"Our new psychologist will be arriving in two hours at LAX. Mr. Hanna, Mr. Callen I would like you to pick her up and bring her here." Hetty announced walking into the bullpen.
"What's her name?" Sam asked
"Dr. Casey parker."
"Why do we need a new shrink? I mean we have Nate." Callen hated shrinks they always tried to figure him out. Nate had taken a long time to train what was ok to ask and what wasn't and now he had to start over.
"Nate has gone back to Afghanistan. Dr. Parker is well trained and director Vance thinks she will do well here."
"Wait Vance picked her not you?"
"That is correct Mr. Callen now go get her then bring her to me." Hetty walk back upstairs leaving Sam and Callen staring at each other.
"Hetty's not happy about this." Sam said to Callen
"What gave it away? Come on and I'm driving"
"Fine by me, just make sure we get there alive." Sam smiled at the idea; everyone knew Callen had a lead foot. The man had received more tickets than anyone else in the office. He also like to weave in and out of traffic and had traumatized more than a few rookies to the point where they wouldn't get in the same car as him, even if he wasn't driving.
Dr. Parker made her way down to the baggage claim area. She had been up for almost three days straight. She managed to squeeze her way up to the conveyer belt just in time to see her suit case come out. Two men had come to stand next to her. She tensed slightly out of reflex, not remembering them from the plane. She looked them over filing their descriptions in her head. A tall African American, mid to late thirty's, well built, no hair, tattoo visible on right arm and a slightly short white guy ,very short brown hair, blue eyes, in good shape, no visible tattoos both of them where attractive the shorter more so, to her any way . Leaning forward she saw her bag coming around and stood back to wait for it. The white guy walked off, his friend staying next to her. She waited for a minute for her bag to go by when she didn't see it she leaned forward again looking up and down the belt but she couldn't see her bag anywhere on the belt.
"Looking for this." The white guy said with a smile.
"What do you want?" subconsciously taking a fighting stance.
"For you to come with us. There's someone who wants to meet you." He answered
"Who?" parker asked stalling for more time.
"We'll explain on the drive. "He said smiling more, he was obviously enjoying himself.
"Why shouldn't I just scream?"
"Because then you'd have to explain to Vance why you got us arrested." The guy turned and made his way outside knowing she would fallow him. He led her out to a red mustang.
"I'm special agent Callen this is special agent Hanna NCIS, Clime in."
"Why didn't you just tell me that to start with?"
"It was more fun this way. "Smiling Callen walked around the car put her bag in the trunk. His coconspirator, special agent Hanna smiled as he climbed in the back.
"You can get in or we can leave you here." Callen said shutting the trunk he went to the driver's side and got in.
Casey got in the car hoping that she wasn't making a huge mistake. As soon as Callen started the car the annoying little beeping noise started saying some one was not wearing their seat belt.
"Seat belts." Hanna said buckling his own; he knew Callen was going to make this drive as crazy as possible.
Callen looked over to Casey waiting for her to buckle up. She slid forward in her seat then buckled her belt behind her. Callen gave Hanna a pointed look, buckling your belt behind you was thing law enforcement did, it made a quick exit possible while stopping the warning noise from the car. Casey leaned down grabbing some papers out of her bag, as she sat you Callen floored it fling her back against her seat.
Casey adjusted herself bracing her legs and started reading. Callen speed down the road taking corners as fast as he could. Casey kept reading using her legs to keep from flying into Callen. She managed to stay in her set without looking up or moving her hands. Twenty minutes later Callen pulled up to what appeared to be an empty building.
"Where here." Callen climbed out of the car.
"It didn't realize it was such a long drive." Casey replied getting out and pulling the set up so that agent Hanna could exit the car.
Casey walked around to the trunk and took her bag out. Callen and Hanna shared a look that clearly said they thought the new Dr. was crazy.
Callen and Hanna led the way in to the building and over to the bullpen.
"You can put your stuff here, hetty wants to see you." Callen told her pointing to table.
"Who's Hetty?" Casey asked putting her suit case under the table.
"I am hetty. Welcome to NCIS Dr. Parker." Hetty had appeared out of nowhere. Casey turned to see who had spoken. When she so the small women she froze.
"Maxine?" Casey asked hesitantly.
The smile from Hetty faltered with surprise but she recovered quickly, so quick that most people wouldn't have noticed.
"Elizabeth, why are you here?"
"I retired and asked a friend for a job. Why are you here?"
"I am the head of this office. So if you're retired then Casey parker is?"
"My new identity." Casey had intended to let everyone she meet believe that Casey parker was her real name but Maxine or hetty deserved to know the truth.
"So not your real name then." Hetty asked with a small frown.
"It's the closest I have. And you, is hetty your real name?" Casey asked
"Henrietta Lange but everyone calls me hetty." A man and woman entered the room and went to stand by Callen and Hanna.
"Ah the rest of the team is here, let's introduce you then." Hetty smiled and walked over to the group Casey fallowing.
"Dr. Parker meets your new team, special agent Kensi Blye and Detective Marty Deeks our LAPD liaison and I believe you've met special agent Sam Hanna and special agent in charge G. Callen."
"Nice to meet you." Casey said inclining her head. The fact that she didn't attempt to shack their hands didn't go unnoticed.
"What kind of psychologist are you?" Deeks asked
"Behavioral, I have a PhD in behavioral analysis with a minor in criminal and forensic psychology." This seemed to unsettle the rest of the team. Their body language went from relaxed to defensive in an instant.
"Behavioral that's like a profiler right." Deeks asked
"Kind of, I studied human behavior and body language."
A loud whistle rang out and everyone looked up. There was a young blond guy at the top of the stair. The blond turned away from the rail and the team got up and started moving up stairs.
A few moments later Callen repapered looking down at Casey. He watched her asses the room wondering how long she would last.
"Hey, hetty wants you up here doc."
Casey looked up and saw Callen staring at her. She nodded and made her way up to him wondering briefly how long he had been watching her. Callen waited for her to reach the top of the stairs then he turned and went to the briefing room without saying a word.
Casey entered the room and stood next to the door. The blond guy was talking about the murder of a PFC named O'Conner. He was pulling photos up as he talked photos of the PFC and the murder scene.
"PFC O'Conner was recording a massage with his computer," the guy pulled up the video feed. "When another person entered the room, as you can O'Conner turns and speaks with someone, then he turns back to the computer and starts typing. He pulls out a flash drive gives the other guy the drive and turns back to the computer, then the guy pulls out a guy and shoots him. O'Conner died from a single shot to the head. I am running facial recognition on the kill as we speak. PFC O'Conner was part of the security detail for the nexus project, which has a leak, someone has been selling their progress to the Middle East, and we think it's going to Somalia but we haven't confirmed it, he was our contact inside and was scheduled for a meeting with us tonight, he was going to give us everything he had then he was being transferred." The blond guy finished turning around.
"Right Kensi you and Deeks see what you can find out about nexus. Me and Sam will take his house. Eric send us the address."
"Done." The blond 'Eric' told Callen hitting a few keys.
"Take Dr. Parker with you Mr. Callen." Hetty said
Callen looked for a moment like he was going to refuse but he and Hetty seemed to have a silent conversation which Hetty apparently won.
"Let's go doc."
"I'll be there in a moment. Hetty my I have a word with you." Callen didn't look very pleased by the delay. Hetty lead Casey down to her office. A few minutes later Casey came out and walked over to Callen and Sam.
"Are you ready to go now?" Callen ask sounding more than a little impatient.
"Yes, are you?" Callen turned and walked away without replying.