A/N: Thank you all for your wonderful comments. You are all so fun and so kind!
Be advised that I am going away for a couple of days and may not get anything updated. I'll be camping till Tuesday and then traveling to the States till the following Tuesday and probably wont have time between to type, but I will be working on the stories I have started and then when things settle down, I should pick up again.
For now, here is Danny's take on how screwed up things have gotten.
Enjoy!
Chapter 9: The Detective's Wrath
Steve rushed after Danny as sirens could be heard coming toward the Palace. There was a fury in Danny's eyes that Steve had never seen before, it almost made him afraid of the Detective, but Steve knew that it was time to take on a different persona himself. Danny needed to calm down, to let the professionals look at his injury and he needed to clear his mind to figure out what was the next course they should take. Danny had been the driving force in the investigation; they couldn't loose him to his anger now. Steve was ready to be the voice of reason, to take everything he had learned from his partner, and turn it over onto Danny.
"Danny stop, you need to see the paramedics." Steve stated as he ran and jumped in front of Danny. "You need to just take a breath, let Peter check you out and then we'll work. You may be in shock, or going into shock, so please, stop!"
"I need to get my hands on the Palace security to prove I saw what I saw," Danny stated. "Then you and I are going right to the Governor to tell her that her fuckin Security officer shot me. Then I'll deal with the fact that I was shot!" Danny yelled furiously, "shot while my parents are in town. This is going to be so much fun!" he hissed, "do you have any idea what my mother is going to say; fuck my life!" he yelled at the top of his lungs and stepped around Steve into the Palace. A strange and eerie silence fell over the gathering crowd at the sound of Danny's cursing.
"Danny wait there is more to it then that!" Chin stated as he rushed after Danny and Steve, "something's really up, something that we need to talk about."
"Nothing to talk about Chin, Malikahi shot me!" Danny yelled, "He's going down. If I find him, I'll kill him."
"He's a loose cannon Danny, he may be more dangerous than we think," Kono stated as she caught up to the other Five-Os. "He's not working alone, we know this for sure, and he's got bigger, badder fish in his corner."
"Or maybe not," Chin added.
"He may have totally screwed himself over by acting out like this," Kono chimed as she and Chin went back and forth.
"Do you think this was an act against you alone, or was this all part of the plan?" Chin asked.
"Why are we dancing around the subject? You found some dirt, you're trying to build it up, what do you want to tell me? And why are you being so cautious about it?" Danny asked angrily, "I don't have time for this, people. If you haven't noticed I'm bleeding!"
"The paramedics are here," Jenna stated as she too caught up to the group.
"If they can work around me then they can look at my arm." Danny stated as he burst through the double glass doors of the Five-O officer.
"Detective, please, the sooner we get you patched up the sooner you can get back to work," the paramedic that had been following Jenna stated.
"Alright, so look at my arm," Danny sighed as he fell into a chair and started unbuttoning his shirt. "Someone find me another shirt please," he added as he pealed the right sleeve away from his injured arm carefully.
"Oh my god," Jenna gasped and turned away. "I'll find a new shirt!" she added.
"You'll have to get over that if you want to be a field agent, or even just on this task force. Blood is a prerequisite to the job, Steve didn't tell you that?" Danny asked sarcastically. "Or was that, declaration of praise to the god, because I'm totally ripped?" Danny joked as his mood lightened just a little as he saw the tension and the discomfort in the little analyst's eyes.
"You're not totally ripped," Steve laughed.
"I'll find you another shirt," Jenna said meekly and blushed, "but I can't guarantee that you'll look as good in it as you did in that one." She added with a wink.
"Thanks Jenna," Danny stated as he flinched under the touch of the paramedic.
"I got surveillance up on the Smart system," Kono stated after a little giggle. "Here's what happened just moment ago," she stated and hit the play back and they watched the attack unfold and Danny's flying leap for the Deville.
"How'd you manage that so fast, Cuz?" Chin asked as he rushed to her side.
"I hacked HPD's mainframe and linked it to our computers about six months back when we were investigating Danny's former partnerMecca. I just never got around to unlinking things." Kono admitted. "I've got a pretty good shot of the whole scene Danny," she added as Danny pushed the paramedic away and rushed to the table.
"Oh, you know it's nothing serious, just a gunshot wound. It doesn't need cleaning and disinfecting. If you like I can let it bleed till you're unconscious." The paramedic hissed.
"It's not that bad." Danny stated.
"It's taken a chunk out of your right bicep. You now have a nifty peep hole in your arm!" the paramedic stated sarcastically.
"Look, there, it is Malikahi!" Danny stated ignoring Peter Belgrade, a frequent flyer when it came to Five-O injuries.
"Who is that with him?" Steve asked struggling to see into the windshield of the blurry photo.
"Here," Kono stated, cleared the image up and zoomed in.
"I know that face," Jenna stated and rushed off to her office space, abandoning the search for a shirt.
"So do I," Danny said as his brow furled in thought.
"Golf cart man," Steve gasped.
"I'll run facial recognition," Kono stated and began typing.
"Here," Jenna said and swiped files from her tablet to the Smart computer. "His name is Yin Li. He's one of Wo Fat's body guards."
Danny moved back toward the chair he had initially sat down in.
"You feeling ok, Detective, are you light headed, nauseated, weak?" the paramedic asked.
"You asked me all those things the first time I was shot in this arm, Peter," Danny sighed.
"Its protocol," Peter shrugged.
"Yes, I am feeling all those things. Yes the adrenaline is wearing off. No, my thoughts are completely clear and I know where I am, who I am, and what I was doing when I was shot." Danny stated prattling off answers to all the standard questions.
"Can I deal with your arm now?" Peter asked standing before Danny with his hands on his hips.
"Can I put you on speed dial, in the even that I get shot again. You're kinda my favorite now." Danny said sarcastically but let the paramedic attend to his arm. "Ow!" he yelled as Peter began packing the wound with gauze.
"Don't complain, Detective, you could have gone to the hospital for a little anesthetic, but you opted for the macho man treatment, so you now get to bite down on this while I stitch you up." Peter stated and handed Danny a doubled up tongue depressor. "Bite down hard, this is going to suck!" He added, threaded his needle and began.
"You're still my favorite," Danny said weakly to the paramedic when he'd finished.
"You'll have another battle scar, my friend, but you'll live," Peter laughed.
"Can I go back to work now?" Danny asked childishly.
"All clear Detective, but take it easy for a little while. You lost some blood and you're body's going to be working pretty hard to replenish that. I suggest juice and some cookies." Peter smiled.
"Someone get me cookies, stat, doctor's orders!" Danny shouted.
"Not a doctor, yet," Peter stated, smiled to his friend and packed up his kit. "Don't get shot again for another eight or so months. It's becoming a bad habit with you Danny."
"I'll try my best to stay unholy." Danny winked and Peter the paramedic left the Five-O office.
"Alright put a shirt on!" Steve laughed.
"I would if I had one," Danny retorted.
"Sorry, got sidetracked," Jenna stated and prepared to move off.
"No, you stop. Who is Yin Li and why would you know about him if he's just Wo Fat's body guard?" Danny asked, stood from his seat and walked to the table.
"He's not just a body guard, he's the body guard. Wo Fat's most trusted man, or so we think. He's gun toting and very dangerous and never far away. Why he was with Malikahi and not Wo Fat, this morning, is the much better question." Jenna explained.
"I got that one figured out," Kono stated as she continued typing. "My data search found Yin Li mentioned in Malikahi's files. Malikahi is Li's half brother. They were both suspected of murder in the first, but were never charged on a technicality."
"Who were they suspected of killing?" Steve asked.
"Doctor William Blaine," Kono stated pulling up the murder investigation. "Doctor Blaine was found in his office, shot two times in the chest. The murder weapon was never found, or weapons I should say. Two bullet hole, two bullets were recovered, both from different guns." Kono explained.
"So, Chief of Wo Fat's security and Chief of Governor security just happen to be family." Steve stated. "I don't like that coincidence."
"You're not going to like this either," Chin stated and threw the photo of Wo Fat and Malikahi up on the Smart computer. "We managed this screen shot off the surveillance that Danny brought us back from the venue. Look who's popped up."
Rage flashed in Steve's eyes.
"Thanks for not showing him that earlier," Danny stated seeing the change in McGarrett, "or we could have both been caught in the line of fire, and probably killed because someone would have been distracted by someone else's rage." He added as he pointed to the different 'some ones' in the room.
"So where do we go from here?" Steve asked with a sigh choosing to ignore Danny's comment because he knew Danny was right.
"I think we need some hard evidence for the Governor," Danny stated after a moment of contemplation. "There will be bullets in the Palace lawn; one with my blood on it. Maybe we can match them to the murder weapons from the doctor's murder."
"If we can find them," Chin sighed.
"I'll head out and talk to the investigation crew," Kono stated and rushed out of the office and back out to the scene of the crime.
"Pull together all the bad news on Malikahi. Give me copies of the surveillance footage in stills and the alleged links between Malikahi, Li and theBlainemurder." Danny said as he pointed at Chin and Jenna. "Steve, you calm down and get the look of murderous rage off your face. It's not helping matters and I don't need a loose cannon on my hands."
"What are you going to do?" Steve asked, "You were pretty worked up, if anyone's a loose cannon, it's you."
"I'm going to get a shirt, first of all, and then I'm going to call my mother at your house and break the news to her gently now that I'm cleared by the paramedic and not dying; hence the loose cannon behavior from yours truly." Danny sighed, "Then we've got to find Malikahi before he does anything else stupid."
"Sounds like a plan, but what about the venue?" Steve asked.
"We'll deal with that when we have eyes on Malikahi. For now, all we know is that he is armed and dangers, and quite possibly going to go on another shooting spree." Danny answered.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Steve asked still quite concerned for his partner.
"I'll be fine once the phone call to my mother is over, after that disaster waiting to happen, I'll be able to clear my mind and concentrate on the task at hand." Danny explained.
"Good luck with that," Steve half heartedly smiled.
"Like I said before, fuck my life," Danny sighed and headed off to his office.