Two weeks had passed since Kensi had disappeared from her home. There had been no hits on kaleidoscope and she hadn't tried to contact them at all. Not that she could be blamed, they had fired her due to reckless behaviour and then violated her home due to her possibly becoming a mental case. Deeks sighed and ran a hand through his hair in defeat. He missed her. He knew the others missed her but none of them had a 'thing' with her. None of them were ridiculously in love with her.

Sam and Callen wandered into the bullpen at that moment. Not arguing, not joking, not laughing. They too were silent and both showing the signs of distress. They too were missing Kensi. Deeks gave them both a nod of acknowledgement before looking back down at his paperwork. Both Sam and Callen followed suit, sitting down with their coffees and starting on their stacks of paperwork.

"Good morning people! The sun is shining and today is a good day!" Special Agent Dani Jackson called as she walked into the bullpen. She had been here for five days and her good mood annoyed everyone, Hetty included. Nobody responded, but kept their heads down and their pens moving. She had been getting the same response since she joined and it wasn't a surprise to her. She placed her bag on her desk and watched as Deeks stiffened noticably. She sighed. "Oo-kay." She murmured before plopping herself down in the chair and humming a tune to herself.

Minutes passed with Dani still humming when Callen raised his head to look at Deeks and Sam, who both had matching faces of anger directed to the newbie. Callen flung a piece of paper at Deeks, causing him to glance up in confusion but smiled a slight smile when he was pointed in Sam's direction. Sam's eyes were glistening with anger and his jaw was visibly clenched. In the silence, Deeks could even hear his teeth grinding against each other. Deeks looked at Callen and nodded. 'Three, two, one.' They mouthed and weren't dissapointed when Sam erupted on cue. "Would you stop it temp?" He shouted causing her to drop her pen in shock, jump and look at him with wide eyes. "We don't want all your happy sappy crap so just take a break would'ya?" She clenched her jaw to bite back an angry response and nodded before turning back to her paperwork after grabbing her pen.

Luckily Eric saved them from having to wait too long in the awkward silence as he appeared at the top of the stairs. "We have a case." He called with no emotion or smile before walking back into Ops. His whistles and dramatic entrances had left alongside Kensi. Dani ran ahead with her happy mood, leaving them all to dawdle up the stairs at a slower rate.

"I didn't realise Kensi had this much of an effect on us." Sam murmured, sadness tinting his voice. Callen sighed before patting him on the shoulder and walking ahead of us. He turned to Deeks with a sad smile. "You're handling it better than I thought to be honest, if it was Michelle that had left then I would be a wreck." Deeks laughed sadly as they walked into the dark room.

"Looks can be deceiving." He stood in his normal place, next to where an imaginary Kensi was standing. Eric wasted no time in getting the information up onto the screen.

"So it looks like a Petty Officer Bryans was stealing weapons from his base and providing them to known gangs in the area and terrorists overseas. His bank account was getting hefty amounts of money that don't correspond with his wages and he's not been having family members die regularly that leave him money. He turned up yesterday and now we-" Callen frowned and put his hands up before interrupting.

"If he turned up, then why are we here?" Nell rolled her eyes, which happened to be the most emotion she had shown in two weeks.

"As we were saying, he turned up yesterday and now we need you guys to find his killer." Nell answered with a tinge of annoyance. Callen raised an eyebrow at her, clocking on too her annoyance but backed down when she did the same eyebrow raise to him. Sam was still looking at the board.

"You got any footage of his death?" Eric shook his head.

"He was washed up on the beach, cameras only show his body being left by the tide." Sam nodded and looked at Callen, waiting.

"Okay, Sam and I will talk to his CO and see if we can find anything. Whizz kids will try and backtrack the money, Deeks, you and Dani go and talk to his family." Deeks nodded and was following Dani out when they heard Eric shout in excitement. "Eric?"

"I've got a hit." Deeks wandered back in and noticed that Dani followed too, curiosity getting the better of him. Obviously Nell asked the question on all their minds as he turned around grinning and a sparkle in his eyes. "I found her." None of them had to ask who the 'her' was.

"Who?" Dani asked.


Deeks took a deep breath as he stood in front of the door. Two weeks had passed and now that they could've found her, he was extremely nervous.

"Deeks, you know her best, what's around here that would make her go there?" Deeks frowned for a second as he looked at the address of the camera before it triggered.

"Her mum." Sam chuckled, a little giddy and nearly having his sister back.

"Deeks, you go there then, Dani you can handle speaking to the family on your own right?" She nodded, a frown still on her face.

"Sure, but who are we on about?" Deeks just rolled his eyes before walking out of OSP, trying to stop himself from running to his car.

He knew he was the right man for the job, but his nerves were still getting the better of him. He imagined Kensi standing next to him, rolling her eyes and calling him a scaredy cat for not being able to knock the door but being able to handle terrorists and murderers on a daily basis, and then quickly saying touché before he could. He quickly rapped his knuckles twice against the door and waited, not patiently at all.

"Marty, hi." Julia greeted when she opened the door and he smiled sheepishly. "How can I help you?"

"Hi Julia, sorry but can I speak to Kensi please?" Her brow furrowed and she leant against the doorframe. "I mean, she is here, right?" She shook her head and he cursed under his breath. "Maybe I could come in and quickly update you then, since you have no idea what's going on?" She smiled gratefully and opened the door, motioning for him to come in. He sat down on the settee and waited patiently for her to join him.

"Can I get you anything?" She asked politely, a tiny bit grateful when he shook his head. "So, what has happened to my daughter?" He took a deep breath and looked at his hands.

"This might be hard to handle but just bear with me? Okay, so a couple of weeks ago Kensi got fired from, well, ya'know." She nodded, aware that it was classified. "Yeah, well weeks leading up to this, she had been acting out, being more aggressive and taking stupid risks that even though did pay off, got her hurt when there was no need. Now, due to the behaviour and her being let go from basically her life, Hetty was concerned that she could be a danger and we were ordered to take her weapons away, we know this was wrong but we were purely concerned she would do something she would regret. She ran away that day." He took a deep breath and looked up at Julia who seemed to be handling it pretty well, her eyes were wide but she didn't look too upset.

"Is she okay?" He shrugged.

"We presume so, we had a hit from a camera that she was coming to this address and we just wanted to talk to her." Deeks sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "I guess there isn't much more for me to do than ask you if you would contact me if you see or speak to her." He stood up and walked to the door, Julia following. "Thank you for your time."

She nodded, her eyes still wide and shut the door after him. He walked to the end of the path and stood next to his car, pulling his phone out and calling Callen. "She's not here, doubt she's going to come at all if she hasn't already been. Looks like it was a bust." Callen sounded disappointed but told him to come back to Ops so he could work on the current case.


Julia shut the door behind the detective and watched him walk to his car before speaking on the phone and then driving away. With a sigh she turned around and headed to the kitchen. "He's worried about you darling." She said, fixing herself a cup of coffee.

"I know mum, he worries too much for his own good." Kensi responded, leaning against the doorframe, clutching her cup of coffee.

"You better tell me what has gotten into you before I decide to grab the phone and tell Marty that I lied." Kensi's eyes flashed with anger before she sighed and sat down on the stool next to the breakfast bar.

"Mum, I nearly found him. He's alive." She watched as Julia stiffened before turning around and facing her.

"Who's alive sweetie?"

"Mum, you know who I'm on about. Dad's alive."


Author's note: Hi to all of you that are actually reading this (and enjoying the story so far). I just wanted to say thanks, because each follow/favourite/review is actually making this all worthwhile and i have so many ideas for this story as well as my other 'That Feeling' (check it out;) ) and also so many more that i really want to write... But, college comes first i'm afraid so the next time i upload, it will be once my workload has died down a bit (three assignments due this week and i haven't even started) but i promise you that i will be back soon as i can.. Plus, i'm writing them on my phone when i'm out or during breaks at college so it shouldn't be that long..

Love you all.. Alice x