A/N: I was so surprised to get all the comments on how much you guys didn't like Detective Austen. She will get better… as soon as Steve put her in her place. Not that I want you to love her by any means, but she'll get better.

Enjoy.

Chapter 4: Defiance

Danny and Steve headed back across the street toward the Camaro while Chin and Kono followed them. They could hear Detective Austen shouting orders at everyone – seemingly mistreating everyone that was usually so helpful and friendly with Five-O.

They had got the ball rolling, called in all the people they trusted the most and now this woman was coming in to walk all over the bonds that the Five-Os had made within HPD.

"Who does she think she is?" Kono stated angrily and loud enough that she was sure that the woman could hear her.

"She's not going to get very far treating our people that way," Chin added.

Austen glared across the street at them.

Five-Os glared back disapprovingly.

"We could pull out all of our people, if you like," Steve yelled, "but it might take you a good hour or so to get your own people in to work this scene, and because this is our case we'll be taking what we have gathered and we'll move on."

"It's my case!" Austen growled and marched across the street, "and these people are not your people. They are HPD. They work for all of us."

"They work with us, not for us," Danny stated. "You'd better curb the attitude or you'll have no one ready to back you up on this island."

"Oh like you do, Jersey," Austen snapped.

Danny sent a loud, piercing whistle into the air. Everyone at the crime scene stopped and turned toward the Five-Os.

"Hey guys, call off the search Austen seems to think she's in charge of HPD. If you wanna keep working little miss bossy pants, go for it, otherwise, Five-O is pulling out."

"Let's go!" Charlie shouted to his people.

"I'm not taking any orders from anyone," Duke stated and headed for his cruiser.

"Wait, no, please stay!" Austen called and ran back across the street.

Duke and Charlie turned to Steve and wordlessly he sent them back to work.

"You showed her," Kono stated and patted Danny on the back.

"She's not from around here, is she?" Danny asked.

"I've never seen her before." Chin stated.

"Then that means no," Kono added.

"What now?" Danny asked once they were out of ear shot of the young detective.

"I don't like this one bit, but that doesn't mean I'm about to give in to some hot shot rookie detective." Steve stated and Kono nodded her agreement.

"You don't know she's a rookie," Danny said, "and she seems to be very confident. I've dealt with her kind before in Violent Crimes and Homicide. There is something that she is not telling us, or she's trying to pull the wool over our eyes and throw her weight around."

"I agree," Steve nodded, "but I've got a plan. Chin, you're going to stay here. You're going to work the case and you're going to keep an eye on Austen. You our rank her as it is and Five-O was assigned to this case. So act like we're ready to co-operate with her investigation. If she's not lying we only have twelve hours to find Lidia and we need all the help we can get. Offer her all our channels, get on her good side but don't let her push you around and don't let her take advantage of our friends."

"I'm on it," Chin agreed, "I'll pull all our resources if she throws another power trip temper tantrum."

"Without a second thought," Steve ordered.

Chin dashed across the street, stopping first to make sure Duke wasn't offended and then moving on to Charlie – right past Austen – and then he dealt with the diva.

"Kono, we're putting you back in school. Danny and I were not convinced that everyone at the university was telling the truth. So you're going to go in and get us everything that you can gather on Lidia, her professors and the program in general. Unfortunately you aren't the ideal victim but maybe you can get close to someone who might be."

"Got it," Kono stated, "but you know - as much as she pissed me off already - Detective Austen fits her own profile."

Steve and Danny looked across the street and watched the young woman until she stopped and caught them staring.

"You're right. If push comes to shove she's going in too. I don't care who she thinks is in charge around here. If I say she's going undercover, she's going!" Steve stated. "We're going to get to the bottom of this turf war and yes I'm going directly to the Governor on it, and he's not going to be happy."

Danny and Kono nodded.

"All right, we're being watched now. Kono, meet us back at HQ ASAP." Steve ordered and climbed into the car - followed by Danny.

5-0

Back at HQ Kono dove right into her cover and within the house she was heading back to school - enrolled in all of Lidia's classes with glowing letters from a multitude of high level and prestigious contacts and schools.

Danny and Steve also got down to business. Danny was put on searching and breaking into everything he could find about Detective Violet Austen - her backgrounds, her credentials and the case she's boasted about. The one with eighteen months into a string of six unsolved murders that she had apparently profiled but had yet to catch a murderer - it seems suspicious to both the partners. Danny and Steve were curious to see why she was chosen for such a designation but also why they hadn't heard about her or her division through their channels.

Steve had a far more direct approach to the way he was going to do things. Once Danny had settled into his office and was well on his way to making a million phone calls, Steve marched into his office, grabbed the files that the Governor had dropped off earlier in the day and marched right back out again - leaving Danny to dig around and Kono to investigate higher learning. It was time to disrupt the Governor much in the same way he'd done earlier in the day.

Steve walked into the Governor's mansion - after a short drive in which he confiscated Danny's car - and he headed right up the stairs toward the Governor's office. He then, and without warning or listening to the mousy woman who tried to stop him, barged into the Governor's space and right up to the desk.

"What the hell is this?" Denning yelled angrily as he slammed down his phone.

"I'm not answering any of your questions!" Steve practically yelled as he threw the files back onto the Governor's desk. "It seems like you've got a hot headed, disrespectful, Detective on this case already. I'll be heading up my drug trafficking case once more. Don't waste my time, or my team's time, if you are just going to go behind our backs and assign other people to push us around." He yelled and tuned on his heals, and moved with a purpose to leave the office all together.

"McGarrett Wait!" Denning called.

"Your Detective Austen has pushed Five-O off this case. I hope you trust her as much as she says you do. A heads up on this would have been nice this morning when you interrupted my whole day! Good luck finding Lidia now." Steve spat and walked out slamming the door behind him.

Okay, maybe no one is going to like Detective Austen…ever.