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Chin crossed his arms against his chest. "You are restrained because you're being charged with attempted murder of Lieutenant Commander Steven McGarrett."
"What?" Danny yelled almost instantly. He wondered if he heard it correctly. The pain piercing through his skull just increased to another higher level with what he had just heard. He tried to process what Chin had said but it didn't make any sense. It could never make any sense. He tried to kill Steve, his partner, his best friend, his brother?
"What the hell you are talking about?" Danny claimed. His voice shook in the worst way possible. How can anyone accuse him of this?
"Really?" Chin glowered at Danny before he stormed over to the bed. "I have Steve lying on an operating table for the past three hours because you shot him. You hear me? YOU. SHOT. HIM. Two bullets straight to his chest and you would have shot him the third time and finished him off if I was not there to stop you."
"No, it can't be true!" Danny shook his head violently as he felt the world stumble down with Chin's words. He could never shot his brother. "I…I don't remember. I can't remember anything!" Danny shouted back, frustrated by the fact that he cannot remember any single thing. "You're lying, what kind of sick joke is this?"
"Joke?" Chin growled. "I can show you the CCTV footage of you shooting him."
"Chin, please. I'm begging you. You can accuse me of anything and I would gladly accept it but not this one. I would never hurt him. Chin, come on, you know me."
"I thought I did but what happened three hours ago just changed everything in split second."
Danny pulled against his restraints. "What happened three hours ago?"
"You shot Steve, that's what happened."
"I don't remember, I can't remember!" Emotions began to betray him. His eyes began to swim with tears.
Chin stood there, looking intently at Danny. He came in to get some answers but then all he got was more questions.
Danny trembled. His inability to remember made him wonder if what Chin was telling the truth.
"You don't deserve to live," Chin mumbled under his breath after some time as he studied Danny.
"What?" Danny's brow snapped together. His eyes were brimming with misery.
"That's what you told Steve before you shot him."
-H50-H50-H50-
"He doesn't remember anything," Chin said as he walked into the waiting room. Kono and Lou stood up the moment they heard his voice.
"How did he react?" Kono inquired.
"The doctor has to sedate him." Chin held out a harsh breath.
Lou massaged the back of his neck. "It feels like I'm in an alternate universe. Looks, I may not be as old as you guys in Five-0 or around Danny and Steve but I'm telling you something seriously wrong with Danny. There is no way he would put bullets in Steve like he did."
"He would rather shoot himself than Steve. That's the Danny we know." Kono chimed in, agreeing with Lou.
"I'm confused as you guys are." Chin looked at Kono and Lou. "When I went in, he looked really disordered. I can see from his eyes, he didn't even know how he ended up here. I know he is not lying but then what made him shoot Steve? I saw it with my very own eyes."
"Tell me exactly what happened," Lou demanded.
"Kono and I, we came back to Palace at noon after stopping by at the ME's office. Kono went up to meet Steve to update him and I went down to see if Jerry has finished analyzing the video recording I have given him."
"Okay." Lou nodded. "Go on."
Kono continued from where Chin had left. "Steve was alone in his office. When I asked where Danny was, he said Danny is not coming in today, because he was called to attend some meeting at Charlie's school. Then, Steve asked for Chin, so I went to Jerry's to send Chin back to Steve."
"So, until you went to Jerry's office, Danny was not there?" Lou asked Kono.
She shook her head before she resumed. "I was with Jerry when I heard the first gunshot."
"Where were you then?" Lou asked as he turned to Chin.
"I was on my way to Steve's office when I heard the first gunshot. I came running in and for one second I was stunned when I saw Danny holding the gun. Steve was already on the floor, he was clutching his chest, bleeding. It took me a while to process what I was seeing, you know." Chin looked at Lou. "Before I could anything, Danny shot Steve again."
Lou still could not digest what he was hearing.
"I had to tackle Danny, hurt him in order to stop him," Chin added in. "It was really strange."
"What was strange?" Lou asked.
"When I was tackling him, it left like he was a different person. It was not Danny."
"What if …" Kono's voice trailed off as she thought very hard.
"What are you thinking, Kono?" Lou asked.
"We all saw Danny last at dinner yesterday. He was the usual him, bickering about pineapples on pizza but we didn't see him in the office today morning. So, from yesterday midnight until today afternoon, something must have happened during that time. We need to find out if he was really in Charlie's school or was it any form of distraction to make sure we don't find for Danny at that time. What if someone did something and turned him against Steve?" Kono voiced out her thought.
"Like brainwash him?" Lou questioned.
"Maybe because that's only possible explanation I can come up with." Kono threw her hands in the air as she was clouded with frustration.
"I think I will have to agree with you Kono," Chin said. "Because I can't think of anything else either especially after Danny admitting that he doesn't remember anything. But Danny's preliminary blood reports come back clean. Nothing to suggest he was under the influence of any drugs." Chin informed.
"Maybe it's not any ordinary drugs."
All three turned to the new voice vibrating in the waiting room and saw Jerry.
"Jerry, you got something?" Chin asked.
"Devil's breath," Jerry said as he walked closer to them.
"Devil's what?" Lou raised his eyebrows.
"Devil's breath or the drug's real name is scopolamine."
"What kind of drug are you talking about?"
"It looks just like cocaine, white and powdered, but moments after unwittingly inhaling it, or ingesting it through food or drink; victims turn docile, deprived of their free will although they seem awake and lucid. To the world, they look perfectly fine but in fact, they have lost control of their own actions."
"So, they don't know what they are doing?" Kono questioned.
Jerry nodded before he continued. "In a TV documentary, Miriam Gutierrez, a toxicology expert in Bogota, Colombia, explained that it's the perfect substance to commit criminal acts because the victim won't remember anything."
"It makes sense, Danny doesn't remember anything," Chin added. "But Jerry, Danny's initial blood report came back clean."
"It can't be detected in the initial stage, Chin. In Spain, a woman was raped in the tourist resort of Benalmadena having lost her memory after just one drink with a local man. Her initial blood and urine tests showed no traces of any substances, leading the police to believe she was lying. However, her hair samples taken a month later, however, proved she had been drugged with Devil's Breath." Jerry explained.
"So someone drugged Danny, made him lose his own will and instigate him against Steve?" Lou tried to make a conclusion.
"But all this is for what?" Kono asked as she crossed her arms over her chest. "To hurt Steve? Is Steve the target? Why take this long and complicated way?"
"Maybe to divert our attention to Danny?" Lou suggested. "To make us believe it's an internal conflict?"
Chin remained quiet. His thoughts were jumping somewhere else. "I don't think Steve was the only target."
"What are you saying?"
"I think the target is Five-0, us. Hurting any of us will only make us stronger but turning us against each other is what going to make us weaker. The only way anyone can break us is by breaking the bond between us."
"I'm not sure about that but I do know one thing for sure," Kono spoke quietly. "If Steve doesn't make out alive of surgery today, we will lose Danny too."
Poor Danny! Do you think he would be able to cope all this? All feedback are appreciated. Thank you for your time.