Steve and Danny were returning back to headquarters after interviewing a suspect at the County Jail. They thought he may be involved in a string of home break in's and rapes in the Oahu area.

On this rare occasion, Danny was driving his own car.
"Danno, swing by the bank for me will you?"
"Through the drive thru or inside?"
"I need to go inside today. It should just take a few minutes"

"Good, take out enough money to buy me lunch will you? I'm starving and Gracie broke my bank account with school clothes shopping yesterday"
"HA HA! That's my girl!"
"Oh yeah buddy! So when she told me that Uncle Steve said she could get anything she wanted...you really told her that huh?"
Steve smiled, "She said that?"
"Do you remember when we first met and I said how you and Rachel would plot my demise together? Well now you've got my own daughter helping you as well?"
Steve couldn't control his laughter, "Oh man, just think of Gracie as a teenager! We are gong to have fun!"
"I can't wait...I just can't wait"

They pulled up outside the Oahu National bank and walked through the front doors and into a nightmare...

Danny was standing off to the side of the teller windows chatting with retired HPD Officer Norman Raimi. Norman had retired a year ago and taken the job as a security guard at the bank to alleviate his boredom. Danny had worked his first case in Hawaii with Norman and he really liked the older man.

Steve was standing in line with three customers in front of him waiting for the sole teller who appeared to be very new and inexperienced. It was over the lunch hour and obviously they weren't prepared for this amount of business, and no one was prepared for what happened next.

Three masked men armed with automatic weapons suddenly burst through the front doors and they were firing. They had to have cased the bank as they immediately fired in the direction of Officer Raimi. Both the officer and Danny dropped to the ground pulling their weapons and returning fire. Steve pushed hard into the woman in front of him knocking her to the ground as he drew his gun and flung himself away from the women so to draw the gunfire away from them.

Steve hit one of the men in the head dropping him dead to the ground before he was hit himself and fell to the ground unconscious.
Danny took a bullet to the arm before realizing that both Norman and Steve were down.

The taller of the robbers hollered out to the screaming women, "SHUT UP OR YOU'RE DEAD!" He continued to hold the gun on Danny, "Drop it cop"

Danny looked at Norman's cold, lifeless eyes and then glancing at his partner he dropped his gun.

The shorter man locked the doors and then as the 'tall guy' continued to watch Danny the shorter man had the three bankers who were seated at their desks move towards the other hostages. He then took the terrified bank teller back into the vault.

Danny looked nervously over to Steve, "Hey you gotta let me go help my partner okay?"
"No, you stay right where you are"

"Look, don't be stupid here. You've already killed Norman here, he's a security guard. If my partner dies then you've killed an active law enforcement officer, you'll go away for life"
"We'll go away for life anyway. If he dies...he dies"

The other robber returned just as the sound of the approaching sirens could be heard.

"Come on Robbie let's go"
The shorter man had stopped, kneeling at the side of the fallen robber. Tossing the bag with the money to his partner he started to lift the dead man.

"Robbie, LEAVE HIM, HE'S DEAD!"
"I can't leave him Kevin...he's my brother"
Danny's heart was racing as he thought, 'great we killed his brother'

Kevin was becoming more and more agitated as the squad cars pulled up outside the bank. "Damn it Robbie, the cops are here!"

He looked over to Danny, "You! Pull the blinds on the windows, then you can check on your partner"
Danny did as asked, moving to the large front window first, with his hands in the air hoping that there was not a trigger happy cop on the other side.
As Danny closed the blinds, Kevin moved over and took the guns from Steve and Norman.
Danny moved slowly pulling all the blinds and then again with his hands in the air he moved quickly to Steve, kneeling next to his unconscious partner.

Steve's head was turned to the side and he was horribly still. Danny pressed his finger's to his partner's neck grateful to find a pulse. As gently as possible he turned Steve onto his back bringing audible gasps and cries from the five women sitting a few feet away.

Steve moaned softly at the movement and Danny spoke quietly to him, caressing his cheek, "It's okay Steve, relax buddy I've got you" Danny's eyes took in the sight of of his friends injuries, his light green t-shirt soaked in blood.

Danny looked to the robbers, "I need to stop the bleeding. Can someone get me a first aid kit, towels, blankets and water?"
Kevin looked to the young teller, "Go get him what he needs, Robbie...go with her"

Danny glanced down at Steve's body and noted his pant leg was slightly pushed up and his ankle holster was visible. It didn't appear that they robbers had noticed but he needed a distraction...he ripped Steve's shirt open and then he moved to straddle his partners body, blocking the robbers view of his legs. He loosened Steve's belt to get better access to the wounds.

He had been shot three times, once to the right side of the chest a few inches below the breastbone and twice to the middle, lower abdomen just below the navel. The bleeding of the abdomen was severe but the chest wound wasn't bleeding too badly.

Danny pressed down firmly on Steve's belly jolting him back to consciousness, "OOOOOOHHHHHH GGODD SSTOPP...OOOOOOOOHHHHHH"
"STEVE, STEVE LAY STILL BUDDY..." Danny hollered to one of the Banker's, "I need your help, please...come hold his arms and shoulders still!"

Kevin hollered out, "No! One of the girls can help you!"
"They're not strong enough to hold him!"
Kevin and Danny stared at each other for several seconds before the robber agreed, adding "Don't try anything or I'll shoot all of you, and the ladies will go first!"

The younger of the two male bank employees moved quickly and following Danny's lead he pressed Steve's shoulders firmly to the ground with one hand while applying pressure to the chest wound with his other.
"That's good, that's good...thank you. What's your name?"
"Kai"
Danny spoke softly, "Thank you Kai. My name is Danny and this is Steve. We're detectives, just do what I tell you and we'll all get out of this alive okay?"
"Yeah, uuhuh. Just tell me what to do"
"Just keep the pressure on the wound right now, you're doing great buddy"

The teller arrived with the supplies and as Robbie turned away to walk back towards his partner Danny grabbed a blanket and threw it over Steve's legs covering his back-up weapon while silently cursing himself for not having his own back-up weapon on him.

Danny handed Kai a towel, "Here Kai, keep the pressure on the wound"
The young girl looked to Danny, "Can I help?"
"Yes, Thank You" Danny wet a cloth, "My name is Danny. This is my partner Steve. I need you to just sit by his head, wipe down his face and keep him cool. Talk to him. Just tell him to relax and that he'll be okay, can you do that?"

"Sure"
"What's your name sweetheart?"
"Mary"
"We're all going to be okay Mary, I promise"
She smiled as he handed her the cloth and she moved to tend to Steve.