I promised it would come soon and so here's the next chapter for you!
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Danny put his finger on the trigger and took as deep of a breath as he could in this stifling box.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, tears streaming freely down his face. "I'm so sorry."
He was about to pull the trigger and end it all when he heard shouts from above him. He didn't believe it at first, sure that he was just hallucinating again but a sudden bright light from above him filled the coffin and a face came into view.
"Steve?" He whispered, still not sure if his partner was really there or not.
"Look at me Danno!" He heard. "Hey look at me! Put that down! You put that down right now buddy! We've got you! Hang on!"
It was Steve. Steve was really there, and he was telling Danny to put the gun down. They'd finally found him. Danny dropped the gun immediately started to bang against the glass, desperately trying to reach his partner.
"Get me out of here Steve!" He cried, his voice cracking again. "Please Steve I can't... I can't breathe!"
There was so much Danny wanted to say to his partner right now. 'Where's that bastard Harris? How's my baby girl? How the hell do bugs that small cause so much pain? Thanks for finally finding me...' But he would get to all that later. Right now he wanted to get the hell out of this coffin so he could breathe again and maybe take a nice long shower...
He listened to Steve's soothing words as his partner promised to get him out. He trusted Steve, but if he didn't open the coffin in ten seconds, Danny was going to shoot his way out.
He looked up as Chin and Kono also came into view above him.
"Danny! We've got you! Kono cried.
"Just hang on brah! Almost there!" Chin said.
Danny could still feel the tears running down his face as he put his hand to the glass and reached for his friends. Normally, he'd be embarrassed about all this crying but he was just so happy to see them that he couldn't stop himself and hold it in. They were here now and he knew everything was finally going to be okay.
Steve lifted the lid and started spraying foam into the coffin. Danny started to panic, his mind too hazy from the lack of oxygen to realize what his partner was doing.
"Hang on buddy! Just hang on! This is to kill the ants okay?" Steve shouted.
Danny nodded and actually cracked a smile when he felt the soothing cold foam on his arms. The stinging and burning faded slightly and he started to wipe the damn ants off of himself.
He watched Steve throw the fire extinguisher to the side, as he and Chin got ready to lift the top off and finally get him out of his little glass hell.
Danny held his breath, prepared to jump out of the coffin the second he was free.
So when Danny suddenly heard the voices of his teammates shouting above him, and then saw Steve and Chin let go of the lid and start to back away slightly, he went into a full blown panic.
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"Are you kidding?! What charges?!" Steve asked angrily. "What are you saying Kono? That we leave Danny in here?!"
"Of course not Steve but listen to me!" Kono cried. "Fong just called. Those dimples on the bottom of the prototype coffin had traces of Semtex in them Steve! That's a plastic explosive!"
"Two bombs..." Chin whispered, looking up at Steve. "When Akuna was dying, he said 'two bombs'. He must have been telling us that he sold two bombs to Harris. One to blow himself up, the other to try and blow Danny and us up."
Steve looked down at his parter. Danny was looking back up at him through the foggy glass, his eyes pleading and desperate.
"I'm not leaving here without Danny!" He shouted adamantly.
Chin stood up and put a hand on Steve's shoulder. "Steve, Kono's right."
"I'm not leaving here without him!" Steve said again.
"None of us are Steve!" Chin said forcefully. "We are not leaving Danny here. But we need to come up with a plan that doesn't involve blowing him up!"
Steve looked up at Chin. He was right, and Steve knew it. If he moved Danny now, he'd kill them all. He looked back down at his partner.
"I'm so sorry Danny," he said before standing up and climbing out the hole.
Tears sprang to his eyes immediately when he heard Danny's desperate cries for help and the renewed banging on the top of the coffin. If they didn't come up with something fast, Steve was going to rip that top off and pull his partner out, consequences be damned.
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"I'm so sorry Danny," he heard Steve say before he got up and left Danny there.
"NO!" Danny cried, banging against the glass so hard his knuckles started to bleed again. "Steve! Come back! Get me out of here please!"
He felt the harsh panic grip him all over again as his teammates, his lifelines at the moment, just left him there in his glass coffin.
'Where the hell did they go? Why were they doing this? How could they leave him in here like that?' The questions ran through Danny's mind rapidly one after the other as he continued to scream desperately for his team.
The rational part of his mind knew that his friends would never actually leave him here to die, and that there was probably a reason they didn't let him out right away. But the lack of air mixed with the desperation was sending him into a near uncontrollable panic. He needed to get out of there and he needed to get out NOW.
"Steve! Kono! Chin! SOMEBODY GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE! Come back please, I'll do anything! Where the hell are you?! Don't leave me in here!"
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Steve looked around them desperately. Trying to find something, anything they could use to get Danny out of there safely.
When Steve saw the backhoe not far from where they were standing, he knew exactly what to do. A weight transfer, just like when his fellow SEAL had stepped on a bomb trigger on one of their missions. If they could replace Danny's weight, even if just for a second, they could get him out of the coffin before it exploded.
"Okay, I know what we're gonna do," Steve told his team and the many HPD officers waiting to help. "We need two hundred pounds of dirt here right now, and we're going to use that backhoe to get it. Go go go!"
Steve watched as a few officers ran to do as he said. He immediately went back to Danny and got right on top of the coffin.
Renewed fear and worry shot through him when he saw just how bad his partner was doing. Danny was still shouting and banging desperately on the glass. He was going to hurt himself even more if he hadn't already.
"Danny!" He shouted. "Can you hear me? It's going to take just another second to get you out of there buddy!"
Danny kept shouting as if Steve hadn't said anything.
"Detective Williams!" Steve bellowed, putting so much authority into his tone, all of his Navy Commanding Officers would have been proud. "Listen to me!"
He felt a sliver of relief as Danny started to calm down slightly and looked up at him.
Steve pressed his hand to the coffin. "Put your hand on my hand!" He ordered.
He waited as Danny slowly put his hand up and matched it with Steve's.
"Good, that's good Danno," he said soothingly. "Now listen, there may be explosives under the box. They're probably set on pressure switches."
Steve watched as Danny put his head down in despair, but he wasn't letting his partner give up that easily.
"We're going to get you out," Steve promised. "But we need to equalize your body weight before we can pull you out okay buddy?"
Danny didn't say anything in reply.
"Danno," Steve persisted. "Nod your head if you understand me."
He gave a small smile as Danny nodded slowly. He knew his partner was tough, and he wasn't going down now without a fight.
"Okay," Steve said, turning towards the HPD officer in the backhoe. "We're going to use that dirt from the backhoe to equalize his weight. I need a rope and a hook to connect to that truck!"
"We got it!" Chin called.
"Alright Danno," Steve said, turning back to his partner. "We're going to open the lid and get you out. But I need you to stay lying down okay? Or else you'll blow us all up. You understand me bud?"
Danny nodded.
"Do you promise?" Steve asked. "For Gracie?"
"I do," Danny said. "I promise... I promise!"
"Bring it over this way!" Steve heard Kono shouting, directing the backhoe towards Danny.
Chin knelt down near Steve and together they pulled the lid off of the coffin.
Danny immediately cried out and reached his hand towards Steve. Chin started rubbing Danny's leg soothingly as Steve grabbed his partners hand and squeezed it tight.
"We've got you buddy," Steve said. "Just stay still one more second Danno. You're doing so good. It's okay."
Danny nodded, looking up at Steve and trying to stop the small sobs that were wracking through his body.
"Okay," Danny whispered, taking in huge gulps of air and calming himself down. "Okay. I'm ready."
"Alright," Steve replied, squeezing his hand again before turning to the HPD officers. "Bring that over!"
Kono directed the backhoe as closely as she could to Danny, and handed Steve a small hook that connected back to the truck.
Steve connected the hook to Danny's belt before climbing out of the hole with Chin and grabbing the rope that the rest of the officers were already holding onto.
"Alright Danno," he said. "We're going to pull you out now. I want you to close your eyes and hold your breath... NOW!"
The backhoe started dropping dirt onto Danny immediately.
"Ready... GO!" Steve shouted.
Steve, along with Chin, Kono and the rest of the HPD officers pulled the rope as hard as they could.
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Danny stared up at Steve and the rest the HPD officers as they held tightly to the rope that was connected to him.
His heart was beating frantically, and he tried to take in more deep breaths of fresh air while he still could.
He looked at the metal scooper of the backhoe that was directly above him, ready to drop 200 pounds of dirt on top him. He had finally been found and dug up and yet here he was, waiting to be buried once again, this time without the top of the coffin to protect him.
It was taking all of his self control not to just jump out of the coffin right now. But he had promised Steve, and he was a man who kept his promises. Not to mention the fact that getting up would also mean getting himself blown to pieces, and he did not make it this far just to die now. He was going to get out of here and see his baby girl again. He wasn't finished yet.
He didn't know if they could pull him out fast enough. He didn't know if the bomb wouldn't just blow him to pieces before they even had a chance. He didn't know much of anything actually. But he trusted his partner, he trusted Steve. And he knew that Steve would get him out of here. Steve WOULD get him out, he always does.
"Alright Danno," Steve said. "We're going to pull you out now. I want you to close your eyes and hold your breath... NOW!"
Danny immediately shut his eyes and held his breath. He felt the dirt begin to pour down on top of him, crushing him and making everything dark again. And then he felt himself being pulled up and out of the dirt.
'Here we go,' he managed to think as he was pulled from the dirt and back into the air.
Danny heard and felt the explosion behind him. He opened his eyes and saw the dirt exploding all around him as he fell hard to the floor. And then everything went black once again.
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Steve didn't even wait for the dust to clear before he was off, running to where his partner lay prone on the ground.
He knelt down next to Danny and put a hand on his shoulder. "Danny? Can you hear me Danny?" He asked frantically, checking for a pulse. He let out a breath of relief when he felt it beating under his fingertips. Not as strong as he would've liked, but definitely there.
"Excuse me Sir," one medic said as they approached him. Steve moved back just enough for them to work, but he didn't go far. If Danny woke up, Steve wanted him to have a familiar face to latch onto to calm him down. Besides, Steve had just gotten his partner back, and he wasn't ready to let him go just yet.
"How is he?" Kono asked as she and Chin came to stand beside him.
"He'll be alright," Steve replied.
"What he went through..." Chin said, trailing off before voicing what they were all thinking.
"I know," Steve replied. "But Danny's strong. He's going to pull through this. And we're going to be there for him every step of the way."
Chin and Kono nodded in agreement.
"We're ready to move him," one of the medics said as they lifted Danny's stretcher and started towards the ambulance. "We're taking him to HMC."
"I'm riding along," Steve replied, his tone leaving no room for argument.
"We'll meet you at the hospital brah," Chin said.
Steve nodded and climbed into the back of the ambulance. He settled himself next to Danny and gripped his unconscious partner's hand tightly.
He finally got his first good look at his partner. He frowned at Danny's pale and sweaty face, half concealed by an oxygen mask. He looked down at Danny's arms and practically growled in anger when he saw the nasty looking bites and bloody knuckles. He couldn't even imagine what his partner had gone through. Danny didn't deserve this.
Steve wished Harris was still alive so he could beat that bastard to a pulp before killing him again. But he felt some relief knowing that he was rotting in hell right now, and could never get to Danny again.
Steve shook his head sadly and knelt down next to his partner.
"We've got you now Danny," he said soothingly. "You're going to be okay buddy. Just rest, I promise I'll take care of everything.
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And there's the rescue! Do you forgive me for all the cliffhangers now? Pretty please?
I'm working on the next chapter and I'm gonna try to have it up tomorrow night but it may take me a little longer so if it does sorry but I'll try to write fast.
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