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A/N: So we're one chapter away from major Drama. One chapter away from the angst! And I'm half way to 150 reviews! That is so exciting! I've been working so hard on this and I'm glad I have such a solid readership that is enjoying it as much as I'm enjoying writing it. I can't wait to reward you guys with two chapters a week! As always, see you next Friday!

Chapter 21

Steve cut the time it should have taken him to get to Halawa in half. The Camaro screeched to stop on the outskirts and then Steve jogged past the row of fire trucks and police cars until he found Catherine and Kono where they were standing just behind the Warden.

He skidded to a stop and towered over Catherine trying very hard to reign in the panic and anger that had taken over him as he had driven down to Halawa from Chin's place.

"She's gone? How the hell is she gone? How did this happen?" Steve thundered.

"One minute she was behind us, the next she wasn't," Catherine explained with a casual shrug like it was perfectly fine for Rowan to be missing around a prison that just went on lockdown for a fire and a riot.

Kono stepped up deflecting Steve off of Catherine. "I'm sorry, Boss," she said sounding appropriately apologetic. "I know you said to hold onto her at all times but I only looked away for a few minutes."

Steve had to restrain himself from shaking her and shouting: "But a few minutes is all it could take." He managed to control himself, instead he ran a hand through his hair and looked at the prison in front of him. There were great billowing clouds of grey erupting from one wing, the maximum-security wing. The best place to put a cop if you didn't want him to make it out.

He didn't know why, he didn't know how, but he felt it, this little tug in that direction. He knew at that moment that Rowan was still in his universe, she hadn't gone home, and she was in the prison. She was in the goddamn prison in the middle of a goddamn riot and if he knew Rowan, which he knew she did, she was with Chin.

He walked to where the Warden was watching the progress of the first responders. Which seemed to be nothing. He had asked Duke what was happening before going over, Danny had asked him to check the cameras see if they could spot Chin inside. He was. No sign of Rowan yet though.

"Warden Grier?" Steve called getting the man to turn around. "Look, one of my men is inside, and I think a civilian, she went missing before the fire started."

Steve tried to swallow his fear down. Chin could take care of himself. Rowan couldn't. Okay, not true, Rowan was feisty, but these were hardened criminals. Chin would have to take care of Rowan, which would make everything ten times harder than if he were just on his own.

The Warden approached him. "Yes, Duke just told me, commander. We're doing everything we can. But I have a riot on my hands and I have a protocol."

"You have a protocol? Where was your protocol when Lieutenant Kelly was locked in your prison? Guards under your supervision conspired to do this. This happened on your watch. What's your plan to get my man out?" he asked. That was him, Steven McGarrett asking the hard questions in life. He was all fingers pointing in this man's face, Danny would be proud with the level of sass that was oozing out of him at this moment.

Warden Grier was far from impressed though. "A dozen of my men are unaccounted for. Some injured, some worse. I won't risk any more lives. Lieutenant Kelly's on his own," he said.

Steve didn't like that answer, he scowled at the man. This useless lump of a man. "And the girl?"

"Your girl went missing inside the lobby. She didn't even make it through to holding. There's no way she could have gotten into maximum security, not without keys and access codes. I'm sure she's just lost in the crowd somewhere," he said.

Steve shook his head, this man was absolutely useless.

Lost his ass. Rowan had gotten in somehow. She was in the thick of this, he just knew it. The Warden didn't know Rowan. He didn't know what she was like. He turned and walked away, he'd have to do this himself. He'd have to get them out himself.

The pull was tugging on him again, the pain in his chest was stretching its fingers, creeping up to his throat to close of his air. She was blinking again, or she was about to blink again. No. This wasn't good. He needed to get to her. He needed to find her. He needed to get Chin out. He needed to be the fearless Steve McGarrett his team knew and looked up to.

He needed a plan.

He made it back to the group. His mind already throwing around possible ways to get in without the Warden's approval. Danny was waiting, Kono looked worried, but Catherine, oh god Catherine, she looked damn near livid.

"Okay, you know what, I'm done," Catherine said to him once he got close. "Steve, I've been extremely patient but this has gone too far. What the hell is going on with you and Rowan? Why do you have your team holding onto her at all times? Why do you think she's managed to vanish and somehow break into prison?"

Steve whirled around on her, having finally lost it. "Because she's not from here, OKAY?!" he thundered and Catherine stepped back, her eyes wide and completely shocked. He could see Danny and Kono also wide eyed and shocked staring at him. He thought he saw Danny trying to motion for him to stop but he couldn't.

He was worried, he was panicked and he didn't need Catherine adding to the emotions that were overwhelming him.

"Rowan is from an alternate dimension. And I don't mean she thinks that she's from an alternate dimension. I mean she is LITERALLY from an alternate dimension. She didn't exist here and I had to have the Governor make her a goddamn identity so she would! Okay! That's how far she's come. And my team and I have been clinging to her because if she's not fucking grounded by one of us she fucking blinks out of existence and gets stuck between the two realities. There are you happy?!"

He finished his rant and he stared at her. His chest was heaving his heart was thundering and Catherine was staring at him like he had two heads.

"So, what you're saying is that you, and your team, have bought into her delusions," Catherine said carefully.

"For the record, I know it's crazy, but I actually saw the blinking thing, so he's not making that up," Danny told her.

Unlike earlier that morning when he had interjected to defend Rowan, Steve appreciated this attempt to have his back. Catherine on the other hand disregarded the information, and he didn't blame her, they both sounded nuts.

"Steve, I think the problem here is that you happen to be romantically interested in Rowan and instead of just telling me that you're giving yourself excuses to spend more time obsessing over her," she said.

Steve shook his head, no, that wasn't it. Okay that was kind of it, but it wasn't because he was romantically interested in Rowan… sort of. God this was such a mess. He was all tangled up in this web of scattered emotions and he couldn't get himself out.

"Cath…" he started but she shook her head.

"You have to choose Steve. Me or Rowan," she said and Steve just stood there. She wanted him to choose now? When Rowan was most likely in a Halawa with a riot going on? Couldn't he choose after they got her out?

Steve clearly took so long to respond because Catherine shook her head and turned away. "Call me when you make up your mind."

Steve watched her go a bile rising up into his throat. The situation he was trying to avoid had come, it was right in his face staring at him. He didn't want to pick. He didn't know if he could. At that moment all he could focus on was confirming that Rowan actually was inside, and then getting both she and Chin out.

Steve turned to Danny and Kono who were standing there staring at him. He knew they wanted to know what he was talking about with Catherine, Danny already knew, but Kono had no idea about the disappearing act Rowan had pulled a month and three days before. He avoided their eyes and dove straight into the problem at hand.

"He's not going to let us storm in so we'll have to find another way to go in and get them," Steve said.

"Okay, and you have a plan?" Danny asked.

"Yeah. We're gonna go back to the Palace and get suited up and ready. After that we're gonna commandeer a vehicle," he said. "Come on, let's go."

Steve prayed that Danny wouldn't ask any unnecessary questions and for the first time one of the Gods listened to him because Danny didn't say a damn thing.

H5O-H5O-H5O- H5O

This was insane.

How had she gotten herself into this mess? Running around with a riot going on dressed in a giant orange overall, where the smallest size was a dress on her, following Chin and Sang Min trusting that one of them knew where they were going.

All she could think was that Steve was going to kill her over that phone. He had just bought her this one and everything.

Now she knew why she was here. She was trying to save Chin. But she wasn't sure how she went from standing in a waiting room just outside the jail to standing in a dank steamy laundry room in the blink of the eye. Okay, that wasn't exactly true. She had been so angry, so upset and so desperate. Angry at Steve for not believing her. Upset because Catherine came back and after almost a month of being constantly together Steve threw her aside like she was trash or some dirty thing he had been caught playing with. And desperate to prove that she was useful, that she was right about something, that she could use her knowledge to actually help someone. In that moment, staring off into the bowels of that prison, knowing that Chin was in there and no one would listen to her, the most hurtful of which was Steve. She thought, if only she could prove to him that she was right. If she could save Chin and prove to him that she was useful after all, maybe he'd choose her.

The need was so strong that it burned in her. It burned through her. A great burning pulsing that started in her shoulder blades and went outwards until it filled every crack in her heart and every inch of her extremities. She closed her eyes, thinking she'd turn around and admit that they needed to go find Steve and get his help, but when she opened her eyes and turned around she wasn't with Catherine and Kono, she was in a laundry room with Chin a stone's throw away getting throttled by some big criminal guy.

Rowan hadn't had the time at that point to wonder how it happened. At that point she just wanted the criminal off of Chin.

One glance at her phone told her what she needed to know. Crushed. Like it had been in a vacuum. The kind you get when you go into voids between dimensions. She had blinked in and out again, but this time, somehow, she had managed travel places. Not back to her own world. No, she was still in the Five-0 world, but she was in a place she wanted to be. She had teleported. She had taken her fear and turned into the power to travel.

She wasn't sure if she should be worried or excited. If her dad was here he'd be excited with a strong side of concerned. But she didn't have time for that at that moment. The riot was in full swing at this point and that criminal she had knocked out hadn't been stopped by a hit to the head. He had gotten onto the PA and told the raiding criminals to track down Chin Ho Kelly the cop who had locked them up. After that Rowan had gotten the back story from Chin about Kaleo, a dirty cop who Five-0 had caught and put away. He bore a particular grudge against Chin even though it was Steve and Danny who orchestrated Kaleo's arrest.

They were just outside the Infirmary now. They hadn't gone inside. They were arguing about it. Rowan was all for it, cause the Nurse was nice and she'd help them get to the phone. But the boys hadn't listened to her, they had pushed forward and not gone into the infirmary, choosing instead to try and get into the main holding area with the phones. Rowan had followed because what else was she going to do, but the fact that all the doors and windows seemed to be painted in blood didn't quite bode well for them.

They were trying to unlock the door, the shouts of men were getting closer. Sang Min and Chin Ho ducked, Rowan didn't which meant Chin felt the need to tug her down with him.

"Come on, those keys aren't going to work anyway," Rowan said. "Besides, that Nurse is going to need our help soon."

Sang Min turned. "There's nobody here lolo!" he snapped and behind her she heard someone shout: "Someone's in here!" which was followed by a female scream and Rowan just smiled at him.

"Sonofabish," Sang Min hissed, already Chin Ho was pushing past Rowan to rush off to the rescue. "You got da winning lottery numbers in that head of yours snowflake?"

"Nope," she said with a shrug. "Doesn't work like that."

Sang Min shook his head and muttered useless under his breath and she tried not to let that sting. She figured she should go help Chin and Sang Min must have thought the same because he followed after her but Chin had already dealt with the two criminals that were harassing the pretty young nurse.

"You're the cop they're looking for," the Nurse said to Chin who merely nodded.

"There's a phone in holding, so we can call for help in there," she told Chin. Chin nodded and smiled like Sang Min hadn't just told him that.

"That's where we're heading but we got to go right away," he told her, guiding her towards the door.

Sang Min, who had been acting as look out quickly shut the door and ducked under the window. "Too late, kids. Holdin's not an option. Kaleo's guys are all over it," he said to them. "Got any other hot ideas snowflake?"

"She's got a master key," Rowan said jerking her thumb over her shoulder and indicating to Leilani. She then turned around and smiled brightly at her. "Hi, I'm Rowan," she said as she offered a hand to shake.

The Nurse, Leilani, stared at her definitely confused as to how a woman ended up in the prison, and the outfit most likely wasn't helping. She took the hand she offered almost hesitantly and then said: "Yes, I do have a master key."

"Can you go get it?" Rowan asked her and she nodded and rushed off.

Once she was gone Chin pulled her in close and whispered: "Maybe don't do that from now on."

Rowan nodded and stepped back. She tried not to show how much that hurt. Here she was, in another life-and-death situation, simply because she wanted to help him, and he's telling her not to use her talents, or at least not talk about them. She got that he was trying to help her, but it didn't feel all that great to be told to stop. Not when the knowledge could save his damn life.

When Leilani returned she had the key in hand and she had clearly decided that Rowan was a friend and she was going to ignore the strange behaviour.

"If you guys can get me to C-Block and I'll get us out," she told them.

"Sounds like a plan," Rowan said heading for the door. She was jerked back when Chin grabbed her collar, a move all the Five-0's seemed to have picked up from Steve.

"Maybe let me go first, huh?" he asked pushing her behind him. They waited until there was a break in people and as soon as the corridor was cleared they made a break for it. Sprinting down towards C-Block.

It didn't take too long to get there but they had criminals around them. Not right around them, of course, but they could hear the sounds of general chaos getting louder and in their general area. Leilani went to the door, scrambling to unlock it. Rowan stood behind her bouncing on her toes ready to get out of this place, call Steve, have him shout at her and then go home for a nice cup of tea. And in the morning when he was ready to argue with her, she'd tell him how wrong he was and how helpful she really was and then she'd say I told you so and make him apologize to her.

Chin and Sang Min stayed behind, the first line of defense in case any of the criminals running around wild in this place caught sight of them and decided to charge.

The door came open and Rowan and Leilani went through. Chin and Sang Min turned and rushed forward, ready to get to freedom. But before they could get through a big burly body slammed into both Leilani and Rowan, shoving Rowan against the wall. The Guard, the one who had been helping Kaleo, Warrick maybe? He shoved the door shut in their faces and then smirked at them.

"Good to see you again, lieutenant," he snarled.

He grabbed both Leilani and Rowan and began to walk backwards but Rowan wasn't having it.

"Ro, call Steve!" Chin was screaming to her. But Rowan didn't want to call Steve. Not unless she changed something.

And she did not come this far to have changed nothing at all.

"No!" she cried, twisting against her captor. Warrick practically threw Leilani into a room, but Rowan wasn't going to cooperate. "No!" she cried again and the anger built up in her body. The burning returned to her shoulder blades but it wasn't a painful burn. She felt alive, she felt electric but most of all she was absolutely raging.

Warrick's arm wrapped around her torso but Rowan was already screaming. "I SAID NO!"

For a brief second the world went static. A ringing echoed in her ears. She couldn't breathe but she didn't panic. She recognized the crisp burning smell, she recognized the blackness and the twinkling of the lights all around her. She was in the void, but the void wasn't a topsy-turvy swirl like it usually was. It was all lights and differently colored strings, she just had to pick the right one. She was calm, she was in control, and for some reason she knew if she just put a hand out towards a blinking star to her right with a swaying yellow string curling towards her she'd be right where she wanted to be.

She grabbed the string. The coolness of it vibrating up her arm as it wrapped itself around her and then she was jerked forward and she was no longer on the wrong side of the bars. Or maybe she was.

She was in between Sang Min and Chin. Warrick, who must have been taken along for the ride, took a gasping breath behind her and then collapsed to the ground. Rowan stared up at Chin with blinking blue eyes as he stared at her, his warm brown eyes wide with shock which meant he probably witnessed all of that.

She looked around, she hadn't gotten the keys from Lelani before she got thrown aside. There was no way to get out now. But she was back with Chin, which was what she wanted. She just had to keep him from getting stabbed in the end.

Chin, however, looked like he had seen a ghost.

"Rowan… what the hell was that?"

"She's a fuckin' X-Men," Sang Min cried. "Did you see that orange electric shit? One minute she's there the next minute she's here. This poor dude looks fucked. I tink she killed him, man!"

Rowan blinked her eyes again. Holy shit what the hell had she done? She whispered the only thing she could think to say: "Don't tell Steve!"

Chin shook his head in disbelief. Like he couldn't understand why that was important right now. Like he wasn't sure he could keep something so monumental from their great leader.

"Hey! Hey! The Cop's down here!" Sang Min interrupted them. He was screaming loudly and waving his hands over his head.

Chin climbed over Warrick's hopefully unconscious body to grab Sang Min and throw him up against the wall. "What are you doing?" he shouted.

Rowan already knew the answer, she mouthed along with him as he answered: "It's about survival. If Kaleo finds out I've been helping you, we're both dead."

Chin looked actually shook by this. Rowan wasn't sure why but seeing as everything was coming crashing down around them and they had no more plans or options. "I knew I couldn't trust you," Chin spat out.

He threw the man away as the criminals charged them. He got one hit it before they overtook him. Sang Min pushed Rowan away, and she had the smarts to turn away so they couldn't see quite clearly that she was a girl. After a few rounds of punching, when Chin was practically limp and almost unmoving, Sang Min pushed the criminals away, forcing them to stop.

"Kaleo wants him alive," he reminded them and they began to drag Chin away.

Rowan hung back. She wanted to help. She wanted to change things. But what if she didn't? What if Steve swooped in and Chin was still stabbed and all of this was for nothing? She could blink, she had done it before, not consciously but she had, maybe she could do it again.

No, she didn't have time for that. Instead Rowan did the only thing she could do. She chased after the mob that took Chin. She was going to fuck fate up.