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A/N: Hello my lovelies. Christmas in July! I know, weird but this is the Christmas episode so guess we're having Christmas in the summer. I hope you guys like it cause I tried to really amp up the cute stuff. Don't forget to leave a review to tell me what you think about the cute stuff or if there's any other cute scenes you'd like to see and I'll see you guys on Monday.

Chapter 151

The Camaro sped down the road with Steve behind the wheel and a giant illegally harvested Christmas tree strapped to the roof. And Danny couldn't have been angrier, except it wasn't his regular angry, he was just resigned, resigned to the fact that he was probably going to get fucking fined.

Danny glanced to Steve who was pointedly avoiding his eyes to look at the road and then just shook his head at him. This was his best-friend, everybody. The man who wouldn't let him drive his own car and convinced him to cut down trees in protected forest preserves.

"I cannot believe you made me an accomplice to a crime" he muttered.

"A victimless crime," Steve shot back a little too quickly. That meant he had been thinking about it too and it did not bode well that he had already come up with a justification for his actions.

His justification sucked.

"The evidence to which is strapped to the roof of my car right now," Danny snapped to him.

"Okay, Danny, no one's gonna know where this tree came from. Alright?"

"I'm gonna know where the tree came from. Okay? Every time I look at it, I'm gonna think about how we broke the law to get it," Danny cried. "That's it. You've tainted Christmas. You know what you are?"

Steve sighed. "Annoyed with this conversation?" he offered up.

"Wrong. You are the ruiner of Christmas. You are a scrooge."

Steve glared at him and hit him with a very dry: "Bah humbug"

And Danny shook his head again. "You know who I feel bad for? I feel bad for Rowan, who knows what you've done to fuck it up for her."

"Okay, firstly, Rowan is fine," Steve snapped and Danny scoffed. Yeah the two of them might have gotten over their little hiccup that had her staying at Jerry's for three days and had Steve a neurotic mess, but everyone knew it was only a matter of time before they blew up again. "Secondly… I have not ruined anything she's trying to kill me."

"Kill you?"

"Yeah. She made me buy an ugly Christmas sweater, she keeps roasting marshmallows and chestnuts, she's made a lifetime supply of those Estonian cookies, which are really just gingerbread cookies, don't know why she has to call them something else. Oh! And she's constantly making cocoa, I swear she's trying to give me heat stroke and diabetes all in one," he said. "But, I'll tell you this, we went out and got our Christmas tree like two weeks ago, it's already all decorated and we've got Christmas presents under the tree. I got her a really douzy of a Christmas gift, trust me she's gonna… she's gonna love it."

Danny though it over. Steve wasn't too good at getting Rowan gifts, but she always acted like they were the most amazing things on the planet. Which was a problem, because Steve never learned that he was a shitty gift giver. Still Danny had some wisdom to impart on Steve which was probably going to blow his mind.

"You uh… you know what she's doing right?"

Steve turned to his friend with eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Getting ready for Christmas in her own weird way?"

"Buddy, she's bringing in Pierce Family Traditions, guaranteed."

"What? No, she would have said something."

"Really, would she? The girl who doesn't like talking about her family or her past would have said something?" Danny asked and Steve huffed. "Think about it. She's used to a Canadian Christmas."

"She lived in Victoria, its warm there."

"BC still gets snow, and she spent a lot of time in skating rinks," Danny reminded him. "Point is, and this is my guarantee here, the whole ugly sweater, Estonian Christmas Cookies and pints of hot cocoa are all Pierce traditions, traditions she's trying to recreate with you on your first ever, proper, Christmas together with her."

One where she probably wouldn't be unconscious, or in the hospital for.

Probably.

Steve turned to him a sort of realization dawning on him. "Huh…" was all he managed to say. "I guess… uh… I guess…"

"That instead of spending all your time in bed with her you probably should have tried talking to her?" Danny asked. It was a sore spot. He knew that. Steve was very worried that he and Rowan only had good sex in common… no… sorry… phenomenal sex in common. And that comment hit it's mark, Danny knew, the second Steve turned an angry glare at him.

"I talk to her," he snapped. "I talk to her, she just isn't very forth coming, and you know that."

Danny nodded, he did know that. Steve scowled at him. "Just… just shut up."

Danny couldn't help but smile, now Steve was just as unnerved as he was. Sometimes it was fun to give a little bit back to Steve that Steve gave to Danny. It just sucked that he had to use Rowan and Steve's fucked up relationship to do it though, it sort of took all the fun out of it.

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Rowan came out of Danny's place to a cop looking at his car. Danny had asked her to get the tree up so he and Grace could decorate it, which she had done, with quite a few problems. She kept trying to tell him that just because she was Canadian, which was the land of snow and pine trees, didn't mean she was good at getting a tree into the stand.

She'd just replace all the frames she shattered. Hopefully before he noticed.

"Uh… hi… are you looking for Danny?" Rowan asked heading towards the cop who was interested in Danny's Camaro. "He's not here right now, they have a case somewhere… did you want me to call him to ask where?"

But the cop just had a big blank look on his face. "Miss. Pierce…" he started and Rowan tilted her head, surprised. Did he know who she was because she was with McGarrett or because of Wo? "I… I was unaware you'd be here."

"Yeah, I was just helping Danny with some last minute Christmas prep," she said. "Do I know you? I mean have we met before? I'm really sorry if we've already met, I'm just so terrible with names."

"No, no… Commander McGarrett… I mean in passing…."

Ah so he knew her from Steve, but that didn't explain why he was so nervous and afraid.

"Are you looking for Steve too?" she asked. "He's in meetings with the Governor all day but I'm sure if I text him and tell him it's an emergency he'll come by… granted you'll have to deal with him being freaked out and angry but it should do the trick…"

"No, no!" he cried.

"Okay, would you like me to tell him you were…"

But he had already walked away. Rowan let him go wondering what that was about. She quickly texted Steve telling him about the cop that was sniffing around Danny's car and then pulled up Danny's contact to call him.

As soon as he picked up she was talking. "Okay, like I need you. I helped with your Christmas emergency you have to help me with mine."

"Christmas emergency… Rowan I'm on a case!"

"I don't care, just tell me where you are and I'll come to you…"

"I'm on Hawaii Island."

"What do you mean, Hawaii Island? Isn't this all Hawaii?" she asked.

"Rowan, I don't have time for this," he snapped and then hung up the phone. Okay, first of all RUDE. Secondly, after everything she had done for him today the least he could have done was listen to her before telling her he didn't have time, actually… after everything she did for him ever he owed it to her to at the very least listen to her utter meltdown.

Besides, she needed help now. Like right now. And Hawaii Island was just Hawaii right? How far away could that be?

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Steve walked into the office, fresh out of meetings, unhappy he had a case, and unhappy that Rowan hadn't been answering his calls. He wasn't really needed on this case, he didn't really want to jump in half way, and he had called Rowan because he thought she might like to spend the rest of the day together. He knew she definitely would have loved that he was picking her over one of his cases. But she hadn't picked up so begrudgingly Steve had turned himself in at the Palace to report for work.

"Hey!" he said to Chin who called out the same sentiment while he was coming out of his office. "Danny filled me in on the case. What's the latest?"

"Well, Hawaii P.D. located Keone Maka's truck about a mile from the Mars training site…" "Okay?" "…Looks like he lost control, and it went into a ravine. I'm thinking that the poison must have kicked in while he was driving."

"Well, it makes sense. He gets disoriented, he… uh… he crashes into the ditch, and then goes looking for help on foot."

"Their CSU is processing it now," Chin told him and Steve nodded. "In the meantime, I think I might have a lead."

Chin was taking his time pulling it up and Steve shifted again. He checked his phone, still nothing from Rowan. It wasn't like her to do that to him. Since the App went down, she had been pretty dutiful on checking in with him, either whenever she was going somewhere or leaving somewhere, or when he asked. He couldn't help but be nervous about it.

"Have you heard from Rowan?" he asked before he could stop himself. Since her last run-away attempt, they had all agreed that, to make her feel more secure, they'd stop telling Steve Rowan's secrets. Unless… you know… unless she really needed help or Steve was about to do something stupid. It wasn't his business what she talked to his friends about, and they all agreed to stop reporting things to him.

Steve wasn't sure he'd get an answer but Chin just shrugged.

"No. Kono mentioned she called Danny about a Christmas emergency, but she's been acting squirrely this Christmas so we just chalked it up to not having enough Christmas lights or something."

God, they did not need more Christmas decorations at the McGarrett household.

"Did she make any more of those gingerbread cookies by the way?" "You mean Piparkoogid?" "Yes, they're delicious, I'm already done my tin, and I was hoping to get a few more… you know… since she was pretty clear that they're only a Christmas thing…"

"I'm pretty sure she was getting ready to bake another batch this morning before I left with Danny, if I ever get a hold of her I'll ask."

The skype line started ringing and as if that reminded him Chin added: "Oh, by the way, Pua stopped by. He was looking for you and Danny."

"He say why?" Steve asked hoping to sound surprised.

"No, but he was acting weird."

Weirder than Pua usually was? This better not be about that Christmas tree, Danny would never let him hear the end of it if it was about the tree.

Chin answered the video call and then Danny and Kono were on the screen.

"Hey, what's up coz?" Kono asked warmly as if she wasn't the one to call him.

"Hey, so I pulled Keone's phone records, and I found something interesting. In the 48 hours before his death, he exchanged nine phone calls with a man from Los Angeles by the name of Jeff Harrison. Now, right after the last call, Harrison booked a flight from LA to Kona that arrived at 1 am this morning."

"Okay, let me get this straight. So nine phone calls in two days. Then the guy shows up, and a couple hours later, Keone's dead?"

Someone came to stand beside Danny and all of a sudden, Steve and Chin froze, because at no point were either of them expecting Rowan to be on the screen.

"Uh… what the…?" Steve cried which caused Danny and Kono to notice that Rowan was standing right beside them her eyes boring into Danny's head.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Danny cried turning to her. "What the hell are you…? How the hell did you get past the cops?"

Rowan glanced to the cops milling around her and then turned her patient eyes to him. "I unno they just let me walk by."

"It's police precinct, what do you mean they just let you walk by?"

But Steve knew all about Rowan and her ability to just walk by people without them noticing and he was more surprised that she was no longer on the Island he left her on that morning, and she hadn't even told him she was leaving.

Rowan crossed her arms over her chest and glared at him. "I think the bigger question is why you of all people told me you don't have time for my bullshit? I always have time for yours the least you could have done was listen to me! Especially since I always have to listen to you… and I really, really need your help"

"Help with what?" Steve asked.

Rowan finally turned to the screen and then stared at him with a warm smile like she had no idea he was there. "Oh! Hey baby! Are you done with meetings already? Why didn't you call me?"

Obviously he was done. Though her hopping islands was probably why he hadn't been able to reach her, the question was did she fly or did she have Wo's network get her to Hawaii Island? He knew she kept saying she didn't have the network anymore but he didn't quite believe her. And when she acted sketchy like she was acting now it only made him more suspicious. "I tried to… what the hell is going on Rowan?" he cried.

Rowan's smile did that thing where it widened and he knew, he just knew that whatever was going on she wasn't going to tell him. "Nothing, I just needed to talk to Danny and he was being difficult so I came here."

Steve narrowed his eyes at her. "What the hell could be so important that you had to fly to Hawaii Island to talk to Danny?"

"Okay, can someone please tell me why it's called the Hawaii Island? Isn't this all Hawaii? Aren't they all islands?"

Avoidance, nope, that wasn't good. "Rowan… are you in trouble? Is something going wrong… do you need me to come… I'm just gonna come, stay there!"

"NO!" Rowan shouted and then she donned a shaky smile. "Babe. Naw, psh, I'm fine, okay. I just… I need to talk to Danny, can I please just talk to Danny without you like… breathing down my neck for like… two seconds?"

Steve blinked his eyes at her, unsure he warranted that level of response. He was just worried about her. "Alright… I'm… uh… I'm sorry."

Rowan winced. "I didn't mean for that to come out so… bitchy…" she said to him. "I'm just… I'm just a little frazzled right now about last minute Christmas things and I didn't want to waste your time with them…"

"Oh but it's fine to waste mine?" Danny asked as Steve murmured: "It wouldn't be a waste of my time."

"It's okay, Danny will help me and everything will be fine, I'll be home later… okay? Hey if I catch a ride with them can you pick up my car from the Hawaiian Airlines parking lot? It's the only pastel purple GTO in the lot."

Holy fuck she really had gotten on a plane. Granted she didn't need a passport to hop islands, she's just need her driver's licence, but FUCK, she had actually left Oahu and not told him.

"Sure thing babe. Text me if you need me to commandeer a helicopter to come and get you, okay?"

"Sure thing, miss you!" she called before letting Kono push her away.

As soon as she was gone, Steve looked down to avoid his friend's eyes for this next request. "I know we all agreed you guys would stop telling me things, but Danny, if she's in actual real trouble, you gotta tell me, okay?"

"Course, but I doubt it's that," he said. He then turned to Kono. "You… uh… you got this? Good, I'mma deal with his psycho girlfriend."

"She's not psycho!" Steve snapped but Danny was already walking away.

Kono smiled at him knowingly. "But she's your girlfriend now?"

"Can we stop talking about my personal life please? We… we have a case!" he cried. "What… what do we know about Harrison?"

Chin immediately changed topics thank god, "The guy's a horse trainer," he said pulling up the file. "No record, but he did end up in the news last year when his racehorse, Urban Myth, went missing. He was a favourite for the Kentucky Derby, night before the race, horse disappears. Nobody ever heard anything. No Ransom demand. Nothing."

The computer beeped at Chin's fingertips and he looked down. "Oh, hold on a second," he said reading it over. "I just got a hit back on Harrison's credit card. Looks like he's staying at a motel in Hamakua and he just returned a flight back to LA that leaves in a few hours."

"Got it!" Kono said. "He's going to miss that flight."

She completely ruined that amazing one liner that she could have ended on by adding: "I'll get Danny and send Rowan your way ASAP boss," before hanging up the call.

Steve glanced back to Chin who was smiling at him. "Don't you wish you had that app now?" he asked in a taunting voice and Steve scowled at him.

"Shut up, Chin," he snapped before storming off. But he was right. He really did wish he had that app right about now.

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Danny fairly dragged Rowan out of the bullpen where he and Kono had been sequestered and into the front lobby.

"This is insane," he snapped to her. "You can't be having a Christmas Emergency, Rowan. You're not Santa, you're not Rudolph… what the hell could be this important that you got on a plane to come find me… why couldn't you call me…"

"Uh, excuse me?" Rowan cried pointing a finger in his face. "I did call you, you hung up. And this is emergency!"

"Fine! What? What is this crisis that has you, the person who's literally not phased by anything, freaking out?"

Rowan sighed, her lower lip trembled, she put her hands on her hips and told him: "Steve's present got lost in the mail."

Danny blinked his eyes at her. He stared at her like she was nuts. "Are you freaking kidding me? His present got lost in… I've seen your tree, it's covered in gifts for him."

Rowan groaned. "NO! The big ticket! You know? The big gift that's all meaningful or super expensive or both! That one! That one got lost in the mail! All I have are the little stupid ones that are like… gag gifts or the useful ones that people want but aren't excited for!"

"Okay, so his gift got lost in the mail? I don't see the emergency here, just tell him it's lost…"

"I can't do that! He's been going on for weeks about the amazing gift he got me, and the one I got him isn't going to be here for Christmas, Danny!"

"What do you want me to do, Rowan? I'm Five-0, I have nothing to do with postal service, and don't you fucking tell me you want me to track that sucker down because I am not that kind of detective."

Rowan shook her head. "No, I need ideas. What should I get him… what can I get him that will be amazing… and nothing I have to ship to us cause it won't get here in time."

"This is what you tracked me down for?" Danny asked. "Gift ideas?"

He couldn't believe this was happening. This. This was not an emergency.

"Okay! Look! I didn't bitch when you needed help with that Christmas tree. I don't bitch when you need me to look after Grace last minute and I don't bitch when you don't pay me for babysitting or English tutoring!" Rowan snapped. "I don't bitch when Steve's out late cause you guys had to go for Longboards after a case. I don't bitch that Steve's closer to you than me…" "Uh… excuse me?" "Okay I bitch a bit, but I could bitch so much more and I don't. So please, please! Stop being sassy and help me out here!"

Danny sighed. "Rowan, he's going to like everything you got him. He's going to like it because it came from you. I honestly know of nothing you could get him that we haven't already picked out for him, aside from some kind of weapon and we both know he's got your picture in every gun and ammo shop with a giant do not sell to over your head."

Rowan sighed and Danny put a hand to her arm. "Just tell him the truth. He's not going to care. The biggest gift to him is that he finally gets to spend a proper Christmas with you, where you're not unconscious, avoiding him or accidentally drugged up."

Kono came rushing out of the bullpen with a man in a HPD coat behind her. "We got a lead, and we both know she's not coming with us," she said to Danny and then turned to Rowan. "This is Detective Dean Alawa, he's going to keep you entertained. Maybe he can help you with your Christmas Crisis huh?"

And then Danny was letting Kono drag him away. He figured, if Five-0 couldn't keep Rowan in line, this poor detective sure as hell wasn't going to be able to, but really… what could she do? She was miles away from trouble on an island she wasn't familiar with, and she wasn't getting visions anymore.

Maybe Rowan was finally neutralized.

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Alawa had actually been quite helpful. She ran a few ideas by him for Christmas gifts, he helped her settle on a decent second place prize to make up for the missing place holder gift until it came in the mail. He helped her set it up, he helped her wrap it and that had only taken an hour.

Danny and Kono had rushed their suspect to the hospital, but no one would give her any details other than that and then he was left attempting to entertain her at the precinct as Kono, Danny and Grover were all detained with the case. But after a small accidental fire set in the break room, Alawa decided to take her to the rodeo and let her watch some bull riding and maybe let her pet or ride some horses, except when they got there the rodeo was in the process of being shut down.

Rowan could tell that Alawa really didn't want to take her back to the precinct, and she was dangerously close to calling Steve and asking him to commandeer that helicopter like he said he would and have him come get her. But upon seeing her forlorn face about missing the ponies in particular, the rodeo master, Al Mokuau, offered to have her and Alawa go up to the ranch to meet some of his horses.

And Rowan graciously agreed for the both of them. She rode up to his ranch with Alawa and then he let her loose in the stable. He said she could pet any horse she wanted, and if she wanted to ride one, just tell him and one of his boys would saddle a horse up for her and he'd take her down a trail.

Which left Rowan going to each pen to pet each horse to try and pick one to ride. And then she got to the chestnut horse, more of a copperish color than chestnut. Reminded her of Secretariat but leaner and not as tall. As soon as she was at his stall he had his head out to greet her.

The problem was, as soon as she put her hand to his nose to pet it, suddenly she wasn't in the stable anymore. She was in a field beside a back hoe looking down into a giant hole where the horse lay, it's brains blown out. Two words echoing in her head. Urban Myth.

What the hell did that mean? Rowan came back to reality to the horse nickering and shaking it's head at her. She must have shocked it.

"Oh gosh, oh baby, I'm sorry!" she said to it, offering up her hands to it to try and calm it down. Luckily she didn't shock it again. She glanced to the where the owner and Detective Alawa were talking and then she looked back to the horse. Someone was going to kill it… and soon. Well she wasn't going to let that happen.

As silently as she could she opened up the stall and slipped inside. She quickly unhooked the simple bridle from the wall and walked towards it's side. "Alright boy… let's see if I still remember how to ride bare back."

And then she hopped onto it's back.

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A lot had gone down since they had left Rowan at the precinct. They went to catch Harrison before he got on a plane and found the man suffering from poison shock. Max and the Coroner he had major beef with, Dr. Dhawan, found the source and determined the poison, liquid nicotine, and managed to save Harrison. They figured out that all of this was linked back to that stolen horse, Urban Myth, and that it had to be on the island because Keone had come into contact only a few days ago, and was likely the reason he died.

And then they figured that the guy who tried to point them in the wrong direction, Al Mokuau was probably the horse thief and the murderer and went to his ranch to get the horse back and arrest the guy, but they didn't Fine Mokuau they found something worse.

The Five-0 SUV pulled up to the ranch and Danny got out, dread creeping up his spine. Why the hell was Detective Alawa here? He was supposed to be with Rowan.

"Please tell me, you did not bring that girl here with you to arrest this guy!" Danny ordered but Alawa just stared at him.

"No… I didn't know you guys were coming," he said. "I mean, I called for an arrest, but I didn't think you'd come so quick, we haven't even found her yet."

Her?

"Okay, wait a second. We're here because we're pretty sure that Al Mokuau is in possession of a stolen horse…"

"Naw the only stolen horse is the one your girl rode off with."

Rowan rode off with a horse? Oh, son of a bitch! Kono and Danny exchanged glances and then Danny pulled out his phone. "That horse?" he asked showing the guy the photo.

"Yeah. One of Mokuau's studs, he was awfully upset to see her ride off with him, took my car to chase her down."

"Which way did they go?" Danny asked but when Alawa couldn't answer him in time he snapped and started shouting. "That horse is stolen property and Mokuau is willing to kill over it. Which way did they go, damn it!"

"I unno… west?"

"It doesn't matter, Rowan doesn't know the island, she could be heading anywhere, we gotta find them now," Kono cried already on the phone for air support and to probably track Rowan's phone. Damn did anyone know if she actually had it?

"I am not calling McGarrett," Grover said quickly heading back to the car, Kono echoed with a "Me either," and that left Danny with the job of calling him.

Great. Just fucking Great. Cause that was going to go well.