When he opens his eyes, he's on a plane. A tiny plane. Alone save for the pilots.

His escape is hindered by the chains around his chest, arms, and legs that attach him to the chair. His fingers respond to his mind, but nothing else seems to. Even his mouth is immobilized by a thick gag.

He's left with only his own somewhat blurred memories for company. A glance at his arms makes him wince; they're covered with burns, bruises, and other marks that he can't quite feel. The idea that he might be used to the pain scares him.

Shelburne find Shelburne kill him find him kill him

He doesn't even know who Shelburne is. Then again, he doesn't know who anyone is anymore. His captors, his friends, his family…

Himself.

He only knows one thing for sure.

When he lands, he has to find Shelburne.

"I haven't lied to you," said Danny. Chin snorted and rolled his eyes, and Kono shrank away. "Seriously, what are you talking about?"

"You didn't bother to tell me that you had a lead on Wo Fat or McGarrett, whichever the case may be, and in my book omitting something like that is as good as lying."

"Wait a minute, cousin," Kono started, but Chin held up a hand to silence her and continued his rant.

"I understand that you want revenge, Williams, but dragging Kono into it is unacceptable! You got her stabbed, and don't even try and tell me that you don't know what I'm talking about because I know that hand wasn't cut on glass!" Danny's eyes widened, and Chin mistook his expression for guilt. "Kono wouldn't have started an investigation all alone, and if she didn't tell me she went to you. Did you honestly think you could hide this from me for long?"

"I called in the break-in," Danny said slowly. "I wanted to come up with a plan with both of you, but Kono…"

"I convinced him that we shouldn't involve you," she finished for her friend. Chin turned to her, his eyes flashing dangerously. "I knew you wouldn't agree."

"Of course I don't agree!" he snarled. "I ordered you not to go anywhere near this, and you respond by starting an investigation, confronting suspects, and who the hell knows what else behind my back!"

"First of all, Chin, you don't get to order me around," Danny admonished. "I'm a free agent."

"And you have no jurisdiction. I should be arresting you for breaking and entering if you entered a crime scene." Chin wasn't backing down at all, and Kono winced at Danny's expression. "Trespassing, obstructing justice…I can come up with an entire litany of charges if you don't square this away with me."

"What crime scene? I didn't break into the house, I used the key Steve left me before he went to Korea! I had every right to be in there. And I don't know what you're talking about with confronting suspects, because I haven't had time to find anyone to confront about this!"

"Stop lying to me!" Chin suddenly grabbed Kono's hand and waved it at Danny, making her cry out. "I know your investigation got my cousin stabbed, and if there was a knife involved she was damn lucky that her hand is the only thing that was injured."

"Let me break this down for you: I called in a B&E on the house, hoping you and Kono would respond. Kono showed up, told me not to involve you or HPD, and agreed to meet me over lunch to discuss our options. She left, I went to the shrimp truck, and we didn't see each other again until just after I found out about Grace." Danny paused for a moment. "I was skeptical about not letting you in the loop, but I think your cousin might have been right about you."

Kono jerked her hand away from her cousin as he practically growled aloud. "Danny's not lying, Chin. What he just told you was the entire truth."

"Then how do you explain that?" he spat, gesturing at her hand.

"I have my own knife, you know," she whispered. Chin's eyes widened, as did Danny's; both of them stared at her. "I knew you weren't going to let me go for long, so I sliced myself open before I got out of my car at the precinct. I needed to do this," she said with more strength as Chin tried to interrupt. "I needed to work this case without you interfering."

"You lied to me."

"This isn't about you, Chin!" she shouted. "This is about me, this is about Steve! Or have you forgotten everything he did for us?!"

"Of course I haven't," he started.

"Then why are you so against trying to find him? Chin, if Wo Fat is back on this island—"

"I'm just trying to protect you." Her cousin's eyes softened suddenly, but the expression only made her angrier.

"I don't need your protection! I'm an adult, I'm a cop, and I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself!"

"Like you were the last time we dealt with Sang Min, right?"

She snapped. "That's none of your business! It's over, and it never had anything to do with you in the first place!"

"He almost killed you. No, let me rephrase that: he shot you twice, Kono. Your heart stopped beating three times that night. In what world is that not my business?"

"I don't need this," she said thickly. She was through the office door before her cousin or friend could stop her.

Chin's words had hit home, however, and when combined with the earlier events of the day they took Kono's unwilling mind to memories she would sooner forget.

Adam, why did you ask me out here instead of to your house?

You told me to meet you here because of an emergency.

No, I got a text from…get down, now!

Bang. Bang. Bang.

Bang.

You should have stayed out of the game, cop.

Sang Min? Why are you—

Bang.

She wrenched herself from the memories as she collapsed onto the steps. Her feet had taken her to the hospital's stairwell, probably with the intent of fleeing the hospital altogether.

But she couldn't go. She couldn't run anymore.

She had been running for the past year. Running from her memories, running from her angry family, running from her pain…she couldn't keep going.

Chin was right to be angry. She knew he wanted to protect her. She knew she wasn't making it easy.

The last person who tried to protect her was still down. Adam would probably never wake again.

Kono had already lost two of the people she loved.

She couldn't lose Chin Ho, too.

A/N: Hope this answers some questions about Kono's recent past. Speaking of...that finale, wow.

See you Thursday. Mahalo.