"Mom!" Marisa screamed.
Just before Marisa got in the car Callen caught up to her.
"What's wrong Marisa?" Callen asked worried.
"Someone's at my parents' house and they got my mom and dad," Marisa said with worry and anger in her voice.
"I'm coming with you."
Before Marisa could say something Callen was already in the passenger seat. Marisa quickly got in the car. She broke several speeding limits and run a couple of red lights as she drove as fast as she could to her parents' house. When they got there the front door was open.
Callen and Marisa both grabbed their guns and went into the house. They searched every room in the house. Marisa went to check the upstairs floor. She found her mom in the master bedroom.
"Mom!" Marisa yelled and she rushed to her mother's side.
Quickly she checked to see if her mother was still alive. She had a pulse but it was weak. She had several bullet holes in her. Callen had heard her scream and ran upstairs.
"Call for an ambulance," Marisa ordered as Callen walked into the room.
Callen quickly pulled out his phone and called for an ambulance.
"Any sign of my dad?"
"No, nothing. They probably took him with them."
"Oh god."
Marisa started crying as she held her mother in her arms. Callen kneeled down in front of her.
"We'll find him, I promise."
10 minutes later the ambulance was there. Marisa stepped aside so the paramedics could work on her. Once she was stable they took her to the hospital. Callen and Marisa followed in Marisa's car. On the way over there Callen called Eric. He explained what happened and told them to look for Marisa's father.
When Callen and Marisa arrived at the hospital Marisa's mom was already taken into surgery. Marisa went to the restroom to try to calm down a bit. She washed the blood of her hands and threw some water in her face.
About 5 minutes later she walked back to the waiting room and sat down next to Callen on the chair.
"Who would do this?" Marisa thought out loud.
"I don't know. But we'll find him."
About an hour later the doctor came out of the OR. As soon as Marisa saw the doctor stepping into the waiting room she got up and walked to the doctor followed by Callen.
"How's my mom?"
"She had 4 bullet holes in her. One of the bullets hit the artery around her heart. There was a lot of damage and she had lost a lot of blood. We tried to repair the damage but her injuries were too severe. I'm sorry."
"No, no, no. This can't be happening," Marisa broke down in tears.
"I'm sorry. There was nothing we could do."
"Of course there is. Get back in there and save her damn it!" Marisa yelled.
"Marisa," Callen spoke and he pulled Marisa in for a hug.
"She can't be dead, she just can't," Marisa sobbed into Callen's shirt.
Callen wasn't sure what to do. He wasn't really good with these situations.
"Shhhhh, it's gonna be okay Marisa."
Marisa pulled herself out of the hug.
"How can you say that? She's dead! She's not coming back!" Marisa yelled and walked off.
Callen wasn't sure what to do. Should he go after her? Or should he let her cool of for a moment? Callen turned to the doctor.
"I'm sorry about your loss sir. If you like you can see your wife."
"She's not my wife."
"Oh I'm sorry. I thought that you were her father so I figured that was your wife."
"I am her father. But this was her adoptive mother."
"Oh I see. Do you know how we can contact her husband?"
"We're still looking for him," Callen replied as he pulled out his badge. "Federal agent. We're handling this case."
"Oh okay. I understand. What do you want us to do with the remains?"
"Bring her to the morgue. I'll have our ME come by for an autopsy."
"Alright sir. Again I'm sorry for the loss. Hope you can find her husband soon."
"Yeah me too."
The doctor walked off and Callen pulled his cell phone out and called Rose. He also called Hetty to inform her about what happened and to have Kensi and Deeks check the house for any evidence. Callen went to look for Marisa. He found her sitting outside on the steps.
"Here you are," Callen said as he sat down next to Marisa.
"It's my fault."
"It's not your fault."
"Yes it is. Mom said that they were asking about me, that they were looking for me. It's my fault that my mom is dead."
"Hey," Callen said and pulled Marisa in for a hug. "Everything's gonna be alright. We'll find your father and the guys responsible for this. They are not gonna get away with this, I promise."
"Where's my mom? Can I see her?"
"They brought her to the morgue. Rose is coming to do an autopsy on her. I don't know if you can see her already." Marisa gave Callen a look. "Alright we can check."
Together Callen and Marisa walked to the morgue. They saw Rose working at the autopsy table.
"Hi Rose," Callen spoke.
"Hi Callen, Marisa. I'm sorry for your loss Marisa," Rose replied.
"Thanks."
Marisa looked at her mother lying on the autopsy table.
"Have you found anything?" Callen wanted to know.
"I recovered all of the bullets. I also found some skin cells under her nails, probably from her attacker. I put them in evidence bags," Rose answered and she pointed to the table.
Callen walked over to the table and looked at the evidence bags.
"Clean her up nicely will you?" Marisa asked.
"Of course."
"I'll take those to the lab," Callen said.
Callen and Marisa walked outside and they went back to the office. They dropped the evidence off at the lab.
"Ms. Mathews, can I speak to you for a minute?" Hetty called from her office as Callen and Marisa walked in.
"How is she?" Sam asked as Marisa walked to Hetty's office.
"She's doing okay considering I think. She thinks it's her fault her mother is dead."
"It's though losing a parent."
"Yeah it is. Anything on her father?"
"No nothing yet. Eric and Nell are still looking."
"What's up Hetty?" Marisa asked as she walked into Hetty's office.
"Have a seat Ms. Mathews," Hetty replied and Marisa sat down. "Are you good to work this case?"
"Yes Hetty I'm fine. I wanna find my father and the bastards who did this to my mother."
"Mr. Callen informed me that they were after you? Do you know why?"
"No I have no idea. My mom only said that they were asking about me, asking where I was. So I don't know if they mentioned anything about NCIS."
"Alright, I'll let you work this case, but as soon as I think your identity is compromised I'm gonna pull you off this case."
"Understood."
Marisa got up and walked upstairs to OPS.
"Found anything?" Marisa asked Eric and Nell.
"Not yet. We're checking traffic cams in the area. Kensi said one of the neighbors saw someone driving off in a blue van. So I'm looking at traffic cams in the area for that van," Eric answered.
"Keep checking. Try looking for this number," Marisa spoke and she gave Eric her dad's cell phone number.
Eric immediately typed the number into the computer. An address popped up on the screen.
"That's my parents' house. He probably left his phone there. Damn it. Keep looking."
Marisa walked out and went down to the gun range. She put the headphones and the glasses on. She hung up a paper target and sent it to the end of the range. She loaded her gun with dummy bullets and took her stance. She emptied her entire magazine and loaded another one and another one.
"I think he's dead," Nate's voice sounded across the room.
"What are you doing here Nate?"
"Hetty told me what happened, figured you might need someone to talk to."
"I'm fine Nate. I don't need to talk," Marisa replied and she walked past Nate to the armory.
"What you're going through is rough. You just lost your mother and your father is still being held captive."
"Thanks for summing that up Nate," Marisa said kind of angry.
"I'm just saying that's it's rough and that I'm here if you wanna talk."
"Thank you for that but I'm fine."
Marisa loaded her gun with real bullets and walked off.
Nate thought how much she looked like her father. Just like Callen Marisa hardly ever wanted to talk to him.
….
Just as Marisa walked into the bullpen Eric and Nell came down the stairs.
"We just got this video," Eric said as he put the video on the screen and played it.
Marisa saw her father on the screen. He was beaten up pretty badly. Callen immediately moved closer to Marisa.
"As you can see I have your father. Or should I say your adoptive father. If you don't want the same to happen to him as what happened to your adoptive mother and your mother you'll do as I ask," the voice of one of the kidnappers was heard. "We just want you. If you do as we ask we will let him go. Be at the Santa Monica Pier in an hour. Come alone, none of your federal agent buddies. Or else…."
One of the other guys pointed a gun at Marisa's father and shot him in his shoulder. He cried out in pain. Marisa immediately turned to Callen. Callen protectively moved his arms around her and held her.
"It's okay Marisa. It's gonna be okay. We'll find him and get him out of there." Callen continued to hold her. "Eric, Nell, see what you can get off this video."
"You got it," Nell said and the two techs walked back upstairs.
"I'm sorry," Marisa spoke as she pulled out of Callen's embrace and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Don't worry about it. We'll find your father and the guys who took him."
"Wait a minute. He said that the same would happen to my father as to my mother and my birth mother, meaning….."
"These are the same guys who killed you mother," Callen finished.
"Yes. I'll have Eric and Nell pull all the files from that case," Marisa said and she walked upstairs.
When she came back downstairs they made plans for the meeting on the peer. There was no way Callen was going to let her go alone.
An hour later Marisa walked onto the Santa Monica Pier. She had her earwig in and a button cam. Kensi was on the pier as well. She was there with a stroller. Deeks was pretending to be a fisherman. Callen was pretending to be a tourist, taking pictures. Sam was sitting on one of the benches reading a newspaper.
"Keep your eyes open, this could be them," Callen spoke as he saw 2 guys walking in the direction of Marisa and he took some pictures.
Those were the guys indeed. They walked up to Marisa.
"Marisa Mathews," one of the guys said and Marisa turned around.
"Yeah."
Eric, Nell, Hetty and Nate were watching in from OPS.
"Run facial rec of them Mr. Beale," Hetty ordered as she saw the two man on the screen via Marisa's button cam.
"On it," came the response of the tech.
"Follow us," one of the guys told Marisa.
Marisa followed them to a car. They got in and the car drove off.
"Eric, track a license plate. 7 – Charlie – Frank – James – 5 – 3 – 9," Sam said over the com.
"On it Sam."
The four agents got in the van and followed Marisa on a safe distance. They pulled up to a warehouse about 15 minutes later. Callen parked the car around the corner with a view of the warehouse.
"Eric, check traffic cams in the area. See if Marisa's dad is in there," Callen spoke.
"On it."
While Eric was checking traffics cams he got a hit on the facial rec of the guys.
"Oh no," Eric said as she saw the result. "Callen, the guys that have Marisa are the same guys that killed her mother."
"Copy that. Do you know if her father is in there too?"
"Still looking at traffic cams."
About 5 minutes later Marisa came out again with two other guys. The two other guys were dragging her to the van. Marisa was tied up and had a bag over her head. The van took off. Callen followed them.
A little later the van pulled into a parking lot and stopped.
"What are they doing?" Sam wondered.
Callen pulled up behind them and they all got out, guns ready.
"Federal agents! Get out of the car!" Callen yelled.
The two men got out of the van. Kensi and Deeks held their guns at them as Callen and Sam checked the back. They opened the back and found a woman in there. Sam pulled the bag off her head.
"It's not Marisa. It's a set up," Sam said.
Callen walked over to the two men.
"Where's Marisa? Where's the woman you took?" Callen yelled.
Both men kept quiet. Kensi and Deeks threw them in the back of the van. Callen drove back to the warehouse. Kensi and Deeks stayed behind with their two captives.
Callen and Sam searched the building. There was no sign of anyone there including Marisa. There was one more room to check. Sam opened the door as Callen covered him. Callen moved in first. Marisa wasn't in the room. But Marisa's father was. Callen went to check him.
"He's dead. Damn it!"
"The van was a decoy so they could take Marisa out without us following them," Sam stated.
"Eric, can you check traffic cams in the area to see if they left with Marisa. She's not here."
"On it."
"We have to find her before he kills her too."
"We will G."
They called the ME to come pick up the body. They brought the 2 guys to the boatshed. They put them in different rooms. Kensi and Deeks went to the office to see what Eric and Nell had found. Callen took the driver and Sam the other guy.
"Where is the woman you kidnapped?!" Callen spoke with his fists on the table. "Where is she?!"
"You'll never find her. And if you will it will be too late."
Callen picked the guy up by his collar and pushed him against the wall.
"Tell me where she is! If something happens to her you're not walking out of here alive! Why did they take her?"
"You don't understand."
"Then tell me."
Callen released the man and put him back on the chair.
"Tell me!" Callen ordered.
"Because of her mother. Her mother was after us. She was FBI. She killed a lot of our family. We hunted her down and killed her." Callen's face became red with anger. "After we killed her we found out she had a daughter. We tracked the daughter down but didn't find her until yesterday, at least her adoptive parents. We found out that she's a federal agent so we used her adoptive parents to get to her. And now we're gonna punish her for what her mother did to us."
"You forgot about one thing."
"And what's that?"
"Her father, me."
The man looked shocked as Callen said that. "You're her father?"
"Yes I am. And I'm gonna hunt you guys down, every last one of you. And I'm gonna make sure you pay for what you did to Marisa, her mother and her adoptive parents."
The man was visibly scared of Callen.
"So tell me where Marisa is and I might let you live."
"I don't know where she is. All he did was tell us to take this woman and drive her to the parking lot and make sure that you guys followed us."
"Do you have any idea where they took her?"
"No none. He never said."
Callen pulled out the guy's phone from the evidence bag.
"Call him."
He dialed his number. Callen took the phone from you. He had sent Eric a text to track this phone.
"Yes Marco," the voice on the other end of the phone said.
"This is not Marco. We have him. And we're coming for you. You made a big mistake killing them."
"You'll never find me."
"Oh I will. And you're gonna pay for everything you've done."
"Your threats don't scare me."
"That's your mistake. You have no idea who you're messing with."
"Got him Callen," Callen heard Eric say.
"I'm coming for you."
Callen disconnected the call. He got Sam and together they drove to the address Eric had given them. Kensi and Deeks pulled up at the same time. They put their vests on and geared up.
Callen and Sam took one side and Deeks and Kensi the other. They searched through the entire building. There were no guards.
"G, over here!" Sam yelled.
Callen ran over to him and found Marisa on the floor.
"Eric, get me an ambulance," Callen ordered. "Marisa, stay with me."
"Dad," Marisa's faint voice sounded across the room.
"Yeah it's me. I got you, you're safe."
"You gotta find my dad."
Callen and Sam looked at each other. Now wasn't a good time to tell her.
"We will," Callen told her just before she passed out.
Callen rode with her to the hospital. She didn't need surgery luckily. She had a couple of cracks ribs, a concussion and some bruises.
Marisa woke up a little later and she noticed that she was in the hospital. She saw Callen sitting on the chair.
"Dad," Marisa said softly.
"Hey Marisa."
"Did you find my dad?"
Callen took a sigh before answering. "I'm sorry Marisa but….."
"No, no," Marisa broke down in tears. "No, he can't be dead."
Callen sat next to her on the bed and pulled her in for a hug. He hated seeing his daughter like this.
"I'm sorry Marisa. I'm so sorry. I promise you we'll get the guys who did this. I promise."
Marisa sobbed for a few minutes in Callen's shirt.
"No, you can't go. They might kill you too."
"They won't. They don't know that I'm your father."
"You don't know that. They could know. I don't want to lose you too."
"You're not gonna lose me Marisa. Don't worry. You're not gonna lose me."
"Why did they have to kill them?" Marisa sobbed.
"I don't know. I don't know."
Callen held Marisa until she had calmed down a bit. Sam stood in front of the room. Callen put Marisa back down on the bed.
"I'll be right back."
"How is she?" Sam asked once Callen had stepped outside.
"Okay considering. She's afraid she's gonna lose me too."
"I won't let that happen. I got your back."
"Thanks. Have Eric and Nell found them already?"
"No not yet, still looking."
"I'm staying here. In case they come here."
"Alright, I'm heading back to the office. I'll call you if we have something."
Callen walked back into the room and sat down on the chair. Marisa had fallen asleep. Callen felt really bad for her. They were each other's only family now. Callen never wanted this to happen to her, the same that had happened to him. At least they had each other.
Callen woke up around 2am. He noticed that Marisa's bed was empty. He looked in the bathroom but nobody was there. He noticed that she pulled out the IV and her clothes were gone.
"Damn it Marisa," Callen silently cursed to himself.