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Chapter 97

Rowan pulled up to Kong Liang's new warehouse base of operation and smiled at the bouncer as she got out of the car. Already poor Andre was heading out to ward her off but that wasn't going to stop her from getting in to see his boss. Not even in the slightest.

She smiled at him widely and put a protein shake into his hand. "That's for you Andre, extra kale, to help you stay bulked up," she said and then slid past him as he got distracted with both trying out the drink she put in his hand and saying thank you.

By the time he realized he was supposed to have stopped her Rowan had already broken into the inner sanctum. She ignored him as he trailed after her trying to get her to stop, he couldn't even get her to not knock on Kong's office door.

When he opened it up he scowled at her and then to Andre. "I told you to keep the girl scout out."

Girl Scout. He called her that because she used what he called a network designed for chaos and destruction, for good. He called it a waste, that in her hands she had corrupted what could have been the next Dark Web. Rowan considered that a good thing in her books which just made him angrier.

"Aww… but then who will I share all this sushi with?" she asked indicating to the large brown paper bag she had brought with her.

"Are there green dragon rolls in there?" he asked, eyeing her and the bag with rapt interest.

"Uh… duh…" she said. He went to snatch the bag out of her hand but she stopped him. "Nu-uh… I need to initiate Black Cat protocols on someone, starting ASAP."

Kong sighed and glared at her. "What?"

Rowan pushed herself past him and into his office, she set the bag on his desk and then sat down. Kong shut the door in Andre's face and then came to sit in his chair across from her.

"Black Cat protocols. You know… from the app?"

"Yes, I know what they are, but why didn't you just use the app?" he asked.

"Because I need this done on the DL."

"So, you came to my office in a pastel purple classic sports car… to ask me to do it in person? Wow, you're a regular secret agent," he growled.

"Oh, shut up. Look. I need to ruin someone's life, I need hacked into his cloud… his everything. I need an article deleted, I need him fired. I need his bank accounts emptied, his car destroyed, his identify stolen. I want it to be so bad that he has no choice but to move back in with his parents on the main land. I need him gone. Like. Now."

"Holy hell, what did this person do to upset you?" Kong asked. It was the first time he had ever seen her so damn riled up before. Usually she was such a sweet thing, he was starting to see a bit of that darkness Wo Fat talked about. The capability to be almost exactly like her benefactor.

"He's writing an article that is less then kind on one of my friends. So naturally I want to destroy him before he can publish it."

A reporter. Wow. Okay. "And when is he planning on publishing it?"

"In 24 hours."

Okay that did not give him a lot of time. "Look I need Dirt. I need something dirty enough to rip apart his life, can you help me or not?"

Kong thought it over. He looked her up and down and then reached for the Sushi. "You may need to get more of this."

Rowan just smiled the motion acidic sort of gleam that made Kong wince. He liked it better when she was a girl scout.

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"My mother is really serious about this divorce thing."

Danny watched his friend carefully and noted the way his cheeks puffed out and he held himself tightly. Steve had bailed him out like Danny asked, giving him a chance to get away from his mother to think, but judging by how upset Steve was that he appeared he assumed that when Danny said he needed time alone that Steve was off the hook.

WELL HE WAS WRONG.

"Uh… okay," he said with a deep sigh. He clasped his hands together and braced himself on the desk in front of him to levy out his advice. "She's serious today, Danny. Give her a couple days to think about it, you know let it sink in…"

No. See. Steve wasn't listening. The man never listened. "I'm telling you, okay, she has made up her mind. My mother is singing in my kitchen. She's singing I Saw the Sign. You know the song, I Saw the Sign?"

"I don't know the song."

How the hell could he not know the song, what did the man grow up under a rock. He had in fact… a military one but this was inexcusable. "Okay, let me explain the song to you. It goes. I saw the sign, it opened up my mind. And now I'm happy living without you. You know the one now?"

"Sing me a couple of bars? Just the first…"

Wow. That son of a bitch. This was not funny. "You sing me a couple bars. You really gonna bust my chops right now?"

"Look I don't get it, alright? It's a song. It is just a song," Steve said leaning back and putting his feet up on his desk.

"It is a song that is about being happy and moving on in life."

Steve leant back and rolled his eyes. "Oh, the horror."

"Look, it's not just the song. She's saying disturbing things. She's talking about me time, right? Third act of her life, It's all very unsettling to hear from your mother, trust me."

"Next thing, she'll be dating."

What the fuck. Seriously. What the fuck? "Why would you say that to me?" Danny asked, too shocked to believe that Steve would actually think that was a kind thing to say to him.

"It's a natural—" "—Why would you say…?" "—You were getting there." "I was not getting there. This is my mother we're talking about."

"Yeah. Who, if we're being honest, happens to be a beautiful woman…"

"WHOA! Hey!"

"What, she's not gonna date again?"

"No! Enough. That's it. No more talking about it, okay?" Danny snapped. And then Steve changed. His whole demeanour changed. He went from frustrated and rolling his eyes at Danny again to suddenly ram rod straight and starry eyed. That could only mean one thing.

Danny turned and there she was Rowan, who locked eyes with him and quickly turned on her heels to run from him.

"You!" he shouted and Rowan froze. Even without her turning back around he could see or well rather feel the wince on her face, when she turned back, choosing to enter the room with that wince he had sensed on her face. "Why didn't you tell me it was this bad?"

"Uh, I did tell you. I told you this was going to happen, so stop yelling at me!" she ordered crossing over to where Steve was now standing and staring at her. She got with in arms distance and Steve's arm darted out and snatched her to his side.

He opened his mouth to ask her a question but Rowan had turned away from him and to Danny. "Why are you even here? Shouldn't you be with your mother?"

"Yeah, probably. I came here for advice. Though really, I should have my head examined for coming to this savage for advice on this matter. His mother couldn't even get divorced like a normal human being. She had to pretend she was dead to get away from your father."

"Hey!" Steve cried. "Take it easy!"

"Well, he's got a point," Rowan said and Steve turned a glare to her.

"Why do you always side with him—" "What? No… I don't… I don't always…" "—No. You do. You always side with Danny why do you always side with Danny?" "It's not that… I unno he's just bringing up some good points that's all."

"Okay, can you two stop distracting one another? Will yah, please?" Danny asked.

"Good points? Excuse you, I'm supportive of my mother… when she let's me." "Okay, but like, Danny was there when you brought her back from Japan. That was a hella awkward episode. You wouldn't look her in the eye, you wouldn't call her mom… you still don't." "Yeah, because Doris and I had some issues, okay, when she got back from Japan after 20 years. And then what happened? I was supportive." "Uh… no, you had a PI follow her, and you yelled at her to make her tell you her secrets and she chose to run away and play spy instead of answering those questions so like… ya'll still have issues…" "—Why the hell are you never on my side. Why can't you just once, just once be on my side." "That is hurtful, I am always on your side, Steven McGarrett…" "—What have I told you? Goddamn it, Ro, what did I say? Don't use my full name when we're arguing, it's an unfair advantage and I don't like it."

When they continued to ignore Danny to argue he shouted: "HEY! Ro? Any chance you can shut up and let us finish our conversation?" Both of them turned to him but the scowl that had been on Steve's face and directed at Rowan immediately swung to Danny as he put a hand out to ward him off.

"Hey! Hey! Stop yelling at her, Danny, this is not her fault," Steve ordered sitting back down in his chair and then tugging Rowan down to his lap, his attention and focus entirely on her now.

"Are those yours," she asked pointing to the medals on the wall behind Danny's head. Oh great, now they were off topic entirely.

Steve's eyes reluctantly turned from her to the wall and then back. "No those are my grandfathers."

"Oh, what about those? Are those yours?" she asked pointing to the ones behind Steve. Steve followed her gaze as if he didn't know and then turned back to her.

"Yes."

"Oh… so many. What are they for? I mean… what did you get them for? Can you talk me through what each one means and how you got them?"

"Rowan, did you come here for a reason? Or are you just hear to talk about my office décor?"

Rowan sheepishly looked away from him, and Steve's hand came up to play with her hair. God they were sickening together. Like holy hell, was this what Danny's life was going to become? Watching these two be disgustingly cute? Maybe it would be better if they went back to arguing. "I can't come visit you at the office?"

"No, of course you can, it's just… you usually don't come to the Palace to see me…"

"God Steve, if you want me to go, just say so, I'll go," Rowan said jumping to her feet. Panic swept across Steve's features and Danny almost laughed. My God, this guy was strung out on her, and they weren't even officially together.

"No. No. Not the point here," Steve said, grabbing a hold of her and tugging her straight back down and onto his lap. Rowan's arms draped across his neck leisurely and that smug grin slid right back onto his lips.

"Okay? Can we get back to me please?!"

"Oh your mother is going to be fine. She and your dad are gonna get back together in a few episodes, promise."

Both men froze and turned to Rowan who was staring at them like she didn't just spit out a prediction. "Really… when?"

"Oh I don't know... give me a second," and then her hand was under Steve's shirt. He started at the contact, his blue eyes burned with a sudden desire while Rowan seemed to concentrate on fondling his abs and his chest.

"What are you doing?" Steve managed to breathe out.

"Shhhh… maybe I need two hands," she whispered sliding a second hand under his shirt. Steve was lost to him now, his eyes wouldn't budge from Rowan, his mouth was partially open like she was doing all sorts of inexplicable things to him. Until he suddenly yelped and threw her hands away from him.

"Fucking hell that hurt!"

"Yeah, sorry that was a big one," Rowan said and then turned away from Danny and said: "Yes, two episodes, so I'm guessing anywhere between two to three weeks," and then she quietly added to herself: "And I need to turn it up a notch."

Steve turned to Danny and said: "See, everything's going to work out, Rowan said so. See, your mom needs you right now. Just be there for her." He tapped Rowan's shoulder but she was too busy looking at her phone to pay attention to him. "You wanna tell me why I just got electrocuted by you? Ro… Ro? What are you doing? Black Cat Protocols? What are those? Is that… is that the app?"

Rowan bolted off of Steve's lap a strange sort of smile on her face. "What? App? Sorry, the shock? Right yes. Uhm… I've noticed that my dreams are stronger when I'm with you. That uh… I get really strong and accurate visions when I'm around or touch you and that last one was uh… was well pretty big. So… uhm… I must have shocked you by accident."

Steve took that in with a suspicious. Uh-huh. And then asked: "What are you doing on the App, Rowan?"

Rowan looked down to her phone and then quickly pocketed it. "It wasn't the app, it's uh… it's a little embarrassing but I was looking at a fanfiction."

"Fanfiction?"

"Yeah, Black Widow and Cat Woman smut fiction. It's uh… it's my guilty pleasure," she said. She quickly leant in and kissed him solidly and deeply. "I'll see you tomorrow, yeah?"

"Not tonight?" Steve asked clearly derailed from their previous topic of conversation literally immediately. Damn she was good. She knew how to play Steve well.

"Well I'm hoping not to have a nightmare tonight," she whispered kissing the very tip of his nose.

"Or you know… if you don't want to stay at Alex's you could just… you know… stay with me. I wouldn't mind, really. I'd prefer it actually."

Rowan just smiled at him, hugged Danny good-bye and then left the office. Steve sighed to himself and muttered: "She's never going to agree. Stubborn little…"

"You saw how suspicious that was… right?" Danny asked.

Steve nodded. "Oh, hell yeah, nothing I can do about it now… do you uh… do you still need to talk?"

"No. No I'm good," he said and Steve nodded. It was a nice distraction from the drama in his life. Danny… Danny needed that right now. He should have just gone to Rowan first though, she was always good for a distraction.

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There was a knock on his door and Steve put down his phone and waved them on in. Anything was better then staring at his phone and wondering if he should call Rowan. Grover had finally let him in on the whole Chicago incident. He had the man's side of the story and now he was hoping to get this reporter off of Grover's back, but he also had something nagging at the back of his mind. Which was, what Rowan doing with that damned app?

Shawn Hutten walked into Steve's office with an air of smug satisfaction and Steve's frustrations kicked up a notch. He really wanted to punch this guy.

Steve stood up and said: "Thanks for coming," as he offered a hand out for Shawn to shake which the man took immediately.

"Change your mind about going on record?" he asked grinning at Steve.

Alright then, right down to business it was. Steve put his hands on his hips and readied himself for what would be a very long argument no doubt, and an even longer negotiation.

"No. I'm afraid not Shawn." This earned him a strange stare and Steve felt completed to continue. "Listen, I know what happened in Chicago, alright? And your facts may be right. But you're way off base about Captain Grover. He's a good man…" "—Who made the wrong call and got a little boy killed."

Steve just stared at him. Wow… he really didn't understand, did he? Shawn continued. "I' surprised by your support for him, Commander. One of the first things that Grover did when he rode into town was file a grievance against you."

Yeah, one that Steve deserved. It didn't help that Grover's first impression of Five-0 and of Steve was of Steve shoving a gun in his face and taking Grover's men hostage. So, you know… Grover's reaction was warranted. Clearly Shawn didn't know that.

"Which was withdrawn," Steve said instead.

"So what? You owe him a favour now?"

"No that's not how it works."

"Why are you defending him? I don't get you!" Shawn cried.

"You don't get me? No, you don't get me. You non-operators, you sit on the sidelines and you judge us in the field. You have no idea what it's like. The hard decisions we have to make every day going downrange, and the consequences that we have to live with forever."

"Are you speaking for Captain Grover or are you speaking for yourself?"

Both. But at that moment… himself. There were a lot of decisions, specifically recent Rowan related ones that he regretted. Ones he made when he was in the navy that kept him up at night when a certain someone wasn't in his arms but he wasn't going to talk to Shaw Hutten about any of those.

"I'm speaking for anyone who's ever had to do this job," he said glaring Shawn down. "I'm also ask you, leave this one alone, okay?"

"So is that why I've been dealing with a string of suspicious bad luck all of a sudden? Are you trying to ward me off?"

Steve just stared at him. "I'm sorry… what?"

"Someone hacked into my personal cloud, deleted my running draft of the article. Someone, and I'm assuming it was the same someone, also broke into my house and smashed up my home computer. Then my work computer at the office turned up corrupted, the hard drive wiped and my tires have been slashed… twice today. Isn't that a little much… Commander?"

Steve blinked his eyes at him. It took all of two seconds for the light bulb to click in his head. Oh god… Rowan knew. Rowan knew about what was going on with Grover. That's why she was on the app, that's what she had been doing. She hadn't come to the Palace to see him, she came to give herself an alibi and to see what he had known. This was all Rowan messing with Shawn to make sure he didn't write the article. She's the only one who would go to such lengths, though to be honest Steve was a little surprised she didn't just order him dead. She must have listened to his lecture about Lynch, about how she needed to cool it cause he couldn't protect her forever.

This wasn't any better though.

"I don't know anything about that," Steve lied… again. "Sounds like you've upset someone. And besides, I just asked you to back off, clearly that's how I ward someone off. I don't resort to… petty acts of vandalism."

But Rowan sure did. She really, really did. God, he was going to have to talk to her.

"Well… say what you want, but you can tell which ever friend of yours that's messing with me that they can back off. It's not working. I'm going to post that story no matter how many times they slash my tires and break my computers."

Steve glared at him. "Uh… I just told you I'm not involved, but uh… what if I could make sure that it stopped? Would you think of pulling the story then?"

Luckily the asshole said yes.