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(Note: this scene with Danny takes place not long after where I left off in the prologue)
"We can keep doing this all day Detective." The man said as he punched Danny in the face for what must've been the hundredth time. Danny had lost count a long time ago.
He could tell the man was unhinged. He'd seen enough crazies during his time as a cop to know when someone wasn't right in the head. Whoever this guy was, he wanted Matt and he wanted him bad. Danny had no idea where Matt was. But somehow Matt knew this guy was coming for him. He called him right before he'd been abducted. Danny hoped that once Matt realized he'd been taken, he'd go to Steve, but he wasn't sure. Matt was a fugitive and giving himself in meant federal prison for him. But if he didn't tell Steve... Danny wasn't sure he'd make it out of this room alive. He had faith in his team. They were the best. But Danny hadn't told them anything. He didn't leave them with anything to work with. He was such an idiot.
"I told you, you stupid son of a bitch. I don't know where my brother is! I don't know where Matthew is!" Danny wheezed. He tried to sound intimidating but between the filthy air and the hits he'd taken, he could barely breathe.
He moaned as he was hit in the stomach again. Twice. Three times.
His captor grabbed his hair and pulled his head up. "We don't need to do this, Detective." He said. "You are not the one I want. I want HIM. It's all his fault. Just tell me where he is and you can walk out of here"
"Are you deaf? Or just stupid? I haven't seen Mattie for two years!"
He tugged harder on Danny's hair and put his knife to Danny's throat. It was pressed down hard and Danny feared if he moved a muscle it would slit his throat. He already felt blood dripping down his neck.
"Do you remember those fingers I sent you, Williams? That filthy cartel scum was alive and very much alert as I cut them off. One. By. One. I even used this knife. Are you sure you want to make the same mistake he did?"
Danny spit in the mans face. He slapped Danny sharply across the face and screamed in rage.
"I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MISBEHAVE!"
He plunged the knife into Danny's shoulder.
Danny screamed in agony.
Danny felt everything as the bastard pulled the knife out as slowly as possible. And then he felt nothing...
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"So this is about Matt." Chin said.
"But why kill Fuentes?" Kono asked. "What could he have had that this guy wanted?"
"A location..." Steve said as things started to click in his mind.
"Steve?" Chin pressed, recognizing the look on his face.
"Think about it." Steve began. "Matthew laundered drug money for Fuentes. For all we know he could still be working for that cartel, but this guy didn't kill any of the head honchos. He killed the accountant. Why?"
"Because Fuentes was the one Matthew was in contact with." Kono said as she started to grasp what Steve was saying.
"Exactly!" Steve replied.
"So whoever killed Fuentes must have thought that he knew where Matthew was." Chin continued.
"That's why he cut off his fingers. He was torturing him for information on Matt's whereabouts." Steve said.
Kono gasped. "Oh god... He took Danny because Fuentes must not have given him the information he needed. And he must think that Danny knows where Matthew is. God he's going to torture him!"
"But Danny doesn't know where Matt is. He hasn't seen him in two years. Matt is probably laying low somewhere in Europe or somewhere else. Far away from here. How the hell is Danny supposed to know where?" Steve asked angrily.
Nobody had an answer to that. It didn't have to make sense to them. Only to the killer. If he believed Danny knew where Matt was that would be all the motive he needed to kidnap and torture him. In his mind, Danny could lead him to Matt, and nothing could convince him otherwise.
They needed to find Danny. Fast.
"Why would he send the fingers to Danny?" Fong chimed in.
"It was a threat." Steve explained, as anger flashed through him. "He wanted Danny to see what would be done to him if he didn't cooperate."
"Fong, did you find any fingerprints on the box itself?" Chin asked quickly.
"No. It was clean." Fong replied.
"Any idea who sent it?" Kono asked.
"No. There wasn't an address. Someone must have hand delivered it." He replied. "But it did say 'Detective Danny Williams' on top."
Steve rubbed his hands over his face and through his hair. "Okay." He said. "Okay. Fong go back to the lab and run that handwriting for any matches in the database. Kono you stay here and get me something, ANYTHING on the identities or even faces of the two men who took Danny that night. When you're done with that, go through Danny's phone calls. I heard him talking to someone on the phone the other day and it sounded heated. He may have been in contact with Matt or the man who took him recently. I want all ingoing and outgoing numbers accounted for. And send me the address of the owner of the truck they used to take Danny, Chin and I are going to go check it out."
After watching the affirmative nods all around, Steve took a deep breath.
"Listen, I know we're all worried but we need to keep our focus here. We don't know what this bastard is doing to Danny and we need to find him, now. Whatever we have to do we're going to do. Lets get to work."
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Danny awoke to a harsh stream of ice cold water being sprayed in his face.
He tried to movie his head so that his mouth and nose were away from the water, but no matter which way he moved his head, the stream followed.
His eyes flew open in panic. This sicko was going to drown him. He was drowning him with a hose. How pathetic was that?
Danny started thrashing desperately as his lungs began to burn. The water was going up his nose and as he opened his mouth to try to draw in a breath, the water burnt its way down his throat. He started gagging and his vision grayed.
This was it. He was going to die in this shithole basement.
He was going to drown, just like his friend Billy Selway had when they were teenagers, and he wasn't even in the fucking ocean.
When Danny closed his eyes, about to let the darkness take him, the water stopped. Danny gasped and pulled air in greedily. He didn't care that it as dirty and dusty. It was air. He panted for several minutes while the man just watched. As Danny's breathing calmed, and his mind stopped its frantic racing, he realized that he wasn't tied to the chair anymore. He was hanging from the ceiling again.
White hot pain suddenly flared through his shoulder and he moaned. He'd almost forgotten about the stab wound. Almost. The way his arms were being stretched by the chains was pulling at his wound, and it had started to bleed freely.
"You know if you plan on getting any information out of me, it would probably be better if I didn't bleed to death beforehand." Danny pointed out.
The man ignored him. "You spit on me." He said in disgust.
"Well you kidnapped me, stabbed me, and tried to drown me with a hose. I guess we're even." Danny said sarcastically.
"You spit on me." He repeated.
Jesus what the hell was wrong with this guy? He was insane and he was slow. How could he have orchestrated the kidnapping of a cop and gotten away with it?
"I'm sorry I must have forgotten my manners." Danny said. "Listen guy, I know you're not the sharpest crayon in the box, but you have to know that kidnapping a police officer is one of the stupidest things you can do. You wanna know why? Because it pisses off every other police officer on the entire force. Not to brag here, but I'm not just any police officer. And when my partner gets here, he's going to rip off your face without even breaking a sweat okay? Trust me. He's an animal and animals have a fierce protective drive thing going on don't they? He blew up the last guy who killed his best friend with a grenade. So why don't you let me go before he shows up here guns blazing, kills you, and mounts your head above his fire place, huh?"
The man stared at him for a long time. His eyes were blank. Danny couldn't help but wonder what was going on in his head, or if it was just full of white noise and elevator music. He was quiet for so long Danny thought he might actually be considering letting him go. No such luck.
"Where is Matthew Williams?"
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"So your car was there when your friend picked you up for yoga at 2 o'clock Mrs. Kailua, but it was gone when you returned home two hours later?" Chin asked.
"Yes." She replied. "It's my husbands truck. I never really drive it. It's too big. He takes it to work whenever he's here, but he travels a lot." She looked at Steve as she said the last bit and smiled. Steve tried to hide his disgust and smiled back at her politely.
"Was anyone home at that time who could've seen the truck being taken Ma'am?" Steve asked.
"Oh no Commander." She replied. "This street is always quiet during the day. Everyone's out and about you know?"
"Of course." He replied, standing up. This was pointless. And he was through wasting time.
Mrs. Kailua got up quickly. "Leaving so soon Commander? Wouldn't you like to stay for a drink? You look like you could use one."
Chin bit back a smirk.
"No thank you ma'am but we really must be going. Thanks a lot for your help. We're sorry we bothered you so late. Will you call us if you remember anything?"
"Oh I'd love to call you Commander McGarret," she replied with a grin.
Steve ran out of the house as fast as he could. Chin followed him out.
"Well she definitely wants you brah." Chin said, climbing into Steve's truck.
Steve had refused to drive the Camaro without Danny. It just didn't feel right.
"Ugh," Steve said. "That was a waste of time. We're still no closer to finding Danny. I'm going to call Catherine and see if she can use her resources to locate the truck. I know this is a long shot, but I've also been thinking about contacting one of the cartel members that Fuentes was associated with. They're not going to want to talk to cops but maybe they'll have enough loyalty to want to catch his killer. It can't hurt to get some details on his disappearance."
"Good idea brah. Whatever helps us. And Steve, we'll find him."
"Yeah... Yeah we will Chin. We have to."
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"Kono. What have you got?" Steve asked as soon as they had stepped into HQ. Danny had been gone for around 24 hours. They all knew what that meant, no matter how hard they tried to ignore it.
"Okay so I just finished working on getting the faces of the men who took Danny. I've got a really rough view of them." Kono said, handing Steve and Chin the picture.
"You can barely see anything!" Steve said in frustration.
"I know boss. I'm sorry." Kono said dejectedly.
"No. I'm sorry. This isn't your fault. It may not be good enough to get a hit with facial rec but run it anyway. It might be better to show the picture around and see if anyone recognizes them. I'll bring it to Kamekona in the morning."
Steve looked at his team. It was late and everyone was exhausted. They were running on fumes here.
"Listen guys, why don't you guys go home and get some rest. Ill stay here and hold down the fort until morning." Steve said.
"Don't even think it Steve." Chin said.
"Yeah Boss," Kono agreed. "Danny needs us. And we need him. Do you really expect us to just go home like everything is fine? We'll sleep when we have him back safe."
Steve smiled at them. He really didn't know what he did to deserve a team like the one he had. He just hoped he could find Danny and put them back together again. They were a puzzle of four. They couldn't function properly with a missing piece.
He was about to say something when two very angry men he recognized immediately stormed through the door.
"Where is Detective Williams?" One of them demanded the second he spotted Steve.
Before Steve could respond, Chin was up and at em.
"Who the hell are you two?" He asked.
"Special agents Edward Kipton and Adam Markowitz. FBI." Kipton replied, not even looking at Chin.
"Did you know?" Kipton asked accusingly, getting in Steve's face. "Where is Detective Williams? Did he know?"
"Know what? What the hell are you taking about?" Steve asked.
"Matthew Williams has been spotted." Markowitz told Steve.
Steve shot forward. "Where? Where is he?"
"He's here. In Hawaii. "
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Now what is Matt doing in hawaii?
So how are we enjoying that Danny whump I promised huh? Too much? Too little? Don't worry there's more to come!
Btw I didn't make up those two agents they're from Loa Aloha as well.
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