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A/N: Guess which dumb-writer was so tired yesterday that they forgot to post! This girl! Gosh guys I am SO sorry! But here's the chapter and I promise you will still be getting one tomorrow too! Are you ready for a cute little reunion I got lined up for you? For those of you who were curious about what Danny had to save Rowan from, you'll also find out what that was. We're getting close to that 200th chapter too, are you guys excited? I think I picked a few cute part to post. Don't forget to leave me a review, I love to hear what you think of the story and I will see you guys on Friday.

Chapter 190

Steve stormed into the Iolani Palace hoping to get a location on Rowan ASAP. What he found was Chin at the smart table quickly closing things which was a very suspicious thing to do.

"What are you doing here?" Chin asked.

"I'm looking for Rowan, what are you doing?" Steve asked his eyes narrowed at Chin who was groaning.

"Oh no, you've heard then, someone's told you," Chin said which stopped Steve's heart in his chest.

"What? What happened?"

"It's okay, Steven, it's okay. Kono's in with Hobbs, and I've got some pretty solid evidence to clear her so you don't have to worry…"

What the fuck, had Rowan been arrested again? "Okay, wait a second, did she get arrested? What are you talking about?"

"Well wait a second… if you're not… Okay… why are you looking for Rowan?" Chin shot back.

"I'm looking for Rowan because I'm pretty sure I had another one of her void twinges, and I'm convinced she's in danger. You haven't answered my question. Has she been arrested again?" Steve asked.

"Not really. But we do have Gordon Hobbs attempting to charge her with assault right now."

"I'm sorry… what did you just say?" Steve asked, his voice low in a dangerous sultry sort of way.

"You heard me," Chin replied. "He wants to charge Rowan with assault."

Steve just turned to stare at Chin who just stared back. "Gordon Hobbs is a visiting Sports Agent. He's here to sign a deal with a few major players. Not sure the details. Just that he's an obnoxious jerk."

"And why the hell was my girl assaulting a sport's agent this morning?" he asked his arms crossed over his chest.

"Well according to her, he attacked her first," Chin said. "And the video and witnesses confirm that."

Steve shook his head. "What."

Chin nodded. "The barista at her regular coffee place said that Mr. Hobbs spotted her while she was in line and attempted flirting. Rowan shot him down, like hard, he insulted her and she Ice Queened him, humiliated him in front of his corporate friends and probably one of the athletes he was trying to sign."

Chin pulled up a file. "This was caught by the security camera of an ATM across the street," he said letting it play.

Steve watched Rowan come out with her coffee, playing with her phone. Gordon Hobbs came out after her, grabbing her from behind and tugging her into an alleyway, disappearing into the shadows. Steve's heart kicked up, wanting to jump into the screen to save her. Though the picture was vague, once they were in the shadows, all they could really make up was a bit of a struggle. After a few charged moments the person who came out of the alleyway was Rowan, putting a shoe back on her foot. She carefully picked up the cellphone that had dropped out of her hand and walked away.

Steve turned back to Chin. "She stabbed him with her stiletto didn't she?" he asked.

Chin was smiling. "Yep. She kicked it straight into his shin. She also punched him in the throat, broke his nose and then pulled the stiletto she had imbedded in his leg out before leaving." Steve sighed out the pent up fear. "Kono's in with him now. She's trying to get him to admit that he attacked first, but he's maintaining that Rowan started it and needs to be dealt with."

"What time did this happen?" Steve asked.

"Uh… this morning, round ten am… why?"

"Cause that's not when I had my attack," Steve said. "So she got arrested what… down the block from there?"

"Yeah, everyone knows your girl, Steve, Duke realized who he was filing against and he picked her up and handed her off to Danny," Chin said.

"See I can't get a hold of Danny either, do you know where he is?" Steve asked.

"Uh… no but I can put out a few feelers… where are you going?" Chin asked as Steve headed for their elevator.

"I'm going to go talk to Hobbs," Steve said.

"Is that a good idea?" Chin asked but Steve wasn't taking no for an answer. He made his way down to the basement where he let himself into the interrogation room. Gordon Hobbs, a beefy looking man with a bald spot and a fancy sport coat was basically screaming at Kono who had him cuffed to one of their small chairs.

He was going on about money, and connections, and how he was going to get her fired. He looked smaller on the video feed, but looking at him in the flesh his stomach roiled at what might have happened to his Rowan if that man had gotten the upper hand.

"Kono, I got this," he said to her softly. But Kono wouldn't move.

"Have you been briefed…."

"Yep, I know everything, I've seen the video, heard from the witnesses and I got this, so uh… why don't you head upstairs," he offered.

He could see the doubt in her eyes but she left him with Hobbs just like he wanted. Hobbs had a pant leg rolled up and wrapped in gauze, his nose was purple and swollen, with big purple bruises under both eyes. He couldn't help but smile, that's right, his little Rowan had done that to him.

"Who the hell are you?" Hobbs asked.

"I'm Commander Steven McGarrett, you uh… you wanna give me your version of the story?"

"That little bitch humiliated me and then attacked me when I was trying to apologize. And you know what I got for my trouble? Stabbed. The fucking psycho stabbed me with her fucking shoe. And you have me down here like I'm the fucking criminal!" he snapped.

Steve nodded. "Oh so that… that was an apology?" he asked and then sort of half laughed at him. "I think that's funny cause the video I watched… uh… it looked an awful lot like you grabbed my girl from behind and drag her into a dark alleyway… you call that an apology?"

"Your… your girl?" he echoed.

Steve just smiled at him. "I'm guessing you didn't think she'd fight back huh?" he asked. "You didn't realize who you were picking a fight with huh?"

"Look…"

"No it's pretty clear what happened, Gordon," Steve said. "My girl humiliated you, just like you said, except you didn't go after her to apologize, you went after to her to get some payback, teach her a lesson, and my girl handed your shit right back to you. You see, you probably didn't know she was dating the head of Five-0 or that her brother is a pretty well-known and violent criminal mastermind."

"A… a… criminal…?"

"Mastermind, yes. In fact, I can't be certain cause we never could quite prove what happened to him, but I'm pretty sure the last man to attempt to sexually assault her ended up at the bottom of the ocean," Steve said crossing his arm over his chest. "I wonder where you'll end up."

"Now wait a second!" Hobbs cried. "I didn't… you can't let that happen to me…"

"I don't have to do anything," Steve told him.

"You can't just let him kill me!" Hobbs cried. "Don't you know who I am?"

"No and quite frankly I don't care," Steve said. "You want my support? You're gonna drop the charges, and you're gonna clear off my island, cause if you go anywhere near my girlfriend again it won't be her brother you'll be staring down you understand me?"

"Anything, anything okay, just…"

But Steve was already walking away from him. He couldn't be in a room with that man, not when he wanted to strangle him himself. When he got out he found Kono waiting for him.

"You can't find Rowan?" she asked and when Steve nodded he watched the concern flash across Kono's face. "We all thought she was with Danny."

"Well I can't find Danny either," Steve said, starting to think that maybe something had happened to the both of them.

"He responded to a murder after picking up Rowan… is it possible that they're still there?" Kono asked.

Steve thought it over. "Yeah, send me the address," he said. "I'm gonna try and track them down. But uh… get Gordon out of this building, when I come back he better be fucking gone cause if he's still here I can't be held responsible for what I do to him."

He couldn't stay still, he couldn't just sit there and wait for them to show up. He needed to find his girlfriend, he needed to find his best friend. He needed to do something… anything. And if Gordon was still in this building when he got back Steve was going to turn absolutely monstrous.

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Rowan was not having a good day. She got verbally accosted and then nearly assaulted. She never got to her meeting and Pete was absolutely livid with her and her arrest record. At this rate she was going to lose her writing job and she didn't know what she'd do if she lost the job that made her this happy. To make matters worse she was stuck in a small little room with a dead body, a dead body that the fucking corner, Dr. Shaw, had half autopsied. She had listened to music and had faced away but she still knew what was happening and that was terrifying.

With their clues found or whatever, they had zipped the body back up and were now attempting to find other ways out. This led to Dr. Shaw being up on Danny's shoulders trying to get the ceiling grate off so they could get up into the elevator shaft.

But she gave up all too quickly. "It's not working. It's sealed on the other side," she said quickly dismounting. Rowan glanced up to the ceiling, she could do something about that.

"Let me try," Rowan said. Danny, who was huffing, having apparently had a hard time keeping Dr. Shaw up.

"Rowan that top is sealed from the other side, you're not going to be able to open it," Danny snapped but Rowan had turned a wild look on him that actually scared him.

"Listen to me Williams," she growled. "I am stuck in a small dark space with a dead fucking body. Lift. Me. Up."

Sighing he did as she asked. She got up on to his shoulders and he stood slowly to keep his balance. As soon as Rowan got up she put her finger tips to the grate and began to concentrate. She could do this, she could do this.

"See, the screws…" he started but there was a sudden electric crackle and a pop and the panel was hitting the floor. Both Danny and Mindy watched it hit the floor while Rowan busied herself with getting a good grip to try and start pulling herself up.

"Oh my god," Mindy whispered to herself.

"How did you open that?" Danny asked. He would have said more had Rowan not dug her heels into his shoulders just at that moment to get herself out through the roof and up into the shaft. He noted that she hadn't answered his question and instead ignored him during her ascent. Once she was up there though he asked again. "Seriously, how did you open that?"

Rowan's head popped back into the elevator and looked down to Danny. "I'm sorry did you say something?"

"Yes, I want to know how you got this open, the grate was sealed from the other side."

"Well clearly it wasn't," Rowan answered.

"I don't think Mindy…" "— Kay, stop it. Life found a way. Leave it at that," Rowan interrupted and Danny went quiet with a quick huff. "I'mma go get help."

"Yeah? And how are you going to get the elevator doors open?"

"Fucking life will find a way Danny," Rowan snapped. "Why are you questioning me? Just shut up and be grateful." She was silent for a moment before he heard: "Aw fuck I have to climb?"

"No, Rowan, don't you dare, cause if you fall and kill yourself Steve will never forgive me. He still hasn't forgiven me for the stabbing!"

"She got stabbed?" Mindy asked him in a low voice but he waved her away.

"Well we can't stay here!" Rowan cried down to them and then she shushed Danny's burgeoning complaints. "Wait… wait do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

There was a pause again, where she was clearly listening but Danny couldn't hear anything. But she must have because she suddenly called: "Steve?" Oh god not this again. "STEVEN?"

Except that time even he heard a response to that call, in a familiar voice and timber. Danny's eyes flew up to the hole in the ceiling that Rowan had climbed through, in complete in utter disbelief. "Son of a bitch… no… how did he know we were here?"

There was a sudden grunt and a scraping sound, probably of Steve prying open the elevator doors to get to her and then a worried call of: "Ro?"

Yep it was him.

"Steven!" Rowan cried sounding so utterly excited to see him. "Steven get me out of here!"

"What? How did you… how did you even get down there?"

"We got trapped in the elevator and I climbed up…"

"Danny let you climb up?" he heard Steve cry. Great. Throwing him under the bus already. "No, no, Rowan stay down there!"

"No! I was stuck in a small dark space with a dead body and Danny's sass and… and… SHE DID HALF AN AUTOPSY IN FRONT OF ME! I need you to hold me and I need you now so shut up and help me!" she cried. After that all Danny heard was grunting as Rowan climbed and Steve's encouraging words. When she evidently reached the top they went silent and Danny didn't have to be up there to know that the two of them were making out.

"They've forgotten we're down here," he said with a scowl but Mindy shook her head.

"They couldn't possibly."

"Yeah, you don't know them like I do," he snapped. "Hey!" he called up to them. "Forgetting something?"

"Shit," came from Rowan and he shook his head. Well that answered his question, they had forgotten after all. It was Steve who called down: "We're coming Danny, give us a moment."

"No! Make out with Rowan later, get me out of here NOW!" Danny screamed up, there was a beat of silence before Danny shrieked: "STEVEN?!" on the top of his lungs.

"For fuck sake Danny, I am coming, will you calm down?" Steve called back but Danny just shook his head. Had his best friend forgotten that he was claustrophobic? He wouldn't have been surprised if he had, he tended to forget everything where Rowan was involved.

At that moment he didn't care how annoying Steve was or how his habit of putting Rowan before everything and everyone else seemed to keep him from doing things in a timely fashion, so long as the man got him out of that elevator he'd be his favourite person in the world. But once Danny was out, once he had calmed down about the situation, Steven was gonna get a lecture. A fucking lecture, for forgetting him down there. They both were.

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Steve hadn't let her go, hell he'd probably still be holding onto her now if he didn't have to drive. His eyes kept darting to her. But Rowan, who was finally calm and no longer in a perpetual state of panic, just stared calmly out of the passenger side window watching the buildings go by. She knew they were heading back to the Palace. Steve was on a case but he also didn't want her to be out of his sight and after the day she had she didn't want to be out of his sight either.

He had just parked his car in his customary spot right outside of the Palace when he suddenly turned to her.

"Are you okay?"

Rowan turned to him almost absently like she had been jolted out of a dream. "Yeah, Steven, I'm fine, I'm just tired. It's been a stressful day…"

"Yes I know. I saw the video."

Rowan blinked her eyes at him, narrowing in confusion. "Video? What video?"

"The video of Gordon Hobbs dragging you into a dark alleyway this morning," he answered softly and Rowan's heart stopped in her chest.

Goddamn it who told him about that?

She thought over all of the options she had for things to say, that didn't make him feel bad or made him think poorly of her but nothing came to mind other then: "You found out about that?"

"Yeah, you didn't think I'd find out that some guy was pressing an assault charge on you?"

"Hold on. That asshole actually pressed charges… ON ME?!" she thundered.

"Well not anymore, not since I've had words with him…" "Like actual words or did you hit him?" "Just words," Steven clarified. "I wanted to hit him but I figured it wouldn't look good if we both assaulted him. No, he and I had words, we discussed how he had no grounds to be pressing any charges on my girlfriend and he chose to walk out of there or well limp… you really impaled him, huh?"

Rowan smiled at him, he sounded proud. "Yep, kicked him with all my might."

"Smart move."

"Thank you, Wo Fat taught me that," she said before she could stop herself. She noted that Steve's proud smile faltered a bit. He cleared his throat and looked down.

"You should have called me."

"Yes, I know. I was going to, but you know… after Colombia… I just… I knew if I called you, if I had told you what happened, you'd panic or at the very least worry about me. I was going to tell you in person, so that when you heard about it you could hug me right away and be sure I was fine," she told him and Steve smiled, glad that her only reason for not telling him had been because she was concerned about worrying him. "Then you know… I got stuck in the elevator… thank you for finding me by the way."

"You didn't make it easy but… did you uh… did you try to void out of it or something?" he asked. "Cause I got a pretty big twinge this afternoon."

"Wow, really? You felt that?" she asked a small grin growing on her face. She knew it, she knew they had a psychic link.

"You really tried to void out of there?"

"Nope, but I was trying to link up to you through the red strings, I wasn't sure you were getting them but you must have heard a little bit of the call otherwise you wouldn't have known to look."

Steve shook his head. "I'd prefer it if your distress calls came from the phone from now on, okay?"

Rowan nodded. "Though… you know I had no service right?"

Steve just smiled at her, taking her hand in his and kissing her knuckles softly. "Well when you have service, just call me normally please," he said to her and she laughed. "You good to go inside? Hobbs should be gone by now, if he's smart he'll have gotten on a plane."

Of course Rowan wouldn't mind. She wouldn't mind sitting in Steve's office while he worked. She followed him briefly, getting derailed when both Kono and Chin converged onto her. She stopped, happily excepting a hug from both Kono and Chin who had been worried about her while Steve went into his office to make some sort of call involving whatever case he was working on.

"You want to sit in my office while you wait?" Chin asked but before Rowan could tell Chin that she wanted to stay in Steven's office, Kono shook her head for Rowan.

"Didn't Lou want her?"

"Lou?" Rowan asked Kono. "What does he want me for?"

But they both shrugged which left Rowan heading down to the basement where Lou was interrogating someone. She purposely took the stairs though because she didn't want to chance the elevator again. Though if she were to get stuck again, at least her friends and boyfriend knew where the hell she was.

She hadn't even managed to knock on the interrogation room door when it suddenly flew open. Grover must have been leaving, but he changed his mind the second he spotted her. He smiled, this big beaming grin on her and then grabbed her arms and tugged her into the room.

HE stood her in front of his suspect, a black man who looked far from impressed, dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts. He glared up at them while Rowan stared back, she didn't know what was happening, she didn't know why she was in the room. But Grover was already talking.

"Alright Clay, meet the magic maker. This girl is going to look you inside and out and she's going to find all the ugly bits of you and she's going to turn them out to the light. There ain't nothing you can hide from her and none of this: you can't prove it, shit either," he said taking Rowan by the shoulders and then putting her down in the chair in front of him. "Kay little mama, do your magic."

Rowan stared at Clay. She then blinked at him and then turned to Grover. "Uhm…."

"Do you need me to leave you alone with him? I'll leave you alone with him," Grover said and then despite her jumping out of her seat and following after him, and weakly trying to protest, he still shut the door.

Rowan stood there staring at the door. "He shut the door on me…" she whispered. But she knew, unlike the elevator, she could get out of this place.

She turned back to Clay who was just staring at her she took the chair that Grover had left for her and sat down.

She stared at him long hard until the strings came into focus and then looked at them all. She cleared her throat carefully and started with the most prominent string.

"You're cheating on your wife…"

"Lou could have told you that."

Alright, fair. Rowan brushed that string away, it didn't matter anyway. It was the motive, of course, but Rowan knew that wasn't how they got him for the murder. She didn't know how Lou got him for the murder. And nothing was popping up for her either.

"Why is the car in the garage?" she suddenly asked he straightened. "It's winter but the car's in the garage… why is it in… something about… a bust? Drugs maybe? No… that's not it… something stolen… and then the garage… why is the car in the garage?"

But try as she might she got nothing other then those snippets and she knew Grover wasn't going to like that. The strings went out of focus again and she sighed. She couldn't help it, she just couldn't hold on to them, she must have been tired. Well if the strings weren't going to work she could get him a different way. She pulled out her phone and looked over the app, she clicked the black cat protocols, and then took his picture.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm putting you into my app."

"What app?"

"You're from Chicago you wouldn't know about me and my app," she answered absently and then went back to typing the information in. She may not be able to get him in Hawaii but her criminal network was vast, someone in Chicago would pick this up, she was sure.

She sent in the requested, went to put her phone away but suddenly her phone was chirping again. Rowan pulled out her phone and blinked her eyes surprised. Well… she hadn't have been expected that response.

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Grover was sure when Rowan appeared just outside the door that his case was about to be busted right open. The girl who could get anyone to talk, who saw the future and ran a criminally organized app, would see through Clay in a heartbeat. But it seemed like not two minutes after he had shut the door on her she was back outside. Which was odd because he hadn't buzzed her out but h was prepared to ignore that if that girl helped him pin Clay Maxwell with the murder of his wife Diane.

"Whoo, that was quick!" he crowed. "He must be hella guilty! So go on, what is it? How do I pin him?"

Rowan just stared at him, eyes wide and worried, she turned her eyes towards Steve who was walking quickly down the hallway towards her. He took in her stare and his pace picked up until he was flat out jogging towards her.

"What is it babe, what is it?" he asked sliding to a stop beside her, a hand to her elbow the other to her cheek as he looked her over. Well damn, what had gotten him in protective mode? Was this still about the assault from that morning, cause between him and Rowan, Gordon Hobbs had more than been handled.

"He shut the door on me…" Rowan whispered and then Steve's accusing eyes were boring holes into Grover.

"Wait did you lock her into an interrogation cell? Lou, she got trapped in an elevator today, I literally just got her out of it!" Steve snapped and Grover blinked his eyes.

"Damn little Mama, I didn't realize… but uh… this is kinda important, so I'll ask again. Did you get anything?"

Rowan winced. First at Steve and then to Grover. She lowered her eyes and said: "A car."

"A car? What, a car he used to transport the body? See that can't be right cause he pushed her off the cliff. So… what's a car got to do with this?"

Rowan shook her head. "Oh… that's what this is? Why did I think that happened later… okay, I'm confused, cause this car is uhm… well it's in a garage… and it's not supposed to be in a garage? In the winter? So uhm…. I think it's back in Chicago…"

Grover blinked his eyes at her as he took that in. He then frowned at her and put his hands on his hips to glare down at her. "Little mama, how the hell is a car in Chicago gonna help me?"

Rowan winced again, taking a step closer to Steve as she lowered her eyes from him. "Uh… it doesn't… yet… I think you need it for… uhm… for later?"

"LATER?!" Grover thundered.

Rowan flinched pressing herself into Steve's side. "I'm sorry… it was all I got," she whispered and Steve moved immediately shielding her from Grover like he thought he might attack the girl.

"Lou, Lou, stop," he said. "This isn't her fault. She tried…"

"Well can she activate Black Cat Protocols or tell Sandy to dig up some info or stalk a bitch or something?" he asked.

"I tried, Wo Fat said no," Rowan said with a frown and Steve turned on her.

"Did you call Wo Fat?"

"No, I tried to put it through the app and he hit me with a straight up DECLINED! No more helping Five-0," she said to him and Steve rolled his eyes. "You had one grace and that was the barbershop… but that was also cause you might have been killed and I don't think he thinks this is serious enough…" she glanced up to Grover who was glaring at her and she winced again. "I'm sorry. He… he's never declined anything before… I'm kind of insulted actually."

He sighed. "No, no, at least you tried, huh? Thank you for trying."

Steve wrapped an arm around her again and pulled her back towards the elevator. "Come on babe, we're done here, let's get you home, okay?"

Rowan nodded and Grover let them go. He was going to have to apologize, and once he calmed down he would. But right at that moment all he could think was that he had let Diane, who had been his friend too, down.

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Steve got her home and all he wanted to do was curl up in bed with the girl who had worried him that day. No sex, no fooling around, just lying there with her in his arms, her fingers tracing patterns over the skin of his chest, his sides or tracing whatever tattoos she could reach, while his fingernails dug into her skin to remind himself that she was there.

But Steve got her home and she immediately went to the kitchen to make dinner and he had to go pick up Nahele, whom they agreed did not need to know what had happened that day, and then they all sat together at the kitchen table, Steve cleaning his gun, Rowan flipping between reading wedding magazines and writing in her song book, and Nahele working on homework.

It wasn't until Nahele had gone to bed, and it was time to take her up too, that Steve finally gathered the courage to do something he knew she wouldn't like.

"Rowan, can I ask you a question?" Steve asked as Rowan was putting their dishes from dinner away in the dishwasher.

Rowan glanced up to him. "Sure, what's up?"

"Okay so uh… uh… Danny gave me the low down of what went on in that elevator and he said… Danny said…"

"Fucking Danny told you about the ceiling panel, didn't he?" she asked dryly. When Steve nodded she scowled. "That rat bastard! He really can't keep his mouth shut."

"Yeah, I know, he's a snitch. But uh… I gotta know, you know… how did you open it?"

They had both been doing so well when it came to opening up. He had gotten better at talking about his feelings, and she did her best to answer his questions quite truthfully. Granted there was always a moment where she would seemingly pause to think over whether or not she would answer that had him worried that she might not tell him, or that she might light to him instead. Which was what she did in that moment before seemingly deciding that she would tell him after all and then coming to stand in front of him.

"You're not going to like this," she said to him. "This is void heavy and I already told you about the psychic link call I did this afternoon to get your attention… so I unno how you're gonna take this."

"Okay, thank you for the warning, but I don't need it, it's fine, just tell me, please," he assured her though she didn't seem encouraged or reassured by his words.

"Okay… uh… you know the strings? I said I could see them? Well it turns out I can pull on them too."

"You can… you can what?"

"Okay, okay, okay, here, how about I show you? It's easier if I show you," she said quickly. "Here, I'm going to go outside, you lock the door."

"Rowan…" he started but she shook her head already going to the front door.

"Trust me, just… just do it," she said, unlocking it. He watched her open it and close it behind her and he sighed. He might as well humour her. So he walked towards the door.

Steve locked the door as requested and then waited. Sure enough about thirty seconds later there was a sudden crackle, a slight pinching in his chest and the lock on the door unlocked on its own. Rowan opened the door and stared up at him. Normally she would have smiled, whenever she had a new power she had always been so excited to show him. It pained him to realize that he had worn her down to the point where she didn't want to tell him things, he had done this to her. He had reacted badly to every void related incident and now she was afraid to show him her new abilities.

"So yeah. I can do that now," she whispered. "Well I've been able to do that for a while. It's how I slipped all my cuffs. It's how I got the elevator to drop when me and Kono were stuck and Roman was after us… uhm… but… uh… how honest do you want me to be right now?"

"Totally honest."

"Kay. Well I developed this power when you got kidnapped… by Wo…" Steve's eyes widened he couldn't help it. Had she… had she developed it… for him? Rowan missed the smile that dawned on his lips as she was looking down and talking again. "You see… once Danny told me what happened I went looking for you two but I couldn't find him and then… you know… I kept thinking, that if this were a dream I could just look at the strings and pull on them until I got the right ending. And uh… when I got to the cleaners, when I was in that basement looking at a locked door and knowing you were on the other side I just… well… I pulled the right string."

Steve's hands went to her shoulders and when she looked up that worried look on her face almost hurt him. She was so afraid that he'd be angry but he was anything but. "You forced your powers to evolve because you were so determined to find me?"

Rowan thought about it a minute and then nodded. "I Mean… I guess… I keep telling you… there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you…"

Steve's lips slammed into hers because he had never loved her more in that moment, in that moment where she proved without a shadow of a doubt that she was exactly like him.

"You know… there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you either… you know that, right?" he whispered and though she smiled against him he had a feeling that she didn't know. "Like… when the CIA took you… I was about to get on my hands and knees to beg Wo Fat to help me. Why am I lying? I did beg, I verbally begged that man to help me. I swear, I was about to do anything that man told me I had to do to get you back. He could have told me to kill the Colombian President, and I would have."

Rowan stared at him hard, her own weepy happy smile forming on her face. "Really?" she asked him. Damn she had no idea what he'd do for her and that always surprised him, he thought he was so transparent in that aspect. When he nodded she lowered her eyes and whispered: "Well it's good thing he sent you on a retrieval mission then huh?"

"So uhm… so I know… this new power… it uh… it basically just opens things right? Like you can't… you can't change the future or anything big right?"

"Well I mean, I haven't tried to do that Steven," Rowan said. "I uh… I don't try to use it all… unless... uhm… I panic… or I'm annoying the CIA. You should have seen how annoyed they got constantly having to re-handcuff me or how it got worse when zip ties couldn't hold me either."

"Is that also how your containment unit kept getting shorted out… you know when you were being quarantined?"

Rowan winced in that cute little way of hers and tried to shrug away her embarrassment at being caught. "I wanted to be home for my birthday, so sue me."

Steve kissed her again. "Thank you for telling me."

Rowan smiled again leaning into their kiss. "Anything for you, babe." That time, when his lips hit hers, they didn't stop kissing, in fact, he let her clamour up into his arms, wrap her legs around his waist, sink her fingers into his hair and essential demand a deeper more insistent kiss. After that, Steve was lost to the world.