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A/N: Are you guys ready for the wild chapters? Cause they're coming up. The next 9 chapters are gonna be nail-biting, anxiety rides. This does not including ch 116 which is gonna be fluffy AF and chapter 121 where you guys are gonna get everything you've been asking me for since I started this fanfiction. Guys I honestly thought I'd never get here. We're a year in and I'm still going. No story has ever held my attention for this long and I love each and every one of my readers and thank you so much for sticking with this with me. You've made this whole experience fun. I'd like to say we're half way, but I don't think we are. Maybe close to it… but not quite there. I will admit there are going to be a few more speed bumps (an entire season of speed bumps) but after season 6 everything is smooth sailing. Don't forget to review, I love to hear what you guys have to say.

P.S. to the reader who was worried about Rowan swallowing water, she was just be dramatic, she wasn't actually in that much danger, she was probably underwater for less than 30 seconds before Steve went and got her, she always wasn't that far down cause the board was keeping her upish.

P.S.S. Great first aid knowledge AJ! I was a lifeguard for a very long time and everything you just listed off are things that piss me off in movies and TVs too. But sometimes you just have to let it go, it's just the move magic, it doesn't have to be right, it just has to be entertaining.

Chapter 112

Spear fishing was supposed to be fun. Chin was having fun, he wasn't so sure about his companions though. He returned to the surface with the fish he had just speared to find Grover still in his little boat looking all sorts of unimpressed with the fish Chin had just bagged.

As he hoisted himself up into his own boat, Chin laughed. "Come on, Captain. Don't give up. You'll get the hang of it."

Grover shook his head. "You're wasting your time on this old dog. I'm a casting rod-off-the-jetty, sandwiches-and-beer kind of guy. This harpoon stuff ain't my thing."

Chin swallowed his laughter and the offer to set Grover and Danny up on a fishing date as the two of them seemed to like the same kind of fishing. Instead he said: "Spear fishing." Which merely caused Grover to frown at him.

"I stand corrected," he growled and then showed him the last fish he had speared which was about the size of Chin's wallet. Chin chuckled again and decided to change tactics.

"Ah, I guess McGarrett was right," he said with a sigh busying himself with getting his own fish off his spear.

"Right about what?" Grover asked suddenly sitting up straighter and not sulking anymore.

"Oh, nothing. He just said that you'd never catch on quite as quick as he did."

Grover looked mightily offended while Chin had to bite back his grin. Nothing worked better than pitting two macho men with an already built in rivalry against one another.

"Oh, so McGarrett said that, did he?"

Yes, Grover was playing right into his plan. "Oh, now, come on, don't let that get under your skin. The guy's a Navy SEAL. He grew up on the island. You're a city boy," he said. Grover was sulking again. When he was quiet for a longer Chin decided to dig in a little bit more. "He was a natural, though, I gotta say. He took home half a dozen fish on his very first time out."

"How many?"

"Half a dozen," Chin repeated already knowing where this was going.

Grover nodded, putting all of his gear back on again. "Oh, wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Hold on now. Remember that when you get over your target…." But Chin didn't get to finish cause Grover was already gone. He shook his head and behind him came the sound of someone else resurfacing. He didn't even have to turn, he knew exactly who it was.

"Chin! Chin! Chin!" Rowan cried hoisting the speared fish up above her head and to him. "Get it! Get it! Get it!"

Chin took it from her, got the fish off, and then added it to the rest of Rowan's ever growing pile. And then handed the spear back to her so she could load her gun again. That had to be her 15th fish, and it was pretty big too. She had taken to spearing fish rather well… you know, except for the taking them off the spear part. She had even managed to get 3 in one shot.

"Thank you," she said and then looked down at the crystal clear water below her already looking for her next victim.

Grover popped up again with another fish. He smiled briefly before glancing over and Rowan and saying: "Did she catch another fish?"

"Uh-huh!" she cried happily. "I'm really good at this!"

"Yeah… strange, considering blood makes you pass out or puke," Grover growled.

Rowan, popping herself up on Chin's boat asked: "What do you got there?" and Grover was suddenly holding up a fish for them all to see, grinning happily.

"City boy, my ass. Take a look at that sucker!" Grover crowed. "Bigger than anything little miss has caught today."

Not true but one glance at Rowan who hid her smile by pressing her lips to her arm told Chin that both of them were just going to let Grover have it.

"How many did McGarrett get on his first try?" Grover asked.

"Half a dozen," Chin repeated.

Grover's face fell and Rowan said: "Oh wow! I did better then Steve!"

This was not going where Chin wanted things to go. "You know… I'll tell you what, that's three times bigger than anything he caught."

Grover was suddenly all smiles, beaming ear to ear. Rowan pushed away from Chin's boat and went to hers, he hoped to get out. At this rate Chin's boat was going to sink having to carry all of his fish and Rowan's.

"You got your phone?"

"Yeah."

"Take a picture and send it to him."

"Oh, come on." Chin groaned, really they were going to be that petty? "You sure you wanna kick up that hornet's nest?"

"Oh, hell, yeah, I do," Grover said.

"I mean it doesn't end well, but sure," Rowan said, swimming back to Chin's boat. "Are we leaving yet?"

Chin looked back to Grover who was frowning again and muttering to himself about Rowan and her spear fishing abilities.

"Uh… I think you got time for one more hunt," he said to her and she grinned.

"I'mma go for the big one I saw."

"Yeah a big one?" Chin asked with a grin on his face.

"Uh-huh, it's got weird looking stripes and it looks pretty big. It's fast and it's scaring away the other fish. It's like right at the bottom, so I'm… I'm gonna sneak up on it and see if I can get it."

And then Rowan was gone again.

Chin shook his head, for someone who didn't like the ocean she sure as hell took to spear fishing very well. At least she was having fun. And she hadn't gotten herself hurt or injured. Which was great because he hadn't told Steve he was bringing her out here… cause he would have worried and then Chin would have had to spend all of his time sending Steve pictures of her and giving him updates. Of course Chin had taken pictures of her, he had her with her first catch, with the picture of her with three fish on one spear, he had her looking fine underwater, he was sure Steve was going to love that one. Rowan looking like a mermaid in her purple topped bikini with green bottoms. A regular little mermaid.

He took the picture Grover wanted, sent it off to Steve and then watched Grover pull himself out of the water.

"How many does she have now?" Grover asked. Chin looked at the pile at his feet, guessed she had about twenty, looked back to Grover and quickly realized he didn't want to tell this guy that Rowan had out-fished them both. Hell she had out-fished, him, Grover and Steve combined. Instead he said: "Uh… I unno."

And then he paused. His mind replayed the last thing Rowan had said to him. It was stuck on something she said about that striped faster fish. It's scaring the other fish away.

"You good?"

"Tiger shark," Chin breathed out. "She's gone after a tiger shark and she doesn't know it. Get to land, Lou, get to land. I gotta go get Rowan!"

Chin dove, straight under water, his own spear gun in hand, but he was too far away and Rowan had already shot the tiger shark. Chin swam as quickly as he could towards her, where she was hovering a few feet away from an angry bleeding Tiger Shark, she hadn't moved she was just floating there, staring at it as it thrashed.

And then it turned. Both Rowan and the Shark started moving at the same time. Rowan frantically trying to flap backwards, the shark simply charging her. Chin still wasn't close enough.

He raised his spear, raised it to try and shoot it before it got to her, but he never got a chance. He heard the humming, but he didn't know what it was coming from and then he got hit with an electric shock so hard it knocked him out. The world around him disappearing into an inky black for a moment before he felt a pair of hands grabbing him and pulling him upward.

Both Rowan and Chin broke through to the surface where their boats were waiting and an anxious looking Grover was waiting.

"What was that, I felt that up here…" he said.

Chin looked to Rowan, the only person he knew could cause an electrical current by herself. She wasn't hurt but she was scrambling to get back into the boat. Her spear gun was missing, it only took Chin a second to realize she had dropped it to the bottom. He glanced back down and saw that nothing was in the water with them.

The spear gun was sitting in the bottom of the sand by a dissipating cloud of red but not a single bit of marine life was swimming around them anymore. Well so much for fishing.

He looked around to all the face staring at him. Grover's concerned one and Rowan's fearful one. He knew what he had to do.

"No one tells McGarrett," Chin whispered and both Rowan and Grover nodded. This was an incident that was better if he didn't know about. Now what was he going to do with all those pictures he took?

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Steve was supposed to spend the morning with Rowan, and then he caught a case instead. He thought she'd be upset, she had been upset all the other mornings he had put off their breakfast date for a case, but she wasn't this morning. She happily told him that since he had bailed she could hang out with someone else. Steve naturally was quite jealous, especially when she wouldn't tell him who she had plans with.

And then she went radio silent.

Steve tried to stay calm, tried to stay focused on his case, but Grover had gone and caught a fish three time larger than anything Steve had caught on his first day spear fishing, and Rowan wasn't answering any of his texts so… you know… he was pretty fucking pissed off at that moment.

Which was why, when he got back to the palace and found Danny walking towards him he was not in a good mood. He was hoping Danny could make him feel better but… yeah… Danny hadn't sense that he was upset and therefore wasn't about making Steve feel better at that moment.

"Physical Therapy appointment?" he asked, because why else would Danny be leaving when Steve needed him.

"Yeah. Yeah. My mandatory hour of joy with Nurse Ratched, thanks to you," he growled. Oh great, he was in one of those moods. Wonderful.

"Thanks to me?" Steve snapped and Danny nodded. "What you're going to blame that building collapsing on us on me?"

"Yes. Yeah. I am."

"And how exactly am I responsible?"

"Well, uh, about four years ago, you came and knocked on my door and told me I had to work with you, so I figure everything terrible that's happened to me since is your fault. You're like a cloud, a dark cloud, that never goes away," Danny explained. "And because Rowan told you not to go down there. I told you not to go down there, and you made me go down with you…"

"I didn't make you do anything…" "….uh if I didn't go with you, you were going to die, she was pretty clear…" "Yeah but she told you too and you didn't listen either so who's fault is that?"

Danny just shook his head and Steve sighed. "Do me a favour, when you see Nurse Ratched, have her check your head while she works the rest of you over, because you got damage there too."

Danny just nodded unfazed by Steve's rant. "Done? Good, cause Amber's waiting in the car."

"Amber's waiting in the car?"

"Yeah. Amber's waiting in the car. What did I say?" Danny asked and Steve just smiled. He liked Amber. He liked how happy Amber made Danny, he and Rowan were both rooting for Danny and Amber to go the distance. Rowan called them Damber, it was a ship name. She also said that after Samantha Walker aired that terrible episode that she and Steve had a ship name too. McRow. Not to be confused with McRoll which was the name people gave him and Catherine. There was also a name for Steve and Danny, which was McDanno, but it was all too confusing and distressing for Steve to think about so he tried his very hardest not to.

"Things must've gone well in Maui then."

"Indeed. They did. You look very surprised."

"Well, I mean… I'm a little surprised given your propensity to blow up relationships," Steve teased, a smirk on his face.

"My propensity to blow up relationship," Danny echoed. "This from the guy who's dating the girl of his dreams but is too afraid lock her down?"

"I've told you… I've already told you, I'm waiting for the right time to ask her… which is supposed to be at our brunch date, but between catching cases and babysitting your kid so you can go on vacation I haven't had the chance."

"Yeah, haven't had a chance… the girl lives with you."

"I want it to be perfect Danny. She keeps saying I can't be romantic…" "You can't, it's a scientifically proven fact," "and I want to prove her wrong."

"At this rate she's going to start dating someone else again."

Steve glared at him. That was uncalled for. No she wouldn't… or at least… he didn't think she would. Either way Steve was done with this conversation.

"Go to PT," he ordered. "Enjoy. I hope it hurts"

"Thanks, I will," Danny snapped turned away just as Steve did. As he rounded the corner he called out a "Love you!"

Steve was going to answer with: "I love you too," but instead he cried out in agony and found himself dropping to his knees a single hand clasped to his heart. His whole chest had gone up his flames, his heart tightened, black spots formed in front of his eyes and he suddenly couldn't breathe again. There was a ringing in his ears that blocked out the sounds of Danny rushing back to him, of Danny repeating his name over and over again.

Steve knew this feeling. He knew it like the back of his hand and he had hoped that he'd never have to feel it again.

"She just went into the void," he whispered once the attack subsided and he could breathe again.

"What?" Danny cried. "But I thought… I thought she couldn't…"

"She travelled… she… I felt it…"

"Okay… okay let's calm down. Do we know… do you know where she is? Can you feel her on the island?"

Danny helped Steve up, he watched as Steve blinked his eyes actually concentrating. Steve still found himself amazed at the link he had between he and Rowan, the strange compass in his chest that always seemed to point him in the direction of her, but at that moment it was failing him. The needle was spinning wildly round and round refusing to settle on a heading.

Steve shook his head. "No…. I… I can't."

Danny swore, well that was him not going to Physical Therapy.