Wānana Pū – Recollect

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Hawaii Five-0 or the characters.

A/N: Enjoy this new chapter!

The story is set somewhere in season 7. If there are some grammar of spellings issues left, it's on me. I really enjoy working together with Julieb716, but life went crazy (on both sides) and that's why this chapter hasn't been corrected or anything. I did my best, but hey I'm human and I make mistakes (probably a lot of them).

Chapter Twenty

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THURSDAY – 5:56 PM – RECOVERY WARD KING'S MEDICAL CENTER - HONOLULU.

Steve had stayed through the night, but in the morning he had gone back to work. Danny needed his rest and the team could use his help. At the end of the afternoon Steve went by the hospital to check on his friend. He retraced his steps to Danny's room. It had almost become a routine. He usually parked his truck on the same spot, took the elevator up to the 4th floor, said hello to the nurse and went to see Danny in his room.

Steve found Danny lying in bed as he entered the room. Danny didn't look up at his friend's appearance; he just gazed outside through the window. He looked at little better to Steve. The color on his cheeks had restored and he didn't seem to be in much pain. The oxygen mask was no longer strapped on, he was disconnected from the heart monitor and he wasn't holding onto a pillow either.

"Hey, you feeling any better?" Steve asked as he walked up to the bed. He actually expected Danny to be out of the bed as the doctor recommended.

Danny rolled his head to the side. "Tired, but better," he was finally able to breathe without feeling a stinging pain in his gut, so yes it felt definitely better. "It doesn't matter if I sleep or not. I feel tired after I wake up anyway." He slowly pushed himself into a sitting position. The bedhead was raised, but he lay sprawled.

Steve sat down in the available chair next to the bed. "Yeah, I know." He admitted. It wasn't that long ago that he felt the same. After the liver transplant he was exhausted throughout the whole day.

"So did you get something off the list?" Danny was going nuts with nothing on his mind. Tightening his jaw as he clenched his arm protective across his abdomen. He removed the blanket off his legs; he turned and slung his legs over the edge. Remaining seated, he grabbed the side of the bed, squeezing it tight. The room was spinning, so he closed his eyes for a second until the wave of dizziness passed.

Steve stood up, uncertain what Danny was trying to do. "No, we ran background checks on everyone, but we came up empty," he stared with an aneurysm face at Danny. "What are you doing?"

"Would you relax? I'm just going to sit in that chair, okay?" Danny explained confident, reaching for the IV pole while he rose from the edge of bed. "What about Max? Did he reexamine the case?" He asked interested.

Danny was standing by himself, but Steve didn't completely trust it and certainly not after yesterday. So he grabbed him gently by his arm, while he told Danny the latest information. "Max examined the photos of Lauren and he agrees that it wasn't a suicide. The marks on her throat were wider than the rope that was used to hang her. According to his findings she was strangled to death."

With Steve's support, Danny made his way slowly over to the chair, on the other side of the bed. "Sounds familiar. The killer must have been at the party in 2009, right?"

Steve carefully eased Danny into the chair. "That's right, and we finally got the list of people that came into the ER the night that Eden was killed. So guess what,"

Danny let out a small grunt as he sat down. He had much more strength than yesterday, but standing up and sitting down was not his favorite. "Just tell me, I know what you're going to say, but you don't like to lose and you will. Next thing you'll be pissed, because I guessed it." Danny was talking with his hands, almost ripping the IV out of his arm.

"Spill it, Williams." Steve jerked his head.

"You're forcing me to ruin your day, you're aware of that, right?" Danny looked with a straight face at Steve. "Okay fine," He sighed obnoxious. "You crossed the ER list against the classmates from Eden and Lauren and there's a match. The killer came into the ER and they bumped into each other." He stared deadpanned at Steve, to see if he was right or not.

Danny knew his partner well enough to know exactly what he was thinking. Steve tried to avoid Danny's stare, a muscle in his jaw twitched and he crossed his arms in front of his chest. It were all signs of Danny being right about this. "You wanted to say the same thing, right?" Danny gloated.

"Okay, I was about to say the exact same thing. I still win though," Steve stated with a broad smile on his face. "You didn't guess his name."

"I'm surprised you didn't try to make a deal out of it. You could've gotten a free dinner," Danny teased. "Not that you ever pay for anything anyway."

Irritation caused Steve to blow air out of his nose and roll with his eyes. "Nathaniel Coleman," he changed the subject back to the case. "He got hit in the eye with a golf ball, passed out and went to the ER to get checked out. Never thought that would lead to committing two murders." Steve noticed the grimace as Danny shifted in his chair. He handed him the extra pillow in case he needed to cough or anything.

"All right, what are we thinking?" Danny waved it away and Steve tossed it back on the bed.

Steve sat down in the chair next to Danny and leaned back. "Well we're thinking, back in 2009, Lauren found out that Eden was sleeping with Nate. It got out of control. Nate accidently killed her. They covered it up and now years later they ran into each other. He waits till the end of her shift, making sure she never said anything to anybody. He overheard her on her phone, talking to someone about it and he kills her too."

"That doesn't make any sense. Eden said on the voicemail to Dr. Bennett that she recognized and remembered him. Why would she forget him?" Danny glanced questionably at Steve.

Steve shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe she was acting out, like her parents said. Maybe she drank too much and passed out. Could be why she slept through the party? Lauren threatened to tell her parents about it and they killed her together." He tried to make some sense of the still unsolved murders.

"They were best friends. Eden didn't kill her best friend. Who does that?" Confusion contorted Danny's face.

"I won't," Steve innocently held up his hand palms. "I mean, I had opportunities enough and you're still here." He joked.

Danny shot a judgmental look at Steve. "I would kill myself before you could even lay a finger on me." The minute he said it, a wave of tearing pain rushed through his abdomen. He grasped the arm of the chair and waited for the pain to pass. "I got one more thing. What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be arresting this guy?"

Steve was sitting on the edge of his seat. He noticed the discomfort, but it had passed before he could do anything. "We went to his house, but he wasn't there. He hasn't show up at his work either."

"He's on the run?" Danny concluded.

"We put an APB out, so he's not going anywhere." Steve assured.

"Searched his house?" Danny assumed they would've done that, but he asked anyway.

"Eric found shredded documents, so he's putting them back together. CSU is tearing down the place, trying to find anything that might tell where he is." Steve informed. Eric had found paper shreds all over the place, probably the missing therapy files of Eden.

"Good. Do we know if he's the father of Eden's daughter?" Danny asked curious to know if the scumbag would kill the mother of his own daughter.

Steve shook his head with disappointment. "No, we don't. We ran his name through CODIS, but no hit. His DNA is not in the system."

"Where's the kid?" Danny carefully reached out to the cup of water standing on the nightstand, but as he remained seated he couldn't grab it.

Steve jumped up and grabbed it for him. "Social services placed her with a temporary foster family. Eden's parents didn't want her." He handed Danny the plastic cup of water.

"I'm sorry, what?" Out of astonishment Danny let his hand down the same minute that Steve let go of the cup. The cup smashed on the ground and the water splashed onto the floor. "What do you mean they didn't want her? Can you believe these people?"

"Seriously?" Steve held out his hands, pointing at the pool of water on the ground. "They have the right, Danny." He looked with an aneurysm face at his partner while he got some paper towels from the bathroom.

"I know they have," Danny exclaimed disapproving. "But we should at least talk with them."

"We," Steve pointed his finger at Danny and back at himself. "Are not doing anything. I'll make a phone call and you are going to take care of yourself and heal."

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FRIDAY – 6:34 PM – RECOVERY WARD KING'S MEDICAL CENTER - HONOLULU.

The next day they gathered in Danny's room to enjoy their dinner together. Jerry had brought Grace and Charlie over and he had stayed himself as well. Kono and Lou had visited Danny during the day, while Steve and Chin continued to find any clues on where the suspect could be hiding. Danny was feeling better and the deep breathing exercises really helped him control the pain. They were having a good time, making jokes; eating pizzas and Lou even managed to sneak in some beers. Obviously Danny couldn't have any of it, but he was fine with them eating and drinking. It was a total mess inside the room after they finished. Pizza-boxes were all over the place and everyone had found a comfortable place to sit.

Steve was lying on the bed instead of Danny. As the doctor recommended Danny had to spend some time out of bed and him being a coherent patient, he listened to the advice. Not that he really did it because the doctor told him so, he just couldn't lie in bed all day. He was too restless for that. After a while Steve and Danny did the usual; they argued.

"I mean, I'm almost always eventually right," Steve smirked.

"Yeah, you know, people like you are like clouds. When they disappear, it's suddenly a beautiful day." Danny mocked as it wiped the grin off Steve's face and it appeared on Danny's. The rest of them started to laugh.

A ringing phone disturbed the laughter. It was Steve's, so he got off the bed and answered. "McGarrett," he focused immediately while he received information. "We're on our way." He disconnected the call and slid his phone back into his pocket. "HPD has their eyes on the suspect. We have to go."

"What are we waiting for, let's go!" Jerry stood energetic up from his chair, while the rest of the team, slowly rose from their seats. They were done for the day, but they had to go anyway. It was for the better and they knew that, but still none of them actually wanted to go.

"Jer, you can't come along." Chin placed his hand sympathetically on Jerry's arm.

"What? Oh. Yeah. No of course, I'll stay here." Jerry stared disappointed at the ground.

They quickly said their goodbyes to Danny before they rushed out of the room. Steve had promised he'd be back to take Grace and Charlie home. Danny was fine with that, he was feeling tired, but he could handle them. Besides Jerry was still here. Grace was on her phone; probably texting with Will and Charlie was drawing on a pizza-box with a pen he had found.

Ten minutes later, Jerry's phone rang. It was Steve. He put his phone on speaker as he answered. "Commander,"

"Jerry, you still with Danny?" Steve exclaimed from the other side of the line.

"I'm here, Steve, you're on speaker. What's going on?" Danny asked curious to know what was happening.

"Nate has taken Hailey from the foster family. He's on the run with her. The foster mom got the plate number; HPD ran it and got a hit. They lost him in pursuit. We need some eyes on that car."

"You got it. I'm pinging your GPS together with the suspects." Jerry tossed some pizza-boxes aside, grabbed his tablet and typed wildly on the thing.

Everyone was in contact with each other through their earpieces. Danny and Jerry were focused on the three colored dots on the tablet screen. Steve and Lou had paired up and so did Kono and Chin. The third and red dot was the suspect's. "Steve, take exit 19A. He's heading to Middle Street." Jerry notified as the red dot took a right.

"He's heading towards the airport." Steve stated. "Chin? Kono? Do you have eyes on him?" Steve asked over the comm, since they were approaching from the other side.

"Negative," Chin responded.

Danny wasn't sure what was going to happen, but they were ready to take the guy down if it was necessary and he didn't want his kids to hear any of that. "Grace, go get something from the vending machine together with your brother."

"No thanks, I'm good." Grace said monotonously without taking her eyes off her phone.

"I don't think your dad was asking." Jerry responded towards Grace.

Danny stared annoyed at Jerry. He didn't need him to intervene. Like Grace was even going to listen at him. "Just take your little brother, okay?" Danny said again.

Grace sighed obnoxious and took her little brother's hand. "Come on, Charlie." They both walked out of the room.

"He just took a right onto Koapaka Street," Jerry informed while he still followed the dot on his screen. All of a sudden the dot stopped moving. "He stopped at Alamo."

"We see the car," Lou mentioned as they closed in.

Danny and Jerry could hear them getting out of the car and shout some demands. It went silent on the other side of the line. "Steve?" Danny requested his partner to answer and tell him what was going on. He should actually be in bed. He had been sitting in the chair for a while now, but the team could use his help and he was too damn stubborn to admit that his abdomen was bothering him. He had felt worse; this time it was more a dull pain that didn't seem to vanish.

"We found Hailey," Steve explained the sudden silence. "Coleman's not here though. Do you know where he went, Jerry?"

Jerry grabbed another tablet and got access to the CCTV cameras that provided him a visual of the street. He searched for the suspect. On the footage Nate got out of the car and sprinted away. "He went inside the storage building across the street."

"Okay, I'm going in. Chin, Lou, go around the back. Kono stay with the girl till HPD arrives." Steve demanded as he jogged towards the entrance.

"Keep your eyes open, okay? You don't know what this nutjob is capable of." Danny protested. He didn't like the thought that Steve was going in by himself.

"Who me?" Steve asked amused.

"I don't know why I bother. You're incapable of being careful." Danny snapped. He actually had a knot in his stomach about it, but Steve had to make a joke about it. On the camera footage they could see Steve entering the building, aiming his gun. Chin and Lou went to the back. They lost visual on all of them for a second. Chin and Lou popped back up on another camera.

"You worried, partner?" Steve muttered as he was searching the building.

"No. I'm not. I just need someone to bring my kids home, that's all." Danny sounded sarcastic while he stayed focused on the surveillance footage.

"I'm moved."

"You're moved? Remember when I asked for your opinion?" Danny teased. Steve didn't answer. "Yeah, me neither." He snapped and looked up at Jerry, who not even seemed to notice the little argument between the two men. He was completely focused on the tablet.

"Forget about it. Jerry, there are cameras in here, can you get access?" Steve asked hopeful. He didn't want to let this man get away.

"Let me try," Jerry typed and searched quickly. Danny had made his comments about Jerry, but with out him, they couldn't have done it. Several live images popped up on the tablet and they both scanned the footage for the suspect.

Danny clicked on the footage where Steve was visible. "Steve! Behind you!" Nate was behind him holding an iron pipe. Steve quickly turned around and aimed his gun on Nate.

"Nathaniel Coleman! Five-0! Steve shouted. Nate took a swing at Steve, but he was able to dodge it, he zeroed in and shot. The iron pipe got tossed through the air and landed with a loud bang on the concrete floor. The force of the bullet made Nate stumble over and he fell on the ground. He got hit in the shoulder. "Stay down. Stay down, hands on your back!" Steve demanded.

Nate followed Steve's demands while grunting in pain. Steve took a zip tie from his vest and cuffed him with it. "You're under arrest for the murders of, Lauren Rhodes, Eden Morrison and Helen Bennett." Steve pulled Nate up as Lou and Chin jogged in on them. Steve handed Nate over to Lou.

"Did he just get shot?" Jerry stared with big eyes at the screen of the tablet.

"What'd you think? That they would just throw the bullets at him?" Danny stared with raised brows at Jerry. "Yes, he got shot." He added when Jerry didn't seem to get the underlying sarcasm.

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FRIDAY – 7:54 PM – RECOVERY WARD KING'S MEDICAL CENTER - HONOLULU.

Eric had managed to put the shredded documents back together. It were indeed the session files of Eden with her therapist. With that they had enough evidence on Nate. He confessed quickly, as he wanted medical attention. Lou brought the little girl back to the foster family and the team closed the case back at HQ. The paperwork would come tomorrow. Steve went back to the hospital to pick up Grace and Charlie, who were still with Danny. When Steve arrived he found Danny wiped out and barely awake in bed. Charlie was asleep in a chair and Grace was, as usual, on her phone.

Steve took them both back to Danny's place and he would stay with them during the night. Kono had done that a couple of nights already; so Steve thought it would be his turn. The rest offered to come and stay with Danny, but Danny convinced Steve that nobody needed to stay with him during the night. He could use the time alone. As much as he appreciated the company, he really wanted to just sleep. Although, Steve left the tablet behind with the photo's of the session files.

As soon as Steve had left, the curiosity got the better of him and Danny started to read the shrink notes. There were a lot of documents to go through. He fell asleep half way through, but after a short nap he woke up again and continued to read. It was a horrible story to read, but he went on anyway. Everything was in there; it was like a diary and it told how it all went down in 2009. It was the least Danny could do for the girl to give her the rest she deserved. He read all of it, all night long.

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SATURDAY – 9:02 AM – RECOVERY WARD KING'S MEDICAL CENTER - HONOLULU.

The next morning Steve and Lou went by the hospital. They brought some breakfast with them. Danny wasn't allowed to eat the pizza yesterday, so they thought they would make it up with some breakfast. Both men went up to the 4th floor and walked down the corridor towards Danny's room. Only to find the room empty and abandoned.

Steve walked up to the nurse station. "Excuse me, do you know where our friend could be? He's not in his room. Did they take him for a few scans or?"

"What's his name?" The young nurse behind the desk asked polite.

"Daniel Williams,"

"Let's see…" The nurse typed the name in on the computer. She quickly scanned his chart. "No, he's not scheduled for any scans." She stated, as there was nothing scheduled according to the computer log.

"Then where the hell is he?" Steve exclaimed confused.

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