A/N: I'm SO SO sorry about how late this is guys! Things just spiraled out of control with life and my motivation took a dive. I'm hoping to start posting once a week again for all of my stories. Again, I'm sorry. I want to thank everyone who reads and posts comments, you guys really help motivate me to try and continue writing even when I don't want to because it usually gets me back into the writing mood, so thank you all!

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Cristina walked slowly through Steve's house. She could easily see where the struggle took place. "Well, I'll get H.P.D. down here, help Cristina process the place." Kono said as she walked into the dining room where Steve met her.

"No, don't bother. They're not going to find anything. The guys wore gloves." The ex-SEAL said as he sat down. Cristina nodded as she came over.

"Yeah, that'll be totally useless." She crossed her arms over her chest. She glanced to her left when Danny came into the room from the kitchen. He was licking his thumb like he'd been eating something.

"What are you eating?" She asked. He glanced at her before shaking his head slightly.

"Nothing. Ice, for your head." The detective said, holding out the bag of ice for Steve. He was holding his head in his hand when he looked up at the other man.

"I'm fine." He refused.

"Don't be a tough guy. I've been popped with a stun gun; it's no fun, ice helps." Danny said to the man. Steve rolled his eyes and held his hand out, snatching the bag from Danny's hand when he offered it again.

"You've been stun-gunned?" Cristina asked with a raised eyebrow. Danny turned to her.

"Yes I've been stunned, Hoboken, Halloween '02. It's a long story, I don't wanna tell you now." He said to her and she smirked. She didn't see Kono smiling at the two of them from behind her back.

"I'll make sure to ask you later." She reached forward, taking Steve's hand with the ice and pressing it right on the mark on his neck. He leaned into the ice once it was in the right spot.

"How many guys were there?" Danny asked, turning his attention back to Steve.

"Three." He said, looking up at them.

"Three, okay, because I was wondering how one little burglar comes in and takes advantage of a Navy SEAL." Danny said as he moved around the room a little. Cristina watched Steve reach down and pick up a picture of his father, pulling a piece of broken glass from the frame.

"They weren't burglars, okay? They were professionals. They were organized, precise." He explained.

"Stun guns, gloves. Knew what they were after, it's no doubt you were targeted." Kono said from where she was standing on the other side of Cristina.

"Yeah, targeted I understand." Danny agreed. "How'd they get you? Did you not put an alarm system in here after the General Pak thing? I told you to do that. I don't wanna be a nag but I did say you should do that." Danny said and Cristina bit her thumb to keep from smiling. This was a serious moment and Danny was sounding like a worried, nagging mother.

"I put it in, okay?" Steve said, looking up at Danny. "They made a clean entry. They didn't trip the sensors. I don't understand."

"Nothing was tripped because they hacked your system using the alarm company's servers." Chin said as he came into the house from the backdoor. "They disarmed it as if you did it yourself."

"Did you find out where they came in?" The ex-SEAL turned his attention to Chin.

"Yeah, there are boot prints up to and away from the back door but there are no signs of forced entry. All the windows are secure too. If they broke in, I can't tell where." Chin glanced behind him. "They take anything other than your father's tool box?"

"No but my father's entire investigation into my mother's murder was in that box." Steve pointed to the spot the box had been.

"Okay, I'm not a rocket scientist…" Danny began.

"Clearly." Cristina said, turning to him with a small smirk.

"Ha ha." He said to her before turning his attention back to Steve. "But that is the reason that they wanted that evidence."

"How did they now about the evidence?" Steve asked no one in particular.

"I didn't mention it to anyone." Chin answered. "When I called H.P.D. Archives to get the accident report I just asked for a file number."

"Did you guys mention that champ box to anybody at all?" He asked Cristina, Danny, and Kono.

"No." They all answered.

"You never talked about it with anyone else?" Chin asked him.

"I talked to the people in this room." Steve said to him before it looked like a moment of realization appears on his face. "And my sister. I talked to my sister." He said before leaving the room.

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Cristina stopped the Charger beside the Camaro, turning it off as she got out, drawing her gun from her waist. "Mary, you in there?" Steve called out as the three of them moved closer to the house. "Mary, it's Steve." The man said, looking into an open window. He moved towards the backdoor, glancing around before sliding the ajar door completely open. Danny and Cristina stood behind him. Once the door was open, Steve stepped inside, Danny followed with Cristina behind him. The three of them separated, Steve moving to the right while Danny and Cristina made their way to the left. They slowly made their way through the house, checking every room. Cristina put a hand on Danny's arm, getting the man's attention before nodding her head towards the front of the house. He nodded his head and she slowly made her way back towards the kitchen, going through it to make her way back to the living room. The whole house was clear. She re-holstered her gun and began to make her way towards the guys when something caught her eye.

"Steve! Danny!" She called for them, kneeling down beside a puddle of blood. She reached into her back pocket to grab a glove before slipping it on. She could hear the two of them making their way towards her. "I've got blood." She said when they came into her peripheral vision. She reached down, grabbing a small white object beside the puddle.

"What the hell is that?" Danny asked when he saw Cristina pick it up. She brought it to her face to examine it before looking at Steve, who was kneeling in front of her.

"It's a tooth." She answered, putting it into Steve's waiting, gloved hand. As Steve looked at it, she could hear Danny sigh.

"Mary's?" The blonde asked.

"I hope not." Steve said back to him. "Whoever took the box took Mary." Cristina took the tooth back from him and put it in a small evidence bag she had in her pocket before the man stood up and made his way back outside. Danny walked slowly, waiting for Cristina to follow.

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Cristina walked up towards Mamo's little surf shack. She had been running some more tests on the tooth, trying to get a hit in any system but it was slow proceedings so she synced the testing with her phone so that she would get immediate results.

"What bring you here?" The man, Mamo, asked Steve and Danny.

"My sister." Steve answered. Cristina laid a hand on Danny's back, causing the man to turn. He smiled when he saw her and she couldn't help but smile back. "Did she come see you, Mamo?" The man grabbed Steve's arm, gently moving him away from the stand. Cristina and Danny followed him.

"Yeah, she come around couple days ago. Ask me questions about your mother." The man answered Steve's question.

"What did you tell her?" The ex-SEAL asked.

"The truth."

"The truth that my mother didn't die in a car accident? That it was a car bomb that killed her?"

"Yes."

"How did you know, Mamo?"

"Before your mom died in that car, I saw a cop hanging around it, looking under it."

"It was a long time ago; get a good look at him?" Danny asked.

"Asian. Maybe 6 feet?" He gave a brief description, which Cristina filed away for later. "I tell your father. He told me not to report it. Not to trust any other cop. I would have kept my promise to your father. But when Mary come to me, I felt an obligation to her. And now to you." There was a moment of silence as Steve tried to process the information. Cristina glanced at Danny, who glanced back at her before they turned back to Mamo. "All this time… why you come to me now?"

"Because I think the questions Mary's been asking about our mother, have just got her kidnapped." Steve responded.

"Oh, no." Mamo said, looking upset with the information.

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Cristina followed behind the Camaro, glancing down at her phone in her cup holder for the results of the tests on the tooth. She sighed, turning her eyes back to the road before she heard her phone ringing, playing Bon Jovi's You Give Love a Bad Name. She reached down, hitting the accept button before pressing it to her ear.

"What's up?"

"I just called Chin, Mary called Steve." Danny said to her. Cristina let out a sigh of relief.

"That's good." As soon as she said that, the Camaro spun around in front of her, causing her to hit her breaks. "Okay, where the hell are you going?" She asked.

"Steve says we won't get there in time by car. I don't know anything else than that." Danny answered. She sighed, rubbing her forehead.

"Then I'm heading back to the Palace to finish running the DNA on that tooth. Call me as soon as you guys get her." Cristina said as she turned towards HQ.

"Will do." Danny answered before hanging up. Cristina put the phone back into the cup holder before turning her full attention to driving.

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Danny called her as they were making their way back to the Palace, telling her that they had gotten Mary back. When they'd gotten back, Steve had taken Mary into his office to get her patched up and taken care of while Danny went to Max's ME office to see if they could figure out who their mystery guys were. Cristina kept her focus on running the tooth's DNA along with the new DNA of their dead guys with every database she could get into, along with fingerprints. A knock on her door drew her eyes up from her computer screen.

"You want to do something exciting?" Steve asked. She raised an eyebrow at him.

"Getting coffee with you could be considered exciting." She said as she stood up, reattaching her gun and badge to her belt.

"I should take offence to that but I'm going to look at it like a compliment." He said with a smirk as he walked away from her.

"You're going to give me gray hairs by the time I'm 35." She said, almost jogging to keep up with his longer legs.

"Are you sure? I think I see one…" He leaned over, reaching for her hair. She quickly batted him away, causing him to chuckle.

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Cristina parked the Charger beside the Camaro before getting out, glancing at Chin as he parked beside her. "This is the place." Chin said as he shut the door on his SUV. "If our third attacker isn't in here, they'll know where to find him."

"Ooh. They got nice rides." Kono said as they walked towards the door, seeing all the bikes lined up.

"Oh! Those are some nice Ducatis." Cristina said as she stepped up to one of the bikes. It reminded her a lot of her ex-boyfriend's bike, it was the same yellow color and model.

"You know," Steve said, gaining her attention, "I've always wanted to ride one of these." He walked over to the first bike before getting onto it. He started it up as he pulled the kickstand up and revved the engine a few times. He drove it out a few feet before turning it sharply and running it through the doors. She tried to hide her smile as she heard Danny sigh. Danny walked in first after Cristina gave him a little push on the shoulder, Chin and Kono followed behind them. They quickly made their way up the stairs to the top floor. All of the guys were lying on the ground with their hands in the air. They all got up and made their way to face the back wall. Cristina re-holstered her gun and took Chin's shotgun from Danny's hand.

"I have a number of a therapist I wanna give you, okay?" Danny said to Steve as the other man stood beside him. "Walk up steps like a human." Slowly, Chin and Kono finished their searches of all the guys, pulling out two small guns, a pack of cigarettes, and a few other small items. Once the cousins announced it was clear, Steve ordered them all to turn around. When they all did, he stepped forward, showing them he pictures of the guys in the morgue.

"These friends of yours, huh?" None of the guys would look at the pictures. "Because right now they're dead, okay? And I wanna know who they worked for. So the first one to talk walks." He stopped at the last guy in the row. "How about you? You know these guys?" Cristina tilted her head, stepping up behind Steve slightly. The man's jaw was slightly swollen with a nasty bruise.

"Nasty bruise, man." She said, seeing Steve glance back at her before stepping up to him, using his gun to motion to the bruise.

"What do you got there?" He went to touch it and the man flinched away before he could make contact. Steve took a step closer, almost into the guy's face. "Say, "Aah."" The man refused, looking away from Steve. "Alright, everybody, hit the road. Except for our friend here." Slowly, the men made their out of the room and down the stairs. "Danny?" Steve asked the other man, crossing his arms.

"Yes, Steven?" Danny asked, coming closer and holstering his gun.

"Theoretically, if you wanted to open this guy's mouth, how would you do it?" He asked, looking back at the man over his shoulder.

"Oh, oh. Well, there's the, uh— the punch in the gut."

"That's good." Cristina added in from where she was sitting on the couch behind Steve.

"There's the knee to the joint. And I, of course, have the Williams family favorite."

"Oh, what's that?" Cristina asked, leaning back and crossing her legs. Steve glanced at her this time before turning back to the man in front of him. Danny glanced at the two of them before stepping forward the grabbed the guy's hair, yanking it backwards. He kept pulling until the man was laid flat on his back over a small table and then Danny hooked his finger into the side of the guy's mouth. Cristina hummed as she stood up.

"I like that one." Steve took turned on the flashlight on his gun, using it to look inside of his mouth.

"Alright. Nice and still. Yeah, look at that. Missing a tooth. Looks recent too. Stay there." Steve stepped back, reaching into his pockets to take out his phone before turning to Chin and Kono, who were waiting. "Alright. Chin, Kono, take him in." Danny let him up, wipping his hand on the man's shirt before he got out of reach. "Get the tooth from the ME."

"Let's see if the slipper fits, Cinderella." Chin said as he turned the guy around, zip tying his hands together.

"Excuse me." Danny said, gaining Steve's attention as the man was about to turn on the phone. She liked Danny. She really did. But sometimes she wished he wouldn't criticize Steve so much. It would make for an easier day with less arguing if he did. "You wanna just try asking him?"

"He was never gonna talk." Steve answered.

"I mean, do you know how painful it is to have a tooth knocked out." Cristina asked, raising an eyebrow at Danny. He rolled his blue eyes at her before turning his attention back to Steve.

"Of course he wasn't going to talk. You didn't throw him into a shark tank." Her brow furrowed in confusion as she turned to the blonde.

"What?" She asked. Danny held up a hand.

"Long story, I'll fill you in later." She nodded her head before turning back to Steve when he started speaking.

"Danny, these guys are Yakuza middlemen, okay? They don't talk. They know if they do, their families will get wiped out. We need to go higher up the food chain to find out who's behind this kidnapping and my mother's murder." He explained.

"Okay, but without the tooth fairy, how are we gonna do that?" Danny asked.

"This may help." Steve said, showing him the phone he'd taken from the man's pocket, before he turned and walked down the stairs. Danny turned to her.

"Why? Why did I agree to be his partner?" He asked her and she chuckled.

"Beats me. Remember, I wasn't here for that." She began walking down the stairs.

"Yeah but I mean, you see what I go through." Without looking, she knew that the man was following her and that he was flailing his arms. She chuckled.

"I do, and I go through the same thing." She heard him groan and she let out a chuckle. "Besides, if you weren't his partner we never would have met." The man was silent. Looking over her shoulder, she saw him watching her closely.

"That is true. You and Gracie are the only good things on this pineapple infested hell-hole." She smiled at him as they continued their way down the stairs.

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Cristina looked up when someone knocked on her offices' glass door. Danny was making his way back to the Smart Table from Steve's office, the ex-SEAL following behind him. Cristina stood and made her way out.

"So, what did you find?" Steve asked.

"A prominent venture capitalist originally from Japan." Kono explained. "He has residences there, Dubai, Malibu, three here in Hawaii. He's really well-connected. From everything I could gather, he seems like a well-respected, very wealthy entrepreneur."

"But that does not mean he's not with the Yakuza." Danny said to her. Cristina pointed at the man, agreeing with his point.

"He's right. In Japan, the mob's been known to work out in the open with major corporations." She said to them.

"What's his name?" Steve asked.

"Hiro Noshimuri." Kono answered. Steve stood completely still for a moment before moving quickly back to his office. Cristina couldn't help but jump at the quick movement. "Did I say something?" Kono asked as they all watched Steve make his way into the office. A moment later, he returned to the table with a notepad in his hand.

"What did you say?" He asked again.

"Hiro Noshimuri."

"That's it." Steve said as he laid the paper down for the other three to see. "That the cipher. Hiro Noshimuri." Cristina leaned against Danny's side to see the paper. She wasn't sure of the code but Steve had figured it out (not that she knew if he did it right but she wasn't going to question him).

"The cipher. What does that mean?" Danny asked the other man. Cristina leaned away from Danny but remained at his side.

"In 1992, my dad was the head of the H.P.D.'s organized crime unit. He was investigating the expansion of the Yakuza here in Hawaii and he was corresponding with somebody in Japan, somebody who gave him the name Hiro Noshimuri." Steve explained to them. "In code, right here." He pointed to the paper on the table.

"You got a name from a stick figure?" Danny asked, also pointing to the paper. He was asking the question that she wanted to but had decided against.

"The stick figures are the code. I used frequency analysis to crack it." Cristina nodded her head slightly, looking back at the paper.

"Frequency what?" Danny asked.

"Frequency analysis." Kono repeated.

"It's the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters in a cipher text." Cristina explained, pushing her hair over her shoulder. The blonde looked between Steve and Cristina.

"Should I be aware of something Cristi? Are you guys dating now?" He asked the woman and she rolled her eyes with a small smile.

"This is it. My dad was getting closer." Steve said, completely ignoring the two of them. "He wanted to uncover the identity of the local oyabun, the boss. That's why they targeted him. The Yakuza wanted him dead. So they planted a bomb under his car. Only they didn't bet on my mother driving the car that day. And that's why my dad wanted me to find that toolbox. To finish this investigation that he started." Cristina, Kono, and Danny watched on silently as the man spoke. "I need to know where this guy is right now." Steve walked towards the door, Danny following him at a slower pace. Kono looked at Cristina and the older woman sighed.

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"So, what do you think about dinner tonight?" Danny asked, his voice slightly muffled by the pen cap in his mouth. Cristina tilted her head at him. The two of them had been trying to go to dinner for the past two weeks but something always came up. If they could get the case to a stopping point or wrap it up, they would be able to get something to eat.

"I think it could be great if we can actually get somewhere before they close." Cristina said, hiding a smirk behind her hand. The man rolled his eyes.

"It's not my fault that we work all hours of the night." He said, glancing up at him before going back to his paperwork. "Don't you have paperwork to do?" She shook her head.

"Nope, finished it earlier when you guys left." She watched the blonde for a moment before nodding her head with a small smile. "Dinner sounds nice though. Even if we're late, you should come over to my place. I should have something that I will be able to cook without burning it." He looked up at her, watching her for a moment before giving her a soft smile.

"That sounds nice." The man said, turning his attention to something over her shoulder, taking the pen cap out of his mouth. Looking over her shoulder and the back of the chair, she saw the Governor walking into Steve's office.

"Somebody's in trouble." She muttered, continuing to watch them. They looked like they spoke harshly before things quieted down. She turned her attention back to Danny, who had gone back to his paperwork with the occasional glance at the two in Steve's office. Eventually, he stopped trying to look busy and capped his pen, watching the conversation unfold. The governor soon left after finishing her beer and Steve made his way into Danny's office.

"That looked like it went well." The blonde said to him. "Should I pack now for Jersey or…?"

"Not getting off that easy. I wanna know everything there is about Hiro Noshimuri, okay? I wanna know every business he runs, who all of his employees are. All his family members, every friend he has. I wanna know where he eats. I wanna know where he sleeps. I want it all, okay?" Steve said, looking between Danny and Cristina. "We're gonna tear into this guy's life and we're gonna rip it all apart." Cristina shifted in her seat, pulling her phone from her back pocket and began looking for Trip's number.

"I have never liked you more than in this moment right now." Danny said to Steve with a smile. "It's beautiful." Cristina rolled her eyes, putting the phone to her ear as she stood up, both men watching her.

"Hello?" The voice said on the other end of the phone.

"Hey Trip, I got a favor…" She said, glancing between the two men. She could hear the man on the other end of the phone moving around.

"Sounds serious." There was some shuffling. "Ready when you are Wonder Woman."

"I need everything, and I mean everything, on Hiro Noshimuri." There was a pause.

"He's a pretty powerful guy. Do I even want to know?"

"I don't think you do."

"Everything, huh?"

"Everything down to when the food in his pantry expires." She could feel the men's eyes on her. Trip chuckled.

"I'm good but not that good." She could hear him typing. "It may take me a few hours but I'll call when I have everything together."

"Thanks man. I'll talk to you soon."

"No problem, later." She hung up the phone and both men rose a silently eyebrow, Danny waving a hand in the air.

"Former Army Ranger, duh." She gave them a small smile before she made her way towards her office. Before the door closed she could hear Steve say 'I see why you like her' to Danny.

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"And that's everything?" Cristina asked as she wrote down the last thing Trip told her.

"Honey, the only thing I couldn't get was those expiration dates." She smiled slightly. "That's everything. All I got." She nodded her head, putting her pen down. While everyone else was out looking for any sort of physical evidence on Noshimuri, Cristina had stayed behind to get the call from Trip. "You know, earlier I wanted to know about why you wanted to know about this guy but… I decided I don't want to know." She laughed slightly. "Good luck."

"Thanks. Bring the family to Hawaii; I owe you a few beers." The man chuckled.

"I'm holding you to that Taylor." He said and with a few quick goodbyes, they hung up. One thing that caught her attention was a brother named Koji Noshimuri. From what she got, the man was a cop with Steve's father right around the time of Steve's mother's death. She was about to get started on a deeper search when Chin came in.

"What'd you find out?" She called through her open door. Chin turned to her, leaning against the doorway.

"We got a brother named-"

"Koji Noshimuri?" Chin looked surprised and she offered him a small smile. "It's amazing what Army intelligence can get you." He shook his head with a small smile.

"I came back to pull up everything I can on him." He explained.

"Oh, what a coincidence. I was just about to do the same thing." She explained, holding up her tablet. The man nodded.

"Two heads are better than one." She nodded with a smile. The man moved towards the Smart Table to being going through H.P.D files.

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An hour later, Steve called Chin. Cristina unplugged her tablet before making her way out to the table. "Tell me you got Koji."

"He's alive and well and working for his brother as—"

"A consultant." Cristina finished, flicking the image from her tablet onto the screens.

"He's got a place downtown but travels back and forth to Japan a lot for Hiro." Chin continued after Cristina's interruption.

"Let me ask you, how does a consultant working for the Yakuza earn a check?" Danny asked.

"Well, this sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke." Cristina said quietly but she knew Chin could hear her from the snort he let out.

"Cleaning up his brother's messes." Steve answered.

"Oh look, there's the punchline." She said quietly again, waving an arm around like she was holding a small flag.

"Hey, find out if Koji's in the country, okay? If so, I wanna know where." Steve said to them. Cristina nodded, even though he couldn't see her.

"Roger that." Chin answered for the both of them before ending the call.

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"Hello?" Cristina answered her ringing cellphone.

"Cris? I need you down at the club. It's not an emergency but we found Steve's toolbox and I thought that he would rather have you run the prints." The woman glanced up at Chin, who had turned to her.

"Yeah, I'll grab my kit and be right over." Cristina said before hanging up the phone. She stood up and slipped it back into her pocket before making her way into her office, pulling her CSI kit from under the desk.

"They found Steve's toolbox at the club. I'm going to go down and process it." The man nodded.

"That's fine. I'll stay here and keep working." She nodded her head, before turning and making her way down the stairs towards the main lobby before getting into the parking lot. The drive wasn't too bad, although, nothing compares to New York City. She pulled up beside the squad car, seeing Kono standing beside the toolbox. Cristina grabbed her case before getting out, closing the door behind her as she walked over.

"Hey." She nodded to the younger woman.

"Hey." Kono nodded back.

"You can head back inside, I got this."

"You sure?" Cristina nodded her head and Kono nodded back before heading back inside the club. Immediately, Cristina got to work printing every inch of the box. She pulled off a ton of fingerprints, glancing through them; she saw that were smaller pair that she was sure belonged to Mary. She pulled out her small tablet out of her kit. Opening AFIS, she put the fingerprints into the scan and letting them run. She wasn't surprised to see Mary's picture pop up, which confirmed that the smaller prints where the other woman. Steve's were next, of course, she expected them. The next set made her smile. Pulling her phone out of her pocket, she called Steve.

"Yeah." He answered.

"Hello to you too, Steve. I'm great, how are you?" She asked sarcastically. "Don't answer those, I got something."

"What?"

"I got at least three sets of prints from the box so far. One is Mary's which I expected from the size and shape. The other was, of course, you. The third might be the one you're interested in the most."

"Is it Noshimuri?"

"Absolutely. It's a 95.7% match. It's definitely him."

"Great job Cris."

"Eh, just doing my job." She gave Kono a small smile and a thumbs up when the woman came outside to check on things.

"Well, you do it well."

"Thank you. Thank you." She said before the pair said their goodbyes and hung up the phone. She nodded her head as she put everything back in her kit before bagging the box.

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"Hey." Danny said, walking into Cristina's office. She looked up from her bag and smiled.

"Hey yourself." She replied before turning back to her bag and zipping it up.

"We still on for dinner?" Danny asked, using his thumb to point behind him. She put the strap over her shoulder and nodded her head.

"Yeah but I think we should just head to my place. We can order in or something." Cristina suggested and Danny smiled.

"That sounds great." She smiled back as she made her way to the door, which Danny held open for her. As they stepped into the common area, they could see Steve looking through the pictures of the evidence from his father's box.

"I called him a while ago, what is he doing here? Can we just…?" Danny asked, moving towards Steve. She nodded her head, following him towards the other man. "Hey." He said, gaining Steve's attention. "Where you been? I called you on your cell." The other man was silent for a moment as they stood beside the table. He glanced over at the two of them.

"I had to drop Mary off and then I lost track of time." Steve explained softly.

"I'm sorry about that, man." Danny said to him while Cristina laid a hand on his back. He sighed.

"You gotta give her credit. She was on to something. All this stuff in my father's toolbox. It's not just about my mom's case. There's a bunch of other stuff that's much more current. Like the investigation he was involved in before Hesse killed him. We've got a bunch of leads to follow up on." Danny glanced at Cristina, who glanced back.

"Yeah, well, there's, uh, something we don't have to follow up on now."

"What?" Steve asked, looking between the two of them.

"Koji Noshimuri was found dead an hour ago." Cristina said, running her fingers through her hair. Steve looked at her for a moment before his eyes flickered to Danny and then back to her.

"How?" He asked.

"Car accident." Danny answered. "You believe that?"

"No." Steve said after a moment of silence. Cristina nodded her head. It was all too coincidental to have actually been a car accident but it was something for them to worry about tomorrow.