A/N: So because it has taken so long to get to these updates, I'm going to make as many as I can tonight before my eyes really start to get bad. Happy 4th of July to all of you American readers. I hope you are having a wonderful holiday.

This story will very soon come to an end, and even though I haven't been updating, I have been working on some new stuff. I hope to post a bunch of new beginnings in the coming weeks just to gauge where my writing should go from here. For now, enjoy!

Chapter 33: The Events of the Day

This day, much like the previous ones, had been long and arduous but it, like the rest, was drawing to a close and there would be no rest for the weary. The sunlight was fading to the bright colours of the Hawaiian dusk and the Five-Os made their way back to the place where Danny had been buried alive. They had stopped, as planned, back at the HPD precinct and had gathered all the protection and weapons that they could before heading out to the jungle. They left Toast behind, as injured as he was, with a computer and his throbbing head to try and salvage some of his work and Catherine stayed with him for protection and moral support. A small contingency of HPD officers stayed as well.

This last search would be the team's, six men and women to make the last push to capture a fugitive and put an end to this while ordeal once and for all, or at least they hoped they could because this case was killing them.

A few calls ahead to the construction compound, and his counterparts in the SEALs, and Steve was convinced that the locations were in his control. The SEALs had spent a full twenty four hours at the construction site. When they had arrived in the deepest of the nights darkness and moved about with their night vision and tech to guide them, they were able to disable traps and get the lay of the land, all before daybreak and as night turned to dawn the construction site fell under their control completely. Workers who showed up, some oblivious, some very good actors, and even other with knowledge of who their employers really were, had been taken into custody, even before the whole island went into lock down. Holding prisoners in the main building and disabling outside communications and the vehicles on the inside, the SEAL team that Steve trusted almost as much as he trusted his own team had done what they had set out to do and were now holding down the location in anticipation of what the Five-Os would put into motion. The site was theirs and all there was left to do was wait for more orders.

Knowing that the site was under SEAL control was the upper hand that Steve believed he needed but the detective who sat next to him in the silence was much less confident. The plan now was to head up into the valley to the trail head that could lead them back to the pipe where Steve and Danny had been held only days before, or to the site where a mad man and his sister excavated the ground and buried a shipping container with a trapped Detective inside. Both locations were now places that triggered major anxiety and now, as they drove, even the jungle and the closing in of the nature along the roadway made Danny uneasy and trigged his claustrophobia.

Steve could see the torture on his best friends face and knew that a lot would need to happen once things had ended to start to put the broken Danny back together again, but for now, they had one task and it needed to be completed.

Pulling to a stop in a clearing off the road, the Five-Os disembarked from their vehicles, hacked away at the low brush of the jungle with long bladed machetes and hid the vehicles before heading in the direction of the pipe once more. They had no idea of where Doris had followed Gladys to but as they moved on, finding the drainage line fairly easily now that they knew where to look, they followed it down into the valley in the hopes that they would reach the cabin before anyone else did.

Toast had managed to map the area, staring at a monitor for hours as he had, into an actual map that Steve would occasionally free from beneath his bullet proof vest and consult it with his team, their GPS, and the flashlights that they carried. And so they moved onward to the location that they had not yet visited but knew a great deal about.

Suddenly it appeared, dark and ominous, in the jungle before them.

"Should we move in?" Kono whispered as they huddled together away from the cabin in the low laying underbrush.

"We have to." Steve said and saw the sweat beading on his partners forehead. "Danny and I will take the front. Kono, you will go with Lou and Chin around the back. Lori you're with us. On my signal move in." Steve ordered trying to keep his own misgivings out of his voice.

The team nodded their agreement and followed his lead as they silently and stealthily moved in to take up their place and on his signal the doors to the cabin flew open.

5-0

All day and all night Doris watched at a distance as Gladys McMahon worked through her day. The woman who remained her target kept herself out in the open and among people until she and her men retreated into a hotel room for the night. Carmine and Doris took turns constantly watching the hotel room door from right across the hallway and everything remained quiet until news broke in the morning. The whole floor of the hotel had been evacuated and remained quiet until arguing could be heard from Gladys's room. The super spy and her companion waited and listened using the high tech gadgets Toast had lent them and they managed to hear the whole of the Waiholi Brother's plan to get back at Five-O. Gladys protested knowing she was now without back up, but the boys insisted and she helped them prepare with what Doris could only guess what they had stashed in the hotel room.

When at last there was movement in the hall and Carmine saw the boys flee into an emergency stairwell, the SWAT trained agent repelled down the side of the building as to not give Doris away and went after the brothers with all the back up he could contact, taking his unmarked personal vehicle and leaving Doris to improvise.

Knowing that if a phone would be wired or monitored it would be Steve's, Doris called Danny's phone to warn her son about his people and then did all in her power to follow Gladys.

The woman didn't stay long in her hotel room, as the island was in lock down and if she stayed too long she would be found. She escaped through the same emergency stairwell as the bothers had and throwing caution to the wind Doris went after her. Down in the underground parking garage, Gladys fled the building and instead of taking the vehicle that bore the name of her photography business on it, because that alias was all over the news, Gladys moved across the street to another lot and hot-wired a vehicle to get away in.

Gladys drove around the deserted streets of Honolulu for most of the day, stopping near shops and businesses that would have been part of her empire but which had been locked down by the city or taken over by Five-O. She checked tent cities and hang outs for men but no one was on the streets and then, by mid afternoon the clouds of dust settled around the Ali'iolani Hale.

Gladys had made her way to the location on the Five-O head quarters and saw, as Doris could, the Five-Os arrive on the scene, unscathed by the explosions. She then fled once more and drove in such a frantic manner that Doris was able to hear her cursing as she sped by to get away from the Hale and the possibility of getting caught.

Doris followed again, after having given news to her son once more, and as the sun started to set she found that Gladys was heading exactly where the team had guessed she would but before pulling out into the trail head road, she carried on deeper into the jungle.

Finally Gladys stopped, parked the stolen car on the side of a very unkept road that Doris had missed on her first pass of it and she lost the strange woman in the jungle when she'd finally found the abandoned vehicle, but her skills as a spy put her quickly on the right path and as she moved on, her weapons always at the ready, she found herself before an old storage site. The gate had been cut open and the door to the bunker was open to let the light in and just as she moved out of the jungle into the clearing a gun shot rang out with a clang and the bullet struck the fence post before her. Doris rushed back to the cover of the jungle and heard the mad woman's laugher as she shrieked at the sky.

"I knew it was you. You think you can do better than your son? Whichever he is. Do you really want to see where I can bury you as well? So you have found me." Gladys cackled into the darkness. "Catch me if you can. You're in my realm now!" She added, fired two more shots into the general direction of Doris McGarrett and then slammed the bunker door shut again.

Trying her phone and finding no reception, Doris decided that she would have to go at this alone and rushed for the bunker door, she wasn't about to let Gladys get away this time. It was not locked, nor did it stay shut very well, but it was dark inside the building. Taking out a flash light, Doris plunged into the bunker alone, after the mad woman.

The bunker looked much larger than it actually was and the floor opened to a passage under the ground. There was no sign of Gladys McMahon, and so lowering herself into the passage Doris followed the underground tunnel blindly.

Once into the tunnel the darkness dissipated, and every few feet there was a bulb of light lit in the passage. The floor of the passage was well warn with foot prints and gave away to the fleeing fugitive. Doris quickened her pace until, at last Gladys appeared in the passage before her at a ladder and another branch in the tunnel.

Taking aim Gladys fired two shots down the tunnel at Doris, who ducked into the branching tunnel to avoid being shot, before Gladys scampering up the ladder and out through the floor of her cabin.