Growing up McGarrett

Lies & Suspicions

It's Saturday the day of the PARTY!! With adrenaline from the night before I hardly slept but that didn't bother me right now because I was beyond pumped for this to happen. I was going to a party, with seniors, but especially Todd! I needed to sort out what to wear. Checking in my closet a knock on my door startled me.
Danny - "Sam are you up?"
Me - "Yep!"
D - "OK come down and get some breakfast, we have to go into the Palace."
I stomp over and wrench open my door. Danny is already half way down the stairs.
Me - "WHAT?! WHY ARE WE GOING THERE AGAIN?!!"
D - "Excuse me young lady, don't you dare shout at me! I have to work and you have to come with me, end of story. And if you think I am going to put up with the kind of behaviour you displayed yesterday you are very much mistaken."
Me - "Whatever!" I slam my door, extra hard.

I hear Danny grumble to himself as he goes downstairs. If it had been Dad I wouldn't have gotten away with that behaviour. I don't care, I'm sick of being dragged into that place in my off time and now the weekend too, it wasn't fair. Once again I cursed my dad for being MIA. Sure sometimes he had to work on weekends if there was a big case but he usually organised for me to go to a friend's house or something. Danny wasn't going to let me out of his sight. Well at least I have tonight to look forward to. Danny shouts up the stairs to hurry up. I sigh and start to get ready. We'd better be back on time today or I was going to murder someone! I decided I'd better stop winding Danny up though, it wasn't his fault he was landed with me.

Going downstairs I hear Danny talking on his phone in the kitchen but when I get in there he looks at me and hangs up abruptly.
Me - "Did I catch you talking to your girlfriend or something?"
D - "Very funny, come on we've got to go." He hands me a lunchbox with what I assume is my breakfast in it.
Me - "What's the big hurry?"
D - "I told you I have to work now just hurry up and get in the car."
Something wasn't right. Sure Danny can be a pain but he's usually chatty and funny, today he was neither of those things. He barely spoke all the way to the Palace and drove more like Dad does. He also kept absentmindedly running his hand through his hair. He was worried about something.
Me - "Uncle Danny is something wrong?"
My question seemed to startle him a bit.
D - "No, no kiddo I'm just a bit preoccupied with a case." He smiled to reassure me but it didn't. His mouth was smiling but there was genuine fear in his eyes.
We pulled into the parking lot and he turned to me with a serious expression.
D - "Sam look I know you're not happy to be here today and I'm sorry to ruin your weekend like this but we are dealing with a very important case right now and I need you to help me out by behaving and staying out of the way. Ok?"
Me grumpily - "What am I supposed to do while you solve this case, sit twiddling my thumbs?!"
Danny sighs and runs his hand through his hair again. He also closed his eyes for a moment like he's trying to calm himself down.
D - "You have your iPad, watch a movie, play games, hell you can do whatever, just stay out of the way and out of trouble!" His patience was getting thinner that was for sure.
Me - "OK, jeez no need to bite my head off!" I threw in an eye roll for extra drama as I got out of the car and started towards the building.
Danny caught up with me, grabbing my arm to stop me.
D - "Sam I'm serious don't mess with me today! Oh and this is not a PG rated case so you stay in your dad's office and away from stuff you don't need to be seeing, clear?!"
Me - "Fine! Whatever!"
D - "Samantha!" My stomach flipped, this was not like Danny. I quickly said yes sir and he let me go.

The whole team are here working furiously on something. The room goes suspiciously silent when we walk in. Kono gives me a strange look when she greets me, was it pity? My stomach flips again. All my senses are sending me bad signals. I go into dad's office, the blinds are all down, I guess they really don't want me to see stuff. Danny follows me in and tells me in no uncertain terms that I'm to stay put, then he leaves and fear starts to take over my mind. Putting it all together I am now pretty convinced that this is about my dad. He's dead, or they think he might be. I lie on the couch and try not to cry. He died believing I hated him. It was all my fault. I pushed him away and now I'd never see him again. I lose the battle with my tears and once they start I can't stop them. I must have cried myself to sleep because the next thing I know Danny is standing over me covering me with a blanket. I sit bolt upright quickly not wanting him to know I was crying. I told him I need to go to the restroom. He walks out ahead of me and whatever was on the screen is flicked off. Everyone is quiet. Eerily quiet. Then I see Joe White.
Me - "Uncle Joe what are you doing here?" I now know that this has something to do with my dad.
Joe comes over and grabs me up, like he always does, swinging me around.
Joe - "Hey kiddo, how's my favourite goddaughter?" Just like Danny his words were too forced and concern shows in his eyes. He puts me down and I tell him I'm fine. But I'm not fine, I'm far from fine. I need to get away from them all. I keep going to the restroom.

I stay in there for ages going over everything in my head. Why are they all acting so strangely? Why is Joe here? Wasn't it him Dad followed to Japan? I have so many questions but Danny warned me to stay out of their way. But then when did I ever let that stop me? Devil Sam was stoking the fire again, go out there and demand they tell you what's going on! But good Sam was cautioning me, they're working on an important case, if it was about Dad they would have told me. Wouldn't they?! I'm arguing with myself in the mirror when Kono walks in. I jump in fright.

Kono - "Hey Sam you've been in here a while, are you ok?" She sounds concerned but also nervous. I look at her trying to read her body language but she's guarding it, giving nothing away. I decide to ask her, Kono always tells me the truth.
Me - "Kono what are you all working on?"
K - "It's just a big case, nasty stuff, nothing you need to know about." Her tone is too light, too breezy. I don't buy it!
Me - "Is it something to do with my dad?" She hesitates just a second too long but then turns on a fake smile.
K - "What?! No of course not. We would tell you if we knew anything about Steve." I'm pretty sure she sounds guilty. I narrow my eyes and look at her suspiciously. But she starts to usher me out of the room. "Come on I need to get back to work and I'm sure you have some show to catch up on." She kept babbling about some show on Netflix while guiding me straight back to my dad's office. Then she was gone!

What just happened? Kono never lies to me but I'm pretty sure she just did. Oh come on Sam your over active imagination is at it again. She said it's not about Dad so it's not! Forget about it, you have a party to plan for. I sit down and turn on a movie on my iPad. It's Deadpool, no way Dad would have let me watch it, or Danny, but hey what they don't know etc. I sit through it but don't really see it, all the time I keep thinking she lied to me, Kono lied to me!