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A/N: Hey guys, for those that Celebrate it like I do, Happy Canada Day! We're getting to the dramatic parts so I hope you guys are excited. The chapters that are coming up are going to have parts that are short and sweet because time is of the essence here and I want you guys to feel the panic of the situation… please tell me if it worked! Also the actual episodes are not as important either, we're focusing on the Reyes situation. Don't forget to tell me what you think and I'll see you guys on Wednesday!

Chapter 136

Matty was shaken awake way too early by Wo who was fully dressed and ready to go. He had been in a bad mood the last few weeks, if Matty had to guess it was because Rowan had stopped coming over, and had stopped meeting up with him, and Matty was a poor replacement for the wildly entertaining Rowan.

It wasn't his fault he didn't like Disney movies, it wasn't like Wo liked them either, he kept saying he only put up with them to please Rowan… but Matt had a feeling that wasn't true either.

But having Wo Fat wake him up that early when he usually left Matty to his own devices made him nervous. "What? What is it? Are we being attacked?"

"No. I need to know where the money is," he said. "The money you buried on Oahu. You need to tell me where it is."

He stepped away to fiddle with his cufflinks, carefully avoiding his eyes to concentrate on his hand movements. Matt rolled off of his stomach and stretched out. He had no intention of telling him about that money because it wasn't supposed to exist. It was his rainy day money, one day he'd get to pull it up today was not that day.

"I don't know…" he started and Wo Fat cut him off by punching him straight in the stomach. Matt cried out, curling up around the pain as he coughed and sputtered and eventually threw up some of his dinner from last night.

When he could breathe, when he wasn't in that much pain he glared up to Wo Fat. "What the hell did you do that for?"

"I don't have time for your lies. Tell me where it's buried, now."

There was a dangerous darkness around Wo Fat's edges that worried Matt. He only got looks like that when he thought Rowan was in danger. And Reyes wouldn't go after Rowan, not with who backed her, so if Rowan was in trouble and it involved his money it was probably because his brother was in trouble and she was stepping in to help him out.

So Matt told him all he needed to know.

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Danny woke up to someone shaking him and urgently saying his name over and over and over again.

Beside him Amber groaned. "Danny what does she want?"

"I'm more concerned about how she got in," Danny growled.

"You gave me an emergency key, now. Wake. Up," she shouted half jumping onto him. God she was worse than a kid on Christmas. And this was not what he had given her an emergency key for.

"Fuck Rowan!" Danny snapped but she merely jumped on him again while ordering him to wake up. He glanced at the clock. Seven in the morning. "Look at what time it is! What do you want, huh? What the hell do you want Rowan? Does Steve know you're here?" he snapped as she knelt down beside the bed.

She was all wide eyed and excited. Her pupils past dilated, those blue orbs clear crystal blue and with not a speck of fogginess around the edges. She wasn't having a vision that was for sure but she sure as hell was excited. "I found the money," she whispered and just like that Danny was up and ready to go.

"Oh and you're gonna have to call Steve cause I didn't tell him where I was going."

Well fuck.

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Steve didn't like coming back from his run and finding that Rowan was no longer in the house. He had left her in bed, went for a 5K or more run and then came back and she was gone. She didn't leave a note, but she left her phone which was pretty fucking shitty. Had Danny not texted him to tell him that Rowan had showed up at his place with the location of Matty's missing millions he would have flown into a proper panic.

He was annoyed, of course, but he understood why she might have forgotten to tell him she was leaving. She had been trying to dream about Matt's money for days and as Danny got more frantic so did she. He was going to ask Danny where they were so he could go help them, but he knew if he was actually wanted there she would have waited for him, or had remembered her phone so she could call him when he got home. Luckily right after confirming Rowan was okay he caught a case and now he was suitably distracted. He pulled his truck up to the crime scene and was met by Grover who was frowning at his truck. Okay so it wasn't a Camaro but it was still a nice truck.

"Where's the brains?" Lou asked once Steve was out and the door shut behind him.

"What are you talking about?

"Williams. He's the brains. You're the brawn."

"Okay. What does that make you?"

"Me? Come on, man," he said with a grin. "I'm the pretty face."

Steve scoffed and hid his amused smirk. "Danny's got some personal stuff he had to take care of…"

"The Reyes thing, huh?"

Steve nodded. "Sounds to me like that cat has a problem taking no for an answer," Lou growled.

"Yeah, well… he doesn't know Danny… who uh… who took Rowan with him this morning, so we'll see how well Reyes deals with that."

Except the only reason Steve let Rowan go out that door this morning was at the express request that Reyes and Rowan not go within three feet of each other. She couldn't know about Reyes, not when she had been dreaming two nights in a row about a man that looked like Reyes either getting shot, or shooting Danny.

He couldn't let Rowan know that Reyes was around, she'd call Wo Fat. She'd use that app. He didn't want Wo Fat or the app involved, there was no telling what that would do to Matt, or how this would rebound onto Rowan. After what Chin had told him Gabriel had said, that her using the app was rendering Wo Fat inept, he wanted her as far away from any situation that could have her on her app. Yes she was semi-involved right now, but this needed to be an internal Five-0 thing and he wanted it handled that way.

Besides, Rowan hadn't gone to intimidate Reyes, she knew where the money was and she was taking Danny to it.

"Ohh… the brains and the evil genius… not a good combination for you. My money's on he's going to say something stupid and you and Rowan argue for another three days."

Oh come on now, now Rowan was the evil genius? And another three day argument? Actually that was possible. Danny did like to say stupid things to Rowan that upset her and their arguments were getting longer. Steve ignored Lou's wagging eyebrows and turned away. They were just going to work and pretend none of this could happen.

But before Kono could even finish briefing him, his phone started to ring. It was a number he didn't recognize but he picked it up anyway.

"McGarrett."

"Reyes is on the island."

Steve blinked his eyes… that was Wo Fat's voice. Why would Reyes being on the island worry Wo Fat? "Uh…"

"Why is Reyes on the island, and why, if you know he's here, does Rowan not know he's here?"

"Why the hell do you care that he's here?" Steve asked.

Wo Fat started talking but didn't finish it. He seemingly thought about what he wanted to say before starting up again. "She mentioned him in passing, in relation to a dream," he said instead and Steve felt his lip curl in a baser animalistic response. He still selfishly felt like Rowan's dreams were only supposed to be for him and his team, not Wo Fat. "I've been watching him ever since. He has an interest in your bromance… thing. Who is currently with her doing god knows what with shovels… are they hiding a body?"

"She's helping him look for something."

"Is it a body?"

"No, I would not let Rowan go looking for a body, she'd puke all over the crime scene," Steve growled. "Look, what do you care?"

"Rowan fed me a bad cover story as a reason for her little treasure hunt. I presume you know the real reason why she's looking for eighteen and half million dollars and I would like to know, a, which one of you fed her that ridiculous lie, b, why you bothered lying in the first place if you were going to have her help find the money, and c, how it's possible she even bought that bullshit?"

Why the hell had he asked what they were looking for if he already knew the answer. Was he trying to see how much Steve had known? God, Steve didn't have time for this today.

"Why did you ask me what she was doing if you knew what was going on?" Steven asked. "How do you even know what's going on?"

"Reyes was an associate of mine. He had some of his money go missing, 18.5 million, asked me for a loan, which I was happy to give him and he has since then paid me back, however I know he's still looking for it. And now he's on the island and Rowan's on a beach with a bad lie and a shovel digging up that money, and I was giving you a chance to tell me the truth," Wo Fat answered.

Wow. Just… just… wow. Steve pinched the bridge of his nose. "Look, I was trying to keep you out of it," Steve snapped. "This is a Five-0 issue, and it's going to hit some grey territory… excuse me if I didn't want to make that grey even darker by getting you involved. And I just… I wanted Rowan away from him, alright?"

"Fair. I, too, would like to keep Reyes away from her, he's a little ticked off with me over a misunderstanding right now, and he has the habit of getting rather… violent…" Wo Fat seemingly mused to himself. "How badly do you want him off of the island?"

"Honestly? Pretty badly," Steve said. "He's uh… he's threatening Danny's family."

Wo Fat was silent for a moment before saying: "If it keeps Rowan away from him, I'll look into it."

And then he hung up the phone. Steve stared at the screen for a little while wondering when exactly he became okay with having casual conversations with his arch nemesis and asking him to deal with people for him.

He wasn't sure when it happened, but he blamed Rowan completely.

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Rowan had dragged him out to this remote area of Oahu, she had made him take this stupid ass postcard that Matt had sent him three years go. A little piss off postcard he was certain was sent to upset him. On the front of it was of a rock formation and a couple of palm trees and on the back Matt had written: wish you were here. This was where she took him.

They got out of the car and Danny looked around.

"Okay… so… what are we doing here?" he asked looking to her as she went to the back to get the shovels.

"Well… let's think about this logically, right?" she asked "So Matt got on a plane, and he had not a single piece of luggage right?'

"It scares me that you know that, but yes, go on."

"I told you it's on the TV show, season one. I think around the time you and Rachel started…"

"Can you stop. Please? Stop it. You know everything, it's scaring me, move on," he said following her out to the grove of trees where she stood in the middle of it. She shot a look at him that was both dry and unimpressed

"Kay, well he didn't leave with 18.5 million on a cheque… so that means it's gonna be on the island," she told him, which was all the stuff he knew already.

"Okay but why here, in particular?" he repeated.

"That postcard I told you to bring. Matt sent you that postcard… about a month after he disappeared right?"

"Again, scaring me that you know that."

"I'm going to ignore you every time you say that," Rowan said. "Well… this is on the postcard."

"Okay, so because my brother sent me a postcard… the money is just gonna… it's going to be here?"

"Yes."

"Rowan how do you…"

"Cause this is where you found it in the TV show and this is where you found it in the dream."

"Why couldn't you fucking lead with that?" he asked. "You really think my brother sent me a postcard as a treasure map."

"Yes sir, yes he did," she said. "And if we dig… uh… actually I'm not sure where I dig. You want to stand here for a second?"

She took a hold of him, her eyes closed an electric hum around him… not on him yet but around him. He felt it, this sort of shift in the atmosphere around them as she thought, and he swore, when she opened her eyes again that her eyes were a glowing hot white but it faded almost immediately so he wasn't sure.

"Found it."

Her voice was breathy and maybe he was crazy but he swore there was a fog descending from her mouth like she was cold or something in her mouth was cold. She left him, took four steps and then looked down at her feet and pointed to the ground.

"Three medium sized duffle bags, right here."

If they found that money where she was pointing… Danny was gonna shit bricks.

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Marco Reyes was having a nice lunch at his hotel. He had Williams fully invigorated in the search for Matty's missing millions, and he had people searching for the missing Matthew Williams. He had purposely let Daniel believe that he had his brother and that Matt was in danger. If Williams found out that Reyes didn't have Matty all of this would be for naught.

But that wasn't all he was looking into.

He was more than 90% positive that Wo Fat had been behind the hit he took that lost him over 1.3 mill in drugs and Matty. The survivors of the night said that is was one man who cleaned them out. And Marco Reyes knew of only one man who could pull a stunt like that off.

Sin Nombre didn't work for free. And he did take a large payout from Wo Fat around the time of the attack.

The only reason that Reyes wasn't entirely sure about it was because Wo Fat's pet civilian had also gotten into a lot of trouble and he had an issued an edict to destroy the NLM around the same time. The payment also linked up with that. And there was also the fact that Wo Fat vehemently denied pulling it off and the drugs never resurfaced. And at the amount he was paying out to fund Rowan Pierce's rescue missions he needed it.

Still, if Wo Fat was behind it, it was probably because Rowan Pierce was connected with Five-0, the team Daniel William's worked with. Everyone knew that she was dating one of them, Reyes wasn't sure which one because he didn't give a shit. But if she was close with Five-0 she would have had an interest in Matty's wellbeing for Danny's sake. And she was prone to using that network to help Five-0.

Reyes knew Fat was on the island, or at least nearby. Since getting out of prison he had returned to Hawaii and done less work on building up his empire again and spent more time hovering around Rowan. Reyes wanted off the island before Rowan was made aware that he was here, because he was certain when she knew, Wo Fat would come knocking on his hotel room door. To be honest he was surprised Williams didn't run to her the second he threatened his brother.

"Marco Reyes, as I live and breathe."

Reyes looked up, surprised, he new that saccharine sweet voice. Knew that rich timbre and silent clipped accent anywhere.

Wo Fat sat down at his table, in a crisp black suit looking like a villain out of a batman movie with those pink scars across the side of his face.

Oh God. She had told him. This was a shake down. An extradition.

"What brings you to my neck of the woods?"

Or maybe it wasn't.

"Just taking care of some business."

"I don't remember approving that… Reyes," Wo Fat said carefully signalling for the waitress to bring him over a drink.

"It's not that kind of business," Reyes said quickly. "Besides, after what you pulled… the least you could do is let me send a little…"

"Please tell me you are not still on this," he sighed as he took his drink, an amber looking liquid on the rocks. Knowing Wo Fat, expensive whiskey. That better not be on his tab, Wo Fat better be paying for his own drink.

"Why don't you admit to what you did? Admit you hit me and tell me where you stashed the drugs."

"I keep telling you, if I hit you for any reason, you would have known about it both before and after it happened," he repeated. "Shall I give you an example?"

Reyes eyed him carefully as Wo Fat leant in close to him. "You are dangerously close to getting involved with my sister," he hissed. "And I can tell you right now, if my sister calls me about you, if even so much as get a whiff of ill intent aimed in her general direction, I will stop being courteous with you, my friend."

He stood up threw money to the table and then smiled dangerously at him. "There was the before. Wanna see the after? Keep going. But I would advise that you got off this island, Reyes. Or Five-0 will be least of your troubles."

Reyes smiled. "Whatever you say, my friend, but I must say… you seem to really care about this, you called her your… sister?" he asked. Wo Fat's face remained unchanged, but there was a moment where he narrowed his eyes briefly. Reyes knew then he had hit a nerve. "I would recommend that you be careful. In our line of work… having someone close to you… that could be considered… dangerous…"

Wo Fat smiled a dangerous glittering smile. "I'll be sure to tell Commander McGarrett you've threatened his girlfriend. Have a nice night Marco."

And just like that Wo Fat was gone and Reyes found himself sitting there a little worried. He hadn't realized that Commander McGarrett of Five-0, the most unreasonably persistent and resourceful pain in the ass to any criminal organization, was the man on Five-0 that Rowan Pierce was dating.

He really needed to get off that island.

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Steve sprinted up the walkway to Danny's place, rang the door bell multiple times and then called Danny's name. There was no answer but the front door was open so he let himself in. He found a trail of dirt and sand leading him to the living room, which was coincidentally where Danny's voice was announcing: "In here!"

He rounded the corner and was shocked by it all. He hadn't seen this much money since Chin's ransom back when Hess was alive and Wo Fat was nothing but an enemy and that was all. Ah the good old days when everything was easier.

"Whoa," Steve found himself whispering, mainly cause it was a lot of money, but secondly because they had actually found the missing millions. Score one for Rowan and her visions.

"Where's Rowan?" he asked.

"I've got a room full of bags and money and you're asking me where your girlfriend is?" Danny shot back. When Steve scowled at him Danny waved off in the direction of the backyard. "She's out back on the phone. Pulling another favour."

"A favour?" he asked but Danny waved him off. Steve figured he'd just ask her when she came in so he looked around again and added: "Well… she was right."

"Yep, except for, uh… the fact that Reyes said that Matty owed him eighteen and a half million dollars. You see, this is only thirteen million dollars."

Steve looked around again. "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am positive, we counted it three times," Danny snapped. Rowan was notoriously bad at math and Steve was about to mention that when Danny rolled his eyes and added: "And before you ask I did it twice without Rowan's help."

"So Matty must have taken some to help himself disappear."

"Yeah and now I'm five and a half million dollars short. Steve, I have two days to come up with all of it and if I don't I get Matt's head in a box," Danny said with a sigh. "I think he's not playing. I think he has Matt."

"Okay… so uh… what did you… what did you tell…"

"I told Rowan that we got most of it and we're short about five mill. And she said she might have that in the bank right now, but she uh… she's calling to check, hence…" he said trailing over

For a moment Steve went blank. "I'm sorry…she has how much in the bank?"

"You know I didn't really press her for details… do you guys talk about…"

"No," Steve whispered though he was starting to think he really should sit her down and have her explain her finances to him. Just so they could be on the same page, just cause at some point he was going to ask her to consolidate everything with his… just you know in the distant future.

The door slid open and Rowan appeared, looking at her phone. "Fucking asshole should have mentioned it when we asked him," Rowan was mumbling to herself. "Should let Wo teach him a lesson…"

"Teach who a lesson, Ro?" Steve asked. Rowan's eyes whipped up to him, a smile widened on her face that made his heart sing. She was always so happy to see him.

"Baby!" she cried crossing over piles of money without a care in the world to wrap him up in a hug and kiss him. "I'm sorry I wasn't there to meet you when you got home."

"That's alright," he whispered into her hair. "Who's Wo gonna teach a lesson to?"

"Oh never mind that," she said and then she glanced at Danny and said: "No go. I've got maybe half readily available, but the rest I'd have to uh… well… uhm…"

She kept glancing at Steve and realized that she'd have to ask Wo Fat for the money. Panic hit Steve's features. Wo Fat would know what the money was for. Wo Fat would tell her the truth. And Rowan would get fully involved, app and all. God, he wanted her not involved in this, that was the whole point. To keep her and Wo Fat out, and they were both too far in.

"It's uh… it's okay…" he said. "We'll uh… we'll think of something."

But Danny was wearing that look on his face and Steve had a feeling they were getting dangerously close to the point where Danny was going to ask for a Rowan-gram.