CHAPTER 11

I am proud to announce that Chapter 11 is here! My muse struck hard today and I just had to post this. I am super happy with how this chapter turned out and I think it came out exactly as I had pictured it in my mind. I really hope you enjoy it and something tells me that you will.

I want to thank you for your amazing reviews, Aquababy58 and Stephanie, you always make so happy and to know that you two appreciate this story and have a good time reading it is just enough for me to want to keep writing stories of this world within the Hawaii 5.0 series that I created. You guys rock! This chapter goes especially to the two of you. I can't wait to hear your comments about it!

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- Hey. What's up? – Annabeth asked at the same time she glanced back at Keoki to make sure he was still sitting where they had been studying and then turned around to hide her face from him so she could speak more freely. This call was unexpected; Danny hadn't mentioned making contact before, so if he was calling now, that meant he had or needed something for the case.

- Anna – Danny began, and she could immediately notice some urgency in his voice – are you still with Keoki? Can you talk?

- Yes – she said simply, waiting for him to elaborate some more.

- Okay, listen to me. We might have found something to tie him to all the murders. Something about his dead girlfriend dying in a car crash. Right now he's our main suspect, actually pretty sure he's our killer – Annabeth glanced back to Keoki who was looking intently at her and she smiled, signaling her phone apologeticaly and asking with her hand if he could give her five more minutes with this call. He smiled back and so she turned again.

- Okay – again, she resorted to simple words.

- Where are you right now? – Danny asked.

- I'm studying with a friend on the garden right outside the main entrance – she said, just in case Keoki might hear her.

- The guys are on the way, but you need to get him to leave with you so we can take him outside, not here.

- I'll do my best – she answered and then started to turn around, sure that the conversation was over now because Danny had relayed the instructions as to how to proceed from now. Even so, she still heard him say 'be careful' before lowering the phone from her ear. She didn't have time to end the call though.

The moment she turned around completely she found herself face to face with a very pissed off Keoki. She looked down at the uncomfortable pressure right in the middle of her stomach to notice that it wasn't just a pissed off Keoki, it was a very pissed off Keoki with a gun. She looked up at his face again and was taken aback by the amount of hatred she found in his eyes.

- What the hell!? – she asked him, still not totally over her surprise of being ambushed like that.

- You're gonna do the same thing she did to me!? – he asked in a yell. He was angry alright. Annabeth looked around to see if there were too many people around. She needed to disarm him bur first she needed to get the gun a bit away from her body. That meant a struggle, and a struggle with so many other students around them meant collateral damage.

- Listen to me – she said urgently – I don't know what you're talking about. I swear... – but Keoki didn't let her finish. His resolve hardened and his eyes turned cold.

- You do sound just like her – he said with a snarl and then fired the gun.

Pain exploded right in the middle of her stomach and she had to grunt from the unexpectedness of it all. She jerked back from the force of the impact with the bullet but Keoki didn't let her fall to the floor, making sure she stayed somewhat upright by grabbing the collar of her shirt and holding her in place. At the sound of the first gunshot, people had started screaming and running away, not even sure where the shot had come from. Some of them even bumped into Keoki but his gaze never wavered and he continued to speak, his words filled with venom and hate.

- You flirt with me and end up taking calls from the freaking shrink!? – bang! another shot, again at her stomach. This time she had to whimper because the burning pain in her stomach reached a whole new level and her knees began to tremble and give in. Her phone had dropped from her hands the moment the first shot had been fired, but she remembered she never got to end the call and she hoped to God Danny hadn't end it either. When she finally sank to the floor because Keoki wasn't able to hold her weight any longer, she turned her head towards where the device had landed and called with as much strength as she could muster.

- Danny – it came out as a whisper and she couldn't be entirely sure if he had heard her or not. Not That it really mattered because by the time he got to her, she would already be dead. Specially since Keoki was still looming over her accusing her of being every bit of a cheater as his girlfriend had been. Damn was this boy crazy!

When after a few seconds she felt again the muzzle of the gun pressed against her stomach, she knew she was dead. Another shot and she wouldn't even have the possibility of surviving. She tried with shaking hands to push the gun away from her body but Keoki's grip was firm.
Her breaths were coming out ragged and she cranked her neck backwards trying to catch a glimpse at the building entrance, praying for Danny to come out running towards her.
No such luck.

- Hey! Hey! – Keoki yelled, managing to get her attention back. When she looked back at him, he went back into accusing her of having an affair with the shrink. She wanted so badly to tune him out but, instead, she did something she would regret later.

- I... I guess I can't... can't blame her for cheating on you – she spat and that's when, with a fierce cry, the guy fired his gun again. This time she couldn't hold back the scream that tore from her lips, the pain of being shot repeatedly on the same place was making her see stars and the edges of her vision were turning grey. She was gasping for breath and her eyes were watering.

There was no one else around them by now; everyone had either gone away searching for cover inside the building or getting to the parking lot to start the engines of their cars and get as far from that place as possible. All Annabeth could hope for now was that Keoki wouldn't go after anyone else.

Somewhere to her far left she heard someone yelling and then Keoki's head snapped up to see that person getting closer. He got up from the floor where he had been kneeling almost on top of her and pointed the gun towards the newcomer. Annabeth inwardly groaned because it was just her luck that when she's glad no one else is around to get hurt, then someone had to appear and make Keoki jump up to act. She could only see him raising his gun but the three consecutive shots that rang didn't come from his weapon. Instead, his hands wavered in the air while he looked down at his chest before collapsing and hitting the floor with his back.
Annabeth's mind was starting to wander because it didn't occur to her who might have been the shooter until the person was kneeling above her and she saw a mass of blond hair right in front of her eyes. His expression was shocked and worried but, beyond that, it was disbelief. Disbelief because even he could see what Annabeth already knew: that she wouldn't be coming out of this alive.

And BOOM! Did you expect that? Keoki turned out to be some psycho and now Annabeth is paying the price… will she get out of this alive? Will this have something to do with Steve finally telling her the truth? For now, let's see how Danny handles the situation, which I have to start writing about on the next chapter.

I can't wait to see your reactions to this chapter. What do you think will happen next?

Until next chapter then!