Yeah! Second chapter!

Thank you's go to Nadya for this chapter. She sat with me the whole time, but that could be because we are stuck in an full airplane and there is no where for her to go. :)

DISCLAIMER = I OWN NADA!

"So what do we have guys?" As it turns out as soon as the team had reached the bullpen, Callen, Sam and Deeks had all fallen asleep. It had taken Kensi 5 minutes to wake them up when he heard Eric's whistle and their team leader, as described by Hetty, was damn cranky about being woken up when he hadn't even had 10 minutes sleep.

So when his question came out sounding like it was said by Kensi on a sugar low, everyone just ignored it and responded calmly.

"Not much." Eric said, they were all looking at an almost blank screen. The only thing on it were pictures of a couple of security guys.

"Nothing, actually." Nell didn't even try and sound upbeat. She was really pissed, they had just gotten off a flight that was who knows how long and were not even back in town for two hours when they were called in for a case that they had almost nothing on.

"Well, we do have something. As you can see up on screen..." Eric tried to take the edge off his partner's brief and sadly accurate statement. He knew that see was more tried than any of them, as she had been up as long, but had not resorted to red-bull and coffee like the rest of them. She had a right to be cranky. "...we have the names of the two guards who were on duty when the missiles were stolen. One was found..." Nell pulled up a picture of the victim for her partner. "...dead at the scene. His name is TJ Eras, born October twenty-first 1963, 48 years. Worked for Gervais High Quality Security for 28 years, no criminal record, valid drivers license... This guy is just your average American security guard working nights...where nothing extraordinary ever happens."

"Except he was killed on the job during a robbery." This was the part of the job Sam didn't like, having to look at the victims, tell their families what had happened...sometimes he wondered why he did it.

"Did he have any family? Wife, kids?" Kensi had walked up to the board and was discussing the personal life of their victim with Nell. The redhead answered her question with a sad look on her face.

"Yeah, his wife, Annalize Hamonde and two kids, Emilia and David, ages 14 and 10. LAPD already questioned them, according to Annalize there would not be anyone who would kill her husband."

"Could they be targets?"

"No, I don't think so. This was a robbery, not a hit." Callen answered for her. "Their aim was the missiles, Eras probably just got in the way, so they took him down."

"What about the other guard Eric? You said there were two." Deeks asked, looking at the picture of the other man.

"Petty Officer Liha Milani, age 28, she was the military supervisor for the missiles."

"So, where is she?"

"Well that's the problem." Nell turned back from the screen, looking at the team. "We don't know." She paused and looked up at the team, they looked none to happy at the turn of events. "Her car is still at the warehouse, everything in it, but she isn't there. It's like she disappeared."

"Urgh!" Kensi through her hands up in defeat and disgust. "I hate warehouses, particularly ones with nothing in them!"

"Common Kenz, there's tons of stuff here." Deeks looked around them. There were boxes everywhere, filled with god knows what, and they had to go through all of them. It was no wonder G and Sam had chosen to take Hamonde and Milani's houses instead. This was going to be torture. "Let's start up there." He pointed to the stairs that lead up to an office above the storage unit. "Maybe the security cameras got something."

"Maybe." Kensi followed her partner up the metal stairs, hoping there might be something, anything, that could help them.

When they got there all there was was a 8.5'' laptop and an empty bookcase.

"Really? This cannot be it." Deeks looked at the tiny piece of technology sitting on the floor. "Not even a desk? Man, this is a whole new take on minimalism."

"Is that a word?" Kensi glanced at her partner, rolling her eyes.

"Yes, it is." Deeks looked around, there was something not quite right about this room. "Wait, wasn't this room bigger?"

"What?"

"I said, wasn't this room bigger." He glanced around again mentally taking measurements. "The outside is way bigger than the inside, like ten feet bigger." Meeting his partners eyes, he new they were thinking the same thing.

"The bookcase." Simultaneously the two partners walked over to it. I crack along the edge where the bookcase met the wall indicated they were right. Pulling on the edge, Kensi unveiled a whole new part of the case.

Ten minutes later she was on the phone with Eric.

"It's encrypted, everything is encrypted." They had stumbled upon a huge computer system. It had been shut down when they got there, and it had taken quite a bit of searching to find the power button. It had all gone downhill from there..

"Can you bring it back here?" Kensi glanced over at the computer that her partner was currently crouched in front of. It was not normal, there were at least 10 screens and even more other pieces she didn't know the names of.

"Do you have a U-haul truck?" Even then she was pretty sure they wouldn't be able to get it back.

"Okay, well, Nell can be there in 15. I'll call G and Sam. Do not touch anything." With this final warning he hung up.

"What was that all about?" Nell looked at her partner, his face was grim. When he had told Kensi not to touch anything his voice had made it sound urgent.

"That was Kensi. They found a secret room with a super computer...or that's what it sounded like anyways. To big to bring back...do you mind going to see what you can do with it? I'm kinda all hung up here..." He gestured around the room, she knew what he meant. This case had them all scrambling, the missiles that had been stolen were extremely dangerous and filled with classified technology. If any of their enemies got ahold of them...Nell didn't want to think what that might mean.

"...and you can't go yourself? That's fine Eric, your know, I'm pretty sure that that would be under my job description anyway, no matter how much you want to see this thing." She laughed as she began to rummage around for the equipment she needed, Nell knew how excited her partner got about computers. It was almost laughable how his eyes lit up when the team brought them in computers to dissect. "You want me to pick you up some coffee while I'm out?"

"Bla-" She cut him off, she knew how he liked it.

"Black, triple expresso? Got it." Nell had to smile, it was funny how after only being here 5 months she had done enough coffee runs that she knew exactly how he liked it...and she didn't even drink coffee.

"Yeah, thanks..." He said in a dazed tone. Nell looked up at her partner, it wasn't like him to be this zoned out. Ever since that call with Kensi he had looked a little freaked out, she was worried.

"Hey, you alright partner?" He jerked his head up.

"Huh?" Nell watched as he shook his head quickly. "What? Yeah, I'm fine."

"No, you are not. Ever since you got off the phone with Kensi you haven't been yourself." She could see his internal debate, but after a second he gave in and spoke.

"It's just, the last time the team found a computer with important information on it and tried to get themselves in..." He paused, not wanting to scare his partner. "Well, they only just got out before the place exploded."

"That's not going to happen Eric. Really, I don't think anyone who bothered to spend so much time putting together a super computer would want to blow it up." She glanced up at the screen, on which a clock was centered. "I've gotta go, be back with your coffee and super computer soon." At that she rushed out of the room, knowing that if they spent anymore time talking she wouldn't get there in the time frame Eric had set for her.

Nell was only about a minute away from the warehouse when she saw it, and felt it. From the place she was going there was a loud beep and then she saw a ball fire fire explode into the air. She felt the heat through her car's open window. She could only hope to god that Kensi and Deeks had gotten far enough away before...She didn't want to think about it.

Okay...I am actually posting this about two weeks after we finished it...sorry. But I lost my charger/cord, and had to wait till I could get another one.

Anyway, you guys are lucky... A double update! From now on (cause I've got school and dance) I'll be trying to update weekly/bi-weekly. But don't get mad if I can't, I am a busy person!

Love it? Hate it? Let me know please!

Yazzy!