A/N: I own nothing that is familiar.
Ever since the hug chris had been trying to get her to talk to him. He had started seeing her differently and wanted to explore that. She blew him off though and asked for the weirdness to stop. Gregorio was constantly badgering him about going out with someone. He had a couple of times just to get the woman off his back, but they weren't sassy little firecrackers that gave as good as she got. Chris was on the phone with Gregorio walking to pick Percy up from where he had parked the truck. He watched her come out of the coffee shop followed by some guy. She turned around and they kissed. Chris nearly dropped his phone. He hadn't known she was dating anyone.
He internally raged at the asshole for touching her. He couldn't talk to her for fear he would snap at her or do something like kiss her. She asked him what was wrong multiple times and he just said nothing. What could he say, she told him to stop the weirdness and kissing her would probably qualify as weird.
Finally she broke him down and he admitted he had seen the kiss, and her explanation just pissed him off. How do you let some guy you barely know kiss you?
His bad mood must have rubbed off on her because she was arguing with pride. He wanted to just pull her away from their boss to stop her from doing or saying something she would regret.
He saw her go in and protect the girl during the fire fight and he started to worry. He knew that she felt arresting this girl was the wrong thing to do. When she came back in and the girl was no where to be seen his worry went up a notch. Then back at headquarters he could hear her and pride arguing upstairs.
When she finally came down he asked her what happened and she got defensive and his worry bloomed into a bad feeling. When she said she would tell him if he would tell her if he was jealous earlier he had to know. He told her he was a little bit jealous when the truth was he was so jealous he wanted to do a background check on the guy but she had only used his first name. She told him that she had let the girl go and his bad feeling made him want to take her and disappear to some island to keep her safe.
Pride walked out then and said they were needed downtown. And his bad feeling morphed into panic. He couldn't not know so he followed them downtown and waited to see them come out. When pride came out and Percy didn't he could feel his heart in his throat. When pride was alone he walked up to him and asked where Percy was.
Going to jail, chris nearly fainted. She can't, he thought. He needed her. Pride was looking at him strangely.
"Christopher what's wrong?" Pride asked when chris just stood there white as a sheet.
"How do we get her back?"
"I don't know, this is bad. Not just for her but all of us, the mayor is going to try and do this to all of us if he can."
Chris went home and paced trying to figure out how to get her back. It all started because of her letting the girl go. What if he could make it look like they were baiting a trap and they had the girl the whole time? But that would mean he would have to be the one to find the girl and bring her in unannounced and hidden.
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The next morning he sweet talked a female guard into letting him talk to Percy privately.
"I have a plan but you have to tell me what she told you." He whispered in her ear as he hugged her tight. He was being careful incase there were cameras or listening devices in here. Neither had their cell phones so pattons technique wouldn't work either.
She held him close and whispered into his neck what she had heard. He leaned back and looked down into her face. Studying it a moment then kissed her not giving her warning to show she might not want the kiss.
"Ok, so maybe more than a little bit jealous." He told her out loud. "I need you to stay safe for me, alright?" He was grinning at her gobsmacked expression. And could have jumped for joy when she pulled him down for another kiss.
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It took him a few days to find the girl, the property she was hiding out in was still in her mother's parent's names so it hadn't come up in the normal searches the other cops and alphabet soup were running.
He had enlisted pattons help for a computer that would be very hard to trace. That he could run searches on and not alert anyone else of what he was doing. He didn't tell Patton for what and didn't tell pride or the rest of the team what he had found. He went in alone, knocked on her door and talked to the girl.
She had been able to get word to her villager friends but couldn't get herself out of the country to help them. Not with the man hunt for her. She agreed to come in so she could help him get Percy out of jail. The guns had been recovered at the hanger and were now in ncis evidence so she couldn't do more for the villagers.
He packed her in the back seat of his truck, cuffs on and hidden under his and Percy's coats, backpacks, and other gear. He drove the speed limit back to headquarters, and pulled his truck into the courtyard. He waited for the inner gates to close before getting out and helping her out of the back. He went right up to pride's room and knocked.
Pride answered the door sleepily in just his boxers making the girl blush and turn her head away. Chris caught sight of a leg not under the covers on his bed and raised an eyebrow at pride a smirk growing on his lips. Pride motioned to the conference room and to pull all the blinds before going back into his room and dressing.
Pride met them in the conference room and asked chris, "how did you catch her?"
He took pride in the hall and turned off his phone waiting until pride did the same. Then still whispered as a precaution. "I did my job, researched her and her family's properties till I found one that I didn't think the others had found or searched yet. I brought her in hoping we could say it was a trap get and Sonja out of jail."
"She agreed?" Pride asked whispering back. Chris nodded and pride went into the room.
Pride showed her his phone and motioned for her to give it to him. Chris shook his head and motioned that he had tossed it. Nodding pride asked. "You understand that by coming in like this with chris is going to mean charges will be filed against you, and you will serve time more than likely?" He was still keeping his voice down.
She nodded again, Before saying, "yes, he explained that she let me go trying to draw out any additional terrorists and when no more came, but she was put in jail for letting me go I had to come back. I couldn't let her go to jail for something that wasn't really true. I understand stealing the guns was wrong but no one else should pay for that."
Pride gave chris a pissed look and motioned him out of the room.
"Does she know the real truth? And what if this lie is found out too? You ready to go to jail along side Sonja? Ready to take the whole team to jail with you too?" Pride hissed at him.
"I can't just let her go to jail pride." Was all chris said in response. "Yes she knows the real truth." He added seeing anger rise in pride's eyes.
They went back into the room and spoke with her for a long time. finally pride sent chris out to call the district attorney to come to them. When she got there and saw the girl in cuffs she shook her head and asked, "how?"
"Sonja submitted her report that way on orders. We let her get away on purpose. we were trying to make sure there were no more terrorists in the area. When no more came out of the wood work I had chris pick her up last night. We knew her location the whole time." Pride explained.
"Why didn't you bring that up when we were downtown then?"
"All that proved to me is that our team is under surveillance and no one could be trusted with details of an ongoing case. Besides we hadn't had time to verify that there were no more terrorists after the guns."
She shook her head, "I'm not sure I can make this work Dwayne. But I'll try."
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Percy was in solitary, her cell mate had found out she was a fed and tried to kill her. She was stitched up and bruised when the door opened to reveal a guard and chris.
"Jesus," chris nearly shouted, "are you okay?" He asked coming over to her and caressing the side of her face gently with his fingers careful to avoid the stitches at her hairline and cheekbone.
She tried to nod but it made her dizzy so she stopped. "I will be," she answered instead.
"Good now let's get you out of here. I told you to stay safe Sonja this isn't safe."
"My cellmate somehow found out I'm a federal agent and took offense. She is still in the hospital ward with much worse injuries than this. I know I dislocated her shoulder and knee defending myself. You should have seen her, three times my size." She stood holding onto him for support.
He wrapped his arms around her middle but she winced and shied away from his touch on the right side. "You just bruised or do you have a cracked rib?" He asked worried about her.
"According to the doctor here just bruised." She said it in her sassy sarcastic way that told him she didn't believe it for a minute.
"No problem, I've got doc wade on standby to look you over once I got here and they told me what had happened."
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Pride was talking to the cellmate while chris got Sonja out of the jail.
"Who told you Sonja was a fed? And how did they know?"
"She's a fed?! Shit I didn't know that! you have to believe me! I was just paid to kick her ass. I figured it would be easy, shes so tiny. They wanted her dead but that wasn't my job. Mine was just to get her in here over night. I didn't get that done, you have to get me out of here or they'll kill me instead!"
"What were you in jail for?"
"They claimed drugs but it was just to get me in here to beat the crap out of your girl."
"Who paid you and who arrested you?"
She told him about a couple of cops that paid her occasionally to do odd jobs for them, like beating up people. "I don't kill people though I have ethics."
Pride took her with him too, he brought in doc wade to sign the transfer papers and called D.C. For back up on the case. Percy wasn't going to be able to work. He needed someone to protect her and this new witness. He was guessing chris was going to want to be on Percy's protection detail.
He called Gregorio and had her and Sebastian track the dirty cops and keep them under surveillance. He drove chris, Sonja, doc wade, and Brooklyn, Sonja's cellmate, to the airport. He chartered a private plane off book and flew them all to D.C. They would put them up in a safe house and send agents back to back him up. On the way there he had to shake a tail. And ended up changing the airport he was headed to after losing the tail back tracking just in case.
"Loretta, take care of the girl's wounds. Chris, you protect everyone." He put stress on the last word hoping chris understood not just Sonja. The boy was lost on her and apparently starting to figure it out.
Once they were in the air Loretta took Sonja to the small curtained off area at the back to examine her and be sure that the jail doctors hadn't missed anything. Chris stood in the isle glaring at Brooklyn.
"What she your girl or something?"
"My partner." Chris snapped.
"You got too much anger for just being partners. You fooling yourself?"
"Just shut up. I have to protect you, but I don't have to listen to you talk."
"What are you going to do about it white boy? Your girl... ahem... partner already kicked my ass if you can't see that. I'm laying here all busted up and your doc looks at her first." She rolled her eyes a few times and chris felt like making them pop out of her head.
Chris shrugged and said, "she didn't look too banged up to go more rounds. want me to get her to shut you up?" He liked that this woman feared Percy now. Percy was a hellcat in a fight and this behemoth of a hired bruiser had learned that the hard way.
"Chris be nice to the witness." Percy yelled at him from behind the curtain.
Grinning he yelled back, "god is that you?"
"Yeah, you Neanderthal. Now be nice or Sonja will kick your ass." He was smiling so happy to have her out of jail. Brooklyn gave him wide eyes though at the exchange.
"You two nuts, you know that right? She's crazy and you, you like it."
He said, "its how she shows she cares, being mean and sarcastic." Brooklyn just snorted because Sonja emerged then. She was moving stiffly and chris was worried. He looked at doc wade. She gave him a nod meaning that Sonja would be ok.
"Come on 'bama. Brooklyn can't be moved to get her examination so you have to go behind the curtain."
"Oh? You comin' with me?" He asked smirking at her.
"No, I can tell doc wade exactly what I did and how much pressure I used it should help her look for damage."
"Actually Sonja it would be better not to do the exam with byus like that. What if someone else also injured Brooklyn? Would I miss it because I was only looking for the injuries you inflicted?"
Grinning chris held open the curtain for her. Motioning for her to go first. She rolled her eyes and him and unlike his reaction to Brooklyn doing it chris just found it sexy.
The space was small with only one place to sit. He sat and gently pulled her into his lap. "You're ok right? Nothing major?" He asked her softly. She nodded and he pulled her into a kiss. She shifted so that she was straddling him in the jump seat and he groaned.
He pulled back breathing hard and leaned his forehead against hers. "This," he said brushing fingers lightly over bruises and scrapes. "Isn't safe city mouse." He started to feather kisses over her face over the bruises and scrapes there.
"It was as safe as I could be and safer than she was. That's going to have to be good enough chris. This is the work we do it's dangerous. I'm alive, and back with you and the team." She kissed him again and rotated her hips making him moan into her mouth. Grinning evilly she said "like I said don't go soft on me."
He stared at her open mouthed until laughing she kissed him again. He kissed her back harder holding her to him, he nibbled her bottom lip until she opened for him and he swirled his tongue into her mouth tasting her. She was the one to moan this time. She held onto his shirt holding him to her.
"Hey, that's a curtain not a door. We can hear you!" Brooklyn yelled making them snap apart for a second. Grinning at each other he kissed her again big loud and smacking before just tucking her into his arms and holding her close.
Doc wade found them sleeping like that when she finished her exam of Brooklyn. His arms were wrapped protectively around her his head resting on hers. Her arms wrapped around him as much as possible, fingers hooked in his belt loops. She was still straddling his lap. She took a quick picture before closing the curtain and going to sit down herself. Until the captain said they were starting to land she would leave them alone. They had had a rough night.
Most of the way through the two and a half hour flight chris woke up. Confused that he was sitting. Confused that someone was sitting in his lap. He looked down and smiled at Sonja. He kissed the top of her head before looking at his watch. Seeing that they should be landing soon he stood up with her in his arms just as doc wade opened the curtain.
Chris grinned at her sheepishly. Doc wade rolled her eyes making chris laugh. He carried Sonja to the closest row of seats and buckled her in before buckling himself in.
They landed soon after and were met by Gibbs. They were taken to his house which apparently was used as a safe house most of the time. Agents Quinn and Torres were assigned to them.
He didn't let anybody wake Sonja up. Just carried her off the plane. Then at the safe house carried her up to a bedroom. He didn't leave her side. He saw the looks Gibbs and his team exchanged but didn't care. The burner phone he had picked up, the whole team had them for this case, rang so he went out in the hall.
"Lasalle." He answered.
"I told you to protect all three of them chris." Snapped pride.
"I fell asleep while we were in the air..."
"And have not paid attention to anyone but Percy since. So you are getting back on that plane with Gibbs' people and helping me finish this case. I need you here, you know this city and its people nearly as well as I do." Pride interrupted him.
"Yes, sir." Chris answered. After hanging up he went back into her room.
"Hey, city mouse. Wake up for me a second ok?" He said softly caressing her cheek. She turned her head into his hand but didn't wake up. "Come on Sonja wake up." He said a little louder. She grumbled something at him but still didn't open her eyes.
He leaned over and kissed her gently. When she started to respond to his kiss he pulled back. She opened her eyes looking at him questioningly.
"Pride just called, he wants me to go back with Gibbs' people. I wanted you to know that before I left. Didn't want you to wake up and me just be gone. Be safe ok city mouse? Maybe safer than last time?"
She nodded and pulled him down for another kiss. "You be safe too country mouse. I happen to like these kisses so I better be able to get more of them when I come home." He smiled at her and kissed her again before going out the door.