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A/N: WHOA we got some major panic going on there. So I'mma post today to calm everyone now. What I mean by no happy ending at the end of this I mean the end of the season. Rowan and Steve do get a happy ending, it's just a long ways away. at the end of this episode there isn't a happy ending, that's all I mean. Is that better? Also which day would you like to see a second chapter in November? I was thinking Tuesday and Friday. What do you think? Kay! See you guys next Friday.

Chapter 20

Chin Ho Kelly was pretty sure he was going to die. Dressed like a criminal in the place he sent criminals to rot for the rest of their lives. How the hell had he ended up in Halawa? Well he had some theories, some flashes of memory. How long until his friends figured out where he was? How long until Rowan had one of her visions? Long enough to survive?

With Kaleo, a dirty cop Chin had helped put away, standing above him trying to flatten him into a steamer he was pretty sure he was a goner. Or he'd at least be a Panini.

Until someone crashed a thin pipe into his skull causing him to collapse.

Chin Ho expected to see a lot of people, Steve being the top of that list, he had not expected Rowan.

She was in civilian clothes. Demin shorts and a pink tank top with her signature burgundy converse. Her hair was braided back and she was staring down at the man she had brained as she huffed.

She looked up to Chin but didn't smile. "Uh… hi," she said. "Uhm, he was gonna whack you so I figured… well he's a criminal… you don't think he'll press charges, do you?"

Chin looked down to the hulking 6-foot monstrosity who was about to kill him and then back up to Rowan with a wry smirk on his face. "No, Rowan, I think if he ever finds out that it was you who got him he'd die of embarrassment before admitting 5-feet of nothing took him down."

"Five-foot-five, smart ass," she said. She turned away before he could say anything else and pointed at a figure who was coming towards them. "Sang Min right?"

It was, in fact, Sang Min, who froze mid step, his own pipe in his hand, and stared at Rowan who was pointing him. She looked ridiculous, all of her five-foot-five-ness standing over that bear of a man she had just knocked unconscious looking like a teenaged cheerleader out of a comic book. He just blinked his eyes at her as if he was sure what he was looking at.

"Do I know you?" he asked.

Rowan was already moving towards him. "Wow, your hair looks amazing in real life. I've always wanted to touch it," she said and while he tried to duck away Rowan's hands came up over his shoulder to stroke the ends of his hair. She withdrew them just as quickly. "Oh that's oily. I hope that's actual hair oil and not some Prison-DIY thing. If it's that last one don't tell me."

"Uh, you wanna tell me who d'is snowflake is and why she touchin' me?" Sang Min asked Chin.

"Oh how rude of me. I touched you without permission and without introducing myself. I'm sorry I'm not usually this bad-mannered," Rowan said genuinely looking concerned. At this point Chin was certain she had some degree of shock cause she was rambling and touching people and those were the hallmarks of a very freaked out Rowan. "I'm Rowan, I'm a friend of Chin's."

"Nice to meet you, Snowflake," he said. "But that don't explain how you got into a maximum-security facility. I don't think they just let you walk right in. You got an escape route we can use?"

At that point Rowan fell back to where Chin immediately put a hand out to grab her. A hold over from all those times Steve had demanded that someone be making contact with her it all times. "I don't know," he heard her whisper.

But while Rowan's behaviour was worrying, Chin couldn't help but be happy. With how close Steve and Rowan were over the last couple of weeks, he knew that if Rowan was here, Steve couldn't be too far behind.

"Where's McGarrett?" he asked trying to hide his smile.

"Uh… at your place," she said staring at him with her wide blue eyes. It was as if that answer made sense to her.

Chin's smile faded. "Why is he at my place?"

"Well… uhm… I knew you were here, cause I had one of my dizzy visions. And I told him but he didn't believe me, because he never believes me, and he went to go check your place to confirm whether or not you were there and not here and I came here because I knew I was right and I was gonna get you out even if I had to break you out myself," she said.

"Dizzy visions?" Sang Min repeated. "What is she some drunken psychic?"

"And then you… broke in?" Chin asked trying to understand how Rowan got to him in the first place.

"Well… uh… no… Catherine, Kono and I all came together but we couldn't think of how to prove that you were in here and I knew the riot was coming and I had to get you out fast. And I was thinking about how I needed to get to you, like right at that moment and then I got really dizzy and I couldn't breathe and then I was here," she said.

Chin blinked his eyes again trying to think of something to say to her, something comforting when Sang Min opened his mouth: "This chickito's fucken nuts!"

"Hey!" Rowan cried but Chin couldn't defend her. She certainly did sound insane. Time to change the topic.

"Do you have your phone?" he asked. Maybe they could call Steve and he could hurry his ass over here.

Rowan put her hand into her back pocket and came back with a phone with a broken screen and leaking LCD display. She winced at it and Chin stared at it with a slack jaw of shock.

"What the hell you do to it? Fucken microwave it?" Sang Min asked.

"That looks pretty bad Rowan, it looks crushed. What did you do to it?" Chin asked.

Rowan put the phone back into her pocket. "I have my theories," she whispered but she didn't elaborate. Sang Min looked from Chin to Rowan and then back to Chin.

"Someone better tell me what the 'ell is goin' on here," he said. "Cause things are getting' alittle too freaky up in here for me."

"Would you believe I'm psychic?" she asked him.

"Snowflake, at this point I'm tinkin' you either lolo or fucken magic," Sang Min said.

Rowan nodded. "Let's go with magic," she said and then she clapped her hands. "Alright, let's go set a fire!"

Chin shook his head. What they needed to do was get her a disguise cause she stood out like a sore thumb. He had enough on his plate right at this point, now he had to worry about taking care of Rowan on top of that. This situation just got a hell of a lot more complicated.

H5O-H5O-H5O- H5O

Steve was addicted.

Having Rowan around made him selfish. He wanted all her hours, all her attention, all her smiles, all her laughter. And though he got all she had to offer him, it was never enough.

He had always thought he liked waking up and rolling over to find Catherine in his bed, but that was nothing compared to waking up to Rowan still in his arms. As a restless sleeper he had never managed to cuddle the whole way through the night with someone, especially in Hawaii with the heat, but he never had that issue with Rowan. He didn't care if he woke up slick with sweat, so long as she was still there.

He loved having her in his office, feet up on his desk as she lounged in his chair. He loved having her leaning against the smart table while he and the rest of the team talked theories. He loved making breakfast with her in the morning, or dinner when they got home at night. He loved lounging on the couch with her, she reading a book while he watched sports, an arm wrapped around her shoulders, her head on his shoulder. He loved listening to her sing in the shower. He loved listening to her sing, period.

Catherine returning two days ago had not been met with a positive reaction on his end. Which was tragic because he was usually so happy to see her. He had taken Catherine out for dinner, leaving Rowan with Danny but then spent the whole night being told he seemed distracting and his usually sparkling conversation was lacking. He spent the first night in his own bed, with Catherine curled up to his side, lying on his back trying to fall asleep and not being able to because all he could think about was Rowan. She did not blink out of existence that night, but he was on edge being away from her.

The second night, once Catherine was asleep, he had edged away from her and snuck out. He slept in Rowan's room, over the covers with an arm draped over her small form and an alarm set for a ridiculous hour so he could get back up and sneak back into his own room to pretend to wake up with Catherine. He then spent the next four hours waiting for Catherine to wake up and worrying about whether or not Rowan would disappear in that time.

She did not. But he still worried.

In fact, she hadn't had an incident in weeks. But he still worried. And he used that worry as an excuse, a crutch if you will, to keep up the pretense of needing to be close to her, or holding on to her, at all times.

Now he was on his way to Chin's house, with Danny siting stoically beside him which was not helping Steve in the slightest. This was the longest he had been away from Rowan in weeks. He was so used to always having her in his line of sight that it was unnerving him being away from her for so long.

"What if she's right, Steve?" Danny asked. "What if she's right and Chin's gone."

"He did say he was taking a day off, there's a good chance he chose to not sit in the house his wife died in," Steve reminded him.

"Why won't you acknowledge that she's always right?" Danny asked him and Steve felt his lip curl up in a sneer. He didn't want Rowan to be right, he didn't want her to have this knowledge in her head. He wanted her to be normal. Because every time she brought it up, he was reminded that she wasn't just some girl he took in, she was from a different reality and sooner or later she would go back and leave him.

It also meant that he could learn his future and he wasn't sure he wanted to know about that.

"In this situation, Danny, I think we should hope she's wrong," he said and then Danny fell silent. They made it to Chin's house and found the door open. Yeah that wasn't good.

They found his phone by his bed. They found his wallet and his keys in the kitchen. His car and his motorcycle were both there in the garage so he definitely didn't go anywhere. This was not boding well for them. It was looking like Rowan was right about the kidnapping.

The bed was unmade. So he slept there the night before. The back door was forced open. Danny was assuming two people, Steve supported that theory. One guy held a towel to the alarm pad to muffle the beeping. The other cut the lines to disable and cut the phone lines too so it couldn't call the alarm company. According to the alarm panel the back door was opened at 10:43, but Chin had sent him a text message at 12:15am. Couldn't have been him. Had to be the people that broke in.

But this wasn't a robbery. They didn't want money. They wanted Chin. The text was a distraction. They had sent him that text so he wouldn't come looking right away. But none of them had counted on Rowan and her visions.

Rowan had been right after all.

Steve sighed. Well Fuck.

"Okay, here's what we're going to do," he said to Danny, trying to ignore the sudden and sharp pain that blossomed in his chest. It was the kind of pain he got when Rowan was flickering, but she hadn't done that in a while and it was gone as quickly as it started. So he chose to ignore it. "We're going to take this phone back see if we can get DNA or a fingerprint off of this. Then we're going to go get Rowan and go to Halawa and see if she was right."

Danny shook his head. "Steve, she was right, just admit it. She was right about someone taking Chin so she's probably right about where he is. Call the Warden, tell him to look for Chin," Danny said and Steve nodded.

He didn't want to come right out and say it, but Danny had a point. Rowan had been right and Steve hadn't been too supportive of her that morning. They had wasted a lot of time on this, if he had just listened to Rowan right away they could have been searching Halawa for him right now. And Rowan would never let him forget this either.

Danny and Steve walked out of Chin's house together. Only he stopped on the stoop. His hand went to his sternum where a pain flared up. For a brief second, he was breathless and his heart hammered in his rib cage. Then as quickly as it started it stopped.

"What's the matter with you?" Danny asked and Steve shook his head. Rushing to catch up to Danny he thought about the sense of dread that was settling in his shoulders and his stomach. Why did he feel was like something was wrong?

Maybe it was because he was waiting to see if Danny would add anything else and luckily for Steve he didn't. At this point Steve was just grateful the guy hadn't brought up the whole "Tell Catherine" argument again. Steve was going to… you know slowly ease her into the idea of him constantly being around Rowan. More than he already was.

He knew what he was doing was wrong and he felt guilty, he totally did, but he was more worried about Rowan. About saving her from the void. About making sure she never left him.

He stopped before getting into the Camaro, his hand in his pocket searching for his phone. His intention was to call Kono and tell her that Rowan was right, Chin was gone and to meet him at Halawa. After that phone call he was going to call the warden of Halawa but his phone was already ringing.

Once upon a time getting a phone call from Catherine sent his heart into a tizzy. It would wildly beat, a small smirk would form on one half of his lips and quaking quick fingers would desperately jab at the button to accept her call. But this time there was a sinking feeling of dread that filled him when he saw her name flashing on his screen.

"McGarrett," he answered, and was immediately greeted by sirens and Catherine's frantic voice trying to be heard over it.

"Steve she's gone."

There was more after that opening sentence, but he didn't hear it. All he heard was static. Rowan was gone? How was that possible? That sharp pain, oh god, that sharp pain in his chest, had that been her leaving?

"And now they're saying there's a riot…"

A riot at Halawa? Rowan had said something about a riot. About getting to Chin Ho before the riot started. So, she was gone. Chin was gone. And there was a riot in Halawa. Well. Wasn't that just fucking wonderful?

"Just stay there, I'll be there in a few minutes," he said and then hung up the phone. He turned to Danny, who was staring at him with concern and merely said. "We have to get to Halawa right away."

And for once. Danny didn't argue.

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Rowan had a gleam in her when they set that fire. One that scared Chin Ho. He realized that, without the helpful glares of Steve keeping Rowan in check, she was essentially the equivalent of a deranged puppy. Except instead of teething and piddling everywhere, Rowan set things on fire and ran around clubbing people over the head with a giant pipe.

He did admit, she'd make a great video game character. Maybe after this he'd pitch that idea to Toast, see if they could make the video game together.

He had had it out with Sang Min too. He didn't know why the man would want to help him. But Sang Min had taken out the guard—Warrick—who had locked him in that laundry room with Kaleo in the first place. He would have gotten Kaleo himself had Rowan not appeared and knocked the guy down. Plus, Five-0 had gotten him transferred back here in the first place, so he figured he owed him.

At that point, Rowan had straightened, said: "Actually," and then paused. She looked at Chin's expectant face and Sang Min's surprised one and then lowered the hand she had raised to interrupt them. "Nope, never mind. I lost it."

And then Sang Min decked him.

To even them out for Chin hitting him with the ash tray two years ago.

"Ah. That's what it was," Rowan had said after he hit him and Chin frowned. He liked it better when her visions were helpful warnings and not the "hind sight is 20/20" kind.

Chin had needed a way to get them out of cell block A. But they didn't have the right keys for that. Chin wanted to interrogate Warrick to find out who put him in there. But he was unconscious and Rowan gave him an answer almost immediately: The brother. She couldn't tell him whose brother that was all she remembered. And then he let Sang Min convince him that it didn't matter who put him in there, the important thing was getting him out. He wanted to find a guard and tell him who he really was, a cop and not a dirty one. But they didn't know who was clean and who was paid off.

Sang Min had said they needed to get help in from the outside. Chin didn't know what that meant, but Rowan did.

By that point Rowan had already set the fire.

"Damn. She works quick," Sang Min said.

"A fire's not going to work Ro," Chin said even though the flames were already eating away at the books and laundry she had set ablaze and the smoke was clogging the air. Already the alarm was blaring so it was sort of a moot point but he couldn't stop himself from bringing it up.

"It doesn't?" she asked. Frowning down the damage she had caused. "I could have sworn it worked in the episode."

"She's right. Not about the episode, I don't know what she's talkin' about there. But Halawa isn't equipped to handle a blaze. They'll have to call HFD to come and help and when the first responders come you tell them your Five-0," he said.

Rowan shook her head. "First responders don't come. Prison's gonna go on lock down. Riots gonna happen," she said almost absently. "Maybe I shouldn't have set the fire. Someone would have gotten me out and I could have just taken you with me. Wow, Steve's right, I literally do nothing helpful and don't change a single thing. I'm useless."

Steve had said what?

Rowan collapsed where she stood. Like a lifeless doll being dropped. She just fell to her knees and sat there. Chin, who was coughing over the smoke, had to tug her back to standing and out of the room with the fire. He didn't know what to say to the poor girl because he didn't know what the hell had prompted Steve to say any of that to her, all he knew was that he needed to get her moving again.

"Come on now, Ro," Chin said as he dragged her along. "I don't have the time to fix you, so you're going to have to just perk yourself up."

Rowan came to a stop, she looked dangerously close to tears, in fact she was already crying. "You don't get it. I have all the knowledge and I can't use it to help anyone. I'm stuck her and I can't even be of use!"

"That's not true. You stopped Kaleo from flattening me," Chin reminded her. Sang Min was behind him trying to urge them onward but a Rowan that didn't want to move was an immovable Rowan.

Rowan waved that comment away. "That doesn't matter. Sang Min would have done that if I hadn't gotten to him first," she said.

"Rowan, I don't care what you think, but I'm happy you're here," he said.

Rowan frowned at him, her head cocking to the side in her confused. "Why? I'm just going to make this harder for you."

"Because, Ro, wherever you go, Steve's never far behind," Chin said with all seriousness.

Rowan stared at him for a bit. The sounds of shouting and screaming bounced down the hallways towards him. She looked over her shoulder and then back to him.

"Where's the infirmary?" she asked. It took a second but he realized she was asking Sang Min. Chin turned back to him and waited for his answer.

"Back dat way, why?" he shot back.

"Because, there's a hot nurse over there I think you're going to like," she said to Chin. "And she's got keys."

Chin smiled. He knew Sang Min would question this, but he knew that if he just trusted Rowan he'd get out of this alive.