Hi guys. I'm getting back on track with things, so I decided to update this story. I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter. It's more like a filler to me, so I'm not sure.

Happy news: Hawaii Five-0 got RENEWED for Season 4 and so did NIKITA! But Season 4 of Nikita will be it's final season. So that's going to be sad.

I don't own Hawaii Five-0 or Nikita.

All Spelling and Grammar Mistakes are my mine.

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Time: 6:06PM

"You're a very hard man to crack," Nikita stated as she sat in the passenger seat of his truck. She looked at him, her eyes narrowed. He looked straight ahead, a stoned look on him.

"I like my fair share of puzzles. You're one of them and I want to know what makes you tick," She continued.

"Why?" His eyes stayed on the road.

"I like to use weaknesses to my advantage. I also like to have an insurance policy. I am a trained spy after all,"

"You don't hold anything back do you?" He glanced at her.

"I hold things back for my protection but you on the other hand, you put a defensive wall up which suggests people have hurt you before and you want to protect yourself. Plus, your parents are deceased and if I don't recall, they didn't die of natural cases,"

"And you figured this all out on your own?"

"Well, you helped me when you told Birkhoff everything. I simply put the pieces together,"

"Your weakness is Michael because he left you, so you decided to show him that you didn't need him yet you proved the opposite," He chuckled.

"He didn't leave me," She snapped, defensively.

"You're being defensive,"

"You don't know what happened,"

"Your right, but like you, I like my puzzles,"

"Good luck then," She smiled at him.

"Hey McGarrett," Duke greeted as he walked up to them.

"Hey. What happened?"

"Didn't you arrest her?" He lowered his voice and narrowed his eyes at Nikita, then casting a suspicious look to Steve.

"It was a misunderstanding. I'm Nikita, FBI. It seems that Steve forgot that I was coming here and seemingly took me for someone else," She smiled and took out a FBI badge.

"Oh. Welcome to Hawaii then," Duke smiled.

"What happened?" She asked, as he began to walk them towards the crime scene.

"42 year old, male, was found dead, by neighbors, in the backyard of his house. From what they say, it looks like he fell off the latter trying to get to the roof and fix a leaky roof," He motioned towards the body and then towards the latter that laid next to him. A man stood over him, examining.

"Why are we investigating?" Steve asked.

"Governor Denning requested your team on it,"

"Do you mean ordered?"

Duke nodded, "The man was a friend of Governor Denning and he wants to make sure there was no foul play,"

"I'll take it from here then," Steve said before turning towards Max.

"Max meet Nikita," He introduced. Max looked up from examining.

"Hello. Nice to meet you," Before going back to examining.

"What's the time of death?" Steve asked, as Nikita looked around. Something was off about this crime scene and as she put on gloves that she had grabbed from Steve's truck and began to examine, her fears were quickly answered.

"About two to three hours ago," Max answered.

Steve nodded, "Cause of death?"

"I'll know soon. Right now, it looks like the fall was the cause of death," He looked up from examining the body.

Steve nodded, before looking to his side to find Nikita missing. He turned to see her, crouched, looking between the ground and the roof.

He walked towards her, "What is it?"

She stood up, shaking her head, "This wasn't an accident,"

"What do you mean? He fell fixing the roof," He motioned towards the roof and then the latter, "Denning is wasting resources and my team's time on this when we could be out actually investigating a crime. Instead he calls us to confirm that his friend died from falling off the roof,"

"That's what he or she wants you to believe, but this was no accident," Nikita whispered.

"Division?" He whispered, low enough for only her to hear.

"Yeah. A Division Cleaner. I'm going to need to call Owen and have him come check the scene out," She took out her phone.

"He's the cleaner right?"

"He is a former cleaner and he's the only one who can confirm whether this was the work of a cleaner. I can only suspect," She stated as she sent a text.

"Okay then. He better bring some sort of cover ID,"

"Don't worry about it,"

"Good,"

"I'm to take pictures and send them over to Birkhoff," She said as she knelt and began to take photos.

Time: 6:50PM

After about 30 minutes on the scene, looking at everything from the victim to the house and finally the roof, Owen had the answer to the burning question on mind.

"Yeah this was the job of a cleaner," Owen confirmed once he got off the latter after looking at the roof.

"How do you know?" Steve asked. Nikita rolled her eyes, crossing her arms, as she waited for Owen to explain.

"We, cleaners, like to make sure there's no fingerprints of any sort left at the scene minus the victims. We also like to have crime scenes fit the bill of what we want the medical examiner to find as the COD. This entire crime scene is too clean and it's also has too many coincidences, from my point of view. You might see it as an easy open and shut case, but being a cleaner myself, I see too many of the same things we were trained to do. The cleaner who did this made this look like a typical guy was just fixing his roof and somehow fell off and died. If this was a cleaner, then the victim will also likely to have had a stroke or a heart attack that caused his fall. Your medical examiner will be able to confirm that later,"

"And you know all of this just by spending a few minutes on the crime scene?" Steve asked. He didn't exactly believe this guy, but if what he was telling was true then he and his team would be looking at a planned murder.

"Yeah. This is my territory and I know a cleaner job when I see one. The roof had barely any sort of sign that someone had been there much less fixing anything. Sure there are roof tiles near the victim and they match the ones on the roof and all that stuff, but, after close examination, I saw that they had been forcefully pulled off the roof, suggesting foul play. There was no leak on the roof. The cleaner probably caused it days before, so it would connect everything together,"

"Okay then. You can go now. We're good," Steve said as he began to walk towards the house. Owen immediately ran up to catch up. Nikita walked behind them, knowing very well how this would go.

"No I'm not leaving. You're dealing with a cleaner, McGarrett, not some low-life junkie. You're going to need me to help you," Owen stated, his voice lowered.

"I think I'm good," He smiled, before turning back to walk into the house.

"The victim is only the first of few people the cleaner is here to take care," Owen stated, stopping.

Steve immediately turned around, "How do you know that?"

He held up a small metal pentagon, a little under half an inch "Some of the worst cleaners that Division has, usually place a small nearly untraceable object near the victim when they have to kill more than one. Unless you know to look for it, then no one thinks anything else. These types of shapes are common for Cleaners to use when they have multiple victims to take care. It's kind of like when you build a house, you create the foundation and then you begin the real building. In this case, the victim is the foundation and now here's four other people who are going to get killed. We may be trained to be ghosts but we like to have our signature on our victims, one way or another. Its kind of like telling the world, I did this, but without saying a single word,"

"And this is isn't another coincidence?"

"No. Besides we cleaners like to take our time to make a good crime scene when we only have to take care of one person. This crime scene is too fast, too simple, and that all points to a cleaner who's here to take care of multiple people. I like to make my crime scenes, complicated enough that the police will not look anywhere else, but simple enough for the police to figure it out, in a matter of days. The cleaner doing this, is on a schedule and it won't be long before another body shows up,"

"Are you sure?"

"I'm 99.9% sure another body will turn up, but with a different COD. Maybe similar, kind of depends on what the cleaner wants. Speaking for myself, I like to mix it up a little," Owen said.

"What do we do then?" Steve asked.

"It all starts with the victim. The victim tells the story,"

"The victim is dead," Steve crossed his arms.

"The victim may be dead but his belongings aren't. Just treat this like any other murder, do the basic work, and we'll do the rest," Owen smiled.

"I don't need someone to tell me how to do my job,"

"You've never dealt with a cleaner. I have. I don't care what's your resume, believe me, mine is way better, in the cleaner department," Owen stated.

"He's right, Steve," Nikita agreed.

"This is my investigation not his," Steve snapped, angrily. He wasn't about to let some stranger take over his investigation, especially one who had the ability to hurt his team.

"This is his backyard and not yours," Nikita argued.

"I'm the leader here. Not him. I call the shots, not him,"

"Well, guess what? He's going to take over because if he doesn't, then your going to end up with more bodies and more questions than answers. I don't think the Governor would be too pleased with you if you couldn't figure out who was killing people on the island and it wouldn't make you look too good as a Commander,"

Steve glared at Nikita and Owen, "As far as anyone is concerned, you are old friends from the FBI, here to look at Five-0 and help with the investigation in whatever part you think your help is needed in. My only rule is don't cross the line with me,"

"Got it," Owen nodded.

"I understand. Just make sure HPD knows that your on the case for now. Just say you're looking into the suicide a little deeper. In a few days, tell HPD that the case is closed and you ruled it as a suicide. From there, we'll work under the radar. Keep it low-profile because we don't want the Cleaner to get spooked,"

"A spooked Cleaner is not a happy cleaner," Owen piped in.

"So if this guy finds out we know, what is he gonna do?" Steve asked, arms crossed as his team joined him.

"What's going on?" Kono asked as she looked between her boss and Nikita.

"We're sticking on this case," He stated.

"What? Why? It's an open and shut case. The victim died from trauma caused from the fall. Max confirmed it," Danny said.

"Just listen," Chin said.

"I'll explain it later," Steve answered before turning towards Nikita.

"What's gonna happen?" He asked again.

"He's gonna clean you and your team. That's what he's gonna do. It's Cleaner 101," Owen stated.

"What did you get us into now?" Danny asked.

Steve shook his dead.

Time: 7:20PM

"What are you doing?" Danny asked as they walked into HQ to find Owen snooping around. Birkhoff stood on the side, a laptop out along with a few other machines.

"Checking for bugs, cameras, motion sensors, the basic stuff, you know. With a cleaner on the lose, you can never be too careful," Owen stated as he continued his search.

"You know where a screw driver is? I gotta check the outlets," Owen asked.

"I got one in my office," Kono answered before walking into her office.

"What are you doing?" Chin asked Birkhoff, who looked up from his computer.

"Installing a new security system that's completely "cleaner" proof. If the Cleaner knows your on the case, he or she is gonna want to know what you know so he or she can intercept it or in other cases, clean it," Birkhoff answered as he typed and moved things around. Chin nodded.

"Need any help?"

"Yeah," and with that Birkhoff explained what Chin needed to do.

"Who gave you permission?" Steve asked as Kono handed Owen a screwdriver.

"I did. It's a precaution for everyone's safety," Nikita answered as she walked in, handing an energy drink to Birkhoff.

"I don't like it,"

"The precaution part or?" She asked.

"I don't like how you've barged here and now taken over my task-force,"

"Not a fan of sharing, Commander?" Nikita asked, a half smile on her face.

"The maniac here, likes to have control of everything. He's very uh, sensitive, about people messing with things or touching things. He's on edge and yeah he doesn't like to share much," Danny explained.

"I noticed," Nikita half smiled.

"I can share, I just can't stand you controlling everything,"

"I understand that, but for this work, you need to let someone else take over for now. I know how to make sure none of us end with a bullet wound," Nikita said.

"I'm trained,"

"So am I and so is every person in this room. But you have no knowledge of Cleaners or how they work. So until you can do that, I'm in charge,"

"Did I mention that Nikki is also very controlling?" Birkhoff asked.

"I'm not controlling,"

"Your bossy. I know that. Mikey knows that. He trained you and you still were bossy as hell in missions and he was your mentor,"

"Mikey?" Danny asked.

"Michael. The guy we talked to on the video camera with the kid,"

"Oh,"

Time: 7:40PM

"Christopher Lancester, 42 years old, married twice, two kids. The two kids live with their mother out-of-state. Currently divorced and had lived in Oahu for the past 3 years. Finances look clear and clean. Never stopped by the cops. The guy is squeaky clean. Well thats how it looks to anyone who doesn't dig further," Birkhoff read, after Steve and Danny had returned from the coroner's office with the identity of the victim.

"What's the deal with him?" Steve asked.

"Well for one, his name is not Christopher Lancester. It's James Rio and he's 40. James Rio was a guy who spent 3 years in prison for breaking parole and then got out and just disappeared. I dug a little deeper and found out he also has the connection with people with the ability to get a lot of ammo and weapons real fast. He was part of a gang and then moved up the latter, and became leader after the main guy was knocked out. Though the police could never connect him to any specific gang. He was suspected of doing a lot of money laundering but never got caught. It looks like the guy wanted a new life with no strings attached so he assumed the life of Christopher Lancester,"

"What did he do?"

"He went on a robbery marathon. Got caught on his third hit, but he had a real good lawyer, so he was able to get him only a few months in jail. After he got out of prison he broke into the house of a ex-girlfriend,"

"What happened to the real Christopher Lancester?," Kono asked.

"I looked back at the time-line between the release of James and anything the real Christopher was doing. Turns out around the same time, James got released, Christopher left the states for vacation. Thing is, a few days later, James also boarded a plane out of the states. James never returned but Christopher did," Birkhoff swiped the photos of the two onto the screens.

"I can see why James picked Christopher," Chin noted. The two men looked alike, with the same facial structure, hair color, and build. Only thing distinguishing them was their eyes. The real Christopher had dark blue eyes, while James had gray colored eyes.

"Yeah. Thing is, before the real Christopher left the states, he had a lot of sum of money transferred into his account. It was in increments, so it seemed like nothing out-of-order, but it was a lot after you put it together,"

"Can you track down who transferred the money?"

"You're talking to Shadow-Walker. Of course I can. Just give me a few more minutes and I'll get you the name,"

"Good,"

"Why would Amanda order the killing of this man?" Alex asked.

"Who's Amanda?"

"The most psychotic crazy torturing heartless bitch you'll ever meet," Birkhoff answered.

The members of Five-0 all raised an eyebrow, confused.

"She's now the head of Division, the organization that wants all of us dead,"

"Anyways, maybe he knew something?" Birkhoff asked.

"Maybe, but the question is what? What did he knew that got him killed?" Nikita asked.

"But, Nikita, if it's a group of people getting killed, then they must be all connected. When I did those types of killings, they were all connected. The last triangle I killed was a group of people hoping to end Percy," Owen said.

"Well the guy did do something. I mean he freaking assumed the identity of another guy,"

"But did the real Christopher do this willingly or not?"

"We have to assume, he didn't,"

"Okay, it was registered to a Connor Livingsten. He's been jumping countries for the past few years. He doesn't really stay in one place for more than a year or two," He pulled up a photo of the man.

Steve looked at them, "Any of you recognize him?"

"No," Owen shook his head, followed by Nikita, Alex, and finally Birkhoff.

"But Michael may," Birkhoff said, no doubt clicking away to get in contact with Michael.

So what do you guys think? I accept anonymous.

In this chapter, Five-0 found themselves with a case involving a cleaner, a guy who switched lives who another guy who's now missing, and more questions than answers.

Next Chapter:
-Video Conversation with Michael
-Steve and Nikita have yet another chat
-We find out more about the real Christopher
-Birkhoff comes up with the information about Wo Fat

Anyways, REVIEW.

-N