Chapter 1: Light in the dark
The lights were flickering rapidly, almost matching the chaos of her unsteady breathing and racing thoughts. The panting after storming the building, holding it while shooting their way in. The gasp when they found Sam, and the "punch" to the stomach when Sam said Deeks was dead.
She couldn't breathe when she saw him, through the shattered glassdoors, in the next room. Callen remained at Sam's side, starting to untie him as Kensi bolted to Deeks, pieces of glass cracking under her feet.
Still tied to a chair, lying on his side on the floor, Deeks had bloodstains all over his torso. His green jacket looked weirdly miscoloured but the white t-shirt beneath showed a horrific contrast to the red stains. To separate pools of blood were forming on the floor next to him, one next to his mouth, the other by his abdomen where she fell to her knees. The lights suddenly went but she could still make out the form of her partner in the dark. She felt her way up to his throat and placed her index and middle finger on his neck.
She thought she felt a pulse, but her own was racing so rapidly she wasn't sure if it was her own body, playing a trick on her. No, there it was again, it was weak but he definitely had a pulse.
- HE'S ALIVE! She yelled, already prying him loose from the chair.
-"We got lights!" a member of the SWAT team yelled as the lights flickered back again.