Full Summary:

Deeks was engaged to a woman nearly two years before he met the NCIS team. But when she mysteriously disappeared, Deeks was forced to move on without her. He has been working her case by himself for as long as he can remember. What happens when a case the NCIS team is working on becomes a direct link to Deeks' missing fiancé? Will he allow the others to help him find her? And why did she go missing in the first place? Did it have something to do with her family?

An Engagement Ends:

Five Years Ago:

Deeks and Jenna were great together. They were always on the waves, when the two weren't working. They had a great time together. They had fallen in love after the second date and she had even moved in with him. She loved being around a guy that seemed to understand her entire being, not just the part men wanted a girl for. She was always making jokes, which had always been a defense mechanism for her. He'd picked it up from her, the joke making. It was one of the things he loved about her.

He'd proposed six months into their dating. She'd said yes and to celebrate, they had gone surfing for the entire day. They set the day of the wedding for New Year's Day. She was so excited to be getting married. Jenna was a surfing instructor, which was how the two had met in the first place. She was good at what she put her mind to and the fact that Deeks shared her passion for Surfing was the icing on the cake.

But as the wedding drew closer and as the two got more and more into spending the rest of their lives together, something changed in Jenna. Though Deeks couldn't pin point exactly what was wrong, he knew it had something to do with the fact that she was going to have no one at the wedding that she really cared about. Whenever Deeks ever asked her about her family, she told him that they had died when she was very young and she had bounced around foster care since. She told him that she didn't have anyone that she was close enough to from the System to invite. And the fact that the only real friends she had were all of his cop buddies, she just told him to invite them. Besides, most of her clients were kids and she wasn't going to invite them.

One month before the wedding, just before Christmas week, Jenna disappeared. She had packed a bag to go camping by herself before the wedding, something she had done on a few occasions, just to get away from the hub bub of city life. She never came back from the camping trip and when her car was found deserted with her cell and wallet still inside, a search had gone out immediately. They were expecting to find her in some local hospital, but weeks went by with no solid leads as where she might be.

Deeks called off the wedding and boxed everything up from the house that belonged to Jenna. He kept it, just in case she was ever found, but the only thing he kept of hers in plain sight was a picture of the two of them in his wallet so that he would never forget her. He made a copy of the Case file and kept it on his desk at all times in his apartment. Even Monty his dog missed her. She'd been nice to the dog, in fact that was another way he would never forget Jenna. Jenna had picked Monty out of a shelter and named him Monty. Monty was their dog and it would always be their dog.

Present Day:

Deeks was a little late getting into work that day. He'd been following a lead from Versey regarding Jenna. The lead had ended up being a dead end. One of their CI's had thought he'd seen her in the streets that week but didn't know if it was her. During the initial investigation, Jenna's picture had been all over the news, on posters stapled to trees and taped to store windows. Not only did the cops want to find her but those that she had taught to surf. His head was still on Jenna when he walked into the bullpen without even a hello.

He sat at his desk and started in on the paperwork that was waiting for him. As far as he knew, there was no case and by the silence in the room, he knew that his not saying hello would sooner or later be talked about by the whole team. He ignored his team, especially Kensi. As much of a partner as Kensi was, she was also someone who had become a confidant for him. He had never told her about Jenna, in fact he had never told any member of the team about Jenna. Jenna was his to look for and he was going to be damned if anyone tried to take the case away from him.

It wasn't until Eric whistled alerting them to the fact that they had a case that he stopped working on his paperwork and with the rest of the team headed up to OPS where Eric, Nell and Hetty were waiting. Hetty said good morning and everyone except Deeks exchanged mornings. They could all see that something was going on inside the Detectives head, but they couldn't figure it out unless he let them in. Eric and Nell went on to introduce Petty officer Jaun Sanchez, killed after being burned alive. The weird thing about this case, according to Nell, was that the Petty Officer had disappeared nearly five years ago. Callen had Eric pull up everyone that went missing around the same time the Petty Officer went missing and the list was extensive. One name stuck out and it was Deeks that finally said something.

When Deeks spoke up about knowing one of the missing, they all looked at him. They were expecting that he'd tell them that it was one of the men that he knew but it turned out that the missing person he knew was a woman. Jenna Spaltan, according to Deeks, had been a surfing instructor. She'd disappeared shortly before Christmas that year. Her fiancé had reported her missing after she failed to come home after a weekend of camping by herself, which was something that was a regular with her. The team didn't understand that this was the reason that he had been late and that Jenna was the one that he had on his mind when he walked into the bullpen that morning. They just thought he had worked the case which would mean he was the lead Detective on the case.

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