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Chapter 4

"Mr. Callen," Hetty Lange said walking to the table and sitting down. "Would you care to explain why you are harboring a fugitive in our boatshed and why I am on this 'hit list'?" She looked towards Sam who went to make her a cup of tea.

"I can explain Hetty." Callen said suddenly worried.

"It's my fault I came here to keep both you and Nic safe." Gibbs said.

"And who is Nic?" Hetty asked.

Callen gave her a shy grin, "I am…Nicolai Callen Gibbs."

Hetty looked surprised and carefully concealed it as she looked from Callen to Gibbs, "I thought so, but I was told you were Jethro Gibbs?"

"Ma'am?" Gibbs said confused.

"I knew Clara, she used to tell me about her husband Leroy Gibbs, I was told you were dead, she told me you had been killed in a drive by shooting I assumed that Mr. Callen, Sorry, Mr. Gibbs here, had a different father to his sister, Clara never told me who the father of her children was."

Gibbs took a deep breath and walked to the window. "I tried looking for them before I was told they were dead. I contacted Eugene Keelson after I was told my son may have been born, but I didn't get an answer from him, He had found out that my daughter was brought to America and he sent me a picture of her grave, even though she was buried under someone else's name, But we could find no information on Nicolai Gibbs, so I thought he had either been killed with Clara or hadn't been born." Gibbs admitted.

Callen walked up behind him and handed him a coffee. "It's ok Dad." He said so quietly that Hetty nearly missed it, but Gibbs smiled.

Callen grabbed his own drink and sat down, "Keelson said something to me before he died, and I think it might have something to do with this."

"What did he say?" Sam asked

"He said that all this, went deeper than my name and my family, and that I was asking who; when I should have been asking why?" Callen said.

"Why; what?" Kensi asked.

"Why I was separated from Clara and the kids?" Gibbs said it was the biggest question he'd ever had.

"Why were you told they were dead?" Deeks added.

"Why did they kill my mom?" Callen added softly.

"I thought that was because of the blood feud with the Comescu's," Hetty said, "However my enquires in Romania last year before I saw Alexa Comescu gave me pause for thought on that, At one point to keep her off your trail I had a fake death certificate written up, I started to tell her your name and she cut me off saying she knew your name…I didn't realize then, but someone must have given her your real, full name. I don't know where she would have got that from."

"Clara's uncle, George, from what I remember was in Romania working with a Jewish group to try to stop a war." Gibbs said trying to remember.

Hetty nodded. "The war of Attrition." She said and everyone looked at her. "It was a conflict between Egypt and Israel from 1967 – 1970, President Nixon sent William Rodgers to try to conduct a ceasefire, although I know there was a group who really were trying to broker a ceasefire separately and they met in Bucharest on neutral ground, I think it was at the Comescu compound to try and broker a peace deal, although nothing was finalized new alliances were made and the unrest that was starting to grow between the Israelis and the Palestinians had been settled down by the meetings between…Oh! I remember now between George Callen he worked for the NSA, the deputy secretary of state for Israel Yusef Bodnar and oh I can't remember the name of the Palestinian….Amir Haswari…That's it."

"President Nixon didn't want peace between these too that he didn't control." Gibbs guessed.

"Is this why?" Callen asked, "Is this why my mother died, is this what Patterson and Parsons were trying to keep you from finding out and why Jackie Vance and Eli David had to die? Is this why I grew up alone?" Callen's voice was shaking in fury and Gibbs could see the anguish in his boy's eyes. It was the same anguish he had felt when he had discovered that Shannon and Kelly had died because of a drug deal and that Pedro Hernandez was the one to ultimately blame for their deaths.

"Nic," he said softly placing his hands on Callen's shoulders.

"NO!" Callen shook him off and stood up, "They all died, they all died because of George Callen trying to do something right, and Patterson is trying to cover it up, this isn't right!"

"It isn't right son, and for the good of the country it may never come out, but Parsons and Patterson will not be allowed to continue to cover this up."

Callen looked at Gibbs, "They won't." He agreed.

Hetty shivered at the intense look passing from father to son.

"G…Er Nic...Callen…Aw heck!" Sam growled frustrated.

"G's fine Sam." Callen grinned.

"So, G what's the plan?"

Both Gibbs and Callen turned to them all. "Stop Patterson and Parsons." They said together.

"Any idea how?" Deeks asked looking at them both.

Callen grinned.

"I'm going on the run, Parson's will take the bait and find out my connection to Gibbs and then we get them both to confess."

"Got any idea how?" Kensi asked

Callen just smirked. "Yep."

"Gonna tell us G?" Sam asked.

"Not yet, plausible deniability, if Granger gets called in on this or Parsons or Director Patterson interviews you, you actually don't know so even if they use a lie detector you won't fail."

"What if they ask about you and Gibbs and how we know?" Kensi asked.

"If you're asked Sam followed me to the boatshed you followed him, you found me and Gibbs in here, you heard me call him dad and him call me Nic and we shot our way out of here."

"But you didn't?" Deeks said.

"But we will…" Callen grinned. "I have a burn phone Hetty, the Beauregard one."

She nodded in understanding.

"Just one favor Sam?" Callen asked drawing his gun.

"What?" Sam asked.

"Miss!" Callen said and started firing as he and Gibbs ran out the door and jumped into Sam's Challenger.