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A/N: HAPPY FRIDAY! This is all one big huge part from Steve's P.O.V. The next chapter will be about other people I promise. 5 more reviews and we've got ourselves a winner! That is so exciting. I uh... I do have some slight bad news though. So on top of me hitting a major writer's block i uh... wow.. nothing I do makes you anonymous guys happy, huh? Usually the polite response to someone going above and beyond because you complained is thank you, cause at no point do I actually have to post more frequently just cause you demand I do so. AND You guys know what a redemption arc is right? Yeah, well in order to get to the redemption arc in season 4, some pretty awful things have to happen first, can anyone guess what part of the story we're on right now? I've said it a million times. Trust me and Trust the plot, and it will MAKE SENSE. Can't have a redemption arc with nothing to be sorry about. ALSO I NEVER said that these relationships are sticking around for another 50 chapters, ALL I SAID was that Rowan and Steve are getting together around the 90th chapter. So stop putting words in my mouth. Onto the Bad News. I have essentially lost the will to write and the usual excitement I get when I post for you guys. So we're going to do one more week of double posts (simply so I can announce the winner) and then we're either going to go to singles or I may not post until the new year. I'm sorry but I'm trying to get in front of this writer's block and I don't want to run out of things to post for you guys, cause when that happens there will be no updates for months at a time. Some of my stories have been abandoned for years because I lost the mojo on them and I can't get it back. So I'm gonna binge watch Five-0. I'm gonna work on the Christmas fics I have to write (Did I mention I have TWO?!) and PRAY that the mojo comes back. Cause I really don't wanna leave you guys high and dry. See you on Tuesday!

Chapter 45

Steve leant against the smart table, looking over the evidence. The atmosphere was charged. Each Five-0 knew that Rowan was in one of their interrogation rooms in the basement. Each one except Catherine that was.

Steve had been downstairs putting Rowan in an interrogation room when Catherine came and had therefore been surprised when he came back up and found her waiting for him. She was there to surprise him with lunch, just because she cared. She was still in her army fatigues, having come straight from the boat and he should have been happy to see her, but he wasn't. Steve had tried to get her to go but she was adamant she was going to stay. That left him to him that he could keep the fact that Rowan was here under wraps and he was doing a good job of it until the TV Host stormed into the office with her Camera man in tow ready for a fight.

"You agreed I could go anywhere you went," she snapped to him. "I should have been in that car with your suspect."

"Wait, you have a suspect?" Catherine asked.

"I wouldn't call her a suspect," Chin said shooting Steve a glare. "More like a possible connection."

"You were supposed to be a silent shadow," Steve growled to Savannah. Trying his hardest to ignore both Chin and Catherine. "You were just looking for your next scoop. You were traumatizing her."

"That doesn't matter. You shouldn't have thrown me out of the car," Savannah complained.

"Then you should have shut up," Steve snapped.

"Steve, who did you arrest?" Catherine asked, clearly more than suspicious, only to be ignored again.

"It was an interesting angle. The girl who was kidnapped who still talks to her captor. Is she suffering from Stockholm Syndrome? And that tension between you two, what is that about? All of these are good angles for the show!" she complained.

"ROWAN'S HERE?!" Catherine shouted and Steve groaned.

"Not now," he hissed.

"Oh, so the current girlfriend can determine that it's the ex-girlfriend from those identifiers and she's not happy that Rowan's near-by," she said. "Interesting, Interesting…"

"She's not his ex-girlfriend," Catherine snapped just as Steve snapped: "Rowan's not my ex."

"Uh, guys," Chin tried to interject but was promptly ignored.

"Look, none of this has anything to do with our case," Steve argued.

"Oh, but Rowan does?" Catherine argued.

"Yes! Catherine. She's the last person to see and talk to him. And if he's willing to break into her apartment to see her then I'm betting she knows how to get a hold of him," Steve nearly shouted.

"GUYS!" Chin cried and both Steve and Catherine turned to him shouting: What?! at the same time.

"Someone's hacked into our system," Chin said gesturing to the smart table. "I can see them moving things around but I can't stop them."

Steve and Catherine all looked down at the computer just in time to watch the video function take over, opening up their webcam and conferencing it with someone else's. When Steve looked up Wo Fat's face was on their monitor.

"Hello Commander McGarrett," he said a large smirk on his face. He was still wearing the cop uniform. He could tell by the navy blue and somewhat visible golden accents. God he looked so fucking smug.

Steve shot a glance to Danny and then Catherine and then glared at the screen. "What is this?"

"I hear you need someone to corroborate an alibi," he said with a dry glare.

"You're calling me because I arrested Rowan?" Steve cried. How the hell was this not evidence that Rowan was still talking to Wo Fat?

"Yes. Honestly Commander, I know you're upset she picked me over you…" "—She did not pick you!" "…but you can't just go around arresting the people who don't like you. The prisons would be over run!" Wo Fat finished. "Besides, she's going through enough without having you bully her, have you no heart?"

Steve could feel Catherine's eyes on him but he didn't dare glance at her. Steve merely glared up at the sociopath on the screen. He couldn't believe any of these words had dropped out of Wo Fat's smug mouth.

"Are you telling me, you hacked our system simply to get a hold of me and Rowan an alibi? Why didn't you just call me? Or her? I have her phone, you know. And how are you evening doing this?" he asked. A head popped in from behind Wo Fat, a face that Steve recognized, holding an icepack to an eye.

"McGruff!" Toast called. "I've been coerced!"

"Back off or I blacken your other eye, pot head!" he warned shoving Toast back out of the way. "Ignore him."

"You realize this doesn't make her look innocent, right?" Steve asked and Wo Fat actually paused for a second as if he hadn't realized that.

Wo Fat's eyes narrowed. "You said you didn't believe her when she said she wasn't talking to me. You flashed her that picture the P.I. you hired took," he said. Steve blanched. Fuck. Catherine didn't know about the P.I. for obvious reasons, neither did Rowan, but if Wo Fat knew how long until he told Rowan?

"How do you know about that?" Steve asked between grit teeth.

"You're not the only one with people following her," Wo Fat said. "Do you want me to tell you what happened or not?"

Steve just glared at him and Wo Fat's smirk returned to his face. "It's just like your P.I. told you. A guy broke into her apartment that she then argued with and pushed out a window," Wo Fat said. "You should ask your P.I for the rest of the photos."

He held up one to the camera. A very nice shot of Wo Fat actually half out the window with Rowan in the process of shoving him. Anger clearly the primary emotion on her face.

"See, I have evidence of the assault. I think I should press charges," Wo Fat said.

"Yeah, why don't you come down to HPD, we'll draw up the documents," Steve offered sarcastically which earned him a chuckle.

"I was thinking you could just do it for me, seeing as you're so interested in keeping Rowan locked up," Wo Fat snarled.

"While I got you here, do you want to tell me what you're interest in Carson is?" Steve growled.

"Nice try Commander," he taunted, saluting him as if he were in the navy and showing Steve respect. Which he wasn't on either count. And then the screen went blank.

"Oh my…" Savannah said and Steve inwardly swore. She had been filming all of that? "There sure is a history between you three isn't there?"

Steve glanced over to where Catherine was practically vibrating with rage, then to Danny who was vibrating just trying to keep his laughter at bay and then to Chin who was trying to hide his own smile.

Well things couldn't get much worse, could they?

"I'm going to send a unit to Toast's before he gets himself shot," Danny said pulling out his phone.

"I'm going to go get Rowan out of lock up," Kono said moving towards the elevator. "I'm sure she'd like to go home."

Oh god. They could get worse. They really could.

Catherine turned to him, her hands on her hips as she glared at him. "You actually arrested Rowan in connection to this case?" Catherine asked. "So she had him in her apartment, it doesn't mean she knows anything about this. And a P.I. Steve? You hired a P.I. to follow her? Are you out of your mind?"

"I just wanted to confirm that she wasn't in contact with him," Steve said and that was half true. The other half was that he wanted to make sure that she was okay but Catherine wouldn't appreciate that. "Do we have to have this argument now?"

He gestured to the camera and Catherine luckily fell silent. Steve went into his office where he had left Rowan's phone. He had cloned it so he could listen in on her calls, which would be a great help to see if she was in fact still in contact with Wo Fat. And also, because then he could see firsthand what she was up to.

He had the phone to offer her just as the elevator opened up. Rowan's glare was dark but the second she saw Catherine she blanched and faltered.

"I'm not here of my own volition," she said to her and both Catherine and Steve scowled.

"Yes, Rowan, I know," she said and Rowan sighed.

"Good, good," she said mostly to herself before she turned to Steve and offered out her hand to accept her phone. "Am I good to go now?"

"Yep. Wo Fat corroborated your story," Steve said and then carefully watched Rowan's face.

Rowan actually straightened and then stared at him. She blinked her eyes as she digested the information and then narrowed her eyes as she asked: "He did what now?"

"He had Toast—" "—wait, like food toast or person Toast?" "—hack our computer system and link us up with a conference call—" "—Oh… you mean person Toast." "—simply so he could tell us that you and he weren't talking," he said ignoring Rowan's interjections.

Rowan frowned. "Well that doesn't make me look innocent at all," she said.

"No… no it doesn't, does it?" Steve snarled.

"Okay, well I couldn't have called him. I was with you the whole time and then you took my phone," she said as if she were worried he was going to put her back into cells.

"Its fine Rowan, we're going to make sure he doesn't kill Toast, you can go home now," Steve said. "Uh… Alex can come get you… right? Or I can pay for a cab…"

Oh, he was doing so well up until that point. He just had to ask if she had a ride. Like he still cared. Well he did care but he didn't want anyone, least of all Rowan, to know that. But no Rowan was just blinking her eyes and staring at him. She then absently looked down at her phone.

"Uh, yeah… Alex… sure…" she said she then looked up. "I can go, right?"

She was distracted. Why was she so fucking distracted? Why did she want out so fast? Did she really want to get away from him? Was he really all that bad?

"Yes, Rowan you're good to go," he said trying very hard to not take her behaviour personally. And failing miserably.

Rowan's head went back down to her phone. "Good," she said absently as she turned away from them. "Bye guys."

Steve watched her slowly walk out as she stared at her phone. He was pretty sure that was suspicious but he didn't know if that was just his natural reaction.

"That was weird," Danny and Steve sighed with relief. Okay so it wasn't just him.

He wanted to agree with Danny, to high-five him for pointing out what he thought was so blatantly obvious, but a phone in his office was ringing. It wasn't his cell phone because that was in his pocket, nor was it his desk line because he'd have seen the lights blinking. He realized quite quickly that he knew exactly what it was that was ringing.

But she could have just been calling Alex right? She did need a ride, after all.

He went into the office and picked up the call she was making. It was a number that he didn't recognize, it wasn't one of her contacts and then he waited while she listened to it ring.

When someone answered he knew he recognized the voice even if it just said one word.

"Hello?"

It was Wo Fat. She hadn't been out of his line of sight for more than thirty seconds and she had called Wo Fat.

"Don't kill Toast!" came Rowan's frantic voice. Steve scowled. How could she have done this to him? Lied straight to his face and then thirty seconds after leaving she goes and calls him. Of course, she was just trying to help but did she have to do this now? Did she have to lie to him? Why didn't she just stay and call Wo Fat in front of Steve? Why?

Steve stalked to the smart table and slammed the clone phone down onto the table. It immediately synced in and played the call for everyone to hear.

"How would I even go about killing a breakfast food, Rowan?" Wo Fat answered in a dry tone.

All eyes were on Steve now as they listened to the conversation. There were a lot of questions in their eyes. Probably questions like: How are you doing this? And when did you get the chance to clone her phone? Is that Wo Fat?

Catherine pinned him with a dark glare and asked in a hushed voice: "You cloned her phone?" But everyone ignored her and luckily no one else said a thing choosing to listen before questioning him.

"Don't get smart with me, Wo," she growled. Oh she was so familiar with him. Why was she so familiar with him? "The hacker. Do not kill my hacker."

"Your hacker?"

"Yes! Toast is my friend and I don't want you to hurt him, please?" she pleaded.

"He's seen my face, Rowan, he has to go," Wo Fat said calmly. Danny swore quietly beside him and pulled up his own phone, probably to urge the unit he sent to get there faster.

"PLEASE?!" Rowan cried and Wo Fat sighed in frustration. Was he actually going to listen to her? Wo Fat was going to take orders from Rowan?

"Fine! But I have a condition…"

"I am not listening to your apology," she snapped.

"Yes. I figured. But that's not the condition. I'll be leaving you another envelope. I'd like you to keep it, not Alex," he said. Envelope? He had been sending her things? Why? What was in them? Why the hell hadn't she told him about that?

"I don't want your blood money," she growled. HE WAS FUCKING FUNDING HER?! Okay so that was why she hadn't told him she had been receiving packages from him.

"I know you're having trouble finding a job. I know you're depending on Alex. I've been sending you money so you didn't have to worry. So you won't have nothing if Alex gets tired of being second best," Wo Fat explained. And just like that hope soared up into Steve's chest. Was she having relationships problems with Alex? "You don't have to keep it, once you have a job give it to charity or something. But for right now, I'd like you to have it in case of an emergency."

Steve felt the air leave his body. Wo Fat really was just trying to take care of her. He was looking out for her best interests the way Steve was he just had no morals and didn't seem to care that Rowan had said no and seemed uninterested in any assistance from him.

There was a strange sound in the background. It started with the murmur of voices, and then rose with the sound of sirens.

"What's going on?" Rowan probed. "Wo, what's happening?"

"You're phone is cloned," he said. "Your Toast has just informed me that your Commander is listening in on us. Which makes no sense, he knows where I am, and he's sent cops here."

Rowan was silent for a bit. "What?"

"You know what. Why don't you call me when you get this sorted out, or from a more secure phone hmm?" Wo Fat said and then he hung up the phone.

The second the phone went dead another call popped up on the cloned screen. Rowan was calling Steve. He stared at the screen, he had been dreaming of this moment. The moment Rowan would call him but he knew what this conversation was going to be and it wasn't the convo he had been dreaming about. So he declined it. As soon as he did she dialed another number. Danny's. Steve turned to him as Danny looked down at the phone he still had in his hand.

"Don't you dare," Steve growled.

Danny nodded and declined the call. And then she was calling Chin who also declined the call. And then Kono who declined as well.

Steve let out his breath, he was safe. He'd just have to call down to the front office and tell them not to let her back in. But as soon as he turned Catherine pounced on him.

"And how is cloning her phone pertinent to your case?" she hissed as if she didn't just witness the same phone call as him. She was calling someone else again, he could hear it ringing, but he figured whoever she was calling now would ignore the call too.

"Not now, Cath," he pleaded. "Please, I can't do this now."

"Danny?"

Steve froze and turned. That was Rowan's voice echoing around them. He turned and saw that smirk on Danny's face and then looked to the phone still on the smart table broadcasting the call to confirm that he had actually done it. And he had. Danny had actually called Rowan back.

"Hey Ro, I missed your call, what's up?" he said. He had a smirk on his face that Steve wanted to slap off.

"Put Commander McStalker on the fucking phone," she ordered.

Danny offered him the phone. "It's for you."

"I'm not taking that call!" Steve hissed.

"PICK UP THE PHONE!" Rowan screeched and Steve lurched for it before her screaming could damage any of the screens in the room.

"Jeezus calm down will you?" he asked. "What? What could you possibly want now?"

"I'm going to ask you a simple question and you better not lie to me," she told him. Oh like Mrs. Liar-liar-pants-on-fire had the moral high ground here. "Did you clone my phone?"

"Of course not," Steve answered. She couldn't prove it after all.

"Oh really? Then why can I hear my voice coming out of your office?" Rowan asked and Steve looked down to the phone in his hand and then to the computer that was projecting her voice. Oh… maybe she could prove it.

"Turn around you idiot," Rowan growled and when he did Steve found himself yelping and jumping back.

He had not expected Rowan to be coming down the hallway towards him, a glare on her face so dark he swore he saw the lightning flashing in her eyes.

"You cloned my phone?" she snapped shaking her phone in his face once she got closer to him. Her eyes snapped to the phone on the smart table. Before he could stop her she had snatched it up and slammed it down on the ground effectively destroying it.

She then turned those angry blue eyes back on him and growled: "How dare you," in a low dangerous tone.

The anger built up in him quicker than it ever had before. He leant in closer to her to narrow his eyes and growl right back: "You weren't even out of this office for thirty seconds before you called the man you said you had no contact with. I knew you were lying. That is why I dared."

Rowan took a step back from him and lowered her eyes away from him. "I wasn't ever going to use the number, but you said he had Toast… and I know what he's like…"

"So he gave you a number?" Steve asked sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose. "And you lied to me and said you weren't in contact."

"We're not in contact. I took the number because he said he'd stop following me around if I did. And I just told you I wasn't ever going to use it," Rowan argued.

"You could have given it to me," Steve snapped.

"Yeah but then I'd have to see you and I didn't want to do that," Rowan cried, tears forming in her blue eyes. Steve felt like crying too. How was this what they had become?

"Then give it to Danny, or Chin, or Kono, or fucking DUKE!" he cried. "Why did you keep it?"

"Because it was the only thing I had that was all mine! Not Alex's! Not yours! Not Five-0's! Mine!" she shouted back. Two tears leaked out of her eyes but she quickly brushed them away. "Look. I'm tired. I want to go home. I want you to leave me alone. I get that I did something bad. I get that I should have told you. But I didn't. I didn't want to. So here."

She shoved the paper into his hands but Steve was incapable of holding it. It fluttered out of his hand and to the floor as he just stared at her. He wasn't sure why it broke him to hear those words come out of her mouth, but all he knew was that it shattered the anger that had welled up in his throat and replaced it with a desperate need to cry his own tears.

"If I help you with your case will you let this go?" she asked. "No more surveillance teams, no more cloning my phone?"

"Do you know something about this case?" Steve asked. He pointedly ignored Danny as he stooped down to pick the scrap of paper Steve had dropped. Rowan didn't need it anymore after all, the number was in her phone now.

"Your Vic had a tattoo, right? Of some girl? A Hawaiian goddess? Yeah, well there's some detail on her skirt. It matches up to a trail somewhere. It leads to something. No, I don't know what it is but if I had to guess, I'd say it leads to treasure," she answered.

"You'll have to stay until I can confirm if what you're saying is true," Steve said.

"Fine," she said and then walked away from him. She went into his office and then sat her down at his desk. His eyes followed her, unable to look away. When he realized he was staring he turned away and then back to the table.

"Uh… can we enhance the picture that Wo Fat is holding in the surveillance please, see if she's right?" he asked but he didn't have to because Kono had already done that and matched it up with a trail in the Ko'olau Valley.

Rowan was right. It was a map. Steve looked up to Rowan who was in his office her electric blue eyes staring back at him as she was on the phone. His office line.

He didn't have to guess who she was calling. He knew what she was doing. Who she was warning. But it wouldn't matter. Steve was going to get Wo Fat. He was going to get that man out of Rowan's life and then somehow, once things calmed down and she saw reason, he was going to get her back and make her forget all about Wo Fat.