So terribly sorry for the lack of updates last week. RL got in the way - I got sick (and then better and then sick again) and my beta had eye surgery. I'm going to try to stick to the twice a week posting like I've been doing, but there will probably more than likely be times when I miss a posting, but we're nearing the end and I WILL finish this! Thanks for sticking with me and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

One day, about a week after Catherine left Oahu, she returned. She said she wanted to see little Keilana one last time before she left the country. Catherine ended up spending two months in Hawaii; two months living in a hotel; two months bonding with the little baby that would never remember who she was.

Steve was a little hesitant about letting Catherine spend so much time with Keilana, but he figured that this was Catherine's way of letting go, and if spending time with Keilana was what she needed, then he was going to let her spend time with the little baby.

Now that paternity had been determined, Steve was beginning to think about custody and possible visitation between Keilana, Catherine and Catherine's parents. So far, neither of Steve's lawyers or Catherine's lawyer could agree upon a visitation schedule, but they were able to agree on custody – Steve would have sole legal and physical custody.

In the days before Catherine was to leave, she was having second thoughts about continuing with her naval career. She was currently three months into her 12 month deployment deferment from active duty and would have a lot of time to think about what she wanted to do with the rest of her life.

The McGarrett, now McGarrett-Williams, household was busy with people coming and going. Visiting friends, visiting Kalakaua Aunties and Catherine thought there was a Williams' family member or two around, but she couldn't be sure. Five-0 had a big case and the Governor was really after the team to solve it fast.

Rachel was at the house almost daily, watching Keilana and generally helping out. She overheard Steve voicing his concern to Danny about Catherine spending time with Keilana because he didn't entirely trust her not to try and run off with her. Rachel took it upon herself to watch Catherine closely while she interacted with the baby.

Mary was also at the house daily. She had a niece now, and it was her duty to insure that the little girl, the daughter of her brother, did not end up an anal neat and clean freak that lived on health food. She also liked her time with Rachel and Grace. And, like her brother, she too was a bit distrustful of Catherine spending time alone with Keilana. While they were at the hospital, she overheard Steve telling Danny about the abuse that Catherine went through while with Nick. As she listened, she thought back on the times when she was around Catherine, before the baby was born, and she could have kicked herself for not realizing sooner. She acted the same way before getting out of her last relationship.

Mary watched Catherine as she interacted with Danny and Steve, she could see the subtle aborted, and sometimes not aborted flinching she did. The flinching mostly happened when the guys were speaking with her and would casually touch her arm, hand or leg to get her attention. Mary remembered doing the same thing when she was around any man who spoke to her. She also wondered if Catherine realized what she's doing.

"Catherine, can I talk to you?" Mary asked

Catherine's brow wrinkled. "Talk about what?"

Mary mulled over how to get Catherine to talk to her without making it seem like she was being accused of anything. She decided the best way would be the way her girlfriend back in California did it with her.

"About three years ago I was in a relationship with this guy, Jacob. I thought he was really great. We ran in all the same circles, had a lot of the same friends, we even liked a lot of the same things. I introduced him to Steve and they hit it off great. But then one weekend, after partying way too hard and running from one too many party fights, things escalated when we got home." Mary paused to collect her thoughts. Even after three years, thinking about what she went through was like experiencing it all over again. "Jacob came home high as a kite and swore up and down that I was hiding another man in the bedroom. He tore the place apart, threatened to kill me, then locked me in the bathroom to punish me." Mary looked at Catherine and she could tell some of what she was saying had happened to her. "I dealt with Jacob like that every day for six months, until I physically couldn't take it anymore."

"What happened?" Catherine's voice was so soft, Mary almost missed the question.

Mary ran a shaky hand through her hair and sighed. "He came to my job, threatened me again, he would have hit me if security hadn't shown up. He was violent in the past, but never like the way he was that day. I was hysterical. I didn't know whether to cry or laugh or scream after what happened, but I knew I couldn't be in a relationship with him anymore. So I came home." Mary looked at Catherine, "When we bumped into each other that morning by the bathroom, it'd been a month since I ended things with Jacob."

"You never saw…Jacob again?" Catherine asked. Mary shook her head. "How…just like that?"

Mary nodded her head. "Just like that. I quit my job, I told my friends I was going home, and I left LA."

"He didn't follow you?"

Mary shook her head again. "Nope, but he called a lot. I changed my number to finally be rid of him. After I was kidnapped and Steve sent me back to California, I made sure I wasn't in touch with any of the people we used to be friends with. I couldn't risk him finding me again and following through with his threat to kill me."

There was a lull in their conversation before Catherine spoke. She had experienced a lot of what Mary did, especially when Nick began using drugs and that…well that came as a big surprise to her. She hadn't even known he was using until she found his stash.

"Nick…Nick's never actually threatened to kill me," she rung her hands together, "but he's had a lot of the same training as Steve -"

"You don't honestly think that Steve would abuse you, do you?" Mary asked incredulously.

Catherine's eyes went wide in shock. "Oh God no! That's not what I'm saying. It's just that with their training, it wouldn't take much to kill someone. Nick's been violent towards me and he's hit me a couple, I ended up in Urgent Care once, but he's never threatened to kill me."

Mary was shocked at how Catherine kept fixating on the fact that Nick never threatened to kill her as an explanation or excuse for what he's done. "Putting you in the hospital should have been your wake up call."

Mary spent the next week talking with Catherine about the abuse she went through and in turn, Catherine opened up more about what Nick had done to her. What Catherine went through wasn't anything nearly as bad as what Mary dealt with, but abuse, be it physical or emotional, is abuse, and Catherine was beginning to accept that and come around to the idea of getting help.

One afternoon, however, something changed and, no one noticed Catherine walk out of the front of Steve's house with a bundled baby Keilana in her arms. She placed Keilana in the baby carrier that was buckled in the back seat of her rented car.

"I'm doing the right thing," she said to the sleeping girl.

Later that afternoon, Steve returned home. He was now in the habit of doing that so he could check in with Rachel or Mary to see how Keilana was doing and get in an afternoon feeding. He walked in the front door, went to the downstairs bathroom to clean up and then went to the kitchen to prepare the bottle. He walked up to the nursery and noticed Keilana wasn't there; panic began to flow though him. He went to the baby monitor and it was still on. He thought about who had the other end. "Mary, where are you?" Steve spoke into the monitor.

"In the kitchen!" Mary yelled back.

Steve left the nursery and went to the kitchen. "Mare…where's Keilana?"

"Last I saw, she was with Catherine in the living room," Mary said as she looked at Steve. "Why?"

Steve shook his head and walked to the living room. Rachel and Grace folding clothes were on the sofa folding clothes. "Have you seen Catherine?"

"Yes, she said she was going to put Keilana down because she was asleep."

"No, I was just up there," Steve said. His eyes went wide as he rushed to the door. He opened the door, walked out and stood on the porch.

While he was out there, Mary walked into the living room. "Where's Steve?"

"He just left out. It was weird," Grace said. "He asked if we saw Catherine. When we said no, he just left."

Mary went to the front door and watched as Steve walked down the path to the driveway. "What are you doing, Steve?"

"How did Catherine get here?" he asked without turning around.

"She had a rented car," Mary replied as she looked around, "and it's gone."

"Damn it!" Steve said. He turned around and looked at her. "She took Keilana!"

"She what?" Rachel asked when she joined them outside. "Are you sure?"

"Rachel, I was just in Keilana's room," Steve said. "She wasn't there."

While they were outside talking, the phone inside rang. Mary returned to the house to answer it. "Hello…yeah, he's here…who this is…oh, Robert, I'll get him, hold on." Mary took the cordless phone and walked outside, "Steve, Robert's on the phone."

Steve walked to her, took the phone and walked back inside. "Hello?"

"Steve, how are things going?" Robert asked

"She took her," Steve said. "She took my daughter."

"What?" Robert asked. "Who took Keilana?"

"Catherine!" Steve shouted. "She's been spending time with her before she leaves."

"How long?" Robert asked

"She's been here about two months."

"No, how long has Catherine been gone?" Robert asked

"I…I don't know," Steve replied. He looked at Rachel. "How long ago was it when Catherine said she was taking Keilana to the nursery?"

Rachel's brow furrowed as she thought, but it was Grace who answered. "It was about 45 minutes ago, Uncle Steve."

Steve went back to his conversation on the phone. "Did you hear?"

"Yes, I heard," Robert said. "She didn't tell anyone where she was going?"

"No, damn it!" Steve said. "We've all been busy working. Rachel and Mary helping to keep things clean and I've been swamped with cases with Five-0."

"I'll call her lawyer and you try and find out where she is before anything else is done."

"What are you talking about!" Steve exclaimed. "I need to get HPD and my team on this so they can find her!"

"We will, but one thing at a time," Robert said. "I'll call you in one hour." He hung up the phone.

Steve handed the phone to Mary and pulled out his cell to call Kono. Without greeting, he got right down to business. "Has Danny come back yet?"

"He's still in the meeting with the DA," Kono said. "It's likely to be all day."

"Call him and tell him it's an emergency," Steve said. He was pacing and his free hand continually ran through his hair. "Catherine took off with Keilana!"

"She did what?" Kono demanded. She switched the phone to speaker and set it on the computer table. "I've got you on speaker with Chin and Lori. Start from the beginning."

"Came home like always in the afternoon to spend time with Keilana and feed her before going back to HQ. I made up her bottle and went to the nursery and she wasn't there. Rachel said Catherine was going to put the baby down because she was asleep, but I was up in the nursery and the baby isn't there," Steve paused before continuing. "Her rental car is gone too."

"Where would she have gone?" Lori asked

"She was leaving the country tomorrow," Steve said. "She wouldn't have told me where she was going, anyway."

"I'll call Admiral Abrams and see if he can tell me anything," Lori said

"What about her family?" Chin asked. "Have they gone back to California?"

"No, they were going to spend some time here," Steve said. "They have a house in Maui."

"I'll flag their names in case she boards any planes or ships off Oahu," Chin replied.

"Great. This is great. I still need Danny," Steve said. He was almost frantic in his need to have Danny with him; helping him through this. "Kono, can you call that DA and let him know we need Danny back?"

"I'll do it right now," she said. "We'll find Catherine and Keilana, Steve! Don't worry!"