"Hey partner, how'ya feeling?"
"Like I got shot in the head." Steve said as he squinted. "What happened?"
"Agent Parson is the mole. He almost finished off Joey but something or someone spooked him."
"I don't remember that. I remember Joey getting shot but after that nothing." Steve looked at Joey.
"He hasn't regained consciousness yet." Dr. Lee said as she entered the room. "According to the paramedics he has been unconscious the whole ride and even here he didn't stir. I had a few scans made and they show nothing out of the ordinary. He has a small bump on the head and bruised liver, kidney, spleen and a contusion on his lung but we can't explain why he hasn't regained consciousness yet. Although I'm pretty sure that with those injuries he doesn't want to wake up." Dr. Lee explained.
"You sound worried Mai." Danny said.
"I am a little bit worried. We are going to take him for another battery of tests if he doesn't wake up within the next thirty. So maybe you guys can get him to wake up." Mai said. She looked at Steve. "Now as for you Steve. A moderate concussion has earned you a night in this fine establishment. Also we had to put in a couple of stitches.l If you're feeling nauseous or experience dizziness let us know. And Steve, please try to rest." Danny was looking at his knuckles. They were a bit grazed but nothing serious.
"What did you do?" Steve asked.
"He hit agent Dawson." Chin said. Steve just smiled.
"Did anyone ever tell you, you have a temper." Steve closed his eyes. The rest smiled. Kono sat down between Steve and Joey. Chin sat down on the other side of Joey's bed. Lou stood next to the window and Danny stood next to Chin.
"Come on Joey, open your eyes. Dr. Lee is talking about inserting your friend Foley again." Kono joked. Danny turned his head and looked at Kono.
"That's not a nice thing to say, Kono. Last time I thought he was going to take it out himself." Danny said. "Although I must say that it does seem familiar. Us waiting in a room and bfg unresponsive."
"Bfg, Danny?" Chin asked.
"Yeah, the big friendly giant, it's a story by Roald Dahl." Lou answered. They laughed and this seems to illicit some kind of responsive from Joey.
"That's it, Joey. Wake up."
Joey opened his eyes and blinked a couple of times. He tried to move but winced at the pain. He let out a pained groan.
"Easy brah." Chin said. Joey tried to move again. But this time he let out a whimper.
"Will you stop moving around. Your giving me a headache." Danny said.
"Danny?" Joey whispered. He tried to turn his head to get a better look at Danny but his body was hurting so bad. "Argh." It was like his nerves were on fire He tried to breath through the pain but it just made everything hurt more.
"Joey calm down." Kono tried. But it came apparent that Joey wasn't listening. Chin pressed the call button.
Dr. Lee and a couple of nurses rushed in. They drew the curtains. Half an hour later Mai opened the curtains and Joey appeared to be sleeping.
"How's he doing?" Steve asked Dr. Lee.
"He's sleeping right now. We have him on heavy pain medication."
"Why?" Danny asked.
"Because the bruised organs are causing quite a lot of pain. Though it was expected, I wasn't prepared for him to actually show it."
"Mai?"
"Yes, don't worry. We are monitoring him closely." Danny sat down on the chair. Ever since he had reached the hospital the adrenalin had wore off and he had the ever persistent headache, his hand throbbed. He was tired, achy and suffering from a severe adrenalin dump. He closed his eyes. And although he hadn't intended to fall asleep he eventually nodded off.
"Danny is out." Kono said. Chin nodded. He looked at Danny and glanced at his hand. Chin sighed. They did not see this coming. He heard footsteps outside the door. To his surprise it was agent Dawson.
"What are you doing here?" Chin tried to keep his voice down but he could not keep his tone light.
"I came to see how everyone is doing?" Dawson said. His speech was different.
"What's wrong with you?" Chin asked.
"He broke my jaw." Dawson said as he pointed at Danny. Chin chuckled and so did Kono.
"Well, that's what you get for messing with us." Kono said.
"The agency got a hit on one of the company's credit card."
"Where?" Steve asked. Dawson jumped. Damn ninja.
"A hotel near the airport." Steve looked Chin.
"Chin, keep us up to date." Chin nodded.
"Danny, we've got a lead on Parson." Danny got up.
"Where?"
"Hotel, near the airport." Danny got up and looked at Steve.
"Behave Steven." Danny said as he left.
Kono actually wanted to join them but also knew that with her injured leg she would not be of any help.
"Look after them, Kono." Kono nodded.
"Yeah, just catch that bastard."
Danny, Chin, Lou and agent Dawson reached the Honolulu Airport Hotel. Danny walked to the front desk. He asked the receptionist in which room Wallace Parson was staying. The guy was dumb enough to use his own name. Lou called SWAT for back up. Danny almost pulled a page right out of Steve's book when Lou spoke up.
"If you think I'm going in without back up, you're out of your damn mind." Lou said.
"You're the back up." Danny said. Lou gave him a look.
"I'm the back up? Were you dropped on your head when you were a baby?" Lou asked. He looked at Chin.
"He's been hanging with McGarrett just a bit too long." Chin said.
"Let's gear up and wait for SWAT." Danny said. They put on their tac vests.
"Chin, you and Dawson take the back. Lou, you're with me."
"Williams, I thought we were going to wait for the rest of my team to arrive?"
"Well, we should move now. We don't know what tricks he has up his sleeve." Danny said. And Grover was right. They should wait for SWAT but Danny really wanted to be in the hospital.
"He is wanted by every agency and he's stupid enough to use his own name. What tricks?" Lou asked exasperated.
"He's been in bed with a Russian gangster for the past twenty years. He's been able to pass on information for that long. He nearly killed an undercover officer. I want him taken out, right now." Danny said.
"Fine, but if I get killed I will come back to haunt your ass." They moved in position. Lou breached and Danny was the first to go into the room.
"Hands where we can see them." Danny yelled. Wallace Parson was sitting on a chair. He put his hands up. Steve moved behind the guy and zip tied his hands together.
"You're under arrest for attempted murder and selling information to a terrorist."
"I didn't do anything." This angered Danny. He shoved him against the wall.
"We have you on tape. Pointing the gun at detective Ryan. But you got spooked." Wallace smirked.
"Who says I was trying to kill him? I just thought it was safer to have gun out." Danny hit him in the face. Lou pulled him away.
"Not like this." Chin and agent Dawson showed up with SWAT.
"Get him out of here." Danny said.
They secured the crime scene, bagged anything of value and went back to the hospital. Danny had ordered HPD not to let anyone near both Zhukov and Parson. Grover assured Danny that he would keep an eye on the two men. Danny thanked Lou and he and Chin went back to the hospital. Dawson was left to his own device as Lou left with Parson. Danny called the governor and told him how everything went down. He was pleased to hear how it went. He told Danny to keep him informed on Steve and Joey's condition. Chin drove the two of them to the hospital. Danny's hand was hurting more and more after the punch he gave Parson. When they arrived the hospital Danny went to the ER to get his hand looked at. Bruised, nothing broken. They decided to bandage the appendage and told Danny to rest it. Danny was given a sling and he went to Steve and Joey's room. He was pleased to see Steve awake.
"How'd it go?" Steve asked.
"We caught the bastard."
"He still alive?" Steve asked.
"Yes, Steven. We are not all Neanderthal's like you." Danny said.
"Sorry Danno."
"Stop with the Danno, okay. It wasn't fun the first time you said it and after three years it's still not funny." Danny said. Danny looked at Joey. He was hooked up to a heart monitor. He had two IV's and Danny saw another tube sneaking out of the blanket. He was going to hate that one, Danny thought. He looked at Joey's face and was surprised to see a pair of sliver eyes looking at him.
"Hey." Danny said.
"Hey Danno, what happened to your hand?" Joey said in a slurred voice. Steve snickered when he heard Joey call Danny Danno.
"Bruised it."
"Aw shucks. But at least the world is brighter." Danny quirked his eyebrows.
"Brighter?" Danny asked. Kono and Steve laughed.
"He's been like this since he woke up." Kono said.
"They got you on the good drugs, huh buddy?"
"I don't do drugs." All of a sudden Joey started to whisper. "Don't look but there's a purple bear in the room. And he's wearing red shoes." Danny, Chin and Kono burst into laughter.
"Don't make me laugh. My head hurts too much." Steve said. Danny tried not to laugh which was hard because Joey wasn't making any sense.
"Did you see that?"
"See what?"
"The glowing mice."
"Glowing mice?"
"Really tiny, glowing mice. They are on your head." Steve laughed as well.
"I'm going to get rid of them. You just rest." Joey nodded and looked around. Eyes darting left to right. Every now and then you would hear wow or whoa.
Mai entered the room and looked at her patients.
"He's really out of it, isn't he?"
"Yeah, he's been talking about tiny glowing mice, a purple elephant and he called me Danno." Danny told Mai.
"Yeah, that's the painkillers. We'll keep a close eye on him for now." Mai told them.
"How long will you keep him here?" Danny asked.
"Depends on the bruises. A couple of days, maybe more. I really want to keep an eye on his kidney's." Mai answered honestly. Danny whistled. Joey was not going to be happy about that.
"He's not going to be happy about that." Danny said.
"Well, I know he's not happy about the pain either." Mai countered.
"I see you put in the Foley again." Danny commented.
"Yes. Moving hurts too much right now. He can't even take a deep breath without writhing in pain. My first priority right now is pain management. Without it he won't heal properly." Mai explained to Danny.
"Alright. I'm going to make sure that there's a guard here at all time." Danny told Mai.
"Go home guys. They are being looked after, and Kono you need to rest as well. You don't want to risk an infection." The team nodded and Mai left. Danny turned to look at the rest of his team. Steve had already fallen asleep and Joey was still dopely looking around. Danny smiled.
"Well, you heard Mai. We'll come back tomorrow. Get some rest." Danny said. The three of them left the hospital. And Danny swung by the precinct to check up on Zhukov and Parson. Both were secured and Danny left with good feeling.