Note: Next story is finished and will be posted daily. A big thanks to wenwalke for her help and advise on this one.

Chapter one

The team surrounded the house of their suspect. Kono and Danny had taken the front, Steve and Lou the back, while Chin had the side door covered. They picked up the case that afternoon when a hiker had been shot dead. Max had retrieved the bullet and they'd been able to match it to bullets submitted to their data base from one of the local gun shop owners, who made a point of registering bullets from all the guns he sold.

The match had led them to Lui Li, an avid hunter, if the amount of weapons registered to him was anything to go by.

"Lui Li. This is 5-0." Danny yelled while banging on the front door. "We'd like to talk to you."

There was no answer. "I've got movement inside." Chin's voice came over the ear buds.

"Ok guys, breach." Steve ordered and he kicked the back door in allowing Lou to take point. Danny did the same at the front of the house, and Kono immediately entered, gun raised.

They made short work of clearing the house and found Lui Li cowering under his bed. Chin and Lou dragged him out by his ankles. "Lui Li. You are under arrest for the murder of Jake Simmons."

"Please," Lui cried, "I didn't mean to kill him. I thought he was a pig. He was off the trail. I was just trying to get a pig for my sister wedding. It was gonna be my present to her."

"If it was an accident then why didn't you report it? You left the poor guy out there alone." Steve asked sternly.

"I got scared, brah, I already have a record. I thought I'd go down for sure." The guy explained.

"Yo, Steve." Danny yelled from the front room.

Steve turned and left, allowing Lou and Chin to cuff their suspect and force him out of the room.

"You got something?" Steve asked joining Danny and Kono.

"Just a little something." Danny said nodding his head in the direction of the table at the back of the room. On it there lay three crossbows.

"I'm guessing he doesn't have a licence for these." Kono said picking one up to examine it.

"No, not that one," Lui shouted out as he entered the room. "Put it down, carefully."

Steve immediately realised why Lui was so concerned at Kono touching his weapon. He saw the second the trigger released as Kono attempted to carefully set it down, and the bolt was fired across the room towards where Danny was standing. Kono gasped as she realised what had happened and dropped the bow back down as if it had suddenly burned her hands.

All heads whipped around in Danny's direction, and they were horrified at the shocked expression on their friend's face.

"Shit." Steve shouted as he ran to Danny's side. The bolt had hit Danny in his right shoulder and forced him back against the wall.

"It hit the vest right? And I'm just imagining the burning pain in my shoulder." Danny asked not daring to look down.

"Afraid not bud." Steve replied attempting to examine his friend.

"That's why I didn't want you touching it. It has a faulty trigger." Lui called out.

"Why in the hell was it loaded then, you moron?" Lou said while chipping the man round the head.

"I...I..." Lui stammered and then just shrugged his shoulders.

Steve turned and looked at the man, then looked at Lou. "Get him out of here and call an ambulance and fire rescue."

"What?" Danny asked scrunching his eyes shut.

"It's gone right though Danny and into the drywall. You're gonna need cutting free." Steve explained.

"Oh, great," Danny said opening his eyes and looking at his partner.

Kono cautiously approached the pair, "Danny, I, I'm so sorry." She said fighting back the tears.

"It was an ... accident babe." Danny said between controlled breaths.

"Rescue is two minutes out." Chin informed them as he returned from the car with the first aid kit.

Steve immediately delved into the box, grabbed some gauze, wrapped it around the bolt as best he could, and applied pressure. Danny's vision instantly greyed as the pain skyrocketed. "Not so hard Steve." He managed to whisper.

"I'm trying to stop the bleeding."

"I know, but if you keep up that pressure I'm gonna pass out, and you're gonna have to hold me up." Danny ground out.

Steve released some of the pressure and Kono slipped herself under Danny's left shoulder to help prop him up. She was stooped at an awkward angle, being much taller than Danny, but she just wanted to help him.

"You been getting yourself into trouble again, Danny?" Jonah asked as he entered the room.

"Just a bit," Danny replied and gave a small smile to his friend the EMT.

"Let's have a look then shall we?" Jonah said setting down his bag and taking a look at the wounds that Steve seemed to have under control.

"No Ani today?" Steve asked noting that Jonah was alone.

"No. She's off the island for her nieces christening. She'll be sad she missed this. It's quite interesting." Jonah explained while checking Danny's vitals.

"Oh, I'm glad I can provide some entertainment." Danny sighed, "Now where the hell are we at freeing me from this torture devise?"

"Fire crew just pulled up now, and Lou is filling them in." Chin explained.

"I bet that hurts." Jonah said bending down and opening up his kit. Pulling out more gauze he signalled for Steve to let go so he could examine the entry and exit wounds.

"Really, a metal bar through the shoulder? Why on earth would that hurt?" Danny snarked.

"Eddie!" Jonah suddenly called out towards the open door. "I've got a new recruit with me today but he heard 5-0 was involved so is a little scared to approach."

"Yes Jonah." A young man, who couldn't have been a day over twenty one said appearing at the door, and eyeing up all the members of the team.

"Get me the entonox and a mouthpiece from the bus." Jonah ordered and Eddie quickly disappeared. "I can't risk giving you any morphine, Danny. It might make you sleepy and we need you standing so you don't put anymore pressure on that bolt. The entonox will help with the pain while we cut you free."

"K." Was Danny's simply reply.

Eddie soon returned and connected up the entonox. "Here you go sir...err I mean Detective... Detective Sir."

Danny opened his eyes and stared at the young man in front of him, who looked nervous. "You know we don't bite? And given you're in charge of the pain relief, Danny is just fine."

"Yes sir... Danny." Eddie corrected. "Here, just take some deep breaths on this."

Danny took the mouthpiece into his mouth and followed instructions. The pain gradually started to disappear but he also started to feel fuzzy. Eddie had been watching his charge carefully and removed the mouth piece, allowing Danny to breathe normally. When Danny's senses returned to normal he realised that the fire chief had moved in and was setting up equipment to cut him free.

"This will only take a second, Detective." The chief reassured.

"Danny, I need you to breathe deeply on the gas while they do this, ok?" Jonah commanded. "Don't worry about taking in too much. Eddie will take care of that."

"K. Can we just get on with it." Danny begged.

The mouthpiece was replaced, and Danny greedily started too stuck down the gas as the vibrations from the cutting tool caused pain to spike in his shoulder. The gas was great at easing the pain, but Danny didn't like the fuzzy feeling that once again overtook him. Finally he felt the bolt snap and his weight tipped to his left, which was quickly supported by Kono. The mouth piece was once again removed, and Danny found himself being manoeuvred into a chair.

Finally the fuzziness lifted and Danny opened his eyes to see both, Kono and Steve hovering near by, fear and guilt dancing in Kono's eyes. Eddie was busy re checking Danny's vitals, while Jonah was securing Danny's right arm to prevent it from moving. "Ok we're ready to roll." Jonah announced.

"Kono, go with him." Steve directed, seeing just how upset Kono was that Danny had been injured because she was careless. "Danny, Kono is going with you, ok?"

"Yeah, of course." Danny replied, resting his head back and smiling at Kono in an attempt to put her at ease.

"Come on then Danny." Jonah said taking hold of the chair Danny was now strapped to. "You're in luck, I'm pretty sure Dr. Pearce is on duty today."

Danny just groaned, knowing how amused his friend Andrea would be by this one.

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"Can I come in Danny?" Kono asked from behind the curtain to Danny's cubicle.

"Sure babe." Came the reply.

"Dr. Pearce said you were ok to go." Kono said as she slipped in behind the curtain and saw Danny struggling to put his shirt back on.

"Yeah, I'm all patched up and have scripts for pain relief and antibiotics." Danny explained, still struggling with his shirt.

"Here." Kono said stepping forward and helping him on with it. She couldn't help but take in Danny's muscular physic, and wonder to herself how he maintained such good shape. She kept in shape by surfing, and they all knew how much running and swimming Steve did. But Danny was very vocal about hating swimming and running, so what did he do?

"Thanks." Danny smiled while fastening up his buttons one handed.

"What did Dr. Pearce say?" Kono asked, worried she may have caused some permanent damage.

"It's all good, babe. Just hit the muscle. Dr. Pearce pulled the bolt and stitched me up. A few days wearing a sling and I'm good to go."

"Oh, thank god." Kono said letting out a breath of relief. "Danny, I really am so sorry."

"Hey, it's ok. I told you, it was an accident, you weren't to know the thing had a hair trigger."

"No, but I did see that it was loaded, I should have been more careful. I'm sorry."

"Apology accepted babe, now let's get out of here." Danny said sliding off the gurney and exiting the cubicle.

"Not so fast, Danny." Dr. Pearce called out after him, "I think you're forgetting something."

Danny turned and scowled at the sling that she held out. "Oops, yeah I guess I forgot about that."

Dr. Pearce marched over and helped Danny on with the sling. "You need to use that for at least a week while the muscle heals. Trust me, once the nerve block I did to remove the bolt wears off, you will be grateful for that sling."

"Ok." Danny sighed, "Thanks Andrea."

"Thanks for patching him up, Dr. Pearce." Kono smiled.

"No problem, now you guys be safe." Dr. Pearce replied before walking away to tend to another patient.

"Come on Danny, Steve is on his way to pick us up. They have finished booking Li. He didn't have a licence for the crossbows and we've booked him for manslaughter. He's looking at some jail time. Chin and Lou are getting food and drinks and we're headed to Steve's."

"Ok, but you realise you're in charge of cutting up my food for the next week." Danny teased leading the way out of the hospital, Kono following carrying Danny's vest.

TBC