Remember When...
Chapter 1
"Please tell me we've got a case" Deeks whined as he walked into the office. Sam looked up with a small smirk while Deeks threw a hesitant smile to his partner before continuing to his desk. Once he was settled he looked up,
"So Callen? Case?" the senior agent sitting opposite him looked up from his paperwork before shaking his head and getting up heading towards the coffee machine. Deeks turned to his left and he and Sam exchanged a look before Deeks cautiously looked to Callen again taking in his stiff back. It was then that Hetty arrived claiming his attention,
"Ah Mr Deeks glad to see you made it this morning" Deeks nodded smirking,
"No problem Hetty it was the least I could do" he said smartly but stopped focusing back on the newest pile of paperwork that had been left on his desk.
"You wished to speak with me?" Hetty asked and Deeks looked up to see the only female of their team stand and follow Hetty up the stairs without so much as a glance behind her. He and Sam shared a confused glance this time and Deeks watched as Callen turned slightly only to see the two women climbing the stairs before he turned back around not really caring. Deeks sighed quietly before pulling the first bit of paper from the file.
"Ms Lange I ju-"
"Hetty dear, my name is Hetty" the operations manager said interrupting the neatly dressed blonde woman sitting across the desk from her.
"Right sorry, Hetty. I just don't think that they want me here I mean Deeks and Sam barely talk to me and Callen he barely ever even looks at me" the woman said with a frown and Hetty simply sighed,
"Ms Wesley I know that it is hard but this team have had an impossibly difficult year, they just need time to adjust" Hetty said,
"It's been three weeks, almost a month" the woman cried exasperatedly,
"I understand that Helen but you must have some understanding as well. The team has lost a lot this year they just need some time" Hetty explained and the agent sighed before nodding,
"I do understand and I know that she was their friend, their partner but this...they are almost unprofessional. I'm surprised they're even working, how do I know that they'll have my back out there" Helen said and Hetty straightened up in her chair,
"Ms Wesley have you ever had any reason to believe that any of the team would let you down in the field?" Hetty asked sternly an eyebrow raised,
"No" she said quietly after several seconds,
"Then I suggest you do not make such accusations again" she said and Helen nodded and stood,
"I'm sorry Ms Lan- Hetty I'm just frustrated and tired, I'm sorry" Hetty nodded,
"I know, we all are, and I am here whenever you wish to speak as is Mr Getz. As for the team they will come around. You will gain their trust and they will accept you as a part of the team, until then you just need to stick it out" Hetty said and Helen nodded before turning for the door after thanking her. Half way across the room however she stopped mid step and swivelled around making Hetty look up.
"Did she have this problem as well, fitting in I mean?" she asked and Hetty automatically tensed.
"Sorry I shouldn't have asked" Helen muttered before scurrying from the room before Hetty could answer. The retired agent let out a long breath and leant her head backwards for several seconds closing her eyes. When she opened them her gaze fell on a small photo standing in the corner of her desk. In it stood her team. Well...her old team. Sam, Callen, Kensi and Deeks stood in the back line their arms swung around each other's shoulders. The woman standing between Callen and Deeks hung off their shoulders as she leaned forward to position her head between Nell and Eric's smiling brightly. The two technician's had been laughing as had everyone when Hetty had snapped the photo. She smiled slightly remembering the day. Almost two years had past since and Hetty shook her head thinking about how everything had changed.
Thinking back to their newest agents' question Hetty allowed a small smiled to grow on her lips,
Did she have this problem as well, fitting in I mean?" Memories flooded her mind of when Special Agent Kensi Blye joined her team. The three men on her team at the time worked as a well oiled machine, effortlessly they knew how each other worked and how they thought. Renko, Callen and Hanna worked fast, efficiently and had never left a case unfinished.
The director however had decided that four sets of hands and eyes were better than three and so he had been sending new agents to them for several months. Hetty had agreed to trial the agents, to see how they fit and if she had been honest even she would admit that she had been apprehensive at changing her renowned team. For weeks new agents would be sent out on ops, ops that involved Callen or Sam or Mike putting them under pressure. And again she had to admit that they weren't making it easy. Agents and agents tried and left until Kensi Blye's file arrived in Hetty's hands,
She opened the manilla folder and held the photo in between her thumb and pointer finger. So far every agent that they had trialled had been male and she was slightly curious to see how the men would react seeing a female.
Kensi Marie Blye 26 F
Daughter of respected marine murdered when she was 15.
Ex fiance developed PTSD while enlisted – they have since separated
No family ties.
On paper she was perfect. Not that Hetty wished for a young woman to have no family. But she did know that they made the best agents. Everyone knew. Especially undercover ones.
So Hetty had got in touch with the young woman who appeared polite but determined all at once and had set up the trial. She would be meeting a drug dealer by the name of Lewis Hamilton in a bar and she needed to get his name, what he was selling and set up a meet to bust them.
Callen had ended up playing the role of the drug dealer while Renko and Sam had made themselves busy in the bar. She and Eric along with Nate stood back at ops watching from the camera's they had attached to all of the agents clothing as well as from Sam's phone and the surveillance camera's in the bar.
As Hetty watched Kensi Blye walk confidently into the bar she smiled slightly wondering if finally after weeks of testing potential agents they had found her.
Hetty had to laugh Callen was making it as difficult as possible but Kensi easily recovered from the questions he threw at her and evaded others. She sidestepped the corners he backed her in around her story and she effortlessly conjured up her own back story and past never missing a beat. By the end of the night Callen had no choice but to set up a meeting with her and Hetty could tell that the young man she regarded as a son had made up his mind.
The senior agent knew that they were getting a new agent whether they wanted one or not. He also knew that the director was becoming impatient and sooner or later they wouldn't be allowed to test them any more they'd simply be assigned one and so when the woman perched on a bar stool next to him asked him why he'd felt the need to bring back up without even looking over her shoulder at Renko and Sam he had smirked towards her and looked to the men who shrugged with small smiles. It was then that he slid off the stool and leant towards the woman he knew to be Kensi Blye until his lips were millimetres away from her ear,
"Welcome to NCIS" he had said making Hetty smile widely and Nate and Eric to let out an over the top cheer chatting about their newest agent once they'd shut down the surveillance.
Hetty smiled at the memory. No Kensi Blye had never had any trouble fitting in and she knew that she was going to have trouble finding an agent to replace her.
First chapttter, please review and let me know what you think of it,
second chapter's coming soon!
Nina
xoxox