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A/N: I know what you guys are thinking? Posting on an Monday? What the heck? Well I'm going to be out of town for the rest of the week so I figured I'd post your chapter now seeing as I don't know if I'll post today. And if I remember I'll post #20 this Friday too :D Anyway... here it is guys! The DRAMA has arrived. From here on in it's gonna be angsty, overly-dramatic... and let's be honest... we're not gonna get a happy ending out of this.

Lastly, we still gotta decide what day you want your extra chapter in November. Friday and Monday? Friday and Wednesday? What would you prefer? Enjoy your early chapter and I'll see you next week!

Chapter 19

Rowan went with Steve everywhere now. She was always with him, even when he went on cases. She sat in the front of the Camaro despite Danny's bitching, so Steve could hold her hand. No one said a thing about why Rowan was always within arm's reach of Steve, or why he had his hand on her at all times, or why he had gotten her a vest so she could come with him into active crime scenes, so long as she stayed back, behind the cars and out of the way, holding anyone's hand at that point. The Five-0 team knew something had happened, Danny knew a bit better than the others, but they knew something had happened. Though they weren't certain what exactly it was that happened, all they knew was that now he had to be near her at all times.

Danny knew exactly what had happened. He knew that Steve had lacerated the palm of his hand trying to free Rowan, that though Rowan didn't bleed she now had a white scar in the shape of a bursting star in between in her shoulder blades. He knew that Steve and Rowan shared a bed, that they were in the washroom when the other had a shower, or right outside the door when they had to use the washroom. He knew that Steve panicked if Rowan wasn't in his line of sight, and that Steve suddenly seemed more than interested in Rowan's life. And he knew that since this had started Rowan had gone on a break with Nurse Alex, seeing as she had no time for anything other than Steve anymore.

Danny knew, probably better than anyone that Rowan and Steve were practically dating. They were doing everything else a couple did, a very clingy couple at that, except the actual sex part.

And this bugged Danny.

Now it had nothing to do with not liking Rowan. He loved Rowan. Rowan was sweet and kind, and she understood his aggravation when it came to Steve's control issues and could commiserate. He liked and trusted her so much that he'd be fine leaving her to babysit Grace if the chance ever were to arise. No, his problem, if you could really call it a problem, was that Steve had Catherine. And this felt an awful lot like cheating on Catherine, and they had made all of Five-0 and especially Danny unwilling accomplices.

Danny liked Catherine. He liked Catherine a lot. He liked how Steve was with Catherine. And Catherine had no idea that any of this was happening. He had a feeling that if Catherine were to be made aware she'd be very upset with what Steve was doing.

He did have to admit that Rowan and Steve were utterly adorable. There was nothing cuter then watching Rowan, in her bullet proof vest, holding Steve's hand and making him dance. She'd hold onto both of his hands and she would force him to pivot as she danced around him. He'd get a soft sort of smile on his face that Danny only saw when Steve was staring at Rowan. Danny had taken pictures the first time this had happened, the whole Five-0 family had, had he known it was going to be a common occurrence he wouldn't have worried so much about getting the perfect shot that first time.

The perfect shot being, of course, the one of Rowan mid twirl, Steve holding her hand above her head like she was a ballerina. The grin on Steve's face was particularly dazzling, his gazing lovingly caressing Rowan's features. Danny had practically shoved Kono out of the way to get that shot of Steve and Rowan.

Plus, it definitely helped that whenever Steve and Danny got into an argument, Rowan was always on Danny's side, no matter what the argument was about. And that killed Steve.

Today, however, was a problem. Catherine was back, only for a few days and of course the lies had to start. Steve told his Five-0 family it was because he didn't know how to explain to Catherine what had happened. He told Danny it was because he didn't know how to tell her that he had to have contact with Rowan at all time or she'd vanish back to her own reality. And he sure as hell didn't know to tell Catherine that the thought of Rowan leaving scared him to all hell. So, Danny agreed to say quiet, with the condition that Steve had to tell Catherine what happened before she went back on the boat.

This lead them to a very awkward breakfast at Kamekona's shrimp truck. Steve was flanked by both Rowan and Catherine, and if Danny knew Steve, which he did, Steve had his hand on some part of Rowan's body under the table. Discretely, of course, seeing as his girlfriend was in her uniform and her black hair up in a serious bun on his other side. It was a stark difference compared to the vibrancy of the girl on his other side who had chosen to wear a simple pink tank-top and a pair of denim shorts and whose red and blonde hair sparkled in the sun and cascaded over one of her shoulders. Danny kept smiling at Steve with a knowing, teasing, smirk and Steve kept scowling at him, but that one hand stayed under the table.

"Trust me, brothers, this is gonna take your taste buds to a whole new level," Kamekona announced coming towards them with a tray and a large Styrofoam container. As he went about unwrapping what he had made for them he kept talking: "I think this is the next big thing."

He revealed to them, four giant burritos. Everyone at the table stared at it, not sure what to say, but it was Danny who thought of the perfect thing to say before anyone else.

"Wow. A burrito. You know, I'm pretty sure that's already a big thing," he said. He nearly chuckled to himself too, he was so witty he even amused himself sometimes.

Kamekona was ready to fire back though. "Not like this one. I'm calling it Kamekona's Sunrise Fusion Shrimp Breakfast Burrito. It's got eggs, it's got cheddar. Pineapple salsa, shrimp and a very secret special ingredient," he told them as he leant in like this next bit was a piece of classified information. He then whispered very dramatically: "Spam."

That was it. Danny was out.

"Oh. Oh, no, no, no," he said shaking his head. "How did I sign up for this? What happened?"

"Why do you got to be such a baby? Try something new. Expand your horizons," Steve snapped. He had been irritable all day, probably because he hadn't been sleeping. As a result, he had gone with wearing the easiest outfit he could manage a loose blue cotton tee and a pair of grey cargo pants.

"My horizon's are broad enough, thank you," Rowan said quite primly. Danny nodded, he couldn't have said it better himself. Well that's not true, he could have, that could have used a little more sass but priss worked better when it came from Rowan so he'd let her have it. "Sorry, but you know I don't eat Shrimp. Or Spam."

"Not to worry Sista!" Kamekona said dropping a burrito in front of her. "Yours is just chicken and bacon."

"Ohhh… chicken and bacon!" she cried picking it up gingerly and taking a big bite.

"How come she gets the chicken and bacon one and we get the food-poisoning-fusion?" Danny asked.

"That's a Rowan special," Kamekona said nodding as Steve and Catherine picked up their burritos. Danny watched passively as Steve and Catherine took a bite of theirs too and Steve looked less then pleased.

"What do you think?" Kamekona asked them.

"That's interesting," Steve said around his own mouthful.

Rowan dropped the burrito in her hand. "Uh… are you sure this is chicken and bacon?" she asked, her nose scrunching and her chewing slowing. "This doesn't really taste like either of those.

Kamekona looked down to the burritos. "Uh… I may have given you the wrong one."

All eyes flew back to Rowan who was struggling with the mouthful she had. "Ugh. What is wrong with you people and your mystery meat? You're basically just a bunch of Warm-Weathered-Newfies."

"Newfies?" Danny echoed.

"New Foundlanders," Steve explained. "Rowan did you spend time around the East Coast of Canada?"

"Ugh, this is awful," she said to the table, her face fading to an ashen grey color. She ignored Steve completely like she always did when he asked her about her past and where she came from. But this time she had a pretty good excuse. "I think I'mma throw up."

Steve's hand came up from under the table and rested on her back. "Spit it out," he ordered. Rowan shook her head and made a strangled gagging noise. "Ro, spit it out!"

Rowan snatched the napkin out of Danny's hand and coughed into it. She shuddered as she tried to cough out the taste of that nasty burrito.

Danny turned to Kamekona. "Okay, I will have the regular breakfast burrito with the eggs and the bacon," he said.

"Naw brah, no substitutions, no changes. A true chef never compromises his culinary vision," Kamekona said taking his tray with the burritos and walking away.

Luckily Kono arrived just in time to distract them. She was struggling to make her way over to them with her rollerblades on the gravel.

"Hey guys," she called, getting a round of heys from everyone at the table except for Rowan who was in the process of drinking all of Steve's water, no doubt to get the taste out of her mouth.

Danny looked her up and down. She looked ridiculous with her shin guards and wrist braces. "Wow, look at that," he said as sarcastically as possible. "Bringing back the '80s with the rollerblades."

He turned to Steve who was trying to pull his water bottle out of Rowan's mouth before she drank it all and asked: "Got those Duran Duran cassette tapes you can lend her?"

God where did he think of this stuff? He was a comedy genius.

Steve dropped his hold on the water bottle, no doubt resigning himself to having to get another one as Rowan had just about finished that one. His hand disappeared under the table again and Danny tried not to laugh. "Yeah, I got them."

Kono smiled down at them, not phased in the slightest. "Yeah, yeah, you know how it is. Going for a workout, keeping in shape. But I am Hungry Like the Wolf," she said.

Danny chuckled. He loved it when people piled on his joke. It didn't happen often because not everyone got his brand of humor, except for Rowan who seemed to just speak the same comedy language as him.

"Wow. That was good. It was funny," he admitted, but drily so she wouldn't get too cocky. He waited until she was sitting next to him to continue. "Uh… you missed the tasting, lucky."

"Oh, that bad?" she asked.

"Ugh. So bad. I need to get something to get this taste out of my mouth," she said. "I'm thinking a shaved ice?"

She turned to Steve with a smile on her face, because they usually shared one but Steve didn't return the smile. He didn't even look at her.

"If you want," he said. He was keeping his eyes forward, purposely, Danny knew, and it was probably killing him.

Rowan stood and went to move away from the bench but Steve's arm darted up and gripped her wrist keeping her from moving. Now he was looking at her, but only briefly, his eyes turned to Danny. "Danny," he said between clenched teeth.

Rowan sighed and rolled her eyes despite the fact that Danny was already sighing and getting up. "He doesn't have to come with me. I haven't had an incident in ages, I'll be fine."

Steve's eyes held hers. "I'd feel better about it," was all he managed to spit out.

Rowan sighed but offered her free hand out and Danny took it. They both shook their conjoined hands in Steve's face as if to rub in the fact that they were holding hands in case he didn't quite believe it and then they walked off.

"He's gotta tell her," Danny snapped once they were a safe distance away from the table. He nodded to Flipper as Rowan ordered her usual.

Danny watched her carefully, as he had been doing since this had started. Steven McGarrett was a very attractive man, Danny was worried that with prolonged exposure to Steve in his dating mode would prompt her to possibly fall in love with him. Women were like that. And he knew that Rowan liked receiving the attention as much as Steve liked giving it to her.

Rowan nodded. "Yep," she said quickly avoiding his eyes entirely. She was a little white but that could have been because of the burrito.

"That's it? Just a yep?" Danny snapped. He was primed and ready to go on yet another one of his famous rants but Rowan shot him out of the sky before he could start.

"I get that he has to tell her. But she's going to make me leave," Rowan said and Danny's heart clenched up in his chest like that one time he watched Grace fall flat on her face and he thought she might have broken her neck.

"I hadn't thought about that," Danny muttered. Okay, maybe Steve didn't tell Catherine out right. Maybe he just eased her into the whole idea.

"And then what am I going to do?" Rowan asked him. "I won't have anywhere to go. I'll be stuck sleeping on different couches until I find a job that will hire me without any experience because I can't name any of my previous jobs if I technically never had them in this universe."

"What did you do before?" Danny asked desperate to change the topic. Even more desperate to learn something about her past now that the subject had come up. Rowan was decidedly elusive about her life before she dropped in on him and Steve, something both of them were worried about.

She never answered. The shaved ice was handed to her and Danny had to link arms with her while they walked back and she dug into the flavoured ice with an uncalled-for enthusiasm.

"Just drop it Cath," they heard Steve snap and Rowan avoided Danny's eyes. There was no question what it was that Catherine wanted to know, but neither of them said anything.

"Hey, where is Chin anyway?" Kono asked and suddenly Rowan came to a halt beside him.

He had never been this close to her when she got her dizzy spell, he had been near-by but never touching her. But as he saw that familiar dizziness appear in her eyes he felt a sort of static electricity shudder up his arm.

He yelped and jumped away from her just as Rowan dropped her shaved ice to the gravel and Steve said: "Oh he texted me late last night. He said he was gonna take a few days off, go up to the North Shore."

And then all eyes were on them. Steve's eyebrows drew together when he saw that Danny was no longer holding Rowan but he stood when he saw that haunted empty look on her face.

"Rowan… Rowan…"

She came to life all at once. Jerking out of that fugue state and latching on to Steve in an almost desperate panic. "He's in Halawa!" she cried shaking his arm. "They kidnapped him! They put him in a jail cell and they're gonna STAB HIM! We gotta go! We gotta go get him!"

Rowan tugged on Steve's arm trying to drag him towards the Camaro but Steve dug his heels into the ground and stared at her concerned. "What the hell are you talking about Rowan?"

"CHIN!" she thundered. "IS. IN. HALAWA!"

She was causing a scene. Everyone even remotely close to their table was now staring at them as if they were crazy. Danny could see it on their faces. He watched Steve scan the surrounding faces before pulling Rowan close and lowering his voice so she would do the same.

"Rowan you're talking nonsense…"

"No, I am not!" Rowan snapped as primly as one could, she even stamped her foot. Danny had to swallow the dry chuckles that were threatening to tumble out of his throat. "Chin is in trouble. I'm not lying. He's not on vacation that text was sent by the guy who kidnapped him."

"And who is that?" Steve asked.

And Rowan fell silent. She stood there blinking at him, her mouth opening and closing like a fish gasping for air. "Uhm… okay, I don't actually know that part…"

"Rowan, this is insane," Steve growled at her. "Who the hell would kidnap Chin just to put him in Halawa? How does that even happen? You're not make sense."

"Steve, we don't have time for this. We need to get him out before that riot starts and then you can't get in. Look, you know I'm not wrong!" she cried, she was growing more and more frantic by the moment. "I haven't been wrong about anything I've told you about, so far. Please, just trust me!"

"And you haven't been able to change the outcome of anything either," Steve growled. Rowan recoiled like she had been slapped. Her hands came away from his arms and she took a step back. Steve reached out for her but she shied away from him. Danny almost took a step forward, he knew how panicked Steve got if someone wasn't holding onto her to anchor her to their universe.

"You'd trust Catherine," came out of her in a voice so low Danny almost missed it. But Danny didn't miss how deftly that comment seemed to shatter Steve's emotions. The pain was visible on his partner's face and Danny was kind of surprised by it.

Danny thought about all the times Rowan had his back when he and Steve argued. He figured it was time to step in and help them out. Firstly, by deflecting this situation off of Steve before he had an emotional break down and secondly by having Rowan's back the way she had his.

"Well… it's not like Chin to take a vacation," he said getting their attention. This earned him a smile from Rowan but when Steve turned his incredulous eyes towards him he knew that only one person had appreciated his assistance. So, Danny shrugged and hung back. Hey he tried.

"I can't believe I forgot this. Malia's and Chin had their first date, eight years ago up on the North Shore. Today's that anniversary," Kono told them, but even Danny could see the doubt in her eyes.

Rowan scowled at them. "Fine, you don't want to believe me, go ahead. I'll just go without you," she said and then turned to walk away from them.

Steve lurched forward, snatching her up by the collar and forcing her to come to a halt. Rowan jerked back and practically into his arms, but Steve didn't hug her like he usually did. (Which was the second cutest shot Danny had every captured. The picture of Steve hugging Rowan from behind with his chin resting in her hair and Rowan wearing the kind of scowl that was masking a secret smile.) Instead Steve merely put his hands on her biceps, framing her there. Not too intimate but still making contact.

"Alright, look, Danny and I will swing by his place, okay?" he asked her. "Will that make you feel better?"

Rowan forced herself away from him and turned around. She blinked her eyes up at him. "Can I stay with Kono?" she asked. Danny knew that stare. It was the one she gave Steve that he could never say no to. The stare that could melt Steve's iron will and supreme stubbornness.

Steve's eyes narrowed at her, struggling not to cave under the million-blinks-per-second batting of her eyes. Even Danny didn't trust that request. "Fine, but only if Catherine stays with you guys too."

"Uh… I have things to do today," Catherine cried from behind them.

Both Steve and Danny turned. Catherine took in Steve's silently pleading stare before she sighed. "Ugh, fine," she said. "But you owe me big Sailor."

Steve smiled widely at her, crossing over to her so he could sweep her up into his arms and kiss her. Rowan had quickly moved over to Kono, the two seemingly having a conversation with their eyes.

Steve shot a glance at Rowan, his mouth opened as if to say something to her but instead he shook his head and walked away. Danny trailed after him. The sooner they saw Chin the sooner then went back to their regular programing and Danny could continue to rib Steve about the way he behaved with Rowan.

And if Rowan was right… well then, they needed to do something sooner rather than later anyway.

H5O-H5O-H5O- H5O

"How did I let you talk me into this?" Catherine snapped for the millionth time since they had gotten into Kono's car and driven over to Halawa.

"Easy. I was being annoying. We agreed it would shut me up if we went," Rowan said.

"No, I'm here for Kono. She was worried about her cousin so I agreed to come check it out," Catherine said folding her arms over her chest.

A lot had happened since Steve had left. Kono had called the hotel that Chin usually stayed at when he went up to the North Shore, but he hadn't confirmed a reservation, nor had he checked in at any time. She had Charlie Fong, their lab tech guy, trace Chin's phone. It pinged as at home. After that Kono believed everything Rowan was saying whole heartedly.

This led to all three women heading towards the gate that the visitors went through.

"Whatever gets you more bonus points with Steve," Rowan muttered under her breath. Just not quiet enough for Catherine to have not heard her.

"Hey! You got something to say to me?" Catherine asked coming to a standstill. She glared at Rowan, the girls were the same height but Catherine could take her. Not that Rowan wouldn't put up a fight.

Before the two could slam down Kono got between them. "Okay that's enough," she snapped. "We have a bigger problem, how are we going to get in?"

Rowan scowled and walked away from them. Kono nearly had to jog to keep up. Catherine had already asked why everyone seemed so keen on keeping their hands on Rowan. She jokingly asked if they had thought she was going to disappear. Kono still had no idea what happened that night a month ago, but all she knew was that Rowan could have died. And now someone had to be touching her, or near her at all times.

She followed, wondering if she should have her hand on Rowan now, as Rowan stormed towards the gate. She stood by as she watched Rowan dawn her flashiest of smiles. A saccharine sweet voice oozed out of Rowan's lips, so sweet Kono could have gotten cavities from it.

"We're here to see Sang Min Soo."

Well damn, that was a pretty smart move.

"It's not visiting hours," the guard said to her and then stared at her hard.

"Oh," Rowan said and Kono watched Rowan's tactic change right in front of her eyes. "Well… could we wait inside until it's time? There's a waiting area isn't there? It's just that, I don't really feel all that well and I'd like to sit down if I could."

Kono would have thought the guards at Halawa weren't bleeding hearts, but apparently no one could resist Rowan's blinking baby blues. She'd have to tell Steve that so he didn't feel so bad when he caved to her next time.

The three women walked in silence and not the companionable kind. That was until Catherine piped up.

"Okay, so we're in. How do we go about proving Chin is here?" she asked because she didn't believe Rowan at all. But Catherine didn't know Rowan in the same way, she thought she was just a crazy psychic, but Kono knew better.

"Well she's Five-0 can't she just flash a badge and get us the rest of the way?" Rowan asked pointing at Kono.

"I mean, I might be able to," Kono said. She didn't feel all that confident about it though. If Steve were here it would have been a straight yes, but people rarely said no to Steve. Except for Rowan and Danny.

"Okay, I might be able to pull some strings. Make a call or something," Catherine said.

"That might work. Hey Rowan, both of us are going to make a few calls, can you just…"

Kono trailed off to a stop. She had turned to where she thought Rowan had been standing but she wasn't there. Kono knew Rowan had walked away from them, she had been looking through the bars towards a long hallway that both Kono and Catherine knew they wouldn't get down. She had been getting more and more frantic, Kono could tell by the way Rowan kept fidgeting, like she did was she was getting impatient. So Kono had thought Rowan would still be there when she turned back around, but she wasn't.

Kono and Catherine began to scan the surroundings, they were in a tiny waiting room surrounding by wired solid gates and armed guards, but Rowan wasn't with them anymore.

Kono and Catherine exchanged glances. She was just there. They had been talking to her. Where the hell could she have gone? A sick feeling sunk into Kono's stomach, Steve had been desperate for someone to keep a hold of Rowan at all times. She had let go of Rowan for less than a minute and the girl had vanished. How would she explain that to Steve? He was never going to forgive her.

"Maybe she went back outside?" Catherine asked and Kono nodded. That was logical. Not crazy like this whole Rowan vanishing in the blink of an eye.

The two of them walked out, they hadn't even gotten to the first gate when the guard who had let them in, on Rowan's illness excuse, spotted them.

As soon as he asked: "Where's your sick friend?" they knew she hadn't come this way.

They exchanged that fearful glance again. If Rowan wasn't back there and she didn't come back outside where the hell had she gone?

"You haven't seen her come back this way?" Catherine asked him and he shook his head at them. She swore and turned back to Kono worry etched onto her face.

They didn't have a chance to ask each other their theories. Not a single one of them got to the: "Well let's just call her," suggestion. For no sooner had they realized that Rowan was missing, and one of them would have to tell Steve this, did the Prison alarm start blaring in their ears.

And yet both women had the exact same thought.

Both put their fingers to their noses as quick as they could, calling: "Not It!"

Catherine lost.