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Pride, Admiration and Respect

Chapter Two

Checking their positions carefully, Steve and Danny emerged from behind the crates. Finally, they saw Chin and Kono along with HPD officers engaged in the fight. Relieved to have the others in sight, they immediately joined in. With all hands on deck and HPD backing them up it didn't take long to bring order to the area. After several minutes, the fight was over with several perps dead and two in custody.

"What in the hell is going on here?" Steve angrily asked the ranking HPD officer once everyone was secure. Danny and Kono were making a sweep of the warehouse to be sure there weren't any more would be shooters lurking in hiding. "We were told to check out this warehouse, not that a fire fight was likely to break out!"

"Commander McGarrett, you, as well as I, know there is no way of knowing when things will get out of hand," answered the officer. "We had word that a possible drug deal was going down in this warehouse. You were called in by the Governor to investigate the possibility of international involvement. Now we know for sure that is the case. This man," he kicked the foot of the dead man on the floor, "is Carlos Escabar and he is the right hand of Emilio Cordoba. Perhaps you have heard of him?"

Steve nodded. "Of course I've heard of him. He's the supposed leader of the Colombian cartel. I heard cocaine is their number one product for export. Damn, that's the last thing Hawaii needs!"

"Exactly. Now you understand why you are here."

For the first time Steve looked at the two who managed not to die in the shootout. He was extremely surprised to see that one of them was a woman. While he waited for Danny and Kono to finish their sweep of the building he and Chin watched as the HPD officers loaded the suspects into the police van for the trip to HQ for questioning. Finally, Danny and Kono returned and declared the rest of the warehouse clear. Together, they left to get back to HQ so they could question the suspects and try to get to the bottom of it all.

When the police van arrived at HQ, the suspects were taken to separate interrogation rooms. While Danny and Chin questioned the man, Steve and Kono went in to talk to the woman.

"Well, well, well… isn't it interesting that you're here" Kono began. Steve decided to let Kono begin the questioning while he stood in the background, tucked into the shadows of the room, arms crossed and bulging, with his best Navy SEAL scowl firmly in place. Good cop-bad cop type of thing.

"Why is that so interesting?" the woman asked.

"I wasn't under the impression that the Colombian cartel had any use for women other than arm candy, prostitutes and bait, but here you are, apparently just one of the boys," Kono said. "Now why don't you tell us what's going on and we can get this over with. This isn't going to go well for you. If you cooperate things might go a bit easier".

"Do you really think so?" the women asked with a smirk on her face. She knew perfectly well what Kono was trying to do. What Kono didn't know was that it was totally unnecessary. "You really don't need to go through all of this, you know."

Kono actually laughed. She looked at Steve and he too thought the suspect's attitude was a bit comical.

"Yeah? And, why's that?" Steve asked.

"Because I'm a cop."

"I beg your pardon… you're a cop? If that's so, why didn't you identify yourself at the warehouse?" Kono asked.

"I didn't want…" she began but stopped when the door opened. She gave a very visible sigh of relief when Chin walked in, which wasn't missed by Steve's keen eye.

"You get anything out of the other guy?" Steve asked Chin

"Nothing. He totally clammed up. All we have is his name. Alejandro Jiménez. He was still carrying his plane ticket. Danny is still trying to get into his head. Any luck in here?"

Steve looked at the woman cuffed to the chair. She was young…he suspected she was not yet thirty. There was also something vaguely familiar about her. He just couldn't put his finger on it but he could have sworn he knew her from somewhere. He needed information and decided to go about it from a different angle. He would be good cop and try again.

"Ok… let's start this again. We heard the conversation before the shooting started. Cordoba and the Colombian cartel are trying to bring their cocaine into Hawaii. Sounded like the distribution machine wasn't fleshed out very well. Now you're in here and you want us to believe you're a cop. I think you need to explain yourself and you need to do it now. Let's start with your name. We can run it and find out if you're telling us the truth".

"There it is again", Steve thought. This young woman was definitely nervous and Steve had a feeling it didn't have anything to do with why she was cuffed to the chair.

The young woman mulled it over in her mind for a moment. She knew they would check her out and find she was telling the truth. That was the good news. But the consequences of them knowing who she was would be far harder to face. But there was nothing for it.

"My name is Annie Williams, 12th precinct, NYPD" she replied.

"Ok," Steve answered. "Chin, check her out." It didn't take long. Chin was back in under 15 minutes with word that she was telling the truth. Annie rubbed her wrists after Steve removed the cuffs and sat back in a more comfortable position.

"Alright," Steve said, "let's have it... what's going on?"

Just as Annie was about to answer the door opened again and Danny walked in. "Sorry Steve, I'm not getting anywhere with that guy... he just won't….." Danny stopped in his tracks as he caught sight of Annie.

"What the hell is this?" he bellowed. "What are you doing here?"

Annie sheepishly looked up and a small smile spread across her face, like a little kid caught with her hand in the cookie jar. "Hi Danny!" she said.

Steve looked back and forth between Danny and Annie as they spoke trying to figure out what was going on. "Wait… you two know each other?" he asked.

"You could say that," Danny replied and Annie countered, "He's my brother!"