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Chapter Two
Conflict of Interest
Kensi rushed down the Spanish elaborately decorated stair case, where her three team mates rushed behind her.
"Kensi, wait" Deeks said, following her into the office where she went straight to her desk.
"Kensi" Callen said in a more official voice, all three crowded round her desk.
"What?" She asked.
"I don't think you should be working on this case" Callen admitted with severe looking eyes. Kensi looked stunned, she couldn't be taken off the case she needed answers
"Why not?" She accused loudly standing up, Sam and Deeks casted glances at each other.
"Don't you think it's a conflict of interest, we all know what happened between you and Jack and if you're too emotionally attached to this case..." he trailed off
"Don't worry Callen, I can be professional" Kensi answered, but the last part sounded mostly like she was speaking to herself
"Oh yeah? Who are you telling you can be professional to, me or yourself?" Kensi didn't answer
"Miss Blye...Mr. Callen my office please" Hetty called from a distance, Callen and Kensi trudged off to her office whilst Sam and Deeks stood around awkwardly. As the two agents stepped up into her office, Hetty stood behind her desk peering over her round glasses with hawk like eyes
"Miss Blye are you going to have an issue working on this case?" Hetty asked seriously.
"No"
"Well then you won't mind Mr. Callen and me keeping a close eye on the case then?" Hetty said sternly, of course it wasn't the case she was keeping a close eyes on... it was Kensi
"No" Kensi replied stiffly knowing the true meaning.
"Right then, why don't you and Mr. Deeks go and check out Lieutenant Edwards apartment" Hetty ordered, Kensi nodded then left leaving Callen standing at Hetty's desk with a raised brow
"Keeping a close eye? Nice touch... She shouldn't be working the case Hetty" Callen said, taking the seat in front of her desk as Hetty turned to brew herself a nice hot pot of tea.
"Mr. Callen allow me to do the worrying and you to solve the cases, Miss Blye is more than capable of being responsible and professional" Hetty answered, keeping her back to Callen as she boiled the water.
"I know she can be professional Hetty, I'm more worried about what she'll do when we find Jack" Callen admitted again.
"I'd imagine when you find him; you'd take him to the boatshed to be interviewed like you do with all witnesses Miss Blye can feel free to observe with Mr. Deeks" Hetty added her Japanese tea and stirred.
"You want me and Sam to find Matthews" Callen confirmed
"Yes, keep her away from temptation" Callen sighed rose from his seat then left meeting Sam back in the office where he waited awkwardly not sure what to do
"Well?" He asked
"She's still working the case" Callen answered unhappily, in his mind it was defiantly a conflict of interest and knew Kensi's temper sometimes wore thin; Deeks was a classic example of that. However if she can remain as her normal self he didn't see a problem a head.
"And you don't think she should?" Sam retorted they both started walking then, heading outside to the challenger.
"I think, Kensi's a big girl and she can take care of herself" Callen replied, they were at the challenger now just about to get in, their conversation happening over the roof of the car. Sam didn't answer making Callen curious
"You don't think she is?" Callen questioned. Sam shrugged and then got in, Callen copied till they were face to face in the car.
"Kensi's a capable operator G, but she's also a woman and I think sometimes you forget that; it's gonna be hard for her"
"That is not true, I know she's a woman" Callen responded, and so their casual banter took off...
Across town Kensi and Deeks, picked the lock on Lieutenant Edwards's apartment door, they entered the house with their black latex gloves on and looked around.
"Manager said Edwards left his place around ten last night, same time as the phone calls to Evans was made" Deeks said, looking at the walls of the apartment. The living room was pretty bland beige sofas, cream walls, light panelled wood floor; family photo's hanging on the walls and beige again.
"Jack" Kensi corrected, looking through Edwards's mail. From behind Deeks looked at Kensi with soft eyes.
"Right, Jack... do you ever miss him?" He asked finally, Kensi stopped combing through the mail and turned to face Deeks
"Sometimes" Kensi admitted looking at the ground as she spoke. Deeks nodded and looked around the apartment again before speaking
"You know, Jack and I were friends before we were engaged" Kensi told, her eyes welling up with tears. Deeks watched hesitantly not sure what to do.
"Really, how long for?" Deeks asked as he looked on Edwards's laptop.
"A few years, he was the funniest guy ever...really knew how to make me laugh" Kensi said quietly staring out of the window. Deeks stared at Kensi with an emotion of his own welling up inside him. Kensi sniffled and then carried on
"Of course he knew how to irritate me as well" Kensi's eyes flickered over to Deeks and back. Deeks nodded uncomfortably as he started looking through files on the computer
"All this before he got PTSD?" He wondered quietly, Kensi nodded then finally looked at Deeks in the eyes
"He came back a different person; sometimes I'd see the old man who made me laugh and other times... he wouldn't even look me in the eyes"
"You loved him a lot didn't you" Deeks accused feeling hatred for the man who had damaged his partner so completely.
"More than you'll ever know" She mumbled to herself. Deeks tried to focus then and started going through his e-mails, something really Eric could have done but Deeks needed the distraction he was worried about his partner from and outsiders point of view it would look like Deeks was the caring and loving partner which in a way he was, he was worried...that's what he kept telling himself anyway...
"Edwards inbox is empty, cleaned it out before he left I'm guessing" Deeks finally announced after the moments of silence. By this point Kensi was looking at the photo graphs on the walls beside the phone, the answering machine was flashing so she hit play
"Michael, it's me don't do this, okay? Please call me...Beep!" Kensi turned to face Deeks and raised a brow
"Sister or girlfriend?" Kensi asked, Deeks stood and came over to Kensi where he picked up a photo on a small table beside one of the sofas
"I'm thinking girlfriend" Deeks answered, Kensi sighed and rolled her eyes, typical Deeks
"What?" He said offended in Deeks's usual banter, Kensi walked away from him snickering at Deeks
"Come on! Sunshine!" He called, bringing back memories of the time when Deeks was using Kensi as a wing man to get a date with one of the yoga girls.
"That's just...great" Deeks muttered to himself.
Meanwhile outside of the apartment Kensi was on the phone to Eric telling him about the answering machine.
"The call was from a Sasha Edwards, I pulled up her history and she's Lieutenant Edwards's younger sister, she's a senior at High School and is rumoured to be dating one of Johnny Lewis's men" Eric told her over the phone
"Got it, thanks Eric" And she hung up.
Outside a club called "Angels" Sam and Callen were inspecting the crime scene.
"So Nixon and his men were here" Sam said standing in the same spot as the three men last night pretending to aim a gun at Callen who was standing in the same spots as Jack and Edwards
"And Edwards and his buddy were here, they talk and so Nixon orders his men to shoot at Jack and Edwards" Callen concludes
"But Nixon's men miss Jack, who gets shot in the arm and runs off in that direction, wounded" Sam continues. Callen and Sam then turn to walk and follow the small blood droplets leading away from the club and down into an alley
"He couldn't have gone far, with a bullet in his arm" Callen said as they followed the mysterious blood trail
"Why do you think Kensi never told us about Jack?" Callen wondered out loud
"It's not something that you'd want everyone to know is it?"
Before Callen could press the subject Sam spotted out something, something navy blue, crumpled and lying on the floor
Sam went over and picked it up after his black latex gloves snapped into place on his wrists, it was a jacket with a bloody bullet hole through the right arm sleeve
"Well where could he have gone? Its dead end alley" Callen exclaimed, confused. Sam shrugged but at least now they had something. A Jacket
Back at Lieutenant Edwards's house the pair was just leaving the apartment block, walking at a calm pace down the cobbled path leading onto the street where Kensi's silver Cadillac was parked, waiting. The sun beat down and sidewalks radiated off the heat, as the couple reached their car a man wearing a pair of jeans, a brown T-Shirt and a ball cap wandered up the cobbled path up to the apartment building, Kensi; who was spacing out now thought she recognized the tattoo on his left forearm.
"Sir-"She began walking back up the way they came, the man froze clearly panicking
"Sir, NCIS can we talk with you" Kensi took out her badge and showed the man who was still keeping his head low, Deeks strolled up to his partner and watched him closely.
"He's gonna run" He whispered into his partner's ear
"No he's not, shh!" Kensi mumbled back
"Sir Can you lift your cap please and we need to see some ID" Kensi asked in her formal tone now. The man still didn't move.
"Uh... sure" The man muttered, his voice was deep and smooth but calm but under the calm something was brewing. He turned his hand in his back pocket, taking out his ID only to pull out a Glock and fire off a few rounds which luckily both Kensi and Deeks ducked.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
The man ran!
Sprinting, faster and faster his heart thumping loudly as he ran as fast as he could round the apartment building. Kensi and Deeks sped off after him Kensi went one way, Deeks went the other.
Deeks jumped over a fence or two looking like a pro as he did, taking out his weapon which he concealed at his back. He wasn't even close to the man.
Kensi was on his six, she sprinted faster her arms moving mechanically at her side, her legs beginning to ache and beg to stop her breath was shallow pants as she ran, the heat getting to her now the beads of sweat dewing up behind her neck and on her forehead.
The man came to another road, the traffic passing in a fast motion the sound almost like rushing water. He ran through it, dodging the cars that honked at him, one cab screeching to a stop only to hit him in the legs, slowing him down enough for Kensi to nearly get a hold on him but she didn't see one car as she weave through the madness. A black BMW speeded forwards the drive slammed his foot on the breaks, Kensi still running in the road slammed into the car her body hitting the windshield the front window cracking! The metallic sound of the car bonnet was ear splintering. After her tumble on the hood she rolled right off, sure she was hurt felt like she broke her leg or something but as she landed on the pavement she really heard the madness the blaring car horns, the man who hit her his car door slamming as he jumped out and tried to help her up and her partners familiar cry of
"KENSI!" He ran over to her and helped her up quickly
"Get him, quick! Forget me I'm fine!" He nodded all humour gone from his face and he took off again.
Kensi got up and tired to shake it all off, she took out her cell something that managed to not get damaged and called Eric.
Eric checked the surrounding cameras he could find and found Deeks approaching the man; he pounced and grabbed the man round the bottom his legs and they both kissed the pavement landing with a thud. Deeks pulled the man up to his feet and shoved him roughly against the alley wall where he took out his cuffs and cuffed the man his right arm bandaged and bloody.
Eric and Nell sighed in relief as they saw the man get arrested; Eric had called an ambulance and was there now at the crash site.
"Kensi. Sam and Callen are on their way they'll be there in five minutes" Eric told.
Kensi ended the call and went to sit in the back of the ambulance where an EMT fussed over her checking her blood pressure and such, she'd gotten very unattractive bruises on her arms and legs, a long shallow but bloody cut on her lip and eye brow the impact of the car luckily was only mild.
As Kensi sat in the back of the ambulance holding an ice pack to her head, Sam and Callen peered round the corner
"Hey" Callen greeted opening the doors wider
"Oh Hey" Kensi greeted awkwardly, setting down the ice
"Well what's the prognosis?" Callen asked, his blue eyes scrutinising her ragged complexion
"A few cuts and bruises nothing major, but the EMTS want to take me to the hospital" Kensi admitted skipping out why
"Good, go." Callen responded
"Why, I'm fine" Kensi said stubbornly
"It's better to be safe than sorry" Callen said, his voice making him sound miles older than her.
"Callen, I'm fine" Kensi persisted. Callen pursed him lips then nodded
"Fine, Deeks is at the boatshed waiting to question Matthews" Kensi looked too eager to follow as she did, they reached the challenger and climbed
"You're not interviewing Jack, Sam and I will do it" He said severely.
Kensi climbed eagerly into the back of the challenger, building up confidence as they approached the boatshed, after all this time apart she was finally going to get these answers that she wanted, mainly. Why? Why did he leave me? Did I do something wrong?
But Kensi knew Callen would never let her interview him, she had too many emotional hooks in the case as it was, interviewing him wouldn't be right. But how else was she going to ask? And Deeks...well Deeks wasn't going to be exactly supportive over it sure he supported her but there was defiantly something brewing in Deeks and it wasn't sympathy for Jack's severe case of PTSD it was anger at what he did.
She couldn't lose focus now, she needed to concentrate and play her part well on the team.
The three of them entered the boatshed, as the approached Deeks he stood with his arms over his chest watching the T.V screen as Jack twitched and was jittery trying to find a way out. Kensi's stomach twisted uncomfortably, he'd be going in circles in his own mind right now
"Has he said anything yet?" Sam asked watching Jack.
"No I haven't talked to him yet, I was waiting for you guys" Deeks's eyes kept flickering to Kensi taking in her appearance she looked bad...
Her eyes were trained on the Jack...
"Kens, you okay?" He asked with a bit too much concern, she snapped out of her reverie and looked at Deeks
"I'm fine really" She responded in a bored voice, she was tired of saying she was fine
"Don't say your fine when you're not fine" He quoted with a small smirk; Kensi couldn't help but smile slightly in response.
"Okay me and Sam are gonna talk to him, you stay out here" he ordered, they wandered off to the interview room the door opening in that familiar sound as they entered.
Sam and Callen appeared on screen and so Kensi and Deeks settled into seats at the table.
"Jack, I'm Agent Callen this is Agent Hanna-"Callen began taking his seat in the metal chair
"Where are my men?" Jack asked, his teeth clenched
Sam and Callen exchanged a look, and then Sam spoke
"You're not in Fulusa anymore, your men are fine, your safe" Sam answered in a calming tone, but Jack wasn't having any of it
"Where are my men?" He yelled, his handcuffs rattling. Sam and Callen exchanged another look he wasn't going to cooperate in this state
"Why were you at Edwards's apartment earlier?" Callen asked. Jack was quiet for a minute looking way out of it on the other side Deeks sighed
"He's not gonna talk like this" Kensi was watching so intensely you could almost see the steam coming off her.
"I should speak with him" Kensi muttered
Deeks didn't answer he just tried to stop this feeling that was clawing in his chest, screaming for him to do something about. But what could he do?
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