Hi again people! This is my [semi]sequel to my last fic Trust, Love and Loyalty. It's a semi sequel because you don't really need to read that to understand this fic but if you have read it, then yay :D
She had woken that morning to her cell ringing to tell her that they had another case. She hated those calls not only because she had to lose some much needed sleep but because they usually included something important and dire. But this time she was kind of glad to have something to do instead of sleep and then lazily get up for normal work which she found too hard to do these days. Usually she never had to answer the phone because Callen always got there before she could even wake up to locate the phone. But now she was all alone and just remembering that made her want to get out of her comfy but cold bed to do something other than think.
She reached Ops an hour after the call and just as Sam pulled up. She was surprised to see Deeks' car already there but waited for her husband's partner, who was now their team leader in his absence, to get out of the car and meet her by the door.
"Good morning." he said and handed her a cup of coffee that she did need. She wasn't sure where he had gotten the coffee from at 6am but didn't ask him because she liked it. She had noticed that he had began to do little things for her and look out for her more since Callen had left and though it was sweet, she didn't like it but knew that saying something wouldn't do anything either.
She took the drink and they began walking in. "Morning and thanks." she replied and began drinking it. "Any idea what this case is about that got me out of bed at 5am?"
Sam shook his head and drank his own coffee. "Nope." he replied and shrugged. "Could be anything."
Kensi sighed. "Great." she said and he looked over at her with concern.
"You ok, Kenz?" he asked her in his typical protective big brother way.
"Yeah I'm fine." she said with a smile that she hoped would fool him.
He knew her smile was fake but didn't say anything about it. "You heard from G recently?" he asked knowing that was the source of her problem.
"Not since that time 2 weeks ago." she replied with a shrug she didnt mean. It did effect her more than she let on. It wasn't the first time he had gone on a long undercover mission since they had gotten married or gotten together but it didn't mean it effected her any less. "You?"
Sam shook his head and smiled. "Why would he call me when he could call you instead?" he asked and she smiled at his sweet but teasing words.
"Do we even know if he's still in LA?" Kensi asked and although she was concerned for him, she was more interested in the case because the more they knew about it, the more they might be able to help and the faster she could have him home.
He shrugged and then smiled brightly. "Probably. We'd have heard about it if he was elsewhere. The other agencies wouldn't know what to do with him." he laughed and she laughed too at his joke even though she knew there was a little bit of truth in there. "He'll be fine. It's not his first undercover op or the longest or even the furthest away."
Kensi sighed knowing that he spoke the truth and it gave her a bit of comfort. "I know. I just-" she said but Sam cut her off with a smirk.
"Miss him? Worry about him? Want him back?" he teased again and she hit him gently on the arm.
"I was going to say that I just don't want it to end like last time and he had cut off ties with us then." she said and he knew that by 'last time' she referred to the time he was gunned down even after finishing the undercover op.
"That was because he was too stubborn to get in touch and let us know he was ok until he needed something or Eric caught him on camera." Sam replied, trying to break the tense and serious conversation into something lighter. "He'll get in touch whenever he can now and we all know that it's towards the end of a long undercover op that you go without contact to the outside world."
"So not to get caught at the last step and everything that you've worked at doesn't go to waste. I know." Kensi said and sighed before shaking her head and smiling. "Never mind. He has something to do and so do we." she said when they reached Eric's op room and he nodded and took her words as a sign to end the conversation but he made it a point to remember it just in case he needed to later because despite her words, she didn't seem as normal as she wanted them to believe.
She opened the door to the car to step out into the hot summer sun less than an hour later with the rest of the team, that was currently only Deeks and Sam. There had been a murder of a Petty Officer close by the broadwalk and they had been put onto the case because it was naval related and in their area. There was a small crowd around the taped off area but that was to expected when a crime occured in a public and popular area even if it was early in the morning. Luckily, the body had been covered by the coroner and the forensics.
She took a look around the area to see what was going on and who was there before joining the other two where they had been talking to the coroner. "What she say?" Kensi asked them.
Sam was the first to answer. "She's been dead a while and died instantly appearently. Shot through the head." he told her and she frowned a bit at the gruesome scene.
"How long has she been missing for?" she asked and Deeks replied this time.
"A few days. They kept her body after killing her and then decided to dump her today for some reason." he shrugged and the other two took in the scene once again.
Sam was the first to turn away and get to the job and she followed by looking around the scene for anything odd. It was hard to do when the scene was outside but they had no choice. She had gotten to the outskirts of the scene when she felt her cell phone vibrate in her pocket so she took it out and was surprised to see it was an unidentified number. Kensi knew who it probably was and was glad that she was away from the crowds and other people as she as answered it.
"Hello?" she said because even though she thought she knew who it might be, if she was wrong then she couldn't take the chance of letting anyone else know who she was just in case.
"Babe, I can't talk long but I have some info you might need." Callen said and she let out a breath of relief that she didn't know she was holding back when she heard his voice. She knew that him calling her was very risky and that if he got caught, it could lead to some serious consequences, which was why he avoided using her name in case he was overheard so they wouldn't know who she was. "You on the case on the broadwalk yet?" he asked her before she could say anything else.
Kensi frowned at his words. "Yeah. How did you know about that?" she asked him and she could hear the smirk as she spoke.
"Contacts." he told her in his smug way that relaxed her more because it meant that things were going ok on his side undercover in a small gang. "Listen, I dunno the guy responsible but he seems to be known around here as someone who takes people to get something and kills them if he doesn't get it."
"Like a ransom?" she asked carefully.
"Yeah, sort of, though it's hardly ever money. But noone's seen his face or knows his name because he doesn't really contact the people after he's kidnapped them. Just the once to say that he had them," Callen told her and she frowned in confusion.
"I don't get it. Why doesn't he-?" she began but he cut her off and she remembered that he didn't have long to talk freely to her and she knew that if he got caught then he would be in serious trouble.
"I dunno, sweetheart, but I do know that there's more bodies that he hadn't gotten rid of yet. He stores them in a warehouse somewhere." he told her and there was a pause and she could guess he was checking to make sure he wasn't being heard. "I have a few names of the victims." he gave her 3 names and she stored them in her mind. "Ok?"
She nodded even though he couldn't see. "I'll get Eric to check it out." she told him before dropping her voice again. "How are you? Is everything going ok?"
"I'm fine and it's all going good." he said simply and she knew that there wasn't much more he could add to it. "Everything good there?"
"Perfect." she told him and it wasn't much of a lie if she thought about it compared to where he was. The only lie was that it wasn't perfect because he wasn't there but she couldn't give him that guilt to carry. "See you soon?" she asked hopefully.
Callen laughed lightly and spoke. "Maybe a week." he told her and she knew that it was a cautious answer that it was going to be soon. "I've got to go, it's been too long already. I'll try to call again soon if I get the chance."
"Ok." she said and there was another pause and she knew that he was fighting to something else but knew that he couldn't risk it. "I know, G. You too."
He sighed and she smiled a bit. "Good. Bye." he quickly hung up and she guessed that someone had neared him or he had been gone for too long already so didn't take it personally. The fact that she got to talk to him was enough for then.
This is my first ever sequel to anything so please let me know what you think! I am a bit worried because this is a bit more case-based BUT I assure you that it's got more to do with Callen/Kensi than anything else. There aren't enough fics with them out there so I just had to add to the ones that are.