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A/N: I'd just like to say thanks for not getting super mad at me over my under estimation of how many chapters it would take to get them together. Y'all are literally the best, I promise that there will be some fluffy chapters in between then and Steve and Rowan getting together. It's not all going to be angst. I tried really hard to hint that at you guys last chapter, that you know... they're not going to be in the same circumstances as now. Some major changes are gonna hit somewhere after chapter 80, not sure where yet, but MAJOR CHANGE is a coming. I know we're in the depressing part right now but there is some comedy to read both in this chapter and in the upcoming chapters. I tried really hard to make this one a little less sad and little more happy to kind of make up for Tuesday's angst dump. ALSO, we have some milestones coming up and when I reach them, I'll be posting 3 times a week. I don't want to tell you what those milestones are though cause I want them to be a surprise :D We're also one chapter away from the heist scene which was my favourite scene to write in this series of chapters. I liked writing the hospital scene in this chapter as well, too. So, I'd love to hear your feedback on that. Also, if you'd like to hit me up with any more changes you'd like to see go for it, I've changed a bunch of future plot lines, which of course you'll see… in the future but any other changes are welcome if I can fit them in. So hit me up with that inspiration and I'll see you on Tuesday.

Chapter 52

When Adam had called that morning it had been to tell Kono that he was back from Japan. By then she had found out about the case and she had a favour to ask him. Adam had agreed, he hadn't spent one-on-one time with Rowan before, of course, and was understandably a little nervous to be alone with McGarrett's obsession.

Kono had thought things would go well. Rowan was nice to have around, she was easy to get along with… so long as McGarrett wasn't around because then she got super argumentative, and she knew from experience that Rowan made the coolest desserts and all her helper had to do was hold the bowl and hand her ingredients, Rowan did the rest. She figured Adam would have fun and eventually bond with her.

She at no point thought Rowan would send him away screaming, well maybe not screaming but she at least had him running scared, but then again she didn't think Rowan would get a vision off of Adam.

Adam had stopped replying to texts after he left Rowan's. She was worried that when she called him about the case he wouldn't respond. But he had. So she had gone over immediately.

Despite being worried about his trip to Japan and what vision Rowan had told him about that had scared him off, she was still really happy to see him. So instead of bombarding him with questions she hugged him, as tightly as she could.

"I missed you," Adam said into her hair.

"I missed you too," she said into his shoulder, inhaling his natural male scent and whatever spicy cologne he had decided to wear. She meant every word. She really had missed him.

"Hey, listen, I'm sorry about this morning," he said. "Rowan… she got really intense and it freaked me out a bit."

Kono smiled, Rowan could be intense, in the hyperactive way. "What did she even say to you?"

"She told me I was going to kill my brother," Adam whispered. Kono felt herself stiffen. Rowan's visions hadn't been wrong yet, except when she decided to go out of her way to change them. "But, she's been wrong before, right? No psychic is always right, right?"

Kono didn't want to say anything. She didn't want to tell him that Rowan was always right, because then she'd have to explain that Rowan wasn't psychic and that she instead thought this was all some TV show she had already watched.

"Why don't you tell me about Japan?" she asked instead.

Adam tried to smile at her, but she could see she hadn't put anything at ease. But honestly, she had no idea what to say.

"It was a business thing. There was a crisis and I had to go last minute," he said. Clearly he wasn't telling her something but she was holding something back to so she guessed that made them even.

"Right. So how did it go?" she asked.

This time his smile was genuine. "It should be okay," he said with a nod. "But it's just business. I'm sure you don't wanna hear about that."

"You met with Riku Sato," she shot back. Oh, that's right. He didn't know she knew about that! "Why wouldn't I want to know about that?"

Adam backed away from her. No longer smiling, no longer happy. "You were spying on me?" he asked sounding all sorts of betrayed? "So you've got a friend more than connected to Wo Fat predicting that I'll murder my brother and now you're spying on me?"

"Rowan's not connected to Wo Fat in that way," Kono argued.

"Are you sure about that, because the Yakuza have some theories about her that aren't so pleasant," he snapped back.

"Look, this isn't about Rowan and I wasn't spying, I was worried about you. I hadn't heard from you in days. So I came here and you were gone. And then two yakuza showed up."

Adam seemed to think about this before asking: "What did they want?"

"They didn't say but they were armed," she said. Now that made him nervous, she could see it on his face. "Adam, would you tell me what's going on?"

When he stayed quiet she kept pressing him. "Why are you being so secretive? And why are you meeting with a man like Sato?"

Adam scoffed and hen sighed. He looked at her, his eyes searching her face before he finally opened his mouth to tell her what was hopefully going to be the truth. "What's going on is… I'm trying to cut my family's last ties to the Yakuza."

Kono struggled to not get her hopes up. "Really? Because that's not what it looks like."

"I know, believe me, I know how this looks and I don't blame you for being suspicious but…" he said, finally bridging the space between them to reach out and hold her hand. "Look, I can't talk about it, okay?"

"Adam…" she started but he cut her off.

"You're just gonna have to trust me," he said.

Kono was quiet a moment. She stared into the face of the man she had fallen in love with. Oh how she wanted to believe him but she had been burned before.

"You want me to trust you?" she asked. "You're gonna have to give me something."

"Okay, what?" he asked. Clearly willing to give her… well… something.

"What do you know about a field off of H-2 where the Yakuza's been hiding bodies?" she asked. She might as well get to the reason she came here in the first place. Better now than never.

Adam shook his head, clearly surprised by either the knowledge of the field or the request. "Nothing… why?" he asked.

"You know nothing about someone digging it up?" she asked.

"No, I've never even heard of this place," Adam told her. Well Kono didn't believe that. "What's this about?"

"Adam, just look me in the eye and tell me what you know about it," she ordered, finally tired of this game they were playing.

Adam took her by the shoulders, looked her square in the eye and said: "I know nothing about it. I swear." He looked her deep in the eyes, his hands travelling up to the back of her neck like they did when he kissed her. "You believe me, right?"

After a moment of charged silence she finally said: "Yeah."

"You know, uh, before you go, can I talk to you about Rowan?" he said. "I'm a little worried about her."

"Uh, yeah sure, why?" she asked. This was surprising. Everyone else was worried about her, but what had sparked Adam's worry?

"Because the Yakuza has interest in her, because of the lengths Wo Fat is willing to go for her. Because when I asked her about her interest in continuing to see a man like Wo Fat even after what he did to her, she told me he reminds her of her brother," he said. "Which I think is weird because you said she has no family. That's why she was staying with Steve, right? She had nowhere else to go?"

"That's what she told us," Kono said.

"Well, when she told me about it, she told me not to tell Steve," he told her. "It's all weird to me. Who is she lying to and why?"

Kono thought about it and she didn't have an answer. "I can try to ask her, but to be honest I don't know. Rowan doesn't talk about her past, we always figured it was because she didn't remember. Maybe now it's starting to come back."

"Well, someone should talk to her. Someone should get her away from Wo Fat, things are only going to get worse for her if she keeps associating with him," he said.

Kono nodded, it was great that he was worried about her friends. It was great that he was finally started to trust her with the truth. She left his place feeling happier, lighter, more girlish then when she went it. He had that ability on her, but all of that was shattered. Not seconds after she got into the car, the cloned version of Adam's phone began to ring.

She couldn't believe it. This must have been what Steve felt like when Rowan had been gone thirty seconds and had immediately called Wo Fat. She clicked the listen button and then waited. She heard Adam talk about her as if she were just some cop nuisance and then he was given a time and place to meet.

Kono sat there after the call was long ended trying very hard not to cry. She now understood how Steve felt, expect it was slightly different because Steve wasn't dating Rowan, nor was he in love with her. Actually, they had a bet about that, and when Steve finally admitted he did love Rowan and got together with her, Kono was gonna win a lot of money. But still, for the moment it was slightly different.

Still she got herself together, called Fong and got him to trace a call for her. He gave her a location within minutes and then Kono was on her way there, pulling a complete Steve and going off without back up.

It was all worth it though, because she found the missing bodies.

And then she got shot.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Steve, who was a little too stressed to have extra things added to his stressed-out list, brought his truck to a screeching halt and hopped out. He spotted Chin and immediately called out to him.

"How's Kono?" he asked. Because that was the primary stressor at that moment.

"She's fine. It didn't hit any vital organs," Chin told him. "But when she gets back on her feet, I'm gonna kill her."

He led Steve over to where Kono was laying on a stretcher. She had blood all over her hands and shirt. There were paramedics fawning over her and his heart cracked to see it. His poor rookie, laid out like that.

"Hey!" he snapped at her flying into protective-papa-bear angry because he was worried and not because he was actually angry. "What were you thinking?"

Kono had the smarts to at least look chastised as she said: "I'm sorry, Steve."

"What were you doing, going in there without any backup?" he thundered.

Rowan popped her out of the ambulance and said: "She was only pulling a Steve."

Steve nearly jumped out of his skin. He hadn't been expecting Rowan and yet there she was. In the back of the ambulance, her arm in a makeshift sling, her hands coated with blood.

"What the—? Rowan?" he cried. He ignored the fact that she was right and when straight to being angry at her. He then pointed a stern finger at her. "What the hell are you doing here? How did you know to come here?"

"I had a vision," she answered as if that was the only answer that made sense. As if it were completely normal for someone to have a vision that their friend was going to get shot. Though, to be fair, for her it was.

"Why are you in there? Were you here when… did you get shot too?" he asked before he could stop himself mainly because her hands were coated in blood and upon further inspection, he saw bloody hand prints on her pants and flicks of blood were splattered across her shirt.

Rowan looked down to her triangle-bandage sling and then back up to him. "Naw, I got here once everything was done, but I guess putting pressure on Kono's wound for so long kinda tired my arm out cause it went numb on me again," she told him. "Full 72 hours with full mobility though, that's a new record!"

"Yeah, that's actually pretty good," Steve agreed and when Rowan raised her good hand for a high five his heart leapt and he went to give her one, until he realized her hand was covered entirely in blood. Rowan seemed to realize it too because she pulled her offered hand away and then looked at it.

"That's not my blood," she said hollowly and then immediately started to gag. Steve watched her surprised. He had never seen that happen before.

One of the EMT's on Kono turned immediately. "Don't look at it," he ordered, pulling her hand away from her face. He brought out a squeeze bottle, probably filled with alcohol and went about rubbing the blood away. When Rowan continued to gag he looked up at her and ordered again: "I said look away."

Rowan made a strangled sort of sound in the back of her throat and Steve jumped into action before he could stop himself. "Look at me!" he ordered and her blue eyes turned to him. She had gone this ashen pale color that surprised him. "That's right. I'm mad at you. Let's talk about that huh?"

"When are you not mad at me?" Rowan asked, her voice still shaking but some of that color was coming back into her face.

"Well if you'd stop doing stupid things I wouldn't have to get mad," he argued. "Just tell me what you know about my mother and Tyler Cain."

That ashen color was back in her face, even though the blood was gone and the EMT was handing her out of the back of the ambulance. On her way to Steve Kono put out a shaking hand to Rowan's arm, leaving a big red handprint. Her eyes implored Rowan to do something but Rowan just smiled down at her and put her hand on top of Kono's shaking one.

"Don't worry, I'm still coming with you," she said and Steve's heart melted a bit. How sweet and supportive of her.

"I'm not done with you either," he said to Kono but as soon as Rowan was standing in front of him everything else in the world around him vanished.

He went to ask her again, went to ask her what she knew of Tyler Cain and his mother's heist but Rowan merely lifted her hand again.

He thought she wanted a high five, but instead she took her hand and put it in the middle of his chest. Even though her hand was on his blue button up shirt he felt the warmth of her skin, and felt that shocking jolt of electricity enter him as her eyes immediately rolled back in her skull.

Steve barely had time to register what happened, his only thought was to catch her. But as he gripped her he felt himself being plagued with static shocks. The EMTs came to him immediately, they tried to get to Rowan who was slowly coming back to but he clung to her tighter, pressing her to his chest.

"It's fine, it's fine," he said glaring at the two EMTs that were standing in front of him. Rowan's good hand gripped his shirt tightly, he felt her cheek against his chest and his arms instinctively tightened, good god he didn't want to let go.

"I'm okay," he heard her whisper. But when he still didn't let go, she added: "You can let go now."

Steve reluctantly did just that and put that distance back between them, trying to ignore just how much it hurt his heart to do it, how much it ached when she was away.

"I know the same stuff you know," she said. "Are we good?"

Steve shrugged, he guessed they were. Though he wanted to know why she wanted to know. But with this many people around, he couldn't quite ask without risking exposing his mother. So, he turned back to Kono.

"You didn't answer my question, why did you go in without backup?" he asked again. "And don't say you were pulling a me."

He shot a little smirk at Rowan who had her hand half raised to interject and was closing her mouth, good thing he got to that in time.

"I was chasing down a lead," Kono answered.

"What lead? Where'd you get a lead from?" he asked her.

"I got it from Adam," she admitted and then she opened her eyes to look at him and he saw the same kind of pain he was sure haunted his eyes from time to time.

"Kono…" he started but the EMTs interrupted whatever horrible attempt at an encouraging speech was going to fall from Steve's lips.

"Sorry Commander, but we gotta go," he said.

Alright, well he couldn't argue with that. "I'm going to go with them," Chin said. "Then I'll meet you back at HQ."

Steve nodded and then turned back to Kono. "Are you good?"

"Yeah," she whispered. Steve watched them go, watched them close the doors and then turned back to the warehouse where Danny was waiting.

"Did… uh… did you see her?" he asked. Steve knew what he meant, knew he meant Rowan. "Did you see her arm?"

"Yes, she had full mobility for three days," Steve answered.

"Yeah, she's doing pretty good, for a trouble maker," Danny said.

Steve needed to get off this topic. "So, what do we have?"

"So H.P.D. IDed the two men that had a shootout with Kono as Yakuza hit men," Danny answered immediately.

"Okay, what else we got?" Steve asked.

"Both had 9mm, same caliber as the shell casing we found at the body dump and out the back, we got tire tracks that might be a match as well," Danny said leading Steve further into the warehouse.

"So, these were the same guys who killed Chad Torez," Steve summed up. Good, wonderful. Now he wouldn't have to worry about going on an op and still having a case to solve.

"Check this out," Danny said leading him to a cluster of blue plastic barrels.

Steve looked inside at the mummified remains. "And here are the rest of our vics," he said triumphantly. Gosh everything was just lining up for him and this op.

"I'm thinking, the barrels of sand, they're waiting for the sun to go down so they could dump the bodies in the ocean," Danny said.

"Yeah, but these guys are just foot soldiers taking orders from somebody else," Steve reminded him. Damnit why did he have to find the loose end? He just had to keep digging.

"Yeah, Michael Noshimuri," Danny answered almost immediately. Oh, good. Good they had a lead. Bad that it was Adam's brother, but all else considering it was good for them.

"We will get him. Maybe not today but we'll get him," Danny assured him. Except Steve didn't feel assured. He felt on edge. But that could have been anything. It could have been the op, it could have been seeing Rowan again.

Max arrived and they left him with the bodies. But Danny wasn't letting him go that quickly. They found a quiet secluded corner to talk shop and not worry about being overheard.

"So… uh… what's going on with Doris?" he asked.

Steve sighed. Oh god, so much. "Well, It's not good. It turns out she lied to me—" "—What else is new?" "about more than just hacking into the FBI database," he said ignoring Danny's sassy comment.

"Okay, are you more upset about that or the fact that she's in trouble?" he asked. Oh, Danny and his questions Steve never answered them right and when he got them wrong Danny wore that stupid: I'm judging you face for the rest of the conversation.

When Steve couldn't answer, when Steve looked away, Danny put a hand to his arm and said: "Okay, look, it's none of my business, alright? What she did, so what? She's your mother and she's in trouble, so you gotta help her. Make sense?"

Steve winced again. "She got Rowan involved somehow," he whispered.

"Fucking Rowan gets involved in everything," Danny snapped. "The girl, the girl can't stay out of anything. But if she's in it you're in it right?"

Steve shrugged. "I don't know. I don't know if she's actually going to do anything," he admitted. "She seems to be more interested with what's going on with Kono. Maybe she doesn't care about this?"

"Okay, cross Rowan off of this then. Forget she's involved. This is just about you and about your mother," Danny said. "Now what are you going to do?"

Steve just stared at him. He didn't have to answer the question. Danny could read the answer right off of his face.

Steve was going to help his mother.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Rowan had royally screwed up.

Not seconds after they got Kono out of surgery did Catherine and the others show up. In a panic Rowan had thrown herself under the bed before Catherine saw her. Other than that day she had been arrested and she was forced to see her, Rowan had been avoiding Catherine. It wasn't that she was scared per say, or that she was afraid Catherine would be mad, it was that she felt bad. She wasn't supposed to be so imbedded in Steve's life, but so far she hadn't been able to cut away as easily as everyone, and herself, had assumed she would.

So, she was stuck under a hospital bed waiting for everyone to leave. Too embarrassed to admit she had hidden from Catherine. But she was lucky. They didn't stay long and but she still waited at least thirty seconds after Chin and the others left to pop out from under the bed. She smiled up to Kono who was just shaking her head at her.

"Thanks," she whispered. "You know… for not telling her I was here."

"You don't need to hide from Catherine," she said to her.

"That's true, but… well I feel bad… she has every right to be mad at me, I keep… you know… inserting myself where she's supposed to be," Rowan whispered. She folded her arms over the bedside and rested her chin on it as she stared at Kono.

"What exactly did happen? I know something happened between you and Steve, and you and Catherine. Danny said it was a complete mess and you just took yourself out of the equation but none of us can figure out why," Kono said.

Rowan opened her mouth ready to hit her with a carefully thought out lie and then promptly closed it. She eyed Kono carefully, what really could be the harm in telling her now? Rowan was the one who had anything to be embarrassed about. She sighed to herself before saying: "You'll keep it a secret, between you and me… and Danny, of course? Honestly, I'm surprised he hasn't already told you guys, I swear he's a gossip queen."

"I promise," Kono said.

Rowan opened her mouth to tell her but then they heard someone coming up the hallway. Rowan immediately threw herself back to the ground and then hid herself under the bed.

But it was only Adam at the door.

"I hope this wasn't some attempt to get out of dinner with me," he said. Obviously going for a joke, but the guilt was in his voice and probably on his face.

Rowan could have easily gotten out from under the bed at that point, but her arm was still a little weak and that was a lot of maneuvering and by the time she thought to wiggle out from under the bed they were having a full blown conversation and then it would be really embarrassing to just pop up at this point so she just stayed where she was, like the strange awkward wierdo she was.

"Adam, how did you…?"

She didn't even have to ask the full question. Adam was ready with an answer. "Chin Ho called. He told me what happened," he said, taking a few steps into the room. Well, Rowan definitely couldn't get up now. Now it would just be super-duper weird.

"Kono, I'm sorry. I feel like this is all my fault," he said. Well no duh! He's the one that sent her to that warehouse… inadvertently. Rowan was pretty sure he didn't know about the cloned phone… didn't he find out about that soon? Damn, what episode was that in? Why didn't that pop up when she touched Kono today? Or Adam? Fuck! That was important too! Or at least… to them… wasn't it?

"What are you talking about?" Kono asked. Rowan could hear the anger in her voice. Oh dear, she hoped they didn't get into an argument. Cause she'd pop right out from under this bed if he upset her, even if it did look weird as shit, Kono was supposed to be resting!

"I need to tell you something," Adam said finally coming to stand beside her. "After you came to see me, I called some people. I was trying to find out about that field you mentioned. You see, I think Michael's involved."

Yes. Yes he was. Rowan could have told him that. Hell she probably should have this morning when she got all those flashes. But she figured out of everything she saw he'd probably want to know that he shoots his own brother. Maybe she should have led with Michael's gonna try to kill you first.

"I should've told you," Adam continued seeing as Kono had stayed quiet. "Maybe if I had you would've held off. I thought I was protecting you but I was wrong."

Rowan nearly laughed. Kono? Hold off? HA! Wow, Adam really didn't know her well. But you know, the whole trying to protecting her thing was kinda cute.

"Hey," she heard Kono say just as Adam said: "I was wrong and I'm sorry."

He sounded heartbroken, tearful. It never occurred to her that Adam would have feelings like that. She didn't want the mental image of him crying in her head, it conflicted with the cool, suave image she already had going for him.

"It's okay," Kono said to him. "Hey it's okay."

Okay was that all she was going to say? Maybe now would be a good time to come clean about the phone? Or maybe say something other than: It's gonna be okay.

"Adam, there's something I have to tell you too," she admitted and Rowan smiled. Yes! Wonderful. You tell him girl! And if he got mad Rowan would just roll up out from under the bed and kick him in the shins or something.

A knock came on the door and then a Nurse came in. What? Bitch! Couldn't you see they were having a heartfelt conversation?

"Excuse me. It's time for your CT scan," she said, wheeling a wheelchair into the room.

But instead of sending her away, Kono got up. She got into the wheelchair and then let them wheel her out. All she said to Adam was: "Don't leave, okay? I'll be right back," and "We need to talk."

Kono wasn't gone a full minute when two phones started to ring. One for Adam, one that she had cloned. Oh fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

She heard Adam go for the phone, heard it and panicked. She rolled out from under the bed, lurched to her knees and grabbed his arm. "Uh, that's mine."

"JESUS!" Adam screamed jumping away from her and ripping his arm out of her grasp. "What the fuck? Where the hell did you come from?"

"From under the bed," Rowan said. She caught his look of shock and she frowned at him. "I thought you were Catherine."

A normal person would have asked why she would hide from Catherine. But instead he looked to both the phones he had in his hand and held up the cloned one. "This is yours?" he asked. Before Rowan could lie for her he added: "Why was it in Kono's stuff?"

"Well, you know, my arm kinda lost mobility briefly so I had to come here for some tests and I'm sure that they just mixed up our stuff," she said, she tried to take the phone back but he moved away from her.

"You cloned my phone? When? Why?" he asked.

"This morning," she said. "I'm sneaky, you just didn't notice."

"Rowan I'm not an idiot," he growled. "You're covering for her!"

"She got shot! Okay! She was about to tell you before the nurse came in, I know it!" she said. "She was just… worried about you. You keep secrets, your brother's like the freaking devil and she just wants to help you!"

"My brother is not that bad," Adam said. "There are worst people out there. Like your brother!"

"Excuse me?!" Rowan found herself shouting. Trevor would never hurt a fucking fly. Who did Adam think he was talking about "My brother isn't going around murdering people!"

"Really? As opposed to your surrogate brother who's in maximum security federal prison because all he ever did was murder people?"

"Kay… well… he's… like… adopted. And… you know… I thought you meant my actual brother," Rowan admitted. Otherwise, yeah, it made sense. Wo Fat was ten times worse than Michael Noshimuri.

"Rowan, you said you didn't have family. You told Steve and the others that you don't have family," Adam reminded her and Rowan finally got frustrated

"Yeah well I lied!" Rowan shouted. "But this is NOT about me. Please. Please, don't leave. Just talk things out with Kono. Please!"

"You know, you're with the right company, Wo Fat's the king of liars, my girlfriend doesn't trust me, and you're shaping up to be exactly like them," he snapped and then stormed out.

Rowan sat down on Kono's empty bed. She wasn't really that bad… was she?