TFR's Writing Prompts #2

"All I'm saying, is that if you blow up the house you're going to be so fired"

Callen was currently casually leaning against a dilapidated door of a shack up in the mountains. The Wonder Twins had tracked their suspect's latest movements to here. Unfortunately, the guy wasn't here. It didn't look like he had left in a hurry so there was a good chance he was still using it. So, Callen and Sam decided to do a quick scan for evidence of the guy's home grown terrorist plot, hoping for a laptop or cell phone so they could identify his network.

Sam had made the executive decision to search the first floor when a brief exploration of the basement had brought up a very impressive painting of a sad clown.

With several jibing comments and dark looks traded, Callen's search had brought up: an incredibly mouldy something (that he really hoped was a sandwich at some point), some cables with no matching devices and a crate of mothballs.

Taking a final look around, and seeing nothing, Calen returned upstairs to see what his partner had found. He was just about to enter the "kitchen" when he heard;

"Don't move, G"

Inhaling deeply, Callen asked "What explosive device did you find this time?"

"Three gas cylinders connected to the gas cooker with a cell phone that will set it off." Sam replied almost absentmindedly.

And that is how he came to be standing outside a broken down door.

It wasn't the worst thing they had faced. At least neither of them was standing of a pressure pad this time.

"Any cameras?"

"Didn't see any," Sam replied distractedly, Callen could almost feel the look of concentration he knew was on his partners face.

"Hopefully we have time then." There should be no reason for the suspect to think of setting them off, unless he had seen them come up here, which Callen thought Sam didn't need t know right now.

"We? I'm the one doing all the work. What are you doing?"

"Being a good team lead and playing to our strengths."

"So, I disable the bomb and you, what? Stand and look pretty?"

"Stand and look intimidating so no one approaches us and distracts you."

Sam snorted and pulled sharply at a wire.

"Should you be even doing that?"

"Do you want to disable the bomb?"

Callen raised his hands in surrender. "I think you are perfectly capable."

"Though so."

A few moments of silence pass before Callen thought to ask "Did you find anything useful?"

"Yeah, a bunch of computers all hooked to some sort of control tower and an awful lot of hard drives and CDs. The CDs and hard drives are bagged. Didn't want to touch the computers as a few are on and running something."

"He probably thought that no one would find him up here," Callen suggested, they were at least four miles from any sort of trail.

Sam hummed in agreement. "Will have to call Eric and get him down here to see what's going on. No cell service."

Callen nodded in acceptance. "He'll love the 'field' experience."