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A/N: I missed an Update! Oh my god I missed an update! I am SO SORRY! So here's the late chapter, I will do my best to make sure that doesn't happen again. So here, we get to find out what breaks up Steve and Rowan, I don't care if that's spoilers I want you guys properly forewarned. It's not really Catherine though, you know, in case you were thinking it was her. Before we go onto the chapter, I just want you guys to know, that everything I've been writing for season 6 has been in the making for a while, I've been writing bits and pieces of it for the better part of a year. Everything I've got planned has been basically set in stone for a long time coming. A lot of thought and planning went into this so I don't want you guys to think that this was just some sadistic whim. What's going to happen next is tragic, and angsty, and I know you guys are getting tired of it, so again, I apologize. I do. But please trust me, I've got this going somewhere. I swear. Just have a little faith! Don't forget to leave a review and I'll see you guys on Friday!

Chapter 205

The ride back to the McGarrett household was quiet and charged. Steve was mad at her, she could tell. He didn't like that he had to come and pick her up from the hospital again. And that was fine, she got how that would be draining to always do, but Steven was always getting hurt at work and she was going to get him, so you know… she figured it was a fair trade. Not to mention he had looked super cozy with Catherine in their bed that morning. She had every right to be as mad as him.

But Rowan was too tired to argue. So she stayed quiet, and Steve had done the same. He pulled up to the house, put the car in park and the two of them sat there for a moment not moving. Rowan turned to him wondering what was going on in his head and saw a look she recognized. He was going to ask her questions she just knew it.

He turned his stormy blue eyes to her and Rowan caught her breath. They had been so distant and awkward recently, and now… with Catherine back… was he going to tell her he wanted to go back to something easy? Did he want to end things to go back to Catherine? She wouldn't blame him if he did, but she sure as hell would yell at him for it.

"I could have lost you today," he whispered. "Gabriel could have and probably would have killed you. Do you realize that?" Rowan nodded and he leant back to look at her. "There are uh… holes in your story Rowan."

Oh here we go. It wasn't the breakup she expected, but he was either going to bombard her with question or accuse her of talking to her brother again.

"Rowan… I'm going to give you one last chance to tell me the truth," he said after a moment. "Did you call Wo Fat to rescue you from this?"

And there was that accusation.

Rowan was glad that she didn't have to lie to him this time. "I swear to you. I didn't call Wo Fat."

Steve nodded. "Okay… so when you came into Adam's and you were already on the phone…" he said and Rowan held a hand up to silence him.

"Whoa wait a second… how do you…"

"What? How do I know that you didn't go there to drop off gifts? How do I know that you were on the phone when you came in, or that you already knew what you were walking into and you didn't tell me? Or how I know that you transferred all of Adam's money into a shell corporation that belongs to Wo Fat for safe keeping?" he asked while he was glaring at her. Rowan could only stare at him, how had he found that out already? Who had snitched? "Adam told me what you did!" Steve snapped and Rowan hung her head.

"Goddamn it, Adam," she hissed.

"You called Wo Fat… you called him to deal with Gabriel…"

"No! Okay! I lied about the other stuff… but I didn't lie about that! I didn't call Wo Fat. I knew what Gabriel was going to do and I needed him not to, so I called NA directly. I saved Adam from losing his money and getting shot and Kono didn't lose any teeth!" she cried.

"Why did you go to him, why didn't you tell me?"

"Well… you were a little busy with Catherine, weren't you?" she asked. Well great, so she had seen that morning's slip up and she decided to what? Punish him for it by going to get herself beat up by Gabriel? Yeah that would show him, wouldn't it?

"That's why you did this? Because I was with Catherine? You know I don't remember how that happened, right? I was drunk, I probably thought she was you! And so what if that is what happened, we were sleeping, that's it. That doesn't mean you can just go and run off into a hostage situation and call your fucking brother!"

"Okay, but that's what happened. You were busy with Catherine, and I didn't have time to wake you up and argue with you about whether or not it was happening. So I went off on my own to deal with it. And for the last time, I did not call Wo. I called NA. Now Gabriel's been dealt with and that's what matters," Rowan said. "Now if you don't mind. I'd like to actually go inside, can we do that? You know what I don't care, stay in the car if you want. I'm going inside."

She got out of the car as if that had fixed everything. As if everything was okay. Steve followed her out of the car and up to the house.

Steve slammed the door after Rowan, livid. So livid that this had happened. Firstly, she should have never run off on her own and into that situation. Secondly, the fact that she TOOK Adam's money for safe keeping like that wouldn't make her a target, was probably the stupidest thing she could have ever done. And thirdly… he knew without a shadow of a doubt that she had called Wo Fat, someone she had sworn she wasn't talking to, instead of him.

"We're not finished!" he cried stopping her from going any farther into his house.

"Okay, Steven, I get it, you're mad at me, but I've had a very busy and exhausting day and I'd like to not argue, so can we just sit down and cuddle? I'll make the tea, get you a beer, and you can find us something to watch… that is not sports..."

"No," Steve growled. "No, we're not sweeping this under the rug, not again."

Rowan groaned. "God Steven…"

"No!" he thundered. "Rowan, you could have died today. Do you not get that? This isn't a game to Gabriel, okay? He is out for blood!"

"My God, Steven, I was fine," she snapped. "I had the app active, I knew NA was on the island long before I let myself into Adam's house, okay. I knew what I was doing. Give me some credit, okay?"

"You and that fucking app," Steven growled. "That app is part of the problem." But Rowan just rolled her eyes at him and that anger climbed back up his throat. "I know you're lying Rowan. I know you called Wo Fat to help you…"

"No I'm not lying! I couldn't have even called him if I wanted to. He's in a Colombian jungle with no service for the next two weeks at minimum, so there's literally no way for me to have contacted him, okay?" she cried and Steve balked.

"How do you know that?" Rowan paused. She blinked her eyes as she realized what she had said. Oh yeah, she hadn't meant to tell him that. Not even a little bit. Steve glared at her. "How do you know that Rowan?!"

"Okay so…I may have called him… two days ago," Rowan admitted. "But I swear I didn't call him today."

Steve glared at her. "You called him two days ago?"

"Just to bitch about Catherine… and because he asked me too… to tell me that he was going dark for a few weeks and to not get into trouble… but you know, in case I did he sent someone to the island to sit on me… and that was NA…"

Steve laughed, low wry chuckles of understanding. Yeah, that sounded a lot like a weekly update. "How long have you and Wo Fat been in contact?"

"Not very long…"

"Don't you fucking lie to me."

"UGH Fine since I left Colombia."

"ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!"

"No, Steven… he's my brother…"

"No he fucking isn't!" Steven hollered and her mouth slammed shut as she stared at him with wide eyes of surprise. Like she had just realized that she had reached a territory of angry with him that she had never seen before. "I don't know how I could be any clearer about how I feel about that man. But I'll try again. Rowan. He tortured me twice. He is the reason my dad is dead, he's the reason my mom is gone. He has created an app that I know you think it helping you but it only gives you an inflated sense of power that you do not have. I have tried to be nice about this, I tried to ask you nicely but you constantly break your promises where it comes to him and you lie to me all the fucking time… and… I just don't want you talking to him. I don't want you on that app. And I will not tolerate you being involved with him any longer."

"Excuse me?" Rowan hissed. Her tone dangerously low. It was a warning, a chance to make him take it back but Steven was just so angry about the whole situation that he was past reason.

"You heard me. I will not accept you being on that app, or in his life anymore. So that's it, it's either me or him, Rowan," he snapped. But Rowan just laughed, a low scoff of disbelief. "I'm not joking!"

"Yeah, no, I can tell," Rowan said, folding her arms over her chest. "May I remind you, that if he hadn't come to get me in Colombia, I'd probably be dead… or raped… or severely beaten?"

"You also wouldn't have been taken to Colombia if he hadn't sent Reyes' body back to the CIA in pieces!" Steve cried. "I'm done arguing about this. It's me or him. Choose."

Rowan shook her head again. "You are being absolutely ridiculous."

"I don't care what you think," he snarled. "Choose Rowan. Choose right now."

Rowan shook her head and headed for the stairs with Steven following her. "I'm not dealing with you like this. You may sleep on the couch."

"ROWAN!" he shouted. "Don't you walk away from me! You get back here right now! We're not done with this conversation. Now you tell me which one of us you're going to choose right now. Or we're over!"

Rowan, part way up the stairs turned back to him, shock on her face. "I'm sorry… we're what?"

"You heard me! If you don't give me an answer right this second, we're done. Do you understand? We're done!"

"You're going to end this relationship… which we've been in for a whole year, simply because you want me to stop talking to my brother?'

"He is not your brother!" Steve hollered.

"Are you sure, Steven? Are you sure you want to make me do this, cause you're not going to like my answer…"

For fuck sake, she was going to pick Wo Fat. That's what she meant.

"Don't you fucking dare," Steve warned her. "This isn't a bluff. I swear to god Rowan… if you pick him I'll… I'll…"

"You'll what? Take my phone away. Arrest me again? What?"

"I'll marry Catherine."

The words came out before he could stop himself. He didn't mean it. Of course, but if it got her to listen to him he'd let her think it was true.

"You'll marry Catherine," Rowan echoed. "Wow… really? So we're going right back to this are we? Steven McGarrett doesn't get his way so he's going to run straight back to the woman he cheated on me with…"

"I DID NOT…" he started and then trailed off and forced himself to calm down. "Look. It's not this hard. Either you want to be with me…"

"Two can play your game McGarrett," Rowan snapped cutting him off. "If you don't stop trying to take my brother away I'm going to leave your stupid sorry ass and join Wo Fat."

Steve balked at that counter offer. "You wanna go join Wo Fat?"

"Well I mean, there's no point in staying right? If you're gonna be this controlling, if you're gonna just threaten me Catherine every time you want to get your way then I might as well just go to Wo, take Nahele with me…"

"You're not taking my son," Steve thundered but Rowan just laughed again.

"Oh, I'm not? He's not yours, Steven, you're not even on the paperwork, remember?" she snarled and Steve felt his heart snap in his chest. For fuck sake, she really could take Nahele from him. "Now… are you going stop?"

"No." Steve growled. "It's me or him, and if you leave Rowan. I won't be here, I won't wait. I'll propose to Catherine, and I will marry her. And then I'll go straight to CPS to make sure they know you're an unfit parent so I get Nahele!"

Rowan laughed at him. "Wow! True colors are coming out aren't they," Rowan snapped pushing past him to get off the steps. She stalked back to where her purse was, picking it up and fishing out her keys. "You want to marry Catherine so badly, Steven, you go ahead and marry Catherine. She's better suited anyway, right? More in common, you two can go pretend to be Rambo in the mountains."

"I don't want Catherine, Ro, I just don't want his Wo Fat's influence in my life and it's there, every day, because it lives in you. Don't you see what he's turning you into? You were fine before him, you were normal! Don't be this petty, you know if given the choice between you and Catherine I'd pick you… I always want you, you know that…"

"Are you sure? Are you sure I know that? You'd really pick me? Really? Because she's only been back seventy-two fucking hours and not only did I find her in our bed this morning but now you're already ready to propose. Which is fucking bullshit cause it took you nine fucking months to call me your fucking girlfriend. I don't think you ever wanted me. Not really. I think you wanted the idea of me, didn't you, the version of me if I were more like Catherine. More normal, right? And don't you try and say that isn't true because if you didn't want her, if you really cared about me the way you say you do, it wouldn't even have crossed your mind to threaten to marry Catherine!" Rowan growled. She was shaking, her tears were watering, but she wasn't relenting. She tugged the promise ring off of her hand and then threw it back at him, he had to duck so it wouldn't hit him in the face. "Why don't you give her my promise ring too since you seem so intent on making her your sloppy fucking seconds!"

She then stalked to the front door and ripped it open. "Where are you going?" Steve asked following her, knowing full well where she's going. He got a little more frantic when she didn't answer right away. "Where are you going?!"

"To a safe house!" she shouted. "I'm activating the Captain America Contingency Plan and you will never find me again! Go ahead and call CPS Commander Fuck-tard! When I get settled… wherever the hell that happens to be… I'll have an unlimited fucking network at my finger tips and at a press of a button that boy will be gone and you'll never see either of us again!"

"I'm not going to let that happen Rowan!" Steve shouted after her but she was already in her car, peeling out of his driveway ignoring any of his other shouts. He meant letting her leave, but it could also mean just her taking Nahele away. But as her car disappeared he slammed the door behind him. Fine, let her stay out all night, he knew she'd be back at some point, she could no less sleep without him then he could sleep without her. On his way back to the stairs he picked up her promise ring and put it in his pocket. He'd give it back to her tomorrow.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Rowan parked outside of the small airfield, and pulled out her phone. The command to activate the Captain America Contingency was still flashing on her phone, but she couldn't bring herself to press it. Instead she pulled up Wo Fat's contact and pressed dial as she sat there in her car.

It went straight to voice mail.

That was to be expected, of course. She knew he was in some jungle somewhere helping Armando take back some territory from a different drug lord that had gotten uppity. Still… she had wanted to hear his voice, wanted him to comfort her, and talk her through what to do because she was still in absolute shock that she had actually broken up with Steven.

"Hey, it's me. Uh… Steven and I had a pretty big argument and I think… I think we've broken up. I'm uh… I'm going to stay in one of your safe houses off island. Maybe Hawaii Island, maybe Japan, I unno I'll figure it out. I know you're still off helping out Armando in Colombia and you don't have service, but uh… when you do get service and you get this message can you call me… I really need my big brother right now."

She then hung up the phone but her hands were shaking too much to keep a grip on it. It clattered out of her hand and fell to the floor of her car. Sighing she got herself out of her car, and bent over to try and find it. Too bad it was too dark for her see, and she didn't have her phone to illuminate the area for her. She had only been stooped over for what had to be thirty seconds when a hand suddenly clamped over her mouth, a strange stinging pain rushing up her nose and filling her mouth. Within seconds the world went black and fuzzy before she could even register to be afraid.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Rowan had never come home.

He had woken up to a tearful Nahele, crying because he had heard their argument last night and was afraid that Rowan had actually left. Steve wasn't originally that worried, because this was just like Rowan. She did runners when she was upset. She was hiding out somewhere but this time he wasn't going to go looking, Rowan could come home when she felt like it. And they could either argue again or she could drop Wo Fat.

He had sent Nahele off to school with the promise of figuring out where Rowan went, only to keep the boy from being worried and upset at school. He was sure to assure him that, no, because Rowan was MIA, he wasn't going to go back into the system, that he would get to stay in the McGarrett house. He had no intention of looking for her, of course until Duke called.

Rowan's car had been left, overnight, at a small hangar for a private airplane charter. They were going to tow it. He wanted to know if they wanted it towed to Steve's place.

Steve let that sink in.

Rowan's car had been left outside a private airplane charter.

Rowan's car had been abandoned and she was not with it.

Rowan had gotten on a goddamn fucking plane.

No. She wouldn't have. She wouldn't have actually left him. She wouldn't have… no…

Steve had told Duke to take it to the impound and that Rowan could pay for it later. He then rushed to the Palace before any of his friends could get there and traced her phone.

It wasn't online. Oh my god. She had actually taken herself off grid. Pulling out his phone he ran the app, using the locator function. Why was he surprised when it showed her location to be a bay in Japan?

That bitch had actually… ACTUALLY gone to Japan. She really had left him for Wo Fat.

Livid Steve exited the app and dialled Rowan. Her phone went straight to voicemail. Roaring in anger he hung up and then dialled the number that connected him to Wo Fat through the app. It didn't even ring but went straight to a voice mail that simply said: Messages checked sporadically. For emergencies activate Sanctuary.

"Okay, tell your fucking sister we're over. Don't bother coming back to Hawaii. I'm marrying Catherine. I'm keeping Nahele and if I see either of you on my island again I'll arrest you both. Have a nice life. You two deserve each other."

He hung up the phone and then just stood there. A strange nervous feeling rolling around his stomach, the same kind of feeling he felt when Rowan was in trouble. But she wasn't in trouble, she was with Wo Fat. She was his problem now. Not Steven's.

They had broken up.

The knowledge of that hit him like a freight train. He had broken up with Rowan.

And as he forced the tears back, to stay in his eyes and not fall, he knew that he'd give anything to have Rowan be his problem again. But he wasn't going to lose a second more of time or a fraction more of his pride, his time or his heart to Rowan Peirce and Wo Fat.

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So we got there, we got to the break up. I know that's not what you wanna read but we've reached the inevitable.

As we can guess Rowan has not just… left him either and what's going on with her will be revealed very soon.

Essentially, Wo Fat is going to do something very, very bad. He'll be doing a lot of lying to both Rowan and Steven, but also to himself.

As I mentioned Rowan is going to make a new friend and he will be joining the cast. You guys have already met him, he's been around.

Also as I mentioned season 6 is going to be focusing more on Rowan, so less the episodes and instead we'll be focusing on whatever is going on with her and there will be a lot. Rowan will learn how to use her powers, she is going to come to terms with who she is and come up with healthy ways to deal with her traumas and tendencies, she will reconnect with the version of the family she has in this world, and she will gain a stronger bond with Wo Fat. While she's doing that, she's going to be travelling, so there's gonna be Rowan shenanigans around the world.

Though we're not going to be seeing a lot of Steve, I promise that we're going to get those Danny and Steve carguments and funny moments. When we do see Steve, we're going to watch him learn how unhealthy his behaviour was, and how he was most of the problem between he and Rowan. He will come to terms with his emotions and will learn how to healthily express them. Lynn will be making her regular appearances in season 6, Steve will attempt to move on and fail miserably.

Wo Fat is also going to get some character growth. He's will have done something terrible, and he will have to live with that guilt for a long time before he acknowledges what he's done. He's going to spend most of the season doing everything he can to keep Rowan safe and happy and somewhere along the like he's gonna learn how to be a human being and will also learn how to care for someone else, properly, not selfishly.

I'm trying to not give away too much, if you guys want more specifics tell me. Hopefully that gives you guys a little bit of a view of what's coming up. I promise it won't be all angst, I've already written up to chapter 225 and some fun and cute things have happened too. If you guys stick with it, a lot of questions are going to be answered, Rowan's gonna do some really cool things, and literally 7 episodes into season 7 they get married so after season six there is no more conflictions, no more angsty insaneness. So it will be worth it I promise!