Chapter Four (More C.J)
C.J walked into the bullpen the next morning, after arriving there that morning because she couldn't go to school thanks to being excluded again, and saw the man she had had in a headlock the night before, who her dad said was named Deeks, Kensi who was her dad's favourite agent, and another man who she didn't know interrogating her dad. As she walked over to them her dads boss, Hetty, called on her dad to go and talk to her in her office. Kensi and Deeks turned to C.J just as Renko walked in. Suddenly she and Renko where being dragged into an empty office, once Kensi, Deeks, and the other man had C.J and Renko in the office they shut the door and turned on them.
'What do you know about Callen's relationship with Nell Jones?' the other man questioned, while leaning against the door with his arms crossed so that neither C.J nor Renko could squirm past them and then escape. C.J and Renko looked back and forth between themselves and the others before they both sighed and played a game of Rock Paper Scissors which earned them strange looks.
'Fine, Sam I'll tell you what I know but not everything, Callen will me if I do. About 7 years ago, I went on a joint six month operation with the CIA, the two agents in charge where one Agent G Callen and an Agent Nell Jones. I accidently walked in on Nell and Callen kissing before me and Callen left. About two months into the operation, me and Callen got kidnapped, and I remember him telling me about Nell and how he hoped he got out of everything and back to her. I remember him telling me about just how serious he was with her. It wasn't the first time I met Callen, and I knew he would never be serious when anyone until Nell at least. If you want to know more about Callen and Nell you're going to have to ask Callen or Nell,' Renko said before the team turned to C.J. She just looked at them and laughed, before shoving Renko and then the rest of the team and walked out.
C.J walked into the firing range, and saw Callen standing there shooting the hell out of a paper cut out. She could tell he was angry, by the fact that he wasn't even heisting to pull the trigger.
'Hey,' she said softly as she walked up to him. He took off his ear protectors and put the gun down.
'Hey, you want a lesson?' he questioned as he turned around and faced her.
She held out her hand, 'Let's see if I need any lesson's¸ why don't we?' she said sarcastically as he placed the ear protectors and gun into her hand. She quickly checked the gun was loaded and put her ear protectors on. As she lined up the shots and fired, she didn't notice the team walk into the firing range until she had taken at least six shots and she had pressed the recall button. As she picked up the paper she spoke.
'So dad, do you think I need lessons or do you think I am good enough?' there was laughter in her voice as she already knew the answer but that was when she heard the gasps of shock and surprise.
'G, you have a daughter?' came the question from the man C.J had recently learnt was named Sam. Callen looked up from C.J to his team. Without think he wrapped his arm around her shoulders before finally turning back to his team mates. C.J looked up at him, questioning his answer to come.
'Yeah, this is my second youngest daughter Carter Jane Callen, she's thirteen,' he answered, she could see the pride in his eyes as he answered. She knew that he loved her, and she was proud to be his daughter, even if this was the first time his team had heard about it, she knew that he did it to keep her and KT save from whatever danger there was to him and anyone related to him.
'What do you mean your second youngest daughter?' his favourite agent, Kensi, questioned as she compared Callen and C.J. C.J turned back to Callen, wondering if he was going to tell his team about KT and Jacey. He had told her and KT about Jacey the day he found out about her, they were both happy and sad. They were happy that they had a baby sister and they always would, but they were sad that they would never meet her, but that didn't matter they still had each other – family.
'You better sit down. My oldest daughter is Kelsey Taylor, she's fifteen almost sixteen. My second oldest daughter is C.J, and as you know she's thirteen. My youngest daughter is Jacey, and she was three years and two months old when she died. Do you want to know anything else?' he finally told them, he was annoyed; he didn't want to tell them but they kept questioning. They didn't understand just how hard yesterday had been for him, or for his family. C.J had been kicked out of school… again, Nell was in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder, and he had just found out that he had another daughter who had died when she was three from Leukaemia and he hadn't been there for Nell or his daughter. C.J could tell everything that had happened was difficult for him, especially the news about Jacey, she and KT were struggling with everything that had happened in the past twenty four hours, and she knew that Callen was just going to bottle everything up until she, KT and him were alone and one of them finally broke, and that would lead to them all opening up, just like what happened when he had been shot. C.J looked over to his team and she could see the agents coming up with questions for him, and she knew one of them would have to answer.
'Where do your daughters stay when you're undercover? I mean, you don't have anyone here to watch them when you are on long term undercover,' Deeks questioned, while C.J and Callen looked at each other smirking. C.J nodded and laughed before turning back to the team standing there.
'Washington D.C!' both C.J and Callen replied simultaneously, laughing at the looks they were getting from Callen's team. C.J looked around the room and realised that everything was about to become known to her dad's team, and she wasn't ready to be there when that happened. She handed the gun to Callen and walked out and towards the back of the building where Hetty had set up an area to crash for Callen. She walked in and saw the guitar sitting in the corner of the room.
Callen stood outside the room in the back of the office where he would occasionally fall asleep, when he heard the sound of a guitar, and then after a minute someone singing, but he could hear the fear in the voice, and he knew it was C.J. He stood at the door listening to her playing.
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me
'til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up when everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me
'til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah
I walk alone
I walk a...
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me
'til then I walk alone...
'Who's playing the guitar?' someone questioned Callen from behind, as C.J finished playing and looked up. She smiled as Callen turned around to see Sam standing behind him. C.J could see Sam from where she was sitting but C.J knew that Sam couldn't see her. She could see Callen smiling as he turned to face Sam. She turned back to the guitar and began playing again. She played the same song, her favourite song, Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Greenday. She looked up from the guitar at the chorus, as she heard Callen beginning to speak to Sam.
'C.J, she's playing Boulevard of Broken Dreams,' he said, pride seeping through his voice with every word. He walked into the back room, as C.J went back to playing the guitar. She heard him and Sam sit down and listening to her playing.