Hawaii Five-0

Caught In The Crossfire

Chapter 3

Steve sat in his car waiting for Danny and April. What should be only taking about five minutes had turned into about fifteen and Steve was starting to become increasingly concerned. Not wanting to wait any longer, Steve pulled out his phone to call Chin and Kono. After two rings, Chin answered.

"Steve, what's up?" Chin asked.

"I'm outside April's house waiting for Danny and April" Steve replied.

"Wait, still?" Kono asked.

"That's why I'm calling" Steve replied. "I think something's wrong"

"Okay, we're on our way" Chin replied before disconnecting the call.

As Chin and Kono arrived outside April's house, Steve was getting geared while he waited for them to arrive; Chin and Kono already having done so before they left headquarters.

"Hey guys" Steve greeted before getting straight down to business.

"I've tried their phones several times and no answer; we've got to breach now"

The three of them ran towards the house, armed and ready. Steve led, followed by Chin and then Kono. April and Danny had left the front door partly open seeing as they were only supposed to be a few minutes. Steve stood on the right side of the door while Kono took the left and Chin stood in front of the doorway. Steve held up his hand to keep Kono and Chin in position to make sure if Danny and April were inside, that they weren't caught off guard.

"Danny! April!" Steve yelled. "I'm coming in; Chin and Kono are with me" he said to be met with no response from either Danny or April.

"That doesn't sound good" Kono stated.

"No it doesn't" Steve agreed before motioning them where to go when they entered the house.

"Okay, I'll take the bedrooms, Kono, you take the kitchen and the living room, Chin, you take the rest of the house"

Pushing the door open slowly, Steve's worst fears were realised when saw a blood trail in the hallway, coming out of April and Michael's bedroom, making his blood run cold.

"I've got a blood trail coming from April's bedroom" Steve stated as he entered the house; Chin and Kono following him closely behind before splitting up to check the rest of the house.

Before checking April and Michael's bedroom, Steve checked the spare bedroom and the nursery, all set up for the arrival of their baby girl; nothing was out of place in either of the rooms. Exiting the nursery, Steve then took a few steps down the hallway to check the main bedroom where he was certain was where it all went down. As Steve entered the room, he found out he was right. While keeping his weapon at the ready, he followed the blood trail made up of large smudged blood drops until they ended, where a much larger pool of blood had formed. After checking the adjoining bathroom, he came back to inspect the bedroom.

He knew it couldn't have been a gunshot wound, he would have heard the gunshot. Whatever had happened in that bedroom had left either Danny or April or even both of them badly hurt. Things kept getting worse when noticed a syringe over by the wall.

"Damn it!" Steve exclaimed, reaching for his phone to get Kono and Chin to come back to the bedroom.

"Coming in Steve" Kono announced as she and Chin entered the room.

"Come in" Steve replied while putting on a latex glove to pick up the syringe on the floor.

"They're gone Steve" Chin stated, holding up the two phones they had found in the backyard.

"This is why they weren't answering their phones" he stated.

"The blood trail goes all the way out the back door; and back fence has been taken down" Kono added.

"What've you got?" she asked as she saw Steve go to pick up something off of the floor.

"This" Steve replied as he stood up. "An empty syringe"

"They must have drugged one of them" Chin guessed.

"Yeah" Steve agreed.

"And I'm thinking it was April; in her condition, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have been able to put up too much of a fight"

"Yeah, but I'm guessing she tried" Chin pointed at a blood smear on the wall.

"Good for her" Kono praised. "I just hope that blood doesn't belong to her though"

"Yeah me too" said Steve.

"But if April was drugged, that means this blood probably belongs to Danny" Chin stated.

"Yeah" Steve agreed. "But if Nathan took them, he wasn't working alone"

"You're right" said Chin.

"He would've wanted this done quickly before anyone noticed what was going on"

"That and he wouldn't be able to take down both a cop and his sister" Kono added.

"I should've come in with them" Steve stated.

"Steve there was no way you could've known this was going to happen" Chin assured him.

"None of us could've"

"We'll find them Steve" Kono promised.

"I hope so" said Steve.

"Because Michael's coming home tomorrow and I don't want to have to tell him we don't know where his pregnant wife is"

"Yeah, but we're going to have to tell Grace, Gabby and Rachel; we don't want them hearing about this on the news" Kono added.

"Yeah I know" Steve agreed. "But right now we need to get the crime scene unit out here to process the house"

"I'll get on it" said Chin. "And after I do that I'll stay and work with HPD"

"Thanks Chin" said Steve. "Kono, take a couple of HPD officers to check with the neighbours and see if they've noticed anything out of the ordinary over the last couple of days; see if we can a vehicle description"

"Will do" said Kono. "What are you going to do?" she asked.

"I'm going to take your advice and go tell Grace, Gabby and Rachel what's happened before they see it on the news" Steve replied as he and Kono headed out the front door.

"Call me if you get anything" he said as he walked quickly towards his car.

Opening his eyes, Danny could see the fuzzy outline of his sister lying beside him. While his head continued to throb, he could feel the now semi dried blood on the side of his face after he was hit in the head with own weapon, along with the painfully tight zip ties around his wrists and ankles. His vision still fuzzy, he tried his best to get the world into better focus and he saw that besides the zip ties around her wrists and ankles as well, April looked relatively unharmed; but the fact he didn't know what they had injected April with still played on his mind.

"April, April" Danny whispered, trying not to alert Nathan and the rather large man sitting in the front seat of the van; at least that's what he thought.

"Keep quiet!" Nathan yelled, giving him a painful swift kick in the back of the head.

"From what I gave April, she'll be out of it for a few hours"

Unfortunately he was right, the painful kick in the back of the head wasn't worth it, April remained unresponsive to his desperate attempt to wake her up. His unconscious sister was the last thing Danny saw before he lost consciousness again.

Rachel pulled out of her driveway with Grace in the backseat and plans to take her to the beach. With Danny's concerns for their safety after April received a letter from Matt, he had organised an HPD detail to make sure that they were safe until the situation was all sorted out. After giving way to a passing car, Rachel was about to turn out onto the road when her phone rang. The name that popped up on her screen was familiar but was a surprise to her. Usually if someone from Five-0 other than Danny called her, something was more than likely wrong; this time would be no exception.

"Steve" Rachel answered.

"Rachel, where are you?" Steve asked.

"I'm just leaving to take Grace to the beach" Rachel replied. "Why, what's going on?" she asked.

"Okay, I need you and Grace to stay home with your HPD detail" Steve replied.

"Steve, what's going on?" Rachel asked.

"Nathan escaped from prison a couple of hours ago and now Danny and April are missing" Steve explained.

"What?!" Rachel exclaimed. "Do you think he could be looking for us?" she asked

"I don't he will, but you have a connection to April and Danny; but I don't want to take any chances of him coming after you and Grace; so I need you to stay home and I'll call you when we know more, okay?" Steve added.

"Ok…" Rachel said before going completely quiet after a black van pulled up right in front of her car.

"Rachel?" Steve tried. "Are you there? Are you okay? Rachel?" he asked.

"I'm here…a van…they have guns Steve" Rachel replied before dropping her phone after one of the two men pointed a gun at her.

"Rachel? Rachel? Grace?" Steve tried with no reply from either Rachel or Grace, but he could still hear everything that was going down as he turned his car around to head to the Edwards' house.

"Mommy, what's going on?" Grace asked her in a panic.

"I don't know Grace, but just do what they say and we'll okay" Rachel replied as the two masked men surrounded the car, but not before HPD tried to stop them.

Engaging in a short fire fight, the two men took the two HPD officers down quite easily and moved ahead with their task. Grace screamed as her mother pulled her down while the fire fight went down. Once it was over, the two masked men surrounded the car and forcibly opened the doors to gain access Rachel and Grace. Pointing their guns at them, the two masked men grabbed them and pulled them out of the car. Unfortunately learning from prior experience, neither Rachel nor Grace put up a fight against the masked men as they were taken over to the black van awaiting them; though this didn't stop Grace from screaming, as the masked man carried her over his shoulder, to alert the neighbours that something was wrong. Rachel and Grace were quickly bundled into the back of the black van a gun point before the van sped off.

Hearing the screams coming from Grace, broke Steve's heart because he knew that he couldn't be there to stop her or Rachel from being taken. As Steve sped up he called Chin and Kono to let them know what had just happened. No more than five minutes later, Steve pulled into Summer Street and immediately saw Rachel's car sitting at the gate with the HPD cruiser behind it. Pulling up outside the Edwards house, Steve emerged from his car and pulled his weapon from his holster while he cautiously approached the scene with his weapon raised. Slowly walking towards Rachel's car, he saw that two of the doors were open and Rachel and Grace were nowhere to be seen. But the two HPD officers that Danny had organised to watch the Edwards house were there; they just weren't alive. Approaching them with caution, Steve found the two officers lying in pools of blood after they were gunned down trying to protect Rachel and Grace. Steve crouched down and placed his hand over his mouth. "What the hell is going on?" he thought to himself.