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A/N: Hey guys, this should technically be the last update in the marathon, but I will also be updating tomorrow as well just to round it out. Keep you guys from ending on a cliff-hanger. How are you liking season 5 so far? The angst is coming, I believe it starts next chapter. So the chapter we have here is a little shorter than usual, but a lot happens. And I threw in a few funny moments, and some cute scenes so I hope you guys enjoy it. See you tomorrow.
Chapter 134
Their drone-jacker was a man named Jonathan Redmond. He worked for the company who made the drone, but had been fired for sealing hardware from them. Thieving seemed to be something he liked to do because he served 18 months for burglaries having just been paroled a few weeks ago. Kono found wire transfers between Jonathan and a textile company on the island that the FBI thought was connected to an international terrorist group called the SRS. Getting this info had been great, but that didn't help them much, because Redmond wasn't at home and they couldn't find him.
What it did explain, was why he was doing it and why Wo Fat had known to send Rowan inside before the second attack. But none of that was helping him because he had no idea where this guy was going to attack next.
And Rowan wasn't getting visions about this case. She got visions about a guy named Lawrence Turner.
With some digging Kono found him. An ex-military analyst that was wanted by the FBI for selling government secrets piece by piece to the SRS. He had gone missing before he could be arrested but they were pretty sure he was on the island.
Which was when Rowan remembered the case.
They were gonna land a goddamn plane in downtown Hawaii to get that guy out of the country and somewhere safe with a whole hard drive of stolen secrets.
She just didn't know when that was going to happen. Which lead to Steve and Danny driving around waiting for this stupid thing to attack them while Rowan was sent off to the relative safety of an SUV with Grover and Jerry. Before separating, despite being mad at Steve, despite him hitting her with the typical stay out of trouble order, she pulled him in for a hug, a kiss on the cheek for good luck and gave him an order of her own.
Don't get shot.
This left Rowan sitting, Grover in the front seat, Jerry in the back with her, fiddling with his own drone. She was trying not to sulk but she couldn't help it, she had wanted to be in the Camaro… she had felt like Steve needed her but she couldn't remember why and he wouldn't let her go with him.
"They'll be alright," Jerry said to her and Rowan nodded again. Grover turned, put a hand to her knee and then both of them yelped.
He got a shock. She got a vision.
Of Steve being shot in the leg.
"Koa and Ocean, it's gonna attack them Koa and Ocean, Steve's gonna get shot, go!"
Jerry opened his mouth to argue, but Grover but the car in gear. But that wasn't the only thing she saw. In that flash she saw a plane coming down and people running away, and Steve and his injured leg chasing a man with nothing to lose.
"Our girl just called in the aircraft," Grover said to her as they drove after Danny and Steve who were getting chased by the drone.
"I told you, I'm never wrong," she said. "Now come on Jerry, do your thing!"
Jerry got his own drone in the air, and once it was down, he was out of the car. Lou kicked Rowan out with him, because he was going after bullets and Steve would kill him if she got shot.
As Jerry looked up the coordinates to the man behind the drone attacks, Rowan silently jogged away knowing that her man needed her help, even if he was a good-for-nothing-waffle-stealer.
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With the drone down and the plane downed by Jerry flying the drone into one of the engines, they all had no choice but to flee. Turner and the SRS men trying to help him. His team had all splintered off after their own people. Steve was chasing Lawrence Turner with an injured leg and everything. He was half his normal speed but he was keeping eyes on Turner rather well. Until Turner turned a corner. Steve turned the same corner, slamming into some boards, his leg complaining and he had to pause. Which was fine by him because Turner had found a dead end and was heading back his way.
"Lawrence Turner!" he called. "It's over!"
But Turner wasn't ready to go down. He turned from Steve and launched himself at the wall behind him, finding purchase to pull himself up. Steve winced, his leg was in pain, he wouldn't be able to climb that, not fast enough to chase him, he leveled his gun with Turner's leg, ready to shoot but he didn't have to.
Rowan popped up on the other side of the wall, cried: "Hello!" and then punched the man in the face. Steve wanted to cry out her name in anger, but he didn't. She was too busy pulling herself up over the wall, he didn't want her to get distracted and fall.
Instead he hobbled over, gun in hand to Turner who was on the ground, holding his very bloody nose.
"You're under arrest for espionage," he said to Turner who was groaning at his feet, and then lifted a hand up to help Rowan over the wall. "Can you cuff him for me?"
"Sure thing," she said, rooting through his black cargo pants for the cuffs before kneeling down beside Turner.
"Don't give the lady any problems or I'll shoot you in the face," he warned and Turner flat out offered Rowan his hands so she could handcuff him easily. Steve stooped down to pull him up and smiled at Rowan.
"I told you to stay out of trouble," he told her.
"I told you not to get shot," she shot back and he laughed again.
"It's a flesh wound I'm fine."
"Still doesn't mean you should be running on it, you nutjob."
God, were they ever going to stop arguing? But when Rowan shot him that smile, that teasing glittering grin, Steve figured he didn't really care that much so long as she always smiled at him just like that.
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Kono got back from seeing Steve get out of the hospital to find Adam sitting and waiting of her on the front steps of her house.
"Hi," she said to him as she sat down beside him and she got a nice and happy: "Hi" back from him.
He sighed as she got herself settled and with a big grin asked: "Now, where were we?"
He meant from their talk that morning before she got called in to investigate the murder of two school teachers up at Diamond Head. Kono thought long and hard. She thought about the visions Rowan spoke about and the future she said Kono and Adam would have. She thought about how happy Adam made her and answered him with all that emotion tightening up her chest.
"Adam, there is nothing I'd like more than to be your wife," she said.
With a smile Adam took her hand in his and asked: "Then what's stopping you?"
And then that fear came back and she remembered how they had almost died, and he had left her behind. "It's just everything that we've been through. I just wanna know that we're gonna be safe," she told him and then looked into his concerned brown eyes. "I can't go through that again. Thinking I'm gonna lose you."
For some reason he smiled. He put an arm around her and pulled her close. "Hey. Hey, you're not gonna lose me," he assured her. He brushed her hair aside so she'd look at him, which she did even though she was certain she might burst into tears at any point now. "I promise."
She leant in to kiss him. "You promise?" she asked.
He kissed her softly and echoed it back at her. "Yes, I promise."
"Then yes, Adam, I will marry you."
She went to kiss him again but was interrupted by her front door banging open and Rowan shouting: "YES!" on the top of her lungs. She dropped to her knees and hugged them both tightly. "I knew it! I knew it! I call dib on godmother of your kid when he's born, and I call dibs on maid of honor!"
"Rowan!" Kono half laughed as Rowan squeezed them in a tight hug growling: "I'm just so happy for you guys!"
"What are you doing here? How did you get in?"
"I broke in like an hour ago," she said. "I wanted to make sure you said yes."
"Weren't you supposed to meet Steve when he got back from the hospital?"
Rowan scoffed and shrugged that off. "I left him a care package plus a note on where I am, he's probably on his way."
Which was when Jerry's mother's lime green mini-van came to a stop in front of her house. "Well speak of the devil," Rowan said. But instead of getting up to greet the man she was dating she lounged back on her heels and watched Jerry help Steve up and then watched him hobble up the walkway to her.
"What the hell Rowan?!" Steve cried. "Did you interrupt one of their dates?"
"You and your cases interrupt their dates all the time, so what if I do it once or twice?" she asked. Kono groaned, while it was true it wasn't the best defence Rowan came up with and the growl on Steve's face and falling from his lips told her that he didn't like it either.
"Rowan I got shot today, I had to make Jerry drive me up here! I have to go on a surveillance op with him now! You were supposed to be HOME to welcome me!"
"I left you soup and toaster waffles!"
"Yes, very funny!" Steve snapped glaring at her fidgeting again on his crutches.
"Did you want to sit down, boss?" Kono asked but he shook his head.
"No, I want to go home," he snapped glaring at Rowan.
"Well you haven't apologized so I'm going to stay here…" "Uh Rowan… not that we wouldn't love to have you but uh… we kind of have date plans…" "Then I'm going to Chin's."
Steve groaned at her. "For fuck sake Rowan. They're toaster waffles. I am not apologizing to you over toaster waffles. I bought you a month's supply. Let it go!"
Rowan stood up a dangerous glare on her face that worried Kono. Still she let Rowan step over her and Adam to approach Steve, stopping just out of arm's reach with her own arms crossed over her chest as she glared up at him. "Do you know how hurtful it was to hear that you can tell someone the exact number of days you've best besties with Danny but you can't tell anyone how long we've been dating for?"
"Four months, Rowan! I know we've been dating four months!"
"Yes, but both me and Danny had to tell you that!" she cried throwing her hands up. "Just admit that you like Danny more than me."
"Well right at this moment, yeah, yeah I fucking do!" he shouted and then regret painted his face as Rowan just gasped in shock and turned away from him.
"Yeah I'm just gonna go to Chin's…"
"No!" Steve snapped reaching out for her. "Rowan… there are so many dates, between you and I. Danny and I have one and it's just easier for me to remember, alright?"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"It's been one year, eleven months and nineteen days since I first met you. It's been one year, seven months and one day since I admitted to myself that I had feelings for you. And, one year, six months, and eight days since I decided I was going to date you. It's been eight months and eleven days since we started our friends with benefits thing and it's been four months and nineteen days since we started dating officially…"
"We're not official yet, I don't have a label, remember?"
"Really? I spent my entire hospital stay calculating all our dates and that's all you have to say to me?"
"You're right, that was rude of me. I'm sorry. Thank you."
"You know what else I have? Every single date you either shattered my heart or my confidence. Do you want me to list those?"
"No."
"Well then…"
"I said thank you, Steve, what else do you want?"
"Well a kiss would be nice…" he started but he couldn't finish because Rowan had jumped up immediately to press a kiss to his lips. Steve dropped his crutches to cling to her and deepen her kiss, and mostly to lean on her.
"Okay, so if you guys are good… can we go inside?"
The two of them simply waved Kono and Adam away as they kissed and Kono shook her head. "I'd like to think we're a more functional version of them."
And Adam smiled to her.
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Chin had gone to Halawa to see Gabriel. He walked in to find his brother in law looking good in orange, having healed up quite nicely from the beat down Wo Fat's men had put on him for what he had tried to do to Wo Fat and as a reminder to stay quiet about Rowan's involvement with the stealing of his money.
He sat across from him, letting Gabriel glare him down.
"When I heard you were coming to see me, I asked myself why," Gabriel said breaking the silence between them. "And then I realized. It's the two-year anniversary of my sister's murder which means you must be here to apologize for letting it happen."
"You remember the 25 million in an offshore account you tried to bribe me with?" Chin asked shutting Gabriel up now that got his attention. "Internal Affairs has been watching me ever since you were arrested. They think I have that money."
Gabriel shrugged. "It's not my problem."
"It is if Rowan gets involved," Chin said. He really shouldn't have, but Rowan really was the only way to get someone like Gabriel to listen. "And Rowan gets involved in everything."
Gabriel's face changed. But, unlike the other criminals who, when they heard her name would cringe, Gabriel just sneered.
"I'm not afraid of your little rat," he growled.
But Chin saw the way his eyes had winced at the mention of her and he didn't believe him. "I want you to sign an affidavit saying that the money never changed hands."
"And why would I do that?" he asked. "And give me something more than, telling Rowan dearest on me."
"Because maybe for once in your miserable life, you wanna do something decent," Chin offered.
Gabriel leant forward, the cuffs containing him clinking in the silence. "Let me think about it." He stood up, signalling that the conversation was done and for a guard to come and get him. "I'll get back to you."
As he walked away, he turned back to Chin and added: "You think that girl has power? You think her little network and that spineless little man she calls her brother are unstoppable? With each favour she pulls the less they respect him. Sooner or later that network is going to kill him, and when he's gone that girl will be unprotected… that's when I'm going to pay her back for everything that was done to me."
Though worry hit him, Chin merely presented his phone which had been recording everything and said: "I'm sure Wo Fat would love to hear that."
As the door opened and the guard pulled him away, Chin saw fear flash across Gabriel's features for the first time since that day on the roof. So much for not being afraid of Rowan Pierce, her brother or her network.
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Danny came home to his front door already open and the TV on. Football. Grace didn't like Football, and she was supposed to be in school.
He called her name three times before someone came out of the washroom. Someone who wasn't Grace and who wasn't afraid of the gun Danny had pulled on him.
"I believe Grace isn't due back from school for another half hour," he said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop," Danny ordered as he took the man in, sipping water out of one his glasses like he owned the fucking place. He was nicely dressed. Grey suit, light blue shirt untucked. But Danny didn't know who this guy was. "What are you doing in my house? Who are you?"
The man looked confused. As if Danny should have known who he was. "I'm Marco Reyes," he said like that explained everything.
"Oh!" Danny said playing like he knew the guy. When really… he had no fucking clue. "That supposed to mean something to me?"
Reyes, took a coaster, slapped it down and then put the drink down on top of it. Wow how considerate of him. Steve never even did that and that was his supposed best friend. "Your brother never mentioned me to you?"
Oh, that did not bode well. What had Matty gotten himself into now? "My brother? No. No, he didn't."
"Well, I'm hurt," he said clasping a hand to his wounded (emotionally) heart. "Matt and I were so close."
"What is it I can do for you?"
"Your brother took something from me, and you're gonna help me get it back."
Danny just stood there and took that in. He had never wanted that stubborn son of a bitch at his side more than right now.