Over the Edge Chapter 7
A/N: So, I haven't gotten a beta reader yet, and I want one. I could go searching for one, but I don't really have the time to go through the process again. Anyone up for being a beta reader? Just PM me if you're interested. Okay, so this is the chapter that leads up to major whump, who's excited? I just want to say that I love all you guys that are sticking to the story and giving me feedback. I love it so much! Now, on with the story.
Chapter 7
"Danny, you there?" Kono's voice buzzed through Danny's phone.
He didn't answer, he couldn't. Steve wouldn't let this happen to his little girl, no he was supposed to be able to trust Steve with anything. He felt stupid for thinking Steve could handle watching the little girl.
"Danny, answer me! We've got to go find them, you heard the news! Steve could be dead right now!" Kono boomed through the phone. She was crying, Danny couldn't have her crying.
"Yeah, I'm here. Let's, uh… Let's meet at the office and I'll talk to you there." Danny breathed into the phone, too scared to use his voice. If he did, he knew he would begin to cry right along with Kono.
"Danny… I'm sorry."
"Me too, Kono. Me too."
Danny lifted himself off of his couch and moped over to his car. He didn't want to admit to himself that this was really happening, he just wanted it to all be a bad dream.
Danny slowly made his way towards the office, getting honked at for going so slow. He didn't care, he was emotionally unstable and he felt that if he drove faster, he wouldn't stop.
"Danny, we've got to get down to that park as soon as possible. Who knows what could possibly be going on? We've got to get Steve before… Before something bad happens." Kono told Danny once he walked inside. The panic in her voice was evident.
"You know what, Kono? I'm only going to get my little girl. Steve has done something wrong just one too many times, and I'm sick of it. He needs to get his act together, he needs to stop putting me and my family in danger! You know, my Gracie might be hurt right now, and it's all Steve's fault." Kono tried to interrupt Danny ,but he just continued over her objections. "Yes, Kono, Steve didn't mean it. I get that, I do, but he doesn't care what goes on around him. As long as he catches that bad guy, he's satisfied. My daughter could get hurt, and he wouldn't give a rat's ass!" Danny's voice started raising as his speech went on. "My daughter could be dead right now, and it's all Steve's fault. All his fault, all of it." Danny continued.
"You know that's not true!" Kono cried, screaming on the top of her lungs. Deep down, Danny knew she was right. Steve would do everything he could to keep everyone else safe. He would risk his own life to ensure that, but Danny needed to blame someone. That someone seemed to be Steve, he was the perfect target.
"You know he would take care of Grace, he would die for her. We have to go." Kono whispered shakily, wiping some stray tears from her eyes. "Let's just go, Danny." She turned to head out into the dark night.
-H50-
"Gracie, I have a plan, okay? You have to do as I say, if you do, we can get out of this. You can go home and see Danno, okay? Just promise me that no matter what happens, you just do as I tell you okay?" Steve asked Gracie, hoping that she would stay brave enough to complete her task.
"Okay, Uncle Steve. I trust you, you know." Grace said.
"Thanks Gracie. I love you."
"Love you, too."
"Okay, now here's how it's going to go," Steve whispered, just in case the captors were listening. "As soon as those doors open," He gestured behind his back at the van doors. "I'm going to attack anyone that tries to come get us. I'll distract them, okay?" Steve asked, making sure she was following. She nodded, so he continued. "So, you will run for it. Run as far as you can, and hide. Make sure that no one would ever see you if they looked, make it that good of a hiding spot. If you hear anyone, don't call out, don't cry. That's very important, try not to make a sound, they might find you. Do you understand?" Another nod. "Great, you're doing great. Now, if you don't hear anyone for a few hours, you get up and keep running. You need to go find help, get someone to call the police, okay? As far as I can tell, we are back in a neighborhood. Just one last thing, don't look back. Don't ever look back, if you do, you'll want to stop. Just don't look back. You got everything?" Steve knew that he just explained a lot to the little girl, so he was hoping that she'd know what to do once the time came. He hoped it would be easy for her to get away, he knew that they were back in some kind of neighborhood from all the stops and turns that they went through. He figured that they must be close to stopping.
"Uncle Steve, what about you? Where are you going to go?" Gracie asked, picking up her Danno's best friend's hand.
"You know, Gracie, I don't think I'm going anywhere. I can't run with my ankle and I want to get the bad guys away from you. I'm staying until I know you're safe. You're going to be brave for me, right?" Steve squeezed Gracie's hand which she had just placed in his.
"You know I will be, Uncle Steve. I'm the bravest girl you ever met, remember?"
"You are the bravest girl I ever met. You're going to do great."
The van suddenly came to a stop. Steve brought himself back to the doors, ready to pounce onto whoever tried to get in his way. He heard the the doors unlock.
"You ready, Gracie? This is it." Steve whispered to Grace.
She nodded. It was time.
-H50-
"Kono? I got here as soon as I found out. What's going on?" Chin Ho Kelly walked up behind Kono at the crime scene.
"Steve's gone, and they took Gracie, too. Danny's devastated, he's saying that it's all Steve's fault. I can't handle talking to him right now, he knows that Steve will do everything in his power to keep her safe. I just don't know what's gotten into him." Kono wept in Chin's shoulder. He rubbed her back.
"He's just upset, Kono. He doesn't mean it, he's just upset."
"I know, I just wish he'd be upset and nice at the same time."
"I know, now let's go find out what's going on."
The cousins walked over to where Danny was standing.
"What do you have, brah?" Chin asked Danny.
"Well, there are pieces of bomb floating all over that water over there." Danny pointed straight ahead. "We don't know what kind of bomb it was, something completely original and home-made. Then, there's a dead body, we ID'd him as Milo Carnate, snapped neck was the cause of death." Danny told them professionally. "Damn it, Steve, how could you let this happen?" He muttered under his breath. There went his professionalism. Kono shot an 'I told you so' look over to Chin. He smirked at her in response.
"We'll get her back, brah. Anything else?"
"There was blood, we're not sure who the blood belonged to yet, I'm just hoping it wasn't Gracie's." He didn't even mention Steve. It seemed as if Danny didn't care if Steve was dead or alive.
"Alright, why don't you head home? We can see if we find anything, if we do, we'll call you. You seem exhausted, brah." Chin advised Danny.
"I can't just leave, my daughter is out there with some killers, I can't just leave!"
"Danny, you look like crap. You won't be able to help us if you're exhausted."
"I guess you're right. You guys call me as soon as you find anything. I'll be back at the office in a few hours."
With that, Danny left. Kono was somewhat relieved, Danny was being a total bastard.
-H50-
The doors slowly creaked open, bright moonlight flooding the back of the van with light. Steve jumped with all he could muster and pushed his body into the door. He heard other bodies hitting the pavement and felt his falling right alone with the guys. He was in pain, but he needed to distract the men.
"Hey, guys. You wanted me, now you don't have me." Steve taunted the men, forcing himself to stand up on one leg. He started to run as fast as he could on one leg to the left of the van, turning back for a split second to see brown pigtails flying out of the van.
"Shit, man! I told you we had to tie him up, Boss said he would try somethin' like that! Now get 'em!" One of the men still lying on the ground shouted at the other who was standing up.
"He was injured badly, I didn't think he would even be awake when we opened those doors!" The man cried.
"Injured badly?! Boss wanted him in the best condition possible and you're saying that he is injured badly? What the hell man? Jesus, go get him, hurry. He's getting away!"
Steve's plan was working. They didn't even see Grace slip out of the van. He thought he was home free, but he couldn't have been more wrong.
He kept running, seeming to get nowhere. His leg made him run sluggishly slow, but he couldn't help it. His head felt as if it was stuffed with the cotton candy he had eaten earlier, making him extremely dizzy. He could barely stay on his feet, and it just kept getting progressively worse. He just kept focusing on trying to run, but kept coming back around to his fuzzy head, not being able to stop thinking about it. One thing he did notice, though, was that he was getting further and further away from civilization with each painful step he took. They seemed to be on the outskirts of the small neighborhood, and he was headed straight into the forest. It was a good thing that Gracie went the other way, to where there were houses that could easily call 9-1-1.
"Stop, or I shoot you. Turn around!" Steve recognized one of the men's voices. There were only two of them, it was pathetic, really. Steve had never been underestimated like that before. He was used to having small armies try to kidnap him.
He took the chance, he wanted to buy Grace more time, so he kept moving. It was a stupid mistake, but he didn't know that Grace wasn't even being tracked by the men, he thought that they would try to find her. He took a few steps before getting shot in his dislocated shoulder which he had forgotten to pop back in place. It was a clean through and through shot, but that didn't mean it hurt any less. Steve dropped harshly to his knees, hearing something pop. He didn't have time to assess what it was, though, before darkness swallowed him up.
-H50-
"Shit, we're in so much trouble, man. He wanted McGarrett conscious and well, we're screwed, man." One man said to the other.
"Shut the hell up, Dickinson, let's just do our job. We might still be able to get paid a little for bringing him in breathing." The second man retorted back to the first.
"Maybe we can get a little extra for that girl." The first man smiled and rubbed his hands together.
"The little girl, what little girl? There wasn't a little girl in the van when I went back to close the doors. Are you telling me that there was a little girl that we let get away? She probably called the cops by now, we're screwed! You never told me that there was a little girl! We weren't supposed to get a little girl!" The second man yelled at the first, clearly pissed.
"Look, dude, I thought it was the only way to get McGarrett to come. I told Doe to get her and McGarrett would probably come willingly. It did work, didn't it, John?" The man said to John.
"Stop with the nicknames. It wasn't Doe, it was Carnate. I'm not John, just call me by my real name. I feel like you're a complete idiot, you know, Dickinson? Just get your head straight, we need to go find that little girl, you faggot. Boss'll kill both of us if he finds out that a little girl disappeared from right under us. We're screwed." The mystery man yelled at Dickinson.
"Well, let's just not tell him. Maybe he won't find out."
"He will, but maybe we can escape before that!"
"Good, thinkin', John! I mean, uh, Harley."
"Yeah, now let's go deliver the package, alright? Let's just get it over with." Harley told Dickinson.
The two men dragged the unconscious Steve McGarrett through the filthy woods to a small cabin in the middle of nowhere. That was where their boss would be meeting them.
"Boss, we got your man!" Harley screamed as soon as he entered the cabin.
Wo Fat emerged from behind the dusty wall and shot the two men, the first between the eyes, the second in the heart. They weren't expecting that.
"That's what you get for doing a terrible job, boys." Wo Fat said as he shook Steve McGarrett, hoping he wasn't dead yet.
A/N: Bum, bum, bum…. I bet you all saw that coming, but hey, I just wanted some good h/c not a complete mystery. I hope you are all enjoying the story. I think a few readers dropped off from the story, but I appreciate all who have stayed. Thanks again. Oh wait, if you guys are confused at the names up there, the one man was trying to use code names, so the man that Steve killed isn't named Doe, that's Carnate. The dumb guy was Dickinson, and the smarter more demanding of the two was Harley.