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A/N: This is my first Hawaii Five-O fic. So be kind. I've written quite a bit of it already so hopefully you guys are interested in reading more.

Chapter 1

"Something just bumped into the boat!" Danny called. "Sorry, the dinghy."

Steve, who was yard away with a rope strapped to his chest stopped swimming and turned to Danny. "What do you mean something?" he called.

"Something! Steve there is something in the water! There is definitely something out there!" Danny repeated, this time louder with a touch of franticness in his voice. Steve submerged and looked around. The salt water stung his eyes and blurred his vision but he could make out a pretty big and fast moving something swimming around their boat.

Danny too was frantically looking around and spotted the crest of a fin that he knew very well from his time watching TV.

"Shark!" he shouted. "Steve, it's a shark! Get out of the water! Come on! Get on the freaking boat already!"

Steve had been hoping that Danny wouldn't have noticed it was a shark, that he could just swim back to the boat pretending to be taking care of Danny and he wouldn't have been none the wiser. There was no calmly about it now. Steve swam as fast as he could while trying to keep his heart rate down. He tried not to think of where the shark could be and whether or not he could get back to the boat in time. When he got to the edge of the boat Danny grabbed his upper arms and practically hauled him in.

As soon as he was back on the boat he turned to Danny who looked to be catching his breath, though Steve wasn't certain what he was huffing about he wasn't the one who just had to speed swim.

"It's a dinghy," he reminded him.

"It's a dinghy," Danny repeated. "Even in the face of death you're annoying."

Steve ignored that last comment and looked out at the water. "Where did it go?" He caught sight of it disappearing into the deep just a few feet away from them. "Awww, that was a tiger shark."

Danny followed his gaze but seemed less then impressed by the sight of it. "It's a tiger shark?" he repeated.

"Yeah."

"Oh so no big deal then, right? Have you even seen shark week?" Danny thundered. "I don't want to be on shark week! Alright? That thing gets near you, you punch it in the nose. Trust me!"

Steve just stared at him for a bit. "I'm not going to punch it in the nose," he complained.

"That's what you're supposed to do otherwise it eats your hands. I'm telling you, I know this stuff," Danny cried.

Steve shook his head. "I'm not going to disrespect this animal by provoking it."

"Please, please. Don't get all island on me, now, okay?" Danny started.

"Besides I'm cramping up bad man, I need to rest. Right now, I'm going to take a break, okay?" Steve asked.

"Okay, and then what?"

Trust Danny to always need to have a plan. "Well, we wait," Steve said with a shrug.

"Wait? Wait for what?"

God he was so annoyingly nosey. "For the giant tiger shark to go away, and then we'll stick to the plan," Steve said.

"Oh well we're going to have to wait a while," Danny muttered which earned him a side glance from Steve.

"Oh you're an expert in sharks now?" he asked teasingly.

"No, I'm an expert on McGarrett Danger Magnet!" Danny thundered.

"Oh? So now you're saying this is my fault?" Steve asked.

"Who else on the planet earth could turn a nice relaxing day of fishing into a boat jacking and a shark encounter?" Danny cried his hands waving everywhere to signify just how riled up he was getting.

"Oh so I'm a danger magnet? You know what, it's your negative attitude," Steve shot back.

"Yeah, because the shark could sense my negative attitude?" Danny asked sarcastically.

"Sharks can sense fear just like dogs," Steve explained calmly.

"We are in a leaking dinghy in the middle of the ocean, of course I'm sacred?" Danny yelled at him.

"It's water, Danny, it's just water!" Steve said, and to prove it was harmless he scooped up some and splashed it into the dinghy. Probably not the best idea seeing as their dinghy was leaking but he thought it might calm Danny down.

"Yes, with tiger sharks and rip tides and all sorts of other things that can make you dead," Danny explained still gesturing with his hands. "Not everyone is a navy seal, Steve!"

"Seriously, Danny, what is your problem with the ocean?" he asked. "I mean who hates water? 60% of the human body is made of water!"

"Well that explains why I don't like people, and you! You are on the top of that list.

"Yeah? Well right now I'm thinking that shark may be better company!" Steve shot back.

"Then go, go swimming with the tiger shark," Danny ordered point out at the ocean which looked calm but Steve didn't trust it yet. "But do me a favour, if he comes near yah punch him. I don't want to be the one to tell your sister that you ended up man sushi."

Steve was starting to get frustrated. "No one is going to be man sushi, Danny! The ocean is fine, the ocean is safe, so long as you know what you're doing," Steve assured him.

Danny probably would have said more if it weren't for Steve holding a hand up and asking: "Do you hear that?"

Danny paused and listened to and that's when he heard it. The sound of shrill screaming that was quite faint but getting louder and louder. They scanned the ocean around them but there was nothing out there with them. But the screaming didn't stop and it was getting closer which caused both men to look up.

The body rapidly falling towards them crashed into the water beside the deflating dinghy and both Danny and Steve stared dumbfounded at the rippling surface where the body had sunk.

Danny was looking back at the sky. "There's no plane," he seemed to be whispering to himself.

Steve removed the rope from his chest his eyes staying on the water. The person should have resurfaced by now. He moved to dive back in but Danny grabbed him.

"Are you nuts? There's a shark in the water," he snapped.

"Well I can't leave them," Steve argued. But it all turned out for naught.

The person resurfaced, coughing and spluttering. It was a girl. She wore a black tank top and pink lacy short shorts, her red and blonde hair was pulled back into a pony tail and her wide blue eyes were staring up at them with surprise and confusion.

She was treading competently but when Steve reached out to grab her to help her onto the boat she swam back.

"What the hell? Where am I?" she asked turning around to see nothing but the expanse of the ocean behind her.

"You're in the Pacific Ocean just off Oahu," Danny snapped.

Steve leaned out farther trying to get a hold of her. "Come here please, get in the boat, it's safer," he asked.

The girl turned back to his outstretched hand with a look of contempt. "I don't think so," she told him. "I've had this dream before, if I just keep swimming I'll grow a tail and everything will be fine."

"Great, she's nuts," Danny snapped sitting back in the boat.

"Okay, you're probably suffering from some sort of trauma, but this is real life and you're not dreaming and there's a tiger shark in the area so you really, really need to get on this boat," Steve ordered.

This time when the girl turned back to him there was a hint of concern on her face. "A shark? Really?" she asked.

Danny pointed out at the horizon behind her and she turned again where she could see a dorsal fin heading in her direction. The girl yelped and began to swim towards the boat. Once she got to the edge Danny and Steve grabbed her arms to haul her up.

"Get me up, get me up!" she kept saying. "If you see it, punch it in the nose!"

Once she was safely on the boat Danny turned to Steve. "See, she knows about the nose thing," he crowed triumphantly.

The girl turned to Steve. "Well duh, it's mentioned over and over on Shark Week."

Steve ignored them both. The girl looked around at the ocean and the two men in the boat with her. She stared at them a little bit more with surprise growing on her face and the confusion.

"Uh, are you okay? Miss…"

"Rowan, I'm Rowan. Wow I must be having the Hawaii Five-O dream again," she said staring at the two of them and guffing loudly as if she were excited.

"Excuse me?" Danny asked.

"Well, you guys are Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams, right? Or are you Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan? I haven't crashed the Hawaii Five-O set, have I? Where are the cameras?" she asked.

"She knows our names, Steve, how does she know our names?" Danny asked him.

Steve stared at her as if she were crazy. "I don't know. Do we know you?" Steve asked her.

The girl blinked her big blue eyes at them like she wasn't phased about the situation at all. "I watch you guys on TV all the time. You're my favourite TV show. I love the way you guys bicker all the time, like a little old married couple. And I just love it when you're shirtless," she said eyeing Steve with a suggestive smile that set his skin on fire.

"She thinks we're a TV show," Danny said. "Why does she think we're a TV show?"

Steve stared at her. She didn't look to be injured. She didn't look like she had hit her head. But she was clearly not right in the head. "I don't know."

She smiled at the two of them and then leant back against the deflating side of the dinghy. "Right. Well wake me up when we hit land or whenever it's time for me to wake up," she said. "To be honest, I was hoping for a Vampire Diaries dream to night, so whenever we can switch I'd like to know."

Danny and Steve exchanged glances as she settled down. What the hell was happening?

H5O-H5O-H5O- H5O

Rowan Pierce didn't get her Vampire Diaries dream. She didn't even get to go back to sleep, not with the way the two of them were bickering. She didn't know how she got where she was. The fact that she was soaking wet, tired and burning up from the sun told her that this probably wasn't a dream, but it still didn't explain anything. It didn't explain how she went to bed and woke up in the air and falling. It didn't explain why she was in a small boat in the middle of the ocean looking at a pair of her favourite TV characters.

Danny and Steve were staring at her like she was crazy. Probably because they had never met her before but she knew who they were. Once it was established that they thought she was crazy she sat back and let Steve explain their situation.

"So let me get this straight," she asked, her fingers massaging her temples. "We're in the middle of the ocean, with no way to contact anyone and our boat—sorry I mean dinghy—has holes in it. But everything is going to be okay because you're Super Seal and you say it's going to be okay?"

Danny turned to Steve with an expectant glare as Steve stared at Rowan with his impossibly blue eyes. Seriously it should be illegal for someone to be that attractive. Why hadn't he put his shirt back on anyway? Why did he still have to be shirtless?

"Great, another Danny," he growled.

"Oh, no, wait a second. I don't always look for the black cloud on the horizon, I just happen to be a realist," she said smugly. She sat back as Danny and Steve started to argue about Danny's consistent pessimism. She thought about her situation and what she could do.

It was becoming clearer that she wasn't dreaming but that didn't make her feel better. It didn't explain how she got here or if she was even in her own time line, but she figured there were worst places to be. She even knew what episode she was in… wait.

"I know this episode," she said suddenly sitting up straighter, both men turned to look at her again. "You guys were fishing for tuna right? And some guy hijacked your boat… well not your boat, its Chin's uncle's isn't it?"

Steve and Daddy exchanged glanced before both drawing out their: "Yes" like they tried to figure out how she knew all this.

"Okay, that means there's a boat on the horizon. The boat this dingy belongs to. It's a luxury yacht. There's a dead body on it. The owner's dead body. I know who did it too," she said turning around to look at the horizon, the boat should be there but she couldn't see it yet.

She planned to turn around to tell them that it was the wife of the owner who put her boyfriend up to the murder, but when she did she saw the looks on their faces and her smile faded. "What?" she asked.

"This isn't a TV show," Steve snapped. "Granted, you knew about our day and things about us but there's a rational explanation for that!"

"And what's that?" Danny snapped.

"She obviously a stalker!" Steve cried.

Rowan narrowed her eyes at Steve and glared at him. "Oh yeah? I'm a stalker? I mean you're cute but you're not that cute," she growled. Which caused Steve to huff at her. "Besides, where I come from you guys are a TV show! And I can prove it."

The two men waited for her to say something, to come up with some sort of evidence but she couldn't remember what season they were in. She turned to Steve and asked: "Have you found Shelburne yet?"

Steve's face paled under the sunburn. He turned to Danny who was now staring at Rowan with a shocked stare on his face. "Does that mean yes?" she asked. "So you know she's your mom and all that or is that major spoilers?"

Danny turned to Steve. "So does the stalking theory explain how she knows classified information?"

"Oh so you already know," she said. "So that means Wo Fat has escaped from prison and your mom's missing again? Do you want to know where she is? Cause I'm pretty sure I know her general location."

Steve shook his head. "No, no one knows where my mom is…"

"She never left the island," Rowan replied. "Bet you everything when you find out where your mom has been you'll find out she never left the island. Or do you already know that and have Catherine looking for her? I think that was part of the conversation on the other boat right? That it was weird for you to be having your girlfriend spying on your mom? I agree with Danny, it's a bad idea."

Rowan smiled smugly at him she was ready to tell him that she knew why his mother shot three rounds into the ground instead of killing Wo Fat too. But she never got the chance. Steve suddenly charged her, a hand pinning her chest down and the other grabbing her arm before she could try and strike him or wiggle out of the way.

"How do you know that? Who do you work for?" he yelled into her face

"No one!" she cried struggling to breathe, struggling to break free. "You think I'm a spy? Look at me?! Do I look like a spy to you? And what spy goes around throwing secrets at people, I'd be the worst spy EVER!"

Danny put a hand to Steve's shoulder. "Not that this isn't fun, babe, but uh, look up."

Steve did as he was told and whatever he saw made his jaw drop in shock. Rowan tried to crane her neck to see what they were looking at but with the way Steve was holding her she couldn't see anything.

"Is it the boat?" she asked. "Did we finally spot the other boat?"

Both men didn't answer her, but they had, in fact, found the boat.

H5O-H5O-H5O- H5O

Steven didn't trust Rowan. She knew too much. Things she shouldn't know. Things that only the government knew. But he couldn't believe her to be a spy. She was small, she was naïve, and she was adorable. Okay scratch that, that last part wasn't important and he shouldn't have been thinking it either.

He had begrudgingly had to let her up to help them paddle over to the boat. He had thought he could get in the water and swim them to the boat but both Danny and Rowan had been against it. Sharks in the water and all.

So she had been right about the boat, that didn't mean anything.

When they found the body on the boat he was starting to think that something was off. She couldn't have been right about everything without being involved. He was not going to buy that they were a favourite TV show from wherever she came from, because that did not make any logical sense.

Rowan had flat out refused to go anywhere below the deck where the body was located but instead stayed by the back of the boat where she said she was waiting for the coast guard. Steve had elected to ignore her because everything on this boat was dead, including the radio and both of the damn engines… something she had already known as well.

"You can fix it though, right?" Danny asked him as Steve surveyed the damage.

Before he could answer Rowan answered from her side of the boat. "Nope! It's done deliberately, he thinks he's going to be able to do some Navy MacGyver tricks to get it working but it doesn't matter cause the coast guard is going to come and arrest us cause they'll think we're the murderers and y'all don't have your badges."

Steve rolled his eyes trying very hard to not get annoyed with her. "There's something really wrong with that girl, isn't there?" Danny asked him.

"It's probably the trauma, she got dropped out of the sky, it's probably how she's coping with everything," Steve said. "Just don't listen to her."

"She knows too much Steve and there wasn't a plane in the sky when she fell so where did she come from?" Danny whispered. When Steve couldn't offer him a good answer he leant in and added: "Personally I think she may be psychic and just doesn't realize it."

Steve glared at him. "You don't believe in ghosts but you believe in psychics?" he snapped.

Danny just waved him off. "She's been right about everything else, why wouldn't she be right about the coast guard coming?" he asked.

Steve was going to tell him exactly why she couldn't be right when Rowan called out: "Of course I'm right, they're coming up right now."

Danny and Steve stared at each other before Danny actually stood up and looked over to where Steve knew Rowan to be standing. "Son of a bitch," he muttered to himself. Steve shook his head and followed Danny out from the engine hatch to the deck where he found that there was a coast guard boat pulling up alongside them.

Steve couldn't help but breathe out the same curse as Danny as he saw them and heard their shouts of hands up and stay where you are.

"I told you so," Rowan said.