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Steve woke with a start and jumped to immediate alert when he heard the door opening. Not remembering what was going on for a second, his instincts were to immediately throw himself protectively in front of Danny, ready to take down anyone who tried to hurt him. So when the tiny blonde nurse stumbled backwards in surprise, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

"Sorry." He said immediately, dropping what Danny called his "I will destroy you with my pinky" stance.
The nurse stepped forward and smiled. "No, I'm sorry I startled you." She said. "It's just early for visitors, I wasn't expecting anybody to be in here."
"I'm Steve McGarrett. He's a really close friend of mine and Dr. Kamahi gave me permission to stay with him overnight."
"Well, I'm Sophia. I'm just here to check on Detective Williams." She replied.
"Of course," Steve said.

He stepped back and stretched. Wow, that chair was really uncomfortable. He'd be aching for a while. He looked down at his watch. 7 AM. Chin and Kono were probably in the office by now, finishing things up there before they came to see Danny. Steve felt bad about not being there to help them, but nothing could drag him away from his partner right now. Danny was Steve's top priority, and he needed him. Especially once Danny woke up and realized he couldn't breathe on his own. Steve had seen plenty of guys in the infirmary panic when they felt the tube in their throat during his NAVY days. He needed to be there and make sure Danny had a familiar face to latch onto when he woke up.

He watched as the nurse checked the many machines attached to Danny.
"How is he?" Steve asked.
"He's stable. His vitals are good." She replied.
"When will he wake up?"
"That's up to him Commander. The doctor will be in to check on him soon." She smiled sweetly and left the room.

Steve turned back to Danny. He took his hand again.
"Hey buddy, you feel like waking up?" He asked, giving the hand in his a squeeze. "Danno?"
He frowned at the lack of response.

"Okay fine Danny. I've become somewhat of a pro at dealing with your stubbornness. I'll be here when you're ready."

Steve leaned back in the chair, hoping to get at least one more hour of peace before Rachel, Kono, Chin, Kamekona, Catherine, doctors, nurses and god knows who else, all converged on Danny's room.

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"Here's what's going to happen." Chin said, trying to channel Steve and sound as threatening as possible. "I'm going to ask you some questions, and you're going to answer them. If you don't, I'm going to get Commander McGarrett in here and he's going to finish what he started the last time he interrogated you. And this time, I won't be able to stop him."

Harris looked up at Chin and nodded, still clearly terrified of Steve. Chin couldn't blame him. Steve had nearly cut off his finger, and even after Harris had given up Danny's location, Chin feared he still would.

He almost felt bad when he saw Harris' bruised eyes, broken nose, split lip and the other various injuries Steve had left him with. But then he remembered what Danny had looked like when they finally found him, and all he felt was anger. Maybe Steve hadn't done enough...
Chin shook his head and tried to remind himself that he was the calm one.

"What happened to Pedro Fuentes?" He asked, getting back to the task at hand.
"He was easy. I hired Ahuna and Akina Kala to grab him from his favorite bar, and deliver him to me." Harris said. "Once they delivered him, I paid them and sent them on their way."
"And then you tortured Fuentes before you killed him." Chin put in.
"He begged and pleaded. Sang like a canary too, he told me all about the bosses of his cartel. He gave me a lot of dirt on them. But he didn't have the information I wanted, so I killed him and dumped his body in the woods." Harris told Chin.
"You sent his fingers to Danny. Why?" Chin asked.
"Call it a message. Call it a warning. Call it whatever you'd like. I wanted Williams to know what would happen to him if he didn't tell me where his brother was." Harris replied.
"How did you know Danny would stay quiet?" Chin asked.

For the first time, Harris hesitated.
Chin leaned forward. "How?!" He barked at Harris.
Harris flinched. "I... I called him... And I threatened his ex. The pretty British lady."

Chin made a threatening sound that was oddly similar to the one Steve had been making these past three days.
He knew Danny, and he knew that he'd never risk Rachel's life.

"Then you hired Akina and Ahuna again to kidnap Danny. But you killed them this time. Why?" Chin continued.
"Kidnapping a lousy accountant for a cartel is one thing. Kidnapping a cop, especially one from the Governor's special task force, is something else entirely. I couldn't have any witnesses. I needed to kill them." Harris explained.
"You realized your plan had failed when Danny didn't know where Matthew was either. Then what happened?" Chin asked.
"Williams told me to call McGarrett and offer a trade. Him for his brother. He said McGarrett would do anything to get him back. So I did."
Chin nodded, he knew most of what happened from that point on.

He heard a knock on the door and turned to leave the room.
"How's it going in there Cuz?" Kono asked.
"Good... He spilling his guts." Chin replied.
"But?" Kono asked.
Chin smiled at her. "But, I still don't think he's smart enough to pull this off on his own. He may be lucid at times but you've seen him when he slips. It would take someone much smarter to orchestrate this."
"Well, he did have help from the Kala brothers." Kono pointed out.
"I know... But that was just with the kidnappings..."

Chin shook his head.
"Listen, I know you want to go see Danny," he said finally. "Give me a few more minutes with him and then we'll go."
Kono nodded and watched her cousin walk back into interrogation.

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"Commander McGarrett?"

Steve looked up at the sound of his name. He'd spent the last twenty minutes staring at Danny's prone form, willing him to wake up. Despite what Danny thought, Steve could not control people with the power of his mind. If he could, Danny would be up and ranting by now. Steve would do anything to hear his partners voice right about now.

It was the nurse again. Sophia...? Damn he wasn't sure. He hadn't really been paying attention to anything except Danny.

"Detective Williams' ex-wife is here. Dr. Kamahi is going to talk to her right now, and he asked me to come find you so that he can talk to you as well." She said.
"She's here already?" Steve asked, looking at his watch. It wasn't even 8 yet.
Then again, Grace was probably panicking, and if she couldn't come see her Danno herself, sending her mom would be the next best thing.

Steve frowned, suddenly feeling guilty. He had shut down last night. Maybe it would've helped if he had spoken to Rachel and Grace himself. He couldn't do anything about that now, but he could make up for it.

He stood up and walked towards the door, smiling at Danny's nurse on the way out.

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"You didn't bring Danny to the meeting spot." Chin said accusingly. "Why?"
"That wasn't the plan." Harris replied.
"I see. And what was the plan?" Chin asked.
"I was supposed to pick Matthew up and bring him back to the house. After I had him, I was going to drop the Detective at a hospital." Harris explained.
He was lying.

"Oh I see." Chin said sarcastically. "So you were just going to give Danny back? A cop that had seen your face and could easily identify you?"
Harris started to squirm. "I..."
Chin slammed his hands on the edges of Harris' chair.
"You were going to kill him weren't you?!" He said loudly.
"No! I... I..." Harris stuttered.
"WEREN'T YOU?!" Chin shouted. He was not a man who yelled often, but he saw how well it had worked for Steve, and he wanted to nail this man to the wall. He came after Chin's Ohana. And that was not something Chin Ho Kelly took lightly.
"Yes!" Harris said, defeated. "Yes I was supposed to kill him."

Something about the way Harris was speaking didn't sit well with Chin. He didn't sound like a man who working of his own free will. He sounded like a man who was following orders.

"But you were going to shoot Matthew before you made it back to the house." Chin pointed out.
Harris started rocking back and forth slightly.
"I wasn't supposed to do that... I wasn't supposed to..." Harris mumbled.
"Why not?" Chin asked eagerly. Harris was cracking, and now was the best time to get answers.
"Not the plan... Angry... She's gonna be so angry..."

Chin froze.
"She? Who is she Sean? Who is she?" He asked quickly.
Harris realized what he had done.
"No!" He shouted. "No! It was me! I did it! I did it all!"
"No you didn't! Tell me who she is!" Chin demanded menacingly.
"No no no no no..." He was mumbling.

Chin didn't want to resort to this, but he didn't have any other choice. Danny could still be in danger.
He grabbed the front of Harris' shirt and pulled him forwards until he was right in his face.

"WHO IS SHE?"

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Steve jogged into the waiting area and looked around for Rachel.
"Rachel?" He called. A few people looked up at him, but not the woman he was looking for.
He sat down on one of the chairs, thinking maybe she'd just ran to the bathroom.

His phone rang and he pulled it out.
"McGarrett." He answered.
"Steve!" Chin shouted.
"Chin what is it?" Steve asked, instantly on alert.
"Harris wasn't working alone! His sister was behind everything! She was the mastermind Steve! And now that Matt is in federal custody, she might come back for Danny!" Chin said urgently.
"What?!" Steve demanded. "Sister? What's her name?"
"Sophia! Sophia Harris!" Chin said.

Steve froze.
"Steve?" Chin called. "Steve?"
But Steve had already dropped the phone and was running towards Danny's room.

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Danny felt like he was floating. Where the hell was he? He heard a lot of beeping and wherever he was, it smelled like the cheap hand sanitizer Grace had been obsessed with during her germaphobe phase.

Hospital. He must be in a hospital. Who was hurt? Probably Steve. That lunatic was always getting himself hurt. But why couldn't he remember what happened?

And then it all came back to him pretty fast. The beatings. Matt. The house. Steve saving him and then not being able to breathe. He distinctly remembered somebody sitting next to him too, talking to him and squeezing his hand. Was it Steve? Is Steve still here?

He tried to open his mouth and say something when he realized that he couldn't. His eyes shot open in panic. There was a tube in his throat. The rational part of his brain was telling him that it was probably attached to a ventilator and was there to help him breathe, but he wasn't paying attention to that right now.

He raised his hand to try and pull the uncomfortable tube out.

"Ah ah ah Detective." He heard. He looked towards the voice and saw a blonde nurse standing over him.
She grabbed his arm and pushed it down onto the bed, hard.
Something was wrong. Danny reached out for the call button but she smacked his hand away from it.

"Sorry Detective Williams," she said, climbing on top of him. "Wouldn't want that guard dog partner of yours to come storming back in here now would we?"

Danny was really starting to panic now. The nurse took the pulse oximeter off of his finger and clipped it onto her own.
"Let's get this tube out so we can have some fun shall we? Cough hard for me Detective." She ordered.

Danny didn't want to do anything this crazy woman said, but he knew it would be better for him to cough, so he coughed as hard as he could and gagged as he felt her pull the tube out of his throat.

"We have something in common Detective." She continued. "We both have stupid, pathetic and useless brothers. Brothers that always seem to cause problems for us. Sean can't do anything right, damn him. But if I can't have Matthew, I'm going to have you. Sorry Detective, it's nothing personal."

Danny's watery eyes widened in realization. He was still gagging and struggling to breathe after the harsh removal of the ventilator, but he wasn't going down without some sort of fight.

"Steve!" He tried to shout.

Suddenly a pillow was pressed down over his face. He squirmed and shoved at it but his body was still weak and he wasn't able to fight her off.
He couldn't believe he had survived what he had just to be smothered in the hospital by a fucking pillow.

No matter how much he pushed, he couldn't get this crazy bitch off of him, and he couldn't get the pillow off of his face enough to get a gulp of air. He was suffocating. Thoughts were flying through his panicked mind, and he tried to focus on his beautiful daughters face one last time.

Danny stopped struggling, he just didn't have the strength anymore. His brain was foggy from the oxygen deprivation, and he could feel himself shutting down. He could've sworn he heard a few loud bangs and a voice screaming his name before he faded into the welcoming darkness.

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I'm sorry! I really am! But this is where I had to end this chapter!
So did you see it coming? The second killer? I hope not I tried to keep it a surprise!

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