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Chapter 8.
It was now approximately four o'clock in the morning. The house before them was in darkness, apart from a few porch lights. They pulled up to the front gates and were met with two guards. They flashed their warrant to the men who took it from them and walked towards the little house to the side of the gate. They were talking to somebody via radio and started acting suspicious.
"Man, why can't it just be easy for once." Danny sighed as he started to draw his weapon from his holster, assuming the men were fidgeting so that they could buy some time and get ready for an armed defence. He was right. The two men at the gate pretended to be speaking to each other and then suddenly grabbed their weapons and started shooting at the SUV that the team was in and the two police cars that had arrived with them. Kono, Steve and Danny exited the SUV from the other side and started to return fire on the guards. It was difficult because they were protected by the tiny guard house that they were in, but eventually the guards seemed impatient and it turned out to be their downfall. With those two down the team got back into the vehicle. Steve had a smirk on his face as he faced his partner. "Hold on tight."
Danny started to buckle his safety belt. "Why can't you just push the button, why do have to go all Rambo on us." He braced himself for the impact of the gate on the bumper of the SUV. Steve smiled a full grin at his colleague. They raced towards the entrance of the house and Steve parked the SUV facing the house so that the vehicle could offer some cover for them when they guards piling out the house started firing on them.
They armed men opened fire on the 3 vehicles and they all opened their vehicle doors and returned fire. The bullet battle seemed to go on forever, but with the assistance of HPD the Five-0 team managed to push the perps back into the building. All three of the team ran to the front door, taking up their usual positions. Danny pushed the door open and Steve went in first, again followed by Kono and Danny at the rear. Two shots were fired in their direction at which Steve put his arm back to guide Kono to a safe position behind the stairwell of the huge entranceway of the house. They both lifted their heads above the stairwell banisters and started firing in the direction of oncoming bullets, ducking every now and then to ensure they did not get shot. Out of nowhere Danny started firing and seemed to have hit the man that was firing on his partners. He smiled at both of them. "I'm done playing nice." They both smiled in surprise at Danny, he was normally the one who wanted everybody to be taken out alive. Steve motioned to Danny to check the downstairs area of the house, Kono to take the left wing upstairs and he would take the right wing. They nodded and started off on their individual missions. As Steve and Kono reached the top of the stairwell he glanced at her and gave her a nod as if he was saying that he would see her later and threw in a wink to make sure she knew she had something good to look forward to. Kono smirked at him, but soon turned and started down the long corridor which she knew all too well. She stalked down the corridor, clearing each room as she went. When she had finally finished clearing each room she head back towards Steve's area of the house. She met Danny coming up the stairs as she stalked in his direction. They proceeded to walk together down the long corridor checking rooms. Where was Steve? They both gave each other a worried look as they started to get concerned when they had almost finished checking the corridor. There were two rooms left, Danny pointed his gun in the direction of the room on the left, Kono went right. He slowly walked into the room and moved his gun around the room. It was clear. He turned to see how Kono was doing and quickly raised his gun and pointed it in her direction when he noticed her predicament.
She had walked into the room and been taken by surprise as Steve was on his knees, gun pointed to his head. His face had a few cuts on it and blood was dripping from his head. She remained firm and kept her gun pointed in the direction of the man who had her boss hostage. She swallowed hard. Danny came to stand beside her.
"Well.. seems we have ourselves a situation here." Marcelo Jnr was the man holding the gun. "Lower your weapons or I kill him right before your eyes."
Kono stared at Steve. He gave a single nod. She knew what that meant and hoped she could pull it off. Danny caught on aswell and they both started to lower their weapons. The two goons that had been standing to the side of them walked towards the two cops and both simultaneously reached down to grab their weapons. As they did Kono gave the one good a punch to the face. She had purposefully kept her right hand free for that. She kicked the man and brought him crumbling down to the ground, while Danny had hit the goon in his path with a hand to the throat and two jabs to his side also bringing him down.
Steve had known that they would not be able to win this through negotiation, that's why he gave them 'the nod'. As he witnessed Kono and Danny bringing the armed men to their knees he elbowed back to his capture's knees, and hit him with his right fist. They had been stupid enough not to tie his hands. Marcelo Jnr swung at him with his right fist. Steve blocked it and gave the man a hard hit to the face which caused him to fall to the ground. Steve kneeled with one knee on the man's back and cuffed him. "Its over now. You're done."
"You're going to be sorry about this McGarrett." The man's threats seemed hard to take serious at that moment.
HPD officers came running through the door. They had heard the tussle from downstairs and swiftly picked up the men that the Five-0 team had been fighting and exited the building with them.
Kono walked over to Steve who was now leaning on the desk infront of him, his head bowed. "You okay?" She reached up to check the wound on his head. It was barely bleeding anymore. He caught her hand as she had raised it.
"I'm good. You?" He held her hand for a few moments longer until Danny walked up into the conversation.
"What the hell happened Steven? How did they get you?"
"The two guys jumped me while I had my gun on Marcelo Jnr."
"Sloppy, real sloppy." Danny grinned as he ushered the other two to leave the building with him. They all left the scene together. Kono stared at Steve as they made their way down the stairs. She thought of how it felt when she saw him kneeling with the gun towards his head. She shivered a little and closed her eyes for a second or two. She never wanted to feel that way again, but with this job came those situations. She knew this. She pointed Steve towards the medic when they got outside. He knew she wasn't going to let him dodge them, so he went willingly. When the crime scene was secured they all headed back to the palace to write their reports.
The sun had risen and was streaming brightly into the palace windows. They all went to the respective offices and started on their reports, eager to get them over with so that they could be out of the offices soon. Rachel and Grace had woken up with Danny re-entering the room.
"Hey." He smiled at the two sleepy ladies.
"Hey. Is it over yet?" Rachel questioned his smile.
"Yeah. Its done. We get to go home soon." He walked up to them and embraced them both.
Kono was watching on from her office. She smiled to herself, knowing that they were finally at peace. She stared for a second longer, then bowed her head and carried on with her report. She was so tired and wanted nothing more than to sleep, but she knew that the sooner she got the report over with the better. After about half an hour of typing she had finally finished. She stretched her arms up and walked towards Steve's office. He had been on the phone most of the early morning, speaking to the governor about the happenings and had just finished his report. He looked up as the tired woman stood in front of him.
"You done?"
"Yeah, think I'm going to head out now."
"Wait for me, I'll give you a ride home. Wait, you don't have a home. Where are you gonna stay?"
"Well I'm going to head to see Chin first, then maybe I'll go crash at his place for a while since as you pointed out, I'm homeless. Not to mention I could really use the sleep."
He noted again how tired she looked. He piled the papers neatly on his desk, then stood and walked around the desk, guiding her out the door with him.
"Danno. We're going to the hospital? You going home now?" He shouted to Danny as walking past his office noticing that he was packing up as well.
"Yeah, I'm going to take these two home. I'll go see Chin a bit later. Tell him I say hi."
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They walked up to the hospital room that Chin had been moved to. Kono felt groggy. She had fallen asleep on the ride over to the hospital and Steve had to wake her when they had arrived. A smile made its way to her lips as she entered the room. Chin was sitting up and talking to one of the nurses when they entered.
"Chin!." She leaped to his bedside and gave him a gentle hug.
"Hey little cuz. Steve."
"Hey. How you feeling?" Steve gave the man a pat on the shoulder.
"Like I've got a hole in my head." He smiled, but soon it turned to concern. "Kono, what happened to your arm and your leg?"
"Ah nothing much cuz. Jogging incident." She smiled at him.
"You weren't really jogging when I called, where you?"
"Kind of. Anyway, enough about me. When they letting you blow this joint?"
"Not soon enough. They say I have to stay for another week at least. The guys that hit me, they were in a black SUV." He had no idea of what his team had been through while he was in a coma.
"No worries brah, all sorted already. Listen, I'm going to need to crash at your place for a while so I'm going to head there tonight."
Chin was confused. "What's wrong with your place?"
"A little electrical incident." She smiled again. She was finally happy again. Seeing her cousin well was part of it. The other part was the fact that she didn't have to worry about somebody trying to kill them at every corner. Another part of that was the man standing in the room with her. He smiled at the lack of detail she gave her cousin.
"Okay. Well, no parties while I'm not there." He realised that she was purposefully hiding the details and didn't have the energy to press her on the matter.
"Me, never cuz!" She grinned. "We best get going. Let you have your beauty sleep. I will be back tomorrow to see you. No flirting with the nurses."
"Too late." The nurse in the room joked.
"Night cuz."
"Night? Its only morning."
"Its so night time for me!" she winked and started to walk out of the room.
"We'll see you tomorrow. Danny says he'll be by later. " Chin nodded at Steve.
"Look after my cousin Steve." Steve nodded as he left the room following Kono out the door.
Kono walked slowly ahead of Steve, waiting for him to catch up. He ran slightly to catch up with her. "So, I'll take you to Chin's now?"
"Yes please. I need to sleep badly!" she let out a yawn.
"You want to come to my place first, then I take you there later?" He was nervous to offer.
She smiled to herself, then turned to him. "You scared to be alone? Need superwoman to protect you?"
He grinned at her response. "Well, I was thinking…"He grabbed her hand as they walked out the exit of the hospital. "…maybe we could recharge together."
She felt a sudden rush pulsate through her body as their hands joined. He wanted to be around her. Her eyes lit up. "Ok, but no funny stuff okay. Plus, I have a huge party planned at Chin's!" She winked at him.
"Yes ma'am."
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They made their way to Steve's place by 11 am that morning. Kono still had her newly purchased belongings in Steve's van and sighed as she off loaded them at his house.
"Whats up?" He looked worried.
"Nothing, just wondering how I'm going to build up my wardrobe again. Limited clothes, not my scene."
He smiled at her. "Well, you could wear some of my stuff while you're here. That way your clothes would feel new when you put them on."
She rolled her eyes at his teasing. "Whatever, McGarrett."
They went inside and Steve took her stuff from her as they entered the house and placed it in Mary's room. "I'm sure you could borrow some of Mary's clothes if you wanted."
"I'll be ok, thanks." She shouted from the kitchen as she poured them both some orange juice. She handed him his glass when he walked into the kitchen. They sat at the kitchen table and an awkward silence seemed to fall on the room.
"You did good over the last couple of days." He stared at her with genuine awe. "You might even put me to shame in a couple of years if you carry on like that."
She laughed. "Really, what part of you would I put to shame. Good Navy boy or bad ass McGarrett?"
"A little of both I think." Another silence fell on the room.
"I think its time we go to sleep."
"yeah, sure. I'm going to sleep in the hammock outside. You are more than welcome to find a place to crash…or…join me?"
Kono found herself blushing and seemed speechless. Steve took this as a no. He got up from the table and walked to his porch. "Night Kono."
She smiled remembering the house in the jungle and how that night had ended up. "Night Steve."
He walked outside and disappeared from sight. Kono sat at the table for a few moments longer. She seemed to be weighing up her options. Should she go with him? If she did then there was no cover of a case to distract them and whatever was going to happen would happen then. Or she could go to Mary's room and sleep it off for a couple of hours. She chewed at her fingers. She made a decision.
She slowly got up from the table and walked through Steve's house, entering Mary's room. She unzipped her bag and pulled out a small pair of shorts and a comfortable t-shirt. She slipped her clothes off and dressed into the more comfortable attire. Then she made her way down the passage again and headed for the back porch. When she got there she stared in the direction of the hammock. Steve was lying in it. One leg hanging off the edge. It looked as though he were already asleep or nearing so. She made her way quietly to the peaceful man and stood above him as she reached him. She stared down at him for a few moments. He looked so peaceful. She decided that she didn't want to wake him. As she turned to return to the house a hand caught her wrist. "Where do you think you're going missy?"
She let out a nervous laugh. "I thought you were asleep. I didn't want to wake you."
He gently pulled her down until she fell into the hammock next to him. "I wasn't asleep. I was waiting, with my eyes closed."
She smiled up at him. He shifted his weight in the hammock so that they could both fit nicely into it. The sun was shining around them, only the shadow of the umbrella above them sheltered them from its rays. Steve let out a satisfied groan as he wrapped his arms around Kono. She lifted her stitched arm and rested it on his chest and nuzzled her face into his neck. She felt so safe and so unbelievably happy. She didn't remember much after that, except that she was so comfortable. They both drifted off to sleep quickly and slept for most of the day.