Chapter 4
"Who are you calling?" Sam asked G when he hung up with Eric and quickly dialed another number.
"Hetty, she is the only one who knows people who know people who can get me in contact with Max." G said.
"Max would be the brother? What's going on G?" Sam asked.
"I'll tell you in a minute." he said as he waited for Hetty to pick up the phone.
"I'm already on it Mr. Callen, you don't need to call me. I am well aware of the situation and I'm getting in contact with the CO in charge of Captain Turner's mission." Hetty answered on the 3rd ring.
"What if Lt. Daughtry was the CO?" G asked.
"I thought about that because I believe looking in the file of Seargent Turner is the XCO. But there is another higher up and I will find out who that is get in touch with the captain somehow and get back to you."
"Thank you Hetty as soon as possible." G said.
"You just take care of the young woman." Hetty said and then hung up.
G didn't have time to say anything back. He knew what she meant. He wasn't going to be on the case the just informed of what was going on. He wanted to be angry but knew he couldn't because Hetty was right. He needed to take care of Hailey. Until Max got there he was all she had. As soon as the he hung up he filled Sam in on the whole story.
"Then I guess I should meet up with Kensi and Dom to see if we can find anything. They said they found nothing but now we know what we are looking for maybe we will find something. They probably took his cell phone. But I'm sure it was encrypted. Hopefully enough where even someone like Eric can get into it." Sam said mostly to himself
"But if they have it, then that means they will answer the call from Max and if they do they could pinpoint the location of where he and his men are and take them down."
"Then let's hope that Hetty get's a hold of the men first."
It took some work but within an hour Hetty had found who to get in touch with so they could warn the Seargant and his men about what was going on. Luckily from what she was told, the men were in a safe position waiting on their next mission, where that mission was, nobody would tell her.
"So what have we figured out? Anything new?" Sam asked Kensi and Dom who had just returned from the second round of searching at the beach house where everything took place.
"Let's see, whoever did this was very thorough about cleaning the place, and nothing of value was taken except maybe the Lt.'s cell phone and whatever they were looking for."
Kensi answered.
"Yeah but if they had found what they were looking for, I bet you anything that Seargant Turner and his men would have already gotten a tip about the next location and the trap would be set. Instead Hetty said that the men were haven't been contacted and that they are waiting for their next mission." Sam said.
"Does she know how many people have been hit on the list? how far they have gotten in these assassinations?" Kensi asked.
"We think one, but now that they have the list they could be killing the next person or people as we speak." Sam answered.
"We need that list. Do you think Hailey knows about this?" Dom chimed in.
"I don't know, she obviously hasn't woken up or said anything because G hasn't called." Sam said.
"So she is our only witness in finding out who did this. Should we push G in getting her to answer questions because it seems that time is running out." Kensi folded her arms, sam could tell she was getting frustrated and he was too, but before he could say anything Hetty popped up behind him.
"I believe Mr. Callan will get what we need. You all have to remember that girl is not only a witness but a victim. And will have to coax the information out of her. Why don't you all go home for the night and if Callan finds out anything I'm sure he'll let you know." Hetty smiled and then went back to her desk and her children did as they were told.
Hailey couln't breath someone was choking the life out of her, she thought they would leave when they had shot Robby but they didn't. No, now it was her turn to die. "Where is it!" The rechid voice said before slamming her head back against the floor. She knew exactly what they were talking about but had said several times she didn't know where it was. A brave soldier never gives up any information even if they know their life depended on it. Her brother's voice rang in her head. She wanted to be brave she so wanted to but she also wanted the pain to stop, she wanted them to go away. "In my bag," she tried to spit out through the clenched hands around her throat. She could feel the blackness try to creep up on her from lack of oxygen. She heard the footsteps go into the bedroom rummage around and come back. Her head was then hit on the floor again. "That lie just cost you more pain." And that is when she screamed, but nothing came out. She started thrashing, she wasn't going down without a fight.
G didn't know when he had dozed off and he didn't mean to in the first place. The movement on the bed is what woke him. It was Hailey, she started thrashing on the bed slowly at first and then her breath quickened like she couldn't breath. The heart monitor started going off, her heart rate jumped to about 120. G moved to her quickly. "Hailey," he tried grabbing her hand and made it worse.
"No, No, NO!"She screamed. "Stop!" She cried.
"Hailey, wake up!" G tried holding her down because he noticed her thrashing was so bad that it was pulling at her IV. She tried to fight him, and boy was she stronger then he thought. But he didn't loose his grip. "Hailey!"
The new nurse on shift came in with a needle syringe. "What is that for?" He put his hand out to her to stop her.
"To calm her down. She is going to rip her IV out."The nurse answered.
"No," G said firmly still gripping onto Hailey he bent down and whispered in her ear. "Hailey, sweet pea, wake up. Your safe. Please wake up." he pleaded with her and surprisingly it worked she froze. She was breathing hard trying to catch her breath but she stopped thrashing. G had to remind himself to take a breath, one that he let out loudly. "Go, let me have a moment with her before you decide to drug her again," glared at the nurse.
"I'm going to get Dr. Whittier." She huffed and walked out of the room.
G looked back down at the girl who still had her eyes closed. He couldn't imagine such a horrible dream, well he could, but to watch someone he loved go through it seemed to make it worse. "Sweet pea, open your eyes." he whispered sweetly.
Hailey slowly lifted her lids as much as she could with the bruising. He was going to kill those bastards if it was the last thing he did. Hailey didn't speak she just stared at G for a while. He could tell she was processing where she was and remembering he was there and as soon as that recognition hit she broke down. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." she shook her head.
"Oh sweetie, come here." he gathered her in his arms and held her. It took a while but her sobbing finally drowned to a choked breath. She was hurting and he wanted so much to take that pain away but knew he couldn't. He gently let go of his grip on her and laid her back down on the pillow where she looked away from him in embarrassment.
"I'm sorry," she repeated.
"For what? You did nothing wrong." G brushed her cheek with the back of his hand.
"I told them where the disc was." She sobbed.
"Hailey don't--"G started.
"But Robby moved it. I don't know where but the point was that I wasn't strong enough. I failed. I told them where i knew it was." She sobbed.
"So you still don't know if they have it or not?"
"No, things went black after a while. I tried to stay with it, but the pain-" her voice cracked and she began to sob again.
"Hailey," he grabbed for her again.
"Don't" she jerked away. "I failed my brother. I wasn't to tell them anything. A brave soldier doesn't break under any circumstances."
G took his finger \and hooked under her chin and turned her head so she could see him. "You didn't fail. You survived. In my eyes that's not failure, your brother is going to be proud of you." G said. A knock at the door almost made him jump. "I said i needed a moment with her." He yelled at the door.
His voice was ignored and a man in a white coat shirt and tie came in. Dr. Whittier he presumed. He was a young handsome man barely 30, just out of internship from what he could tell, and was about 6'4.
"You must be the NCIS agent my nurses are buzzing about and terribly frustrated with. I'm-"
"Dr. Whittier. I was told you were suppose to be checking up on her I have been here for hours and haven't seen you." G glared at the man.
"Are you her--?"
"I"m a friend of her brothers and about all she has until he gets here." G said in a sharp tone that would get the message to the doctor that he wasn't leaving.
"Oh," he said and then flashed a dazzling white smile."Did they tell you anything on her condition and what not."
"No they haven't." Hailey said and glared at the doctor as well. "And i would prefer that you talk like I'm in the room instead of in a coma."
G grabbed Hailey's hand and squeezed. Thats the Hailey i know. He smiled at his own thought.
"Well then Ms. Turner." He opened up the chart at the end of her bed. "Like I told you before. You have broken ribs, a contusion, two black eyes and several abrasions. I'm going to order another CT scan to make sure that your head is doing okay." he started flashing a light in her eye and doing an assessment. "Your labs seem fine so we'll see what the CT says and you should be out of here the day after tomorrow." He smiled at her while G never stopped glaring at him watching his every move. The man was harmless really and G could tell that, but he could also see that the man had the arrogancy of most doctors as well, and he didn't like that. Not to mention the fact that he could feel Hailey's grip tighten when the man touched her to do his assessment.
"Thank you Dr. Whittier." was the only thing Hailey said with a nod.
"I'm on call for the night so if you need anything don't hesistate to ask the nurses for me." He smiled and then left.
"Douche bag," G grunted.
"He hasn't been that bad, although I have been knocked out for most of it so i couldn't tell you." Hailey shrugged.
"Just the same I'm going to make sure i get a background check on him." G said.
Hailey dropped her head and didn't look at him. "I'm sorry for the breakdown." she said in a low voice.
"And I told you that there was nothing to be sorry for." He lifted her chin with his hand so he could look at her.
"I'm sure you have some questions." she said.
"Yeah I do, but you don't-"
"No, I can answer. But i don't know how much help I'm going to be because i was out of the loop most the time during the weeks i spent at the beach house."
"Hailey, do you know how to reach your brother?"
"No, only Robby did that. I didn't even get to talk to him. Do you know where he is?" Her green eyes pleaded with him and he wish he could tell her yes, but he found himself shaking his head and her eyes watered. "I miss him and I'm worried about him and the other guys."
"How did you get into this mess?" G asked.
"I don't know, Robby told me i was in danger and that it was important for me to go into hiding while my brother was on his mission. I wasn't told much about it except that there was as disc involved, with what i don't know, but obviously was pretty important." G could see a pain in her eyes when she spoke about the man who was protecting her and had no doubts that the man had been beaten and shot right in front of her. He could also tell she had probably formed a bond with him, after all she did say she was there in the beach house for weeks.
G's phone interrupted his thoughts and when he looked down he didn't know the number. "Sorry Hailey, I need to take this I'll be right back." He kissed her forehead and walked outside of the room. "Hello?"
"G, is that you? It's Max."
