Friday December 10th, 2027


It's a Friday when a teenager with dark brown hair, bright blue eyes, and a backpack comes walking into Mission.

She happens to run into Deeks, who grabs her shoulders so she doesn't fall.

He looks at her curiously and her eyes grow big.

"Hi. Are you lost?" The girl shakes her head and her mouth is slightly open.

"No. I'm looking for my mom. I usually walk from school towards Mission but she usually picks me up before I get here. Is your name Deeks?" Deeks takes a step backwards and takes in the girl.

"Yeah why?" The girl looks at him expectantly and when he doesn't say anything, she tells him her name.

"Does the name Madison name anything to you?" Deeks' face becomes thoughtful.

"Nope." The girl's eyes become disappointed and Deeks tries to fix it.

"Why don't you tell me your full name? Maybe I'm just not connecting the name with a face."

"I'm not sure you wanna know my full name." She tells him and Deeks scoffs.

"And why not?" The girl scowls at him and begins to walk away, but then turns around and looks Deeks in the eyes.

"My name is Madison Avery Henrietta Blye-Deeks. You happy?" Before Deeks can respond, Madison's eyes grow wide and she begins to run up towards OPS. She turns around when she reaches the stairs and tells Deeks, "If my mom asks, you never saw me. You've never heard of me. Nothing. Got it?" Deeks faintly nods and Madison runs up the stairs, her backpack hitting her back as she goes. Just as Deeks hears the faint swish as the doors shut, Callen walks into Mission, his face grim.

"Where's Kens Callen?"

"Deeks, I really don't know how to say this." They both don't notice the faint swish of the doors before Callen speaks again.

"Deeks. Kensi died in an explosion this morning." Before Deeks has a chance to say anything, they both hear the faint moan from the teenager at the top of the stairs.

"What?" She says as slowly walks down the stairs, void of her backpack. When it finally hits her that her mother is dead, she sprints and Deeks catches her by the waist before she flies out of Mission.

"Let me go!" She cries as she hits his chest, leaving him cringing as she punches. "Just let me go. No." She moans before her head falls on his shoulder and she goes into shock. Callen motions towards his office, and Deeks sweeps his other arm under Madison, carrying her as she moans into his shoulder and clutches onto his shirt as if it is a lifeline.

When they reach Callen's office, Deeks lays Madison on the couch and she curls up on her side into a ball and closes her eyes. Deeks sits down in the chair next to Callen and looks wearily up at him.

"You know don't you?" Both of them look towards Madison.

"That she's mine? Madison told me today." Callen nods and looks back towards Deeks.

"Kensi told me that if something were to ever happen to her that Madi was to go into your custody."

"When did you find this out Callen?"


*Earlier That Day*

They're sitting in a safe house on the outskirts of LA. He is in one kitchen chair and she is in another, her arms and part of her face covered in blisters.

"You know Madi's Deeks' right?" She asks and Callen looks at her.

"Course Kens. She's got his eyes and his last name. I kinda figured." She sighs and looks him in the eye.

"If Deeks doesn't take her you have to promise me that you'll take her here. I'm not letting her stay with anyone but Deeks."She says strongly, not wanting her daughter in anyone else's care, no matter how much she trusts them.

"Yeah because Deeks is so willingly going to agree to take in his fifteen year old daughter who he knows nothing about." Kensi glares at him and Callen meets her glare.

"Deeks'll do it."

"And how are you so sure about that Kens?"

"Because Madi's a part of me and a part of him. One of those parts is going to make him curious about her and he'll take her. Plus he wouldn't let her stay with someone else if I specifically said I wanted him to do it."

"Kens…" Callen says warningly.

"Just…trust me on this G. He'll take her. And when they both find out I'm not dead…well then, I'll just go from there."


"She told me when she made me Madi's godfather." Callen says as he partially lies.

Deeks looks to Madison and looks back to Callen.

"I don't know how to take care of a teenager Callen." Callen looks Deeks straight in the eye.

"If Kensi didn't think that you could handle this Deeks, she would've told me someone else to take care of Madi, but she told me you Deeks. Do you really wanna make Kensi regret that decision when she's not here to be able to fix it?" Callen says as he gets angry at both Kensi and Deeks.

"No." Deeks says quietly.

"So it's settled. You're taking Madi home with you." Deeks looks towards the teenager now sleeping on the couch, her hair hanging in her face.

"Yeah. I guess I am."