The hunt is on

By

Landon Richardson

Disclaimer

The character of Steve McGarrett, Danny Williams, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, Adam 'Toast; Charles, Jenna Kaye and Max Bergman do not belong to me in any shape or form, I am merely using them for my own entertainment purposes

The character of Danni McGarrett is probably mine by now. Even though she was originally based on male Danny Williams I think it's probably safe to say that's she her own individual character by now, especially since I've created a back ground for her which is different to male Danny's background in the show. This also affects Grace who is different from the show as well in ways.

The characters of Jack O'Connor, David Richardson, Riley King, Mason Lowe, Niamh Clayton, Louisa Palakiko-Cowan, Tyler Landon, Vanessa Landon, Holly Davies and Teddy Robertson, do however belong to me. I should also add that if a character is mentioned who you are not instantly aware of then that character belong to me as well

Author Note

Here's the new chapter for you all.

Although I've often worked with simply replacing male Danny with female Danni and seeing what happened I have also written several saga where both of male and female Danny/Danni were in the same story because I was curious about what would happen, how they would be towards each other for example. Sometimes I did this by having them both in 50 as you will find out from the Bomb story which will soon be up and other times by giving Danni a different job on the island and seeing how she reacted to it.

In this particular saga, Danni is the head ME of Hawaii, in charge of a team who deal with all deaths and cases though unlike the show, not just cases from 50. She's married to Steve in this story and they have a family. I should also point out that her second in command is recently married to Danny as well. There is actually quite a few stories in this saga which I refer to as the ME saga so I hope that if this one works out well then I can place the others out.

I love writing Danny / Danni and a saga like this allows me the best of both worlds.

I should warn you that there will be a lot of characters in this that you won't recognise, this is because this story is set in the future and has all the people who I eventually plan to have in 50 in the main saga, you just get a glimpse at them all in advance… I guess this is how I've always pictured 50 in my head.

Anyway I hope you are willing to give it a chance and I guess there's nothing else to say except enjoy!

Overall summary

When three young healthy men drop dead without any sign of injury the medical examiner office become suspicious that there might be something going on. Steve McGarrett doesn't believe there is but he and the rest of 50 take on the case anyway. What they didn't expect to find was a conspiracy which led right to the top and placed them all in danger (Part of the ME saga – A/U of the Danni world)

Chapter Summary

"I'd forgotten what it was like to actually deal with bodies" David commented as he stood straight, his gaze fixed on Danielle who laughed at him.

Overall romance

Steve McGarrett/Danni McGarrett (McDanni)

Danny Williams / Abbie Williams (Danbie)

Eventual mentions of other romances as we go.

Chapter Romance

Steve McGarrett / Danni McGarrett

Chapter Four

"I'd forgotten what it was like to actually deal with bodies" David commented as he stood straight, his gaze fixed on Danielle who laughed at him.

"Are you telling me that you're missing your former life as a medic with the rangers?" She commented, the smile leaving her face when David merely shrugged at her, ducking his head and working on Connor Turner again. "Davey, I thought you were happy about leaving the Ranger life behind you?" She stated, moving towards him and stopping by his side.

"Danni, I never had a choice in the matter. My wife was dead, my baby daughter needed me. She needed a father, not a ranger who came into her life every so often. She had already lost her mother, I didn't want Libby to lose her father as well." He told her.

Danielle blinked at him but before she could say anything more, familiar voices from the doorway cut across them, attracting both of their attention.

"NO STEVEN! If you do this one more time then I'm going to kick your ass myself. You and Teddy need to sit down and deal with whatever issue it is that you have with each other because I'm not going to keep covering you in meetings. You're the leader of 50 not me" Danny Williams announced, his hands flying around him clearly in full rant mode. He turned back to Danielle, his voice softening. "Please tell me that you and your wonder twin have someone for your Neanderthal husband to kill because if I have to cover Steve yet again then you're going to be a widow soon." He growled, running his hand over his blond hair, clearly taking a moment to control himself.

Danielle blinked at them both, her gaze flickering towards David who was watching the two of them with a raised eyebrow. She shook her head, placing her hand automatically over her baby bump.

"Not really Danny boy. Our victims were killed by an everyday empty syringe." Danielle told them both, twisting on the spot and picking up one from the tray to the side of David, she held it up to them as she began speaking again. "It's one of the best ways to kill someone if you don't want to get caught. Insert the needed, preferably in a vein or artery and press down. The air travels to the heart and blocks it causing the victim to collapse and die, normally within minutes. There's nothing which would show up on any test either because technically he or she didn't use anything. To any one observing it would simply look like the person had suffered a heart attack. Thing is not many people know that which means that the person you're hunting very likely has some medical training in their past." Danielle stated, placing the syringe back down.

"Medical training" Danny repeated, his voice low as though he was talking to himself rather than anyone else in the room. "So you're speaking about someone like a nurse maybe?" He asked louder, his blue eyes coming up to meet Danielle's grey eyes. She nodded at him, giving him a curious look.

"A nurse is a good example or a doctor or maybe an EMT. It would be easy for them to get an empty syringe as well, there are hundreds probably thousands in an active hospital at any given time." She answered him before she turned her attention to Steve. "What's wrong with Teddy Robertson exactly?" She queried.

"Nothing" He replied before turning his attention to Danny. "Why did you ask her about the nurse?" He asked him before he moved across the morgue to Danielle's office, leaning down and opening her fridge, grabbing a bottle of Gatorade and headed back out, holding the bottle out to Danielle who looked at it. "Drink it" He told her firmly, smiling when she rolled her eyes at him.

"Yes Sir" She commented, reaching out and taking it from him, unscrewing the lid and took a long sip, her gaze fixed on Steve who watched her for a moment before he turned his attention to Danny, who was watching them, an amused smile curling his mouth.

"Danno?" He said, raising a questioning eyebrow.

"It might not be anything but when I was in the elevator at the court house I heard a couple of cops talking about some supplies being taken from Queen's hospital. The supplies taken were gloves and syringes and nothing more. They found it amusing that someone who was shooting up would take the time to glove up considering what they were planned to do but maybe that's not the case at all. Maybe whoever is doing this is wearing the gloves so they don't leave any prints behind" Danny said, gripping the back of his neck.

"Whoever is taking them has to be the killer, there's too big a coincidence for anything else when you consider the fact that those were the only items missing. They've got to have security cameras there right? Maybe they picked up on something but no one picked up on it because they weren't looking for it." David commented thoughtfully with a glance up at Steve and Danny.

"It's definitely worth a shot" Steve said to his brother in law. "Danno can you call Toast back at headquarters and have him pull the footage. Tell him to go back two weeks from the first killing. Whoever has been doing this has probably been taking a little bit here and there."

"Yeah you got it" Danny said with a nod, reaching into the pocket of his trousers and pulled out his cell phone. He pressed one of the button, bringing the handset to his ear before he turned and moved away from them. Steve turned back to Danielle who had turned to attention back to the body in front of her.

"Have you eaten anything today?" He asked her, leaning his hip against the side of the metal slab, his gaze fixed on her. His eyes flickered to David when the other man moved away from them heading into the office without another word. "You know sometimes I think your twin doesn't like me." He commented, looking back at his wife when she laughed, shaking her head slightly.

"He likes you well enough Steve" She assured him. "I mean I doubt he considers you his best friend or anything but he doesn't dislike you. He had known you long enough and he did accept your offer to come and work here with you on the team. If he didn't like you then he would have told you to take your job and stick it up your ass."

Steve blinked, looking at her for a moment before he spoke.

"So you didn't answer me, have you eaten today." He pressed, wrapping his arm around her shoulder.

"I had breakfast this morning but we've been swamped here this morning so I haven't had lunch. As well as checking this out for you we have a pile up to get through." She said, nodding her head to the other side of the morgue where Steve could see Max and Elliott working.

"We could go and grab some lunch quickly, head to Kame's or home maybe?" Steve suggested, frowning when Danielle shook her head.

"Firstly shellfish including shrimp is bad for pregnancy so that's a no-no, secondly if you're going to take me anywhere then you can take me to that new vegetarian place that opened up the other week near North Shore. Chin told me about it and it sounds really nice. If I went home then I would see our bed and that would be the end of my working day because I wouldn't want to leave it" She remarked with a laugh.

"What is it with you and vegetarian food at the moment? Don't tell me that my son or daughter is going to be a veggie" He said, before he leaned down to her tummy, stroking a hand over it. "Hey baby what do you think about having a steak and salad?" He queried, raising an eyebrow when there was no reaction. "What about some veggie food?" He pressed, sighing when the baby kicked against his hand. "Well that answers that question." He said, standing straight.

"It's time for you to head back to your office Steve and get on with some work while I get on with things here and when you're there try to be nice to Toast, you're too harsh on him sometimes."

"He doesn't need you to protect him" Steve said with a smile at her.

"Maybe you could protect me from this animal instead so I can stay alive to see my baby grow up." Danny commented walking back up to them before he focused his attention on Steve. "Toast is getting the footage but he's hacked the hospital and it turns out that three nurses have been suspended for stealing, we're going to have to head down there and speak to them ourselves and then once we have those names, we'll hunt them down and bring them in." He stated with a smirk before he turned to Danielle "Danni girl as usual it's a pleasure. I'll see you later." He stated, kissing her on the cheek. "Steven, let's go."

Steve rolled his eyes, kissing Danielle gently before he leaned back and met her eyes.

"Make sure you eat" He told her before he turned and headed after Danny, a grin coming to his face.

He did like a good chase after all.

Author Note

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