Hawaii Five-0

Caught In The Crossfire

Chapter 7

Meanwhile back at the old abandoned pier where Danny, Grace, Rachel and April were being kept, it had been hours since Rachel and Grace had been left there by the two masked men who kidnapped them from their car earlier that day. The four of them had done their absolute best while their wrists and ankles were bound with zip ties, to find a way out. But it was no use, the windows were boarded up and without something like a crowbar to pry the wood off of the windows the only other way out of the beach houses were the front doors; and they were locked from the outside and opened inward, so breaking them down wasn't an option. Even if they weren't zip tied around their wrists and ankles, they had no options.

For all four of them, the effect of having no access to water for the past few hours was starting to take its toll on their bodies; especially Grace's and April's.

"Danno I'm thirsty" Grace stated.

"I know Monkey, I am too" Danny replied. "Are you feeling okay though?" he asked.

"Yeah" Grace nodded.

"Are you sure? You're not feeling sick?" Danny asked to be sure.

"Yes, I just really want something to drink" Grace replied.

"I'll second that, it's starting to get a bit hot in here" Danny stated.

"But don't worry alright, someone will find us"

In the other beach house where Rachel and April were being held, Rachel was holding concerns for April's health as her body struggled to cope with the lack of water and the building heat inside the beach house, with no cool breezes what so ever. Rachel knew it wouldn't be long before she would be in the same state as April was.

"April, how are you feeling okay?" Rachel voiced with concern. "You look a little flushed"

"No…I just really need something to drink or I think I'm going to pass out from this heat" April replied, swallowing to try and moisten her dry sore throat before hearing the voice of her brother yell out.

"Rachel!" Danny yelled from the other beach house.

"Yes!?" Rachel yelled back.

"How are you two doing?" Danny asked. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine" Rachel replied. "But April really needs some water; she's not coping"

"Just hang in there April!" Danny encouraged her. "You're going to be alright!"

"I really hope you're right Danny!" April responded.

"How's Grace doing?" she asked.

"She's okay" Danny replied. "Like all of use, she really needs something to drink"

"Alright, just let me know if either of you get a headache or start getting dizzy" said April.

"Why?" Rachel asked.

"Because those are the symptoms of the next stage of dehydration" April replied.

"So let's really, really hope someone finds us soon; or we could be in real trouble, and trust me when I say this; things will just get worse from there"

Danny and Grace were sitting silently up against the back wall of the beach house, they heard the sound of two cars pulling up outside.

"Do you those cars outside Danno?" Grace asked as she lifted her head off of Danny's shoulder after hearing the cars.

"Yeah I do Monkey" Danny replied.

"Do you think its help?" Grace asked as she looked up at her father.

"I sure hope so" Danny pleaded as he Grace both kept on listening for what was going to happen next; though he wasn't entirely convinced that help would've come this soon.

As Danny and Grace continued to listen, they heard voices and quickly came to the conclusion that it was not help that had arrived. Knowing full well those voices did belong to his Five-0 team members; he kept on listening to see if he could figure out whom the voices belonged to. As the voices got closer, Danny could hear footsteps alongside the voices that were now starting to become familiar. He finally figured out who the voices belonged to when they stopped outside the door of the beach house; his worse fears about who could have been behind this came true, one of the voices belonged to Pedro Fuentes. Matt was right, the cartel were after him and they came after his family for revenge of what he did. Had Matt missed the deadline to return the ten million dollars he stole from the cartel? Were he and his men here to kill him and his family? Was this it?

Danny then made out another voice which was all too familiar to the Williams family, Nathan Andersons. He figured that they were the ones who aided in Nathan's escape from prison that morning; and they planning on using him against Matt to help in getting their ten million dollars back. Danny also knew as well as everybody else that Nathan was also out for his own personal vendetta against April because he still blamed her for him being in prison and the death of their unborn child, which was actually all his doing in the first place. This made Nathan extremely dangerous to April and her current unborn child. The drug cartel had certainly used a good tactic to get their money back; Danny certainly had to give them credit for doing their homework.

Danny and Grace sat close together as they heard someone begin to try and open the lock. As Danny and Grace heard the door unlock they watched and waited to see who would enter. Obviously Danny already knew Pedro Fuentes was one of the men and Nathan was probably one of the others. But there was definitely more than two men out there, there had to be four, maybe five at least. After the two men unlocked the door, Danny and Grace watched the door creak open before two men, one of them Pedro Fuentes, the other was someone Danny recognised, but couldn't put a name to the face.

It was the man who aided Nathan in his and April's kidnapping at April's house.

"Detective Williams, so nice to finally meet you and your daughter" said Pedro as he and the man who remained nameless approach him and Grace.

"I'm aware that you've already met my friend Marco here when he and Nathan came to "escort" you and your sister to these lovely old beach houses by the bay" he added while Danny watched the large man stand next to him, strapped with a rifle.

"Yeah" Danny replied, while Grace buried her face into her father's shoulder.

"Now let's cut to the chase, what do want?" he asked, knowing exactly how these things played out.

"Detective Williams please don't embarrass yourself by insulting my intelligence, you know exactly what I want" Pedro replied.

"Yeah, and what's that?" Danny asked.

"Marco!" Pedro yelled, gesturing Marco to come over.

"This smartass needs to be taught a lesson" Pedro stated. "Do you mind helping me out?" he asked.

"Of course not" Marco replied before approaching Danny and Grace.

As Marco walked towards him and his daughter, Danny could see what was coming. Once Marco came to a stopped in front of him and Grace, he turned his rifle around before Danny felt the hard butt of the gun come into contact with the side of his head where he had been hit before. The force of being hit by the butt of the gun knocked him to the floor, forcing him to let go of his grasp on Grace.

"Danno!" Grace screamed as she watched her father hit the floor. "Danno!"

"I'm not in the mood for playing games Detective Williams" Pedro said as he knelt down beside Danny.

"Do it again, and you won't be the only one who gets hurt" he warned him.

"Fine" Danny agreed as Marco pulled up off of the floor.

"I do know what you want; you want my brother and the ten million dollars in drug money he stole from you"

"Now that wasn't so hard was it?" Pedro asked rhetorically.

"No, it wasn't" Danny agreed.

"But what makes you think I'm going to hand my brother over to you?" he asked.

"Do I need to repeat myself Detective Williams?" Pedro asked, gradually becoming annoyed again.

"After what he did, are you really willing to risk the rest of your family to protect your brother?"

"Okay fine" Danny replied.

"He's here, Matt's here on Hawaii, he never left"

"Keep going" said Pedro.

"I swear that's all I know" Danny replied.

"Are you sure?" Pedro asked him.

"Positive" Danny replied.

"Okay" said Pedro. "Marco, you know what to do"

"Hey!" Danny yelled as Pedro headed for the door.

"I warned you twice not to play games with me Detective Williams" said Pedro.

"I'm not playing games with you!" Danny yelled. "That's all I know!"

"I'm sure that's all you know" Pedro replied as turned back towards Danny and Grace.

"But I'm going to find your brother and my money with or without your help; if I find him without your help….. well I'm sure we both know that's going to end"

"I promise you it's all I know, it's all my family knows" Danny stated.

"I can't tell you something I don't know; I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear"

"Very well" said Pedro. "Marco, continue" he said as he walked out the door.

"Yes Sir" Marco replied as he raised the butt of his gun again before it collides with the side of Danny's head, knocking him to the floor again, knocking him out cold.

"Danno!" Grace screamed again, as her eyes began to well up. "Stop hurting him!" she yelled to Marco.

"Keep your mouth shut!" Marco yelled. "Unless you want to end up like your Daddy" he warned her before following Pedro out the door and locking it behind him.

In the beach house beside them, Rachel and April heard Grace's screams for her father.

"Grace!" Rachel yelled. "Grace!"

"Grace, are you okay?!" April asked. "What's happening?"

"I'm okay!" Grace replied. "But they hit Daddy in the head and he won't wake up!"

"Oh my god!" Rachel exclaimed.

"Damn it Danny" April muttered under her breath.

"Okay, Grace I need you to listen to me; you're going to help me, help Danno"

"Okay" Grace agreed. "What do I do?" she asked.

"Alright, I need you to try and put two of your fingers on the side of his neck and tell me how fast his pulse is" April replied.

"Okay!" Grace yelled back as she shuffled along the wooden floor over to Danny's side and placed two fingers on his neck.

"I got it! And it feels normal!" she confirmed.

"Okay, now I need you to check if he is breathing" April asked.

"See if his chest is going up and down"

"Yes!" Grace yelled back.

"Good, that's good Grace!" April praised her.

"Now if he's on his side, I need you to try and roll him onto his side; I know it's going to be hard because your wrists and ankles are tied, but I really need you to try because it will help him breathe better"

"Okay, I'll try!" Grace yelled as she manoeuvred herself to her knees, scraping them along the rough wooden floor in the process, so she could try and push Danny onto his side.

Wedging her hands and then her arms under Danny's body, Grace pushed up against Danny's back and pushed with everything she had to get her father onto his side. Then, while keeping her hands on Danny's back, Grace brought her legs around to push him the rest of the way. She had succeeded.

"I did it!" Grace yelled. "I got Danno onto his side!"

"Well done sweetheart!" Rachel praised her.

"Good job Grace!" April yelled. "Now we just wait for him to wake up!" she added just before she and Rachel were interrupted when the door swung open with Pedro and Nathan on the other side.