Phantom

By

Landon Richardson

Official Disclaimer

The characters of Lieutenant Commander Steven 'Steve' McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Officer Kono Kalakaua, Adam 'Toast' Charles, Meka Hanamoa, Amy Hanamoa, Billy Hanamoa Mary McGarrett, John McGarrett, Steven McGarrett (Steve's grandfather/namesake), Lieutenant Catherine Rollins and Doctor Max Bergman do not belong to me in any shape or form. I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes.

The characters of Danielle 'Danni' Williams, although originally based on the male Danny Williams on the show, is probably different enough that she can be considered her own creation since she has a different background and different personality to her male counterpart. This also in turns changes Grace to an extent as Danni has full custody but also a civil relationship with Grace's father which reflects in the way Grace is. I should also add that Grace's surname is Taylor as Williams is Danni's maiden name which she reverted back to after her divorce was finalised.

The characters of Lily Williams, Doctor Rosamund 'Rosie' Lange, Doctor Richard White, Lieutenant Colonel David Williams, Special Agent Jack O'Connor, Lieutenant commander Riley King, Lieutenant Louisa Palakiko-Cowan and Detective Liam Mead are mine as well. Any other character who might pop up who you don't instantly recognise will probably belong to me as well. I'll hopefully catch them in time to put above though.

Author Notes

Here's the next chapter for you all.

This chapter will begin to reveal some of the world which Danni lives in, its safe to say that Steve is a little out of his depth but I doubt that will hold him back for long, especially not when its something which concerns Danni.

Anyway please enjoy

Overall Summary

Danni Williams has always kept her secret close to her heart, guarding it preciously, determined to hide who and what she is but when that secret threatens her life and those around her she realises that some things aren't meant to be kept secret. Some secrets have to come out no matter what the consequences are. (McDanni saga, McDanni)

Chapter Summary

"DANNI" Steve yelled, hearing the horror in his voice as he dropped to his knees beside his fallen partner. He reached out, moving her gently onto her back and peered anxiously down at her white face, mentally kicking himself for not noticing what had been happening to her the whole time he had been speaking to his father.

Overall Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)

Chin Ho Kelly / Malia Waincroft (Chalia)

Kono Kalakaua / Charlie Fong (KoFo)

Mentions of past Duncan Taylor / Danni Williams (Dunni)

Mentions of past Steve McGarrett / Catherine Rollins (McRollins)

Chapter Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni Williams (McDanni)

Other Note

~ Point one – Please be aware that nearly all of the locations which are used in this story are either from the internet (thank you Google!) or made up by me. I claim no knowledge of Hawaii having never been there before.

~ Point two – Although this story is technically part of the Danni and uses many characters from the universe, it is to be considered an A/U of the world and not one which is reflect or affect any of the other stories I write unless stated otherwise.

Dictionary

Lumeneai – Fire Element

Waiaugavai – Water Element

Xeoaisa – Ice Element

Honuaterralagi = Earth Element

Kapasetoo – Death Walker


Chapter Seven

Stay here


"DANNI" Steve yelled, hearing the horror in his voice as he dropped to his knees beside his fallen partner. He reached out, moving her gently onto her back and peered anxiously down at her white face, mentally kicking himself for not noticing what had been happening to her the whole time he had been speaking to his father. He had been too wrapped up in the conversation to notice that Danni had been suffering. He wanted to shake her for putting him first, rather than her own health. "Danni? Babe can you hear me?" He demanded, pressing his fingertips against the side of her neck, letting out a shuddering breathe when he felt her pulse beating sluggishly against him. "Danni come on now, I need you to wake up and show me your beautiful eyes." He pleaded with her still form, his body suddenly tensing as he crouched beside her protectively, turning to face whoever the running footsteps he could hear approaching them.

He wasn't prepared for Meka's form to shoulder tackle him, sending him staggering back a few steps though he recovered quickly, resisting his instincts which were telling him to eliminate the threat in front of him.

"Hanamoa" He growled, his eyes narrowing when Meka held his hand up at him, his eyes never moving from Danni's form.

"Damn it McGarrett, what the hell did you do to her?" Meka barked, finally looking at Steve with a glare which would have sent a lesser man running, Steve froze into place, watching in disbelief as a blue tinge came to Meka's dark eyes. He held his hands up in front of him, keeping his facial expression mild. He could hear Danni's words about who Meka was and what he could do floating around his head. Meka was no longer just a good Homicide Detective who happened to be one of Danni's closest friends and her former partner, now he was a water element, either one of the Latent or one of the Evolved who could probably kill him with a single twist of his hand, if he chose to. Danni hadn't gone into detail but Steve knew her well enough to be able to read between the lines. If Meka controlled any source of water then that would include the water which the human body was made up with and that was a death which Steve didn't want to experience.

"Look Meka I…" He began to say, stopping abruptly when Meka cut across him, his voice coming out low and shaking with an intensity which Steve had never heard from the man in front of him. In all the times that Steve had met him Meka had been the picture of laid backness to the point that Steve had begun to believe that the other man didn't have a temper on him. Clearly that had been the wrong assumption for him to make.

"You just couldn't leave it alone could you? You just had to keep pushing and pushing her until she was trapped you jackass. You have absolutely no idea what you've done have you and even if you did then you probably wouldn't have cared as long as you got the answers which you wanted." He shot Steve a look of disgust before he turned his attention back to Danni, concern coming to her face as he spoke. "Come on Blondie, don't do this to me. You need to get up so you and I can have a long talk about your little stunt here."

"Meka, look I know that you and I haven't seen eye to eye before but you know that I would never do anything to intentionally hurt Danni, I would rather-" Steve halted what he was saying as Rosie and the rest of Five-0 skidded to a halt beside them, clearly realising that one of their own was down. Steve watched as Rosie immediately knelt down beside Danni, her eyes fixed on the small blonde as she ran her hand over her, clearly looking for some form of injury.

"Is she okay?" Meka demanded, beating Steve to the question.

"We need to get an ambulance down here for her now" Rosie stated, looking around her with a cautious look before her eyes landed on Officer Watson who was standing near them watching the scene with a look of what appeared to be fear in his dark eyes. "Watson, get on your radio and get an ambulance here. Tell dispatch that it's code Alpha"

"What's wrong with Danni? Boss man, what's happened? You were just talking with her right? Did she mention feeling ill? She seemed fine earlier on" Kono demanded, concern on her face as she knelt beside Danni, reaching out and grasping her shoulder as though she needed to have contact with her friend

"Code Alpha? What the hell does Code Alpha mean?" Steve demanded, ignoring Kono's comment, confusion washing over him. He clearly wasn't the only one who didn't know what it stood for if the reaction of his team were anything to go by. Even Chin looked puzzled and Steve knew for a fact that the older man knew all the codes used in the force. Officer Watson however clearly knew what it meant as he turned and ran towards one of the nearby squad cards. "Rosie, I need you to talk to me and tell me what's happening? What is wrong with my partner?" Steve demanded, keeping his gaze on the tall red head as he reached down and took Danni's hand in his, ignoring the glare which Meka shot him as he held on tightly, his thumb stroking across her cold knuckles.

"What's going on Commander is the fact that Danni has never been able to say no to you or deny you anything even when it's in her best interest to do so since the day you met." Rosie answered him, a clipped tone to her voice which he wasn't used to hearing. "What's the ETA on the ambulance Watson?" She asked, turning away from Steve to look back towards Watson as he approached them again

"Within five minutes Doctor Lange" He answered her. Rosie nodded at him, looking back down at her friend.

"Come on Danielle don't do this to me." She murmured, tilting her head back and focusing her attention on Chin when he spoke.

"Steve will you tell us what happened?" The native demanded, a tone to his voice telling them all that Chin wanted an answer to his question. Steve looked at him, his eyes searching Chin's face before they flickered to the other member of his team, trying desperately to come up with an explanation which wouldn't reveal what Danni had truly been doing.

"She collapsed Chin that's what happened." Meka answered for Steve, his tone short as though he was trying to discourage any more questions the team may ask.

"But what did she collapse of Meka? I spoke with Danni this morning and she seemed absolutely fine, she didn't even seem tired" Jack stated, making no effort to hide the worry from both his face and voice. "Are we looking at a potential attack or poisoning?"

"She hasn't been attacked or poisoned Jack so you don't need to worry about that" Rosie told the tall blond, sparing him a quick glance before she looked over her shoulder at the familiar sound of approaching sirens. She came to her feet, standing in front of Danni as though she was protecting her, her pale blue eyes narrowed as she waited to see her emerged from within. The minute she saw she was moving, throwing out a curt "Stay with her" to Meka who nodded his agreement before he turned his attention back to Danni. She was still pale and still but her expression didn't seem as tense, looking almost natural.

"I'm going with her to the hospital" Steve said suddenly, looking up at Meka when the other man snorted at his comment.

"No offence McGarrett but don't you think you've already done enough. It would be better for everyone if you stayed here and leave Danni to us" Meka remarked, the dismissive tone to his voice making Steve grit his teeth together as he mentally reminded himself again that the man beside him could end him with a single thought.

"Do you really believe I would harm Danni in anyway? After everything I've been through with her? Look I had no idea that this would happen or what she would do. If I did then I wouldn't have let her do it. If you don't believe anything else then at least believe that." Steve answered him, keeping his voice low as he met Meka's strangely coloured eyes, wondering whether they had always looked like that and if they did how on earth he had missed it all these time. Were they always like that or did the blue merely bleed into the black when he was touching his power or felt the desire to protect someone because there was no doubt in his mind that Meka was in full blown protect mood when it came to Danni.

"You may not want to have hurt her but we both know that it wouldn't have stopped you. You're a McGarrett, you need answers to your questions no matter what the cost. Your Dad was the same." Meka responded sharply with another glare at Steve who returned it.

"Do you know something about what happened Boss?" Kono demanded, her eyes flickering between Steve and Meka, clearly picking up on the tension between the two men. Steve swallowed, taking a moment to breath in and out before he spoke, keeping his voice calm as he looked in-between his team members

"Guys, I know that you're worried over Danni but there's nothing that you can do at the moment. What you can do is work the case so that we have something to tell her when we get back from the hospital because we all know she'll be full of questions. Jack I want you to head back to the morgue when the body is transported and stay with it. Chin and Kono I want the two of you to stay here at the crime scene and run it. We need to try and figure out what happened here."

"You heading to the hospital with Danni?" Chin asked, nodding when Steve made a sound of agreement at the back of her throat.

He watched as the rest of his team turned and shared a look with each other before they looked back at him.

"You got it boss, just make sure that you keep us informed, if anything happens…" Kono's voice trailed off as she swallowed, waiting only for Steve to nod before she came to her feet and turned, moving abruptly away from them, followed more reluctantly by the others. Once he was sure they were out of ear range he turned to Meka.

"You should stay here as well Hanamoa" Meka turned to him, a look of disbelief on his face before he turned away from him, glancing down at Danni with a shake of his head.

"Here's a newsflash for you McGarrett, I'm not part of your team and therefore you don't actually tell me what to do. I'm going with Danni to the hospital to guard her." He said.

"Look" Steve said quietly, waiting until he was sure that the other man was listening before he continued speaking, his hand tightened on Danni's limp one as his eyes glanced around; making sure no one was paying attention to them. "There is a Latent or Evolved fire element walking freely around the streets of Oahu, targeting people and killing them for some reason that we don't even know yet. You're a water element either a Evolved or Latent which means that not only do you probably have the skill and ability which allowed you to track him down but you also know what you're looking for. Finding this guy is equally as important as guarding Danni right now. I can stay with her and protect her. No one is going to get to her while I'm still breathe, you have my word on that." Steve swore.

Meka stared at him, his eyes widening before he looked down at Danni and spoke softly.

"Jesus Tamacesa, what have you done here?" He asked her with a shake of his head before he looked back towards Steve, his eyes gleaming bright blue in the light before they darkened back to the familiar colour which Steve was used to seeing. "If you breathe a word to anyone about what Danni has told you then I swear to whatever God it is that you believe in that I will kill you myself and no one will find your body. You have absolutely no idea about what you're dealing with or the world which you have now entered into."

Steve stared at him for a second before he opened his mouth to retort, the words dying away when Rosie and a pair of EMTs arrived next to them.

"Step back please" The eldest of the two EMTs instructed, Steve glanced up his eyes landing on Zachary Quinn, an EMT who was regularly patching Steve and his team up to the point where Steve wondered whether Quinn and his partner Hazel Lewis were assigned to Five-O. He staggered back when Meka grabbed him by the back of his t-shirt and yanked him away from Danni's prone body allowed Quinn and Hazel to kneel beside her and begin to care from her. Steve watched helpless as they quickly moved Danni onto the stretcher, placing an Oxygen mask over her face before Quinn looked up at the two of them with a questioning look. "Are either of you two coming with us because we have to go now" He stated, his green eyes flickering between them.

"He is going" Meka growled, jerking his head towards Steve. "I'll be down as quickly as I can finish up here" He said jabbing his finger at Steve as he tilted his head so he could meet Steve's eyes. "Protect her with your life McGarrett. No one gets near her. You make sure you check every ID and compare the faces to the picture. I'll make sure I send someone down to help you."

"I've done this sort of thing before Meka, I know what I'm doing" Steve answered, trying hard to keep his frustration out of his voice.

"You know what to do if you encountered someone normal like you, you mean" Meka corrected quietly with a shake of his before he looked away his gaze landed on Danni again. "You and I will have a talk McGarrett once Danni is awake" He commented, reaching out and resting his hand against her shoulder.

"You can guarantee that" Steve said with a nod before he reached out and grasped Danni's hand again as the moved towards the ambulance. He shot his team a quick look as they passed, unsurprised to see that all of them had stopped what they were doing to watch their progress. Each of them wearing a look on their face which spoke of their concern and desire to follow them to the hospital.

He climbed into the ambulance, letting Quinn pass him before he took the seat next to Danni, reaching out with his free hand and brushing the hair away from her face aware of Quinn watching him thoughtfully.

"Danni will be okay Commander, she is a lot tougher than she looks" Quinn commented with a faint smile at Steve before he turned his attention back to reading her stats. Steve's eyes flickered towards him making sure he was preoccupied before he leaned towards to Danni.

"Danni can you hear me?" he murmured quietly, ignoring Quinn as though he wasn't there. "I need you to open your eyes and talk to me. There's so much we need to discuss now, I can't do that if you're not here with me. Please Danni, I need you to look at me, can you do that?" He asked, his heart sinking when she remained still and silent.

"Step back for a moment Commander" Quinn said, reaching past him and picking up Danni's arm, injection something into it before he lowered it back down.

"What was that you just gave her?" Steve asked, looking towards the dark haired man.

"It's something to help her" he answered absently before turning his attention back to taking Danni's vitals again. He seemed calm which Steve took strength from.

The journey to the hospital took less than ten minutes but for Steve it felt as though it was an eternity. H spent the whole time watching his partner, mentally willing her to come back to him. The guilt of knowing that he caused this situation was eating away at him. If he had only listened to her and dealt with it another way then maybe things would be different and the pair of them would be back at the crime scene, facing it together.

The doors to the ambulance were flung open as soon as the vehicle came to a stop, people swarming in and taking the stretcher which Danni was on. Steve scrambled out after them trying to attract their attention to him.

"Where are you taking her?" He demanded, meeting the eyes of the Doctor who turned to look at him.

"We're taking her to one of the private rooms, as soon as she is settled Commander one of us will come and get you from the waiting room. Trust us when we say that she is in the best hands." He said, going through a no entry doors before Steve could protest, leaving him staring forlornly though the closed doors.


Author Note

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