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A/N: Alright so we're back with another update, that I'm late to post again. We have 7 updates until we hit that special moment. We get to see a little bit of Steve's doing without Rowan, he's gonna get worse in the next chapter or so. We get to see how Rowan's doing and whether or not Danny's been able to keep a secret. Uh… do you guys remember how I said we had 6 days until we get a special update? Yeah, my math was off. It was 10 days when I mentioned it last update. NOW it's 6 days. Sorry. Math was never my strong suit. So, in 6 days you're gonna get a reward for being so awesome, and in 7 updates we're gonna see something super cute. AND we're almost to 400 reviews which just plain baffles me. So, keep on Reviewing, have a great Valentines day, and I'll see you on Friday!

Chapter 66

Rowan rushed through the parked cars, skidded on the gravel and practically threw herself towards the picnic bench where the only two boys she had left were waiting for her.

Chin and Danny smiled up to her, beers in their hands, and food ready for her. A Rowan special, just for her. She smiled at them as she took her seat.

"Sorry I'm late," she said. "Got stuck in the office."

"Office… you're a hotel maid," Danny said pushing the container of food towards her and a bottle of ginger ale.

She hadn't told them about the music yet, she didn't want to jinx it. She had convinced the music execs to give Alex and his band another shot. Insisted that the songs were meant for them, no matter how much they wanted her voice instead. Well almost all of her songs anyway.

Alex had not appreciated what she had done. Even though they had agreed to go with him instead of her. He didn't appreciate that she had gone behind their backs. No one else in the band cared. They were going to be signed. That was a good thing. Rowan didn't get it either, but she figured it had something to do with the fact that she was still screaming Steve's name every other night.

Not because she wanted to, but because the dreams were getting more and more vivid.

Last night's nightmare had been the one about Kono and Adam, tortured, beaten and very, very dead. So, she had been happy when she heard from Wo Fat that morning. It meant she could get him to look into their predicament, it meant she could send help. But she didn't want to worry Chin and Danny about any of that until she knew whether or not Wo Fat had managed to fix the situation.

"I happen to like working at the hotel," Rowan reminded him. "It's a good job to have on a resume. Gotta start somewhere right?"

"Yeah cause you couldn't use your last cleaning job, right?" Danny teased. No, she couldn't. Seeing as she used a fake name and stole government secrets and a shit tonne of gold bricks which were still hidden in the boxes she had yet to unpack.

"Don't be a smart ass," Rowan snapped to him. "What are you guys up to tonight?"

"I have a movie date tonight, Me, Steve, Gabby and Catherine," Danny said and Rowan immediately got a flash of how that was going to go.

"I like how you didn't pair yourself or Steve with your girlfriends," Rowan said with a smirk and Danny started at her perplexed. "Yeah, not Steve and Catherine, or you and Gabby, but you and Steve. You two dating?"

"Yeah, we're dating, you'd love that wouldn't you," Danny snarled as Chin laughed beside him. "No, we are not dating, you putz. Our girlfriends roped us into a movie date, they thought a double date would be cute."

Rowan snorted into her special, which turned out to be some kind of spicy chicken combo on a bed of jasmine rice, she knew they weren't dating but she still loved teasing Danny about it. Sucked about the double date, it was going to get terribly interrupted.

"You are going to have a hard time at that movie," Rowan warned him. "Steve is not hardwired for rom-coms, he doesn't get them."

Both Chin and Danny looked at her, something akin to pity on their faces. She had asked them to stop bugging her about the offhand comments she was prone to making. The ones that made them worry that she missed Steve and then would problem them to ask about how she was doing without Steve. She was fine. She was fine because she had to be. And once things got solidified with the music deal, she was going to be even better.

She knew it was because of that request that instead of asking her if she was okay, Chin cleared his throat instead and said: "Yeah, I don't have much going on tonight, what about you?"

"Mm, nothing, date night with Alex if he's around," she said with a shrug. "Can't be out too late though because I got a shift tomorrow."

"Mm, how romantic," Danny said.

Rowan frowned at him. "At least my date isn't going to get interrupted by a dead wedding crasher," she growled and then winced. Ah damn, she wasn't supposed to tell them that.

Danny sighed frustrated. "What did I tell you?" he said throwing his hands up in the air and beginning to gesture wildly. "What… what did I say? I was so clear. Do not give us intel from a vision. Didn't I? It's like you didn't hear a word I said, which is funny to me because you agreed!"

Rowan winced again. "I can't help it. I don't choose what comes to me," she whispered. "I wasn't going to tell you. Really, it just sort of slipped out."

"Kay, well no more slip ups, cause now that you've said it you know it's going to happen," Danny said. Chin put a hand to his shoulder but said nothing and Rowan stayed quiet too. There was no point in telling Danny that it came true even if she said nothing, because it amounted to the same thing. She needed to not tell them.

But it wasn't just because saying it out loud brought it to fruition, it was because they knew she was always right. And that meant, if she gave them a lead, they felt like they needed to follow it and since Rowan was supposed to be out of their lives, they couldn't just bring a lead that came from nowhere to Steve and expect him to chase after it. And telling him it came from her was not in the cards either.

"I'll try, okay?" she offered. "I can't make any promises, but I'll try."

Chin leaned forward and said: "If you have anything about Kono though, tell me," he said. "That, you don't keep to yourself."

Rowan smiled, she had purposely been keeping the Kono stuff from him to keep him from worrying.

"I have an idea, since Danny has his date with Steve to get to…" she started which caused Danny to throw his head back in frustration and groan. "Why don't me you and go for a walk, or a swim, or a ride or something?"

"What about Alex?" Danny asked for Chin.

"Alex will be fine, he's probably busy at work anyway," she said. Which was a lie. Alex was out for a drink with the guys. In fact, she hadn't seen him go in to the hospital in a while. "Besides, I know it's going to get interrupted anyway, leaves time for Alex later."

The two boys shrugged. She would be stupid to think that they hadn't noticed that she was spending less and less time with Alex. They were still together, they were still attracted to each other… maybe, they were still okay, but Rowan felt like she was smothering him and Alex felt like she was still hung up on Steve.

So, she had started spending less time with him. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all of that. She didn't know if it was working. She didn't know if she cared whether or not it did.

"Sounds like a plan," Chin said and Rowan smiled.

Danny rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, enjoy your date," he said. "I'm going to go enjoy mine. With Gabby, before you say anything, not Steve. My date with Gabby."

"The two of you end up shoulder to shoulder sharing popcorn, y'all might as well be dating," she mumbled and Danny lightly ruffled her hair.

"I love you, but I have nothing against popping you one in the jaw if I think it'll take that smirk off your face," he said and Rowan giggled again. Danny left them at the table and Chin smiled at Rowan.

"She's fine Chin," she whispered. "I made sure she would be fine."

Chin nodded. "I know, I mean I figured, but I want you to know, I need you to know, that Kono can take care of herself and neither of us want you to do something that will get you in trouble. That system he has for you, it's for you. Don't waste all your favours on others."

Rowan smiled. He had a point. But Rowan didn't care. She had all this power at her finger tips. She could really help the people she cared about. And she was going to do it no matter what happened to her. Because in the end, to her, they were all that mattered.

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Kono and Adam didn't go to Hong Kong to have a good time. They came to take names and damage people and that was what they were doing.

Tonight, they were torturing Yakuza idiots. The guy they had tied to the chair had tried lying to them, had said that he was there to avenge Michael's death but he never worked for Michael. This was someone new, someone else.

Then he said something to Adam in Japanese and Adam just fucking lost it. Decked the guy so hard a tooth flew out of his mouth.

"What did he say?" Kono asked.

"I said we're going to have fun with you," he snarled. "before we cut you up into little pieces…" "—shut your mouth!" "And we're going to make your boyfriend watch."

"Shut your mouth!" Adam bellowed and the gun came up and to the man's head. "Tell us who put a price on my head!"

"Kill me and you'll never find out who wants you dead," he said all cocky and smug. Adam lowered the gun from the man's face. He had something else to say, he opened his mouth to do so but then the man's head just blew up in their faces.

Adam and Kono stared at the body in shock. Adam's gun had dropped, and then he pulled out the clip to make sure that he hadn't actually shot the guy.

"What happened?" Kono asked bring her own gun out and then a man appeared from the shadows. He was tall and stocky with caramel skin, a tuft of curly brown air and the pair of brightest green eyes they had ever seen. He held a surprised rifle, wore black leather gloves and did not smile at them at all. Both Kono and Adam pointed their guns at him but he didn't flinch nor look even the slightest bit concerned.

"I've been told to identify myself as a Rowan-gram," he said to them and Kono immediately perked up. "But that is ridiculous and I refused to do so."

"Rowan sent you?" she asked.

"No. Wo Fat did. But I come bearing messages," he said and then quickly picked up his phone. "The man who put a hit out on you is the new Oyabun. Riku Sato. They're gunning for you too, girlfriend. Don't go to the police, he has ties with the triads and the triads own the police."

Kono turned to Adam, these were things that Adam knew. The two of them had lowered their guns at this point. "The next two make no sense, but I've been told you'll understand," he said, glancing up to them and then turning back to his phone. "Uh… don't fake your death… and… stop attacking the bad guys."

Kono blinked her eyes. One of those messages was meant for her, she knew it. "Mean anything to you?" he asked and both Adam and Kono nodded. "Alright, good, because I will not be coming back to save you if you two get in trouble. This is the last that he can interfere on this matter."

"How do you know that?" Adam asked.

The man looked up to them with his acid like green eyes, a brown eyebrow cocked in surprise. "Because I listen to the chatter. The more Wo Fat interferes the more interested in this Rowan person they become. If he's smart, he'll stop drawing attention to her. And everyone knows, Wo Fat is smart," he answered. "So, to sum up. Stop attacking the bad guys, I'm not going to come back to rescue you and don't fake your death. Alright. That's my job done. I'm out of here."

And then as quickly as he came, he disappeared again leaving Kono and Adam in the wake of what had happened.

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Chin had said he was heading to Tantalus Drive to check for the missing bride. Chin said he had traced her phone's last known location to there. He said something other things but Steve was distracted, the reception was bad and he barely heard what Chin had to say. Steve was distracted by Danny's twitchiness. He kept looking at his phone like it held all the answers. He had been near frantic about the going to that hotel this morning. Kept trying to keep Steve from the case, and he wasn't sure why. Then there was the offhand comment about the wedding crasher on the drive over, before it was confirmed it was a wedding crasher. He was inclined to believe that Danny strange behaviour was linked to Rowan, but she had cut them all out of her life. Not just him. All of them.

He wanted to ask what this was about, but when he got to the Palace, when he was going to put the Camaro in Danny's parking spot he found something strange waiting for him.

"Oh, look, look, look. It's Catherine's boss-slash-ex-boyfriend, uh, Billy. Is that his name?" Danny asked.

Steve rolled his eyes. Fucking Danny and his sass. "Yes… you… you know his name's Billy," Steve snapped winning only a smirk from Danny. He got the car parked, and then he glared in Billy's direction. "What's he doing here? They're supposed to be working."

"Oh, maybe he's come to ask for her hand in marriage," Danny offered and Steve turned to him. What the hell? Why would he say that?

He looked into Danny's eyes and sighed. "You're actually enjoying this, aren't you?" he asked.

Danny shrugged. "Well, we all gotta be reminded of our mistakes, babe."

Steve had nothing to say to that. This was not a mistake. Did he regret it? Yes. Catherine and Billy had chemistry, anyone could see that. Steve and Catherine had been hella rocky and while he was working on paving that road, seeing as all the others had been maliciously destroyed and this was all her had left, now would be the perfect time for an ex-boyfriend to swoop in and steal his girlfriend. And he talked Catherine into taking the perfect job with the perfect ex-boyfriend.

But he wasn't going to say any of that to Danny because then Danny would be right and he would never live it down.

So instead of saying anything Steve got up out of the car and walked towards Billy trying to make himself seem imposing, and much like the alpha male.

"Billy. What's up?" he called as he walked over.

Billy moved away from the car he had been leaning on. There was a coolness about him and looseness in his stance, a coolness that was mirrored in his thin smile. "Cath's just headed up to see you," he said.

The two shook hands in what Steve assumed was supposed to be genuine comradery but had become something more fake. "What are you doing, keeping the car warm?" Steve asked.

"We gotta make it a short visit. We're on a job," Billy replied, chuckling softly as if Steve had made a joke.

He hadn't.

Well if that's how Billy was going to take it, Steve was gonna throw him a curveball. "Hey, you remember Detective Danny Williams? He's my partner," Steve said.

Yes. That's right. Enjoy Danny's sass and judging stares. Squirm under the scrutiny of Danny's gaze. Squirm!

Billy turned to him and actually smiled. "Yeah, of course," he said as they shook hands.

The smile on Danny's face was plastic, his grip, lethal. "Hi. Good to see you… again," Danny said. Stressing the again in a sense that said that Danny shouldn't be seeing him again. Yes! Go Danny go!

"Actually, I'm glad I ran into you," Billy said turning his eyes away from Danny and that million-dollar glare. "I never got a chance to thank you.

Danny turned to him expectantly and Steve almost grabbed his face and turned it back to Billy. That was who was supposed to be getting the stare, not him. "For what?" he asked Billy going for the playing dumb option.

"Uh, for being cool with all this," Billy replied. Yes. Steve was cool, and Billy should be grateful. Steve shrugged off the praise, though internally he was adoring it. "Catherine told me how you encouraged her to take the job."

Steve could feel Danny rolling his eyes from where he was standing. And the quick glance of discomfort on Billy's face meant that he witnessed it to. Steve tried to hide his smile. The curveball was working.

"Don't mention it," Steve said. No seriously. Don't fucking mention it. Why did he have to do it with Danny right beside him.

"Truth is, I'm lucky to have her," Billy admitted. Well damn straight. Catherine was a catch. Both for the job and as a girlfriend. Too bad Steve had taken that for granted. Too bad Steve didn't really seem to care. "We make a great team."

He and Cath used to make a good team too. But he had thrown all of that away for Rowan. He couldn't see it as a complete loss though. If things had worked out with Rowan the way the should have, before Wo Fat got involved, then he'd be singing a different tune. But he could fix this. He could make things better.

He had been silent for a bit too long, he offered his hand to shake and said: "Good. Great. It's good to see you."

"You too," Billy said and then Steve let go and jogged away, leaving him with Danny as punishment. Yeah have fun with that.

Steve found Catherine in his office. Look all sorts of fine in a pant suit. He whistled with appreciation drinking her all on. Ohhh… he doubted Rowan could pull of a look like that.

Fuck! He really needed to stop comparing the two of them.

"Looking sharp, Rollins. With the earpiece, the whole thing, huh?" he exclaimed and that won him a soft blush and a bunch of hair flipping from Catherine. Damn, one week out of the Navy and she was one of those girls.

"Yeah. Billy and I are running a personal security detail on a visiting Saudi diplomat," she told him and Steve nodded. Ah she wanted something. She was here cause she wanted something. Oh how the tables had turned.

"Women, I know they dress modestly there, but, I mean, the way this guy looks at me, you'd think I was wearing a string bikini," she said softly.

Oh, her first client was making her uncomfortable? Well that was just not acceptable in his books. "What's his name? I'll beat him up," Steve answered immediately. He made it sound like he was joking but he was only half joking.

Catherine laughed and that smile lit up her face and that made it worth it. "Okay, see, that's sort of exactly what we're being paid to prevent," she reminded him and he smiled at her. Like he didn't know that. That was the whole point of the comment.

"So that would be bad," she summed up and Steve nodded.

"Got it."

"Which leads me to the reason why I'm here," she said, and there it was.

"Why, you're not here…? I thought it was to show me your new pantsuit," Steve said. He was joking, he was trying to make light of the situation and trying not to feel used. Seeing as he had been doing this to her for what… four years now?

"No, smart-ass!" she cried. "I need a favour."

"What'd'ya need?" he asked quickly.

"So, our client has a packed schedule tomorrow and Billy asked me to run some threat assessments on all the people he's meeting with, only—," she started.

"You don't have access to Navy intel anymore. So, you thought you'd come to Five-0 to run the background checks," Steve finished for her and she nodded happily.

"Look at you. You are handsome and smart," she said with a giant grin. Oh yes, flattery. Steve loved himself some flattery.

Steve pretended to be put off though. Put off and awkward. "Uh… hmm… I don't know how I feel about allocating Five-0 resources to a private security job," he told her, adding a few winces for effect.

He was lying of course. Of course, he was going to let her use his smart table. He just wanted to give her a hard time. To tease her like he used to before he got all obsessed with Rowan.

"Oh. Okay. Uhm. Remind me again how many satellites I have repositioned for you over the years," she ordered looking far from impressed. Okay maybe she didn't get the joke. "You owe me!"

Okay. She didn't get the joke. When he didn't answer right away, she started forward practically screeching his name.

"Okay, okay. Come on, I'll log you in," Steve said, leading her towards the smart table they used to do all their research and background checks. He pulled open everything that had been run before Chin left and noted that nowhere on that table did it say anything about tracing a phone.

So where had Chin gotten the information?

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Chin had gotten a phone call, right after the one he got off of with Kono and Adam, from Rowan. That morning, when they got called in on the missing bride case, Danny had been frantic. He had texted Chin a million times, so many times, to get him to get a hold of Rowan before they got to that hotel. Because of course their next case would be at the hotel where Rowan had gotten the housekeeping job at.

Chin had managed to get a hold of her, told her Danny and Steve were heading down for the case and to avoid if possible. Danny would work on running interference, all Rowan needed to do was stay away from the penthouse suite and the main lobby.

She didn't confirm, she didn't agree, she didn't even say she understood. She simply asked: "Is it the missing bride and the dead wedding crasher?"

Danny refused to answer her and Rowan didn't ask again. But Chin realized as soon as she knew about the missing bride before them that she had been having visions. Or dreams. Or whatever it was she was having.

The following phone call that came in that afternoon explained why.

Rowan had found the bride.

He didn't know how she did it, but she had. This made him nervous, because if Steve found out it was her it would not be good for her. Danny and Chin had been working so hard to keep him from the knowledge that she was back in their lives. Badly. They knew that he knew that they were up to something. They knew that he knew it had something to do with Rowan.

But Danny and Chin had been openly denying everything and Steve had no proof.

This would be the proof Steve needed.

Chin got on his motorbike immediately and went out to Tantulus Drive to meet Rowan, giving Steve a plausible reason why he was going out there in the first place. When he got there she was standing over a ridge and staring down at the bushes.

Chin dismounted and jogged over to her. Rowan just pointed and sure enough in the foliage he caught sight of a headlight.

"She's in there," she whispered.

"Are you sure?" Chin asked.

"She's not answering me. But I think she's unconscious," Rowan said. "I can climb down…"

Chin grabbed her arm. "No, let's not do that," he said. "Look me in the eye and tell me you're sure."

Rowan smiled at him, a wicked sort of grin. "100% positive. She's in that car… and she's still alive."

Chin nodded that was enough for him. "Alright, stay here," he said, heading down the rugged and dry hill.

"Nuh-huh, I'm coming with you. What if you need help?" she cried following after him.

Chin ignored her, there was really nothing he could do if she wanted to follow him. He wanted to remind her that this girl had been in a car accident and Rowan did not do well with blood.

He got to the wreckage and found the bride half out the window looking terribly pale. "Dahlia. Dahlia, can you hear me?" he asked as he got closer to her.

There was no response. Rowan rounded the wreckage and moved past him. She crouched by Dahlia's head and took her pulse. "I knew she was still alive," she crowed. She then took a good look at Dahlia and said: "Whoa that's a lot of blood."

Chin swept her aside and out of sight of the blood. As he pulled out his phone to call an ambulance to their location, he heard the first of Rowan's wretches. Well fuck him. That would be hard to explain if McGarrett noticed.

He'd just have to pray that he didn't.

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Steve and Danny walked right onto the ward just as Nathan, the jilted groom, stormed away from his mother despite her crying after him. Steve and Danny watched him go before stepping up to play interference before she ran after him.

He knew how Nathan felt. Rowan had done the same thing to him. Okay maybe not the same, but it resulted in the same emotions.

"You know what give him some space. You can't help him right now.

"Are you really sure that Dahlia did those things?" Barbara Cotchin asked. "Because the maid… I unno. Why was I even listening to the maid?"

Danny went ramrod straight beside him. "The maid?"

"Yeah, the girl who cleans our room. Nice thing, super sweet. She did a lot of extra work for the wedding, she'd made us special cupcakes as a sugar pick me up before the ceremony," Barbara said with a sigh. "She came in this morning and when she heard what happened she… well… she said you guys were wrong. That even if those things did happen everything else that between Dahlia and my son was real."

Steve glared at Danny. Danny's tip. Cupcakes. Chin finding the girl despite tracing her phone. And now someone was saying Five-0 was wrong and make grand predictions. Oh, the pieces were coming together now.

"This uh... maid… she got a name?" Steve asked.

"This is not pertinent to our case, we have bigger fish to fry," Danny argued and Barbara turned to him surprised.

Steve ignored Danny. "Name," he snapped.

He didn't know why he was surprised when the name Rowan fell from her lips.