Adjusting her binoculars as she stood on a rooftop in downtown LA Sabine allowed herself to sigh as it was a rather humid day in LA and she was three months into her assignment of providing both surveillance and counter-surveillance for Agent Callen who was none the wiser about the entire thing. Sabine had been practically been following Callen's every step this entire time which wasn't easy as the was naturally cautious given his line of work and made a habit of moving from whatever motel he had been staying out. In the space of a month he had moved about four times, Sabine didn't really blame him for his restlessness given what had happened and knowing the person who had shot him could still be out there. The last three months Sabine hadn't caught whiff of anything that resulted into a real threat, if she caught sight of anyone so much as looking at Callen in a suspicious photo then she would taken a photo and have it sent over to a friend who would use facial recognition to check their background. There had been a few threats and one minor incident but none of them linked back to Callen's shooting. They were just other people who wanted him dead, making the elusive Agent Callen a very popular man in the worst possible ways and why Sabine was still keeping tabs on him. They couldn't be too sure that the people coming after Callen were linked to the people behind his shooting or separate and the people who shot Callen thought he was dead and that was it.

The trouble was that the team investigating the attempt on Callen's life had come up with zilch and Sabine couldn't exactly blame them. She had asked for Callen's personnel file along with his case history so she could make an assessment of people who wanted Callen dead as if she knew their faces she could keep an eyes out for them. It was a simple enough request but the file that Sabine had been given barely contained anything it and that was excluding the information inside the file that had already been redacted. This guy Callen was a tricky one, the director hadn't been kidding when he said that Agent Callen had worked with a few agencies in his time. Callen had been FBI, CIA and DEA before he had finally settled with NCIS, it explained why so much of the file that had been given to Sabine had been redacted, Not only did the guy move around when it came to where he was staying but also when it come to work, from what Sabine had seen and read Callen was an extremely fidgety person and had this need to move around. Plus the guy was some kind of freak who practically never slept which was something that Sabine really didn't like.

Sabine watched as Callen stood on street corner idly chatting with his partner Sam Hanna a former Navy SEAL who stilled lived but that code from what Sabine had read in his files. She had read the files of Callen's team when she began this assignment as Sabine needed to know who and what she was dealing with. It had been a rather difficult thing for Sabine to do as she knew that she was going to inevitable work with these people once this current assignment was over. Personnel files were generally confident but Sabine had been allowed to look them over for 'five minutes'. Because at this moment she didn't work them, at this current time Sabine was there to make an objective and covert assessment to the threat towards Callen, which meant looking at everyone who had dealt with him, including the people who he worked with. It was a necessary evil as she called it because she needed to see if there was anything to suggest they were involved. Sabine didn't know the people personally so she dealt with the whole thing rather easy reasoning that she was doing this all to save Callen's life. Sabine watched as the two men interacted before Callen went into a bodega whilst Agent Hanna remained outside. Continuing to keep her eyes on the target Sabine felt a vibration from her pocket, which was no doubt her phone, and so she touched the hands free device that was attached to her right ear.

"Sawyer…" Sabine began.

"Hi Sabine, is this a good time to talk?" Angie Marques, one of the nurses who worked at the care home of Sabine's grandfather. It was one of the daily phone calls that Sabine received as since she spent most of her time acting like Callen's damn shadow she didn't have much time to visit her sick grandfather. So Sabine would have one of his nurses call her and give her an update.

"Yeah I can talk, I'm just doing some work…" Sabine replied as she put down the binoculars down for a brief moment to give her eyes a much needed break. They had become her best friend in the last couple of months that she was going to end up getting tunnel vision if she wasn't careful. "So what's up Angie? How is my old guy going today?"

"Right now he's taking a nap but he's been having a very good day so far Sabine, we went for a nice long walk this morning and he was telling us all these stories about the war. Then how he met your Grandmother Julianna soon after the war ended and how they got married a month after they met and then traveled around Poland for a year before coming back and settling down before your mother was born. August's eyes just light up when he talks about your grandmother."

Sabine found herself smiling as it gave her great relief to know her grandfather was doing okay despite how ill he was, however she was happy to hear that he was having a goody day but it made her wish that she was with him. Growing up as a kid she loved to hear stories about how her grandparents met, she loved to hear those stories even more so after her grandmother passed away five years ago. I'm not surprised, she was the love of his life."

"He asked about you several times Sabine, he misses you very much…" Angie stated and Sabine sighed, she missed her grandfather too. She knew time was running out but this thing with keeping an eye out on Callen like she was babysitting him too up a lot of her time because of the man's bizarre habits. Sabine had to watch the man like a hawk and keep a very close but distant eye on him because he was constantly on the move. His reputation preceded him and then some, when this was hopefully all over Sabine wasn't sure whether she wanted to buy the odd agent a drink or strangle him for keeping Sabine on her toes this entire time.

"I miss him too and I want to be there with him Angie I really do, there is nothing I want more but I am just caught up with work. There seems to be an never ending pile of manuscripts I need to read and proof read, then there is the countless meetings." Sabine replied casually lying as she tended to lie to a lot of people about what she did given it's nature. If people knew she was a federal agent they would ask a lot of questions so Sabine told everyone that she worked in publishing and if anyone asked she would bore them to death about proof reading and editing academic textbooks and other books that they would never ask about her job again. "I'm going to try and slip out of work early and come over and spend some quality time with him for a couple of hours at least. I made some pączki last night, it's a like a polish doughnut so I'll bring up some with me. My grandmother used to make it and we all adored it so Papa Sadowski will be overjoyed if I bring that with me.

"August will be so pleased to see you–" Angie began and Sabine was about to laugh until she heard a sound in the distance from behind her. Sabine was pretty sure that someone was up here and she knew she had to keep acting like everything was fine. Lifting up her binoculars as to pretend everything was fine as Angie continued to walk, Sabine noticed that both Callen and his partner Agent Hanna were gone. Sabine couldn't believe she had managed to lose them but they couldn't be too far, she would find them. As in the last three months of her playing Sabine spies she hadn't lost Callen once. There had been a couple of close calls but he had never managed to get past her and she was not going to call Hetty or Director Vance and say that she had lost Callen. Putting down her binoculars on the roof of her edge, Sabine slowly shuffled around slightly and began to discreetly reach for her gun in order to unholster it.

"Don't even think about, now put your hands where I can see them."

"Angie? Can I call you back in a bit as something has just come up…" Sabine stated as she moved her hands away from her gun holster and used her right hand to hit her hands free to end the phone call. Knowing that she couldn't reach for her ankle holster Sabine took a deep breath and slowly turned around and must to her surprise and dismay she was Agents Callen and Hanna. Sabine recognized them instantly from their photos not to mention she had been all but stalking Callen for the last three months. Up close and personal Sabine had to admit that the elusive Agent Callen looked rather good looking then he did from a longer distance even if he was looking at her with a very pissed off expression on his face. They must have spotted her watching then and now here they were pointing their sigs at her. Sabine's day was now getting a bit worse. She knew she should have taken her position in the next building over as it provided more cover however it had less visibility.

"Now take the gun out and slowly place it on the ground, kick it away and then get on your knees and put your hands over your head." Sam Hanna instructed in a tone that suggested it would be better for Sabine if she didn't argue and just did what they said. Unable to believe what was happening Sabine did what she was told as the sooner she got this over with, the sooner she could explain what was really going on.

"This isn't what it looks like–" Sabine began as she slowly unholstered her gun, placed in on the ground and kicked it away before following the rest of Agent Hanna's instructions. This had to be the most embarrassing thing to have ever happened to Sabine, in her eight years of being a federal agent. Upside was that someday it may make one heck of a story, hell she may even tell her grandfather about it later on considering how the rest of this encounter went.

"–Says the woman with the rifle." Callen retorted and Sabine's eyes couldn't help but dart over to the rifle that was sitting in a black duffle bag that was about 2 feet away from her. Even though she was only doing the surveillance on Callen, she had the rifle with her in case something did happen and she needed to quickly intervene. If something had went down from where she had watching there wasn't much that her sig and glock could do, hence the rifle.

"I know it looks bad I can explain that and the rest of this…" Sabine said in a casual manner as she knew things were looking pretty bad for her, if things were the other way round she would definitely be getting the wrong idea about what was going on here.

"Who are you? And why have you been following me?" Callen demanded and Sabine looked at him for a moment before deciding what the hell, he had busted her so she might as well tell him who she was. Really it was her only choice as Sabine doubted Callen or Hanna would let them go if she fed them some cock and bull story as they weren't stupid. Telling the two of them that she was one of them was literally the only way that Sabine knew that she could get the two of them to lower their guns.

"NCIS."