Hawaii Five-0

Caught In The Crossfire

Chapter 6

A/N: Sorry for the long wait; right in the middle of writing this chapter I got hit with two uni assignments and I had to do those first. Anyway, here it is, enjoy!

April had hit the ground hard after Nathan and his hired help, who still remained nameless, had dropped her on the floor of the old run down beach house. She rolled onto her side in agony after her back took the full force of the fall. Looking up, she's that the only window in the beach house had been boarded up and the only shred of light was coming through the holes as a result of wear and tear over the years. Needing to sit up, April then decided to pull herself along the floor, because her hands and ankles were zip tied, to get to the back of the beach house. As she pulled herself along the old wooden floor, she felt the wood scrape along her left arm and leg, taking her skin off and drawing blood. Once she reached the wall, April managed to push herself against the wall and lean her body up against the hard surface. She had only dragged herself a couple of feet, but she felt exhausted; not to mention that she had cut up her arm and leg pretty good in the process; while the zip ties on her wrists and ankles had started to cut into her skin. As she got her breath back, she rubbed her belly in an effort to calm herself down. While getting her breathing under control, April then remembered what Nathan had said about her brother being here; that fact that she would be able to hear him, not see him. Even though Danny wasn't in the beach house with her, he was here somewhere. She then decided to find out where exactly.

"Danny!" April yelled. "Danny!" she yelled again, to be met with no response.

"Danny…please… Danny…!" she yelled, starting to bang on the wall, as her eyes began to well up from the fear.

He felt a dull throbbing in his head as again regained consciousness from being kicked in the head earlier. Waking up, Danny felt the dried blood on the side of his face from his head wound he had obtained from when he was first knocked out with his own weapon. As his world gradually came back into focus, he could make out a familiar voice calling his name; the voice sounded panicked and scared. As his head cleared further, Danny could also make out the sound of a thumping noise. Once Danny's hearing cleared up, he recognised the voice; it belonged to his little sister.

"Danny…Danny…Danny!" he heard April call, as she continued to call his name, desperately trying to get him to respond to assure her he was okay.

After hearing his sister's desperate calls, he thought he'd better let April know that her big brother was okay so she could relax and not go into premature labour.

"April!" Danny yelled, the loud noise sending pain through his head, then waiting to hear if April had heard him.

"Danny?!" April asked. "Danny, is that you?!" she asked again.

"Yeah April, it's me" Danny confirmed.

"Are you alright?" he asked after remembering that Nathan had drugged her into unconsciousness.

"Yeah we're both okay, head's a bit heavy, but I'll be fine" April replied, giving Danny some relief.

"How's your head?" she asked.

"How'd you know about my head?" Danny asked.

"Just answer the question please" April replied in annoyance.

"My head hurts like hell, but I'll live" Danny replied. "Are you feeling okay, baby wise? I mean you're not going to go into labour on me are you?" he asked.

"No, I'm feeling alright" April replied, continuing to rub her belly

"I'm pretty sure she won't have an early arrival Danny"

"Well, that's good to hear, because you going into labour could complicate things" Danny replied.

"Yeah, and if I were her, I wouldn't want to be born here either" April stated before she and Danny heard a high pitched sound coming from nearby.

"What was that?" she asked.

"Sounds like someone screaming" Danny stated before he came to a realisation of who that screaming could belong to.

"Wait a minute…"

"What?" April asked. "Who is it Danny?"

"It's…its Grace" Danny replied. "They've got Grace and Rachel"

"Oh my god!" April exclaimed as the sound of Grace screaming got closer and closer to beach houses.

Grace continued to scream and tried her best to wriggle free from the man's grasp. Close behind, the other masked man carried Rachel; he had to carry her after they decided to zip tie her ankles together. Rachel didn't scream, but she did try to wriggle her way out of the man's strong hold on her while trying to keep an eye on what the other man was doing to Grace.

"Please don't hurt my daughter!" Rachel yelled as they arrived outside the beach houses Danny and April were being kept in.

Undoing the lock on one of the dilapidated beach houses, the one that specifically held Danny, the man holding Grace carried her into the beach house.

"What are you doing with my daughter?!" Rachel asked as she watched the faceless man carry Grace into the old beach house.

"Don't worry about her" said the man holding her. "She'll be fine" he tried to assure her as he undid the lock on the other beach house where April was being held captive, while holding onto Rachel with his other arm.

But to no surprise, it didn't assure Rachel at all.

The masked man then did what he did with April and dropped her on the floor of the old beach house. After dropping Rachel on the floor, he turned around and left, pulling the door closed behind him. Rolling onto her side, Rachel saw that she wasn't in there alone. Sitting in the left back corner of the beach house, was April with her wrists and ankles bounded together too.

"Rachel" said April as Rachel turned her head to face April.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"I think so" Rachel replied. "Just a few bruises"

"Good…good" April stated. "Where's Grace?" she asked.

"They took…they took her to another beach house" Rachel replied, sobbing in fear as Grace's screaming subsided.

"The one next to us?" April asked.

"Yes" Rachel replied. "Why? Where's Danny? Is he okay?" Rachel asked.

"Yes, Danny's in there, and he's fine; just a cut on the side of his head" April replied.

"Rachel everything's going to be okay, we're going to be okay; just take some deep breaths and try to calm down"

"Okay" Rachel responded. "April?" she asked.

"Yeah?" April asked.

"What the hell is going on?" Rachel asked. "What does Nathan want with us?"

"How'd you know about Nathan?" April asked.

"Steve told me we he called to tell me that you and Danny had been kidnapped" Rachel replied.

"Then after that, those two men killed the two police officers that Danny put outside my house after that threat was made against our family, and then they took me and Grace" she added.

"Jeez" April replied.

Grace had continued to kick and scream as the strange masked man carried her from the van to the old abandoned beach house. After the man unlocked the door and carried her in, her kicking and screaming subsided when she saw her Danno sitting in the middle of the floor. Once the masked man loosened his grip on Grace, she wriggled her way out of his arms and landed on the old wooden floor of the beach house; which didn't leave much for a soft landing. After the masked man had closed the door behind him, Danny shuffled his way over to a sobbing Grace lying on the floor; unable to move anywhere because of the zip ties around her wrists and ankles.

"Grace, Grace it's okay, I'm here" Danny assured her as continued to shuffle along the floor.

Once he reached his daughter, he placed his hands on her back. Feeling the familiar touch of her Danno's hands on her back, Grace turned over to her other side and was met with the face of her father.

"Danno" said Grace.

"Hey Monkey" Danny replied as helped to try and sit up. "Are you okay?" he asked before Grace shuffled herself closer to Danny and buried her face into his shoulder.

"Where's Mommy?" Grace asked, her voice muffled by her father's shoulder.

"She's probably with Auntie April in the beach house next to us" Danny replied.

"It's going to be okay Monkey"

Bringing her face away from her father's shoulder, Grace looked up at her father's face and noticed the wound on the side of his head.

"Your head's bleeding Danno" Grace stated.

"I know" Danny replied. "They hit me in the head, but I'll be okay" he assured her.

"Okay" Grace nodded.

"Will someone find us?" she asked.

"Of course someone will find us Monkey" Danny replied.

"We'll be okay" he assured her.

Back at Five-0 headquarters, Steve walked through the glass doors of the main office. He had just returned from the hospital where Gabby had been taken after they found her tied to a chair in her house. As Steve entered the main office, Chin and Kono looked up from the computer.

"Hey Steve, how's Gabby?" Kono asked.

"She's got a concussion, some cuts and bruises" Steve replied.

"The doctor said she'll be okay, but wants her to stay overnight for observation"

"Poor Gabby" Kono stated sympathetically.

"Yeah" Steve agreed. "Please tell me you've got something"

"Yeah we do; the results on the blood found in April's house showed that the blood on the floor belonged to Danny" Chin explained.

"The blood on the wall belonged to Nathan Anderson" he added.

"So we definitely know he was in the house" Steve stated. "Any signs of an accomplice? Because we know there's no way he could've taken Danny and April by himself" he asked.

"No, not yet" Kono replied.

"But we did get something on the syringe you found in the corner of the bedroom"

"Yeah?" Steve asked.

"Yeah" Kono confirmed.

"The crime techs found blood on it and it came back as April's; and you were right, they did sedate her"

"With what?" Steve asked.

"Diphenhydramine" Chin replied. "That's an antihistamine found in Tylenol"

"Okay, but why only sedate April, not Danny?" Steve asked.

"Well, I did some research on diphenhydramine and it's safe to use on pregnant women" Kono replied.

"Which more than likely means…" Chin started.

"That Nathan didn't want her or the baby harmed" Steve finished.

"If Nathan is working with the drug cartel, why bother not harming April or her baby if they're probably planning on killing her later anyway?" Kono asked.

"Because if he harms April, he could harm the baby" Chin replied.

"That's right and he's going to keep her healthy until he no longer needs her"

"Nathan wants April's baby" Steve concluded.