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Author's Note: Hm...progress is...progressing in this chapter. We're getting close. So close I can taste it. Not much of Danny in this chapter; the team is working to find the good detective. Thanks for reading and reviewing thus far, everybody. I really do enjoy all the feedback and support! :) Happy reading!

4. And We All Fall Down

It was painful. It was painful for Steve to have to wait any longer. But the results from the DNA test could only come so fast. The lab techs were doing the best they could, but it still made Steve nervous. He needed Danny to come home safe. He couldn't care about anything else at the moment.

"Boss, test results are back." Kono announced as she shoved the door into Steve's office. He snapped his head up, eager for her to finish. "The hair came from a man named Davis Hewley." Steve stood and walked past her, snatching the paper in her hands to examine it himself. She followed behind him, unfazed by his silent bossy behavior. "Chin is looking him up right now."

The two came to the tech table and Steve looked at the screen on the wall, eyeing the information carefully. This had better be good. He couldn't take much more of this stress.

"What've you got, Chin?" he inquired seriously, his jaw clenching and unclenching in the suspense of the situation. Chin typed quickly, doing his best to up his speed.

"Hewley doesn't have much of a record. But the one thing that stands out is that he was charged for car theft in Jersey." Chin brought the record to the screen, highlighting the arrest. "And the arresting officer on the case was…" He paused for a moment as he and the team stared at the screen, waiting for Chin to finish. "Danny." Kono and Steve seemed to take a deep breath at the same time, trying to calm their nerves. A revenge case. They were always so gruesome. At least it was some sort of lead.

"Can you get Danny's report on the arrest?" Steve huffed, partially relieved and slightly worried by the new information.

"Sure can." Chin mumbled, hastily getting to work.

"Anything else you can tell me about Hewley?"

"Not really. I hardly had time to look before you came in."

Steve sighed and rubbed his face with both hands. This case was wearing him down and it hadn't even been twenty-four hours. If it had been, Danny would probably be dead by now. Hell, if it really was a revenge case, Danny could be dead now. No, he couldn't think like that. Danny wouldn't go out that easy. He'd first have to complain and argue with his captor, arms flying. Danny Williams wouldn't just let a man kill him without him saying something about it. Steve smirked a little. It was a stupid thought, but it brought a sense of hope to Steve's mind.

"Danny's report reads that Hewley was arrested without any problems. If anything, Hewley went willingly." Chin explained, typing away as he searched further. "Although, Mrs. Hewley filed for a divorce while he was in prison. Looks like she took custody of the kids too. Hewley was just released last month for good behavior." More typing. "He bought a ticket to Hawaii two weeks ago and checked out a room in a hotel in Honolulu on the same credit card."

"He didn't even pay with cash?" Kono asked, leaning on the table. "It's like he's not even try to hide."

Steve stared at the photo of Hewley with a frown. The man had reddish brown hair and an oval face. He looked to be balding slightly, but his smile was carefree…innocent. He looked like a normal dad from suburbia. It was a wonder how people could change. It was almost heartbreaking how easily people could change.

But that didn't matter at this point. Danny was all that mattered.

"Alright, let's go get him." Steve ordered, immediately heading out.

Steve knocked on the door with a heavy sigh. He wished he could just kick down the door and get this all over with, but he was expected to act somewhat cordially. After all, Hewley hadn't been proven as a violent suspect. Uniforms waited just down the hall for Five-0's command, but still kept their distance at Steve's request.

"Five-0, open up!" he yelled with a near growl. There was silence on the other side.

"No thanks!" called a voice, muffled by the door.

"If you don't open up, I will be forced to break down this door!" Steve replied, huffing and clenching his jaw.

"Well, don't throw a hissy fit! It's unlocked!" the voice responded with slight laughter. Steve couldn't take that. This wasn't something to giggle about.

He turned the knob carefully, his gun held in front of him. He had no idea what was on the other side of the door, but the man's voice seemed nonthreatening enough. He gave the door a small push, letting it glide open as he entered. Kono and Chin followed behind, their brows furrowed in seriousness.

"How adorable! I didn't know Five-0 was such a tightly knit team!" Hewley said cheerfully, smiling broadly. He was sitting on the bed, leaning back as his arms propped him up. "So…you're here about Danny." Steve didn't reply, he simply scowled angrily.

"Why didn't you even bother hiding?" Kono asked, her gun trained on him diligently.

"Oh, honey. I ain't got nothing to lose." Hewley laughed. "No wife, no kids, no house, no job. So, what's the point? Besides, I kind of wanted to meet the famous Five-0 team."

"What did you do with him?" Chin muttered, just as diligent with his firearm as Kono. For a moment, everything was silent. Hewley just smiled, looking each of them in the eye. They didn't move, determined to get whatever information they needed.

Out of nowhere, Hewley just started laughing, beginning with a chuckle until it grew to a hearty laugh. Chills ran up the team's spines as they said nothing, only aiming their weapons at the strange man. Their guts weaved into an uncomfortable twist, fearing the worst. This just couldn't be happening. Not to Danny.

"Phew, the look on his face when I told him I was going to kill him! Priceless!" Hewley chuckled.

"What have you done to him?" Steve growled, his finger tightening on the trigger. He had to resist the urge to pull; he had to know what happened to Danny.

"Look, I'll give you a hint." Hewley sighed, still grinning. He made a move towards the table, stopping as the team plunged closer.

"Relax! Just grabbin' a pen a paper…" Hewley laughed, picking up the two items casually. "I'll give you the address and a clue." He scribbled on the paper, smirking to himself. After he finished, he held the paper out to Steve, who snatched it away quickly to read it. It was an address. Steve looked up at Hewley with suspicious eyes.

"What's the clue?" he asked cautiously, stuffing the address into his pocket for safe keeping. Hewley grinned mischeviously.

"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I reerected the old rampart of bones. For half a century no mortal has disturbed them."

Steve practically bore his gaze into Hewley's, a silent challenge transferring between them.

"Chin," Steve sighed. "get some of the guys from HPD in here. They can handle this weirdo while we go look for Danny."

Chin nodded and ran out to the hallway to grab some uniforms as Kono continued to aim her gun at Hewley. Steve pulled the address from his pocket to study it, Hewley's clue jumbling around in his head. Nothing stood out to him; nothing made sense.

It took a half an hour to get to the address and it ended up being in the middle of nowhere. The house on the lot was a dilapidated, old thing that was mostly made out of brick. It was falling apart, looking more like a ruin than a house, but it was rather large. The ruin stood at two stories with, probably, a basement. It was practically inviting crime to live in its walls.

"Looks like Hewley's clue comes from an old story by Edgar Allen Poe." Chin explained. He had been attempting to look up the information for the whole ride, but it took awhile before the team could remember the exact phrase…or anything close to it. "It's called 'Cask of Amontillado'. It's a story of a murder. A man traps somebody behind a brick wall because he was offended." Chin spoke urgently, the words tumbling out of his mouth as the team got out of the SUV. Even then, Steve was pulling out his firearm and walking quickly towards the house.

"You think Hewley bricked Danny in somewhere?" he asked, his heart squeezing painfully at the thought. Just to think that Danny was stuck in some dark little box…it made Steve sick. Danny didn't deserve to die like that. He was a free sort of guy, open to speak his mind; open to care; open everything. To trap his personality in such a little space…that wasn't right.

Steve didn't wait for anyone to answer him; he was already running into the house, frantically searching around him in the twilight of the evening. Water dripped through the ceilings, gathered from a rainstorm in the area and dampening the house. Steve blinked away the drops that dripped over his eyes, urgently searching the soggy, old building

"Danny!" he yelled, jogging from one room to the next.

"We need to look for new walls!" Chin called, trying his best to keep up with his boss. Steve wasn't going to slow down. Not until he found his partner.

"Danny!" he shouted, the hysteria nearly breaking through. He was so close…so close and he didn't know what to do next.

"Damn it, Danny! Answer me!"

It was too quiet. He was hoping Danny would just mosey out of a room, whining, "what? What do you want, McBossy?" But there was no Danny. There was no whining. He was trying to look for new walls, but the place was just too damn large.

"Hey! Hey! I found the wall!"

Steve looked around frantically, trying to find Kono's muffled voice.

"In the basement." Chin supplied, huffing in a doorway. Steve shot off towards the stairs before Chin even knew what was going on. Before he even hit the bottom step, Steve had his flashlight out, scanning the dimly lit room for Kono.

"Over here!" she called. Steve jogged in her direction, the light of the flashlight fully illuminating the clean, red bricks. Steve pressed his ear to the brick, straining his hearing to search out Danny.

"Danny!" he shouted, hoping his voice would get through the brick. There wasn't a sound. Not a single sound.

"Find something to break down this wall." Steve huffed, searching every little crack of concrete to find a weak spot. Chin and Kono rummaged through piles of old tools and furniture, searching diligently for something to throw against the brick wall.

"Will a hammer work?" Kono asked, holding up the tool. Steve thought about it quickly, finding no time to really ponder these things.

"Yeah, it might work better." he replied, pulling his trusty knife from his pocket. Kono ran over and handed Steve the hammer, almost bouncing in place without anything to help with.

"Kono, let's try and find another hammer." Chin suggested as Steve plunged his knife into the concrete, wriggling it angrily. It would be better to move the wall brick by brick so it wouldn't injure Danny, but it wasn't exactly the quickest way.

He violently moved the knife back and forth, eager to break a piece of the wall away. Steve managed to loosen the brick, knocking it into the brick cage by hitting it with a hammer. He let out a quick sigh and quickly got to breaking the wall down piece by piece. He instead knocked the bricks outward by sticking his arm into the wall and hitting the hammer on the other side of the wall. It was excruciatingly slow to Steve. He just wanted it to be over with.

Kono managed to find another hammer in the pile of tools and she and Chin began to replicate Steve's process. Chin Used a flat piece of metal to loosen the concrete as Kono pounded the other side of the wall. The wall was slowly crumbling away, finally making a gaping hole in the lower half of the wall.

Steve wiped the sweat from his face as he shined his flashlight within.

"No…No, no, no…"

Kono and Chin moved behind Steve to get a better look.

"I'll call an ambulance." Kono said urgently, running back up the basement steps for better reception. Chin didn't say a word.

Author's Note: I know, I know...that was super cruel of me. But I thought it was a nice stopping point for the chapter. :P So close, everybody...So. Close. Please review! Let me know what you think.