Hawaii Five-0

Caught In The Crossfire

Chapter 9

As Steve, Chin and Kono pulled up outside Halawa Correctional Facility, the man they were looking for, Anthony Moiki was leaving after finishing his shift. Looking up from getting his car keys out of his pocket, he saw the three Five-0 members getting out of their cars. Anthony froze when he saw the looks on their faces as they approached him. Anthony then tried to walk towards his car, which was on his right, trying to pretend they weren't there or that they weren't there for him. Pressing the button on his car keys to open his car, he heard his name being called.

"Anthony Moiki!" Steve yelled. "Five-0!"

Hearing the anger in Steve's voice, Anthony panicked and fumbled with his belongings to try and get into his car before he was slammed up against the side of his car and handcuffed.

"Where are they?" Steve asked as he patted him down.

"I don't know what you're talking about; where's who?" Anthony asked.

"Where are the four people Pedro Fuentes had kidnapped this morning" Steve asked as he turned him around so he could see the photos that Chin and Kono were holding.

"Who the hell is Pedro Fuentes?" Anthony asked. "What the hell is going on?"

"Try again" Kono replied, holding up a photo of Pedro Fuentes.

"Recognise him?" Chin asked.

"That's Pedro Fuentes?" Anthony asked as the team nodded in reply.

"Well, that's not what he called himself when we met; he said his name was Dennis Hernandez"

"How much did he pay you to help get Nathan Anderson out of prison?" Steve asked.

"One hundred thousand dollars" Anthony replied.

"One hundred thousand dollars" said Steve.

"Is that how much those four lives are worth to you?" he asked.

"Look, I have no idea where those people are; Pedro never mentioned anything about a kidnapping, all he wanted was to break Nathan Anderson out of prison" Anthony replied.

"Did he happen to mention how you could contact him or find him if you needed him?" Steve asked.

"Yes" Anthony replied.

"He gave me this phone with one phone number on it to call him if got caught; it's in my backpack"

"Perfect" Steve stated as opened the bag to retrieve the phone.

"We'll have you call him to set up meet while and try to trace his phone"

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Anthony asked.

"So far it's the only thing we have to find these people, so yeah" Kono replied.

"And if you do this for us, we'll put in a good word to the judge when your case goes to trial" said Chin.

"Okay" Anthony agreed. "I'll do it; I'll call Pedro and set up a meet"

"Good" said Steve.

"Those two HPD officers are going to take you to Five-0 headquarters so you can call and set up the meet with Pedro" he said as the HPD cruiser pulled up.

"Okay, but please make sure Pedro and Nathan don't find out I talked to the police" Anthony pleaded.

"I'd be a dead man if either of them found out I was talking to the police"

"Well, it's a good thing you're not a snitch; because by now you should know that snitches don't last too long in prison" Chin stated.

"Oh and just so you know, you helped put an extremely dangerous man back out on the streets who then helped a drug cartel kidnap four people" Kono stated.

"Not only that, because you decided that a hundred grand was more important than your friend's lives; three prison guards are dead" she added.

"I wouldn't have agreed to help him if I knew how they were going to break Nathan out so they kidnapped these people" said Anthony as the two HPD officers walked over to collect him.

"If could take it all back, I would"

Meanwhile back at Five-0 headquarters, Marco and the two other men, Enrique and Rafael, Pedro had hired walked into the foyer of the Iolani Palace. Trying not to draw any attention to themselves, they split up and headed in different directions. The foyer was bustling with people and they needed to get rid of any witnesses that could identify them being there at the time Five-0 headquarters was ransacked for the letter from Matt that April had mentioned to Pedro and Nathan. Again, not wanting to draw any attention to him and his men, Marco spotted the fire alarm on the wall to his right. He walked over towards the fire alarm digging into his pockets as if he was looking for change to buy a drink from the vending machine so he wouldn't look suspicious. Once Marco reached the vending machine, he walked straight passed it and reached over and pulled the alarm as he walked by. As the alarm rang out, the people in the foyer headed for the exits to flee a potential threat of fire.

While everybody was heading towards the exits and the security guards distracted by the situation, Marco, Enrique and Rafael headed for the stairs that led up to Five-0's headquarters. They had pulled it off; but they wouldn't have too long before the Honolulu Fire Department would arrive and find that the fire alarm was pulled as a hoax and give the all clear. Reaching the top of the stairs, the floor was completely silent as they headed towards the Five-0 offices. Before pulling open the glass door to the main office, they put on their ski masks as they kept their hands on their guns, holstered to their hips just to be safe. Once they were sure the office was empty, they split up and quickly went to search each of the offices to where they believe the letter would be. Entering the office, there were papers scattered on his desk.

"Alright, this is where Pedro and Nathan said it would be" Marco stated.

"Let's make this quick; it won't be long before HFD and Five-0 get wind of what's going on" he warned his men as they began to rummage through Steve's office.

Steve, Chin and Kono headed back to headquarters with the HPD cruiser in tow. When arrived outside headquarters, they were met with fire trucks, HPD cruisers and ambulances. Emerging from his car, Steve spotted Duke and walked over to him.

"Duke!" Steve yelled. "What's going on? What happened?" he asked as he pointed to the building.

"Looks like someone pulled the fire alarm" Duke replied.

"It looks like someone's playing a practical joke; fire department didn't find anything"

"Can we go in?" Steve asked.

"Yeah, fire department's given the all clear" Duke replied.

"Got any leads them yet?" he asked.

"I hope so" Steve replied as he, Chin, Kono and the two HPD officers who were escorting Anthony walked into the building.

As Steve pushed open the glass door open to Five-0's main office, something felt a bit off. Chin and Kono felt it too. Pulling their guns out of their holsters, Kono held up her hand to tell the two HPD officers to wait until they were given the all clear. It didn't take too long for that off putting feeling to be confirmed when they saw that all of their offices had been ransacked. Each of the offices had been ransacked top to bottom; papers, files and books everywhere. It was clear that someone was definitely looking for something; it was just at that second, they didn't know what.

"Did you guys find what they were looking for?" Kono asked as she came out of here office, pulling off her latex gloves.

"No" Chin replied. "I wander what they were looking for?" he asked.

"This" said Steve as he walked out of his office holding up a piece of paper he had pulled from his pocket.

"The letter Danny and April gave you" said Chin.

"Yeah" said Steve.

"Someone pulled the fire alarm to get rid of any potential witnesses so they break into our office to look for this letter; and they only way they could know about the letter is if April or Danny told them about it"

"Well they wouldn't have gotten that information from them too long ago" Kono stated.

"This could mean that they're all still alive"

"Yeah, but for how long?" Chin asked.

"For Pedro to get his money back he needs to find Matt" he stated.

"Pedro kidnaps them, not only to use them against Matt, but to get them to tell him where he is" Steve added.

"But they don't know where he is" Kono stated. "All they know is that they are in Hawaii"

"Yeah, but Pedro isn't going to believe them without any proof" said Chin.

"That's why they told him about the letter that Matt sent April" Kono concluded.

"Yeah, but they didn't find the letter" Steve stated.

"When they return without the letter, Pedro's probably going to think that they lied to him"

"We're running out of time" Kono stated.

"Well, let's not waste it" said Steve as he motioned for the two HPD officers to bring Anthony in.

"Let's get Anthony to set up that meet with Pedro"