Wānana Pū – Recollect
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A/N: The story is set somewhere in season 7. I apologize in advance for any mistakes, medical, grammar or spelling related... Is there anyone interested in being a Beta reader for me? I would love to collaborate.
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Chapter Seven
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TUESDAY 1:05 PM - RECOVERY WARD KING'S MEDICAL CENTER - HONOLULU.
The past two days Danny had been sleeping during the day and at night he would wake up. Still confused and he couldn't get rid of the terrible headache. Steve had stayed the nights while the rest of the team visited him during the day.
The doc had taken the drain out in the morning. It wasn't a major procedure, so after taking the drain out they moved him to a recovery ward. The rest of the morning Danny had been sleeping. He woke up just a little after 1 pm. It was for the first time in days he didn't have the usual unbearable headache. Sure he had a headache, but he could open his eyes without squinting and frowning. Danny looked around the room. He couldn't see clearly, so he blinked a few times until his sight was normal again. The team was having a deep conversation, because they didn't even notice that he was awake. Danny listened to the conversation for a while. He might get some answer about what really happened.
He had been trying to remember things, but nothing had come back yet. The doctor told him he was in an explosion, but he couldn't recall even being in one, let alone what day it happened. The last thing he could think of was that they were working on a murder investigation. After that it, he had no clue. Not until he had woken up with a terrible headache. Danny had been listening for a few minutes now; only nothing seemed to come back.
He wasn't going to admit that he couldn't remember a thing. It would come back, he was sure of it. Danny decided he should join the conversation and ask a few things. "Who did what?" Everyone turned around and stared at him for a minute. Kono was sitting on the end of the bed near Danny's feet, while Chin was standing in the room with a tablet in his hand. Steve and Lou were sitting in chairs near the window. Chinese food containers were everywhere. They clearly had been here for a while already.
"Hey brah, how are you feeling?" Chin walked over to Danny's side and placed his hand on Danny's shoulder.
"Like somebody banged my head against a wall." Danny scrunched up his face and clutched his side when he pushed himself up, so he would be sitting properly. He wasn't about to change the subject so he asked again. "Who did what?" Danny pulled the nasal cannula out of his nose. After the procedure to take the drain out the doc had secured it back under his nose. He really hated the thing and he actually didn't need it.
"We are not sure yet, but we know Forbes was the target." Kono informed after nobody else said anything. She was glad Danny was awake and asking around. He was definitely feeling and looking better.
"Forbes?" Danny looked with question marks at the team. The name did not sound familiar to him.
"Frank, the dead CEO." Steve referred to the man that they had been trying to get out of the building before it exploded. Steve didn't think it was odd that Danny asked who the man was. Steve had only used his first name back in the building, so he couldn't have known the last name.
"Any suspects?" Either Frank or Forbes didn't ring a bell, so Danny assumed that when Steve said Frank was dead that they were investigating his death.
"Danny, you don't have to do this right now." Lou interfered.
"We'll take care of it." Kono agreed with Lou. Danny shouldn't have to deal with this. He should rest.
"Just tell me what you got." Danny ignored Kono and Lou and looked to Chin and Steve.
"All right," Steve let out a deep breath. Letting Danny know that he wasn't completely agreeing with it, but he knew that if it had been him in that bed, he would've want to help as well. "The building was rigged with a second bomb, so we figured it was intentional. The first bomb was set up to do minimal damage to the building and the damage was mostly on the second floor around the conference room. It turned out that Frank had a meeting in that exact conference room around the time of the first bomb. That's why he had that nasty cut on his leg. Only it wouldn't explain why he would go back to his own office instead of getting out of the building."
"Maybe he was trying to hide something?" Danny suggested because he had no idea what Steve was talking about.
"Yeah, we did some digging and apparently years ago there was some accident. They lost a few employees, but it wasn't the company's fault." Lou shared their findings.
"What about money?" Danny tried to come up with what ever popped up in his head, because nothing sounded familiar so far.
"Jerry thought so too, since he was on his laptop when Steve found him. Only the laptop got destroyed with the second explosion. However Jerry was able to find an email that was sent to Frank five minutes after the first explosion." Chin showed Danny the email on the tablet. Danny tried to read, only the letters started to dance on the tablet. He rubbed in his eyes with his left hand and blinked until the letters became words again.
"You okay?" Steve noticed the rub and the rapid blinking and it took longer than usual to read the short email.
"It doesn't make any sense. Frank got an email saying that there was a second explosion and still he didn't try to get out?" Danny ignored Steve's question. He took a closer look at the email and spotted the firm's logo. It said Forbes Constructions plus the address. He knew the location downtown, but he couldn't remember that he went there. Why would he and Steve be there in the first place? It didn't make any sense to him, but at least they we're giving him some answers.
"That's the weird part," Kono responded with her eyebrows raised.
"What uh, what about an IP address? Someone had to send the email right?" Danny wasn't very good with technology, but over the years he picked up some things.
"It was sent from the company's IP address and Forbes emailed it to himself. Someone must have hacked into his account because there's no second email address." Chin took the tablet back from Danny and swiped between some files.
"It might be the fact that you uh you all suffer from sleep deprivation, but the email was sent from inside the building, right? The chance that the person who sent it worked there is pretty high." Danny pointed out to his friends that they all looked exhausted.
"Yeah, we checked all the employees." Steve rolled his eyes, while he tried to suppress a grin.
"Okay, then it might be the two holes in my skull, but what about, uh contractors?" Danny mocked as the door opened and Doctor Kalani entered the room. He noticed that he interrupted something important. "I'll come back later." He turned around and closed the door behind him.
"Or interns?" Danny joked at the fact the Kalani was an intern.
"Chin, do you have a list of people who are not registered as employees, but somehow work for the company? Or people who are not on their payroll?" Steve asked as he patiently waited for Chin to search his tablet.
"Here you go," Chin handed the tablet to Steve.
Steve scrolled down the list. Halfway the list he stopped. "Kinney. That name sounds familiar."
"Wasn't that name on the list of employees that died during the accident years ago?" Kono remarked as she grabbed her own tablet and started to search for the accident report. "Here according to the report, Martin Kinney, died on the job as result of an accident that happened in 1998."
"One Isaac Kinney started his internship a year ago at Forbes Construction." Steve stated as he read the information of the tablet.
"His son?" Chin linked the two together.
"That's not a coincidence." Lou raised his eyebrows as they finally came up with a solid lead.
"All right, let's bring Isaac in." Steve grabbed the empty food containers, so he could throw them away outside. He hesitated because he didn't want to run off and leave Danny behind.
"I get it. If it were up to me, I would go back to HQ and interrogate this guy. I would go either way before my head explodes and you'll be scraping pieces of brain tissue off the wall." Danny joked sarcastically, but it was everything except a joke. The color on his cheeks had vanished and he looked exhausted again.
"Now that's disgusting." Kono chuckled as she shook her head with disapproval.
"I'm glad you're feeling better, brah." Chin said as he fist bumped with Danny.
"Yeah me too, Danny. It's good to have you back in the game." Kono gave Danny a quick hug.
"Get some rest okay? You earned it." Lou patted Danny on his shoulder. Steve signed that they could go and he would be right behind them. They got the hint and left Danny's room.
"Do you want me to get the doc for you?" Steve offered as he had been watching Danny for the last minutes. He had been sleeping for two days and all of a sudden he was up and talking like nothing ever happened. Steve didn't buy it for a minute.
"No. I just need to sleep it off. So go ahead, go back to work, go do something useful. I'm not going anywhere." Danny waved away Steve's concern. He held on to his head with his hand, which confirmed Steve's thoughts. The headache was back.
"You up for a visitor later today?" Steve leaned on the end of the bed. Five minutes ago he thought he would surprise Danny by picking up Grace later today, but seeing him like this, he'd better ask if he wanted it or not.
"Depends on who the visitor is." Danny closed his eyes to ride through the pounding headache. He wondered if it would ever stop.
"Grace. She really wants to see you. She misses you." Steve said it with compassion. He felt sorry for the both of them. They didn't get to spend all their time together and with situations like this the time got even more limited.
"She actually said that to you?" Danny's eyes widened. "Because the rebellious teenager that she turned into hasn't said such thing in a while." Danny sounded astonished.
"Well… from the amount of texts she sends me I can tell that she misses you." Grace had sent Steve a lot of texts the past days. He didn't mind it, he was happy to be there for her.
"Ah you can tell, well if you want her as your daughter, I'm sure we can arrange the adoption papers." Danny teased.
"You are her father, Danny, and she misses you."
"I'm sure I'll be reminded of that next time I ask her to clean her own room or do the dishes." Danny used his sarcastic tone as he pinched the bridge of his nose and he closed his eyes.
"I'll pick her up after school." Steve grinned. Despite the headache Danny was still arguing like he did before and that satisfied Steve.
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Shorter chapter than usual, but that's why I uploaded chapter six earlier, to make it up. Happy Five-0 Friday! I'm too excited for the episode of tonight. Anyone else?