Disclaimer: The characters of N.C.I.S. Los Angeles are property of CBS
A/N: This story is set in an alternate universe. The Fisk case never happened, so Kensi never met Bates. Kensi picked up a certain illegal skill set before hiding out in the Office of Special Projects. Time is set after Parley, but Sidorov never made his move to secure the bombs.
A/N: This story is dedicated to Annajadekin.
Deeks was exiting the L.A.P.D. station house in a daze after hearing about his new assignment. The name on the folder had seem familiar, as if seeing it in the past. Bates wasn't present to give the full briefing; just a folder and told Deeks to study it.
"Lord Nikon, sounds like a dude from the eighteen hundreds." Deeks said.
Deeks had opened the folder and almost fainted. The person in the file wasn't a man, but a woman. And the woman had a familiar frame.
"It can't be." Deeks said.
Deeks ran to his car, jumped in, and then headed towards Oakville prison. There was a person of interest there that could shed some light on this little debacle. A person that he took down when he first caught wind of Lord Nikon, or according to the file Tessa Black.
"Mason Anderson." Deeks said.
N.C.I.S. L.A.
Oakville Prison-
Deeks was waiting for the guards to bring to him, coupled with the long drive from the station he was becoming restless. Upon setting on eyes on Mason, Mason spotting him, Deeks stood and held his to greet him. Mason shot him glance, but reach his hand out and shook Deeks hand.
"It's been awhile Mr. Reynolds; to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?" Mason asked
"I need information on an old associate of yours." Deeks said.
"Who?" Mason asked.
"Tessa Black." Deeks said.
"Lord Nikon? Why do you want to know about her?" Mason asked.
"She has become a person of interest in some of the circles I frequent." Deeks said. "Is this Tessa?"
Mason look at the picture and then nodded.
"Yeah that's her, Tessa Black." Mason said.
Deeks turned the picture back to him. It was Special Agent Kensi Blye.
{Baby what have you gotten us into?} Deeks thought.
"What are you?" Mason asked. "F.B.I., N.S.A.?"
"What makes you think that I'm an agent?" Deeks asked.
"Tessa Black isn't some lowlife in the criminal underworld." Mason said.
Deeks thought on Mason's words a moment, and then Deeks realize something.
"Are you currently on assignment?" Deeks asked.
Mason was taken back at Deeks question, unexpected for him to be found out.
"You secret is safe with me. I'm the liaison officer between N.C.I.S. and L.A.P.D.; And Tessa Black is my partner. Although she is currently unaware that I am onto her. Thanks for the information, and if you have any more information of your time working with her this is my number." Deeks said.
Deeks handed Mason a business card, and then turned and left.
N.C.I.S. L.A
Deeks was back in the city when he called Kensi. The phone rang three times before Kensi answered, by the time Kensi answered Deeks was pulling up to a stop light.
"What is it Deeks, we're busy right now?" Kensi asked.
Before Deeks could answer a hand reached into the car and took the phone out of his grasp.
"Hey." Deeks said, and then saw a three fifty-seven magnum shoved into his face; Deeks lifted his hands wanting to avoid having his head blown off.
"He's going to have to call you back." The man said, and then hung up Deeks phone, throwing it into the back seat.
Deeks was waiting for the man to make his move; he also knew that he didn't have much of a chance to react sitting in the car and the guy outside standing up.
"Are you Caine Reynolds?" The man asked.
"Yeah." Deeks answered.
"Unlock the door." The man said.
Deeks unlocked the door and then the man walked around and jumped into the passenger seat.
"Make a left at the next light." The man said after fastening his belt, still having his gun trained on Deeks.
"You got it." Deeks said.
Deeks waited for the light to turn green again, and then drove off making a left at the next light as directed. Next thing Deeks knows is that he somehow went from diving the car to being tied to a chair.
N.C.I.S. L.A.
"What did Deeks want?" Callen asked.
"Someone cut us off." Kensi said, but was distracted by what she heard before the guy speak.
{It sounded like Deeks was trying to protest against something.} Kensi thought.
The agents ran the raid, but their target wasn't in the building. They did find a lot documents that can lead them to their target. While they were rifling through the documents Callen got a call.
"What do you have Eric?" Callen asked putting the phone on speaker.
"Return to Ops Mr. Callen." Hetty said "Mr. Deeks has gone missing."
Kensi went into overdrive, but kept her poise. The three agents rounded up their gear, and headed back to the SUV. The team got back to Ops and dumped their gear in the armory before heading up to ops to see what The Wonder Twins dug up on their wayward liaison officer.
"What do you have?" Callen asked as the agents walked into ops.
Hetty nodded her head to Eric, and he pressed a button and played the footage he had queued. The footage was of a car sitting at a stop light. Next thing the group saw was a man carrying a big gun run up on the car and steal the phone while shoving his gun in the driver's face. The driver raised his hands and awaited the man to kill him or assault him, but it never came. The man on the phone threw the phone in the back and then asked something. The driver spoke, the man spoke again.
Next thing that happened was the man with the gun walked over the passenger side and got in.
"Is that Deeks in the driver seat?" Sam asked.
"Yes Mr. Hanna, it is." Hetty said.
"What was Deeks doing anyways?" Callen asked.
"His boss called him in to talk to him about a case that is priority one." Kensi said.
Kensi realized that she had an angle on the assailant that she could read his lips.
"Nell rewind back to when the guy asked Deeks the first question." Kensi said.
Nell ran it back and played the video again. Kensi read his lips and came up with a name.
"What did the man asked?" Callen asked.
"Are you Caine Reynolds?" Kensi said.
"Eric." Hetty said.
"Running it." Eric said.
It took about ten minutes for the search to come back, and the picture the group saw was a bit of a surprise to say the least: the picture of Caine Reynolds was none other than Martin Deeks.
"What is Mr. Deeks R.A.P. as Mr. Reynolds?" Hetty asked.
Nell brought the document up for the team to see. After a cursory glance Sam spoke up.
"Deeks was nothing more than hired muscle than a big shot."
"He has one person of interest." Eric said.
"Who?" Callen asked.
"A Mason Anderson." Nell said.
"What do we know about him?" Kensi asked.
Kensi, participated in the data mining as to not to set off any red flags.
"Not much, but there is mention of another person of interest." Eric said.
"Who?" Callen asked.
"We have mention of a Tessa Black, and a Lord Nikon; although we can't find any pictures of the man and woman." Nell said.
"How is that possible?" Sam asked.
"We're not sure, but it seems that the person had erased their pictures from records." Eric said.
"Is that possible?" Kensi asked.
"They had to have friends in booking." Nell said with a shrug.
"Do we have a R.A.P. on either Tessa Black, or Lord Nikon?" Callen asked.
It took Nell a few minutes to find Tessa Black's R.A.P. sheet, and then passed it off to Eric so she can look for Lord Nikon.
"Tessa Black has a mile long R.A.P. sheet in the cyber world." Eric said.
"So basically she's a hacker?" Sam asked.
"Pretty much." Eric said.
"And her alias is Lord Nikon." Nell said.
Nell brought up the information linking Tessa Black to Lord Nikon.
"Okay so we have three people that are linked together; what's the event that is connecting the three people." Callen said.
"Do we know where Deeks was coming from before the brazen assault?" Kensi asked.
Nell back tracked Deeks movements.
"He was at Oakville Prison." Eric said.
"Who's at Oakville Prison?" Sam asked.
Eric brought the list of inmates and one name stood out.
"Mason Anderson." Eric said.
Callen looked at Sam.
"Want to go back to prison?" Callen asked Sam.
"Shut up." Sam said.
"I'm sensing a lot of hostility coming from you partner. Maybe I should drive, and you can meditate on the way there." Callen said.
"Yeah, I'm going to meditate again on the Zen art of locking your butt in the trunk." Sam said as the partners left ops.
"Miss. Blye until we have a lead on Mr. Deeks whereabouts please clean up, and put the gear away from the raid earlier today." Hetty said.
"Yes Hetty." Kensi said, and then exited ops to clean up.
N.C.I.S. L.A.
Deeks was starting to regain consciousness when he felt a sharp jab of pain in his right forearm.
"Ah!" Deeks exclaimed as he was jolted awake from unconsciousness.
"Caine, do you mind if I call you that?" The man said.
Deeks stared blankly at the man.
"Not that you have a say in the matter, but Caine I need you to do me a favor for me." The man said.
"Which is?" Deeks asked.
"I need your assistance in killing somebody." The man said.
Deeks looked at him flatly. And then Deeks remembered this man.
"Ross Ericson, back from the dead." Deeks said.
"So you've heard of me." Ross said.
"I thought you were nothing more than a spectre from past, but not that it matters." Deeks said. "How am I supposed to help you kill somebody?"
"Actually I need your help finding Tessa Black." Ross said.
"Why?" Deeks asked.
"That isn't your problem Caine." Ross said.
{Think again dirt bag.} Deeks thought.
"All you have to do is find her. Nothing more, nothing less." Ross said.
Deeks sat there for a minute and thought that if Ross wanted to hurt Deeks he would have done more than puncture wound in his right forearm.
"So you going to let me go, or are you just going to leave me tied to the chair?" Deeks asked.
Ross signaled to a man behind Deeks. Next thing Deeks felt was the bindings being loosened. Deeks stood from his chair and then walked to the door; exiting without a backwards glance. Ross spoke to the man that freed Deeks.
"Are the tracking devices operational?" Ross asked.
"Yes." The man said.
Ross walked over to the computer and saw the dot on the machine.
"This should be an easy mission." Ross said.
What Ross didn't realize is that the man that he was attempting blackmail would not only defy what was asked of him, but break his leash and bring a war to his door step.
N.C.I.S. L.A.
Sam and Callen walked in to the room and Mason was already waiting.
"Wow not very often is the guy in question is waiting for us." Sam said.
"I'm guessing that you guys are N.C.I.S.?" Mason asked.
Sam and Callen shared a look.
"Caine informed me that he is a detective that works for you guys." Mason said.
"What company do you work for?" Callen asked.
Mason waved them in not wanting to let the guards in on the fact that he is working undercover.
"F.B.I." Mason whispered.
"What's the play?" Sam asked.
"My mission has nothing to do with Caine's visit, although he did ask about a past associate." Mason said.
"Who?" Sam asked.
"Lord Nikon." Mason said.
"Tessa Black." Callen asked. "Why?"
"He wanted me to confirm her identity." Mason asked.
"Want to give us the basics?" Sam asked.
"Tall, caucasian, brunette, with brown eyes." Mason said.
"That doesn't exactly narrow the suspect pool." Callen said.
"Do you know any of the big players back when you were on the streets?" Sam asked.
"That would be a question for Tessa, or Caine." Mason said.
"We'll be in touch case we hear anything." Sam said.
"I'm here for another six months." Mason said.
Callen and Sam got up to leave, but Callen had one last thought.
"When Caine looked at the photo after showing it to you, how did he seemed?" Callen asked.
"Fond of her." Mason said.
"Thanks." Callen said, and then the partners turn left.
"Why did you ask that question?" Sam asked.
"Just a guess." Callen asked.
"Tessa Black's R.A.P. sheet had a mile long list of cyber-crimes." Sam said.
"True." Callen said.
Little did the partners know that their junior agent is the cause of this whole debacle.
N.C.I.S. L.A.
Deeks was driving around trying to buy time before he goes back to Ops, or make contact with the team. It was at this time Deeks was starting to get antsy, or more appropriate he felt like he was being watched. Deeks decided to pull over and started people watching. Deeks was in the parking lot of a super market when he spotted a full size truck that he saw a few hours ago.
"That was the truck at the warehouse when I talked to Ross." Deeks said.
Deeks slipped out of his car, and disappeared into an alleyway behind the store. Deeks would be plagued by this people for a few days.
N.C.I.S. L.A.
By the time Callen and Sam returned to Ops, Deeks had not made contact or returned; and it was getting late.
"Mr. Beale punch in Deeks low jack number." Hetty said.
"Low jack?" Kensi asked.
"Deeks is L.A.P.D., why low jack his car?" Callen asked.
"A safety precaution. He maybe L.A.P.D. by law, but he is more agent than detective." Hetty said.
"Deeks is located off of Pacific Coast Highway in a super market nearby." Eric said.
"Bringing up video footage of the parking lot." Nell said.
The big screen showed the parking lot that Deeks car was currently located in.
"There." Sam said.
Sam pointed to a red Impala that was parked near the front door.
"Doesn't look like he's in the car." Callen said.
"Eric do we have any other angles?" Kensi asked.
Eric looked for a better angel on Deeks car. When he found the angle they saw what Callen already confirmed: Deeks wasn't in the car.
"How long has the car been in the parking lot?" Sam asked.
Nell brought up the information on her tablet.
"Five hours." Nell said.
"Eric if you would be so kind." Sam said.
"Go back one hour prior to his car being abandoned." Kensi said.
Eric broke into the super market video data base and went back six hours on the same spot, and same angle. When Eric stopped the camera to the requested time, Deeks car was not in the slot. The team waited another thirty minutes before Deeks showed. Deeks was in his car for twenty minutes before slipping out of his car, and crouch walking off camera. Then ten minutes later two men ran up to his car and saw that he was gone.
"Deeks knew he was being followed." Sam said.
"Eric run it back to when Deeks walks away." Kensi said.
Eric ran it back to the frame in question.
"Move forward one frame." Kensi said.
Eric did so, but Kensi frame came and went. Kensi held out her hand asking for the tablet. Eric looked at Kensi like she was crazy. Then Kensi gave Eric her death glare and then he complied. Kensi ran the video back, and then programed the file to run the video at half speed. When Kensi was satisfied, she froze the picture on Deeks right arm. The entire time Kensi was cleaning up the frame the team was looking at her in shocked surprise.
Kensi couldn't tell what she was looking at, but something seem off. She blew the picture up and cleaned the photo up. Now Kensi realized why Deeks was running and not coming home.
"Deeks is on the run." Kensi said, as she handed the tablet back to Eric.
"How can you tell that?" Sam asked incredulously.
Just as Kensi was about to answer she felt a chill go down her spine.
"Deeks may, or may not know it, but that puncture in his right arm." Kensi said pointing to the hole in Deeks arm on the big screen. "Just below the surface of his skin is a tracking device."
"So you think Deeks has gone to ground?" Sam asked.
"Yes." Kensi said still staring at the screen with her partner on it.
"How did you know that was a tracking device in there?" Callen asked.
"An old case I was working on." Kensi said.
"When did you work the-"
"Eric can you activate the G.P.S. on Deeks phone?" Kensi asked ignore Sam's question.
Eric worked to find Deeks phone. Sam and Callen stared at Kensi because of her blatant disregard of Sam's question. The held their own private conversation with glances, while Hetty watched in cold silence.
"It two miles away." Nell said.
"Any cameras?" Kensi asked.
Nell looked for any cameras with a view of the area.
"No." Nell said.
Kensi returned her attention to the picture of the puncture wound on Deeks arm. Kensi was having a strange feeling of déjà vu when she felt her phone vibrate, and then Sam's phone vibrate. They both received a message from an anonymous number telling them to go to a random location. Kensi didn't hesitate, while Sam and Callen were cautious.
"What do you have to lose?" Hetty asked.
With that Sam and Callen left. Hetty's phone vibrated. She received a message, and it too was from an anonymous number; but the message was disturbing: nine-one-one.
"Mr. Beale dial 323-627-0495, and put it on speaker." Hetty said, frantic of what the caller had to say.
The phone rang only once.
"Glad to see the bat signal still works." The man on the other end of the line said.
It was Deeks.
T.B.C.
A/N: Putting it out there now I have no idea how long this story will last. It will have multiple chapters, but I have no idea how many though. Also I usually write the words for numbers, but a phone number was way too much work for me. To expound on my earlier statement, when I said Sidorov never made a play of the bombs I'm saying that the Sidorov is not in this universe. The case in Parley happened, but that is being handed off to another team. This story is going to be about Kensi past and Kensi and Deeks relationship. I didn't like how that play out in the show.