Sorry I couldn't post this chapter sooner. I had to blend to chapters together because this one was waaay too short. So here is the "longer" version of this chapter.
ENJOY!
Chin Ho Kelly paced at the church with his phone stuck on his ear. He has been trying to reach his cousin for more than half an hour, so far no luck. She was late and Kono was never later for anything. No matter how hard this was for her she would be here for Steve no despite everything.
He was having a hunch, a bad one.
"What's up, man?" Danny asks, as he watches his friend with a frown.
"I've been calling Kono and I can't seem to reach her."
"Maybe she's still getting ready. You know how girls get when it comes to weddings."
"Maybe…" he looks at his friend, biting his lower lip to which Danny frowned.
"What?"
"Stacie knows."
"She knows what?"
"She knows about the baby."
"Oh, wow."
"And I have a feeling, though Kono said she was cool with it, that she didn't handle it very well."
"You think she did something?"
"I really hope not."
He dialed again with no answer in return.
"C'mon man, Stacie is a little hyper but she's not some psycho kidnapper." Danny spoke with confidence but still didn't make him feel better.
"We barely even know her, Danny. For all we know she could be a vicious killer waiting to explode."
Chin paced around once again and looked at Steve, who was standing next to another man talking enthusiastically. He had no heart to tell him how worried he was about his cousin, not the danger his daughter might be in, but he couldn't stand there and do nothing about it.
"I have to go," Chin spoke as he searched for the keys in his pockets.
"Go where?"
"I don't know. I need to look for her; I have a bad feeling man."
"But the wedding is about to start!"
"I gotta go!"
He ran towards his car, with no particular place to go. He drove around for minutes, went to her house, to the beach but so far nothing. He tried her phone once again but it kept redirecting to voice mail.
He headed to the HQ as his last resort, though it'd be strange if Kono was there.
He was more than surprised to find her sitting on the floor of her office, blood dripping from her lip.
Kono's POV
This was by far the worst thing that had happened so far. I thought I could seriously make friends with her, I even defended her when Maggie was saying she was crazy, I justified her actions when no one would, thinking everything she had done was purely out of love. And when I said I was happy because Steve was getting married, I was being completely honest; mainly because I saw love on her eyes.
Now I regret everything. I regret keeping this as a secret, I regret not saying a word to Chin when he asked me what was wrong, I regret not telling him about her threatening me. This could have ended up completely different. Now I had lost Steve forever. Right now she might be becoming Mrs. McGarrett and on her way to turning Steve's life into a nightmare.
There's nothing left for me to do but to sit here and cry until I have no tears left.
What are the chances of someone finding me here? I am sure she was going to make up a lame story as to why I wasn't at the wedding and Steve would believe her because she's oh-so sweet and kind and she wanted me to be her maid of honor.
For a minute I lost hope. I really did. But then I see something I never thought I would.
"Chin?"
He knocks on the door of my office, jostling the door knob in an attempt to opening it. The door knob isn't budging and he breaks the glass door and reaches for me.
I hug him as if my life depended on it. I've never felt so happy to see him before.
"What happened?" he asked, looking at my swollen lip and the tears running down my cheeks.
"She locked me up. She freaked out. She told me she didn't want me to ruin her day and… she said Steve was hers…" I speak quickly, explaining to Chin everything that has happened.
"Kono…"
"She told me if I ever told Steve about our baby she was going to hurt me," I confess, the look on his face changed into a mixture of pure anger and confusion.
"Why didn't you say anything before?"
"Because…" I shake my head, feeling stupid with myself, "I thought she was just angry, that she was mad at me and she would let everything go after the wedding, but then this happened…"
"C'mon, we have to stop this stupidity," he grabs my hand and pulls me out. "We're gonna tell Steve everything. And when I mean everything, I mean EVERYTHING."
"Chin, I…"
"No, Kono. I don't want to hear a word. This is going to stop right now. Stop being so selfish and think about your daughter for once."
His words are harsh but full of honesty. If I had only been thinking about Steve's happiness, then this whole scenario was due to rise up to the surface.
The moment of truth was here.
We get to the church in no time, I cannot count how many traffic rules Chin broke, but he was as desperate as I was to get there so we didn't mind. He stopped outside and looked at me for a second, holding my hand tight as a sign of comfort. I needed all the moral support I could get.
"Are you ready?" he asks and I nod.
"Let's do this."
I stop in front of the door and take one last breath before the door opens before me. Several heads turn around to look. Me, in my maid of honor dress, with a swollen lip and my make up ruined. I call this almost picture perfect.
"We need to stop this wedding now!" Chin screams, since I couldn't find the voice to speak.
The 'What?', 'Who is she?' and 'What's going on?' followed closely after that statement.
TBC
