Chapter Two

It had been a long day. Trying to find the kidnapped girls were a chore but they all rallied together and were able to put the pieces together. The team was thankful that the P.I. would be hanging up his shingle soon, but with out him the case would have been delayed.

Kono was weary as she headed to her parked car. Her shoulders were tense from having to hold her sniper rifle on some tied rope that was tided the side of the helicopter to make an impossible shot. She hated killing people. It tore at her soul; even if she had to protect an innocent life from certain death. After putting the sniper rifle in the at Kono leaned on her car and she took a deep breath and played over the events that happened in her mind. From a sniper's point of view it was a good shoot, although from a human perspective it was frustrating. Why did people have to be so doggone thoughtless? Kono would never know.

Once she arrived back at the office, she carried her sniper case to the armory, to clean it and put it away for another day. As she was passing by her office she noticed that Bucky Barnes was sitting in the open area of Five-0 headquarters. Thinking he was asleep she continued her way to the armory, boy was she wrong.

"Nice shot Kono," Bucky said as he watched Kono's body language tense under hooded eyelids.

"It was," Kono said flatly.

Bucky put his feet down and rose from his seat in the chair and went to Kono's side. "Kono?" Bucky was concerned with the obvious flat tone.

Kono looked at Bucky. Her eyes full of regret and sorrow. Bucky knew that look well. He had, had that same feeling every time a memory surfaced.

"Why do people pay money to be thoughtless and then wind up expendable because of the choices they make?"

There was never a good answer to Kono's question. Bad guys tended to be thoughtless because all they see is dollar signs or it's a woman they think that they love. "I don't know. That is a hard question to answer. All I can tell you is that they made their choices. Whether they live or die they have made their choice. The guy that you shot today made his choice to be a kidnapper and all around bad guy."

"Thank you for answering me honestly"

"Your welcome and one sniper to another that was a good shot; difficult yes but a good shoot."

"Where's Annie?" Kono changed the subject to get back to happier thoughts.

"Annie is with Danny and Rachel. Apparently Rachel is divorcing Stan, they all needed moral support and she thought it would be a good idea to have a partial mediator just in case things got difficult." Bucky shrugged his shoulders.

"No news is good news I take it?"

Bucky nodded his head. "Go clean your rifle and I'll text Annie to pick me up."

"Thanks Bucky"

Bucky smiles a little, "Anytime"