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Danny laughed as the light shattered to pieces and the coffin was plunged into darkness.

He pulled out one of the glow sticks and snapped it, filling the small space with an eerie glow that he much preferred to the blinding light. He turned his head and sighed with relief as he felt the fan blowing the cool air in his face once again.

Danny wasn't ready to give up yet. He'd be lying if he said he hadn't thought about it, but he wasn't going to let that bastard Sean Harris win so easily. He had to get out of here so he could shoot that son of bitch himself. Then he was going to go after whoever let that sicko out of his cage.

Right now all Danny had to focus on was breathing. He had to trust his team to find him and get him out. But he wasn't going to die in here. He was going to fight, not only for himself but for his team, his family and especially his Gracie.

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Steve felt the sting of tears in his eyes as he stared at the now black computer screen. It was over. Danny was dead and it was his fault.

Steve put his head in his hands and leaned heavily on the computer table. What was he supposed to tell Grace? Rachel? His parents? That he just gave up and shot himself?!

"How could you Danny?" He whispered. "How could you?"

Steve's head shot up when he heard Danny's laughter fill the room suddenly. His vision was blurred from the tears in his eyes. He quickly wiped them away and looked back at the screen.

When he saw Danny's smiling face illuminated by a dull green light he felt so relieved he almost dropped to the floor. He started laughing along with his partner and wiping the tear tracks from his face.

"You're still alive buddy," Steve whispered. "Just hold on."

Steve was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of his phone ringing.
He caught Chin's eye through his office window and motioned him over.

"Go Kono," Steve said, answering the phone.
Chin looked at him in surprise when he noticed the red rimmed eyes and the rough edge to his voice. His eyes immediately flew to check on Danny before looking back at Steve questioningly.

Kono obviously heard something in his voice too because she immediately started to panic when he answered.
"Steve? What is it? What happened? Is Danny okay?!" She asked frantically.
"Yeah," Steve replied, "He's fine. But he shot out the light at the bottom of that coffin. When I saw him pick up the gun and heard the shot, for a second I thought..."

There was a part of Steve that was ashamed with himself for thinking that Danny would give up so easily. Just another thing for him to feel guilty about.

"Oh god Steve..." Kono said sadly.
"I'm sorry brah," Chin told him.
Steve shook his head. "The light was bothering him. I figured it was but I couldn't stand not being able to see him so I..."
"Hey," Chin said, putting his hand on Steve's shoulder. "We all need to see him. This isn't on you. But he's holding it together. That's a good thing all right?"

Steve nodded. "What have you got Kono?" He asked, clearing his throat.
"So Fong went over the car and saw that the last distance Harris traveled was 23 miles. And we know he was heading East," Kono told them. "Fong also said that you should send him the link to Danny's web cam. He'll go over it and look for clues or something that might be able to narrow down a rough location as to where Danny's buried."

Chin nodded and went to work at the computer table. "It's on its way now," he told Kono once he was finished.
"How are we doing with the web came trace?" Steve asked Chin.
"The signals running through a proxy server," He replied. "It runs through a different IP address every time. But I'm tracing the patters so were getting closer."
"Okay, keep it running," Steve said unnecessarily.

"CSU has pretty much finished up at the crime scene," Kono reported. "There's just a couple of them left going over the scene, the rest of them left for the day."

Steve began pacing like a caged animal. He felt useless, just like Harris wanted him to. But he refused to let Harris win. He was going to find Danny and bring him home, and he didn't plan on wasting one more second of time sitting here in the office.

"Kono, do you want to go back to the scene with me and see what we can do? Maybe CSU needs help with something?" He asked.
"You got it boss," Kono replied. "I'll meet you there."
"I'll stay here and keep an eye on Danny," Chin said. "And yes Steve, I'll call you if he so much as sneezes."
Steve gave a dry laugh on his way out. "Thanks Chin."

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It was dark already by the time Steve arrived at the crime scene and saw Kono waiting for him by her car.

"Hey boss," she said. "How you holding up?"
Steve sighed. "I can't sit around and do nothing anymore. Not while he's in there suffering. Harris said he's going to run out of oxygen soon Kono. We're running out of time and we need to find him soon. Now!"
"And we will!" Kono replied, putting a hand on his shoulder. "We're going to find him Steve. We're following all the leads we have and Catherine is working on finding the guy who gave Harris those explosives."
"I sent him there Kono," Steve finally blurted out what he'd been feeling all day. "He was safe at home and he didn't want to go but I sent him anyway! If something happens... If we don't bring him back alive, that's on me."

Kono shook her head and punched Steve's shoulder.
"Ouch!" Steve said, rubbing the now sore spot. "What the hell was that?"
"That was for being what Danny would call a 'goof' Boss. This isn't your fault Steve. You sent him to that crime scene to do his job. Danny's a good cop. He knows the dangers of that job, especially working with you. How is it possibly your fault that Danny got taken while doing his job?"
"I sent him there!" Steve insisted.
"Oh okay so clearly it's your fault," Kono replied sarcastically. "Harris was going to take him anyway Steve. Whether you sent him to that crime scene or not. If you want to blame someone, blame Harris. Now are we going to stand here and argue about who's to blame for what happened to Danny or are we going to go in there and find a way to help him?"

Steve looked at Kono and smiled. "How'd you get to be so smart rookie?" He asked.
"I had a good teacher," Kono replied, punching him again. "Now lets go inside and see what's going on."

They walked into the near empty house and saw a crime scene tech going through a bucket of bloody items that survived the explosion.
"Have you got anything interesting?" Steve asked as they approached him.
"I think so," the tech replied, holding up two pieces of intertwined wire. "It's a trigger wire."

Steve pulled out his phone and took a picture of it.
"What are you doing?" Kono asked.
"Sending this to Cath," Steve replied. "If she has pictures of all the bomb components it'll be easier for her to find out where the bomb came from using the NAVY's database."
Kono nodded.

Steve put his phone back in his pocket and started to walk around.
"Did you guys collect everything from the bomb blast already?" He asked.
"Yes sir," the tech replied. "We went over every inch of this place."
Steve nodded absently.

"I know that look," Kono said. "What are you thinking?"
"I honestly don't know," Steve replied. "I guess I'm just hoping that there's something in here that will lead us to him, you know?"
"How about this then, you go cover that half of the room and I'll cover this one," Kono suggested. "Have a look around. It can't hurt and maybe we will find something."

Steve knew that Kono was just humoring him so that he wouldn't feel as helpless as he did right now, but he didn't care. If walking around a half blown up room was all he could to help Danny then he would do it for hours.

"Alright," he replied. "I'll take this half."
Kono nodded and went over to the other side of the room.
Steve slowly scoured the place, checking every corner for even the smallest piece of evidence that was left behind. He knew he wouldn't find anything. The CSU were good at their jobs, especially when it was a cop's life at stake.

He continued to circle the room and was about to get Kono and head back to HQ when he felt it.

He stepped down on the sand, but his foot didn't sink in like it had been up to this point. Something was stopping it. He quickly jumped in place and heard the thud of his feet hitting something solid and metal.

"Over here!" He shouted.
Kono and crime scene techs ran over immediately.
"What is it?" Kono asked in alarm.
"There's something here! Under the sand!" Steve said excitedly, hoping against hope that he had found where his partner was buried at last.

He immediately dropped down to his knees and started pushing some of sand away. Kono and the two techs were soon to follow, bending down and pushing as much sand away as they could.

"I've got an edge here!" Kono shouted.
"Me too!" The tech replied.
"Go get some crowbars!" Steve told one of the techs.

He immediately ran to grab some. He took one and handed the other to Steve.
"Do you think Danny's under here?" Kono asked, barely hiding her hope.
"I don't know," Steve replied, shoving the crowbar into the edge and motioning for the tech to do the same on the other side. "He could be. Whatever this is feels long enough."

Steve, Kono and the techs began to pull at the heavy object buried in the sand.
"Come on," Steve said, straining his muscles. "Come on."

They lifted the large metal door out of the sand as much as they could and pushed it over to the side. Under it was what appeared to be a big pit filled with dirt. Danny could definitely be buried here.

"Start digging!" Steve shouted, thrusting his hands into the dirt immediately and shoveling it out of the way.
The tech got a shovel for himself and handed the other to Kono. All four dug furiously, praying that it would be Danny they found in here, and that he would be alright.

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Danny laid there in the coffin focusing on his breathing when he started to hear sounds from directly above him. He cracked another glow stick and lifted it over his head to try and see what was going on.

He tried not to get his hopes up but it was impossible not get excited when all he had felt up until now was desperation. Was it Steve? Had his team finally found him and come to get him out of this literal hell hole?

"Hey!" He tried to shout. He cleared his desert dry throat when all that came out was a pathetic croak. "Hey! Somebody get me out of here! Steve!"

He started banging at the glass again, praying that whoever it was above him would hear him.
"I'm in here!" He shouted. "Hello!"

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"Faster! Dig faster!" Steve shouted as the pit got deeper and deeper. "We've got to be close by now!"
"Wait, stop!" Kono cried out as she felt her shovel hit something hard. "I just hit something. The coffin is glass, if we break it, we could hurt Danny. We need to be careful."

Steve jumped down into the hole and continued to shovel the dirt away with his hands.
"It's plexiglass!" He shouted as he felt his finger touch the smooth surface. "DANNY!"

Kono jumped into the hole with Steve and helped him push away the dirt.
"Hold on Danny! We're here!" She shouted.
"We got you buddy!" Steve continued. "We've got you now!"

As the last of the dirt was finally cleared away, Kono gasped and bit back a cry before shoving her head into her hands in frustration.

"No no no! Dammit!" Steve shouted.
"It's a dog!" Kono shouted. "It's a god damned dog Steve! Danny was never even here!"
Steve jumped out the hole and shoved his hands through his hair angrily. "This was a prototype," he told her in disgust. "Harris was testing out the coffin so it would be perfect when he was ready to use it for Danny."
"We were so close Steve..." Kono said miserably. "I really thought it was him."

Steve pulled her into a hug. "I did too Kono," he said. "But we're going to find him alright?"
Kono nodded. "Let's bring this to Fong now," she said determinedly, motioning to the CSU techs for help. "Danny's not spending another day in that coffin."
"He sure as hell is not," Steve agreed. "Let's go."

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Danny looked down at his feet and gasped in horror as he realized that the sounds weren't coming from above him at all.
The two bullets he had put in the light shattered it, and now the cracks were starting to spread through his glass coffin. Dirt was already starting to seep in through the cracks by the light he destroyed.

"No no no," Danny whispered desperately, as he watched the cracks grow on the sides of the casket. "Oh god."

Danny knew that as the glass continued to crack, more dirt would slowly start to fill the coffin... If that happened, he was dead.

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