Hi guyyyss I am backkkkkkk. Wow there was a massive response to the last chapter :D As ever thank you so much for my lovely reviews they make me smile :D I'm so sorry bout the wait. My laptop green screened on me like several times as I was writing this and I completely freaked out but it's working atm so fingers crossed ;)

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Part Eleven

"Oh ff- God!"

Danny's head was pounding; like he had a family of boxers going round and round. Blinking his eyes open sleepily, he snapped them shut almost immediately against the blinding light. Counting to ten as coherently he could through the constant pain; he dared to gaze at the ceiling once again.

The room that he had been thrown into was damp and musty; his throat was scratchy like he hadn't had access to water in a week and he was so cold.

The door creaked open and he moved his head to the side as quickly as he could but in order not to add extra pain. A pair of feet appeared in eyesight and a low laugh accompanied the footsteps approaching Danny

"Interesting, you don't seem so threatening now Detective Williams." The masculine voice was raspy like the owner was a ten a day smoker and had been for several years.

"Who the hell are you?" Danny managed to splutter out. The unknown man laughed again cruelly.

"You don't need to worry about me Detective. The one you want to worry about is my boss."

"Y-Your boss? He doesn't have anything on mine."

"Oh yes? And where's your boss now? He probably doesn't realize that you're gone, and even if he does; he doesn't care about you!"

The harsh words cut through Danny like a hot knife and he arched upwards trying to break free of the cuffs clamped around his wrists as the footsteps stomped away from him once more leaving him in the dark.

"You don't know anything at all about me!"

Steve had been working non-stop without food or sleep ever since he had seen the photos. His mind was blurry and eyes bloodshot as he scanned snapshots taken from local CCTV, trying to find something, anything that would bring Danny back to him.

"Brah." Chin's voice was gentle as he approached Steve, Kono following nervously behind. "Brah, go home. We'll take over the investigation for today, you need rest." Chin offered but Steve shook his head firmly, not looking away from the grainy black and white stills.

"Boss," Kono tried then, her voice thick with emotion betrayed her business eyes. "Go home, we'll call you with anything we can't possibly think let alone work whilst you're in this state. Danny… He wouldn't have wanted you to destroy yourself over him."

Steve stiffened at these words and whirled round to glare at the rookie, who took a step back in fright.

" Y-You're already talking about him in the past tense. Danny isn't dead. I'd know if he were. I'd feel it. He can't be dead. He can't be!"

His voice rose to an over acceptable level and a brief flicker of guilt lit up inside of him as Kono shrank backwards and Chin stepped in front of her, as if he were a barrier between his boss and his cousin.

"Steve, she didn't mean it like that. We're all tired, upset and confused. None of us know what we're saying right now." He tried calmly but Steve wasn't having any of it.

"Danny is my partner. He is missing, and I am going to do whatever it takes and more to get him back."

"I know you are brah, but we're not any closer than we were five hours ago, so the best thing you could do is go home and refresh, you may be the boss but that is an order!"

Chin's tone left no room for argument and Steve sighed, head down.

"Fine. But I'll have my phone on at all times. Ring me every hour, no matter if you haven't even found anything!"

Steve had been lying on top of his bed for half an hour, just blinking up at the ceiling, he had Danny's pillow pressed to his nose; it still smelled faintly of hair gel and aftershave from the first weekend that Danny had spent in his bed with him.

"Oh Danno." He muttered lowly, glad nobody could see the teardrop squeezing its way out of his eyelid. He needed Danny here with him; needed to curl against him; needed to nuzzle the soft hair at the nape of his neck.

"I'll find you, I promise."

A/N: Again sorry for the wait Hope it was worth it, I'd love to know what you thought of this chapter xxx