Emily stared dumbly at the wallet she held in her hands, not fully understanding what it meant. What was it that Mr. McGarrett had said? Whoever had attacked Danny had probably taken his wallet. Well, here it was, but...

But that's impossible. Frank and Sam don't even know Danny. There's gotta be another reason why they have this.

Then Emily remembered that they did know Danny, or at least knew who he was. After all, he'd put their father in prison. Sam and Frank both knew exactly who Danny Williams was, and they had reason to hate him.

"It can't be," she whispered. "There has to be another reason."

She didn't have time to try and figure it out. At that moment, Emily heard her cousins enter the house, and she rushed out of their bedroom, desperate to know how they'd come across Danny's billfold.

Emily walked up to Frank, who at eighteen seemed at least three times her size. She held the wallet open so he could see the badge.

"Where'd you find this?"

He quickly became angry and reached for it. "Hey, give me that!"

Emily held tight and pulled her arm back. "Tell me! Tell me you just found it in a dumpster somewhere; tell me you didn't hurt him. He could've died because of whoever took this from him. Tell me you didn't put Danny in the hospital!"

"The hospital?" Sam cried. "Was he the one you were making that dumb card for? Frank, you checked him out and told me he was dead. Now we'll have to go back and finish the job."

"Shut up!" Frank hollered. "Give it here, Emily, and nobody gets hurt."

Emily shrank from her cousin's threat, but did not relinquish the wallet. "No."

Frank lunged for it, but Emily moved faster than he did. She ran out the front door, and as she cut across the yard, she heard Frank holler to Sam, "Follow her! I'm going to the hospital."

Emily knew there was only one place she could go. She raced through the streets, with Sam on her heels. She tore through crowds and down side streets, trying to get to the Iolani Palace before Sam could catch up to her.

xXxXx

For the most part, he had no trouble keeping up with his young cousin. She may have been small, but she was fast; he had to give her that. There were a couple times Sam almost lost her, but never for very long. He'd almost caught up with Emily, but then he saw where she was going. Sam stopped in his tracks and watched as she climbed the stairs and entered the building that housed the Five-O office.

xXxXx

Emily didn't stop to see if she was still being followed. She ran through the building and wished she could increase the elevator's speed. She stepped off and raced down the hall, bursting into the office.

Gasping for air, she begged, "Please...you gotta help me! Please...I need help!"

A pair of Hawaiian men stepped out of their offices and into the room, and as Emily leaned against the door, she watched Mr. McGarrett exit his own office.

"Emily? What's wrong?"

"You gotta help me," she repeated, no less frantic. "They're after me, and I think they're gonna kill me if I don't give it back."

xXxXx

Steve placed both hands on the child's shoulders. "Honey, you're not making any sense. Give what back? Who's after you?"

"My cousins!" Tears began to fall as Emily shoved a billfold into his hands. "Frank was going to the hospital, and Sam was chasing me!"

Steve glanced briefly inside the wallet before snapping it shut and forcing it in his pocket.

"Kono, I need you to get a description of Sam from Emily, as well as his address. Go there immediately with back up. Also have three other squad cars fan out to look for him. Don't come back until he's in custody. Chin, you're coming with me to hospital. Emily, do not leave this office until I come back for you."

xXxXx

Danny was jerked awake by someone lifting him by the shirt off his mattress. As he struggled to breathe against his cracked ribs, he looked through still very swollen eyes at a face he recognized. It was one of his assailants-the bigger of the two, the one that had held him still.

"Haven't you got better things to do than to antagonize a man in the hospital?" Danny wheezed.

"I'd better not have to come after you again. This time, you'd better die."

The boy held onto Danny with one hand, and reached into his pocket with the other. He pulled out a switchblade, and as he flipped it open, Danny hated that he was so limited in his mobility. There was nothing he could do to defend himself.

Except to try and talk to boy out of it.

"Now wait a minute, son. Think about what you're doing. You're young and you have your whole life ahead of you. Do you really want to throw it away by murdering somebody?"

"I don't plan on getting caught," the boy sneered. "I snuck in here without any trouble, and I plan on leaving the same way. Besides, only two other people know I'm here, and one of them is being taken care of right now."

xXxXx

Steve and Chin entered the room, guns drawn, as Frank made his speech. Thankful that the boy's back was to them, Steve silently motioned for Chin to take position behind the boy. Then Steve began to speak.

"It's a funny thing about plans, Frank. They have a tendency to change. You're under arrest, for assault and battery and attempted murder of a police officer. Chin, get him out of here."

While Steve was speaking, Chin had quickly taken the switchblade from the surprised youth. Holding onto Frank with one hand, Chin gently loosened the boy's grasp on Danny, and Steve was there to return his second in command to the mattress.

As Chin escorted the boy out of the room, Steve placed a careful hand on Danny's arm. "You all right? Did he hurt you, Danno?"

Danny shook his head. "I'm okay; no additional wounds. Steve, how the hell did you two know he was here? You came in with your guns like you were expecting to see him."

Steve hesitated, not sure how much Danny really needed to know at this point. Oh what the hell. "Emily told us."

"Emily?" Danny was incredulous. "Little Emily? Emily from the bank?"

Steve nodded. "Yes, that Emily. When you were attacked, your wallet was stolen. Emily saw you being loaded into the ambulance, and somebody told her that it was gone. Somehow or another, she came across it, and I suppose she confronted her cousins about it, because not forty-five minutes ago, she burst into the office, going on and on about one cousin chasing her and the other coming here."

"Her cousins?"

"Ray Seamus' boys."

xXxXx

A light bulb went off in Danny's mind. "And Emily's step father is Ray's brother. Steve, where's Emily now?"

"Relax, Danno; she's safe and sound at the office. I told her to stay put until I got back. Kono and several squad cars are on the lookout for the other one, and I'm not taking her home until Sam's in custody and Kono's at the office again."

"Steve you have to promise me that you'll take care of Emily for me until this is all over. I don't want her going home today with anybody but you."

Steve nodded solemnly. "You have my word."