"Your real dad?" Marisa's mother said.
"Yes, my birth father," Marisa said.
Her face froze for a second. She couldn't believe Marisa had actually found him.
"Well, very nice to meet you," She said and shook Callen's hand. "Hi Laura Mathews, nice to meet you."
"Greg Callen, nice to meet you too," Callen said.
"Come on in."
They walked in and Marisa introduced Callen to her adoptive father. A little later they sat at the dining room table and enjoyed a very lovely dinner.
"So Marisa, how did you find your birth father?" Her father said.
"Well, you remember that box that you gave me? My mother had but some information in there about her and also who my father was," Marisa said.
"Ah okay. And how did you find him?" Her mother said.
"Well, it turned out that I already knew him, I just didn't know he was my father. He works at the same federal agency as where I'm doing my internship now."
"Ah, so you're a federal agent then Greg?"
"Yes that's correct and Marisa is on her way to becoming a very good one too. She's really doing a wonderful job as an intern," Callen said.
"I'm glad to hear that."
"You really did a wonderful job raising her. She's really a sweet young woman. You raised her well."
"Thank you. That's means a lot to us. We did our best raising her and she's really become a sweet daughter to us. We really love her."
"I can see that and Marisa really loves you too, I can hear that by the way she talks about you. And I don't wanna replace any of you, but if it's alright with you I would like to be part of Marisa's life too, to get to know her better."
"That's fine with us. She has been searching for her birth parents for a long time now and I'm glad she finally found her father."
They enjoyed a nice dinner and just continued chatting with each other. After dinner Marisa dropped Callen off at his place.
"I really enjoyed tonight. They are really sweet people. They really did an amazing job in raising my beautiful daughter. You've really become a beautiful and sweet young woman. I've never really imagine having a daughter, but if I had I would imagine her being like you," Callen said.
"Thanks dad."
"I really see a lot of your mother in you, but also some things of my own."
"Well that's good, isn't it?"
"Yes very good. I'll see you Monday," Callen said and he gave her a friendly hug.
"See you Monday," Marisa said and she drove back home.
….
"Good morning," Marisa said as she walked into the bullpen, only Kensi was there.
"Morning," Kensi said. "How are things with you and Callen?"
"Very well. We're getting along very well. I'm glad I finally found my father."
"Yeah I can imagine. Come to think of it you have kinda the same past as Callen."
"How do you mean?"
"Well Callen lost his partners at a young age too. He's been in foster home every since he was like 5, 37 in total."
"Wow that's a lot. I had no idea. What happened to his parents?"
"His mom was killed and to this day he's never found his father, he has no idea who that is. He doesn't even know where the G stands for."
"Damn, that must be hard on him."
"Yeah sometimes it is. But he has found out some answers, he knows who his mother is now and what her name is and a little bit more about his family history, but there are still huge parts missing."
"So aside from me he doesn't have any real family?"
"Nope, well he's got us. We're like a family too, but it's not the same."
"Yeah I can see that you guys are all family and he's got me now."
"Yes he does and I'm glad for him."
…..
Callen took Marisa out to dinner, just to spend some quality time with his daughter.
"This is nice. Thanks for taking me out to dinner dad," Marisa said.
"You're welcome. I just like to spend some time with you, to get to know you better. Besides you being an intern at our office I don't really know anything about you," Callen said.
"What would you like to know?"
"What do you like to do in your free time?"
"Well, I like to go swimming, I would love to go surfing too but I'm not really good at it. I also like working out, keeping my fighting skills up. I also love to dance, every time I hear Latin music I just can't stop dancing. I guess I most have gotten that from mom's side."
"Yeah I guess so, cus I can't dance."
"How about you?"
"Well, when I have free time I just like to go for a run and sometimes I go with Sam to a Lakers game or sometimes I go over to Sam's for dinner."
"That's nice. You two really seem close."
"Yeah we are. We've been partners for 6 years now."
"6 years? Wow that's a long time."
"Yeah it is. Sometimes we do get on each other's nerves but that's a good thing too, we always have each other's back. I'm actually glad about that, cus I think without him I would have not been here today."
"What do you mean?"
"Well about 4 years ago I was shot pretty badly. Luckily Sam was there and he got me to the hospital pretty fast."
"What happened?"
"Some old team mate of mine crossed over to the other side and wanted everyone of the old team dead."
"Damn. Did you at least get him?"
"Yeah, we did eventually."
"Good. Guess that's one of the hazards of this job, getting shot."
"Yeah it is. Which I way I wanna ask if you're really sure you wanna continue with this job, I mean it can be dangerous sometimes."
"Yeah I'm sure. I like this job. I wouldn't know what other job I would want to do."
"Alright then, I just hope you don't get injured badly."
"Me neither, but maybe I will. But I'm strong. If I get injured I will be able to pull through."
Callen chuckled as Marisa said those words.
"What's so funny?" Marisa said.
"Nothing, it's just….. Well you seem just like me, towards being an agent."
"Well that's good, isn't it?"
"It's nice to see my daughter has the same personality as me. Just out of curiosity, when you were taken you spoke Czech on the video. I'm just wondering where you learnt to speak Czech."
"Well I've always had an interest in learning other languages, but Czech I learnt at the academy."
"Very well. What other languages do you speak?"
"Well, besides English of course, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, French and Romanian and also a little bit of Portuguese."
"Well that's an impressive list. That may come in handy one day. Did you learn all of those at the academy?"
"No, not all of them. Spanish and French I already got in high school, Russian and Romanian I learnt myself and the others I learnt at the academy."
"Very good. Just why did you learn Russian and Romanian by yourself?"
"I wanted to become a federal agent so I figured Russian might come in handy and Romanian, well I just liked the language. It just sort of called out to me."
"That's good. Well that's maybe because a little part of you is Romani."
"Romani? Really? You're Romani?"
"A part of me is yes. My mom was half Romani, my grandma was Romani and my grandfather was American. I don't know what my father was but there's a part of me that's Romani."
They enjoyed the rest of the night, just getting to know each other. They really had a good time.
…..
"New case guys," Eric said when he just whistled and the agents followed him into OPS.
"What have we got Eric?" Callen said.
"Unidentified dead marines," Eric said as he put the images up on the screen. "They were set on fire so no finger or DNA matches can be made; they also pulled out there teeth so no dental records either."
"Someone clearly did not want us to find out who these guys are," Deeks said.
"What do you know Eric?" Callen said.
"The only thing that made them be identified as marines was this," Eric said as he put another picture on the screen. "This was found next to the bodies."
"Could be some sort of message," Marisa said as she saw the marine stripes that were on their suits.
"Eric, pull up the database with marines who have these ranks and find out who's missing. Sam, Marisa and I will talk to the coroner to see if she found something that might help us. Kensi, Deeks, you take a look at the crime scene. Maybe there's something there that the killer forgot," Callen said and everybody went to work.
Callen, Sam and Marisa arrived at the coroner's office but unfortunately there wasn't anything on the remains that could tell them who they were. Kensi and Deeks hadn't much luck either. There was nothing on the crime scene.
"Whoever killed them really was careful and thought this through very well," Kensi said once they were all back in the bullpen.
"There must be something that we can use to tell them who they are," Marisa said.
"Maybe Eric and Nell have better luck looking through the database," Callen said and at that point Nell came walking into the bullpen.
"I may have something," Nell said and she put two pictures up on the screen. "I got a hit on these two. They have been missing for 2 days now. PO Mark Corday and PO Julia Mayer. They are the only two marines reported missing."
"Good work Nell, send the pictures to Rose. Maybe they'll help her ID the bodies. Do they have any next of kin?"
"Yes, Corday has a brother and sister in law and Mayer has got her parents, addresses are on your phones."
"Alright. Kensi, Deeks, why don't you take the brother and sister in law, we'll take the parents."
About an hour later they were back at the office again with not much progress in the case.
"There must be something we're overlooking here. Why were those two marines killed?" Marisa said.
"Maybe a relationship gone wrong," Deeks said and he got weird faces of the team members. "Just thinking outside the box."
"Well get back in the box," Sam said.
"Maybe Deeks is right," Marisa said.
"See," Deeks said.
"Care to share Marisa," Callen said.
"What if they did die because of a relationship, what if they were in a relationship together and someone found out and killed them."
"Like an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend?" Kensi said.
"Yeah could be. Did the brother say anything about him being in a relationship?"
"No, as far as they knew he wasn't. What about the parents?"
"Neither."
"I'll ask Nell and Eric to look in to it," Callen said and he went upstairs.
About an hour and a half later Eric and Nell came downstairs.
"We may have found something," Eric said as they walked into the bullpen.
"What have you got Eric?" Callen said.
"Marisa was right, they were in a relationship together. Another marine caught them on base and he reported them. They were put in different units. Now here is the interesting part. The marine that reported them was Mayer's ex-boyfriend. They were engaged to be married but she broke it off."
"Sounds like motive to me," Deeks said.
"Do you have an address for him?" Sam asked.
"Yep, it's already on your phones," Nell said.
They left and 20 minutes later they arrived at the location.
"Alright, Kensi, Deeks, you take the back, we'll take the front," Callen said and he counted down once every one in position and they moved in.
They searched the house but he wasn't there. As they were walking out a car pulled up to the drive way and a man stepped out.
"What are you doing here?" the man said.
"You live here, you're Danny Turner?" Callen said.
"Yeah I am, who are you?"
"NCIS, don't move."
As soon as Callen said that Turner made a run for it. Marisa was closest to him and ran after him.
"Sam try and cut him off with the car," Callen said as he ran after Marisa.
"NCIS! Freeze!" Marisa called as she ran after but he didn't stop.
He went around the corner but he was caught off by Sam's car. He tried to run the other way but Marisa had already caught up with him and pushed him against the wall.
"What part of freeze don't you understand?" Marisa said as she cuffed him.
"Let me go, I didn't do anything," Turner said.
"No, then why did you run" Callen said.
They took him to the boatshed and Callen and Sam went to interrogate him.
"Why are you guys after me?" Turner said.
"Remember your ex-fiancé, Julia Mayer?" Callen said.
"Julia? What does she have to do with this?"
"She was found dead along with another marine, maybe you've heard of him, Mark Corday," Sam said.
"She's dead?"
"Don't pretend that you didn't already know that."
"Wait you think I killed her?"
"Did you?" Sam said.
"No, I swear."
"Why did she break of your engagement?" Callen said.
"She said she wasn't in love with me anymore."
"That must have made you pretty angry."
"You're damn right, but I didn't kill her."
"You did report her and Corday when you caught them together. So you were jealous? If you couldn't have her nobody could."
"No, that's not why I reported them."
"But it is why you killed them."
"No, that's not why I killed them."
"So you did kill them?"
"No I didn't, I never said that."
"Yeah you did," Sam said.
"That bitch had it coming; even when they were put in separate units they couldn't keep their hands of each other, it was disgusting. She was mine! Not his! They deserved to suffer for what they did."
"And now you're gonna suffer for what you did," Callen said and Sam arrested him.
"Good work Marisa, It was in fact a relationship gone wrong that ended up in their deaths," Callen said when he walked out of the interrogation room.
"Well I just expanded Deeks' idea," Marisa.
"Nevertheless, well done."
…..
"Ms. Mathews, can I have a word with you please?" Hetty called from her office as Marisa walked into the building and Marisa walked up to her office.
"What's up Hetty?" Marisa said as she sat down on the chair.
"Your internship has almost come to an end here, just one more week left. So far all of your evaluations have been good so I have no doubt that you'll graduate. Have you given any thought on what you would like to do after your internship is over?"
"Well, if it's okay with everyone I would like to stay here. I've really started to feel at home here."
"Very well, I'll take that into consideration once your final evaluation has come in, in a few days. But ultimately its director Vance's decision, but I'll put in a good word for you."
"Thank you Hetty," Marisa said and she walked back to the bullpen.
"What did Hetty want to talk to you about?" Callen said.
"Oh just about my internship, it's the last week of my internship," Marisa said.
"Really? That's too bad. What are you gonna do after this?" Kensi said.
"Well, if it's okay with everyone I would like to stay here. I told Hetty that and she would pass it on to director Vance."
"Well, I see no reason why he wouldn't say yes. You are a very good future federal agent."
"Thanks Kens."
"We'd be happy to have you. You've really proven that you can handle yourself," Sam said.
"Thanks Sam. What about you, dad, would it be okay with you if I stayed here?"
"It's fine with me," Callen said.
Then Eric whistled and they all moved upstairs to get briefed on the new case and they went to work. At the end of the day everybody had gone home already, expect for Callen. He was still working behind his computer.
"Still at work I see, Mr. Callen," Hetty said as she walked into the bullpen.
"Just finishing this report," Callen said.
"Very well. How is your final evaluation of Ms. Mathews coming along?"
"It's almost done."
"Good. I hope you've been completely honest about her performance as a future agent and not let your judgment be clouded by the fact that she's your daughter."
"Of course I wouldn't Hetty."
"Very well. Are you okay with Ms. Mathews continuing to work here after her internship?"
"Yes, it's fine. She's a good asset to the team already."
"Okay. When I have your final evaluation I'll send my recommendation to director Vance. Ultimately it's his decision. Goodnight Mr. Callen."
"Goodnight Hetty."
…..
Today was graduation day for Marisa. She had past her internship with flying colors. Her parents, all of them including Callen, and the rest of the team had come to her graduation.
When Marisa's name was called she stepped forward and she received her diploma. Callen was very proud to see her like that. Even though he had only known she was his daughter for a short while, he felt like a proud father seeing her graduate.
After everything was done she walked up to them.
"Congratulations sweetie," her mother said and gave her a hug. Both her fathers did the same.
"I'm very proud of you," Callen said.
"Thanks dad," Marisa said.
"Congratulations Ms. Mathews," Hetty said as she and the rest of the team walked up to them.
"Thank you Hetty. And thank you all for coming."
"You're welcome. You're a part of the family, and you'll stay that way, cus you are the new member of our team, Agent Mathews."
"You mean I can get to stay with you guys?" Marisa said with a smile on her face.
"Yes. Director Vance agreed to your request. You are now a fully qualified Special Agent with NCIS."
"Thank you Hetty."
"So we'll see you Monday morning. I'll have everything ready for you then."
"I'll be there."
….
That Monday she reported bright and early to the NCIS office of special projects.
"Good morning Hetty," Marisa said as she walked into her office.
"Good morning Ms. Mathews," Hetty said and she pulled some stuff out of her drawer. "Your badge, gun and credentials."
"Thank you Hetty," Marisa said as she grabbed the items and she put the badge on her belt and the gun in the back of her waistband and the credentials in her pocket.
"One last thing before you're officially and NCIS Agent," Hetty said and she put the contract on the table on Marisa signed it. "Welcome to NCIS, Agent Mathews."
"Thank you Hetty," Marisa said.
"One more thing, your new car," Hetty said as she handed her the keys.
"Sweet a BMW. Thanks Hetty."
"Just be careful, don't scratch or wreck it."
"I will be careful," Marisa said and she walked back to the bullpen.
"Good morning," Marisa said as she walked into the bullpen and Callen just followed behind her.
"Good morning," Callen said.
"I am now a fully qualified NCIS agent," Marisa said as she showed Callen her badge.
"Very well, congratulations. I'm positive you'll make a very good NCIS Agent."
"Thanks dad."
…..
Marisa quickly became a very useful asset to the team. She was very good at undercover work. She had proven them that she could handle herself in tough situations and that she had the others back if necessary. She was a really good agent, especially when she was partnered up with Callen. The two of them could almost read each other's minds. Marisa usually partnered up with Callen and Sam. Sam liked having her along with Callen and him but sometimes it drove him crazy, because Marisa was every bit the same agent her father was. But Sam trusted her to have his back.
Callen and Marisa grew pretty close. The two of them made a pretty lethal team. The trust between the two of them was right there from the first moment they went into the field together. Callen was glad that he now had both Sam and Marisa to watch his back. He was really proud of the agent Marisa had become, but he was also protective of her, he wouldn't want anything to happen to her, which sometimes was difficult because she was just like him.
Marisa was happy to be working at the OSP. She felt at home there. She really fit in well with the little family they had there. And above all she enjoyed working with her father.
