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You will get a closer - and surprising - look at Abby Webster in this chapter.

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"THE BOOTS" chapter 5
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AT FIVE-0 HQ...

"Check into property holdings for both Hill and Swanson. It may give us a lead on where they're holding them." Steve says, rubbing his eyes. It was now early morning and none of them had slept. Nor would they sleep, until Kono was found.

AT THE WAREHOUSE, NOW ABOUT 6am...

"You get any sleep?" Miena asks Kono as she approaches her cot.

Kono shakes her head, "Not in this place. You?"

Miena also shakes her head. "This place is filthy."

"I think I heard a rat nibbling at the bottom of my cot all night." Walton says with a shudder, as she approaches and taking a seat next to the other two.

"We've gotta get outta here. We can't help these women if we don't get outta here." Miena says, keeping her voice low.

"If we timed it right, we could take Stevie and Jimmy down. But if we leave without the women, they'll have them gone before we can get back with backup." Kono says. Walton agrees.

"I'm not convinced we should take that risk, since they have a gun. What if I go out the window and go for backup alone?" Miena suggests.

"You're the only one who'll fit through that tiny thing." Walton says.

THREE HOURS LATER...

There is a noise at the door, it's being unlocked. Stevie and Jimmy enter the room. The girls working the early shift would soon be taken by van to their locations for the day.

"You three!" Stevie yells, "Get out here!"

Miena, Kono, and Walton all comply, slowly walking into the main part of the warehouse. Again, acting scared.

"I'm only gonna ask you one more time." Stevie says, "Who are you workin' for? And don't tell me that same crap story you tried yesterday, 'cause housewives don't dress like that." He added, referring to the women's attire.

"Halloween is coming up. This costume was easy to find." Kono insisted.

"We want the truth." Jimmy orders.

"We already told you." Kono begins, "Until yesterday, we were just three bored housewives, feeling a little sorry for ourselves while our husbands are all out of town, until we came up with this stupid idea-"

"Stupid idea?" Miena interrupts, "Who's idea you callin' stupid?"

"Yeah," Walton chimes in, playing along, since the game had obviously changed, "We just said, 'let's do something new and different'."

"Hey, you're the one with kids," Kono says to Walton in an irritated tone of voice, "You're the one who felt 'old' and 'boring'."

"I kinda like these cat fights." Jimmy says to Stevie a minute later, after they'd watched things escalate to the point of yelling between the three women.

"Yeah, well, I don't have time to watch a chick fight right now." Stevie replies. "Shut up!" He suddenly yells at the women, then roughly ushers them back into the locked room.

After the door locks behind them the three women smiled at each other. Then Miena ripped the heels off her shoes as Kono and Walton position a cot under the window to stand on. A minute later Miena stands precariously on their shoulders, a pillow case wrapped around her hand in case she needs to break the glass, struggling to reach a pipe on the wall to use to reach the window. It takes several minutes and several tries before succeeding.

"Don't look back." Walton whisper-shouts to her as she squeezed herself through the tiny window.

"Just keep going, no matter what." Kono encourages her, knowing she and Walton will incur any fallout if Miena is discovered missing.

"Let's get this cot moved back, before they suspect something." Kono says, grabbing one end.

"Too late." Walton warns, gesturing to Abbie Webster, the Mayor's granddaughter, who had begun banging on the locked door and yelling for Stevie and Jimmy. All the other women in the room had kept quiet, hoping the tiny petite blond would make it out the window and get help for them all.

Walton and Kono rush over, grabbing Abbie, trying to quieten her. "That won't do any good." One of the girls speeks up. "She may be in here with us, but she's still their rat."

Abbie continues yelling untill the door opens and Stevie enters. Walton and Kono both rushing him like football players tackling an opponent with the ball. They knock him down, sending his gun sliding along the floor. Abbie runs out, hopeing to grab the gun, but several of the girls run after and restrain her, allowing Walton to reach the gun first. She immediately grabs Stevie's jacket, hoping the keys are in the pocket, then ushers all the girls back into the room, away from the fight between Kono and Stevie.

"Get 'em outta here!" She hears Kono yell. She knew her colleague could defend herself and probably take Stevie down as well. But right now their priority was to protect those girls, even Abbie, and get them out of there. Once back inside the room, she forced herself to remain calm. Several of the girls restrained Abbie, who would run back out to Stevie if given the chance, while she trys key after key on the ring, needing first to lock the door they've just come through, then open the large metal door, hoping it leads to the outside.

AT THE PRECINCT...

"Hill is the registered owner of this property right here, and right here, and another one right here." Chin says, referring to locations on the map. "These warehouses are listed under a fake company name, so it took a while to get through all the red tape and facades. And there's no cell phone registered to either Hill or Swanson."

"We'll split up with SWAT and check 'em all out a lot faster." Steve says, putting on his kevlar. No one was taking one of their ohana and getting away with it.

MEANWHILE...

Miena hadn't needed the pillow case for the window, but it came in handy as she found the warehouse's parking lot surrounded by a chain link fence topped with barbed wire. She endured several cuts, but made it over the fence and took off running.

At the moment, her feet were carrying her as fast as they could to the nearest public place to find a phone. She ran about two miles before spotting a deli.

"I need a phone!" Miena yells as she enters the front door of the deli, as best she can from running so hard and fast.

"Pay phone's around the corner." The deli owner says in a monotone voice without even looking up from the sandwich he is making.

"This is police business! I've got two HPD cops in trouble and I need a phone! Now!" Miena yells. As the deli owner looks up, three customers have already extended their phone-clad hands to the Vice Agent.

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So, we've got Miena running off for help, Walton trying to lock herself and the girls in the room away from the fight, and Kono going all kick-ass on Stevie. Oh yeah, and the guys about to split up in three different directions, hoping one of them will lead them to the missing women. But will all go according to plan?