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Chapter 21: Gathering Intelligence

Doris sat slumped down in the driver's seat of her son's truck. She'd managed to find herself a parking spot with the best possible view of the main drive and entrance to the Ali'iolani Hale, and from there she watched.

She'd found binoculars, among other things, stashed in her son's vehicle and with the image of the crazy woman who was now her target seared into the back of her eye lids, Doris watched and waited to see what her son's next move would be.

She watched as Danny and Steve exited the building once more - about an hour and a half after they'd first arrived. In the parking lot of the Hale heavily armed police officers joined them and then they disappeared around the side of the building. Doris assumed they were just heading to the Camaro that was in the lot and out of her line of sight, but it was taking them long enough to make their move and leave. Her plan had always been to follow them and protect them, from the moment she'd heard that they were safe, but before she could start the truck to go after them, the passenger door opened and Steve slid into the seat next to her.

"I could have shot you!" Doris yelled in shock with her weapon drawn - as it registered who was beside her.

"Good to see you too, mother. I'm all right, thanks for asking. I was surprised not to see you at the hospital last night but then my team told me you weren't playing nicely with them and I wasn't as surprised anymore." Steve stated calmly but his words dripped with sarcasm and disdain.

"What the hell are you doing sneaking around without cover? There is a crazy woman after you."

"I could say the same for you, because I know that Gladys now knows what you look like and that you are working with Five-O - sort of - but then again I know you don't know how to play nice with others so that's why you went off the grid and tried to hide from us. Did you think my people were too busy to worry about my spy mother? Or the fact that my truck went missing?"

"They sure made it seem like they were."

"At which time you should have fallen into line and helped out, but instead, you took off and made them search for you while wasting time and resources that could have been used to find Gladys, or Danny and I, for that matter."

"How did they find me?"

"You stole my truck. So Toast tracked my plates. You should have ditched the truck, had you really wanted to stay unseen." Steve stated and huffed. "Again, I'm all right. Thanks so much for playing the part of concerned mother. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I know I have the best people on the island. I knew they would find Danny and I, with or without your help. I would have liked to have seen you there though. It would have played well for my trust issues with you, but as you seem to have other plans, and mothering isn't one of them, I revoke all your rights to worrying about me in the future. Don't try and fool me or pretend to be concerned in the future. I'll know it was all for show."

"I was concerned. I called your team in, in the first place. Don't act like you know how I feel."

"I don't know! I'll never know! You don't trust me enough to tell me these things!" Steve yelled furiously. "You can't mother me now. I'm a grown man. You will not blame this all on me. I'm the one who is mad here because you can't cooperate."

"I knew you were fine last night. I'd gotten word. I knew you're been rescued. What did you want, flowers and for me to come up to your room and hold you hand?" Doris asked angrily.

"Um, some concern or showmanship at least. Maybe you could pretend to act like a mother once in a while. Most mothers would show some form of affection to their children after they'd been through a traumatic event - even if they are adults and trained in warfare. But no, not my mother. She would much sooner play super spy and survey the hospital instead of coming up to check on her son. And you wonder why I'm having a hard time with this whole mother son relationship. We don't have one, and after this stunt, I don't think I want one!"

"You came after me. You sought me out!"

"You will not blame this one me. You faked your own death when I was 16 years old. You don't get to be angry."

"I'm sorry."

"You know the words don't count if you just say them and don't mean them."

"Is that a Danny Williams line?"

"Yeah, but it's true!" Steve huffed. "So listen, if you want to help with this case then help with the case, but if you can't take orders from me or the members of my team, then go home and sit there with the protection detail that I've arranged for you, because I understand that Gladys has seen your face, and surely she now knows who you are, which doesn't sit well with me. So because I'm trying to be a good son, I want to make sure you don't get caught up by that woman."

"And what exactly are you going to do? You should be resting. You've been through a lot."

"You have no ideas, because you really don't care, but I need to see this through for Danny, and for my team, because we're family and that's what families do for each other no matter what." Steve snapped.

"If you don't want my help and my expertise then just say so."

"I want your help and your expertise, as long as you can play nice. Otherwise I really don't need your drama right now." Steve said with a huff. "Also, return my badge to me please. We know you went to the scene of that fire." Steve accused and held out his hand.

Doris slammed the stollen shield into Steve hand.

"What information did you get from the fire?" he asked.

"The fire was likely set as a distraction and to cover up a mass murder of the families of the men who failed to accomplish the tasks that Gladys put before them. The fire chief said there was a back room completely sealed off and in that room they are sure they can see bodies but currently can't get to them because of the fire. A secondary explosion happened when fire crews were on the scene and nearly killed a bunch of them. Jet fuel is expected to be the secondary source of accelerant, and that made extinguishing the fire much more difficult." Doris answered.

"Yes, that would keep crews busy," Steve said thoughtfully.

"What do you want me to do, Steve?" Doris asked in surrender after a long moment of silence.

"If you want to help then go inside and tell the team what you uncovered at the fire and let them put you to work. If you don't want to help then go home." Steve said and opened to door and moved to get out.

"What was in the Champ Box?" Doris called after her son.

"A whole other kettle of fish." Steve answered. "We'll talk about it when this case is closed. Please put my truck back in the parking lot and don't ever disable the GPS again." Steve warned and slammed the door.

Doris watched out the rear view mirror as Steve moved back and got into a car two spots behind her. The Camaro then pulled out and left the lot followed by three police cruisers.

5-0

Chin and Lori walked into the basement interrogation room and startled the two suspects out of an uneasy slumber.

"Have you caught her? Have you found our families?" Alexander Ward asked.

"Not yet, but we have a few more questions to ask you." Chin answered.

The two men slumped before them.

"What can you tell us about your training? Who administered it? Was it always with the same people? How many of you were there?" Lori asked the rapid fire questions as she sat down.

"We trained in the valley at this big construction site. It had several buildings on it and made it easy for us to run scenarios out there." Cameron Vale answered. "We were always there with the same people and faced off usually with other groups but we were trained to keep with out group."

"Vladimir Prokovia, he was the other man in your group?" Chin asked.

"Yes and his brother would sometimes be with us as well but he was a favourite with Gladys."

"Was he involved with your operation yesterday morning?"

"No, only Vlad, but he was part of the crew that took McGarrett and Williams." Ward answered.

"What was Vlad's roll in yesterdays operation?" Lori asked.

"He was look out and drove the vehicle that we arrived in and were supposed to leave in."

"We found your car but no Vladimir."

"I hope he got away. He has a large family. He needs to protect them." Vale stated.

"What about this construction site, did you get the van from there?" Chin asked.

"Vlad and Misha showed up in the van with Gladys to pick us up and then we spent the day watching for the moment to take Danny and Steve." Ward answered.

"I guess the van could have come from there." Vale added. "Have you found Danny and Steve?"

"Yes," Chin and Lori answered together.

"Good, now you'll be able to stop her. If there is one thing Gladys is afraid of it's that pair. She's terrified and paranoid, and no matter what Misha says to her she's sure Danny and Steve are judgement coming for her once and for all."

"So she believes by destroying them, she'll destroy her fear, and the world will be open to her thinking." Ward finished.

"She's insane!" Lori stated.

"She's the devil." Chin added and the two captive men agreed.

5-0

"Well he's new!" Walter Kalani stated as he was brought back into the interrogation room. "Intimidation tactic?" he asked.

"No, your mother is proving to be a little more eccentric than we anticipated. This is Captain Grover from SWAT." Kono explained.

"Eccentric, sure, but SWAT, really?" Walter asked with a raised eyebrow. "Are you sure we're talking about the same woman?"

"She started a fire fight in one of the terminals at the Honolulu international airport and got away. We're being as careful as we can be at this time." Grover explained.

Walter shook his head. "I don't know how to feel about that. On one hand I'd like to help but on the other hand, how the hell did you let her get away?"

"She had a lot of help."

"And even with airport security what it is after 9/11, she still got men inside an airport with guns?" Walter asked and the sheer absurdity of the situation sunk in.

"Hence the extra back-up." Kono said with a sigh.

"I can't believe this. I mean my mother and I don't get along but this is more than I ever thought her capable of."

"So who would put ideas into her head? Where would she look for military style training and ambush techniques? Who would have access to weapons and gear that she needs to pull off these kinds of attacks?"

"Maybe Misha, I really don't know." Walter answered and Kono could tell he was being truthful.

"Misha who?" Grover asked.

"Misha was some guy she started corresponding with after my father died. I tried to keep her away from bad men but she said that even men in prison deserved someone to talk to. Funny, come to think of it, she's never written to me."

"He was in prison, here?" Kono asked.

"Yeah and she did more than just write to him, after a while, if you know what I mean. But by that point in our relationship nothing I said mattered and I just gave up. I was also angry that she seemed to get over my father that easily. But, like I'd said before, she's a sheep. She needs someone to follow. She might have all the ideas in that messed up head of her's, and that she's pulled you into, but I'm telling you, someone else is putting her plans into motion."

"Does this Misha have a last name?" Grover asked.

"Something Russian or Ukrainian?" Walter half asked. "I could't tell you even if I wanted to. I really didn't want to hear it when she brought him up because I was angry. It always ended in yelling matches between the two of us."

"Well I'm sure there aren't many Mishas on the island and even fewer who have served time at Halawa, so at least it's something." Kono stated. "What about the year after your father died. We were able to trace a lot of your mother's actions up to and after that point, but there is a year long time period where things are very thready."

"In the time directly after the accident, she was in the hospital with injuries she sustained in the mud-slide, but as soon as she was able to walk around on her own she went back to the cabin in the words and really kind of fell off the grid. She would come into the city, buy groceries and then leave again. My brother and I were left to fend for ourselves and deal with a lot of the aftermath of my father's accident. We would visit her at the cabin, before Misha came into the picture, and really all it seemed like she did in that time was write letters, read books, and pine. Somewhere in the midst of this seclusion she and Misha started corresponding and he seemed to pull her out of her funk. At one point that year she did travel to New Jersey for some kind of hearing, or maybe just to see her brother, and when she came back things got bad with her and I because of Misha. You should be able to find record of her hospital stay, her visits until she was capable of walking, and I would assume that Halawa keeps records of visits. I'm sure she'll go by her other name, if not an alias, but yeah, as far as I know that is what happened in that first year after my father died." Walter explained.

"Thank you so much, Walter, this really is a big help." Kono said with a smile.

"No problem." Walter said with a shrug. "Did you find your friends?"

"We did, and they are doing well."

"That is good to hear. I'm sure my mother's good and angry about that. Put her in her place would you, or she'll never learn."

"We think she will fight to the end. Things have been very violent." Kono said almost apologetically.

"She deserves what she gets." Walter shrugged.

"You really don't like her, do you?" Grover asked suspiciously.

"Nope, Kalakaua can fill you in but the basics are: she thinks I'm useless and a disgrace to her psycho brother's name and legacy, and I think she's a mental case and a sorry excuse for a female. A part of me actually think that she believed that I would have see her brothers way and that I would pick up in his crime giving her something to stand up for once more, like they were right all along, and I don't agree with anything that man did nor could I ever see myself do half the things he was accused and convicted of. And I believe that is why she is really disappointed with me, but she's crazy so..." he said with a shrug.

"Bat crap crazy!" Grover said in shock and surprise.

"Yes, exactly." Walter said with a nod. "Yeah my brother became her hope for the future. He was her pet when she realized that I was sane, and so I became her big mistake - 'I should have never had you, why did I even want you?'" Walter screeched and a part of his voice almost sounded like his mother's. "And then her favourite brother murdered her favourite son, and still she learned nothing. Oddly, if she lives through this whole big mess she's made for herself, I still don't think she'll see the error in her ways. She will see it as fuel for a future vendetta. She'll blame everyone, mostly Five-O, but she will not take any of the blame on herself because she doesn't have any empathy. For a time, she may have had some because my father was an amazing man and I think he made her better, in some ways, but without him she was left to her own devices and her psychotic behaviour resurfaced."

"I feel like you have the only bit of sanity in the whole family." Kono stated and motioned to Walter across the table from her.

"It's kind of refreshing." Grover admitted.

"I'm only here to help." Walter said with a laugh and a slight bow as he stood and the guard was called into the room to take Walter back to his cell.

5-0

Steve and Danny walked down a long corridor lined with doors and heavily armed guards.

"Where do you want to start, gentlemen?" Admiral Winchester asked as he lead the way through the naval base.

"Door number one?" Danny asked as Steve turned to look at his partner. "Seems like the best place to start." he added as Winchester lead them to the far end of the hallway and stepped aside at the door that would generally be thought of as door number one.

"The prisoner is identified as Colin Cole-Harmin." Winchester stated. "Records of arrest, blah, blah, blah, family, two kids, no other weapons charges before today. There was no indication that this man would escalate in the way that he did. He was on parole. He was a model prisoner when he was at Halawa. It seemed like he had turned over a new leaf." Winchester read off of the clipboard in his hands.

"I'm going to assume that most of the men that we have in custody after the airport shooting will have very similar backgrounds." Steve said in a matter of fact tone.

"Shockingly similar." Winchester admitted.

"Because that's her M.O." Danny said with a shake of his head.

"We've got to start somewhere." Steve stated with a sigh and the two men were let into the first room.

"Okay Colin, why did you open fire in Honolulu international airport?" Steve asked as the man in shackles looked up at him.

"I was just following orders." Colin answered.

"Because a crazy woman captured your family and threatened you?" Danny asked.

"Yes," the man answered and lowered his eyes.

"How do we find her?"

"You haven't found her yet?" the man gasped.

"No."

"Then my family is most certainly dead. We didn't get what we'd gone to the airport for, so that mission along with several others have gone wrong. There is no hope."

"There really wasn't ever any hope." Danny stated as he folded his arms. "You have to know that you and your family were doomed from the start. You were never supposed to survive the airport shooting and now all there is left for you is to tie up the loose ends."

"Yes, I realized that, but I did have hope that Five-O was a good as people believe you to be." Colin accused.

"We're doing our best," Steve stated, "but how does a man with no prior weapons charges end up shooting up an airport?"

"We were taught."

"By whom?"

"The crazy woman and her husband."

"Husband?" Steve and Danny asked together.

"Yeah, the Russian did all the training."

"Does he have a name?"

"Some people, who'd been with her longer called him Misha, but for the new ones like myself, we were told to call him The Russian."

"How new are you to this organization?" Danny asked.

"Less than a month. I was brought to the camp with a bus load of other convicts and we were trained for today and only today. We had no idea what was happening. It was supposed to be a job that our bond officer set us up on. We met at the agents office and were loaded onto the bus and sent out to the farm."

"Where is this farm?" Steve asked.

"It was part of a construction site up in the valley." Colin answered. "There is a main site but if you go further back on the property there are a couple of unfinished concrete structures and those were used for training. One was set up just like the terminals so that we knew how to get our weapons once we were inside and then The Woman gave the orders. I swear. I wouldn't have gotten involved in this had it not been for the bond officer."

"Can we get a name for this officer?" Danny asked.

"His name was Mack McMillan, he ran an officer out of Waikiki. It all seems pretty legit, but I guess I should have gone with a name we know and trust." Colin sighed.

"Dog would have gotten you true help, none of this nonsense." Steve stated referencing the famous bounty hunter and friend to Five-O

"I know." Colin said with a nod.

"Thank you for your cooperation," Danny said as he and Steve made eye contact and moved to leave the room.

"You already believe my children to be dead?" Colin asked before they could exit the small holding cell.

"There's been a fire with many casualties. We are not optimistic." Danny answered.

Colin nodded and lowered his face into his shackled hands and began to sob.

Out in the hallway once more, Danny sighed and looked down the hallway at the rows of doors. "How much to do you wanna make a bet that we get the same story out of all of these men?" he asked as he looked to his partner.

"We have to go through the motions, but at least we've got two names to go on." Steve answered.

"Two names that are likely already wiped out."