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A/N: One more Chapter until our special edition! Gah I can't wait for you guys to see the cute stuff I have in store. Hopefully it makes up for the bullshit that will be season 6. As for this chapter we have more cute things, we get to see more Rowan shenanigans and a little bit on Steve's emotion. As always please leave me a review, I love to hear what you guys are thinking and I'll see you on Friday!

Chapter 199

Steve had let Danny drive, even though Danny was super emotional and shouldn't have been driving. He let him do it because Danny was clearly very upset and he thought this might have calmed him down a bit or at the very least he might have thrown a fit if Steve had insisted on driving.

Danny had taken him to his favourite thinking spot, a look out off a highway shoulder. The two sat together on that stone wall. Danny told Steve everything Rachel had said and what she had done and he understood why he was angry. He even understood why he was mad at Rowan too.

"Do you know how many times that I've dropped Grace off? You know how many times I picked her up and that kid's been sitting in the room? Rachel too, sitting there?" Danny asked. Steve could only imagine. He didn't understand, he hadn't experienced something like this, his own flesh and blood, withheld from him. But the fact that his best friend was sitting there with him listening to him rant it out was a godsend, cause Danny was fucking spiralling.

"Danny, no matter how misguided this was…"

"Please, don't," Danny snapped interrupting him causing his friend to sigh. "Do not say anything that sticks up for this woman. Okay? What she did is unforgiveable, and that is the bottom line. And because of what she did, I missed out on three years of this kid's life. Huh? And what about your girlfriend?"

"My girlfriend? What about her?" Steve asked.

"She knew! Steven. She knew that kid was mine, 24 hours after we got pulled out of that parking lot she knew and she didn't tell me. Who does that Steven? Who finds out someone's got a hidden kid and says nothing?"

"Well for starters you were in Maui with Melissa when Rowan found out and you know… me and her… we had just reached stable ground in our relationship and you of all people know how precarious those first few months were with her…."

"You know what really bugs me? I should have figured it out, you know? The second she started doing all that dreaming about Charlie getting kidnapped. You know, I asked myself: why did she care? I mean, don't get me wrong, knowing the kid, it would have meant something, but the way she acted like it was going to be the end of me. I should have realized that it was cause she knew he was my kid and I'd care. Otherwise why would it matter? I would have been upset but it wouldn't have crushed me, not the way her dreams were saying it would."

"Her dreams aren't… you know… they're not solid proof though. And you know, both you and I know that they haven't been all that accurate recently and she's been forgetting things… She didn't do it on purpose Danny… she's highly offended that you went after her today."

Danny took that in and sighed, yeah, he pulled a classic Danny and over-reacted. Took his anger out on Rowan. He was gonna have to apologize.

Steve was silent a moment. "So, what happens now?"

"Now… now I take care of the kid," Danny said matter-of-factly. "About Rachel, I don't know what I'm gonna do. No way I can get past this."

"You're right, man," Steve conceded.

"I know I'm right. Thank you."

"Do me a favour and listen to me for a second, okay?" Steve pleaded and Danny turned back to him. "These feelings you're having, this anger, you gotta put it aside. That's all I'm saying. How many decisions are you guys gonna have to make from here on in? And you and Rachel, you gotta make the decisions together. Danny, it's not gonna do Charlie any good having his parents fighting. That's all I'm trying to say."

"I know… I know you're right," Danny said. "So uh… you gonna take your own advice?"

"Own advice, what the hell are you talking about?"

"We're not stupid Steve, we see that you and her are arguing… and distant," Danny said. "Can't be good for Nahele, you know?"

"We haven't been arguing that much," Steve muttered. "Just our usual amount. Its fine we're fine."

But Danny knew that they weren't. They weren't at all.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Their guy got bagged by Richie Malloy, the bounty hunter Rowan had whacked over the head that morning. The guy had appeared out of nowhere, shoved their guy in his car and took off before Steve could stop him. The son of a bitch had taped a burner phone to the Camaro to track them after Steve had so graciously let him go. Well if Malloy could play dirty so could Steve.

So when he got a tip from Dog, he went and picked up his secret weapon. They got to the little airstrip and over to the Transair hangar where they found Malloy just like they were told they would. And they had had to book it because they had one plane leaving soon and they had stopped off to pick something up. Something very important to the next interrogation.

The Camaro screeched to a stop and immediately Steve was out of the car and heading for towards Malloy who very nicely just stood there watching both he and Danny approached him, instead of running away. Steve hit him with a cocky grin as he approached his arms spread in a welcoming motion though he was set to give chase if he had to.

"Malloy, man… you're a piece of work, buddy," Steve said approaching him.

Malloy, with hands up merely smiled at him. "Hey, listen, I can understand if you're a little upset about getting punked back there…"

And then Steve decked him. Hard, knocked the bigger beefier man over.

When he recovered he said: "Uncalled for!"

"Hey you let that monster go!" Danny snapped. "You're lucky he didn't put a bullet in your ass."

"You aided and abetted, alright? And quite frankly you pissed me off. I'd threaten you with jail but I got something worse."

He moved aside to reveal Rowan who was on her phone and not pay attention. "I'm not sure he let Pelham go," she said. "The wire transfer didn't come from an account linked to any of his aliases. Do you know a: Leddy?"

Steve had heard of a Leddy but at that point he couldn't remember where he had. He'd send a text to Kono when he got the time but at that moment he was going to focus on getting Rowan to use her magic on Malloy, cause after the stunt he pulled he deserved. The problem was the second he had revealed Rowan to Malloy the man was grinning ear to ear. The man was way too happy to see Rowan again.

"Oh look it's the cute redhead. No frying pan with you this time? What are you a Lab tech?" Malloy laughed and finally Rowan looked up at him. He turned to Steve with a big grin and pointed at Rowan. "You're threatening me with a lab tech?" he then smiled down at her. "And what are you going to do Tinkerbell? You gonna hit me with a different kitchen utensil?"

"I'm going to ask you nicely to answer our questions," she said sweetly. Malloy chuckled and then turned to McGarrett.

"That's it? That's what you're gonna do? Man are your feelings going to be hurt when I tell you to go fuck yourself."

"No? We're going to do it the hard way, here baby hold my phone," she said handing it to him.

Malloy was still chuckling. "She's your girlfriend?!" he cried slapping his knee like he thought it was hilarious.

Steve wasn't really sure how it worked but he figured Rowan would have done something by now. Something app related, anything app related to get this man to talk. Instead Rowan just blinked her eyes and then geared up and slapped Malloy right across the face. The resounding thwack echoed through the little hanger and shocked everyone, but not as much as Rowan's reaction to it.

"OW!" she shrieked as if she had been the one who had just got slapped. "Why would you hit me?!"

Professional in possible assault. Assessing.

"What the hell is that?" Malloy cried pointing at the phone Steve was holding. But Steve knew what it was and he was impressed that Rowan had come up with the plan of attack and a little worried about how quickly she came up with that one.

Voice recognized. Richard "Richie" Malloy. Bounty Hunter. Works with Codename NA from time to time. Big. Hairy. Dumb. From New York. Easily intimidated. Activating necessary back up.

Malloy turned wide eyes of surprise to Rowan. "You're Rowan Pierce."

"Yes I am!" she said proudly.

"Call it off, call it off!" he shouted to which Rowan sighed softly and called out a: "Stand down Sandy." And got a Standing down. From her phone.

Rowan stared at him for all of two seconds before she growled: "Start talking or I'll let her fuck your shit up."

"Look I didn't let him go!" he said quickly. "I delivered him to Malcolm Leddy."

"The first victim's father," Danny explained to Steve, having apparently already texted Kono and Chin about it for the information when Rowan first mentioned the name.

"Where is he taking him?" Steve asked but Richie could only shrug.

"Man, I don't know," he said and Steve sighed because he believed that. Problem was he was going to have to ask Rowan to do another one of her things for him.

He turned to Rowan who had taken her phone back and seemed to be playing with it once more. "Hey babe, what are the chances that you could…" he asked gesturing to Malloy with his head. Rowan looked up from her phone, looked to Steven and then to Richie.

"Oh you need info?"

"If you could get an address that would be great," he said.

Rowan nodded but Richie was shaking his head. "Whoa, wait a second, I can't tell you what you don't know."

Rowan quickly handed Steve back her phone and approached Richie again with a big toothy grin beaming in his direction, a dangerous sparkling smile that actually had the bigger man backing away from her.

"Oh don't worry sweetheart, I know that," she said her hands outstretched for him, but he danced away from her. "Come on now, this will only hurt… a lot…"

And then she lunged at him. She got a hold of his arm, Steve saw sparks of orange electric fly between the two of them, poor Richie jerked, cried out and then fell to the ground. Steve watched the man drop and then watched as Rowan winced before turning to him shaking her head like she was trying to clear it.

"He's got a number on his phone, and I'd call him now, he's probably started torturing. I've got an address too, send someone to Waimanalo right away, he's not planning to walk out of this alive."

Steve glanced down to Richie again who was clearly down for the count. "What did you just do?" he asked pointing to the heap at Rowan's feet.

"I shocked him, come on now, I did that to the NLM girl, this shouldn't surprise you," she said stepping over Richie's body.

"Okay, but why did you do that?"

"Payback," she answered seriously, she was right in front of him now. He could see the ice in her eyes clearly. "He disrespected you. Now he knows not to."

She went to walk away but Steve was still holding her phone, he went to hand it to her when he caught sight of something familiar on the screen. Before Rowan could take it back from him he turned the screen back to him to read it over. He then turned a dangerous glare onto Rowan who had been in the process of asking for her phone back.

"Why… why is the ET phone home function up?" he asked her and then he stood there carefully studying her face.

Rowan tilted her head at him and then looked at her phone screen. "Oh, no that's just the home page. See, it's got a search bar and different menus to choose from. You're just looking at my frequently used protocols. See Alert text is my number one used function. Cause I'm always asking for info."

Steve took that in. "Okay, then why is the function that connects you to Wo Fat number two on that list?"

He was watching her, carefully trying to determine any tells that she was lying but he saw nothing but that mask of iciness.

"Well how many times did you call him when you had my phone Steven?" she shot back. "And besides, you don't want me using my app all that often, so if I don't use any of the other functions, how is it going to go back down after you used the option so many times in a row?"

Steve nodded that made sense. "So, you're not talking to him?"

"Steven…"

"No. Swear to me you're not talking to him."

Rowan sighed and shook her head. When she looked back to him all he saw was the ice in her blue eyes. "I swear. You happy now?"

No. Because he couldn't tell if she was lying or not. Instead he said: "Sure."

"Good cause you have a bad guy to go get, right?"

Right yes he did have one of those. "You good to get home on your own or did you want to come with me?" he asked as he handed her her phone back.

"I kinda just wanna go home," she said. "But yeah, I can find my own way back."

Steve nodded, leant in to kiss her cheek softly and then thanked her for her help. Rowan just smiled absently, and let him walk away. Steve tried not to take that as a sign, her sudden distantness, that she was lying to him. He wanted to trust her, he did, but when it came to Wo Fat, Rowan never told him the truth. And Steve couldn't help but be paranoid about that man.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Steve was such a hypocrite.

Danny knew this.

But after catching Pelham. After finding that he had almost taken out Malcolm Leddy and had tried to then take out Steve to escape. Steve went all soft on them. He had waited until Malcolm was being taken away in the ambulance to speak to the man.

"I'm gonna take him and I'm gonna put him away so he never gets back out," he said to Jenny's father. He meant Pelham of course, Steve had also talked to Ellie to help get Malcolm a reduced sentence. The man gave him a weak thank you before Steve went on to add: "And I got a girl. She's a really great girl, with a few tricks up her sleeve, and trust me when I say… he's gonna suffer. Okay? Just… trust me."

Danny had scoffed at him. Cause Steve sicing Rowan after someone, when he hated her app and hated how she was when she used it, was such a slimy thing to do. But Steve never saw it that way. So long as the app was doing something for him he didn't care. He probably thought it was poetic justice.

And Danny had his own issues to deal with, so he didn't have time to dissect Steve's.

When the two ambulances went away, one with Pelham and one for Leddy, Steve had returned to Danny's side and then asked what was one his mind. So Danny told him the truth.

"Yeah I was just thinking about what that guy's been through… losing a kid… there's nothing worse you know?" Danny said. Before taking in Nahele Steve would have agreed but not really known… but now… he knew… and Danny knew if someone had done that to Nahele… his Nahele… well Steve would have had no problem using Rowan's app to make that guy suffer. In fact, the guy wouldn't have ever gone on the run, he would have turned himself in to get away from Rowan and her app.

But this meant that Danny knew what he was going to do that night. He knew where he was going to go next and he didn't have to tell Steve either, because Steve knew too.

And so did Rowan.

He didn't know why he was surprised when he showed up at the hospital to find Rowan waiting for him by the door. She looked nervous, like he might attack her again or be mad that she was there. But he wasn't. He was glad that she had come, glad that she had probably seen the future and decided to show up.

As he approached her Rowan put her hands out as if to ward him off and his heart hurt a little bit to see that she was now afraid of him. He'd have to spend a lot of time making it up to her, getting her to trust him.

"Okay, so don't freak out," she said quickly. "I just wanted to be here for moral support."

Danny's eyebrows raised up in surprise, because he sure as hell didn't deserve Rowan's presence for moral support. Not after his display that afternoon.

"Look, I don't have to… you know… go in, I can stay outside if you'd like me too. I just thought… you might like to have someone here… and if you need someone to get sassy with Rachel… just uh… you call me up… I'll be your girl."

Danny immediately pulled Rowan in for a hug. The girl stiffened at first, no doubt expecting some sort of attack. After a moment, once she realized that he wasn't going to hurt her or strangle her, she loosened up and pressed into the hug.

"Thank you for being here," he said to her. "I don't deserve your kindness. I… I was a shmuck."

"No… you were right, I should have told you as soon as I found out… but you were in Maui…"

"No seriously, thanks for not ruining Maui for me," he said. "And I get it, I do. A lot was going on at that time and we all know you've been forgetting things. I know… if you had remembered you would have told me."

Rowan smiled softly at him and he let her pull away but he kept an arm slung over her shoulder. "And while we're at it, of course you can come in. You're gonna be Auntie Ro to Charlie now too, he might as well get used to you."

"I'd love that," Rowan said softly to him as they walked through the doors.

"And if you happen to sass Rachel or make our displeasure for her known with one of those Ice Queen glares, I wouldn't be mad at you," he added and that won him one of Rowan's laughs.

They'd be okay. This wasn't the end of the world. If he just stayed positive, if he kept focusing on the good things, like having good friends like Rowan and Steve, everything would turn out okay in the end.