I'd just like to say thank you for the lovely reviews. This chapter might also be a bit rubbish (I'm crap at proof-reading) but I thought I'd post it anyway! Sorry if this is OOC!

BANG! BANG!

Startled, Kono's head whipped around at the sound of two gunshots ringing through the warehouse,

"What the...?" She asked as she turned to look at Chin, seeing her own fears reflected in his, usually calm, face.

"Danny!?" He shouted into the emptiness, "Steve?" His yell echoed eerily around the dark warehouse,

"What were they thinking coming in here alone?" Chin shouted angrily, as he took off running in the direction of the gunshots. Kono followed soon after, swallowing back the fear that threatened to consume her.

…..

BANG! BANG!

"NO!" Steve shouted as he witnessed the man shooting Danny twice at point blank range, "Danny!"

The force of the bullets had caused Danny's chair to tip over, leaving Danny in a tangled heap on the floor, his arms still tied behind his back.

From where Steve was crouched on the ground, he could see Danny's eyes were wide open, but unstaring, and he was gasping like a fish out of water, body convulsing as his lungs heaved for air. Steve had to quickly swallow back bile as his eyes set on the stark pool of blood that was now surrounding Danny's vulnerable body.

Steve jumped up and attempted to skid over to Danny's prone figure on the ground, but before he could fall to his knees beside his injured partner, he was yanked backwards by a hand on the back of his shirt.

"Wha…?" He stuttered, turning around he found himself face to face with the man in black, "You son of a…" He shouted and attempted to wrestle the gun from the convict's firm grip, earning him a kick to the stomach which left him momentarily winded.

Straightening up quickly, he kicked the convicts arm hard. This forced him to loosen his grip on the gun which in turn clattered to the ground.

Standing up from his bent position, Steve met the convict's eyes and they both dived for the gun which lay on the ground between them.

…

BANG!

Kono and chin ducked out of habit, as the sound of another deafening gunshot echoed around the warehouse.

After realising it was no threat to them, Kono straightened up looking frantically around the warehouse, desperate to hear any kind of noise signalling Steve and Danny were in fact alive and okay.

"Steve? Danny!?" Chin yelled again, the further lack of response only serving to heighten their fears. "Of all the rookie mistakes..." He muttered fiercely, his worry for his two teammates turning into anger, "I'm gonna kill them when we find them…" He mumbled, trying desperately not to consider they may already be dead.

Looking at Kono he saw her open face full of fear, he knew he should offer some platitudes to her, but he just couldn't seem to gather the words. His own fears had now consumed his once rational nature.

Pulling himself together for Kono's sake, he gave her a silent nod and together they began to run towards the source of the noise.

…

Steve didn't even flinch as he fired the bullet straight into the convicts head, nor did he flinch when he was splattered by the spray of blood that erupted from his wound. Walking cautiously over, he breathed a sigh of relief when he couldn't feel any pulse from the dead man.

But there was no time for celebration as his mind wandered back to his partner.

"Danny!" He yelled and skidded over onto his knees, hands splayed ready to help Danny. Setting eyes on his partner's body he couldn't hold back a gasp at what he saw, "Oh God…"

One bullet had hit Danny at the base of his neck leaving a messy wound in its wake, where more blood than Steve thought imaginable spilled out.

The second bullet did little to lighten Steve's, already frayed, nerves; he saw that the bullet had ripped through Danny's bulletproof vest leaving a jagged hole over his left chest through which blood spilled like water through a tap.

Danny continued to gasp and moan from the pain of the two bullet wounds, "Hey Danno, you're gonna be fine..." He spoke doing little to comfort the severely injured man.

"Ste…St've…" Danny groaned much to Steve's surprise. Steve gripped Danny's hand with a vice grip, squeezing it gently.

"Yeah Pal, I'm right here…" He uttered, Steve was surprised to find himself completely at a loss of what to do; sure he had seen friends killed before in the field, but this was different, Danny wasn't just a friend, he was his partner and, most importantly, his brother.

Steve blinked back the fear tugging at his heart, and kicked himself into his navy training. He pulled off his vest and outer shirt, which he balled up and pushed into the wound on Danny's neck which appeared to be producing the most blood. This produced a moan from Danny, who was appearing to gain more focus, lifting his head weakly he looked down at the mess that was his body,

"Oh Shit…" he groaned, "God, am I dying…?" Danny asked, as he bit down on his lip to stop from crying out in pain.

"Danny, hey man, you're not dying. You hear me?" Steve stated, "Listen to me you're gonna be fine…"

"Grace…." Danny mumbled, feeling his eyelids droop; Steve's heart sank at Danny's words,

"She'll be fine and you'll be fine okay, you hear me?"

After hearing no response, he searched his friends face for any kind of life. His heart sank when he heard no response and saw that Danny's eyes had closed, Steve felt his heart sink further as his eyes set upon Danny's blue tinged lips and laboured breathing.

Steve was no idiot; he could see Danny was going to die without medical care pretty soon. He reached for his radio, but remembered the man had smashed it, shortly after knocking him out.

"Damn it!" He yelled into the dark warehouse, and then continued to holler profanities as he realised he was just going to have to sit back and watch, the man he considered his brother, die in front of him.

"Steve? Danny?"

Steve's head shot round after hearing Chin's shout,

"Chin! In here!"

…..

"Steve? Danny?" Chin yelled for what must have been the twentieth time, but was surprised when he finally heard Steve shout back,

"Chin! In here!"

Looking at Kono he saw his own relief reflected in Kono's face, they both looked at each other with a small smile and began to run into the room that Steve's yell came from.

However, their smiles dropped as their eyes surveyed the scene that met them. Steve had his head turned looking at them, but when their eyes travelled down they could see that he was leaning over a prone figure on the floor, Danny.

Kono swallowed back bile as she ran over to Danny's vulnerable form,

"Oh God…" Kono stuttered, her eyes falling on the bloody wounds on Danny's neck and stomach, "Steve, what can I do?"

"You need to pull off his vest and look at the wound on his chest," Seeing Kono's shocked face, he spoke in a soft voice grabbing her shoulder, "Kono you need to do this, okay?"

Kono's head shot up, nodding shakily she leant over Danny's body gently unstrapping the vest and then, with Steve's assistance, she pulled it off and out came a gush of blood from the wound before she could stop it. Putting pressure on the wound Kono turned to Steve,

"Damn it boss, this is bad." Kono stuttered,

"I know." Steve said, unable to say anything else. His heart sank at the sight of Danny's hot blood spilling through his fingers. Putting more pressure on it he dimly heard Chin's shout for a medic.

Kono put a larger amount of pressure on Danny's chest wound in an attempt to staunch the steady flow of blood spilling from his body; this elicited a groan from Danny.

Steve leaned over Danny's body in surprise, "Hey Danno, you with me again?" Danny must have tried to utter a reply, but this caused a barking cough to erupt from his lips bringing with it a stream of blood that spilled down his cheek and mixed with the already large pool of blood on the floor around him.

Kono, Steve and now Chin all worked to turn Danny on his side in order to clear his airway. Steve looked over at Kono and Chin and they all knew that they could do little to help Danny soon.

"MEDICS!"

They all let out a simultaneous sigh of relief at the sound of approaching medics. "In here!" Chin yelled.

Two paramedics walked into the room, "What do we have?" They asked, as they began to help Danny efficiently.

"He's been shot twice, once at the base of his neck and again in the chest." The two medics took over from Steve and Kono's pressure with bandages, which finally seemed to staunch some of the blood from spilling out.

"Right, we need to check for an exit round, so on three we're gonna log roll him…"

Kono, Chin and Steve all took a position, "One, two three…" Together they rolled Danny over onto his side, but Steve's heart sank when he saw no exit wound on Danny's clear back. "Okay and back…" They gently rolled him back onto a backboard which was then lifted onto a stretcher, Danny's limpness throughout the entire procedure only serving to heighten their worry.

Now on the stretcher, the first medic positioned an oxygen mask over Danny's face, and then with the help of Steve, Chin and Kono they all proceeded to run the gurney back through the warehouse.

"Commander, there's not enough room." The medic stated putting his hand out to stop Steve from jumping into the ambulance.

"I'm coming with you; I'm not leaving him alone." He stated, waving his hand towards Danny's limp body, giving the medic an angry glare, "So let me in."

Seeing Steve's angry face the medic stepped out his way and reluctantly let Steve join them in the ambulance, sitting himself next to Danny, he grabbed his hand and held onto it like the lifeline it was, "You're gonna be fine Danny, you hear me?"

Just before the doors of the ambulance slammed close, Steve stole a glance at Kono and Chin and saw his own terror reflected in both of them. They all knew this was bad, and the worst part of it was that it was all Steve's fault.

….

The door slammed close leaving Kono and Chin standing outside the warehouse. Chin looked over at his cousin, seeing the tears in her eyes that were threatening to spill over, "He's gonna be okay, brah."

"There was too much blood Chin, how can anyone survive after losing that much blood." She snapped, turning to look at him guiltily she spoke again, "Sorry chin, it's just… what are we gonna do if he does die?" Chin looked back at her, knowing he should speak some comfort to her cousin but found himself mumbling,

"I don't know Kono, I don't know."

….

Danny's next return to consciousness startled Steve again, "Danny?" he spoke softly rubbing his arm, "You with me, brah?"

Danny managed a small nod in reply, too afraid to try to talk again. He coughed into the oxygen mask, face flushing when he realised he was dribbling, that was until he tasted copper and realised it was blood.

He closed his eyes again; any movement felt like he was moving through sludge. "Danny!" He heard Steve yell dimly in the background. He popped his eyes open again and he turned his head to look at Steve, "You hold on okay? We're almost there…"

"ETA two minutes."

"See Danny, two more minutes. Just hold on." Steve stated

Because I can't do this job without you, he thought to himself.