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Down in the kitchen, Danny was busy pulling food out of the refrigerator and placing it in the boxes on the floor. When he saw Steve come down the stairs with that goofy grin on his face he shook his head. "What happened?" he asked.
"Huh? Oh nothing," Steve said but the smile didn't leave his face.
"Sure. Are you sure you're going to be able to be objective about this? Her life may hang in the balance and it looks to me like you're a couple of steps away from falling off a cliff," Danny said. That snapped Steve out of it. He looked at Danny and frowned.
"I'll be fine and so will she. I can take care of her," he said as he rolled his shoulders back and puffed out his chest.
"Okay, you just call me if you need anything," Danny said and let it go but he was worried about Steve. Whatever this thing was…it was hitting fast and hard and he didn't know how it was going to work out.
Two hours later, Danny had gone back to headquarters to check in with Kono and Chin while Steve took Madeline back to his house to get settled in. When he walked into HQ Chin and Kono were standing around the computer table.
"Hey, what have you found out?" Danny asked.
"The car was rented at Honolulu International about a week ago. I talked to the rental company and they said the car is due back this Sunday. They emailed copies of the licenses of the two guys that rented the car but when I ran them nothing came up," Kono explained as she put the information up on the big plasma screen TVs.
"You're thinking aliases?" Danny asked.
"Probably. We were going to run them against larger databases but we didn't know what to look for," Chin said trying to bait Danny into telling them what was going on.
"Yeah, I'm sorry I can't give you guys more information. All I can tell you is that a woman is in danger. She thinks she is being stalked by the guys who rented this car so we need to find out who they are," Danny explained as vaguely as possible.
"The woman that was in here earlier? The one who works with Malia?" Chin asked.
"That's the one."
"Wait? Who?" Kono asked.
"Malia was dropping me off after lunch when she saw one of her co-workers here talking to Steve. She tried to play it close to the vest but I could tell she was nervous. From what Malia told me about her, she's a real private girl but is very good at her job for someone so young. When she first started, Malia couldn't stop talking about how awesome she was but every time she was invited out to do something, she always had a reason to not go," Chin said.
"Huh," Kono said trying to put the pieces together but there was a couple of big pieces of the puzzle missing.
"Yeah, when she was here she kept asking for Danny. Wouldn't speak to anyone else about whatever her problem is," Chin said. He and Kono exchanged a look and then looked at Danny.
"All I can tell you is that I know her from when I was working in Jersey. Now, will you do me a favor and run the faces on those licenses against all known associates of Jack Zwinski? He's a major crime boss back in Jersey," Danny asked.
"Sure, no problem," Kono said. Danny nodded and went to his office. "So…?"
"I have no idea but whatever this girl is involved in, better not trickle down to Malia," Chin said. Kono nodded her agreement and started on the facial recognition trace on the main computer. Chin went to his office to start working on tracing the car around the island via the traffic cameras.
Back in his office, Danny was wondering how long he thought he could keep Maddie's identity a secret from Chin and Kono. They trusted him but at some point, depending how deep this was going to go, he may have to let the cat out of the bag and he was not looking forward to that time.