Steve scrubbed his hands over his face maybe just maybe things might start working in Danny's favour He grabbed another cup of coffee, he felt suddenly torn between being at the hospital and wanting to be at the office.
Sitting back in the hard plastic chair he reached forward and squeezed Danny's bruised hand closing his eyes he made a silent prey. Standing he took one last look at his friend and left it was the hardest thing he did, but he was on a mission.
Pulling up the office he noticed the reporters harassing everyone who dared enter the building or heaven forbid trying to escape. Steve wasn't in the mood for their made up rubbish they had caused enough problems already.
Making his way round to the security door he scanned his access card making his way up the main area he found Kono and Chin hunched over the smart table, food and coffee tainted the air. Heading across he studied the profile picture on the screen. Kono looked up her eyes puffy and red, she looked beyond tired as did Chin.
"What do we have?"
Chin messed with the smart table for a while throwing up different information and videos on the computer screens.
"The lad on the left stole his parents SUV and went on a bender. He robbed a small convenience store less then three blocks from the accident"
Chin then flipped on the video from the traffic lights at the junction of the accident. Steve watched as Danny's car started to slow for the lights it was easy to see him as he was front of the cars he suddenly pitched forward slumping over the wheel his car practically stopped. The black SUV suddenly weaved into the screen smashing full force into the back end of Danny tail spinning him into on coming traffic.
"He looked injured and dazed. Everyone was so focused on what they could see that know one noticed him pull away"
Steve felt sick to his stomach. They had a young boy no older then 15 injured and on the run; Danny was in a critical condition in hospital; two people were dead; two children left orphaned and feral reporters willing to take anyone down just to get a front page.
Steve wiped his hand over his face and headed towards his office he needed a few minutes to clear his mind. He sat down in the chair and focused on the photo that Grace had made for his last birthday, it reminded him what he was trying to do.
Chin pushed open the door "Steve they have found the SUV. It's been dumped down a back alley"
Steve placed the photo back on the desk, grabbing his gun and badge he stopped Chin from leaving through the front. Managing to get to the truck without being noticed they loaded up the address into the location map.
It was almost dark by the time they arrived HPD were already on the scene. Steve approached Duke he had contacted him the minute the SUV was found and asked him not to allow anything to be touched until he got there.
The front end had been barely dented due to a grate that looked to be added post show room, inside the drivers airbag had been activated and was covered in blood. Moving round to the passengers side he slipped on a glove opening the door he started to search the interior finding a few bags of drugs but only enough for personal use but little else.
Looking around the area he noticed several disused buildings. Approaching Duke he arranged to have several HPD search one whilst Chin and himself checked the other. Kicking in the old rusted door he shone his torch in to the old unit foot prints disturbed the dust they looked dragged like the person who left the was injured in some way.
He monitored to Chin following the foot steps towards the stair case heading up they could see something like rust or blood it was hard to tell in the dark, it was difficult at the top to tell which direction the person had gone due to several broken windows allowing wind to push away the dust and leave rotting floors and decay. Chin split up they both started to head down the corridor carefully checking each area that lead off the main corridor.
A sudden movement caught Steve's attention spinning he caught the a glimps of a runner pulling out his gun he shouted out his identification but the echoed told him that who ever was running was not going to stop. Shouting for Chin he sprinted towards the fire escape scanning both up and down noticed a leg disappearing over the roof line without looking back he took off two at a time bobbing over the ledge he narrowly missed being shot.
Steve suddenly realised that no matter what this kids parents thought he was defiantly no angel either that or someone had got him into drugs and the robbery was to pay them to keep him high. Shouting out again he peeked more carefully another bullet chipped the roof line spraying Steve with dusted brick. Pointing the gun up he took a miss calculated shot and heard a yelp, Chin appeared behind him covering Steve as he jumped the wall.
A trail of blood lead behind one of the old cooling unit Steve monitored for Chin to come up from the other side approaching slowly Steve never noticed the slight division on of the bloodied trail. By the time they realised there was no one hiding the kid had the upper hand firing a single bullet at Steve hitting him in the right shoulder. Chin planted a neat bullet straight through the centre of the boys eyes.
The nurses started running towards Danny's room as the heart monitors started blaring hitting the code blue call.