there was a sound like a growl.

"I thought you gave her a heavy dose!"

"I did!"

"You'll regret ever laying hands on me! You hear!?" There was a loud grunt before the man sighed.

"My, my, what a fighter she is. Anyway, I hope to see you soon!" There was a beep on the monitors and then the other line hung up.

Slowly, the others inched away from the horrible aura that Steve was exhibiting, then Junior managed out hesitantly:

"Um, should I get the guns ready?"