A/N: Hey Everyone!

Sorry it has taken so long to get this updated and moving along. I am having so much trouble with this story. Gladys is being elusive. I want to work on it but I don't know where to go, or how to proceed, so if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please PM me. Maybe what I need is a sounding board.

For now, here is a chapter that is very reflective of how I feel right now. Enjoy!

Chapter 7: At Least We Can Move

"Clearly it's a trap," Chin said with a nod and a sigh. "Why would she use that property?"

"It's a good central location. The community has moved on - so to speak - and things have quieted down after Five-O moved in. There aren't as many people living on that block as there was before the incident because of the murderer, and no one was living there at the time - and the house was vacant." Cameron explained. "So Gladys moved back into a place that was familiar."

"What are you doing?" Alexander gasped.

"I'm cooperating for self preservation. If this man is right, our families are in big trouble and I'd like to hope that something might be done and we might be able to save them." Cameron explained. "Tell me that you're not scared for your children? Tell me you haven't been scared from the very moment you laid eyes on that woman?"

"I am." Alexander confessed. "I was."

"Then help us." Chin said - almost pleaded. "Was Gladys staying in the same place with you? Is she in that house?"

"No, it was just a meeting place. None of us actually stayed there. It was more of a club house. She would come and go just like the rest of us." Cameron answered. "We'd get information at our actual residences - or work places - in unmarked, beige, envelopes with instructions to go to the house. There Gladys would meet us and give us information and then she would leave again."

"Sounds like another case we had." Chin whispered to Duke.

"The Jameson Case." Duke stated with a nod. "Trying to give McGarrett information into the case without being seen - it didn't work then."

"Could she have been watching us that far back?" Chin asked and Duke shrugged. "How long had McMahon been planning his revenge on Danny?"

"I have no idea, but he clearly knew where Danny was and what he was doing, even from prison." Duke stated.

"And all the rest of us, too," Chin said and shivered.

"What was she driving when she arrived at the house?" Duke asked trying to get back on track.

"A different car from a different rental place every time she showed up." Alexander answered. "But the rental places are all near the airport."

"Did she give you any information - anything at all - that might help us find her? Did she tell you how to contact her?" Chin asked and both men shook their heads.

"She found us. She knew where we lived and worked, and hired us accordingly. She then got us set up, like we were spies or something. Talked to us like we needed training. She gave us weapons, worked us through scenarios and taught us about hunting men, and then pulled our teeth and replaced them with fake ones. It was very Cold War stuff she was teaching to us. Then, once she was ready, that's when the letters started showing up." Cameron explained. "Before that we were meeting at the house and then moving through our training, as she called it, and then we went dormant. She told us she would wake up her agents when she needed us and that's how the envelopes started."

"How long has this been going on?" Chin asked.

"Month and months, she's been out of prison and free for a long time - you know that. She wasn't long on the mainland. She's been here almost the whole time." Alexander explained. "She had plans even before the trial ended and we did our research into her once we were involved. We're not stupid men, unfortunately, she's a brilliant woman and ten steps ahead of everything."

"How did she find you two in the first place?" Duke asked.

'What were you doing that attracted her to you? Clearly we're going to find that you have criminal records but who were you working for before she came to you?"

"I was working at a diner but I was an HPD informant, and before that, before I went straight, or so I thought, I had ties to the Yakuza." Alexander confessed.

"I was running drugs for the Samoans, but the day she picked me up I was trying to find a bond agent that would bail me out." Cameron explained.

"She's bringing together people that wouldn't usually work with each other. You two should have been enemies just by association." Chin said. "Why did you agree to working with her?"

"Like you said, she knew where we lived and that we had families. We didn't have much of a choice when our kids were brought into it." Alexander explained.

"We're her type, I guess, family men." Cameron added with a nod. "Because she'll always have leverage."

"And what about the others? Were they family men too? Do you have names for the other three?" Chin asked.

"Yeah, we've all got families. Vladimir Prokovia brought his family over here not long ago. Maybe two years ago before things started getting bad in The Ukraine. He's relatively new to the islands, but Kimo and Kona are brothers from around here. They have a big family." Cameron explained.

"Do you have a last name for the brothers?" Chin asked.

"They are the Waiholi Brothers. We know who they are and they've been on the HPD radar for a long time." Duke stated. "We've had our fair share of run-ins with them because they don't have any respect for Kawika and the Kapu and they like to head around their camps and turf and stir things up."

"Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?" Chin asked and the two men shook there heads.

"Please help our families." Cameron spoke as Duke and Chin turned to leave. "She knows where they are."

"We'll try our best, and if there is anything else you can think of to tell us, there are guards right outside. Just make some noise." Chin said and walked out locking the door behind him.

5-0

Danny and Steve sat in the dampness of the dark, cavernous, place. They didn't know how long they'd been down there or where exactly on the island they were, but the silence had not been broken by Gladys McMahon since Steve found the electronics. Hunger was starting to set in and so was fatigue, but neither man would speak of it to the other. There were bigger things to worry about - to talk about.

"At least you shut her up." Danny sighed in his anxious yet bored state.

"Did I?" Steve asked as he tinkered away with the little bits of trash he'd been able to gather and the radio transmitter that he worked to free from it's box. "Or did I just break the radio while your brain is tuned in to a different frequency?"

"Shut up." Danny huffed. "You know I can't get these people out of my head."

"I know. So try and think of something else. Break down the case for me."

"We're trapped in a drain. What good would that do? It's not going to help anyone if I talk through it."

"If I can get this radio to work we'll have to say something."

"If you get the radio working who is going to be listening - Gladys!" Danny said sarcastically as his pessimism spilled out of his mouth.

"Our people will be listening and you know damn well that they are looking into every avenue to find us. Toast has probably got his ears to every frequency and computer channel he can find. Cat is probably pulling strings with every agency she knows of and some that she might not even know about, and Kono and Chin will be out looking under every rock knowing what the McMahon's have done before. Hell, my mother is probably tearing this island apart from the inside out trying to find us."

"Right, Mommy McGarrett, super spy and defier of death itself. The woman who has no idea what this case is about or what my history with the McMahons is, and the whole buried alive bit because we never told her about it because we've been to busy dealing with your dead mommy issues!" Danny practically yelled as he stood - careful not to his is head on the low ceiling - and began pacing.

"What good is yelling at me going to do, Daniel, or pacing for that matter?" Steve asked with a huff.

"At least I can move around in this situation." Danny snapped. "What is the likelihood of us surviving down here if it starts to rain?" he asked.

"That would depend on the rain."

"Oh great, another force completely out of our control." Danny grumbled. "So why aren't we trying to unlock the gates at the ends of this passage?"

"You're welcome to try but we don't know where they go and we may just end up more stuck if we start moving around. I'm stuck on this radio. I think this is our life line, but you are welcome to use any of my scraps to try and pick the locks."

"I will!" Danny stated and knelt down beside Steve to rummage through the debris.

5-0

Doris and Kono returned the cruiser to the precinct and snuck back into the office through the back. Once back inside, they moved quickly to check on the captives and found the door was guarded by two SWAT men in full body armour and with huge automatic weapons strapped to their chests.

"That's a good sign." Doris stated as the men came into view.

"As long as they are Lou's men, and not impostors!" Kono retorted.

"Captain Grover is upstairs in the office, with the rest of Five-O." One of the officers snapped with a roll of his eyes.

"You have no idea - not a clue - what is going on here!" Kono yelled at the man. "I'd check your sass at the door because you may not make it out of this alive!" she said as he anger grew.

"You're right, they don't know but you can't lose your cool, Kono!" Doris said and pulled Kono away. She could feel the young woman shaking as she grabbed Kono's arm and pulled her through the basement.

"They buried Danny alive and then when we got close they tried to drown him. They hid in plain sight. This woman worked with Danny's girlfriend for months and kept eyes on him for her brother. And the Brother, he waltzed into an HPD precinct, dressed like a cop, and poisoned a man with a plastic bag, a bottle of sulphuric acid, and sugar packets filled with potassium cyanide. He zip-tied a bag full of killer gasses around his own nephew's head - the nephew who's mother has now abducted my friends. McMahon cleared the whole precinct with his stunt and nearly killed many more people, and do you know what he did? He winked at the security camera as he left!" Kono yelled as she was dragged away. "No one understands what we are dealing with. These people are monsters, and she has Danny again and now Steve too!" Kono was sobbing now as she choked to take in air and breathe. "You don't understand what they did to us! They broke us!"

Doris stopped when she and Kono were back in the stairwell and alone. She faced Kono, grabbed her by both shoulders and shook her violently.

"Stop it! Stop this right now! We don't have time to break down. Not now. Not until after we've found the boy." Doris yelled. "You can't save them if you lose yourself. I know you're hurt. I know you're scared. I know you think that these people are the end of the world, but you can't let that consume you. I may not understand what you went through with the brother but I know that my son has been taken by the sister and he is in grave peril. Steve and Danny are both in big trouble. Now get it together, Kono. We have work to do!"

Kono gasped for air and nodded. She wiped her tears. Took a few more deep breaths, and then nodded.

"Are we good?" Doris asked.

Kono nodded and followed the older woman up to the Five-O office.