A/N: Hey everyone. Hope you like this little offering. I wanted to bring some tension to the story. I think I achieved that with this chapter. It's a race against the clock!

p.s. No offense to any professors out there…I'm just speaking from experience and all the ones I had were very 'special' in their own ways.

Enjoy!

Chapter 3: New Detective on Duty

"Are all professors that scatter brained or was it just him?" Danny asked as he and Steve walked away from the faculty building. "He was…special…to say the least."

"I wouldn't know, I'm not really the classroom, academics type, but Goldstein rubbed me the wrong way," Steve confessed. "Maybe that's what it takes to be a historian - to each, his own. I prefer shooting thing over reading about people shooting things."

"Of course you do," Danny said with a roll of his eyes. "So do we want to believe him, or are we suspicious? I feel suspicious, my instinct is telling me something is up, but I don't want to jump to conclusions because he gave us a perfectly reasonable explanation, and most of the other people we were introduced to, seemed pretty brainy and eccentric as well. Are you as confused as I am?"

"I feel like we were being played and yes, I am suspicious. We may need to come back and do a little more prying…or maybe we'll send Kono in under cover. She seems about old enough to be taking a bunch of history courses – if anything she'll be able to report on the world of academia and answer your question once and for all." Steve said with a laugh. "Maybe she could get into a crowd that knows Lidia and they'll give her a better idea of what she's like."

"Poor Kono, she's going to be so pissed off, but I guess if we are going to send someone back to school, she'll fit in the most."

"I guess, out next best lead is to see if the Governor can tell us if Lidia was feeling under the weather to justify Goldstein's claims."

"There is a cold going around," Danny said with a shrug, "Grace was out of school for two days last week, but still…if what the Governor said was true, then would a little trifling cold keep Lidia from class?"

"I feel like there is more to this," Steve said as he looked across the top of the Camaro at his partner. "Something isn't right even if Lydia did have a cold."

"I completely agree, but we have nothing to go on, and surprisingly Goldstein didn't run, so we have no reason to take him in for questioning." Danny sighed. "I guess we'll have to hope for the best, and see if Kono and Chin have found anything worth investigating."

5-0

Steve and Danny met up with Kono and Chin, and found the house a buzz with activity. Charlie Fong, and his crew, arrived on the scene but there was also another detective, a young woman, who seemed to over step her boundaries and threw herself into the investigation.

Kono rolled her eyes as Danny and Steve walked up and the woman barked orders to them and the people around her as if she were the queen bee.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Steve asked as everyone around him stopped moving and just stared.

The young woman spun around, showing her face to the arriving duo for the first time.

"Detective Violet Austen, head of Domestic Investigations and Crimes Against Women."

"This is a Five-O investigation," Steve said calmly. "I'm going to have to ask you to step down and let us continue with out investigation."

"No, I'm sorry, but this falls under my jurisdiction and profile. Don't think for one second that I am going to hand over eighteen months of work just because some chauvinist bureaucrat decides he's going to put his pet project on the case."

"That's the governor of this state you are bad mouthing," Steve stated defensively.

"I didn't vote him," Violet stated haughtily, "and as such, I don't believe that he has any right assemble a taskforce to take over when he thinks the real professional can't handle this. You, and your Five-O taskforce, are nothing more then a publicity stunt in this election year to see that he gets reelected – not that he was elected in the first place. Kudos to you, however, for ousting Jameson, but her corruption was nothing new to any of us truly in the know. You may have delusions of grandeur with your big fancy office and you frilly name, but trust me the Governor's best men have nothing on this case."

"I find that offensive!" Kono stated but her cousin held her back.

"You should, but that's what you get for trying to roll with the boys," Detective Austen retorted. "Now, if you don't mind, I have a missing woman to find."

"Hold on," Danny stated throwing his hands up. "We're investigating the disappearance of Lidia Shepherd-Grey. Who said anything about taking over your investigation? And furthermore, if you knew anything about this case, you'd know that Senator Shepherd is a good personal friend of the Governor and it was by his request that the best of the best be put on the case. If this was truly your jurisdiction, the Governor would have gone to you first, and he didn't, so back off lady before I get Dennings down here to put you in your place and shut down your department all together. From what I understand Domestic Investigations and Crimes Against Women fall under the Violent Crimes division of HPD and so, really, you sit at a desk all day while the rest of the force does all your leg work – isn't that right?"

"Oh sure, have the bureaucracy fight your battles for you, Jersey. I'm a big girl, I can take it. Call him down here and see what he does, I dare you, but because you are encroaching on my investigation and I'm not about to let that go, I'm going to carry on with my business while you wait for your governor. So do it, put your money where your mouth is and call in daddy, but while you waste that time cutting through all the red tape, I'm going to get back to work to save this girl. The disappearance of Lidia Shepherd-Grey bares a striking similarity to six other disappearances and consequent murders of young women on this island. Now, if I'm correct in my profile, you had better stand aside or you're going to find Lidia dead tomorrow morning." The feisty little detective then turned away from the Five-O taskforce and headed back toward the house, shouting at people from the investigation crew to get back to work.

"What do you mean tomorrow?" Steve asked as he stepped in front of the young detective and stopped her progress. "Lidia is our case and she's been missing for less the thirty six hours. We're not about to lose hope, because some hot head, feminist who thinks she has to prove something just because she's a woman, tries to put ideas in our heads. This isn't our first rodeo."

"You think I'm lying? That's funny. No, that's not how I work, McGarrett, I'm perfectly confident in my skills as a detective. It has nothing to do with feminism. What you don't seem to grasp is that Lidia was only reported missing thirty six hours ago, she's been missing much longer."

"The Governor saw her on Saturday night at about 10.p.m. it is now 2.p.m. on Monday. Are you trying to tell me that you believe she's already dead?" Danny asked indignantly.

"I believe, Detective Williams, that if you don't let me do my job, you will find Lidia's body dumped somewhere on this island, out in the open for anyone to find, and she'll be found before 11.a.m. tomorrow morning. The body will have only been dead for approximately ten hours, because my profile of this serial killer tells me that he plays with his victims for fifty hours and then kills them, dumps them, and goes into hiding until he can find the next perfect victim –and there always is a next perfect victim. I have the forensic evidence to back my theory."

"And why would you think Lidia fits your profile?" Danny asked.

"These are autopsy photos of the first six victims," Violet stated and flipped through the images on her smart phone.

"They look like they are all the same girl," Steve said as he looked over Danny's shoulder at the photos.

"Blonde, between 5'5 and 5'9, which makes me believe that the killer is taller – probably between 6'2 and 6'6. The victims all have blues eyes and an athletic build. Ages vary between victims, so long as they look the same, age doesn't seem to be a factor. Aside for their looks, the girls all seem to be unrelated. One was a store clerk. One was a tourist. One was a student at the university. Lidia would be the second full time student to go missing. One worked at a church and the last two, or rather the first two victims, were prostitutes."

"They do look uncannily similar to Lidia," Danny sighed as he looked to his partner.

"I know."

"So are you going to call the governor, or can I get back to work?" Violet asked.

Steve shook his head.

"Good, it's already 2.p.m, we have less then twelve hours to find Lidia before she's murdered."

"But what if you are wrong?" Steve asked.

"Do you want to take that chance? Is the governor giving you the option for me to be wrong?" Violet asked.

Steve and Danny exchanged worried looks.

"I didn't think so," Violet stated and with a turn toward the house, once more, she shouted orders to the workers. "Oh, and by the way, Governor Dennings did come to see me first thing this morning. I believe it was just after he spoke with you. It looks like we're going to have to work together on this one - you're not the only super stars on this island."