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A/N: Happy Monday my wonderful Readers! I know that you guys are hoping for a speedy return, that Steve and Rowan are going to get together again soon, but if you guys remember, they're going to be separate all the way to season 7. But as soon as they do get back together they get Nahele back too. So don't worry about that. I will tell you that I have a surprise coming up for you guys in the next week. And this chapter should have cute little things for you guys to look forward too. Cute little sibling things between Rowan and Wo Fat. So I hope that kinda makes up for all the angst. Don't forget to leave me a review, if you guys wanna guess about what your surprise is going to be please feel free, and I will see you on Wednesday.

Chapter 216

Wo Fat opened the curtains to let the sunlight in and all got a loud groan from the woman still in the room.

"Rise and shine, sleepy-head," he called but Rowan not only put a pillow over her head but pulled the hotel blankets over her face as well.

It took him almost a month and a half but not only did Wo Fat manage to get her travel papers, but he managed to get her to Paris despite Steve having her on the No-Fly list. All it took was a fake passport that scanned up as someone else, but made the computers show Rowan's picture and information but not as a no-risk flyer. Kong had worked hours on it and Sandy had spread that piece of code to every border patrol kiosk computer across the world like a virus.

The second thing he had Kong do was go through every single database and corrupt their files on Rowan. He had her DNA and fingerprints changed to Melissa Court's, even though Steve had already proven that Melissa was Melissa, simply so they could do a million tests and not have anything that could happen be tied back to her. It took a little longer for Kong to break into Five-0's locked file on her but once he got in Kong corrupted that file too.

With things being rough emotionally he had talked Rowan down from calling Nahele yet until she was absolutely ready because they had done a lot of work on calming her down and he didn't want her getting overly upset with the reminder that Nahele was no longer her kid, that her life wasn't… well… her life anymore. Though the real reason was because he wanted to be sure they could trust the kid to not fuck this up for all of them.

But maybe, if she was good he'd let her call this week.

"Come on, Ro, you need some Vitamin D," he said. "It's mandatory to live."

"It's too early for this shit," he heard her grumble under her fortress of blankets.

"It's four in the afternoon," he snapped and the blankets whipped away from her face.

"No it isn't," she cried and then checked the clock beside her. "Shit is it really?"

"Clocks don't lie."

"They do if you change them on me," she growled but he just shook his head at her and then tossed her his phone so she could check the time there. She looked it over and then sighed. "Okay fine, so you didn't change it on me."

She handed Wo his phone back and then sighed rolling over to face him. "Damn jet lag never bothered me this much before," she sighed bringing her hands to her face. It wasn't just the jet lag though, he knew a lot of it had to do with the meds she was on, they made her drowsy, but he wanted her on a normal sleep pattern.

"I don't mind you sleeping in, god knows I'm busy and can't be with you all the time, but I would like you semi-conscious at some point, a little earlier in the day, Ro."

"How very nice of you," she sighed. "You know what would motivate me?"

She had a cheeky smile on her face, it was at times like these he completely forgot she was suffering quite dramatically from a broken heart. He hadn't told her, but as soon as he activated the Captain America Contingency Plan, he had broken things off with Jian. He did so over email and he knew if he ever got to go back to her he'd be in a lot of shit for that move, but you didn't seem him wallowing in self-pity over that. No matter how much he missed her. Probably because his new empire and Rowan were taking up all of his time.

"Let me guess, sightseeing?" he offered because he knew that was the answer. He had been meaning to take her, promising to take her actually, but he had just been too busy to indulge her. Setting up contacts in the underground world in Europe so he could get himself properly re-established in the world was basically a full time job.

"Ding, ding, ding," she said with a big smile on her face and a finger pointed in his direction. He sat down on the bed beside her as she sat up. Together they sat back against the headboard, he crossed his legs in that dapper way and Rowan dropped her head to his shoulder, her body pivoting so she was leaning against him, her knees up and draped against his thighs.

"Well you're in luck, I've managed to clear my calendar for the next few days so I can take you where ever you'd like to go, bit too late to do it today, but if you give me a list of places you'd like to…" he trailed off as Rowan handed him a note. Well that was fast service. "Ah, of course. Let's see. Versailles, Disney… wow Disney that one will be fun, won't it?" he asked sarcastically and got a nudge from her. "Fine, fine, I promise to be more positive day of. If we actually go. I'm hopeful if I just let it go and don't remind you that you might forget." She nudged him again but he just smiled. "Your pain meds do make you foggy, after all so it's completely plausible." Rowan fulled out slapped his shoulder that time, it stung a bit but he didn't let her see that. "Alright, alright, let's table that talk for later. Let's see, what else… Eiffel Tower, Louvre… so everything touristy…"

"Don't forget Moulin Rouge…"

"The red light district? Why the hell would we go there?"

"Because I love that movie."

"Fuck really, cause of a movie? Goddamn it, I sense a recurring theme for this trip."

"Hey! You're the one who said you wanted to travel with me," she said a momentary crease of worry crossing her face. Wo Fat just smiled at her as he slung an arm around her shoulder.

"I did and I meant it," he said kissing the side of her head. "And I guess I'll just suck it up and deal with it. Now, are you up to some breakfast? I could get the kitchen to whip you up some pancakes."

"Oh could you?" Rowan cried and he smiled.

"Anything for my imouto."

He pinched her chin in that way she liked before reaching for the hotel phone. He may have agreed to this but that didn't mean he was excited to go around and be a basic bitch tourist. Though he was going to put up with it if it put a smile on Rowan's face. It was the least he could do, after all.

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Wo Fat had forgotten how much he hated crowds, but he remembered the second he was in the Louvre with all those people just how much he didn't like being in a crowd.

It took him keeping his eyes on Rowan to keep his sanity. Rowan whose wide-eyed innocent wonder at all the artwork around her not only made him smile but made him hopeful that she might be able to get over McGarrett, that what had happened to her hadn't ruined her. She could still see the beauty in the world and that was a good sign.

They were part way through the museum, she had spent ten minutes mesmerized by the Mona Lisa only to tell him that she was underwhelmed and didn't understand what the big deal was, when she dropped a bombshell on him.

"When I was here last," she had whispered. "We never got to do the Louvre. I didn't get to see Versailles or get to Disney either. I did get to skate under the Eiffel Tower though."

"When were you here last?"

"When I was in WitSec," she answered almost immediately and then froze. He had realized, by the way her eyes bugged out that she hadn't meant to tell him that.

"You were in WitSec?" he had asked. "I thought you couldn't remember where you were from? If you were in WitSec your DNA would be on file, you wouldn't be a missing person. You'd have a real identity."

When she had just stared at him with those wide eyes he knew what ever came out of her next was going to be a lie, which was why he wasn't surprised when she feigned illness and went straight into the washroom.

He had posed that same question to Kong, asked if there was anyone in the WitSec database with Rowan's description, her origin of birth, or her DNA. It was a tall order to just pull out of nowhere but Kong said he'd get back to him when he had an answer.

He pondered that conundrum for the rest of the walk through the Louvre. Rowan had been telling the truth about WitSec, he could tell. But if she had been in WitSec, Steve would have been able to pull her DNA immediately. There would have been none of this: she doesn't exist in the database so we had to make her a new identity. Was it possible that she was in WitSec currently? No that wouldn't make sense, she'd need a handler and she didn't have one of those. Unless Steve was her handler and he ran off with her, fell in love with her and took her off the grid with him. That wasn't unheard of, but if that were true, he was WitSec's shittiest handler cause he like… lost Rowan ALL THE TIME. And if that were true, why the hell did he let her move in with Alex? Though it would explain why he was so damn obsessed with her.

After the Louvre, he had indulged her by take her up to the top of the Eiffel tower where they got to sample a little something at each level. Rowan got to have tea on the Tower and they ended with lunch at the Jules Verne which was Haute Couture restaurant at the top of the tower. She was terribly underdressed for it, but Wo Fat couldn't have cared less, and after sliding the maître de a hundo he didn't care either.

The best part, for Rowan of course, was the pictures she took. Wo Fat's favourite picture was the one he took of her, just her side profile, but the rest of the photo was of the skyline of Paris from the view of the Eiffel tower.

When he got a secure connection he was going to send it to Steve, to rub into his face. To prove that Rowan was having more fun with him, that Rowan was happier with him. It was a petty move, but he needed Steven beaten down enough to never ever consider coming after Rowan again, to never consider renewing his search for her.

Even though Wo Fat hated crowds, he found that he had actually had fun. So much so that he had no idea that Kong had gotten the answer to the question he had asked him hours prior to him getting back to the hotel. Wo Fat had left Rowan to sleep, gone to shower, checked his phone and was surprised to find that it had several messages and a few alerts on it.

Wo Fat looked at the text on his phone. There had been no record of a Rowan Pierce in their database. No one with her DNA or looks from Victoria, Canada either. In fact the only Rowan Pierce from Victoria Canada had died stillborn on… and this was the freakiest part, January 21st, which was Rowan's birthday. But that couldn't have been Rowan, not his Rowan cause she was alive. So… who was lying? Had she been deleted from the database? Or had Rowan never been in WitSec?

But considering how many lies he was spinning between Rowan and Steve right now, he couldn't handle anymore, so he was prepared to let that go until it became an actual issue.

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The following morning Wo Fat had woken her up with a quick: "We're going to see a castle today and it's far out, so I wanna be sure we get enough time to look at it all, seeing as our Louvre trip ended up being more than five hours."

Rowan had asked him if he had meant, Versailles, which got her a non-committal shrug and a sure. Which wasn't promising but it was enough to get her excited.

Wo Fat hadn't wanted to drive, he hated European driving, he had said, they didn't make an Audi small enough to navigate the roads comfortably. So they had gotten on the train. She entrusted that he knew where they were going and where they were getting off, because as soon as that train started moving, she was asleep.

When he shook her awake they had to quickly exit and then Rowan was just looking at a massive parking lot, a lot like the one at Canada's Wonderland.

"Where are we?" she asked a narrowed look of suspicion and disappointment on her face.

"We're at the castle."

"No we're not," Rowan cried. "This is a parking lot, where the hell is Versailles?"

"I never said we were going to Versailles I said we were seeing a castle."

Rowan turned a glare onto Wo Fat who was digging into his pocket for something. For some reason, despite them doing touristy things the man refused to dress down. Granted he was in a dark polo shirt and a pair of crisp jeans, but he didn't look like he was going to go rough and tumble, it looked like he was going to go golfing with some big client.

"Okay then, where is it? Where is this castle?"

Wo Fat pointed out at something over her shoulder and when Rowan turned she had to bite back her squeal of excitement, because the castle was a completely different one but one she wanted to see anyway.

"DISNEYLAND!" she screamed.

"Euro Disneyland actually," he said handing her a ticket. "You surprised?"

"YES! I didn't think you wanted to go!"

"I feigned disinterest to facilitate the surprise. I've already paid for a princess make over, we have reservations at the Beauty and the Beast castle for lunch and I have paid an exorbitant amount of money, criminal even, to get you a private meet and greet with both Mickey and Ariel. Oh and Peter Pan and Hook, but that's for me."

"YES!" Rowan screamed grabbing his arm and tugging him away. She had never been so excited in her life.

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Disney was everything she dreamed of and more. And even though Wo Fat had put up a big stink about being too old, he went on every ride, waited in every line to meet characters and to take pictures for her or with them, and generally got as hyped up about everything as she did. He had finally made her aware that he had taken control of her funds and moved them somewhere where she could access them without alerting the authorities. When she asked why that would matter he reminded her that he was a criminal, and if Steve knew she was with him, he could easily tell basically anyone looking for Wo Fat at that moment that the easiest way to get to him was to track Rowan.

And while that was hurtful, because she was sort of hoping that it meant that Steve was maybe looking for her again because he wanted her back, she did have to admit that it made sense.

And really, once she got to the gift shops, as long as she had money she stopped caring where it came from.

But probably the best part of her day was her princess make up. She got to run around Euro Disney Land dressed as Ariel, in the big poofy pink dress and everything. She got to take pictures with other characters, AND ARIEL, dressed as Ariel. It was… amazing.

They got back to the hotel, dropped off everything Rowan had bought and then she made Wo Fat take her out. Which meant that Rowan walked the red light district looking like Ariel, she went drinking, dressed as Ariel and she got hard core fucking drunk, to numb the pain she had in her chest, dressed as Ariel.

Poor Wo Fat had to cart her drunken, Kiss the Girl singing, Ariel-looking ass all the way back to the hotel.

When she woke up the morning, it was actually morning for one, not late in the afternoon. Granted she was hung over and she threw up, but hell, she was up in the AM for once. She finally peeled herself out of her poofy pink dress, put something more comfortable on, and then sat down and looked at her haul from the day before.

The first thing she had bought had been for Nahele, who, throughout all of this had been on the forefront of her mind. She bought him a Lilo and Stitch picture frame that had Stitch sitting in the sand, with the quote Ohana means family. She had found photos in her suitcase, which she realized had been taken from Nahele's room. At first she had been horrified that Steve had wanted her so far out of his life that he had taken the pictures out of the frames and given them to her but now she could use it to her advantage. The picture she put in the frame was the one of her, Steve and Nahele on the beach looking like a family. It hurt to look at, but just because that part of their lives was done didn't mean it didn't happen, didn't mean it couldn't be remembered fondly.

It opened up a plan, since she had all the pictures, she would get him a picture frame from everywhere she would go. To commemorate that she had been there, and to remind him that even though she was there without him, she was thinking of him… and of Steve.

She also picked him up a Lilo and Stitch snow globe that had stitch on his surfboard inside. She then picked up Grace and Beauty and the Beast necklace which had the rose in fine crystal and gold, and a necklace for Kono too, Mulan's sword also in crystal and silver.

She hadn't been able to find anything she thought the other boys would like. So she hadn't picked up anything for them.

But she packed away all her things in her luggage anyway and found that her bag was a little hard to zip up. She would have to get another one, or start sending her stuff away for storage. Problem was… she didn't have a home anymore. She couldn't go back to Victoria, and she didn't belong in Hawaii, nor could she bring herself to go back there knowing that everything she had was gone. You know, except the writing music gig, but she could write music anywhere.

Wo Fat ended up back in her room at four pm and was surprised to find her awake and just… sitting there crying. He had immediately asked her why. But all she could say was: I don't have a home.

Wo Fat had nothing to say to that, and really what could he say? Instead he had hugged her tightly, told her it would be okay and then asked if she wanted to go for a late lunch. Which she did.

They ate at a suitably French restaurant, she tried escargot and frogs legs and hated both. She did however LOVE crepes. When the meal was done, and they were back at the hotel, Wo Fat handed her a phone. It wasn't her phone, her phone was switched off and in the bottom of her suitcase, but this phone had her background and lock screen.

"Is this uh…"

"A clone, yes," he said. "It's a completely secure line. Which means that it can't be tracked. And it changes its area code depending on where we are in the world."

"Why did you make this?" she asked.

"So you can't be tracked?" he answered in the form of a question as if he didn't understand why she was asking. "We had this conversation yesterday. Same reason as the money."

"Do you really think that Steve would be that petty? I mean… he picked Catherine, he told me not to come back… both of those things are his choice… you know?"

"Yes… but Steve hates me… you know that right? No matter his relationship with you, first and foremost that man has hated me and will stop at nothing to get me back behind bars, even if that means using you to do so," he reminded her. They shared a bit of a charged look before he sighed and asked: "Look, do you want to call the kid or not? Because if you don't I'll take the phone back…"

Rowan pressed the phone to her chest. "No, I want to call him… do you think now's a good time?"

"Well Hawaii's 12 hours behind Paris… so maybe not at 6 in the morning," he chided and Rowan frowned. True but the kid should be waking up for school soon. She had him up at 7:30 most mornings so maybe she'd call around 8.

"Do you think… do you think he's mad at me?" she asked him. But Wo Fat just shrugged.

"I doubt it," he said. "Probably just wants you to be happy you know?"

Rowan nodded, though she wasn't all that sure. She had essentially abandoned him, but then again… Steve had replaced her with Catherine almost immediately so… you know.

Still she waited until it was eight to call him and then waited for him to pick up. On the first three rings she was worried that he wouldn't pick up but as soon as she heard a breathy: "Rowan?" on the other end she almost burst into tears right then and there.

He wasn't calling her mom anymore. Did that mean that he was calling Catherine mom now?

"Hey kid."

"Ro!" he cried. "Ro! Ro! I can't believe it!"

Rowan laughed lowly. "I know right?" she asked.

"Where are you?" She didn't even hesitated to tell him she was in Paris. It didn't occur to her that Nahele would tell Steve and then Steve would tell the right authorities to fuck with her and Wo Fat. Luckily all she got from Nahele was a: "Wow, cool."

"I… I'm really sorry," Rowan found herself whispering. "The plan… the plan was always to come home but… with how things ended… I just… I can't look at them."

"That's okay," he said. "I get it."

"But that doesn't mean I don't miss you or that I won't get you uh… souvenirs or anything but… uh… how are things?" she asked. "I mean I heard you had summer school?"

"Oh… uh… yeah… with everything going on I kinda tanked my exams. But uh… Steve and uhm… Catherine got me through summer school and back on track."

Rowan grit her teeth as she said: "How nice of them." She then cleared her throat and asked: "Is everything… uh… good with… you know… things with them?"

"They're great, you know? Both Catherine and Steve petitioned to get guardianship right away and it just got granted so I don't have to worry about losing my home or going to a group home," he said. "Oh… you probably don't want to hear that…"

"No it's okay, I wouldn't want you to be away from Steve and I definitely don't want you in a group home. I'm glad you're still with him… and…"

"Catherine?"

"Yeah her. She good to you?"

"Eh, sure, but I like you better, and she knows it," he said and she almost heard his cocky grin. She should have told him to be nicer to Catherine but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Maybe when she wasn't so bitter she'd talk to Nahele about accepting Catherine into his life.

"Steve's happy?" she asked, dreading the answer.

"I unno, I guess," Nahele said. "I honestly don't care."

"That's not nice to say…"

"Don't get me wrong, I like the guy, I just think he bounced back a little too quick… and he knows, as much as you do… that I'd rather be with you…"

"Oh baby, I want that too," she said. "But you have school and I don't want to take away from that, especially since you had to do summer school this year cause of me and my drama. When things settle down for you and me, I'll think about getting you out to me, okay?"

"Okay," came from him in a breathless sigh.

"Kay, well you have school, so I'm going to let you go…"

"You'll call me soon right?"

"As soon as I get somewhere new…"

"How about next week? How about once every week?" he counter offered.

"Alright, once a week it is," she said. "Go rock 'em at school, buddy."

Nahele said goodbye and then he hung up the phone. Rowan couldn't hold it back anymore, she started sobbing. It wasn't that she wasn't happy that he was okay and he didn't seem mad at her, it was because she really truly had been replaced by Catherine in every aspect.