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A/N: So Steve and Rowan have had their FIRST proper kiss. What do you think? I know it's a bit of a gyp… but guys… it still happened. We're almost there. Not very many chapters left until I have them working everything out! I can tell you that I've already written their first proper date, their first sex scene, I've written how they start making up and everything so there is A LOT to look forward to. Unfortunately though, this is the end of the marathon. But don't worry, I know this chapter ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, and we're all super excited to get to the cute parts, so you're getting an update tomorrow too. Since we've hit some milestones I'm going to posting three times next week. We've reached 400 reviews guys! So, to reward you guys for being such awesome reader's I'm gonna update Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week! Thanks so much for your continuing support, I honestly love all you guys! See you tomorrow!

Chapter 74

Steve stared at Rowan. She had hung up the phone call she was having with Wo Fat but still she wouldn't look at him. She hadn't looked at him since she had left the tunnels but he couldn't stop looking at her. Then she said that she didn't want to be alone. His heart was in pain. He wanted to stay with her. He wanted to soothe her fears. And most of all he wanted to know what the hell happened on this Karaoke night she mentioned. He assumed that since Wo Fat knew about it, and she hadn't been to a Karaoke night since he had rescued her from Wo Fat, that it had happened during her time in captivity. But it didn't explain why it upset her, why being in the tunnels had brought it back up. It worried him but he didn't know how to ask her what was wrong without it turning into a huge argument, or throwing himself at her to get another kiss.

"Chin's going to take you?" he asked instead pointedly staring at her.

Rowan looked up but didn't have to answer. Chin came in and did it for her. "Yep, can't get a hold of Alex, so I'm going to let her chill at my place."

The selfish part of Steve didn't want her to go, the selfish part of him wanted to know why Chin was just okay with letting her chill at his place when they were supposed to not be friends. Not to mention Chin needed to stay here to help with the case. So, what was he going to do? Just drop her off and leave her there alone.

It was the selfish part of him who said: "But she doesn't want to be alone."

"I know, Jerry's gonna Rowan-sit for us until we get a hold of Alex," Chin answered he was smiling down at Rowan, a hand on her shoulder. He was joking, he was trying to make her smile. But she didn't acknowledge it and Steve was too busy trying to not let his grimace be seen. He just wanted to keep her to himself, just a for a little while longer.

Rowan, who had been in the room for all of this exchange, looked the three men staring down at her with pain in her eyes.

"Please be nice to Marshall… he… he thought he was saving me," she whispered.

Ah yes, the man from the tunnels. A very troubled individual who was convinced Rowan was his saving angel. Danny had managed to snag him when he ran out of the tunnel. And by snag he meant tackled. The man had been all but uncooperative until Rowan came out with Steve and he got less cooperative and more screamy. It was at her request that he even cooperated with them at all. But the saving her by keeping her trapped in the scary tunnels was a stretch.

"He's not right, you know," she said pointing to her own head. "I uh… got a flash when he touched me, and guess what? No shocks. Anyway. He's been experimented on, it made him a bit loopy. You're looking for a doctor who's doing experiments on people with smaller than normal parts of the brain. I don't know which one but I think Max can tell you. If you guys move fast you can save the party guy's son from the so called cure the mad doctor's going to give him."

Danny turned to Steve. "Did you catch any of that?" he asked.

"Kind of," he said. He turned to Chin. "You… uh… you can go. Just uh… hurry back. I'll text you the location when you're… uh… done."

Rowan was already standing. He watched her walk towards Chin, going past Steve to do so. He couldn't help but watch her. The desire to reach out and snatch her up into his arms again. He wanted to kiss her again. A completely unreasonable desire.

"Are you going to be okay?" he asked instead.

"Yes. I'm… I'll be… yeah, I'm fine," she whispered, her eyes avoiding his. "Thanks for… thanks for saving me."

As soon as she was gone, Danny turned on Steve. "Alright, McGarrett," he said with a grin. "What happened with you and Miss. Pierce?"

"Nothing… I just… I just found her that's all," he said.

"Shut up," Danny said. "Something happened. I can see it on both of your faces. Tell me what happened."

"Nothing," Steve growled.

"I don't buy it. What happened?"

"Nothing happened," Steve repeated.

"For god sake, why are you lying? Look at you, the two of you are more on edge than before. Something happened. What happened?"

"Danny if you don't drop this, I can't be held responsible for what happens to you," Steve warned and Danny raised his hands in mock surrender.

"Alright, alright," he said. "But I will find out. One way or another. Come on, let's go check if Rowan's theory is right, alright?"

Steve followed him, yes he probably would find out. But until that happened, Steve wasn't going to breathe a word to anyone.

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Rowan's little hunch was right, as it always was. They saved the kid before the mad doctor put the parasite in his brain, but not before the kid slit the mad doctor's throat.

Danny would have been crazy to think that Steve was okay. He could see it in the way the man was holding himself. Something had definitely happened with Rowan and it was majorly affecting Steve's behaviour.

But Rowan was crashing at Chin's. Chin and Jerry had tried to get answers, about the karaoke night, about what happened in the tunnels but nothing would come out of her mouth. She had absolutely shut down. Chin said as soon as he got her home she passed out on his couch, out in the open in the light. And upon waking her up she had been easy to startle and seemingly wide eyed and terrified.

Danny wanted to bring her to his place, smaller, easier for him to watch her. Hopefully it would make her fell better, safer, too. But as Danny had Grace, Rowan was staying with Chin.

Cue to Danny rooting through his washroom cabinets because Grace had refused to change the toilet paper roll.

"Grace, when you finish a roll of toilet paper, you're supposed to change it," he called into his house.

Grace appeared at the door just as Danny found the empty plastic that was supposed to house a brand new bunch of toilet paper. How the hell had he gone through that much toilet paper in just two days?

Danny turned and saw a look that was all too familiar on Grace's face. "Uh… where's all the toilet paper Grace?"

Once Danny got the answer out of her, he had no choice but to taker her straight to Steve's. With Catherine out, whatever had happened between he and Rowan seemed to be affecting him less. Steve was more relaxed now, even though he stood ram-rod straight arms crossed watching as Grace collected every bit of toilet paper from off his lawn, out of his trees and off of his car.

"I don't get it, Grace. I don't understand. Why would you do this to your Uncle Steve?" Danny asked.

Steve shot Grace a pained look. "Yeah, come on, kid, I thought you liked me. Did… did I do something to upset you?" he asked.

Grace shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know," she said.

Danny shook his head. "That is not an answer," he shot back. "You owe your Uncle Steve an apology and an explanation."

Grace hung her head and sighed. "Well… its just… My friends dared me to do it, and I thought it'd be better to do it to my own house than to someone else's. Someone else's would be mean," she explained.

Danny looked around at where he was. What had his daughter gotten confused? "Yeah, but you didn't do it to your house, you did it to Steve's."

"I know. That's cause Auntie Ro called before I could do our tree and she said that you'd probably like it better if I did it to Uncle Steve's," she said. "She even told me the best way to throw the toilet paper to get it to go the farthest and unroll the most."

Auntie Ro. Oh that Rowan. Causing shit from Chin's house. What the hell was that girl thinking? Really. Well… actually she was right, funny really, if Grace had done it to his house he probably would have told her to do it to Steve's house next time. Danny looked at Steve and saw that the stiffness was back and the smile fell right off his lips. Fully and completely. He knew that look, had it catalogued in his memory. It was not a good look.

"Okay, now, babe, the girl has had a rough day. Okay. It's been a real bad day for her. Promise me, promise me that you won't go and arrest her," Danny cried.

"She committed an act of vandalism and she needs to be punished," Steve growled. Well that wasn't true at all. Rowan hadn't done anything but suggest a target. But that didn't stop Grace's eyes from growing wide, with panic.

"I'm sorry Uncle Steve," she cried going in for the hug. "I'm sorry I TPed your house. I won't do it again. Please don't be mad at Auntie Ro, I just want all of you to get a long!"

Steve shot Danny a look, a painful look, one that told Danny that Steve had been absolutely bamboozled by Grace's sweet demeanour and big tearful brown eyes.

"All right, all right, I won't do anything to Auntie Ro," he said. "Okay. But…. Uh… if she tells you to do anything to my stuff again you tell me right away. Okay?"

Grace smiled up to him and nodded happily. "Kay, go wait for me in the car," Danny said, handing Grace his keys. Grace said good-bye, hugged Steve once more and then skipped off and Danny turned back to Steve. "Man, I'm sorry about this."

"Naw, don't worry about it. Grace is a good kid. It's Rowan who's the bad influence," Steve muttered.

Danny half laughed. "True. Her and I will be having words about that let me tell you," he said. "I'll see you soon, eh?"

"What about tomorrow. Me and Cath, we were gonna do dinner. We can make it a thing, me, you, Cath, Chin." he said.

Danny thought about it. He couldn't. Tomorrow he had plans. Plans he couldn't tell Steve about because Steve still couldn't play nice with Rowan. Plans that included Chin, and Jerry and Max. Plus, he doubted Catherine wanted to do a group this, she probably just wanted a nice date night with Steve. "I wish I could but I got Grace," he said pairing it with a noncommittal shrug.

"So? Bring her," Steve said. Well damn, that's true, he could easily have done that, both Steve and Catherine loved Grace, hell it was what he was planning to do for tomorrow's dinner. So… how was he going to get himself out of this one?

"We'll see. After this stunt I don't want to reward her as of yet, you know, like taking her for dinner. But I'll keep you posted," Danny cried and then jogged back to the car before Steve could ask him anymore questions. God. So many secrets how was he going to keep track of them all?

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Trevor got to Toronto and went straight to UofT. He had to wait for his father to finish his lecture but as soon as class was done he practically pounced on his father.

Trenton actually smiled at him. This big huge grin when he saw him. "Trevor, my boy," he said pulling him in for a hug. "Not that I'm not happy to see you but what are you doing here?"

"I have something to show you," he said. "But not here."

Trenton nodded and together the two walked across the campus to where the building with his office was. They made small talk along the way. Trenton asked about his skating, and the girls he trained, whether anyone of them would be going to the Olympics that year. In turn Trevor asked whether any of his father's experiments had advanced. And they had not, in fact, his father had stopped experimenting entirely. He had not felt the desire to look into alternate universes since returning from Hawaii.

Trevor found this absolutely tragic. Yet another thing that Fucking Lieutenant Commander Steven McGarrett had taken from his family.

Once he got his dad sitting down in front of a computer, he pulled up the video and let it play the part, the part in the bar.

Rowan Pierce, red and blonde hair, a dull blue sling keeping one arm up, a struggling singing psychic that was way too close the man who had deported them from Hawaii. The girl who had the trademark Pierce eyes. His father seemed absolutely mesmerized by the photo. Maybe he recognized her too.

"Trevor… Trevor what is this?" his father asked. Okay, maybe not.

"That… that is Rowan Pierce. Dad… Rowan Pierce!" Trevor cried. "That's the girl. She's there. She's in Hawaii. That's who we were looking for."

Trenton stared at the freeze frame on her face. He seemed skeptical. "Uh… how do you know?"

"Look at her!" Trevor cried. "She looks like us. She has… she has our eyes. And look who she's with. Dad, she's with McGarrett… the man who kicked us out of Hawaii. Savannah Walker, the talk show lady, said that Rowan was his ex but if you watch the full episode it's clear as day he's not even remotely over her. He's controlling and manipulative, he arrests her for no reason. So there's bad blood there. Really bad blood."

Trenton looked at him and then back to the computer screen and then sighed. "Trevor… I know… I know you're upset and I know that Commander McGarrett didn't leave a good impression…"

"He dated this girl… saved her from a known criminal, a girl who has the same name as the person we were looking for and he never thought to mention the coincidence?" Trevor snapped. "Dad… come on… I said he was hiding something, that this couldn't have just been about us upsetting the locals. This was it. He was hiding her!"

Trevor stared at his father, his eyes pleading with him to believe him. "Please dad… please… I know I'm right. I just… I just know."

Trenton appraised him, his eyes narrowed in though. "I will admit that it's suspicious and that it is one hell of a coincidence," he admitted. "But… I don't know… Trevor… McGarrett… he's a… he's a very powerful man and well… let's be real here. The odds that we actually pulled a real person through the void is very… well… low…"

Trevor sighed. He slouched against his father's desk. Trenton took in his son's slumped shoulders and dejected aura and sighed once more. "But you know what… I bet… I bet if we come up with a convincing lie, we can get some cops to request her DNA. A DNA test would prove her to be related to us. Then we could put this to rest."

Trevor turned to him, hope lit up in his eyes. "Really? I mean… yeah… that makes sense…" he said trying not to smile.

"Before we go to the precinct, why don't we come up with a story that doesn't involve alternate realities and ray guns hmm?" Trenton asked and Trevor went to pull up a seat. It was going to happen. He was going to get his sister back.