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Somehow Steve had managed to convince Graham to release the man he had busted up earlier. A collective sigh of relief chorusing around the room, the first indication that this debacle may finally be over soon for the group. They were wrong. "All right, everybody else, we're moving out!" Graham announced to the room. "Except you two." Graham singled out Steve and Jay, immediate concern etching onto the brunette woman's face. "You're going in there." Graham motioned towards a door with his weapon. Steve started walking towards said door, Jay raising from his seated position. "Ah, ah!" Graham warned. "Around." He instructed. Both Jay and Steve walking around the table in the middle of the room to the door. "Not interested in playing anymore of your head games. Get in." He spoke to Steve and Maleea as he forced the two men into the seperate room.
Steve opened the door, motioning for Jay to move in first, Steve following suit, sending one last glance to the brunette woman, who was racking her brain trying to concoct a plan. "Close the door." Graham demanded, Steve complying. "Get back!" The man yelled to the group, everyone shuffling out of his way, the brunette woman standing in a corner, her main concern being the hostages still in danger, as well as the fact the guy she is currently seeing and her ex boyfriend were locked in a room together. And she says locked because at the current moment, she was watching Graham chain the door shut.
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Jay flipped the switch he found on the wall, turning the lights on, to realise they were trapped in a toilet. "How do we get out of here?" Jay asked, Steve raising his finger to silence the blonde, dialling his phone. "Where are you?" Danny questioned as soon as he answered the call from the brunette man. "The head. Graham barricaded Jay and I in here." Steve informed the blonde man currently walking through Five-0 headquarters. "You and Jay?" He asked, humour evident in his voice. "You're in a bathroom? I could've got locked in a bathroom." He continued criticising his partner. "Where's Maleea?" He asked, praying on all that was holy that she was also trapped with the pair so he would be provided with entertainment for life.
"It's a long story. And Maleea is still with Graham and the other hostages." Upon hearing that the brunette was in fact not safely locked away with the two people he could trust to protect her, the blonde panicked. "Okay, I'm calling SWAT." Danny concluded. "No! You won't call SWAT. I'll find a way out of here, I'll keep Maleea safe. Just tell me, what do you got?" Steve questioned his partner, hoping to find an answer to the madness.
"Okay, Graham's psychiatrist said that he's been experiencing blackouts, which means that he may have killed his wife without even realising it." The blonde informed, the brunette struggling to believe it. "No, it doesn't make sense." Steve argued. "How does that not make sense? How does that not make sense to you?" The blonde asked, stunned. The brunette pulled the phone away from his ear, looking to the other man in the room with an exasperated look. "I mean, the guy fled the crime scene with the murder weapon in his hand, huh? I mean, I am no detective. . . Wait a minute, where am I? Oh, I'm a detective! He is still our prime suspect!" Danny shouted, Steve catching the whole rant as he'd raised the phone back to his ear just before the blonde started.
"Graham identified me as a threat and he didn't do anything about it. He used Maleea as leverage, but, he underestimated her. I guarantee you, she's sitting in there right now in the same place I found her in this morning, completely unharmed, he may have even apologised to her. He could have killed either of us, but he didn't." Steve continued to argue in Graham's favour. "Okay, listen. I know this guy is a SEAL, all right? And brothers in arms, the whole thing. I get that. All right, but that does not mean he didn't kill his wife." Danny responded to Steve, feeling frustrated with the brunette man. "You're right." Steve reluctantly admitted. "You're right, but I promised him we would investigate this murder." Steve informed.
"What do you think I'm doing? I am investigating." Danny bickered back. "Unfortunately, he is our only suspect. In my experience, when you only have one suspect he is usually the one you put in jail." He spoke sassily. "Okay, you want me to broaden the search? Fine. But, you're gonna have to give me something else."
"As a matter of fact, I actually might have a new lead, Graham said that Noreen was a Russian citizen, they moved here six years ago." Steve repeated the information he recently acquired. "All right, that'll explain why she has no record prior to '04." Danny mentioned. Steve nodding although the blonde couldn't see him. "Right. And she changed her identity before they came here. Her first name is Irina, so dig deeper. You know what? Maybe that manuscript you found can help." Steve spoke while Danny wrote notes so he wouldn't forget.
"Okay well I already sent that over to your friend Catherine in intelligence. And she said we'll have a translation back in an hour. Oh, and the key. . . I got a match to a safe deposit box. First Hawaiian Bank. They're sending the contents over right now." Danny continued to lay information on the brunette, moments later hearing a bang over the phone. "What was that? What the hell was that?" Danny panicked.
"I'll call you back, I'll call you back!"
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heyyyyy here is chapter 12! as always, lemme know your thoughts 🤍
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