This story is set a couple of months after 707. Catherine is in parts unknown when her father is brutally attacked causing her to return home to Hawaii. A new case will start for the team as they attempt to track down the culprit/s before NCIS can solve the case.

I'm totally a McRoll fan, so don't expect anything but a McRoll end game.

I'm still working on my Danny and Gabby story, so don't worry I haven't forgotten them.

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Iolani Palace.

The five members of the task force were stood around the smart table as they discussed the case they had just wrapped up when the sound of footsteps caused them to look up. Two men approached down the corridor leading towards the bullpen. They were both dressed in slacks and shirts with a windbreaker jacket bearing the logo for NCIS.

"Commander McGarrett?" One of the men called out.

"Yeah, what can I do for NCIS?" Steve asked as he turned more fully to look at the two agents.

"Special Agent Barnes and Probationary Agent Jackson, we need to ask you a few questions." Agent Barnes said as the two men presented their ids to the Commander.

"About what?" Steve asked as he crossed his arms across his chest and leaned back against the smart table.

"Your name has come up in connection to an investigation we are working on." Barnes explained.

"What's the investigation?" Steve asked him.

"We're looking in to a serious assault." Jackson added.

"Would you care to be a little more informative. Who's your vic and what exactly do you need to know?" Steve asked in frustration.

"Where were you yesterday evening between the hours of six and ten?" Barnes asked.

"In the basement questioning our suspect." Steve told him with a hint of amusement. "And, absolutely nothing to do with the Navy."

"Try interrogating the suspect, Steven." Danny said as he grinned at his partner.

"You still haven't answered who your victim is." Steve pointed out.

"Captain Patrick Rollins, his phone records show he's called you four times in the past week and that you were the last call before his assault." Jackson told them.

Steve's head snapped up at the mention of the name. "How is he?" He asked in concern.

"Why did he call?" Barnes asked, ignoring the Commander's question.

"Wait a minute?" Danny said as he rounded on Steve. "Rollins?"

Steve ignored Danny and focussed on the two federal agents in front of him. "Patrick called to say he was taking a position at Pearl earlier in the week. I spoke to him yesterday afternoon and we arranged to meet up for a few beers."

"You didn't answer?" Danny complained a little more loudly.

"Catherine's dad." Steve explained to the team before turning back to the NCIS agents. "His daughter and I are old friends." He told them as amused snorts came from behind him.

"Try ex-girlfriend." Danny said under his breath. "And why were you arranging to have drinks with your ex's dad?" Danny asked his friend.

"Will you shut up." Steve growled out as he shot his partner a glare. No way was Steve telling Danny what he had spoken to Patrick about. "Is he at Tripler?" Steve asked as he pulled the keys for his new car out of his pocket and headed towards the doors.

"Yes." Jackson said as he watched the Commander walk past him.

"Commander?" Barnes shouted after the retreating back of the SEAL Commander they had been questioning just moments ago.

"I'd follow as quickly as you can if I was you." Chin said as he watched the doors close behind his brother.

"McGarrett don't wait for no one." Lou explained with a chuckle as he watched the two NCIS agents jog down the corridor to find Steve.

The four remaining members of Five-0 looked at each as they all silently tried to work out what was going on. The silence was broken as Chin's cell began to ring. Pulling it out his pocket he checked the caller id.

"It's Steve." He announced as he answered the call. "Aloha."

"Put me on speaker." Steve announced as he drove through the streets of Honolulu as he made his way towards the highway.

"What's going on?" Danny asked as Chin placed the cell phone on the smart table.

"Look I need you to do this for me and not ask any questions." Steve said quickly averting Danny's questions. "Chin I'm sending you Patrick's number, see what you can get from his phone records. Danny take Kono and head over to the Navy lodge, Patrick's staying there till he can find a place for Elizabeth and himself near the base. See if you can get into his room, try not to tip NCIS off just yet. I'll try to get a little more information about the assault." Steve said as he fired of his orders.

"What do you need me to do?" Lou asked.

"Get in touch with Duke, see if HPD responded to Patrick's assault. If they did I want every detail they took and get me the officers that responded to the call, I want them in my office when I get back." Steve ordered the other man. "Keep an eye on flight manifests for Elizabeth, let me know when she's arriving."

"You got it, we got your back on this one." Lou told him.

"Mahalo." Steve thanked them.

"Keep in touch." Danny said before Steve could end the call.

"Do we call Cath?" Kono asked as she looked around at her three male colleagues.

"No." Danny suddenly said with a shake of his head. "Let her mother make the phone call." He said bitterly. He was still angry with the way Catherine had left things with Steve. He knew Steve was more at ease and did seem happier, almost his old self after he had returned from rescuing his mother. Steve had confided in Danny that he'd had a talk with Catherine and they had cleared the air. He had told him that Catherine had given him her blessing to move on and be happy with Lyn. Danny only hoped that Steve would do it.

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Tripler Army Medical Centre

Steve entered the ICU cubicle and looked at the badly beaten body of Catherine's father. He swallowed as he stepped closer and took the seat beside the bed. Reaching his hand out he took the other man's hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. A quick look around the room helped him to catalogue most of the injuries he was sure the other man was suffering from. He took in the splint on his wrist and the stark white bandages that covered most of Patricks head. Steve could see a multitude of bandages and chest drains as the monitors beeped and hissed keeping the other man alive.

Steve tensed as he heard movement behind him, his hand going to the weapon at his hip. He turned only to find the two NCIS agents stood in the entrance of the ICU cubicle. "Can you tell what you know?" Steve asked them as they stepped into the cubicle with him.

"He was found this morning a short distance from the Arizona memorial." Agent Barnes said as he began filling in the Commander on the basics of the crime. He hoped that by explaining a few details of the assault it might get him some information from the decorated officer before him.

Steve took in all the information he could, he had every intention of running his own Five-0 investigation into Patricks assault. The older man had always been nice to him from the day Catherine had introduced them. He had never judged or pushed Steve in his relationship with his daughter, he'd merely accepted that they would always do things their own way. He sighed as he realised he had a phone call to make, he had to let Catherine know about her father.

"You're looking for more than one person." Steve announced as the two agents finished speaking.

"Why do you say that, Commander?" Barnes asked as he looked at the Commader where he was sat near the bed.

"Patrick was more than capable of taking care himself if this is just a random assault." Steve explained. "He's kept himself in tip top condition since he came of active duty. No way would one punk have been able to do this to him."

"We'll look in to that." Barnes agreed.

"Mahalo." Steve said as he took another look at the man in the bed as he pulled his cell from his pocket and began looking through his call list. "I need to phone his daughter, let her know what's happened." Steve explained to them.

"We can do that for you." Barnes said as he pulled a pad from his pocket and flicked it open. "What's the number?"

Steve shook his head; he knew the chance of Catherine still being in a foreign country on assignment were extremely high. He didn't want to worry her and cause her to slip up. "No. It will be better if it comes from me."

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Undisclosed location.

Catherine felt her cell phone vibrate against her leg as she slowly and carefully made her way back to her hide out. She'd managed to wrap up her mission and was heading back to base to pack up so she could ship out. She longed for the sight of the ocean, allowing her mind to wander slightly as she conjured up Steve stepping from the ocean as he had so many times in the past. It had been 2 months since they had said their goodbyes, two long months of silent tears and heartache as she pictured the new woman in his life. Her heart ached for what she'd lost when she had left last year.

Checking her surrounding's to make sure she hadn't been followed she slipped into the abandoned warehouse that she had been using as her base of operations for the past two months. She made her way through the warehouse and up the creaky stairwell at the back of the building, constantly scanning her surroundings to ensure she was alone. She slipped into the office and headed towards the back of the room, moving the old cabinet aside and pulling her back pack, duffel and bedroll from the hole in the wall.

She pulled her cell from her pocket to check on who the call had come from, assuming it was her handler with her extraction information. She gasped in surprise when she saw Steve's name on the missed caller display. Her heart began to beat faster as she realised that he had left her a voice message. Opening the voice message, she closed her eyes as she listened to his voice.

"Hey Cath, I guess you must still be in the field. I need to speak with you, call me back as soon as it's safe for you. It's important Catherine. Aloha." Steve said.

He sounded a little distracted and upset and Catherine had to wonder what was wrong for him to call her like he had. She hit the call key and waited for him to answer her call, a thousand thoughts flashing through her mind.

"Hey Cath, thanks for calling me back." He said as the call was answered.

"Hey Sailor, what's wrong?" She asked picking up the hurt and tiredness in his voice.

"Are you safe, can you talk?" He asked in concern.

"Yeah, I'm just packing my gear ready for extraction." Catherine told him, knowing he would understand her. "What's going on Steve? Where are you?" She asked as she heard faint noises coming from the background.

"I'm at Tripler." He told her.

"Are you okay?" She asked in concern, her worry surfacing at his words.

"I'm fine, I'm not hurt." He was quick to reassure her.

"O my god, Danny, one of the team?" She got out her gut tightening at the thought one of her friends could be seriously hurt or worse.

"The teams fine." He assured her. "Your dad's been hurt, he's pretty bad Cath. You need to come home." He told her gently.

"I'm on my way." She said as she quickly gathered her things together and prepared to leave the warehouse. "I don't know how long it will take me. I need you to do something for me, Steve."

"I'll stay with him, Cath." He assured her.

"Thanks, is my mom there yet?" She asked as she moved towards the door.

"Not yet, she's in the air. Danny's picking her up from the airport when her flight lands." He said as he explained the arrangements to her.

"Tell Danny thank you for me. I'll be there as soon as I can, Steve." Catherine assured him as she sniffed back the tears that threatened to fall as she thought about her father.

"Let me know your flight details when you have them, I'll pick you up." Steve told her.

"You don't have to; I can take a cab from the airport." Catherine was quick to tell him.

"I'll pick you up, Cath." Steve said firmly leaving no room for argument.

"I'll text you when I've got a flight. Mahalo, Steve." She said as she disconnected the call

"I'll see you when you land, stay safe." He told her softly before bidding her goodbye. "Aloha."

"Aloha." She said softly as she ended the call and replaced her cell in her pocket. She took a moment to gather herself before shouldering her gear and heading down the stairs to make her extraction.

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