A/N: Sorry this story is so slow going, I'm distracted and disinterested. I promise to finish it. I just need to set my mind to it. I will, in due time. Thank you so very much for sticking with me through this.
Enjoy.
Chapter 11: A High Functioning Sociopath
"What do you want to do, Cuz?" Chin asked after hearing everything that had happened and he could see the hesitation in the woman who sat beside him and drove the vehicle they were in.
"I don't know..." Kono hesitated in a very uncomfortable anxiety for a woman who was usually so steady. "You make the call. I'll follow your lead. Never have I ever felt as green as I feel now."
"You're not green. This is what she wants from us. She wants us split up and running in different direction so that she can buy her time and catch us off our feet. Steady yourself. Watch the horizon. Ride this out just like you would any other wave. We'll make it back to solid ground."
Kono nodded.
"If I may interject my two cents." Toast stated into each of the cousin's ears and caused them both to jump slightly. "There isn't much you can do at either scene. You'd get there and you'd be stuck behind police lines at this point or that point. It's all covered and we'll get our people back on track here when they make it in. Your best bet will be the eldest son. We'll keep you posted on the situation and status of our people as they come into the office. We're bringing in Lou right now. We'll regroup when you're done."
"I wont be easy until I see that everyone is all right." Kono sighed as she drove.
"Neither will I, but maybe that anxiousness is what we need to keep us on our toes with this interview." Chin said as he tried to convince Kono that Halawa was where they needed to be.
"Maybe you're right." Kono nodded and turned the vehicle so that she was once again on the right path.
5-0
Danny and Steve were arguing about their options when they heard the voices.
"Ssshhh." Steve hissed as he jumped forward again and grabbed his partner. "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Danny asked loudly and angrily.
"I heard voices."
"It's just the echo from us you moron! Don't try changing the subject to make me forget how ridiculous this idea is!" Danny snapped. "We can't play this game. Absolutely Not. We can't do exactly what she wants us to do. There has to be another option to get us out of here." Danny protested as he continued along his train of thought.
"Hello. Who's down there?" A voice called out.
"Okay, that time I heard it." Danny stated and gripped Steve's arm a little tighter.
"We're trapped down here. Help us please!" Steve yelled into the darkness.
"How...how did you get down there?" The same voice asked. "This vent is too small but there is a drain about a mile down the valley. How did you get trapped this far up?"
"We're a mile from the drain?" Danny asked in a hushed voice.
"We were put down here by people threatening the safety of these islands. The tunnel is rigged with traps. We can't make our way to the drain without risking our lives." Steve shouted. "Please get help. Contact Five-O and tell them where we are. Please hurry!"
"But who are you?"
"Steve and Danny. Tell them you've found Steve and Danny!" The two men yelled up in unison.
"Oh my gosh. It's them. They are Five-O!" The two men could hear a woman now.
"This is some trouble you've gotten yourselves into. We'll get help!" The man shouted down to them.
"Wait! Before you go, what is the weather like?" Danny called this time.
"It's sunny." The man responded but was confused by the question.
"No clouds at all?" Danny asked.
"There are clouds on the horizon."
"There's a storm coming." Danny gasped as his panic set in once more.
"Get help. Get us outta here before the storm comes!" Steve ordered.
"Yes sir!" The man stated and then the voices disappeared.
"Can we hope to be this lucky?" Danny asked when silence returned between the two partners.
"It's likely a day's hike out of here. That storm wont hold off that long." Steve said with a shake of his head and Danny could hear the hesitation in his voice.
"We'll be lucky if we have another hour before the storm rolls in. You know what it's like on these islands."
"There is a reason we're called the rainbow state. We're just sitting ducks down here."
"We're going to have to move toward the drain if we want to get out of this alive." Danny sighed.
5-0
Warden Jericho Smith met Kono and Chin at the front gates and proceeded to lead them toward an interrogation room that had been set up and secured within the solitary cell block.
"So, he's had no visitors? Is that correct?" Chin asked suspiciously.
"None," Jericho admitted. "He's refused them all."
"But people have tried?" Kono asked.
"Oh yes - loads of them - but his mother hasn't come if that is what you're inquiring after. She'd have been apprehended on the spot if she'd tried."
"Her brother walked right into a police precinct and murdered a man. If they want to get into a place then the McMahons will." Chin stated with force. "I'd still like to see the log books and video feeds."
"I'm telling you, Walter Kalani has had no visitors since he's been here. He rarely even interacts with the other inmates and when he was offered space in solitary because of your previous case, he took it graciously and has remained there ever since. He seems to be afraid of something."
"I'd still like to see those books and tapes. If you don't want us too, we'll have the governor step in." Chin threatened.
"You'll have them before you leave today." Jericho stated abruptly.
Chin nodded his thanks.
"I'd be deathly afraid if my uncle killed my brother." Kono stated bringing the conversation back around to the case.
"We are afraid of these people - look at what they've done to us." Chin added with another nod. "We can't let anything go without thorough investigation and precaution."
"You Five-Os always seem to get in way over your heads." Jericho stated with a shake of his own as he punched a number into the keypad before him and then used his keys on the next door.
Kono and Chin followed him into the next room and were greeted by a man whom they hadn't seen since they'd arrested him. They sat down at the table, with the young man, as Jericho left them and silence fell among them as the door clicked and locked as the warden left.
"Do you plan to record this?" Walter asked after a long moment of silent staring.
"We are." Kono stated and folded her hands on the table before her as she locked her gaze on the young man.
"Everything that we have on record for you is pertaining to one case in particular. You've been here in this place for over a year and from what we understand you've been a model inmate with the exception of your desired solitary confinement." Chin continued.
"If you know all this, why could you possibly want to talk to me?" Walter asked.
"Why do you see no one?" Kono asked.
"I'm seeing you." Walter retorted.
"Because we've demanded it. If you would have been given the choice, you would have denied us the pleasure."
"I'm not a social person, Officer Kalakaua. I'm quite content on my own. I don't need companionship, least of all from people in this place. I got myself into some trouble because of a rebellious decision that I regret making, but couldn't get myself out of once I'd made my choice. I was in deep and in deep very quickly. Now, I plan to keep to myself, live out my time here and continue my studies when I'm finished - or while in here if the opportunity presents itself." Walter explained and there was an air about him that spoke of the McMahon connection. It made both Kono and Chin extremely uneasy.
"Studies like your mother and father, or perhaps your uncle Daniel?" Chin inquired.
"Daniel McMahon was never known to me until recently and then Daniel McMahon killed my brother. Daniel McMahon should have changed his ways when he'd been apprehended the first time and above all things, Daniel McMahon should have stayed away from these islands and my family."
"There we are in agreement. He is dead now," Kono said with a nod, "but your mother has taken up his crusade."
"There, now we come to the true meaning of your visit. My mother has her obsessive tendencies." Walter stated and there was the glint of amusement and bitterness in his eyes. "As a child you do not see the faults in your parental unit, it is only seen later in life when you start to question their decisions and above all their tendencies toward foolishness - shall we call it that?"
"You seem rather resentful." Chin stated.
"No, really?" Walter asked sarcastically. "I'll try harder to have some sympathy for a woman who is a sheep and needs a shepherd to guide her."
"So you rebelled because of your mother's tendencies? You sold other women into slavery here because you didn't approve of your mother?" Chin asked.
"No, I got into the business because of my drug addictions, because my mother scolded me for ruining my brain with substance abuse while at the very same time she was codling my brother and arguing with my father about the proper education that he should follow. The selling of women was the in too deep part I was talking about but my mother thought it was all about the drugs. It was only ever supposed to be about the drugs but then I got pulled in by the men you also arrested after I gave them up to you and my sentence was reduced because of my cooperation. I speak the truth about my mistakes, and about my mother. My mother had other tendencies that I didn't approve of, specifically the way she treated her children and her husband. I think she was jealous of our relationship, at times, because our step father was the only father we'd ever known. Our biological fathers were sperm donors and nothing more. It was the one and only thine mother threw in father's face - that he was only our step father - or rather just with regards to my younger brother. I rebelled because I was the quintessential elder child and she was harder on me than she was with her second son, and when my father - step father - died she reverted back to her tendencies and invited her brother back into her life. The worst thing to happen to that woman was the death of my father, and though they fought, that was the moment that tore our family apart and I knew I would have nothing more to do with her."
"She has been widowed three times, all under very questionable circumstances. Do you think she could have killed your father?" Kono asked.
"I don't know the particulars in the events with the other husbands, so I can't speculate on those, but I don't believe she killed my father, but after he died she pushed me away, pulled my brother closer to her bosom and really became suspiciously sociopathic." Walter explained. "I lived in her house, my fathers house, until the day I was arrested by Five-O but that doesn't mean we had a good relationship or that I agreed with her. We fought all the time and I tried desperately to get my brother out of there. I stayed for his sake. He was the golden child. The most like my uncle and yet he was the one targeted and killed. I think, I believe, that at one point she even believe that my brother could be a protege to his uncle - when we did finally meet the man face to face. That wasn't the case and I regret that I wasn't around to help my brother because I was in prison for my crimes. We had no qualms. I loved the kid. I don't believe there was anything you could have done though. My mother fed him to the wolves. She should be able to see that and if that is what is driving her now then she deserves to be caught and prosecuted but she wont learn anything from it because she doesn't regret anything, because she doesn't see anything outside of her own madness."
"Will you help us find her?" Kono asked skeptically.
"I don't know how much I could do from in here." Walter answered.
"Where does she go? What are her habits, her tendencies -as you call them?" Chin asked.
Walter shook his head. "It's hard to say now. I would guess that you've check the house that was my father's - so she wont go there. Her brother had a rental property and you probably know about that as well. You've likely blocked her access to the lab, the university, the museum, the natural places that a scholar would go to. Check libraries with a good anthropological studies and geology section - but that would be a long shot. If she's still on the island, there are very few places that she would actually go, let alone be comfortable with. There was a place up in the valley, a kind of cabin that father used to own. We would all go up there and father would teach us about the culture, the land, the people that came before us. It's near where the accident happen but mother still went up there after his death. If you've found that cabin, you've probably exhausted the known locations that I could give you. The one thing about my mother was that she was able to adapt herself even with her tendency to need to be lead around."
"Would she come to you if the word was out that you were out of prison?" Kono asked.
"She'd see right through that." Walter laughed. "No, I don't think that's a good idea. I'd like to stay in my confinement if that is all right with you."
"You fear her wrath?" Chin asked skeptically.
"Don't you?" Walter asked with a raised eyebrow. "I'm of no use to her and if she's on my uncles crusade she'd see me as a traitor because I was the rebellious son who got out of the family line of studies. I am a philosopher and a phycologist, and I told her to her face, in many a grand argument, that she was a high functioning sociopath, and my father agreed with me. If she did kill my father, and knew that her brother would go after her baby, then I don't see why she would wipe me out as well. No one in this world mattered more than Daniel and his ideals. My mother made that very clear when he came back into her life and I was her bastard son." Walter shook his head and huffed.
"You don't think she wanted children?" Kono asked.
"I think, at the time, she did everything she could to have her children. I think her instinct to procreate got the better of her. Whether she wanted me after that, was questionable. Kalani wanted children, and even though we were not his blood, he didn't treat us any differently. He was a good, loving, father, and I owe my mind, my sanity, and eventually my future success to the Kalani name. I will do whatever I can to make things right by him. Until then, I wish you luck and much success in the capture and apprehension of my insane mother. I only wish I could be of more service to you."
"You've been very helpful." Chin said with a nod.
"You didn't know about the cabin, did you?" Walter asked as a smirk crossed his face.
Kono and Chin shook their heads.
"Well, it is in the valley, near where my father died. I can't tell you roads or pathways exactly because it was off the beaten path but I'm sure if you looking into my father, his records and estate, you'd find what you needed." Walter said and bowed slightly.
"Could you find it if you were looking for it?" Kono asked.
"Yes, but for my own safety I would ask that you please leave me in my solitary cell."
"Fair enough. If we need more help with it, we'll be back."
Walter Kalani nodded as the two Five-Os stood.
"Good luck. Unfortunately, you are going to need it."