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Deeks ran his fingers through his hair as he thought back to the conversation with Hetty. He had been shocked when she had not ripped him a new one.

"What do you want me to say mister Deeks, that you messed up?" she had asked.

"Yes, Hetty. In fact, I want you to reconfirm how big of an idiot and a failure I am." Deeks had responded.

Hetty had stood staring at him before she had spoken, "Agent Blye is a good agent. If she had wanted to get away from us she would have done it with or without you leaving her alone," she turned to walk away and then hesitated, "And mister Deeks?"

"Yes, Hetty?"

"Throwing a pity party for yourself is not going to bring her home."

Callen had left immediately when they realized she had run so she would only be a couple of minutes ahead of him. Deeks had confidence that they would find her before Ricky did but something deep down was bothering him and he could not pin point exactly what it was. "Any news?" He asked as Sam came into the room.

"Not yet, they found her car stranded in the mall parking lot about five miles from here. G thinks that she took a taxi from there. So she shouldn't be too hard to track down."

Deeks nodded. The picture of her giving herself up to the Russians leaked into his conscious thought and he could not suppress it. His mind went to when he had found her in the room with lasers. She had almost died then. If he had not gotten there right when he did things could have turned out differently. If she had swayed and touched one he would more than likely have a new partner and she would be dead. His heart beat faster as he thought of what could have happened. He thought of the possibility that this time he could be too late. It hit him what had been bothering him before, "Sam, she wouldn't go give herself up to them would she?"

Sam waited several seconds before answering, "Nah, she wouldn't do that. She knows we would put ourselves in harm way to go in and save her."

Deeks silently agreed, he knew without a doubt that he would stop at nothing to bring her home.

"Do you think she realizes how much more work she is causing us?" Sam asked.

Deeks sighed, "What do you mean? Being one agent short and not only having to find Ricky but having to look for her too?"

"Exactly." Sam sighed.

"I can't just sit here and do nothing while Callen is out looking for her. Can't we go out and help?" Deeks asked.

"We're not doing nothing, we're going through the old case files learning everything that may be beneficial to us later." Sam responded. He knew that Deeks was struggling; he knew how hard it must be to not be out doing something. But Callen had been right if anyone could find her it would be him.

Nell came down the stairs her face red. Just as Deeks was about to ask her what was wrong she spoke, "I am getting a migraine. I'm going to go home take my medicine and try to sleep it off. I'll be back as soon as I'm feeling better. Call me if you hear anything….and I mean anything at all."

Deeks could tell that she didn't feel well and he also knew migraines would come instantly and could put you down and out for hours at a time, "Will do Nell. Want me to drive you home?" He hoped with all his might that she would say yes, it would give him a chance to do some investigating on his own. Afterall, what Sam didn't know would not hurt him.

Nell smiled, "Eric is giving me a lift. My head hurts too bad to drive myself. But he's coming right back." She answered walking towards the door.

"Well get feeling better, okay." Deeks told her. He was slightly disappointed he knew that Eric was her partner and he should be the one to drive her home, but it would have given him the chance to look around too. He was Kensi's partner and he felt he should be the one out looking for her. He didn't want to waste his time sitting reading the stuff that Kensi had already told them. Not to mention it did not take two people to review one case file.

An hour later Eric had returned and was trying to trace Kensi. He was now looking at any new burn phones that had been purchased and if they were in the vicinity that Kensi may be in. Callen had not contacted them with any new information. The sun was going down and he knew they would have to call it quits for the night. Going without sleep would not only hurt their judgment but would leave them more vulnerable to getting sick. Deeks was growing impatient and was mentally going through places Kensi had mentioned to him in the past trying to find a place that she could be hiding out. With every minute that went by the more aggravated he became about her running off. Had she not trusted them enough to protect her? Or had she thought she was doing them a favor and keeping them safe? He was going to have a long conversation with her when they got her back. If it was that she was doing them all a favor he had every intention of asking her for a favor and when she said yes he was going to tell her to never do them a favor again. If it was that she didn't trust them he would…..his phone ringing stopped his thoughts and he answered it noticing it was a restricted number, "Deeks."

"Deeks, I need you to listen to me." Kensi sounded rushed.

Deeks sat up straighter and motioned for Sam to get Eric to trace the caller, "Kensi? What's going on? Where are you?"

"Listen, they have Nell. I'm going to go in and give myself up. They said if I would they would…." Dial tone. Deeks threw his fist against the desk and Sam went to ask what she had said when his phone rang again.

"If I do they are going to let her go. I need you to make sure they release her, if you haven't heard from her in two hours you need to start looking…I don't know if she is hurt." Kensi said and then she hung up.

Deeks held the phone in front of his face; she had purposely hung up knowing they were going to trace the call. He sat waiting hoping she would call back. Eric appeared shaking his head letting them know he had been unable to get her location.

Deeks looked at Sam, "Get ahold of Callen we need to go to Nells place. They took her so Kensi would turn herself in; they are supposed to release her upon Kensi showing up. Maybe there will be fingerprints…."

Deeks and Sam pulled into Nells' apartment complex seconds after Callen had. Sam had tried unsuccessfully to reach her by phone all the way there. Deeks jumped out and slammed his door shut. They approached the door and Callen noticed the door was locked, he knocked once, "Nell, it's Callen open up." Not hearing any response in return Sam kicked the door down. All three entered the apartment guns drawn and started clearing the house room by room.

Sam's voice filled the house, "In here." Callen and Deeks followed the sound of his voice.

Upon entering the room they found Nell sleeping in her bed a heating pad over her eyes, Sam shook her gently, "Nell, I owe you a door…but you didn't answer so I mean…well anyway how is your head?"

Deeks watched as Sam explained to a groggy and medicated Nell what had happened, "If she's here…" Deeks began.

"If she's here Kensi was played and is giving herself up for nothing." Callen responded turning and storming back out of the house.