Hawaii Five-0

Caught In The Crossfire

Chapter 5

A/N: Happy New Year, wishing you all a safe and happy 2013!

Nathan's hired help drove the black van for about another five minutes along the highway before turning off to the left. Still driving on a flat surface, he brought the van to a stop. He had pulled to a stop at a pier on the other side of the island just like he and Nathan had planned. The pier Danny and April were being taken to quiet; which would make sense considering it was basically abandoned, which made it a perfect place to hold somebody or people hostage without anybody asking any questions. This abandoned pier composed of a few old run down beach houses and an old wooden pier that had still managed to stay intact. As Nathan's hired help got out of the van, Nathan swung open the back doors before going back into the van and grabbing Danny under his shoulders and gesturing the hired help to lift his legs with a nod. Nathan and his hired muscle carried Danny about fifty feet to one of the run down beach houses before bolting the door closed; leaving an unconscious Danny lying in the middle of the empty run down beach house. When Nathan and his hired muscle returned to the van, April was still there, but she had rolled onto her opposite side; indicating that the sedative that Nathan had given her was starting to wear off and that she was starting to regain consciousness.

Nathan climbed back into the van to grab April the same way he had grabbed Danny. The hired help then went to grab her lower legs and the two men moved her out of the van. April felt the two men latch onto her body before feeling a sensation of being lifted up off the van's floor. Exiting the van, April could smell the salty sea air and guessed that she and Danny had been taken to somewhere near the ocean, but she couldn't hear any people or boats; so she figured, with no surprise, that they must've take them somewhere quiet and secluded. Somewhere that nobody would likely look for them. April then realised that being kept in a quiet and secluded place could mean they that they could be killed and nobody would hear about it, let alone know about it. As April further regained consciousness, she started to wriggle around to try and break free from both Nathan and his mystery man's grasp. As April fought, they fought back by tightening their grip around her shoulders and around her legs; this only made her fight more.

"Told you she would need a bigger dose" said the large man.

"Shut up" Nathan replied. "Put her legs down"

"What?" his hired help asked. "Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Just put her legs down would you" Nathan ordered.

As Nathan's hired help lowered April's legs to the ground, Nathan brought her to her feet and pulled her in close to his body; a body that was still covered in orange from his morning prison break. He then took one of his arms from underneath April's shoulders and wrapped it around her neck; April's eyes shot wide open in fear of what Nathan would do.

"Now, I'm going to tell you like I told before you took your little nap" said Nathan.

"You need to relax; I'm not going to hurt you unless you give me a reason too, at least not yet anyway"

"Where's my brother?" April asked, her voice shaking with fear as she continued to struggle in his grasp.

"What did you do with Danny?"

"Danny's fine" Nathan replied. "In fact he's here; not that you'll be seeing him anytime soon anyway. But you'll be able to hear him though" he added as he fought to keep April in his grasp, almost losing it several times, but the drugs worked their magic on April's body.

Nathan then gestured for his hired muscle to pick up April's legs again before carrying her to another run down beach house, situated right next to where Danny was being held captive. Walking through the already open door of the beach house, Nathan and the large man carried April inside and dropped her on the hard wooden floor.

"We'll be back in a few hours" Nathan stated.

"Oh, and don't waste your energy, nobody will hear you" he added before pulling the door closed behind him and bolting it closed.

Back at Five-0 headquarters, Steve followed by Chin and Kono entered through the main glass doors to the office. Steve had just dialled Gabby's work number after unsuccessfully dialling her phone twice only to receive no answer. His phone call was answered, but was met with disappointment when they replied that she wasn't there and that they had not be able to reach her either.

"Alright thank you" said Steve.

"But if she shows up, can you make sure she calls me back to let me know she's okay?"

"You don't think Gabby's been taken too do you?" Kono asked.

"I hope not" Steve replied. "But something's definitely wrong" he stated.

"Have you been able to get in touch with Stan?" Kono asked.

"Yeah, he was out with Charles when Grace and Rachel were taken; he's heading over here now"

"Okay, we need to get over to Gabby's house" Chin stated.

"I'll call HPD and get them on standby" he said as he followed Steve and Kono back out the glass doors.

The three of them arrived outside Gabby's house after breaking several road rules to get there. Already geared up, Steve, Chin and Kono raced towards the front of the house. As they arrived at the front door, all three of them noticed blood on and near the handle of the closed door. Steve checked to see if the door was locked by jiggling the handle and it was. The three Five-0 members got into position around Gabby's front door; Kono on the left, Steve on the right and Chin standing directly in front. Before breaking the door down, Steve announced Five-0's presence.

"Gabby, its Steve McGarrett from Five-0!" he yelled. "We're coming in!"

Met with no response from Gabby or anybody else that could be inside, Steve signalled for Chin to break down the door. Turning around and gripping onto Kono's shoulder for support, he knocked the door down with one forceful kick. Once the door hit the ground, they made their way into Gabby's house. Steve entered first, followed by Kono and then Chin. As the three of them began to clear each of the rooms, they found that something had definitely gone down inside that house. Slowly walking down the hall, Kono noticed smears of blood on the wall and blood drops on the carpet, and though the smears and drops of blood were small, they were still there which was what concerned her the most; it wasn't going to take a genius to know that the blood more than likely belonged to Gabby. Kono followed the blood trail down the hall which led her to a closed door where the blood smears and drops stopped. Coming to a stop outside the door, Kono prepared herself for what she might find on the other side when she opened that door; she was hoping that she wouldn't have to tell her friend that his girlfriend had been killed because of what his brother had done. Taking in a deep breath, she reached for the door handle and slowly pushed the handle down and slowly pushed the door open. Pushing the door open, Kono saw more blood on the carpet and kept her gun raised and ready for what she might encounter once she opened the door. For a few seconds, Kono's body froze in shock when she saw what the closed door had been hiding; a bruised and battered Gabby duck taped to a chair.

"Gabby" said Kono, letting her gun drop to her side as she rushed to Gabby's aid.

Kono knelt down in front of Gabby and gently placed her hands on Gabby's face and slowly tried to raise her head up. There were bruises and cuts on her arms as well as on her face.

"Gabby" said Kono. "It's Kono, are you with me?" she asked as Gabby responded by slowly opening her eyes.

"Kono?" Gabby asked.

"Yeah, it's me" Kono replied. "It's going to be okay" she assured her.

"Where's…where's Danny?" Gabby asked. "Is he okay?" she asked.

"We don't know" Kono replied. "Someone took him and his family"

"What?" Gabby asked with panic in her voice.

"We'll find them, okay" Kono promised.

"Now, let's get this duck-tape off and get you out of this chair" she said as she pulled out her knife.

"They said if I didn't do what they wanted, they would kill me, my family, Danny's family…" Gabby explained before she heard two other familiar voices both call Kono's name.

"Kono!" she heard Chin yell from the hall.

"I'm in here!" Kono yelled back. "In the study!"

"Alright, we're coming in!" Steve announced just as he and Chin entered the room to be met with the same sight Kono had met with when she entered the room earlier.

"I'll call an ambulance" Chin stated before stepping out of the room to make the call.

"Gabby, what happened?" Steve asked as he knelt down on her left side, placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Who did this to you?"

"Someone knocked on the door, I answered it, they were two large men and they attacked me" Gabby replied as Kono finished cutting the last of the duct tape from around her wrists.

"They forced me in here, duct-taped me to the chair and tortured me" she added.

"Okay, you're all good" Kono stated after she cut the final piece of duct tape.

"Have you ever seen these two men before?" Steve asked.

"No" Gabby replied. "But…"

"But what?" Kono asked.

"But when I asked them who they were, they said they were sent here by Pedro Fuentes…" Gabby replied.

"For more information" she added.

"More information?" Steve asked, confused to what that even meant.

"What does that mean?" Chin asked.

"Do you know Pedro Fuentes?" Kono asked.

"He found me" Gabby replied.

"How did he find you?" Steve asked.

"The night after I went out with Danny for the first time I was leaving the museum and they there waiting for me" Gabby explained.

"He was there with two other large men and he told me that he and the cartel had been watching Danny and his family for months"

"What did he want?" Chin asked.

"He wanted my help" Gabby replied.

"He wanted me to get information out of Danny about his brother Matt and where he was; he said he couldn't use his family because it could raise too much suspicion and threatened to kill me, mine and Danny's families if I didn't do what they said or if I lied to them"

"But when you told them Danny didn't know where his brother was, they didn't believe you" Steve stated.

"No" Gabby agreed. "That's when this happened"

"Did they want to know anything else?" Steve asked.

"When the two men came here this morning they wanted to know where they could find Rachel and Grace" Gabby replied.

"What about Danny and April?" Kono asked.

"They said that they had already been taken care of" Gabby replied.

"I didn't want to tell them, but they threatened me with their lives; I had to tell them"

"Then that would mean that they kidnapped Danny, April, Grace and Rachel because they couldn't find Matt and needed him to come to them" said Chin as they sirens of the ambulance could be heard.