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A/N: Hey guys, I know it's a Monday and I'm posting early but I have some bad news. So… it is with a heavy heart that I'm going to be ending the story here. I know I promised they'd get together, but I just… I've been having such a hard time recently that I can't devote as much time to this story anymore. At the currently moment the story is going to end here and when I get to a better place in my life I may come back to finish it out. I hope you guys can find it in your heart to forgive me.

Chapter 87

Danny had left her alone at the hospital. Never mind that Steve and Grover and Chin had this case and didn't need his help, never mind that Rowan had told him to leave, once she made a phone call to her house Danny shouldn't have left her alone.

So once he was done with the case, once he had showered the day off of himself, he had returned to the hospital to find that Rowan was in the process of discharging herself. She had changed into the clothes she had been brought in with, which were still flecked with blood including where it had trickled down the back of her neck and pooled. Steve stepped into the room and shut the door behind him.

"What are you doing? You need to be resting," he asked.

Rowan jumped and turned around, she looked him up and down before turning back to the bag she was zipping up and said: "I'm going home… well the consulate first. They'll help me get home since you won't."

"Rowan you are home," he said to her, he tried to reach out her but Rowan ducked his hands.

"No! I'm not. I want to go to my real home. With my mom and my brother and my daddy! I really, really want my daddy!" she near sobbed.

He wanted to soothe her, he wanted to hold her until she was better again but when he reached out Rowan slapped his hands away. "Let me help you," he whispered. "Let me tell you what happened."

"No!" she shrieked. "I'm not in a different reality! I can't be! I just got my life on track. I was skating again, Trevor and Malcolm were getting engaged, and me and my mom were finally getting along! I am not in a different reality. I'm not dead! I'm not!"

Steve finally managed to get a hold of her, his hands gripping her shoulders. An electric current ran up his arms, his chest tightened like it usually did when she was about to jump. No! He was not letting her leave him. She screamed: "I want to go home!" and those orange electric bolts flew from her frying the medical machines by her bed. In a flash they weren't in the hospital anymore, they were in the void.

Rowan looked around, while Steve just stared at her. Her tears beaded up and floated away from her, swaying ribbon like strings hovered around her but it was the red strings, flying from his chest that wrapped her up. He watched Rowan struggle, trying to pull herself away from him, but the red strings kept growing and multiplying and tangling her up until she couldn't move.

He reached out his hands gripping those red strings, trying to pull her back to him but she was struggling with him. She screamed the sound both piecing and muted in the vast expanse of the darkness around them.

There was a flash of white, a man in a space suit appeared, scythe in hand. With one deft slice he severed the red strings between he and Rowan and it felt like Steve had been slashed across the chest. The burn spread through his limbs, he crumbled in on the pain. Across from him the space suit had a hand outstretch to Rowan.

He screamed her name. He begged her not to go, but her ice blue eyes, glowing hot white like the stars around them didn't see him, she didn't hear him, she put her hand in that gloved hand outstretched to her and in a secondary flash of white Rowan was gone and Steve was blown back into his own reality.

Without Rowan.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Danny rushed to the hospital. Steve's call made no sense, between hiccupped sobs and frantic screams of frustration Steve hadn't made much sense. All Danny had understood was that something had happened to Rowan.

But when he got there, Steve was crumpled into a chair, HPD was milling about him and other then the officers Rowan's room was empty.

Danny took in the scene and then looked at Steve who had his head in his hands, his nails digging into his scalp. That was not a good sign. No, no it was not.

"Hey bud… uh… what's going on… what happened? Where's Rowan?"

At the sound of her name Steve looked up, his face was pale, he was shaken, he had been crying. "She uh… she uh…"

Oh god, had she died? But she had been fine. She had been alive and fine when Danny had left. She hadn't remembered who any of them were but she was alive with no signs of taking a turn for the worse, so what the hell?

"She's gone."

Danny came to sit beside him, he put an arm around Steve's quaking shoulders as the tears started again. "I couldn't hold on to her. That thing came and it took her from me."

Wait… what? "Took her? Steve what are you talking about?"

"She went into the void and something came and took her from me before I could pull her out."

She had gone home. She hadn't died. Rowan had gone home.

"I can't feel her Danny. She's not here, she's gone and I can't… I can't breathe it hurts so much."

So that's why the cops had been called. To the hospital Rowan had gone missing. Only he and Steve knew the truth of what had happened to her.

"Well… maybe this is better. Maybe this will be good. I mean, she missed her family, now she's back with her family. She's out of Wo Fat's clutches…"

"She's not with me."

Danny turned to him. That's what this was about. Steve and his complicated feelings for Rowan. "This is going to sound cruel but… Steve, but you need to stop being selfish. That girl wanted to go home. You know, we all know it. She missed her family. She missed being home. We should be happy for her."

Steve sighed and looked away. "Yeah… you're… you're right."

"Maybe… now that she's gone and things can go back to normal, you and Catherine can figure things out."

Steve blinked his eyes. "Yes… uh… Catherine. Maybe. I'll have to… I'll have to think about it."

Danny rubbed his hand up and down Steve's back as the shaking started again. This was fixable. It wouldn't be the end of the world. With Rowan gone things could go back to normal, Steve would go back to normal, Danny could make this work for them.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Gasping Rowan came to. Sitting up in a small space she recognized.

Her father's lab.

"Ro? Rowan Hazel Pierce?"

Rowan looked up to her father wearing a hazmat suit and staring down at her with concern on his face. Rowan blinked her eyes where was she? Which universe was she in?

"Was I dead?" she asked.

"No, no, you were just in a different time line," her father told her, starting to strip of the suit. Rowan shook her head that didn't answer the question.

"No. Was I dead here? Was I still born? Are you and mom still together? Is Trevor gonna marry Malcolm? Is Evelot still okay… like her treatments worked? Did I qualify for worlds?"

"Evolet is in perfect health. You qualified and missed Worlds," Trevor said behind her. She turned and he was stripping himself of the space suit. The iced over helmet resting by his feet. "And in order for Mal and I to get married, he'd have to propose which he has not."

"I'm home…" Rowan whispered. "I'm… I'm home? Like really home?"

"It took us a while to pinpoint where you had gone," Trenton said coming to sit beside her, his hand gripped hers tightly as she took all of this in. "But yes, we finally brought you home."

"Uh… you mean I did," Trevor snapped. "Two years I've been going in and out of those white spaces, through a million different time lines trying to find which one she dropped into. Best believe you're going to give me the credit."

"Two years?" Rowan echoed. Exactly how long she had been in the Five-0 universe. She was hoping that time ran differently and she could come back to her original time line and start where she had left off. "Mal didn't propose? But… he was going to… I helped him pick a ring. Like literally… he was supposed to propose on your anniversary."

"Rowan what are you talking about."

"Are you telling me that I went missing and he didn't propose? That dick!" she cried.

Trenton and Trevor stared at her and then they stared at one another. "Do you think she's hit her head? She's always been prone to concussions."

Rowan scowled but it was her father who said: "It may be a side effect of the travel. She did do it all without a suit."

Trenton nodded as if that made sense but Rowan's scowl just deepened. That was not it, she knew it. Malcom Garbo was supposed to propose and the asshole hadn't. She was going to have words with him when she got the chance.

There came a cry of her name and when she turned she saw her mother on the other side of the glass. Oh God she had never been so happy to see her mother in her life. "Momma!" she cried jumping to her feet to run to her. Wanting nothing more than to hug her mother for the first time in two years. She was never going to take her mother's hugs for granted ever again.

The two men watched her go, rushing to where her mother was throwing aside security guards like she was a WWE wrestler to get to her daughter. Trevor turned to his father.

"She was exactly where we thought she'd be. Behind that wall of red strings. He was keeping her there."

"Maybe not purposely. It was emotions caging her, and from what we witnessed it goes two ways, both of them were creating those red strings of love, not just Steve McGarrett," Trenton whispered.

"She'll start to miss him, you know what they're like. Everywhere I went it was the same, once he's had her, once he's gotten a taste he'll never let her go," Trevor said with a sigh. "And now that she knows we can travel through the white spaces she's going to want to go back to him. Or he'll find a way to come here to her."

"Not if I close the door," Trenton said. "She's not going back into that place if I can help it. There's a Steven McGarrett here, we'll just introduce her to the one who plays him on TV."

"Do you think that'll work now that she's had a taste of the real Steven McGarrett?"

"I don't know, but we're going to have to try."

THE END

So it was a little shorter than usual and I'm sorry about that. I'd like to thank all of you for reading and supporting me. Again I'm sorry for cutting it short. So please don't be too mad with me. I hope to come back to finish it off very soon. Xx Love you!