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"I'm sorry. What the hell did you just say?" Steve asked.
It didn't make sense to him. What would Matthew be doing here in Hawaii?

"We've been trying to track Matthew Williams since he disappeared from here two years ago." Kipton explained. "We've kept tabs here and in New Jersey incase he came back to see Detective Williams or his family. He was seen here on this island just yesterday."
"Are you saying you had knowledge of Matthew Williams being here, Commander?" Markowitz asked.
"No, I had no idea he was here!" Steve told them.
"What about Detective Williams?" Kipton asked. "We'd like to ask him a few questions, where is he?"
"He's missing." Chin told them.
"What?" Kipton asked. "Since when?"
"Since yesterday." Chin replied.

The two FBI agents looked at each other, and Steve didn't like the look on either of their faces.
"What?" Steve asked impatiently.
"Don't you find it a little bit of a coincidence that the day Matthew shoes back up in Hawaii, his brother suddenly goes missing, Commander?" Kipton asked.
Kono stepped forward angrily. "Just what exactly are you trying to say?"
"Maybe Detective Williams isn't missing. Maybe he's run off to aid his brother. It wouldn't be the first time." Markowitz reminded them.
"Hey. Listen to me." Steve said dangerously. "I know my partner. Danny would not risk prison to run off with Matthew. He has a daughter. He would never do that to her."
"Besides, we found blood at the scene where we believe Danny was taken from. How do you explain that?" Chin asked, trying to calm the room before Steve did something that would end with him in federal custody.
"He's a cop. It's very easy to fake your own kidnapping if you know exactly what you're doing." Kipton said. "We're going to conduct our own investigation into Detective Williams' ah... Abduction. Your team is obviously too close to this, and we need to deduce if he's turned dirty cop-"

That was the last straw for Steve.
"Listen to me you son of bitch," he yelled, starting forward. Chin quickly grabbed his shoulders from behind and Kono put her hands on his chest. "He is the best cop I know! You hear me?!"
Kipton tried to keep a straight face but failed and faltered at Steve's ferocity. He took. Step back. "Commander-" he started to say.
"I think it's best you two left. NOW." Chin said angrily, not letting go of Steve.
Kipton tried say something else but his partner grabbed his arm and started pulling him towards the door.
"We're going to be consulting on this case with your team and HPD, Commander." Kipton called.
"If I see you again you're going to wish you never crawled out of your little federal building!" Steve shouted back.

Steve was shaking with rage by the time the two agents left the Five-0 headquarters.
"Steve?" Kono said quietly. " They know Danny at HPD, okay? Nobody is going to believe a word those two say."
"Dirty cop?" Steve muttered. "Dirty cop?! Someone better call HPD and warn them what's going to happen if I see either of those two again."

Chin nodded and finally released Steve's shoulders.
"Come on we've got work to do Steve." He said.
Steve blew out a breath and followed Chin and Kono to the table.
"What have we got?" He asked.
"I've been tracking down Danny's phone calls," Kono replied. "So far we have two numbers unaccounted for. Two are from the same burner phone. One came to Danny's office and the other to his cell. According to the time log, the number called Danny just before he was abducted."
"And the other?" Chin asked.
"Another burner. This one to Danny's office, and only once." Kono replied.
"Great!" Steve said, exasperated. "So we have absolutely no way of tracking either of the phones."

Kono shook her head. "But listen Steve, we've got Katherine tracking the truck, and we've got some witness statements from Danny's neighbors to go over."
Steve nodded. "You guys go over those. I'm going to try and make contact with someone from Fuentes' cartel and see what they can tell me."

Steve started to walk towards his office but stopped before he got there. He turned to stare at the door of Danny's office. He hadn't been in these since Danny went missing. He hadn't even opened the door.
He walked towards it slowly. He pulled he glass door open and went inside.
The second he stepped into the office and saw Danny's empty desk, a new wave a dread washed over him.

What had he expected? Did he think he'd walk in here and see Danny sitting at his desk, as if he'd never been missing? As if this was just a nightmare? If only. Steve sat on the couch across from Danny's desk that he'd sat on so many times before while the partners just talked. He thought back to their last conversation here. Danny had been telling him how amazing Grace had done in her school play. He sounded so happy, and Grace had only played a tree.
Then he thought about the last time he'd seen his partner. Steve refused to believe that that was the last time he'd ever see his partner alive. It couldn't be.

Steve sighed and put his head in his hands.
"Where are you Danny?" He asked the empty office.

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Danny was staring down at the floor that was becoming increasingly covered with his blood. He didn't know how long he'd been here, but he was sure he wouldn't last much longer. He was still bleeding all over the place from his shoulder and he was soaking wet. The bastard had even put on some ancient air conditioner, which was blowing not only freezing air, but more dust into his tiny cell. He couldn't stop shivering, and the pathetic wheezing sounds he was making with each breath left him increasingly concerned for his lungs.

He looked up when the door opened and his captor came back in.
Danny didn't even have the strength to antagonize him anymore. He just stared back at him.
"Are you ready to tell me where Matthew is?" The man asked.
Danny was so sick of hearing this question.

"Why do you want my brother so badly? Huh? What did he do to you?" Danny asked. If he was gonna die for Matt, he wanted to know what he'd done to this guy to drive him to such lengths.
"It's all his fault." The man replied.
"What's his fault?" Danny asked.
The man hesitated. Looking from Danny to the floor and back again.
"Look man, if I'm going to die here I deserve to know why." Danny said.

Danny regretted bringing it up immediately. The man got angrier and angrier while Danny watched, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"Listen, whatever he did man I'm really sorry. I know he didn't mean to hurt anybody. He was just being stupid. He made a mistake!" Danny tried to reason with his captor before he lost it completely. He could tell it wasn't working.

"His fault! It was his fault! WHERE IS HE?!"

Danny tried to brace himself, but nothing could prepare him for the vicious onslaught of punches that were suddenly flying his way.

One straight to his stomach. "WHERE" Another to the chest. "IS" The last one straight to the face. "HE?!"
A couple more to the gut and one to the chest left Danny breathless. He was gasping for air and his vision was tunneling.

"I'm losing patience detective." He said, before the leaving the room.

Danny hung limply and continued to gasp for air. When he realized it wasn't helping, he started to take shallow wheezing breaths. He wasn't getting enough air in to satisfy the burning in his lungs, but it was enough to keep him alive. For now.

He tried to remain as still as possible. He was sure he now had at least one broken rib, and if he moved the wrong way, it could puncture his lung and he'd be done for.

So here he was. Hanging miserably from the ceiling. He was still shaking and he couldn't breathe.

"Where are you Steve?"

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Nothing.

They had worked through the entire night and had absolutely nothing to show for it. Steve was so desperate at this point he was considering going from door to door with a machine gun until he found his partner. He would tear this island apart to find Danny if he had to.

"The cartel members wouldn't give you anything else?" Chin asked in disgust.
"No. I had to force them to talk to me at all. All I got was the day he disappeared. Not where he was, or if he'd been receiving any phone calls, or if he was still working with Matthew. Not even what he was doing that day. Nothing." Steve replied. "He's just an accountant. They have plenty more where he came from. They don't care about him."
"Good friends." Kono muttered.
"Yeah... How'd the witness statements go?" Steve asked.
"Everyone is saying the same thing. Black truck. Nothing else." Kono replied annoyed.
"It was dark. Not many neighbors noticed the car at all." Chin put in.
Kono's phone started to ring and she walked towards her office to answer it.

"Duke called me a half hour ago. Told me about the FBI agents. Nobody there believes a word. Duke told me they almost laughed them out of the building. But he promised to keep me updated on what the agents were doing." Steve reported.
"The last thing we need are two agents with an agenda trying to make this Danny's fault." Chin said.
"Tell me about it." Steve replied.

Kono walked towards them with a terrified look on her face.
Steve and Chin were on her in a second.
"What? What is it?" Steve asked, his heart beating a mile a minute.
"Max. He got back to me on Fuentes' autopsy. Jesus.. Steve. The fingers weren't even all of it. Max said he was beaten severely and he had water in his lungs... It was bad Steve. It was really bad." Kono shook her head as she felt her eyes burn with unshed tears.
Chin put his hand on her arm. "We're gonna find him cuz."
Steve knew he should say something, but he had no reassuring words to say.

"This is my fault." He whispered finally. Nobody had said it, but he knew it was true.
"Steve!" Kono said. "It isn't! This is not on you!"
"I should have known... I shouldn't have let him keep shrugging it off. Dammit why didn't he just tell me?!" Steve yelled. He was starting to crack.

"Hey!" Chin called out.
Steve didn't answer.
Chin snapped his fingers in front of Steve's face. "We can play the blame game all day and night, or we can go out there and find Danny. I for one, am not going to sit around here."
Harsh as it was, Chin knew the only person who could reassure Steve was Danny. They just had to find him first.
"It's 7:30 Steve. Lets go talk to Kamekona and get these pictures out, okay?"
Steve nodded. "Yeah... Yeah. Come on guys."

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Kamekona was walking towards his shrimp truck when Five-0 pulled up.
"Howzit?" He called out, as they stepped out of Steve's truck. "Where's little haole?"
"We need your help big man." Steve said immediately.
Kamekona knew just by looking at them that something was wrong.
"Of course Bruddah what you need?" He asked.

Kono handed him the pictures. "These men took Danny."
"Aww man..." Kamekona said. "They know they're dead meat when McGarret finds them?"
"They will soon." Steve promised.
"We need you to get in the coconut wire and find out who these two men are. And fast. Danny's been gone 36 hours and we need to find him." Chin said.
"Not much of a picture..." Kamekona pointed out.
"I know." Steve said. "But if someone knows one of these guys well enough, they'll recognize them anyway."

Steve looked down as his phone started to ring.
He nodded to the three and went off to answer it.
"McGarret."
"Uncle Steve?" A small voice asked.
"Hey Gracie!" Steve said. He smiled for the first time since Danny had been taken.
"Did you find Danno uncle Steve?"
"Not yet baby. But we're trying really hard okay? We're looking everywhere." Steve replied.
It broke his heart to hear her sniffle over the phone.
"I miss him Uncle Steve!" She cried. "He was supposed to take me to this movies. We don't have to go to the movies if he's doesn't want to but I want him back!"
"Gracie listen to me. I'm going to find Danno okay? I'm gonna find him and as soon as he's feeling up to it I'm sure he's going to take you to the movies sweetheart."
"You promise?"
"I promise." Steve replied without hesitation.
"Okay... Call me when you find my Danno."
"I will. And Gracie... Danno loves you. More than anything in the world. Never forget that okay?"
"Okay. Danno loves you too Uncle Steve." Grace replied before hanging up the phone.
Steve stood frozen with his phone in his hand. Danny's little girl knew just what to say to break his heart. He really needed Danny back. Not just for Grace, but for himself too.

He walked back over to the group.
"I'm gonna get this out to everyone right now McGarret." Kamekona promised.
"Thanks a lot brah." Steve said.
"I need to go call Danny's family back in Jersey and give them an update." Chin said stepping to the side.
Steve nodded.

Kono's phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and picked it up.
"Fong." She said. "Woah woah woah. Slow down. What? Okay we're on our way."
"What is it?" Steve asked.
"Fong got a handwriting match in the database to the handwriting on the box Danny received."

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Are the team closing in? We'll see!
I sure hope so Danny's in pretty bad shape and this guy seems hungry for his fingers.

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Thanks for reading :)