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A/N: Well…. My wonderful readers. I very obviously did not finish the chapter on Friday, I didn't even finish it on Saturday, I finished it Sunday night. Since I had to drive back yesterday, I didn't really get a chance to publish it. Sorry about that guys! This week we're going to get four updates okay? We're gonna get one today and one tomorrow, one on Friday and one of the days on the weekends, not sure which one yet. I will say that this update was originally 13 pages but I cut it down to be a little more manageable. And it means I have a chapter to post tomorrow. Hopefully I have one to post for Friday. Would you guys be a little annoyed if I took time off to get us more chapters to post? I really don't want to but I might have to. What do you guys think? Please leave me a review and I'll see you guys on Friday!

Chapter 252

Rowan bolted up again she gasped loudly once more and then looked around. She was back in their room at the Park Hyatt hotel across from the Royal Ontario Museum and ten-minute walk away from the University of Toronto campus where her father's lab was situated but she didn't know if she was brought there or if she voided. And if she did void here… where were her boys?

"Con! Wo!" she cried and, in a few seconds, the two boys darkened her doorway. She let out her breath in a shaky exhale happy to see them. She reached out for them and Wo Fat was by her bedside almost immediately, his hands framing her face, one of her hands reaching out to hold onto the front of his shirt.

"Are you okay? Are you okay?" he asked. Con came to kneel beside her, his hand went to her knee and her other hand went to his shoulder.

"Yeah, I'm okay… I don't remember… I think I did it again… I did it again, didn't I?" she asked. Wo Fat and Conejo exchanged glances and she sighed. She did. She went full void. "God, Con was in the room with me, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, mami, you're the one who got shot."

"I did?" she echoed and a little flash of what happened came back to her. "I did," she breathed out. She looked to both of them as if they held all the answers. "How am I alive?"

"Well you got shot, wrapped yourself up into a void hole and came out unshot so…"

Rowan sighed, she let them go to put her head into her hands. "I changed my strings."

Wo Fat sighed a bit, he glanced to Conejo and then back to her. "Uh… I want you to uh… listen to me, it's very important and I need you to take this the right way."

Rowan shook her head, this couldn't be happening, she didn't want to be sent away again over her powers. "I'm sorry," she suddenly cried, her hands darting out to grasp Wo Fat's arm. "I'm sorry, I'll be good, I won't use the void anymore, I won't. I'm sorry. Please don't make me leave!"

Wo Fat soothed her, trying to hush and sush her. He tried to hold onto her, but she refused to let go of his arm no matter how much he tried to brush her fingers away from him.

"No, no, I'm not sending you away, deep breath, calm down," he ordered and Rowan nodded, finally letting go of his arm. "Okay, come on, you're not going anywhere. I'm not letting you go anywhere."

He hugged her tightly, holding her close to his chest and for a second that was all that mattered in the world, was her brother's arms around her.

"Well… yeah but we need to figure out or next steps like… ASAP," Conejo said and Rowan pulled away. Wo Fat shot a glare at him and cuffed the back of his head.

"What's he talking about?"

Wo Fat took a deep breath. "We've been talking, Con and I," he said. "We think… we think that this whole… this whole experiment business, we think it's stupid. You've learned how to use your powers, we could steal the equipment to ground you and practice on our own, there's no need to go back to your father's lab. Neither of us, after this last incident, want to go back to your father's lab."

He was right. She knew that but she didn't want to stop going back to her dad's lab. She wanted to go there every day and talk shop. She used to hate his lab, she used to hate having to go there, thought it was boring, and now… now she didn't want to leave.

She looked away from Wo Fat as she whispered: "I know."

Wo Fat watched her for a bit. "But you want to go back, don't you? That's why we keep going there. We keep going there because you want to see him, your dad," he said. Rowan nodded and he sighed once more. "He's not your real dad, Rowan, he doesn't know who you are."

"I know!" Rowan cried. "I know that but sometimes… sometimes… I just want to pretend…"

Wo Fat nodded. "Do you think that maybe…" he started. "God… do you think maybe you'd want to go home?"

Conejo turned his eyes to her and for a moment she held his gaze. She wasn't certain she understood the question. "I mean we could go to Vic if you want, I've always wanted to do the train trip across country, it is on my bucket list…" she started but he cut her off with a shake of his head.

"I mean your home," he said. "Could you… now that you have a better hold of things, now that you're energized right, could you get home?"

Rowan found herself gasping in surprise. "You want me to leave?"

"Yo, you just said you weren't going to send her away!" Conejo cried, slapping Wo Fat's leg.

"No, of course I don't want you to leave, and I am not sending her away. But you… you miss your family and I want you to be happy… even if that's not with me," he whispered.

Conejo put his hand up. "I don't want you to leave either and I don't like this plan at all. What if she can't come back?"

"Who cares, we want her home with her family!" Wo Fat cried.

Conejo opened his mouth to argue and Rowan stopped him. "I don't really want to leave… you know," she whispered. "What will you two do without me?"

Both boys laughed at that question. "I think Con and I will be just fine," Wo Fat said and Rowan frowned. "I mean we'll miss you and we'll probably go back to our dastardly ways, but uh… I think we'll be okay."

"But you'll fight with Steven… and I won't be here to keep him from killing you," Rowan reminded him and Conejo snorted back his laughter.

"Damn, she had no confidence in your abilities," he said.

"No! That's not it. It's just that… I saved him from Steven once… he was supposed to die a year ago, but I stopped that from happening… what if I…"

"You rewrote the strings for me?" Wo Fat asked and Rowan paused.

"Wo… I told you. When you kidnapped Steve… only one of you was coming out of that basement and 9 times out of 10 it was Steve."

"That's why you were so upset," Wo Fat whispered. "It wasn't just that I took Steve, you were upset because I almost died."

"I was upset because you put yourself onto a path where you would die, and I couldn't fix the strings to save you anymore, which meant I had to find both of you before a certain event, before Five-0 figured out where you and Steve were. But mostly, MOSTLY, I was upset because when I got you to promise me you wouldn't kidnap him that fixed everything but then you broke your promise…"

"Yes, I know, but I wanted to find my father and you kept saying Morocco but he's not there…"

Rowan paused. "Oh… huh… well… maybe he's supposed to be there later. Maybe they move him. I know Steve's supposed to help his mom rescue him at some point…" she thought about it a second longer. "See if I leave, what's gonna stop you from going to Steve and kidnapping you again, how can I help either of you? What if I can't help Steve anymore…"

"Have you been helping Steve with his cases? I thought the app wasn't tracking him… just his friends," Wo Fat asked with narrowed eyes which just caused hers to widen. When she didn't answer he sighed. "Rowan, you're my sister, and… I'm not good at being your brother, no matter how insistent that I am."

"But you are!" she protested only to have Wo Fat shake his head.

"I'm selfish Rowan, I know I am. I know I think only about myself, and I don't have proper emotions and I do things that upset you for purely selfish or intrinsic motives, but… if you're unhappy, if you miss your real family and you want to go home… well… I don't want to stop you. Not now that you have the ability and the know how to do it."

"But I don't know if I do!" Rowan cried. "I don't. Not really. I swear. I can jump from place to place in this reality. But the couple times I tried to jump back to my reality I couldn't find my way and ended up back here."

Conejo shook his head. "No, see, no, she should stay. It's not safe for her to go on her own."

"I'm not telling her to leave," Wo Fat said again. "If she wants to stay here, yes, she can stay here. I'd love for her to stay here, but she's unhappy, Con. She misses her family, and she could go home. Wouldn't you want her to be happy? Don't you want her to see her real family again instead of putting herself into dangerous situations simply so she can pretend that Dr. Pierce is her real dad and not some version of her dad that doesn't know who she is? I mean, that can't be good for her, you know? That can't be a good feeling."

He was right. Nearly getting herself killed for her dad's experiments… when he wasn't really her dad. Pretending that this version of her dad was hers wasn't going to stop her from missing her family. Wasn't going to fill that void. But… she didn't want to leave. And not because of her father either. And not just because of her boys either, though she was very worried about leaving them alone when she was essentially their consciences.

"Would… would you guys still keep Sanctuary running for me… to keep my friends safe while I'm gone?" she asked.

Wo Fat paused in his argument with Conejo and turned back to her. There was a single beat of silence as he digested the request. "Of course."

"Even… Steven?"

Wo Fat pinned her with a dark glare. "That's not fair, Rowan. it's not fair to ask me to take care of that disaster of a man. It's not. Not with all our bad blood…"

"But… but he's going to need your help and… I mean… you don't have to tell him that it's you…"

"She's one hundred percent been sending people down to Hawaii to help him, hasn't she?" Wo Fat asked Con. "Behind my back, through you, I bet."

He was right but that wasn't the point. She turned on her cutest puppy dog pout onto her brother and already she could feel him melting. "Just… please?"

"Ugh, fine. Fine. Yes, if it makes you feel better, I will watch out for Steven. Even though I hate him and I kind wouldn't mind if he died."

"Okay, so I'm gonna write down all the major events and the time line for them and then you and Con can just… I unno… keep an eye out for the signs or something?"

"Wait… so she's going to leave? You're going to let her go home?" Conejo asked as Rowan got up out of the bed to get the pad of paper the hotel left on the desk.

"Well… I could always try to come back and visit right?" Rowan said. But she had a feeling that both of them knew that… well… other then them, she had nothing to return to this reality for. Not with Steven no longer being a prospect.

But they all pretended that her coming back to visit could totally be a thing, despite her not being sure if she could jump a reality more than once. She wrote down all they needed to know about Steve's and the other Five-0's immediately future. Hugged them both tightly, whispered well wishes and her love in both of their ears and then opened up a door to the void and stepped in.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

The void blinded her for all of two seconds and then she was used to it. She looked around at all the strings, the red curling around her, as they were prone to do if she wasn't moving, she waved those off with a strong brush of her hand. The white stars of all the opportunities and options twinkled around her, but she was focusing on something else.

This seething wall of red before her, where, behind It, pulsed this misting silver light. She knew in her heart of hearts that the way home was through that wall. She moved stead fast towards it, not really walking, not really swimming, more like floating. She had gotten better at repelling the red strings, at keeping them from winding around her. But she hadn't ever tried to cross the wall… well… not since she got her new powers anyway.

Taking a deep breath she moved towards it, pulsing small bits of energy into pushing away the red strings that came for her. It was working too, she was making a little hole for herself to get through, but she wasn't even half way through the wall when the strings began to wrap around her.

She tried to pulse her power again, to try and get them off of her, but there was no amount of power she could pulse that could keep the strings from wrapping around her. They tightened around her, tangled her up and began to suffocate her. She began to panic, struggled to get herself free. She tried to scream, but nothing came out.

Good God, was her feelings for Steven going to be what killed her in end? Cause that was ironic as fuck. God she just wanted to go home!

And just like that the void opened up beneath her and Rowan dropped. That time she managed to scream, because just like when she first came in to this world, she was dropping, dropping to the ocean below her and she couldn't bring herself to open a portal to drop into. She was too panicked. To open the void, she couldn't do anything but scream and brace for when she hit the water.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

Wo Fat woke up to water cascading down on him, like someone had taken a bucket and dropped it all over his face. He bolted up out of bed sputtering, his hand going for the gun he had hidden under his pillow, but there wasn't a single threat in the room, though the room was flooded.

Conejo bolted up for where he had fallen asleep on the couch, drunk out of his damn mind, for as soon as Rowan left, he had drunk half the mini-bar. He started screaming: "We're sinking! We're SINKING!"

Granted he hadn't taken Rowan leaving well either, but Conejo had really been… terrible. He hadn't think he'd miss her but knowing that his sister was going to go home, to her real home, where she had a brother that… well… he wasn't certain he trusted with her, should have made him happy, except it didn't. But, there was no Steven. Her version of Steven was from a TV show. So he felt a little better about sending her back, because she wasn't going to end up in another fucked up situation with a terribly abusive Steven McGarrett. Except… he missed his sister and he was more than a little upset that he had convinced her to leave.

So, while he was very surprised, he was very happy that in the middle of this little lake that now filled up his hotel room, in water that was calf deep on her, was a soaking wet Rowan. She coughed a little bit, like she had been underwater and was trying to cough it up. She looked around at her surroundings, and even in the darkness she seemed to realized where she had ended up.

That was worrying, because she was only unaware of where she was voiding too if she was panicked. So what had freaked her out?

"Sorry," she whispered and just like that the two boys were on her. Conejo having hopped over the back of the couch, Wo Fat having ran down the length of his bed to get to her. Both of them bombarding her with a series of questions.

Wo Fat shoved Conejo aside so he could have her full attention. "What happened? Are you okay?"

Rowan nodded her head but she looked around at everything, the damage she caused. "I… I'm okay?"

"Not that I'm not happy to see you, cause trust me mami I am, but did you have to bring a lake with you?" Conejo asked her.

"It's not a lake, it's ocean," Rowan answered. "And I wasn't trying to bring it back… but I guess… I guess I opened the void when I was underwater…"

"Underwater? Rowan I said to go home!" Wo Fat snapped.

Rowan's eyes whipped to him, clearly pissed off. "I know! And I tried. But I got all stuck up in those stupid strings and… well… I fell again."

"Fell where? Where did you fall? Which ocean?"

"Well I unno Wo! They all look alike!" she shouted. "But if I'd have to guess, somewhere off Oahu."

"Hawaii?" Conejo asked shooting Wo Fat a knowing look. "Why there?"

Rowan shrugged. "I unno… it just… it's just always where I fall. Or at least… usually that's where I fall."

But Wo Fat wondered if this was Steven's doings. If Rowan got tangled up in red strings and fell somewhere near Hawaii, was that because Steven wanted her back. Had he somehow sensed that Rowan was trying to go home and used those red strings to stop her?

Wo Fat looked around. "Alright, well… we can figure this out tomorrow. Here's what we should do, we obviously need a new room, uh…."

Rowan nodded, she opened up a small portal at their feet and watched the water slowly drained away. Who knows where she was sending that water. With the water gone and their room soggy, Wo Fat called down to the front desk to complain of the clear leak in their room to get them somewhere better. They were given another room, Wo Fat and Conejo together got everything out of their room and into the new one.

Rowan was so tired she fell asleep in the master bed, and both boys couldn't help but curl up beside her. Wo Fat to her back, so his hand could hold onto the back of her shirt and Conejo at her front so he could hold her hand.

Neither wanted to let her go. Maybe Wo Fat would convince her to stay in the morning.