I know I make a habit of writing fanfics and never finishing them and I am so sorry, I'm trying to work on that I promise. But I got the inspiration to write this one after watching believe it or not James Bond! I hope you enjoy it; pretty please review but no angst please constructive criticism is welcomed but be kind please.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of these characters if I did things would be a lot different so please don't sue.
And finally enjoy!
The King and the Cold BeautyIt's dark. Cream tea lights are positioned in the middle of the small tables dimly lighting the room; stiflingly warm air smothers the occupants of the little bar room that smells of cigar smoke and alcohol.
A man is briefly shadowed in the darkness of the bar, but he moves forward till his face is radiated by the warm glow of the candle. His head is shaved but small greying hairs are beginning to push through, small cold blue eyes stare snakelike at the person in front of him. Casually, he sits relaxed in his chair his legs crossed.
The woman hides in the darkness, her face concealed in darkness.
"I must admit when I first met you I wasn't too sure, but I was so smitten by your beauty" The man's voice is deep and slightly accented, maybe French. He lifts his half full glass to his lips and sips the golden brownish liquid the woman remains silent. The man keeps eye contact as he drinks then sets the glass down and leans forward as if to get a better look at the woman in front of his head tilting like he is looking at an interesting painting.
"You remind me of a fairytale my mother used to tell me as a boy she called it "Le roi et la beaute froide" that's French for "The King and the Cold Beauty" it was about a beautiful woman who abused her beauty by charming and seducing rich and powerful kings. Making them believe she is there's, but she screwed them over she poisoned them and stole all their treasures. However when death came knocking at her door many years later, the damned and angry souls of her many husbands dragged her to hell where she perished for all eternity… You see my mother was telling me to never trust a beautiful woman because one way or another the bitch will betray you and screw you out of your money, wouldn't you agree Special Agent Blye?" The man's voice sneered coldly, the radiant Kensi leans into view her beautiful skin glowing in the candlelight her eyes are frozen and her face is stony.
"Pity really, I almost looked forward to us sharing a bed together someday… no matter. Truth is I don't take to kindly to being betrayed, mother was right"
BANG!
The firing of gun blasts the whole room, a quick flash and the scent of gunpowder enters the room. Customers drop to the floor and scream in terror. The pair remains sat stationary, facing each other neither showing much emotion.
Who is shot though?
3 Days Earlier
"I don't know about you guys but after this report I'm buying a large cold beer" Deeks grins brightly at his co-workers, all staying behind to finish reports for the ending of the week
"Not me, I have a date" Kensi stands grabbing her jacket and shoulder bag preparing to leave, with a tired smile upon her lips.
"Who's the lucky guy?" Callen asks slyly
"His name is Ben" Kensi admits casually, pulling her hair out from her jacket. Brows are raised and her loyal partner looks dumbfounded. No date was mentioned to him.
Hurt, Deeks tries to salvage information before it's too late
"Whoa, whoa hold on can we just get confirmation please that your going on a date at-" He checks his silver watch "Twelve thirty" Kensi smiles at her partner, enjoying watching her partner squirm under the thought of her abandoning him on a Friday night for a guy.
"Yep, the other guy though is called Jerry" Kensi closes her eyes in bliss imagining the tub of ice cream waiting her at home chilling beautifully in her freezer.
"Hmmm, Karmel Sutra" Callen and Sam chuckle at their only female member, Deeks relaxes somewhat still perturbed at the thought of his partner's 'date'
"Or you could hang out with your partner, maybe get a little taster of the real Karmel Sutra" The team groan in disgust, whilst Deeks grins playfully at his colleagues.
Kensi bids goodnight and turns to leave only to be stopped by Miss Deception herself blocking the way.
"Hold it right their Miss Blye" Stunned into silence Kensi waits
"I'm sorry to disappoint you all but we have a situation-" Their previous banter forgotten the team looks alert all smiles gone. Hetty turns to Kensi and says
"Your alias has been contacted by Pierre Delacour or someone of you may know him as-"
"The Shark" Introduces Eric, the whole team stands up in the Ops Centre their figures illuminated by the overhead blue lights, the team is no longer bleary eyed but is staring fixatedly on the picture of the man from the bar.
"FBI's most wanted Arms Dealer, his real name is Pierre Delacour" Tapping madly on his tablet Eric brings up more ID photos of Mr. Delacour.
"This is the guy responsible for the bomb blast at a mall in New York last month, it killed over two hundred and twenty seven people" Nell announces gravely standing beside her geeky buddy Eric.
"What do we know about him Eric?" Callen asks seriously folding his arms over his chest. Annoyed, Eric sighs
"Virtually nothing, he's a French National born in Leon, we have a birth certificate and that's it he doesn't pop up on the map again until 1998 as a known associate of mad bomb maker Jonny Tully he was arrested last year" Eric explains grimly, Nell takes over
"He's never been arrested, but Homeland Security, FBI, CIA the whole alphabet soup wants this guy after he armed a sleeper cell with guns back in 04 to attack D.C's Metro PD, he killed seventeen officers" She taps the big board and brings up several newspaper reports of a destroyed building smouldering and burnt to the ground.
"No ones been able to catch this guy?" Sam asks in disbelief
"Nope, he's smart he doesn't make mistakes we think he's using several aliases it's like he lives a double life. FBI Profilers released a profile a few years ago saying he's narcissistic, meticulous and intelligent. He hasn't slipped up yet until…" Eric trailed off eyeing Kensi, who stands in the shadows behind the table. Realising it's time to explain, Kensi strides to the front passing the curious eyes of her co-workers till she is stood right in front of the large board.
"Nine months ago Camp Pendleton received a shipment of guns that were stolen a few days later, we have intelligence that lead us to believe The Shark was behind it. Word was that The Shark was going to auction off the weapons to the highest bidder, were talking serious fire power here guys and the sort of technology that is not meant for our enemies eyes…" Kensi's eyes strayed over to Hetty who bent her head in approval for Kensi to continue
"I went in as an Arm's Dealer, Sia Ames also known as The Black Widow looking to pull off a heist of some kind. I worked with The Shark for eight and half months earning a reputation, contacts and gaining trust" Kensi explains
"So that's what all those long weekends were?" Deeks interrupts, Kensi's eyes swivel to find Deeks's and she glares.
"The contact?" Callen asks releasing Deeks from Kensi's annoyed looks.
"We set up an e-mail account for Kensi's alias, Sia received an e-mail ten minutes ago from The Shark inviting Sia to his vacation home in the Bahamas for a three day bidding he said the main prize will be an 'explosive treat'" Eric took his red seat and opened up the e-mail for the team to see.
"So, what? now he's dealing in bombs?" Deeks wonders out loud. From the corner Hetty answers
"His predecessor was Jonny Tully a known IRA Dealer who dealt with explosive materials, we don't know how the pair met but we do know Jonny taught Mr. Delacour everything he knew about the Black market for Bomb making materials. It's possible one of those treats is explosive of some sort but from what Camp Pendleton has told us we have no reason to suspect so," Hetty clarifies.
"Who else will be there?" Sam asks, he comes closer to examine the e-mail his eyes dart back and forth.
"We don't know… but we think other arms dealers we've checked out Delacour's closest friends who he might invite and came up with five dealers-" Little Nell walks over to the board and taps it a few times, brings up a photo of an old Japanese man and resizes it
"Chin Lee AKA The Dragon a Japanese dealer who sold The Shark various weapons back in 06, they've been close confidants ever since" Nell finishes then with a quick swish his photo is moved aside and a picture of middle aged blonde haired man with big almost black eyes
"Matthew Douglas a British dealer on the FBI's and MI6's terrorist watch list after he sold weapons to an Al-Queada terrorist group last year, he bought the weapons off of The Shark first" With another swish the mans photo was gone
"Vasili Drobjankoviz" Says Hetty in awe. A picture of a pale thin man with small piggy eyes and greasy black hair sneers into the camera, the team turn to her
"He's a major funder for Chechnyian Terrorist activities, he blew up a bus in a small town in Chechnya last month using explosives the FBI believes he recovered from Mr. Delacour here, he killed fifty three people including several small children" Hetty explains to the team who all stare fixed on the sallow faced man. Eric took over
"Now this guy is known as The Snake, like all the others he'd had dealings with Delacour in the past" Eric Explains, sniggering Deeks says
"That Snake? Really? Who thinks up these names, their terrible what do they do pluck them right out of their a-" Hetty coughs loudly and irritated. Deeks grins but stops.
"And last but no means least Artemis or Alexandria Miles, big player in the war on Terror. Started batting for the other side after 9/11" Kensi's eyes narrow at the picture of the sleek almost foxish looking woman who has fiery red hair
"Artemis?" Callen wonders out loud
"Greek Goddess of the Hunt" Kensi explains.
"So what's the plan?" Asks Deeks looking round the group for inspiration.
A silent conversation brews up between Kensi and Hetty
"It's dangerous" Hetty finally says after two minutes of silent communication.
"I'll have back up" Kensi shrugs indifferently. Hetty purses her lips
"Your going to be in the same room as the five most very paranoid, very skilled and very dangerous arms dealers in the world who if sense an agent, they will kill mercilessly" Hetty tries to explain to Kensi but Kensi looks completely emotionless
"And so will I, Hetty this could be our only chance to catch this guy and others. Isn't this really what we've been planning for? They believe Sia is one of them, my backstopping is meticulous, I'll have Deeks to back me up and Sam and Callen from this end" Kensi practically begs Hetty to let her go, mama bear's spidey senses are tingling.
"It could be a trap, your not infallible Kensi" Hetty says sternly, fruitlessly Kensi sighs. Battles against Hetty aren't easily won, Deeks sighs in disappointment at missing a free trip to the Bahamas.
"Eric, e-mail back Mr Delacour and tell him that Sia will be on the first flight out to the Bahamas" Hetty tells Eric wearily, Kensi looks up a certain brightness in her eyes
"I hope you know what your doing…" Kensi nods and strides out of the Ops Centre.
"Mr. Deeks…keep a good eye on your partner"
"You got it" And so Deeks follows her out of Ops, to prepare for perhaps his biggest Op ever…
So that's my first chapter, I won't put up the other unless you readers really love it and if that's the case then there will be more to come. I swear to it.
If you like it please review, by all means if you have anything specific in mind that you'd like to see happen in the next chapter let me know and I'll see what I can do. Just so you know guys I like to write so that the characters stay close to Shane Brennan's creation it makes it that much more exciting ;) or well I think it does, I don't see the fun in making the characters say stuff I don't believe their regular characters would say it ruins it. So this story will be just as much about the impending Densiness as the case they're on, the two cross over ;)
Just thought I'd let you know, so REVIEW! Please, pretty please with sprinkles and cherries on top.
Becca x