Disclaimer: I do not own any of the NCIS: Los Angeles characters.
Chapter One:
It had been four years. Four years since she had left Los Angeles for her own team and undercover operation, now she was back from being half-way across the world, and she was back with determination to end what her team had started.
Alex walked in the new OSP headquarters; everything had changed since she had left NCIS Office of Special Projects four years ago. Instead of the professional looking building they had once occupied, they now had an abandoned Spanish style mansion. The team had lost Mace, they had brought in a new member, and then he was gone, killed by terrorists. Now a LAPD liaison was with the team. Nate had left for a while, but now he was back, only because of her, Hetty knew that Alex would need someone to talk to about what had happened in Ireland, and for now, her and Callen talking just wasn't an option.
The doors opened and Alex heard voices as she stepped through, most vaguely familiar. She ignored them, heading straight towards Hetty's office. Nate came up as she walked. "It's good to have you back Alex" he said quietly. She felt eyes on her, the room was now silent.
"I don't know if it's good to be back Nate" she replied quietly as she stepped into a small room. A small desk was there, and a small woman was sitting behind it drinking a cup of tea.
"Ah, you found your way here, I was afraid I would have to send Mr. Getz to come searching for you. It's good to have you back" Hetty said kindly.
"Thank you, Hetty" Alex said. She looked at Nate and then back to the small woman. "I would like to see what you have so far, I have read the reports, but it would help me if I see it in person" she replied. Hetty nodded.
"Right this way Miss Williams, Nate, keep Mr. Callen and his team busy, I don't want them wondering who our guest is just yet. They won't realize who she is, she looks quite different. Eric and Miss Jones will be able to help us more than the team. Right this way Miss Williams" Hetty replied standing and leading Alex past Callen and his team and up the stairs towards the Ops center. Nate joined Callen and the others.
"Who's our guest Nate?" Callen asked watching the redheaded woman carefully as she followed Hetty.
Nate shrugged saying "One of the many people that Hetty knows", he hated lying to them, but he was more scared of Hetty then he was of Callen and the others. "What are you not telling us Nate?" Callen asked just as Eric came out of the Ops center looking like a punished puppy.
"Hetty kicked me out! Me! Why does Nell get to stay while I get kicked out?" Eric said.
"Something is definitely going on" Callen said, his eyes staying on the doors to the Ops center.
"Thanks Hetty, I don't want them to know just yet" Alex said pulling the red wig off and letting her straight blonde hair cascade down her shoulders.
"Not a problem Miss Williams, I will see that Miss Jones helps you with whatever you need. Miss Jones, none of the others need to know that her real name is Alex Williams; her name for now is Elizabeth Briars, until she is ready to let them know who she really is. Help her with whatever she needs, and make sure the others don't get anywhere near here" Hetty said before walking out.
"You can call me Nell" said the short red head that looked like a pixie.
"Alex" she said before going up to the screen and looking at the screen. "Can you pull up the footage Eric found of the killing Nell?" she asked. Nell nodded before going over to the computer and typing on a few keys before it came up on the screen.
"Play it please" she said watching the screen intently as it played. Alex watched a struggled unfold and then the sleeve of the Navy Commander came up. "Stop" she said and the video froze.
Alex used her fingers to enhance the image on the screen. "Can you clean up the image so it doesn't look so pixilated?"
After a few more types on the computer keys the image came in at better quality. "Go get Hetty Nell. Now" she said a little more sharply than she intended. Nell briskly walked away with a nod and out the Ops center.
Callen watched Nell come out and come over to them. "Where's Hetty?" she asked him.
"Her office, why?" Callen asked, but he didn't get an answer considering she walked quickly away.
"Hetty, A-Elizabeth needs you now, she found something we missed" Nell said as she walked back up towards the Ops center, Hetty by her side.
As they walked in, they found Alex staring intently at the screen. "What is it Miss Williams?" Hetty asked coming to stand beside her, staring at the screen.
"Your Navy Commander was part of the Irish Mafia. This mark, it's a tattoo they have. The American-Irish have one kind of tattoo, while the regular Irish Mafia has one that's similar, but it's much more complex. Yours was a part of the American-Irish Mafia" Alex replied staring at the screen.
"You were taught all of this while undercover?" Hetty asked. Alex nodded.
"Ian Hemingway loved Liza Myers very much, he taught her everything she needed to know about them" Alex said turning to look at Hetty.
"So you know all about them?" Hetty asked. Alex nodded, saying, "Ian was very trusting when it came to Liza, even from the beginning, he wanted her to lead if something ever happened to him. Therefore, he taught her all of the Mafia's secrets".
"Who was Liza Myers?" Nell asked from behind them.
"I was" Alex said glancing at her before turning back to the screen. Hetty and Alex exchanged a look and the blonde woman nodded.
"Nell, go get Mr. Callen and his team, tell them we have new information concerning the case. Tell Mr. Beale he can come back into his sanctuary. We will need him to help with this new breakthrough" Hetty said.
Nell nodded and left. Hetty turned to look at Alex.
"I understand this is going to be difficult, not just this case, but seeing the team again. Nate will be available for you whenever, if you ever wish to talk about what happened over in Ireland Miss Williams" Hetty said.
Alex nodded as the doors opened. Callen and her old team stepped through the doors; Eric and Nate close behind them. When they registered her their eyes grew wide with recognition. Callen's blue eyes narrowed as he looked at her.
"Hi" she said softly looking at her old team. They said nothing, everyone staring at her, all in shock, except for Nate, Hetty, Nell, and a shaggy blonde haired man.
Eric was the first to come out of the shock. He came up to her and gave her a high-five. "Ice is back!" he said happily with a big goofy grin on his face.
Alex rolled her eyes at the old nickname the team had given her. What they didn't know was that after everything she had been through in the past four years, the name suited her more now than ever, her heart and turned into ice, and it would take a long time for it to even begin to thaw, even in the sunny Los Angeles climate.
Kensi was next. She rushed forward and gave her a huge hug that left Alex wincing slightly in pain. She quickly masked it and put a small smile on her face as she began to ask "What exotic place where you whisked off to this time?"
"Not now Miss Blye" Hetty said softly but firmly. Alex shot a grateful look at her.
Sam came forward and the huge Navy Seal wrapped her in a hug. "Good to have you back Ice" he said knowing how much she had hated the name before. "Thanks Sam" she said softly, her gaze turning to look into Callen's beautiful blue eyes. She saw the pain that he was trying to hide, and she knew she had hurt him when she chose to leave for her own undercover and team rather than to stay with him.
Just as she was about to open her mouth to say something to him, the shaggy blonde haired man came forward. "Officer Marty Deeks, at your service" he said with a smile.
"Alex Williams, nice to meet you" she said kindly shaking his hand. When she turned her gaze back to Callen she saw he wasn't looking at her.
"Miss Williams, as you can see, is back from her extensive, deep undercover assignment. The only problem, her case now overlaps with ours. She has been on this for four years, Agent Callen, I expect you to let her take the lead on this, she knows much more about it then we do. Miss Williams would you like to take over with the explanation now?" she asked stepping out of the way.
Callen and his team gathered around the table in the middle. Out the corner of her eye Alex saw Callen grip the side of the table so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
"Four years ago I was sent undercover as a photographer named Liza Myers to Ireland. My mission: to get close to the leader of the Irish Mafia, and when the time came, my team would come in and extract me, arrest Ian Hemingway, and take down both the Irish Mafia and the one based here, in America" she started, nodding to Nell. Suddenly, two pictures came up.
One of a middle aged man with brown hair that curled at the ends with hazel eyes, and one of Alex, but instead of her blonde hair and ice blue eyes, she had black hair and the eyes the color of emeralds.
"Liza Myers, I, caught Ian Hemingway's attention immediately. We got close; he began to share his secrets with me. Liza, in turn, told him her secrets. He proposed, she accepted, they got married. The Irish Mafia is like a family, Ian was the father figure, and when Liza came into the picture as Liza Hemingway, she became the mother figure. Now that she was his wife, Ian entrusted her with everything about his 'business'. He trusted her so much that after a year he told her everything, if anything ever happened to him, she would take over as the leader of the Irish Mafia. I wasn't getting the information I needed just yet, so I stayed in, even when my team wanted to make the extraction. I stayed in for two more years. Six months ago, Ian gave me the information I needed to make the arrest. I called in my team. That's when something went wrong."
Nell pulled up a video of a warehouse. Figures went in, then the warehouse exploded, and no figures came out.
"My team was coming to make the extraction. I had broken into Ian's office earlier, the one thing he didn't even trust his loving wife with. I got the rest of the information I needed, and then, I went to meet my team. They had a few Marines and Navy Seals with them to make sure I got out of there safely with the Intel. When I got there, the body of a young woman I recognized as one of the Mafia's hit mans wives was lying with a bullet in her head. I don't know what happened after that, it was all a blur. I was grabbed by the Navy Seals, my team and the Marines covered us. I was pushed down a tunnel, and the next thing I know, the place above me explodes with all my men and the others. I was the only survivor" Alex finished.
The pain was clear in her voice and her eyes, and Callen, despite all the anger her felt at her wanted to pull her into his arms.
"What about Liza Hemingway?" Kensi asked.
"The Mafia thought that the body was hers in the warehouse, they covered it up; said Liza died in a car crash that left her body burned beyond recognition after it crashed into a small forest, the ice had supposedly caused the crash. They thought the hit man's wife had run off with an old lover" she said before nodding to Nell. A newspaper article came up saying that the Irish socialite Ian Hemingway's wife had been killed. "They held a memorial for her; the entire Irish Mafia was there, Ian gave a lovely speech dedicating his love to his deceased wife, and they buried her in the Hemingway family's personal cemetery" she added.
"How does this cross paths with your case?" Callen asked for the first time.
Alex smiled. "Ian Hemingway's personal jet landed in Los Angeles early this morning. The man seen struggling with, and then killing your dead Navy Commander is his personal bodyguard, Aaron Michaelson. He spent three years being Liza Hemingway's personal bodyguard and friend. I've also received information from a very reliable informant that that there is more Intel concerning what I was sent to extract from Ian. Which means, I need the help of OSP to pull it off. In the end, you get your Navy Commanders killer, and I get what I have spent four years working on" she said as a picture of Ian and his bodyguard popped up.
Hetty's phone rang and she listened to it for a moment before her face turned grim. They all turned to look at her.
"I suggest you find whoever else is also responsible for this, and get your Intel quickly. There's been another murder, on another naval officer, thirty minutes ago" Hetty said grimly before turning and walking out of the Ops center.
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