|10| Interrogation

I wake up with a thin white sheet wrapped around my body. I look over and smile seeing Steve so peacefully sleeping. The sheet was draped across his waist. His right arm was resting above his head and his left underneath my pillow. I grab my phone off of the nightstand and text Everest.

B: 'Hey sorry I didn't come home last night. Got caught up at Steve's and just decided to stay here last night.'

E: 'You're fine. I figured that's where you were. Thanks for letting me know you're okay.'

I lock my phone and put it back on the nightstand. I roll over on my side and just watch Steve. There was something relaxing about watching him sleep, he was just so perfect. His hair messy and his perfect morning stubble. He starts to move a little and stretch out. His eyes slightly open and he smiles.

"Morning, beautiful."

"Good morning, handsome." He rolls over on his side, leaving his face close to mine and our noses barely touching. He drapes his arm around my waist.

"I had fun last night."

"Oh I bet you did. I did too."

"I'm glad to hear." He closes his eyes, continuing to smile. I kiss his nose and just watch him.

"I'm gonna go make some coffee." I try and roll over and he just pulls me closer so I can't move.

"MmmMm."

"No coffee. Got it." I snuggle my head into his chest and close my eyes.

A couple hours later I wake up, and I was the only one in the bed. I look around, seeing if Steve was anywhere in the room. I get up and throw one of his flannel shirts and walk downstairs. I hear a drawer close in the kitchen so I decide to walk in there.

"Hey baby." He says pouring coffee into a mug.

"Hi." I can feel my face getting hotter, after hearing him call me 'baby' . "Now we get coffee?"

"Now we get coffee haha. I wasn't ready to get out of bed."

"What changed your mind this time?" I ask as I pick up one of the mugs and lean on the middle counter.

"I got a call from work."

"Ahh, that will do it."

"Yeah. I guess they got our guy in custody. Which I actually need to talk to you about." I get kind of confused and tilt my head a little. "It's Mikey."

"What? You mean my Mikey?"

"Yeah."

"What do you mean? Mikey has never done anything wrong in his life."

"Well we noticed that too. But all the signs are pointing towards him."

"What signs? Steve this has to be some sort of misunderstanding. What do you think he did?"

"There's been a string of robberies all across the western coast, and we got a call saying they almost caught the guy but he got out of there before they could do anything. And then we got a heads up that he was here, and a list of some of the stolen items. We checked some of the local pawn shops and found some of the things and they all said it was him." I just stood there in silence.

"Okay, other than that, which I am having a hard time believing, why would five o be handling that? You guys handle murders." Steve just stares at me. "Oh my god. Did he kill someone? Steve, please..."

"There were a few bodies that turned up at a couple of the crime scenes. The good news is, none of them were homeowners or anything like that. We suspect that they were his partners that got in the way."

"Steve, I...I just don't" I feel a tear start to roll down my cheek.

"Hey. Hey don't cry. I know this is a lot to take in okay?" He says wrapping his arms around me. I bury my head into his neck and he puts one hand on the back of my head. "I know. I didn't want to tell you until we were sure, and I really wanted to be wrong about it."

"Can I see him?"

"You sure?"

"Yeah. I want to see if he will tell me anything. He has always told me everything."

"Alright. Well let's go get dressed and I will take you to the headquarters. Come on." He grabs my hand and we walk back upstairs.

We pull into the parking lot and he parks next to Danny's car. Steve jumps out and comes around to the passengers side and opens my door. I slide out and he shuts the door behind me. He grabs my hand and our fingers intertwine as we walk inside. We go through the glass doors and everyone looks at me and then at Steve.

"Uhh, Brooklyn. I didn't expect to see you here." Kono says.

"It's fine. She knows." Steve says squeezing my hand.

"Alright, well, we've got about four eye witnesses putting Mike at those pawn shops about an hour after he got on the island. And fingerprints on the items. Danny is down there now."

"Okay. I'm gonna let her talk to him for a minute and see if she can get any information out of him."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"It's fine. I asked him to let me."

"Okay, well we will be up here if you need anything." Kono smiles and me and Steve leads me down to the interrogation rooms. The door buzzes and we walk in. I let go of Steve's hand when I see Mikey sitting in a metal chair, with his hands handcuffed to it. Danny turns around and looks at Steve with a puzzled look. Steve just nods at him and he back away.

"What are you doing here, Brook?"

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Why are you here Mikey?"

"Ask them! I don't know!"

"No, why are you in Hawaii, cause I'm starting to think it wasn't to see me and Everest."

"I told you I was here on business too."

"Running away from the cops? Selling items you stole? Trying to cover up murders?"

"MURDERS? WHAT? I DIDN'T KILL ANYONE! IS THAT WHAT THEY TOLD YOU?!"

"Don't lie to me Michael. Don't." He sighs and clenches his jaw. He looks over at Steve and Danny and back at me. "Is that why you got so skidish when you saw them yesterday? Because you thought they were onto you?" He just looks down at the ground. "Mike, what did you do?"

"Alright, alright. Look, I was low on money, this guy contacts me and tells me that he has a way for me to make money. He would meet me different places and give me a duffel bag, usually full of watches and laptops and stuff like that. He told me all I had to do was get them sold off and he would pay me good money for it and I could keep the money from the sells too."

"What's the fun in that? The guys just steals and doesn't want any of the reward?" Danny asks. I step back a little and let them take over. Steve runs his hand up and back down my arm and then goes over next to Danny.

"I don't know man! I needed the money. I had lost my job and I found out I had a baby on the way...which is why I wanted to have dinner with you and Everest tonight, to tell you guys." He says looking back over at me. Oh. My god. Steve looks back at me and back at Mike.

"Alright, I'm about to offer you the deal of a life time, because you mean so much to that amazing woman over there. Listen closely to me. You tell me who this guy is and where we can find him, I'm gonna make sure you don't do any jail time. You will have community service and you will have something on your record, and I haven't decided yet. You got it?"

"Yes. Yes. I will help you." I look up at the ceiling, trying not to cry. The door buzzes and I walk out and Steve follows me, leaving Danny to take over.

"You okay?" I wrap my arms around him and hug him tightly.

"Thank you."

"I genuinely think he's a good person. He took some extreme steps to provide for his family, but I understand where he was coming from. Thank you for helping us. I know it was hard and you didn't have to. But he wasn't giving us any information otherwise."

"You're welcome. I'm glad I could help and that he's not going to jail." Steve kisses the top of my head.

"I have to go back in there and start figuring out how to close this thing. Do you want to go back upstairs with Kono and I will be up shortly and I can take you home." I nod and smile at him. I go back upstairs and see Kono, Chin and Jerry standing in front of all of the monitors talking.

"Hey, how'd it go?" Kono asks me.

"Uhmm, good. He didn't do the robberies or kill those people, but he knows who did so he's gonna help them out to find the guy who did it."

"Alright. Thank you for that, by the way."

"Yeah. I know he can be stubborn and I knew he would tell me the truth. I'm gonna go sit down in Steve's office."

"Yeah, yeah sure. It's the one right there." Kono points at the office in front of us and I go in and sit down on the couch.

About a half an hour later, Steve walks into his office. I look up from my phone and he gave me a half grin.

"Everything okay?"

"Yeah. He gave us all the information we need to track down our guy and close this case."

"Well I'm glad."

"I know this was hard. How about I take you to breakfast? Make it up to you?"

"Just you being here makes everything okay. But, I can't deny the opportunity to get some french toast."

"Let's go beautiful." I stand up and he wraps his arm around my shoulder.