Chapter 1
Marty Deeks wakes up with the annoying sound of his alarm clock. It's time to get up and start yet another day of work. He opens his eyes and turns off the alarm, sighing. He looks to his side, just like he does every single morning, and the pain hits him with the same amount of force it does every single morning. She's not there, just like she hasn't been for the past three years. The thought is enough to anger him and he gets out of the bed and into the shower as quickly as possible.
She left and for the life of him he can't understand why. They were together, in love. Then he wakes up one morning and she's gone. That was three years ago. For the past three years, Eric has been trying to find her but it's a lost battle. Callen told them to give up because if Kensi really wanted to disappear no one would be able to find her. Deeks didn't talk to Callen for a week after that because the thought of giving up made him sick. Now, he can't even bring himself to understand why that is. She left. Why would he try to find someone who clearly didn't want to be found? So after that he never asked Eric if he had something new about her.
Sure, he knows that every single day Eric tries to find her but he doesn't care anymore. She's not the person he thought she was. The Kensi Blye he knew and loved would have never run away from him, from them. The warm water calms him down and he turns off the shower. He has to get ready to go to work. After putting some clothes on he walks downstairs and starts cooking breakfast. He doesn't know why but he has the feeling that this is going to be one of those days.
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As soon as he enters the OPS center with a coffee on his hands, Callen and Sam look up from their work.
"Good morning, Deeks. How's our angel?" Callen asks with a small smile on his face and Sam almost laughs. It's a sight that never fails to amuse any of them. There's someone that made G Callen turn into a softie and that's something worth celebrating.
Deeks shakes his head with a smile and sits on his chair. "She threw a fit this morning because she wanted to come with me instead of staying with my mom. She only let go of my neck when my mom promised her she would bake her some chocolate chip cookies."
Sam laughs. "Well, at least you know what her price is. Just give her something with sugar and she will do anything you ask her to." He doesn't say anything else because he doesn't have to. They all know she's just like her mother, the mother she doesn't even know. Kensi left when the little girl was only two months old.
Callen is busy now, texting, and Deeks frowns. "Is there anything you want to tell us, Callen?"
Callen looks up from his phone, slightly confused. Sam clarifies it for him. "Who's the mystery girl you text every single morning?"
Callen shakes his head and it's clear that he doesn't want to give them any details about that particular subject. "There's no girl. I'm just checking a few emails, that's all."
The problem is that sometimes he forgets he works with two very nosy well-trained federal agents. Deeks doesn't let him change subject. "Why are you checking your emails on your phone if you have your computer right in front of you?"
Callen is about to opens his mouth to answer him when Eric calls them all upstairs with cheeriness in his tone that shouldn't be there that early in the morning. "Guys, I found her."
Callen's face turns a little pale, making Sam and Deeks frown. However, they all rush upstairs to see what Eric is talking about. As soon as they enter the tech room they see a face on the big screen that has been haunting them all for the past three years. Eric starts talking then, almost sure that everyone is paying more attention to the face on the picture than to his words.
"I know that you told me to stop looking for her, Callen, but Hetty said that we had to find her. So I've been checking security cameras all over the country with Kaleidoscope and this morning I had this on the screen as soon as I entered the office. This video is from last night. It was picked from a security camera in New York."
Callen stills looks a bit pale and Sam keeps looking at Deeks, afraid of his reaction. Deeks can only stare at the screen and listen to Eric, his face completely emotionless. Hetty is the one who speaks.
"Eric, perhaps you should let us see the whole video."
Eric seems a bit distressed now. "Hetty, I'm not sure if that's a good idea."
Hetty frowns but before she can say a word Deeks turns to Eric with a look no one has ever seen on his face before. If looks could kill Eric would be dead and buried.
"Eric, I have a little girl who has no memories of her mother. Play the damn video right now!"
Eric doesn't argue with him and the video starts playing. They all see Kensi staring at the road for a few seconds. Then she looks back behind her to a place they can't see with this camera and turns to the road once again. With one last look towards the security camera, she throws herself in front of a moving car that hits her and sends her flying. Kensi ends up falling just a few feet away from the car and they see people stopping and dialing numbers on their phones. Eric stops the video once they see the ambulance arriving and the paramedics taking her.
No one says a word for a while. Even Hetty seems shocked with what she just saw. Sam has his mouth hanging open. Callen is as white as a wall and Deeks can't take his eyes off the screen. A tear makes its way down his face and he wipes it away as fast as he can. Then he turns back to Eric.
"Is she alive?"
Eric sighs before answering him.
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