I do not own Hawaii Five-0 or any characters. No copyright infringement intended.

NOTE: My OC's Doctor Ramirez and his wife Ellen as created and working at Tripler Army Medical Center are going to be in this plot-line as introduced from a few of my previous stories. Again this story was inspired by and is loosely based on another old TV show plot. This one from an original first season episode of H50.

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CHAPTER 1

Erin was six years old and precocious. At least that's what her parents told everyone; her teachers might say differently because while she was cute and could be adorable, Erin had a distinct mind of her own. She could be disruptive in class as she made the other children laugh or played small practical jokes. And if Erin was supposed to be somewhere and wasn't … they had learned that a silent Erin was even more trouble.

Just last week, she had disappeared mysteriously on school grounds during recess and it had taken the Principal, Assistant Principal and the school nurse almost an hour to find her. In fact, the Principal had been obligated to call HPD for assistance, as well as Erin's mother who was nine months pregnant and certainly hadn't needed the stress.

Slipping back into the school and creeping past the older children's classrooms to peer into the janitor's closet, Erin had smiled and gone into the small messy room. The door was always closed and locked .. except for that day because one of the bathrooms had flooded from broken plumbing. Walking past it on the way to the playground for recess was when Erin had first noticed the iron ladder that went straight up into the ceiling.

So she had snuck back in which was easy when Jamie fell down and began to cry. With the teachers preoccupied she was back in seconds and already climbing hand over hand up to the roof hatch. Which was great fun until the janitor came back with a bucket, turned the small overhead light out, and locked the door from the outside.

But Erin hadn't been frightened at all. At first she laughed at the adventure and then had carefully felt her way back down the iron ladder that was bolted into the cinderblock wall. She had felt along the door frame, found the switch and turned the light back on .. and then as was her nature, she poked around the small closet until help arrived. She smiled sweetly at the HPD officer who unlocked the door with the janitor's key and then boldly took his hand.

"You're in a bit of trouble, keiki. You've given a few people quite a fright. Including your mom and she's going to have a baby soon. You can't be doing things like this." The officer tried not to smile back at her cute face. Expecting to find her crying and upset, he had been clearly impressed by her cheery attitude.

And now her mother was at TAMC because her father was an Army lieutenant and her mother was going to give birth to Erin's new little sister. Two weeks early, her mom had felt her first labor pains at home. She had immediately piled them both into the car after leaving a message for her husband to meet them at the ER. Erin had promised to be good .. very good in fact since no one was available to babysit her for the day. However, the six-year old hadn't realized how exciting the hospital would be while the doctors took care of her mother.

With so many distractions, it hadn't taken long for Erin to be intrigued by the other patients, the active trauma rooms and the overall hectic atmosphere of the emergency room in general. With her mom now going into all out labor, Erin had wandered away to find an empty lab with closets, various supplies and sterile looking tables.

Loitering by a supply of neatly wrapped bandages, rolls of tape and tongue depressors she made plans in her active imagination about how she could doctor her dolls later when the first gunshot rang out just a few feet from where she was playing. The panicked screaming started almost immediately followed by loud shouting and what sounded like hundreds of running feet.

Holding her breath, Erin peeked into the hallway and saw a big Army man dressed like her father when he came back from maneuvers. But this man had a gun and a nurse was still screaming. A policeman was lying on the floor and Erin was finally truly scared when she saw real blood leaking out from under his arm. As the soldier backed up dragging the nurse with him, Erin saw two new men run up to help. But too frightened to watch anymore, she turned and ran back into the room and tried not to cry when she heard more loud gun shots.

As quickly as she could, Erin opened one of the small supply closets under the sink and folded her body up into a ball and then closed the door. She bit down on her lip nervously as tears welled up in her eyes when all the bad people came into the same room.

She could hear the angry voices and the yelling scared her because it sounded mean and ugly. She could also hear one man's voice moaning in pain and another much older man who sounded just like her grandpa. But he sounded like her grandpa when he was sort of getting mad because he would talk low and quiet without raising his voice. The last time he spoke so low and quietly to Erin was because she had intentionally hidden his eyeglasses to see what would happen. His serious conversation about how bad that was because he had something called an eye disease had brought her to tears and she vowed never to play a joke on her grandpa again.

Carefully, Erin tried to see through the slit in the small cabinet door. She saw a white coated older man who was doing the quiet but very serious talking and figured that he was a doctor because he also had a stethoscope around his neck. And Erin knew what a stethoscope was because that was easy enough. She had seen her mom's doctor listen to her tummy to hear the baby.

But the painful moans were coming from a younger man who was lying on the floor and bleeding from his stomach and the doctor was trying to help him. But at the same time, he was arguing quietly with the loud soldier about putting the gun down. The soldier was very mad and kept refusing as he raised his voice louder and louder.

Erin bit her lip again and covered her mouth with her hand as the soldier got even more angry and waved his gun around in the air. She didn't know why he wouldn't listen to the doctor and she became more afraid when she noticed the blood on his leg. And then she flinched when a big crash sounded as the soldier toppled a gurney onto its side to block the door so nobody could come in. Trying to be brave like her father, Erin edged back as far as she could in the cabinet and stayed as quiet as a mouse.

~ to be continued ~