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A/N: Well I managed to find an internet connection while in Amsterdam, so I did my best to get this up for you guys. Cause I'mma be hella tired when I get back home. For those of you who were curious about what happened to Alex, it'll be explained in this chapter when Rowan and Danny have a heart to heart. If you're still confused about all of that I'll post a little refresher at the end of the next chapter. This chapter does close up this little bit of drama, you will find out what happened to Rowan, you'll realize that you knew who that guy was the whole time, and Wo Fat's gonna be cute again. Keep me posted on whether or not you need a refresher. See you Friday!

*Updated* I accidentally posted the chapter twice with in this document, not sure how I did that. But it's fixed now. For the guest who asked who Alex is... uh... he's Rowan's boyfriend. I would suggest going back and reading any of the previous chapters, he's been mentioned before... he's been like a solid feature since chapter 3.

Chapter 76

"I'm not going to talk to you," she said for the fifth time.

Danny glanced to Steve who looked just about ready to slap Rowan. This interrogation was not going well for him. Usually he got the criminals to crack, but Rowan didn't crack under his intimidating gaze and instead seemed to be cracking him. Plus every time Steve made a move to employ his usual violent tactics Danny stepped in between them and made them back down. Rowan wasn't their usual suspect and Danny was certain there was a completely rational reason for her DNA to be under their victim's finger nails. And she might have told them by now if she hadn't been absolutely livid with Steve.

"You have to tell me something," Steve pleaded. "Because right now… right now… you're all I got in the way of a murder suspect."

Rowan's blue eyes stared forward. She took another deep breath and said: "I am not going to talk to you."

It had been like this for the last thirty minutes. Steve groaned. "Fine. Fine, you want to be uncooperative? Fine… I'll charge you with murder! Since you don't want to tell me otherwise."

"I refuse to talk to you," she growled, her voice lower, more dangerous. Her eyes were finally on him and they were on fire. "I don't care who I talk to. But it won't be you."

Steve roared. Clearly way past frustrated and Danny stepped in between them again. He hadn't listened before but now, maybe he would. "Kay… babe… why don't you get us some coffee okay? I'll get her talking, you get me coffee."

Steve glared at him. He glared at Rowan. But he seemed to realize that Danny was right. Rowan wasn't going to talk to Steve. But she'd talk to someone else. Steve was probably hurt by this, probably infuriated by this, but if he wanted answers he was going to have to leave. Steve stormed out and as soon as the door closed behind him Rowan's proud shoulders sagged and began to shake.

"Congratulations, you found a way to make him even crazier," Danny snapped.

When Rowan looked up, she was crying and Danny's heart melted. "I can't stop… it won't stop replaying in my head."

"Rowan you gotta tell me what happened," Danny said.

"I scheduled an early appointment with my shrink but… but… it won't stop. Since the tunnels… since the picture. Every time I close my eyes I see his face," she sobbed.

"Rowan…." Danny snapped. "Rowan… you need to tell me what happened. We can't help you if we don't know what happened."

"He's going to be so mad…" she sighed. Oh fuck. She had killed the guy. She really truly had killed him. How the hell was he going to tell Steve that?

"Just take a deep breath and start from the beginning," he ordered, leaning over and uncuffing her from the chair.

Rowan rubbed her wrists absently before clearing her throat. "Uh. Okay," she whispered. "Uh… back when I was kidnapped… there was… uh… a karaoke night. Some of Wo's helpers put it together, Juan in particular, he was trying to cheer me up…"

"Wait a second… Wo's helpers?" Danny asked. "Juan?"

"Oh uh… Juan Carlos Dias. He was kind of a friend I made when I was stuck with Wo Fat."

"As in Armando Dias?" Danny asked.

"Yeah, that was his uncle," she said. Okay… she was making friends with arms dealer's nephews. Nothing weird about that right?

"You made friends with a lot of Wo's… uh… helpers?" he asked.

"I had nothing to do Danny. They were keeping me company, most of them were really nice," she snapped.

"Alright, alright, talk to me about the Karaoke night," he said.

"Kay, well they had me sing a song," she told him. "And when the song was over I tried to slip away… you know… to escape. That's when… when he grabbed me and… uh… uh…"

He had attacked her. That explained her reaction. That explained why she was shaking before and why she was shaking now. She also could have just been cold she was still in her pjs.

"Take a deep breath," he said to. "He can't hurt you anymore."

Rowan nodded and swallowed carefully before returning to her tale. "He uhm… he dragged me into the supply closet and he tried to, he tried to make me… but he didn't. Wo… Wo found me and kind of beat the absolute crap out of him. He told me he'd deal with it. He told them to make… he told them to make him suffer."

Danny took all of this in. He wanted to probe her for more, but at the same time he didn't. Because Rowan was scared, and any more info would send him into a rage. If he was this mad how was how Steve going to react?

"Okay, okay," he said. "That would explain the DNA under his nails. But I'm going to have to confirm this… do you think he'll confirm?"

Rowan whose eyes were firmly lowered merely whispered: "Yes. I mean… maybe… I don't know…"

Danny took that in and then pet her leg which caused her to jolt. "Sorry. Sorry. Didn't mean to startle you. I have one more question to ask you, do you think you're up to answering just one more question?" he asked her.

Rowan swallowed her tears and nodded and he smiled sympathetically at her. "Can you tell me what happened to you and Steve in those tunnels, because… uh… he's been acting weird, and I wanna know what I'm dealing with."

Rowan sighed, those tears started up again and she looked away from him. "Uhm… I… I kind of… I kind of thought that I was… dating him… maybe… I unno. I just wasn't in the right head space at that time being so scared and all," she answered. But that didn't tell him what had happened. Rowan cleared her throat and added: "I… sort of… I kissed him. Just jumped on top of him and gave him no choice. I apologized, but I don't think it helped."

Not that wouldn't have helped. Steve had his obsession with her. It had probably made him worse, to have her kiss him, like he no doubt secretly wanted and then have her apologize and tell him that it was all a mistake. Steve needed to tell her how he felt, but every time he brought it up, he started talking about Wo Fat and betrayals and how Rowan was under the impression that he and Catherine were perfect so he was working on that, because didn't Catherine deserve to be abandoned. All the while Danny just glared at him and rolled his eyes.

Danny took all that in, smiled at her and pet her leg again, this time she didn't jump. "Just give me a couple of minutes to talk to him and once this is cleared up, we'll let you go. Okay?"

Rowan nodded and Danny left. Once he got outside, he found that Steve had not gone far. Instead he was right outside the door.

"Well?" he snapped.

"Wo's her alibi," Danny said with an apologetic shrug. "Sorry but we gotta call him."

Steve sighed. "Of course he is," he growled. "Of course."

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It took more than an hour for Steve to get the permission to get Wo Fat in front of a computer monitor for a skype call, and for the prison to get all of that set up for them. But once he got him, he was ready. Ready to snap. Ready to figure out what was going on. Danny hadn't given him details on what she said, just that Wo Fat was her alibi. Said he wouldn't be able to handle the answer to how Rowan knew this man. They were just going to get him to admit he killed the guy and leave it at that.

But it was killing him that she wouldn't talk to him. Why didn't she trust him? Why was she doing this to him?

Wo Fat's face appeared on the computer screen across from them a scowl on his face, but once he saw who it was a smug grin spread across his face. "To what do I owe the pleasure, Commander McGarrett?"

"I need you to supply an alibi for your favourite person," Steve growled.

That smug face faded and then he was well and truly glaring at them. "What did you do to her?" he snapped.

"He arrested her," Danny said, edging in and pushing Steve aside. Wo's eyes swung back and forth between them before carefully settling on Danny.

"Why?" he asked.

"We found trace DNA under the finger nails of our victim. DNA that belongs to her," Steve growled.

"What? Did she get attacked by Catherine again? You gotta keep that girlfriend of yours in line, McGarrett! This is harassment!"

How nice of him to champion himself for Rowan. As usual. Steve scowled at him.

"No, not Catherine. But she might have attacked Miguel Costa," Steve said.

"And I'm supposed to know who that is?" Wo Fat asked in a dry tone. "Look. If a girl like Rowan Pierce felt the need to attack someone, you can believe that she had a goddamn good reason."

Steve ignored that comment and showed him the picture of their victim, before he ended up in that barrel. Wo Fat swore. "I told them to cut his goddamn fingers off," he snarled under his breath. "If she told you I killed the guy, then she's right. I did."

"What the hell…" Steve growled because that was way too easy of a confession. Danny shoved him aside again. "Alright thank you for that…"

"Wait why?" Steve cried shoving Danny right back. "You didn't just torture and kill a man for no reason. And why did we find her DNA under her fingernails?"

Wo Fat blinked his eyes and then turned to Danny. "You guys called me for an alibi but you don't know what he did to her?"

"Did to her?" Steve echoed.

"I haven't divulged the full story, as I thought…" Danny started but Wo Fat wasn't having it. He turned his unimpressed glare from Danny to Steve.

"He attacked her, McGarrett," Wo Fat growled. "I found him with his hands up her shirt and down her pants. So, I had his hands broken, his knees capped, ribs shattered, we all took turns fucking up his face, got pretty creative with a metal pipe and when he was nothing but an incoherent mess who couldn't even beg for his life, I put a bullet between his eyes."

Steve stood in the wake of that confession. He glanced to Danny and realized that this was why he hadn't told him. Because he had been right, this was something he couldn't take, his brain couldn't even fathom it. He was in shock. He was filled with so many emotions. So many terrible, violent emotions.

"Is that enough of an alibi for her?" he asked.

It was enough, more than enough.

"Yes, thank you," Danny said. He went to end the call but Wo Fat leant forward.

"Hey. She didn't sound okay when I finally got a hold of her yesterday," he said to them. "I uh… understandably couldn't have gotten her anything in the way of help. I tried my best to take care of her, of course, but she mentioned the karaoke night yesterday and with all this… I'm guessing you showed her the picture… I think… with this it might have gotten worse…"

Oh for godsake. PTSD. Rowan might have been having some PTSD type symptoms after this. Especially when it wasn't dealt with correctly. That explained the fugue state, the kiss, the desire to not be alone. But it didn't explain why she ended up in bed with Chin or with Alex.

"Yeah, uh… we know… we're dealing with it," Danny said and then the called ended.

"Alright. Mystery solved," Danny said to him.

"You knew that man attacked her and you didn't tell me," he hissed.

"Of course not," Danny growled. "Look at you." Steve looked away from him. His eyes foggy with the pain. Danny looked away too, his hand rubbing the back of his head. "I'm… uh… I'm going to go let her out."

As he left Chin came rushing in. "You arrested Rowan… again?!" he cried and Steve sighed. This day could not get anymore worse for him. It really couldn't.

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Danny got to the interrogation cell and opened it. Rowan wasn't in the chair anymore but in the back corner curled up into herself. Her head was in her knees, her fingers in her hair. That was not the image of a girl who was doing alright. He crouched down in front of her but not even that got her attention

"Hey," he said softly putting a hand gently to her leg and she jumped again. She pulled her head out of her knees and stared tearfully up at him. "Hey… are you… are you okay?"

"I can't stop remembering," she said rubbing under her eye with the heel of her hand. "I was doing so good pushing it back but now…"

"Look, Chin just came in did you want to go home with him again?" he asked.

Rowan shook her head. "No… uh… no… Alex is already…"

"Screw Alex… this is about you," he said.

"No, I can't… I got… I got him fired," she admitted and Danny paused.

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

Rowan sighed, took a shuddering deep breath and said: "Alex got fired because he's dating me and it's a conflict of interest."

Was that what that shmuck had told her? Danny lowered himself to the ground and cleared his throat. "Uh… is that what he told you?" he asked, when she nodded he scowled. "Uh… sorry but he lied to you."

Rowan blinked her eyes at him. "I'm sorry… but… uh… what? How would you even know about that?"

"Because he called Five-0 to come get him out of getting arrested," Danny said. "I intercept that call, so I went and not Steve. Would have been a different story if Steve had gone."

"Arrested?" Rowan echoed.

"Yeah. He got clocked stealing meds with the intent to sell," Danny told her. "He told Duke to call us, said we owed him for all the bullshit we kept putting the two of you through. I went down. Found out what the charge was. I said they couldn't prove he was selling the drugs, so they settled with just firing him instead of firing and arresting him."

Rowan sat there, her eyes blinking rapidly. "He… lied to me…" she growled. It wasn't a question, he realized, the reality was just beginning to sink in. "How could he… how could he do that to me? I was so upset… I felt so guilty and he just let me think it was all my fault."

Danny didn't know what to say other then: "He's a jerk." He didn't think that would be a good thing to say about the guy she was dating, even if it was true.

Rowan rubbed her eyes, and got up a deep scowl on her face. "I'm fine," she said to Danny as he got up to, the question already on his lips. "I'll deal with it. Thanks Danny."

She got outside to where Steve was standing and Danny wondered how long he had been standing there. For a moment the two of them just stared up at one another, a million and one emotions playing across Steve's face. All the words Steve wanted to say were in his eyes but none of them fell off his lips.

"Unless you have something else to charge me with, I'd like to leave," Rowan growled and hurt flashed across Steve's face.

Danny knew that she was angry with the way Steve was treating her but he also figured that the current attitude was more because she was mad Alex.

Instead of saying anything, Steve stepped out of the way and gestured for her to go past her, which she did without a second though. As Steve watched her head towards the elevator, Danny walked to his friend's side.

"She could have told me," Steve said in a small voice. "She could have just said… I wouldn't have… I wouldn't…"

"None of that matters now," Danny said.

"Is she… you know… okay?" he asked.

Danny shrugged. "I don't know, but don't worry about it. She's got people who are going to watch her," he said and then pinned Steve with a knowing glare. "She's not our problem anymore, remember?"

As Steve nodded Danny hoped the guilt of his secrets weren't apparent in his eyes, that his shoulders didn't show the weight he was carrying. He wasn't sure how long he could keep this pretense up.

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Alex hadn't been home when she got there. Unfortunate. That meant she was going to do this in public. Well too bad for him, he should have thought about that before he lied to her. She stormed into Barry's garage ready for a war. Ready to yell at him.

She waited for them to finish the song, she waited for him to smile at her as if he didn't just let her heap the guilt of him getting fire onto herself with absolutely no attempt to tell her the real reason.

"Anything you want to tell me?" she asked, her hands on her hips as she glared up at him. She was giving him a chance to tell her the truth. He did not take it.

"We're not sure of the key change in Hallelujah," he said instead and that was a whole other can of worms.

"I've already told you… Hallelujah was not written for you and is therefore not going on your album," she growled.

"Yeah… you said that before… but you know you got me fired…" he said shooting the guys a grin over his shoulder.

"Really. You sure you didn't get fired because you decided to turn drug dealer on the side?" she asked and Alex's face fell.

"Aww fuck, really? Didn't take long for Janet to tell you the truth. Did she tell you about the other girls too?" he asked.

Rowan blinked her eyes. Other girls? "No, because she's not who told me. You got Five-0 to convince them not to arrest you. Did you seriously think it wouldn't get back to me?"

"Uh… honestly no, because Steve wasn't the one who came, Danny did," Alex said.

"He's the one that can't keep a secret," Rowan complained. She folded her arms over her chest and glared at him. "So what other girls are we talking about here?"

When Alex said nothing, the pianist Paul added: "You're not the first patient he's dated. It's a habit. He picks up girls on his shifts. So… yeah… that's what he means."

Rowan turned her incredulous eyes up to him. Oh god, she was a pattern. Alex glared at Paul who merely shrugged and said: "We need her to keep writing dude. And if she breaks up with you we at least want her to know we're on her side…"

"Oh my god, you people are disgusting!" she cried and then stormed away, ignoring their cries for her to come back. Why had she done this to herself? Why?

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Rowan waited until Chin came up on his bike before she left the bus-stop she had camped out at. She skipped up to him as he dismounted, he must have spotted her, probably before she left the bus stop. He stood there waiting for her and when she got there she stared up at him with her irresistible Pierce eyes and smiled sheepishly.

"What are the chances I can crash on your couch again tonight?" she asked.

"Uh… pretty high," he said. "But… uh… you know I'm not going to let you sleep on the couch right?"

"Pish posh, my back can survive a few nights on a couch," she said, following him to the door.

Chin half laughed and turned back to her. "Did you just suggest that I'm old?" he asked and Rowan shrugged.

"If the wrinkle fits," she said with a teasing grin on her face.

Chin shut the door after himself and frowned at her. "You're lucky you're a defenceless little girl otherwise I'd be taking you down." Rowan laughed at him already heading to the couch, with the big bag of clothes she brought with her.

"You crashing for the night or for the month?" Chin asked.

Rowan thought about it. She wasn't entirely sure. "Uh… more like until I get an apology," she replied. "So, you know… however long that will take. I will endeavour to not climb into your bed this time."

Chin frowned at her. In a way that told her Danny hadn't kept his mouth shut about what had happened to her. "Uh… you know… it's okay. If you have another nightmare… if you ever need anything, just wake me up… or call me… or Danny?"

As if summoned by the name alone the door opened and Danny walked in. "You can't believe what shit you caused," Danny said. "Do you have any idea what he's turned into? I almost had to bail on tonight to comfort him."

Chin frowned at him. "It's not her fault, you know," he complained. "But… I guess… if he needs someone one of us should go."

"Yeah," Rowan said coming to stand beside Chin. "We can have dinner at any time. If he needs you guys you should go to him. Run across the beach into each other's arms or whatever you two do when you're reunited."

"Okay, don't make this like a chick-flick," Danny said, the hands coming out of his pockets to wave around. "I have already told you we're not dating. Besides, I think it's a little bit more important to deal with the traumatised party, not the one who's upset because he feels like he couldn't protect the traumatised party."

Rowan frowned at Danny. "Protect me? I was kidnapped. How the hell was he supposed to protect me?"

Danny shrugged. "I don't know. He's unreasonable. You're unreasonable. We going to dinner or what?"

"Yeah, yeah, I just got to change," she said. She made the mistake of touching Danny, just a light pat on his arm and then the whiteness came.

It was like she was dreaming. Like she was sitting on a cloud looking down at the scene. Of a man with light brown hair begging a dark-skinned dark-haired demon not to kill him.

"Tell me where the money is Matty."

Matty why did she know that name? It was so familiar why was it so familiar? She didn't even flinch when the trigger got pulled. She watched passively as the body was dumped into the oil drum she recognized from her dreams

"Maybe his brother knows something. Let's go ask Detective Williams about it."

Detective Williams? That was Danny. Oh my god. Matty. Matthew Williams, the guy who embezzled all the money and disappeared. That's was right, he was going to die.

She jerked out of the vision, as easily as it fell upon her. She blinked her blue eyes up at Danny who was frowning at her.

"You okay? You kinda went into your own world there for a minute," he said to her.

Rowan forced herself to smile and tell him that she was all right. As she went to change, she wondered to what length she'd go to save Danny's brother. Except, she had no idea where he was, and neither did Danny if she remembered correctly. How would she even start to go about saving someone when she didn't know where they were? God why was this so complicated?

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Steve sat in the lawn chair he had out on his personal stretch of beach mulling over what had just happened.

He had not been expecting a phone call from Duke this evening. He was definitely not expecting to hear the words: "TPS has called and requested a sample of Rowan's DNA." TPS, Toronto Police Service. The Peirce's had gone to the police. Duke couldn't ignore or deny the request so he had sent their on-file-sample down that afternoon.

Steve wasn't worried. He had already run their DNA against Rowan's and they weren't a match. But regardless of Steve warding them off and sending them away, they still managed to find out about his Rowan Pierce on the island. Maybe the failed DNA test would keep them away. Or maybe… like him… they'd realize that a girl from a different reality wouldn't have the same DNA as them. That it would be similar but not an exact match. Maybe he'd have to admit to Rowan just what he had done in the name of protecting her.

He couldn't imagine that going well for him, he just couldn't.

Catherine draped herself on him from behind, her arms around his neck as she pressed a kiss to his cheek. "Lost in thought?" she asked.

"You can say that," he whispered.

"Anything you want to talk to me about?" she asked and Steve shook his head. This wasn't something he could talk to Catherine about and Danny was at home with Grace who wasn't feeling well on top of being grounded. He also hadn't been picking up his phone. "How about we go out for dinner? Would that cheer you up? Picking the restaurant?"

"I don't feel like going to a restaurant. How about Kamekona's is that okay?" he asked.

Catherine smiled at him and he had a feeling that even though she didn't want to she was going to say yes anyway. To appease her, he agreed to make in a more than casual affair. He put on his fancy jeans, and a nice dress shirt while Grace wore a casual navy-blue flared summer dress. His first thought, seeing her with her hair braided back and her cute little dress that she was trying to imitate Rowan. He had shrugged that off as preposterous until he caught a whiff of her scent as they got into his truck. Rowan's familiar floral smell wafted off of her and he knew then, almost immediately that Catherine was trying to duplicate Rowan.

He knew why she would feel like she had to do that, but it made his skin crawl. It made him angry that this girl felt like the only way to make him interested in her again was to act dress like Rowan. It made him even angrier when his body reacted to it. God, he had really fucked this up.

Catherine had chatted aimlessly as he drove and he chimed in when he thought he could. But once he pulled into the lot, once the car was stopped, he froze.

Out of all the things he expected to see he didn't think he'd see a table of his friends. Danny, Chin, Max and Sabrina, and Jerry, all sitting at one of the picnic benches as Kamekona doled out meals and Flipper handed out snow cones.

"Didn't they say they were busy today?" she asked him.

Danny and Chin had both begged off on plans tonight for various reasons. Chin had something to do, Danny had used Grace as an excuse, but Steve could see her sitting between Danny and…

Rowan.

She was wearing a strapless black floral, empire waisted summer dress with her hair braided up into a crown. Even from where he was sitting, he could spot the white starburst scar between her shoulder blades and the dull red scar from the gun shot on her shoulder. Grace too was wearing a dress, this one a frilly little white one with big chunky straps and her hair had been done up the same way as Rowans.

Catherine let out a horrified: oh. She then looked at him almost scared, like she didn't know how he'd react and that stung. "Uh… I thought you said that she cut all of you guys out?"

Yeah, he had thought so too. But clearly she hadn't. Had it all been a show? Had they made up and not told him? Clearly whatever had happened he was not a party to it just like he had not been made aware that they were having a party tonight.

Steve put his car into reverse, his body shaking. He wanted to crash this party, he wanted to shout at them and demand what was going on and why he hadn't been invited. But he knew why. He hadn't been invited because Rowan was there and she didn't want to see him anymore. And apparently it was only him she didn't want to see.

Catherine watched him. Watched as he shook, as he drove away. "Uh… is there… uh… Rainbows? Why don't we go to Rainbows? Or uh… uh…"

"I need you to calm down Steve," she said softly resting her hand on his arm. "I can see this has shaken you up."

"Of course it has. They're lying to me. Excluding me. They chose a side and they chose hers," he snapped.

"I really don't think that's what happened. I think they just didn't want to make their dinner uncomfortable, so this one time, you know… you weren't invited. How many times do the boys go out with you and Rowan is included?" she asked.

Okay she had him there. But it still hurt. It hurt a lot.

"You know… I've been thinking," she said softly. "You've been doing much better since she stopped talking to you…"

That was a flat out lie.

"Maybe… maybe things would get even better for all of us if you did the same," she offered.

Steve winced. She meant well, he knew she did, but he had a really hard time distancing himself. Though to be fair, he couldn't be any more distant than he was right at that moment.

"What you mean like… quit her cold turkey?" he asked.

He clocked Catherine's perplexed stare out of his peripherals. "Why you addicted or something?" she asked.

It wasn't a joke, she was serious, which was unfortunately because he was starting to think that he was seriously addicted to Rowan too. Still Steve laughed it off and told her no and that he cut Rowan out of his life completely. Knowing full well that he had just agreed to the hardest challenge of his young life and feeling more than a little discouraged and disappointed in his friends.

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Chin had put up a valiant fight but in the end he took his bed and Rowan took the couch, just like she said she would. It took her changing and throwing herself down on the couch and refusing to move. They had wrestled a bit but Rowan was slippery now that Wo Fat had taught her some things so every time he lifted her up to get her off of the couch she could trip him up and get herself back to the couch. Luckily, he gave up but it took her agreeing, that if she were still at his place the following night, they'd switch. She really hoped Alex didn't take that long to apologize to her though.

She had told him that she was fine, but just in case he was a light sleeper she had waited at least an hour after he went to bed to get back up and sneak out the back. She carefully made her way to the beach in the dark, her phone illuminating the way. Once she was safely out of ear-shot she opened up that cursed app.

She may have hated that app and all the drama it had caused her but she loved her codenames.

E.T. Phone home.

Pithy and nostalgic references. Amazing. Made her smile every time she looked at them. Only she and Wo Fat knew the code but anyone who knew her could probably figure it out. She listened to a computerized operator tell her that her call was being connected and then she waited as it rang. It rang four times before she got a sleepy:

"Ro?"

Ohh… what was the time difference between Hawaii and Colorado?

"Hey…" she whispered. "Uhm… I woke you up, huh?"

"Yeah. You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, I need a favour." There was an unfamiliar pause, usually he was down to do her favours. He owed her after all… for shooting her. "Are you still there?" she asked.

"Yeah… uh… I don't know if I can help you out, Ro… the Yakuza… they… uh… they're really interested in you right now and I'm trying to get that interest turned anywhere else at this point," he said.

"Okay, but it has nothing to do with them," she said. She had thought long and hard about that flash she got. And from her thinking she had started to remember things. "What do you know about Colombian drug lords?"

There was that pause again. "How could you have come in contact with one of those, Ro? I swear to god, you were literally just with McGarrett at the palace? How could you have gotten into more trouble in between him releasing you and now. What happens when I'm not there?"

Oh, he sounded so upset. "No, that's not… I'm not… I haven't met anyone like that. I'm fine. I had a good day today," she said.

"You got arrested," he growled.

"That's just Steve being Steve. Thanks for the alibi by the way," she said. "Seriously though. Do you have contacts down in Colombia?"

"Yes, Armando. Why? Why do you need to fuck with these people?" he asked.

"Uhm… there's a guy. He's missing and… I need to find him. I'm pretty sure this guy called Reyes running a drug cartel in Colombia has him and is going to kill him," Rowan told him.

"A guy?"

Oh, he was not impressed with that one.

"Uh. Yeah?" she said. "Matthew Williams."

"Would this be a relative of Detective William's correct?" he shot back.

"Well… yeah… but…"

"Then this is a Five-0 thing. Call Steve," he growled.

"Really? You… you want me to call Steve? After today? In the middle of the night?" she asked dryly.

"Of course not. Fine. Forget that. Call Danny. It's his brother he can tell Steve," Wo Fat said.

"See. I would. But the FBI can't find Matty, so I figured… you know… since you're in the world and not gonna arrest anyone that you could… you could find him," she whispered.

Wo sighed again. "Why is this so important, huh? Why does this matter?"

"Because they're going to kill him," she said in a small voice and Wo Fat was quiet. "Look… can't we just… I unno send someone? Not with the app? Like through Armando? Just too look for him or something? Please? It would make me feel better."

Wo Fat sighed again. "Alright. Alright… tell me everything you know."

Rowan swallowed her triumphant cry but didn't bother to cover her smile, she merely started talking.