Deeks was cautiously treading down the stairs with his gun out and pointed forward; he would look up and down with his gun after every flight of stairs and was thankful that he hadn't met any resistance yet.
He spoke too soon.
Two men with guns were waiting at the next flight down and the detective saw them out of the corner of his eye and fired four shots from the middle of the stairs through the railings. He got them both, kicked their guns away and checked their now non-existent pulse and prepared to enter the garage.
"Deeks! Dammit Deeks! Do you hear me?" Kensi was roaring through his ear piece, he'd been blocking most of it out to keep concentrated and it worked; but it also meant that he didn't hear the 'it's a trap' part.
"Yeah, I'm here, we're about to go into the garage", Deeks was about to grab the door handle.
"No! Stop! Wait for us; we think it's a trap. Sam, Callen and I are coming down the stairs, did you meet any resistance?"
"Two guys at the bottom, but be careful Kens, some more could be up there"
He told Jamila that they were waiting for the rest of the team.
"Thank you Marty, I don't know what I would do without you guys" the princess was truly grateful for NCIS's help and was anxious for it to all be over.
"You're welcome, it's been fun, mostly" Deeks gave a comforting smile and then looked through the glass pane in the door. His smile quickly dissolved as he frowned, shook his head and spoke to his team via their microphones. "We have a problem down here", Deeks put his finger to his lips and looked at Princess Jamila, and he then used his arm to push her against the wall
Callen responded, "What's happening Deeks? Are you okay?"
Detective Deeks scoffed, "I can see about five men with guns in the parking lot, some are slowly moving towards us, and the other three that I can see are stationed near the walls", he paused to think, "Where are you three?"
This time Sam spoke first, "We should be there in a minute; we're just trying not to make noise in case someone else is in here" the Navy SEAL felt bad for their liaison, they shouldn't have let him go alone. Sam was the one shouting at him to go, they weren't prepared, and that doesn't happen too often.
Back down the stairs Marty Deeks, said "They're almost here", he could barely hear, so many thoughts were rushing through his mind, in fact he glanced to his left to make sure she was still with him. "How you holding up?"
"Pretty well, all things considered" she gave a weak smile even though she wasn't looking at Deeks but rather the staircase, it didn't really matter though because he barely registered her response, he was on DEFCON 1.
His skin was on fire as the blood raced through his veins and his arms shot up when he saw movement on the staircase; he motioned to his left for her to move all the way over to the side.
Agent Kensi Blye was like the little sister of the team, so when she tried to lead them down the stairs, she sort of knew it would be in vain.
"Kensi" both senior agents Callen and Hanna spoke at once but Sam continued, "get behind G, and in front of me".
She knew they were just trying to protect her but she just wanted to get down there to help Deeks.
Finally there were almost at the bottom, they hadn't seen anyone else yet and for that she was grateful yet she felt that the day was far from over. Then Callen stopped and pointed his gun, Kensi was right behind him and she relaxed her shoulders immediately as her eyes followed Callen's.
Her partner.
They all rushed down the stairs and almost felt the urge to hug each other for making it this far.
Jamila had been standing off to the side, and smiled in relief, it seemed like she hadn't smiled in weeks, in reality it hadn't been too long ago. "Kensi! Thank goodness you all are alright."
All of the agents had their turn looking through the glass pane and Callen stared at Deeks, "I don't see anyone " Deeks turned his head toward the team leader and his face clearly showed confusion, "it's been about two minutes since you called us, are you sure you saw people there?"
It had been a long day, sure, but he knew what he saw. "They must have moved, but we need to get out of here".
Kensi interjected, "he's right, these two have been in the same place for too long, this is the only chance we're going to have to leave. Sam and Callen will go out first, then Jamaal, and then Deeks and I'll hold up the end".
None of the men mush like the idea of Kensi being exposed but they didn't have time to argue.
They burst through the door and still saw no one.
They began to navigate in between the cars to find their SUV, Sam caught sight of an armed Arab and fired off two shots – they hit the intended target and the man fell to the ground. Sam said "keep moving".
NCIS had provided them with two black SUV's and as they rounded around the corner all hell threatened to break loose… again. About six armed men were just waiting with their weapons pointed and when Callen saw them and quickly fired off a few shots in their direction.
"We've got company!" Callen yelled as he ran back to the centre of the group. "Deeks make sure you stay with the girl!"
"Got it" Deeks nodded his head and steered Jamila behind a car as the other three fought off their armed adversaries. He was glad that Jamila was still safe but he kept watching the gun fight because he felt guilty for leaving his partner unprotected. Much to his enjoyment he shot someone from behind the car since he was practically out of sight. But then his heart practically came to a halt. Everyone else was preoccupied and didn't notice another man dressed in black surrounding them as he locked his eyes on to Kensi's frame. "Kensi!" Deeks's heart was pounding as he ran over to Kensi as he started shooting his gun at the man with the black coat. He knocked his partner to the ground as bullets whizzed past them and fired off an additional four gun shots, with two of them hitting the man and he fell dead to the ground. "Hey, you okay?" Deeks brushed her hair out of her face and stared at her.
"Deeks – I'm fine! Where's Jamila?"
Deeks couldn't believe his mistake and leapt up to run back to Jamila. "Shit."
The girl had gotten up from crouching by the car with worry on her face, not merely for herself but also for the agents she had become acquainted with.
Thank God she's okay, Deeks thought to himself, he was running towards her and realized that he had done a lot of that today.
A lone gunshot sounded and Deeks looked in the direction that he heard it. And then he heard a gasp. "Marty?" Jamila breathed out.
"No, no, no, no!" Everything seemed to be going in slow motion, Deeks couldn't seem to run fast enough, react fast enough, he barely heard anything except for her breaths. He reached Jamila and fell to the ground putting his hands over the growing blossom of blood that was escaping her chest. "It's going to be okay, Jamila. Okay? Just hold on with me, you are going to make it through this" Deeks was desperate, he had been stupid and forgotten the entire purpose of this mission: protect the girl. He failed.
But despite the circumstances the girl gave a smile, "Don't worry about me Marty, I knew they would get to me eventually, I'm at peace".
He shook his head and tears threatened to spill over his eyes, "I'm so sorry, this is my fault, I was stupid".
It was her turn to shake her head now, "No Deeks, I do not blame you, you care for her even I can see that. This is not your fault, the trial will go along as planned without my presence" she yawned.
"Stay with me, come on". But her eyes closed, and then Deeks relentlessly tapped her, as if to wake her up. And his senses slowly returned to him as he heard the sound of sirens in the distance.
Detective Deeks felt a gentle hand on his shoulder "Deeks?" It was Kensi.
"She's… gone." Deeks could barely comprehend what had happened.
The entire team was in shock and in serious need of a vacation. Kensi couldn't bear to see Deeks, his face was so broken and his entire body seeped of tragedy.
"It's going to be alright." Kensi had knelt down next to Deeks and pulled him up, the medical examiner had arrived and put a sheet over the body.
So what do people think about this chapter? too brief? too long? too wordy?
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