Callen and Katy got to the office early to talk with Nell and Eric. They had an odd look on their faces when they walked into Ops. "What's wrong?" Katy asked.

"Are you okay?" Nell asked.

Katy hesitated for a second. "I'm fine, why?"

"You haven't heard it's all over the news?" Eric told her as he tapped a few keys on his computer and brought up the local new.

The four stood there staring at the screen. It was Vitaliy's house in the LA hills. He'd been found dead, shot execution style. Before Katy could say anything, Hetty and Nate walked into Ops. Nate gave Katy a concerned look.

"It seems the man who killed him called the police as he was leaving the house. The call was trace back to Yuri Larionov." Hetty said.

Katy turned back to the screen watched the reporter talking as what she assumed was Vitaliy's body was brought out by the LA county coroner. Everyone looked at her watching her reaction. It hurt, knowing that he would never truly pay for his crimes and what he did to her.

"He didn't suffer enough. Yuri should've tortured him before he killed him. I could think of a thousand different ways to make him suffer." She said thinking out loud.

"Kate, do we need to go to my office and talk for a few minutes?" Nate asked.

"No Nate, I'm fine. Just wishful thinking. I guess the investigation into Vitaliy is closed. All of that work, everything I had to put up with from that son-of-a-bitch was for nothing." She said and started to walk out of Ops.

"Katy wait." Callen called after her.

"I'm just going to the gym to pound the bag. I'll be right back." She said and walked out.

"Mr. Callen, make sure she's alright." Hetty said and watched Callen walk out.

"This is not good." Nate said.

Hetty handed her a copy of the file she gave Katy the previous day. "Review it and be prepared to brief Kensi and Deeks shortly after they arrive."

Nell took the file and thumb drive, placing it in the slot next to her computer. Her eyes grew wider as she read the file while it loaded on to the computer. "Oh my God." She said looking at Hetty.

Instead of beating the punching bag in the center of the room, Katy was leaning against the climbing wall at the far end of the gym, her face slack, eyes devoid of emotion. Callen crossed the gym and stopped in front of her. Katy didn't look at him.

"Not only did he throw me out like a piece of trash, he's now stolen from me the opportunity to bring down a man that has caused me so much pain." She said.

"This may be a blessing in disguise." He said softly.

"How, he's never going to have to answer for anything he's done. I'm sure Vitaliy bought his way into the pearly gates. I can't believe this." She said shaking her head.

"I'm sorry Katy" Callen said pulling her to him.

She tried to push him away saying, "Hetty's rules."

"At this point, I don't care." He smiled warmly, wrapping her in his embrace.

When she saw his smile, she broke down. "It isn't fair. I needed to get him, arrest him see him rot in jail for the rest of his life." She cried into his chest.

"I know." He said softly in her ear.

The door opened behind them, Callen quickly turned to see who it was. "It's just me," Kensi said, followed by Deeks. They walked over to Katy and Callen. "Nell just briefed us, we heard about Vitaliy. Are you okay?"

"She's…" Callen started to say.

"I'm mad and frustrated. The only thing to do now is find Yuri and Dmitri. Even if I have to use myself as bait." She said wiping the tears from her face.

"Over my dead body." Callen said.

"I'm afraid just by being with me that's how you might end up." She told him.

The four walked back up to Ops; Nell, Eric and Hetty were waiting. Katy leaned against the table and took a deep breath. "Do we have enough on their business dealings with Vitaliy to open an investigation?"

"Yes we do, Ms. Jones would you please." Hetty said.

"In one of Sidorov's statements after his arrest, he implicated Yuri and Dmitri as aiding in his effort to steal and sell the bombs. That alone, along with the information we have from your investigation on Vitaliy gives us enough leeway to open an investigation. Director Vance said to use all means necessary and will open all channels with the other agencies to obtain any information on their whereabouts and current business dealings. We managed to get phone records for Yuri while he's been here in the US. We know he contacted Dmitri early yesterday morning, we are keeping track of them both now." Nell said looking back at Hetty.

"Where is Yuri now?" Katy asked.

"He's taken up residence in Sidorov's old hang out, the Biltmore Hotel. We've been watching his movements. We think he's been using the south stairwell and parking garage to conceal his movements just like Sidorov did. We have him entering his room on the sixth floor just after one this morning." Nell said bringing the footage up on the screen.

Katy looked at Callen, "What do we do?"

"We need to watch him. Only one problem, how are we going to get cameras and such into his room? Kensi was at the meeting with you and Vitaliy." Callen said.

"I can go in as long as I'm not the janitor again." Deeks said.

"No, he's seen all of us." Katy reminded them.

"I can do it." Nell said. "I've done it before."

Callen nodded his head and looked at Hetty. "That will definitely work." He said.

"Alright, get yourselves ready. Ms. Jones, as soon as you're done you get out of there." Hetty told her.

Nell agreed and walked out of Ops to get everything she needed and change. Katy and Kensi stood outside the dressing room talking casually with her as she changed. Once she was out, they left for the hotel. Katy and Kensi stayed in the parking garage while Callen, Deeks and Nell went up to the sixth floor. Callen stayed at one end of the end of the hall, Deeks ran down to the other while Nell pushed the housekeeping cart to Yuri's room. Once she knocked on the door, Callen disappeared around the corner.

Yuri opened the door and allowed her to come in. Where they anticipated he would leave her be to clean the room and make the bed, he stood and talked with her. He even helped her make the bed and asked her about her plans for that night. She was stumbling and stammering over her words nervously. Eric placed a call to the room's phone drawing him away long enough for Nell to place the cameras and listening devices throughout the room. Quickly she finished picking up and straightening the room and slipped out.

Deeks met her at the door and pulled the cart to the next room and ran with her to the south end of the building before they ran into the stairwell and out to the parking garage. Eric watched as Yuri opened the door looking for her and went back in again.

"How'd I do Eric?" Nell asked when she got back in the car.

"Perfect Nell." He told her as he watched Yuri moving around in the room from the different angles.

They rushed back to the office and up to Ops. An hour after they got back, Yuri received a phone call.

"Yuri, I heard about Vitaliy, very good." Dmitri said with lightness to his voice.

"It was simple father, he never expected it." Yuri laughed.

"Very good. What of Katya?" He asked.

"I still haven't been able to get her alone. She's always with that Callen man. They gave pretty good show last night. All those men she's had, she learned well." Yuri laughed.

Katy immediately looked at the floor ashamed, ready to cry. No one seemed to be bothered by his statement.

"She deserves privacy. How dare you watch them like that?" Dmitri scolded him.

"She's whore just like her mother." Yuri spat.

"Speak of her like that again and I'll kill you myself." Dmitri yelled. "You hurt her in trying to get her to me and you're dead man."

"Why do you want her? You sent her away like piece of trash." Yuri asked.

"She's so much like her mother and so good at her job, she is valuable to us. Like you said, if she works for us, we will be unstoppable. I'm sure she took information on Vitaliy's business with her when she left. That information will help us grow. Power my son, power. With Vitaliy and Isakk out of the way we can rule the world." Dmitri laughed.

"You know she will never agree to work with us. She's better dead to us. One less person who knows." He said.

"Yuri, I want her alive. Harm one hair on her head and so help me." Dmitri barked.

Callen moved closer to Katy and took her hand, moving their hands between them. She squeezed his hand as they listened to them talk about her.

"Yuri, I will be there day after tomorrow. Send car to pick me up." Dmitri said.

"Yes father." Yuri said and hung up.

Katy exhaled sharply. "I'd never work with them or for them. I'm not a traitor to my country." She said looking around the room. "I may not have been born here, but I was raised here. I serve this government."

"We know Katy." Kensi told her.

"He's obviously been to your house." Hetty said looking at them and raised her hand as both Katy and Callen opened their mouths to defend themselves and their actions. "I told you whatever happened in that house was no one's business. But you've been compromised. I cannot allow you to stay there. Go home and pack some of your things, you'll be staying at one of the safe houses until we can apprehend them."

Katy and Callen both shut their mouths and walked out of Ops. Hetty looked to Kensi and Deeks. "Go help them, pack as much as you can between the four of you. I don't want them going back to that house until this is over." She told them.

"We'll call you if Yuri leaves." Eric said as they walked out the door.

Katy and Callen were in the bedroom pulling their clothes out of the closet and their dressers. "I'm sorry Callen. For all of this mess." She said to him.

"Why are you apologizing?" He asked walking over to her.

"If we hadn't gotten involved, none of this would be happening. You wouldn't have to leave your house." She said folding a pair of jeans.

"Katy this is our house. We live here together." He told her taking the jeans form her and setting them on the bed.

"I'm sorry about last night. We should've just come in here. I'm sorry I've been with so many." She said.

"Katy stop, you're not a whore." He said brushing her hair out of her face. Callen lifted her chin so she looked at him. "I love you and there is nothing anyone can say or do to change that."

She smiled faintly. "But it's the truth."

"Please stop, I thought we were past this?" he said.

"I don't know anymore." She said sitting on the edge of the bed. "All I wanted when I was growing up was a family. I dreamed that my parents weren't dead and one day they'd come for me. I never in my wildest dreams imagined it would really happen. This is all so confusing."

"Dmitri's not interested in a father-daughter relationship with you. He wants to exploit your skills and training." Callen told her.

"I know, but my father. I have a father who murdered my mother and sent me away, but it's still a father." She said.

"Katy you can't let that fact cloud your judgment, we have a job to do and part of it is bringing them to justice for the murder of your mother, Igor, Vitaliy Kirillovsky and the very long list of other crimes they've committed between the two of them. Don't let this get to you." He said kneeling, looking up at her.

"I'm trying Callen, I really am." She said honestly.

"I can talk to Hetty about having you sit this one out." Callen suggested.

"Absolutely not." Katy said shooting off the bed.

Callen laughed. "I didn't think so. When this is all over, we'll go back to our happy life, in our little house with our little, howling cat."

Katy wrapped her arms around his neck. "Promise?"

"Yes, I promise. There is no one else I want to be with." He said kissing her.

Kensi and Deeks yelled from the front door. Callen walked to the door and told them they were in the bedroom. Deeks asked if they were descent and then heard him yelp in pain. He was rubbing his arm as he and Kensi walked back to the bedroom. Katy laughed at him and teased. Once Katy and Callen finished getting their clothes together, the four of them carried them out to the cars. All of their clothes were placed in Callen's Jag. The other personal files and miscellaneous items were place in the Mercedes. Callie was the last thing brought out of the house before Callen locked up and gave it one last look before he got in his car and drove away.

They went back to the mission; Katy sat Callie's crate under her desk and prayed she wouldn't howl. Callen grabbed the blanket off the back of the couch and covered the crate. Katy laughed and told him she wasn't a bird. Almost instantly, Callie began howling at the top of her lungs. Katy patted Callen on the back and thanked him for his efforts. Hetty had them load their stuff into a GMC Acadia and gave them the address of the safe house they'd be staying at. Again, she ordered Kensi and Deeks to follow them over. Once they were unpacked and Callie had inspected every inch of the house, they went back to the office.

Hetty was on the phone when they walked in and waived the four over. She quickly finished up her call and addressed the four. "I would like the two of you to stay with Mr. Callen and Ms. Levin. I feel she's in more danger than she would care to admit. You will pull into the evidence bay and have them get in to the Acadia and pull into the garage when you get to the house. They are not to be seen. Ms. Jones and Mr. Beale are working on finding Dmitri's travel arrangements. Director Vance would like to see him in custody shortly after he sets foot in the airport. Providing Yuri does not go himself to collect Dmitri, a separate team with go to the hotel to arrest him. We need to get this over with quickly and quietly." She told them.

"Katy, you and will meet Dmitri at the airport with a team. Ms. Blye and Detective Deeks will take another team to the hotel and arrest Yuri. We can coordinate more tomorrow. There is nothing else we can do today. Get them home, order in dinner." Hetty said.

"Hetty, can I talk to you for a few minutes?" Katy asked, turning to Callen, "I'll be right there."

"Ok, Katy." Callen said.

Hetty waited to speak to Katy until Callen had disappeared. "Is everything alright Ms. Levin?"

"When's Sam coming back to work?" she asked sitting down.

"I believe within the next couple of days, why?" She asked.

"I've been thinking about taking some time off after Sam get's back. I need think about something things. I'm not really feeling like this is a good fit for me." Katy said.

Hetty chuckled, "What do you mean good fit? You fit in perfectly with the team."

"Yes and no. I want to think about things before I take the position on a more permanent basis." She said.

"Katy, you've already been assigned to this office and this team. We're looking for a suitable partner for you right now." Hetty told her.

"I just, I don't know." She said.

"Is everything going alright with you and Mr. Callen?" she asked.

Katy smiled faintly, "Yes, they're fine. I just need some time to clear my head. Get away from a while."

"Does Mr. Callen know you're planning on going away for a while? Where will you go?" Hetty asked.

"I don't know, but I'll keep in touch. Just until I figure some things out. A couple weeks at the most." She assured her.

"This really isn't a good time, you understand that. Your team will be very worried about you." Hetty pointed out.

"They aren't my team, they're Callen's team." She said.

"They're your friends, Katy." Hetty told her. "When are you planning on leaving? Mr. Hanna will be back day Wednesday."

"I'll leave Tuesday night. Can I take the Mercedes?" She asked.

"No, I have another vehicle for you." Hetty said pulling a set of keys from her desk. "Where do you think you're going? Is there another reason you're leaving?"

"I'd rather not say I know you're going to tell Callen." She said.

"You're right, he deserves to know as you team leader and your," She cleared her throat and looked around "As your significant other, he deserves to know, he's going to be very worried about you."

"He'll be fine, Hetty." Katy said as she stood and walked towards the door.

Callen and Katy waited for Kensi to pull the Acadia into the garage. She wanted to tell Callen she was going away, but couldn't. Once they were in, Kensi pulled out and headed to the safe house. When they arrived, Kensi did just as Hetty ordered and pulled into the garage. They waited for the automatic door to close completely before they got out of the car. Callen kept Katy in the garage while the three went through the house closing the blinds or drapes before they'd let her in. Katy plopped herself on the couch and just looked around, thinking of the whirlwind of a day and her sudden departure. Callen leaned over the back of the couch and kissed her forehead.

Kensi and Deeks stood in the corner watching them.

"So back when I was in the hospital, Katy mentioned she heard the entire conversation between you and I, how much does she know?" Deeks asked.

"She knows you kissed me." Kensi smiled poking him in the stomach.

"But does she know what happened when I stayed with you that weekend." He smiled, pulling her close.

Kensi brushed her lips across his and smiled. Deeks let out a low groan. "No, she doesn't know about that."

Deeks pulled her into the other room and pinned her against the wall. "You know I hate it when you do that." He said kissing her.

Callen walked down the hall, past the room they were in, with the door open. "Kens, Deeks where'd you to go?" he asked. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something in the mirror and backed up. He walked to the doorway and looked at them. He smiled as he saw them part and try to act like nothing happened. "So, what were the two of you doing in here? Hey Kens, why are you so red?"

Kensi smacked Deeks in the arm, trying to make it look like Deeks tried to take advantage of her, but started laughing and dropped onto the bed. "Oh, there's no use in hiding it now, Marty."

"Since when do you call him Marty?" Callen asked crossing his arms, still smiling. "Hey Katy, come here. You're never going to guess what I caught these two doing in here."

Katy knew exactly what he was talking about and went running down the hall. "No, he kissed you again?"

"Again?" Callen asked. "When did it happen the first time?"

"Right before Sam went in the water at Sidorov's desert house." Katy told him.

"How do you know?" Callen asked her.

"I was manning the audio feeds and heard the whole thing, even the little smooching sounds they made." Katy said teasing them and quickly moving out of reach of Kensi's swinging arm.

Callen pulled Katy to him and held her away from Kensi, "I can't believe you never said anything to me about it." He complained.

"I told Kensi I wouldn't say anything to anyone, sorry, that's includes you." Katy said laughing.

"Well, since we know what the two of you did on your couch last night; by the way remind me to never sit on it again." Deeks said.

Kensi had a look of horror on her face. "Oh man, I slept on that couch the night you were in the hospital too."

"Oh geez, come on. Last night was the first time we'd done anything outside bath tub, hammock in the back yard and the bedroom." Katy said looking over her shoulder at Callen.

Callen tried to cover Katy's mouth. "Ok, Katy they don't need to know that much about out sex life."

"Yes, thank you." Kensi laughed.

Everyone got quiet and serious. "So what now for the two of you?" Katy asked.

Kensi smiled, "Well, we're taking it a day at a time; we're just hoping Hetty doesn't find out."

"Well, she won't hear it from us." Callen said before he kissed Katy's neck.

"Thank you, I appreciate that." Deeks said offering Callen his hand.

He sat outside the house like he had the night before, there were no lights on in the house and hadn't been since he got there two hours ago at eight. Yuri figured they were working late or out for the evening. When mid-night rolled around and neither car was sitting in front of the house nor were there lights on, he became suspicious. For the most part, the majority of the houses in the immediate area were dark, except for a very few lights in the back of the houses. He got out of the car and looked in the windows like he had the night before and saw no activity. Quickly, Yuri picked the lock on the front door and went in.

Not wanting to draw attention to the house by turning on the lights, he pulled a pen light from his pocket and searched the house. When he made his way back to the bedroom and found the closet doors standing empty and the contents gone, he went to the dressers and found they for the most part were empty as well. He was livid and immediately called Dmitri.

"I'm leaving for Airport, what is it?" He asked.

"They're gone, Father. All clothing, important papers. They even took the cat." Yuri told him.

"Damn it Yuri. Find her." He yelled hanging up on him.

No sooner did the four walk into the office and they were bombarded with information. Immediately they were headed up to Ops to discuss Dmitri's flight. His flight was arriving at ten o'clock in the morning into LAX on Aeroflot Airlines from Sheremetyevo International Airport. Nell was still trying to find out what gate the flight would de-board at. The plan was to Callen and Katy along with several LA Police Officers and several TSA Officers meet the plane and apprehend as soon as he hit the terminal.

To avoid being seen, Callen and Katy were going to walk through the labyrinth of halls and corridors in the bowels of the terminal to get to the gate. So they spent hours going over a schematic of the international terminal. Finally when Katy felt as if she was going to go cross-eyed, they took a break for lunch. Not even eating helped the headache that was coming on. Katy worried that she would wind up being left out of the operation due to a migraine. Callen remembered that he'd put a few of Katy's migraine medications in his desk just in case she got one at work and dug through the drawer until he found it. She took it willingly and lay down on the couch for the duration of the lunch hour.

When it was time to head back up to Ops, Callen woke her up. She looked and felt better; both hoped they were able to take care of it before it got bad. They focused on Kensi and Deeks' visit to the Biltmore Hotel when they would be picking up Yuri. Katy sat quietly in the back listening, but not really paying attention. She wondered what it was going to be like facing the man who murdered her mother and cast her aside like she was nothing. Callen walked over to make sure she was okay.

Callen and Katy got in to work at eight that morning and went through everything again. The flight was going to de-board at gate twenty-three. They were meeting several TSA and LAPD officers at the airport in an hour. Once Dmitri as in custody, they were going to take him to the boatshed for questioning. Callen told Katy she could sit in on his questioning, but that he wouldn't allow her to run the interrogation on her own; which was fine with her, since she didn't have anything nice to say to him to begin with.

They pulled up to the TSA checkpoint leading to the underbelly of the terminal; they showed their credentials and were directed where to park. They were met by TSA officer Terrance Park and shown through the terminal to the gate and back down to the hub of the security operations. There were at least twenty screens that monitored the hundreds if not thousands of camera throughout the terminal and curb-side check in area. Callen and Katy were introduced to the other officers who would be assisting them. They excused themselves and walked out to the hall for a minute.

"You know you look pretty cute in your vest." He told her, pulling her to him by the straps.

"Stop, Callen. Not here, not now." She told him.

"Alright." He said, "Can I take you out to a nice quiet dinner. Since we're getting these two tonight, we should be able to leave the safe house."

Katy smiled, "I don't see any reason why not. Is there a special occasion I'm forgetting about?"

"No, no special occasion, just want to take my girlfriend out to dinner." He smiled.

"Do you realize that's the first time you've referred to me as your girlfriend?" she said smiling.

Callen looked at his watch and smiled. "Fifteen minutes till the flight lands."

They walked back into the security office and almost immediately walked back out and through the long corridors and stairwells to the closest door to gate twenty-three. Katy and Callen both wore jackets over their vests so they could blend in as a passenger waiting to board the out bound flight. Katy went out first and found a seat by the door to the jet-way. Callen walked through the crowd a few minutes later and stood by the window watching for the flight. The other officers trickled out and dispersed themselves throughout the three terminals in the area.

"Nell, we did verify he's on the flight, right?" Katy asked.

"Yes we did, we've even got footage going through security in Moscow." Nell told her.

Callen looked over at her and gave her an easy smile. "Katy calm down, we'll get him." He assured her.

"I don't know, Callen, I just have this feeling he's not on the plane." She told him and anyone in Ops who would listen. "Nell, since you've got the footage of Dmitri in Moscow, can you just run it through facial recognition?"

Katy could hear Hetty, "Ms. Jones, do it. You know our agents and their gut feelings."

Callen looked at her from across the waiting area. "Is it that strong?" he asked.

"Yeah, I would bet anything it's not him." She said waiting for Nell to get back to her.

Hetty stood next to her computer while Nell ran the still through facial recognition. When the results popped onto the screen, they looked at each other. "How do they do that?" Nell asked. "Katy, Callen."

"I don't like the sound of your voice." Katy said.

"Mr. Callen, your partner is correct, that's not Dmitri Leshev onboard that flight. Detain whoever that is that boarded as Dmitri." Hetty told them.

Callen walked over to Katy, "How did you know?"

"Feeling; that's the only thing I can say." She told him.

Callen shook his head. "Hetty what about Yuri?"

"We've had eyes on his room round the clock, he hasn't left and he's in the room." Nell told them.

"Alright, let us know." Callen said.

When the flight landed, five minutes later, Callen and Katy stood in plain view of the departing passengers. When the man who boarded as Dmitri stepped off the plane, Callen pulled him aside. "Where's the real Dmitri Leshev?" he asked.

"I am Dmitri Leshev." The man said showing Callen his passport.

Callen took the passport and slipped it into his pocket. "I hope you don't mind if we verify that. Mr. Leshev, you need to come with us." He told him showing him his badge and credentials.

"Where are we going?" He asked as they walked him through the corridors down to the car.

"Someplace quiet we can talk." Katy told him.

"I won't talk to you, only him." He spat looking her up and down.

"Just for that, you're talking to her." Callen said putting him in the back of the car.

When they got to the boatshed, Kensi and Deeks were already in interrogation with Yuri. They sat Dmitri's stand-in at the table. While they ran scanned his prints and the passport and sent it to Nell. Katy offered him coffee while she got herself and Callen a cup. The man sat there with his arms crossed over his chest refusing to answer. Callen braced himself on the table and leaned over.

"She offered you a cup of coffee which is more than I would've done, I suggest you answer the woman." He said.

"Fine, black nothing in it. Do you think you can do that?" he said indignantly.

"What's your problem? Don't like women or just not women who could kill you with her bare hands?" Callen asked.

"Her, I don't like her." He said.

"Well," Katy said walking to the table with the three mugs. "I don't know what you've heard about me, but I guarantee none of its right."

"Thank you." Callen said as she handed him his coffee.

Katy pulled out a chair and sat across from the Dmitri look-a-like. "So, we've already sent your fingerprints and the passport to our people, why don't you beat them to the punch and tell us who you really are."

The man sighed, "My name is Yegor Larionov. Dmitri was married to my sister Svetlana."

"Alright, Mr. Larionov, how did you come to be on that flight instead of Dmitri?" She asked.

"Dmitri asked me to go in his place three or four days ago."He told her.

"Did he mention why he wanted you to fly instead of him?" She asked.

"He said you'd be waiting for him." He smiled. "Said Yuri had gotten sloppy, knew you were watching him."

Katy looked at Callen. "How did Dmitri know we were watching Yuri?" he asked.

"Yuri went to the house last night, you were gone." Yegor said.

"Where is Dmitri flying into?" Katy asked.

Again, Yegor crossed his arms over his chest. He gave them an amused look. "Who said Dmitri was coming to this country?"

Katy took her phone out of her back pocket and slapped her phone on the table. She found the sound file form the phone conversation a couple days ago. Katy fought the urge to laugh as his face went slack. "Now, let me ask you again. Where is Dmitri flying into?"

"His flight left an hour later than mine." He said. "He flew into Seattle and will fly into LA tomorrow."

"Where and When?" Katy asked sliding a tablet and pen towards him. He wrote the flight number and arrival time on the paper.

Callen walked a few feet away and called Nell. "Nell, I need you to check an inbound flight from Seattle to LAX tomorrow. American Airlines flight number three-two-eight-eight. Passenger in question will be Yegor Larionov."

"Yes, I have him on that flight. You think it's really Dmitri?" she asked.

"Yes I do." Callen told her.

They sat and talked to Yegor for two hours before they got everything they felt they could get from him. Once Yegor was taken, they sat and watched Kensi and Deeks' interview with Yuri. They watched as he was brought in and seated at the table. Kensi sat across from him while Deeks paced the room. Katy wasn't surprised by Yuri's first comment.

"So, did my whore of sister sleep with you too?" He asked Deeks.

"No." Deeks told him.

"Ah, you have better taste in women." Yuri said eyeing Kensi. "I remember you from the meeting with Vitaliy. You are beautiful woman."

Kensi smiled awkwardly, cleared her throat and thanked him before continuing. "So Yuri, we know for a fact that you are responsible for the deaths of Igor and Vitaliy."

"Yes, father wanted them punished for what they did to Katya." He said matter-of-factly. "Personally, they were worth more than her."

Katy and Callen watched for as long as she could before she was ready to walk into interrogation and strangle the man with her bare hands. Hetty called them back to the mission so they could discuss the operation for the next day. Once Kensi and Deeks were finished with Yuri, they joined them in Ops. Yuri had told Kensi and Deeks that he was supposed to send a car to pick up his father. Katy suggested that they be the ones to pick up him. Kensi would wait at the gate and follow him down to baggage claim where Deeks would be posing at the limousine driver. Katy and Callen would wait for them in the back of the limo. They would go directly over to the boatshed where Dmitri would be questioned and formally charged.

Since Yuri refused to answer when he was asked about associates, Hetty insisted they stay at the safe house another night. They agreed and the four headed out for the night. On the way to the house, they stopped to pick up dinner. It was a lazy night, the four sat on the couch watching whatever was on TV. Katy disappeared early; around nine. Callen found her in bed, asleep. He crawled in to bed next to her, pulled her to him and fell asleep.

Katy was up early the next morning and had made a pot of coffee while she wrote Callen and Kensi letters. Hetty had the car brought over for her; she quickly loaded the lockbox and Callie into the car along with a couple weeks' worth of clothes. She walked into the bedroom and watched Callen sleep for a few minutes before she kissed him, set the note on her pillow and walked out. Katy went back into the kitchen and left Kensi's note with the coffee mugs. With one last look, she walked out of the house.

When Callen woke up to the alarm, he rolled on his side expecting to find Katy next to him. He slowly rolled out of bed and walked out to the kitchen, and turned right back around when she wasn't there. Callen checked the bathroom he walked back to the bedroom and turned on the light. When he saw the note his stomach knotted. He grabbed it and sat on the edge of the bed. Just as he crumpled the note and threw it across the room, Kensi came in with her note.

"She's gone." Kensi said in a panic.

"Not right now, Kensi." The door bell rang and they heard a familiar voice.

"Sam, what are you doing here?" Kensi asked.

"I've been released to come back and Hetty called me, let me know what was going on, so here I am." He said giving her a hug.

"Hey Sam, welcome back." Deeks said.

"Thanks Deeks, look, I want to thank you for everything. I've never seen anyone other than Callen take a beating like that for me. It means a lot to me." Sam said shaking his hand.

"Welcome back." Callen said

"Good to be back." He said shaking his hand. "Hey where's Katy?"

"She left." Callen told him

"She what, how are we going to handle this?" He asked.

They sat around the island in the kitchen telling Sam how they'd planned to carry out picking up Dmitri. All they needed to figure out now was how to work Sam into the mix. They agreed that Sam and Kensi would be waiting at the gate and follow Dmitri down to baggage claim, where he would meet Deeks. Callen would still be waiting in the limo for Dmitri.

They headed in to the Mission around eight. Callen went right to Hetty's desk. "Where'd she go?"

"I will be more than happy to tell you after we take Dmitri into custody and question him." Hetty told him.

"No, I want to know now." He demanded.

"She left at three this morning, headed North up the five. I don't know where she'd headed yet. As soon as I know, I'll tell you." She told him.

Callen walked away and grabbed Kensi by the arm. "She headed North on the five."

"San Francisco?" Kensi suggested. "What's Hetty saying?"

"Nothing, she says she doesn't know where she headed." Callen told Kensi. "As soon as this op's over, I'm going to find her."

"Katy asked me not to let you do that. She said she needed to work through some things." Kensi told him taking a step away from him. "Look, she said she loves you and just needs some time."

"I know, she told me the same thing." He said looking at the wall behind her.

Callen and Sam drove the Challenger and listened to Deeks complained that he once again had the lowly task of being the driver. Kensi pointed out that it was better than being the janitor. To which he shut his mouth. With ten minutes to spare before Dmitri's flight landed, Kensi, Sam and Deeks headed in.

"Alright, the jet just pulled up to the gate, they're extending the jet-way." Sam said.

"Deeks, you ready?" Kensi asked.

"Ready, Kens." He said.

"Stop pulling at the collar, Mr. Deeks." Hetty said from Ops.

"They're opening the jet way doors." Sam said.

"Let me know when you see him, Sam." Callen said. "Eric, do you have eyes on him coming up the jet way?"

"No, the cameras aren't on yet in that jet-way." He told them.

"As soon as you have eyes, we need to know what he's wearing." Callen told him.

"Ok, he's wearing dark slacked, blue dress shirt, dark blazer and fedora-style hat." Eric said.

"I see him G." Sam said.

"Alright, keep your distance until he follows Deeks outside." Callen said.

"We're on our way to baggage claim, Deeks." Kensi told him. "Make sure the sign is right-side-up." Callen laughed.

"I see him," Deeks said. "Mr. Leshev?"

"Hello, Yuri sent you?" Dmitri asked.

"Yes sir, did you check any bags?" Deeks asked.

"Yes, one bag." He said.

"I'll get that bag for you Mr. Leshev." Deeks said walking away with the baggage tag number.

Deeks walked to the carousel and waited for the bag while Dmitri looked around the terminal casually. He saw Kensi sitting on a bench going through her phone and studied her. She had a striking resemblance to Katya, Dmitri smiled warmly at her when she looked up at him. In spite of what he'd told Yuri, he truly wanted to have a relationship with Katya. He wanted to know everything about her. Dmitri wanted to make up for all the years he'd missed when Svetlana had hired someone to kill Polina and dispose of the child the affair had produced. For the longest time, Dmitri thought she was dead. It wasn't until a visit with Vitaliy that he learned the truth; thirty-five long years later.

He hoped Yuri had been able to talk to Katya, not to convince her to work for them, but to tell her he was coming and wanted more than anything to talk with her. However, he knew his son all too well and since he hadn't heard of any bodies matching her description being found, he felt safe in the fact that she was still alive. Being that he couldn't reach either Yuri or his brother-in-law Yegor yesterday evening, he was worried that there was something else going on. Dmitri looked back over at Kensi and walked towards her.

"Excuse me, you look so much like my daughter. You are beautiful woman." Dmitri told Kensi.

"Thank you." Kensi said acting shy. "Is that why you're visiting the area, to see your daughter?"

"I want nothing more than to visit my daughter but we've been estranged most of her life. She doesn't know me from the next guy." He told her.

"I'm sorry." Kensi said letting her expression fall to a frown. Kensi saw Deeks standing with the bag, searching the crowd for Dmitri. "Your driver is looking for you, Sir."

"Ah, thank you. Have good day." He said as he walked away.

"You okay Kens?" Callen asked.

"Remind me to go take a shower when this is over. Creepy. I think if I hadn't known who he was it might not have bothered me that much." She laughed.

"Are you ready, Mr. Leshev?" Deeks asked.

"Yes, please." He said and followed Deeks out into the bright sunlight. "Which way are we going?"

"We're going to cross here to the short term parking lot, Sir." Deeks told him. As they waited for the pedestrian signal to change in their favor, he turned around to find Sam and Kensi. Both had made their way out of the terminal and were standing behind them in a mass of passengers. The cross traffic stopped and they were allowed to cross the street.

"Alright, Mr. Leshev, this is us." Deeks told him opening the passenger side door. Once Dmitri slid in, Deeks quickly shut the door.

"Good morning Mr. Leshev, how are you." Callen said with his signature smirk.

"Who are you?" he said trying to open the car door.

"A friend of a friend you could say." Callen said getting off the seat. "Move, sit here now."

"And if I don't?" Dmitri asked.

The car door opened and to his surprise, Kensi got in with her pistol in her hand. "Move now."

Dmitri looked at her confused as he moved to the other seat.

"We're going to go to one of my favorite hang-outs and talk for a little bit." She told him. "Are you going to be good?"

"So you must be Katya's boyfriend?" he asked Callen.

Callen just looked at him straight-faced. As much as Callen wanted to admit to Dmitri that he was, he and Katy didn't discuss what they'd tell him if their relationship was questioned.

"Where is Katya? She is listening?" He asked and talked as if she was there. "I loved your mother Polina dearly and was planning on leaving my wife Svetlana to be with her and you. I did not kill Polina, Svetlana hired her murder and you being taken to the orphanage. I searched years for you."

"Very touching," Callen told him

"I tell you, have your people look at Svetlana, and they'll see who she really was." He asked.

"I'm sure if Katy was here, she'd appreciate your honesty. Thirty-five years later." Callen told him.

"Agent Callen, do you love my daughter?" Dmitri asked.

"My feelings for Katy are irrelevant. She knows how I feel and that's all that needs to be known." Callen said.

"Will you marry my daughter?" he asked.

Callen ignored the question, wishing they were at the boatshed already

Dmitri only smiled.

"You're so luck I have self-restraint and know what waits for you. Otherwise, I'd kill you myself." Kensi laughed.

"You think you're taking me to one of your prisons?" Dmitri laughed. "You have nothing on me, nothing."

"Oh you'd be surprised what we have on you. I'm sure Katy's going to enjoy watching you rot away the rest of your life in some prison somewhere. I think I'll make sure she comes to visit you once a year just to watch how old and decrepit you become." Callen told him.

"Mr. Callen, that's enough." Hetty said.

They rode in silence for the last four or five miles. Once they were at the boatshed, Sam and Callen took Dmitri and brought him into the interrogation room. Kensi and Deeks sat out, watching.

"So, it's going to be good cop, bad cop routine?" Dmitri asked.

"Yeah, only this time I think I'll let him be the bad cop." Sam told him straight faced.

"We've got so much on you that we really don't even need to be doing this." Callen told him.

"You bluff." Dmitri laughed.

Callen slammed a thick file on the table, Dmitri's eyes grew wide. "Between the information Sidorov offered up on you and the information Vitaliy had on you, that alone is enough to put you away for the rest of your life. That's just everything the United States has on you. I know Russia has a nice thick file on you along with several other countries."

Dmitri squirmed in his chair. "One has nothing to do with the other. I can't be charged for everything at once."

"Want to make a bet?" Sam laughed.

Kensi watched as Callen and Sam picked Dmitri apart, thinking about Katy. They took a break around one to eat, while Dmitri was taken to the upstairs room. Callen and Sam were pleased by the fact that they'd scared Dmitri so badly that he was singing like a bird. Even though they promised leniency when he went to trial in exchange for the information on all of his associates, they never signed formal paperwork on it. Dmitri, Yuri and Yegor would be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Kensi stepped out to call Katy. She answered on the second ring; Kensi could hear the wind whistling in the background. "Hey I thought you should know we got him." Kensi told her.

Katy hung the camera around her neck and smiled. "Very good, did he talk?" she asked.

"Not only has he talked but he's sung like a canary." She laughed. "Katy you're going to make us all go nuts with this, where are you?"

"Right now, I'm standing on the banks of the San Luis Reservoir on the Pacheco Pass." She told her.

"Taking pictures?" Kensi laughed.

"Of course, you know me." She said.

"Where are you headed?" Kensi asked.

"I don't know, I won't tell you when I get there either. I'm sure Hetty going to be tracking me, so I'll pick up a prepaid phone to talk to you. Is he okay?" Katy asked.

"You know it will hit him later when you're not there." Kensi told her.

"Tell him I love him, please." Katy asked.

"I will. Be careful, please." Kensi said before she hung up.

"Where is she?" he asked when she turned around.

"What makes you think that was Katy?" she said then sighed and hung her head. "She asked that I tell you she loves you."

"Then why'd she take off like this?" he asked.

"She didn't say. We need to talk to Hetty again, maybe even Nate." Kensi suggested. Sam called them back in to the boatshed so Nell could talk to them.

Nell had done the research on Svetlana like Dmitri suggested and found that she had in fact hired or rather asked her brother to kill Polina and dispose of Katy. He would eventually be charged with that as well. Had Svetlana not passed away mysteriously a few years ago, she too would be charged. Upon further research, if was found that she died at the hands of her own son.

By the end of the day, the team watched with great delight as Dmitri was hauled out of the boatshed and handed to international authorities to join Yuri and Yegor. Dmitri spouted threats at Callen and Katy as they drug him away. It was a huge sigh of relief when he was safely tucked in the car and was driving away.

Callen turned to Kensi, "Have you tried to call her?" he asked

"No, not since lunch." She told him.

Callen pulled out his phone and walked out of the boatshed. He listened as the phone rang.

Katy sat in the booth with a piece of Key Lime Pie in front of her when her phone rang. She knew exactly who it was. The phone vibrated its way three or four inches closer to the edge of the table. The waitress walked up to refill her cup of coffee.

"You going to answer that?" she smiled

Katy laughed. "No, I can't talk to him right now."

"Boyfriend?" she asked.

"Yeah, boyfriend, boss." Katy laughed again.

"Why not if you don't mind me asking?" the waitress asked.

"It's complicated." Katy said with tears in her eyes.

"Hey Nancy order's up!" the cook yelled from the kitchen.

"I'll be right back honey." She said as she got up.

Callen left her a message and walked back into the boatshed. "No answer. Can you guys function for a few days without me?"

"G, give her a few days. I'm sure she'll come back. Wait until the weekend to go after her." Sam Suggested.

Katy finished her pie and paid the bill, thanking the waitress for her hospitality. "You're welcome, honey. You should stop by the gift shop and candy shop before you leave. A lot of candy you can get anywhere else." She said handing Katy her change.

"I will thank you." Katy said walking out. She walked to the left of the café towards the other shops. There were some fifty to a hundred people in line for the little train that ran through the center of the rest stop. She stepped through the crown and walked into the little shop called Casa de Candy. As she walked down the display counter, she found so many things she hadn't found in years. She asked for a pound of Dark and light chocolate covered honeycomb and helped herself to several different kinds of licorice. Katy paid and walked to the next shop; Casa de Wine.

They had a little bit of everything, wines, pickled items and various other specialty items. Katy picked up a half-dozen bottles of wine that she figured she'd need once she reached her final destination. As she walked out of the store, her phone rang again. She answered without thinking.

"Katy, you don't have to say a word, just listen. I don't know what happened that made you leave, or what I did." He said. "Just let me know every now and then that you're okay, please."

"It's nothing you did. It's just something I need to work through, Callen." She told him.

"Come home then, we can work it out together." He said.

"I can't I'll call you in a few days." She said and hung up.

Katy got in the car and got back on the one fifty-two west to highway one–oh-one north. Three hours later, she checked into her hotel and went up to her room. Katy let the cat out of the crate and walked to the picture window over-looking the bay. Callie hopped up on the windowsill and looked out at the traffic below wandering around Union Square. She grabbed a bottle of wine from the table and the bottle opener she'd bought, opening one of the bottles. Katy filled one of the water glasses and sat in the arm chair. She looked at her phone and thought about calling Callen; instead, she gulped down the glass of wine and poured another. Before she knew it, the bottle was gone. She lay down and drifted off to sleep.

Callen brought the rest of their stuff back to the house and sat on the couch wondering exactly what had happened to make her leave. He got up and went to the refrigerator and grabbed another beer. His cell rang, hoping it was Katy, he answered it.

"609 Sutter Street San Francisco, room six twenty." She said.

Callen smiled and sighed. "Thank you."

"You're welcome, I need you in the office tomorrow, but you can have Friday to go get her." Hetty told him.

"What if she leaves?" He asked.

"Ms. Jones is keeping close tabs on her. Ms. Blye will be giving us the number of the prepaid phone when she gets it so we can continue to track her through GPS. Don't worry Mr. Callen, we're watching her."

"Do you have any idea why she left?" He asked.

"She only said that she had some things to work out. That she didn't feel quite like she was fitting in." Hetty told him.

"What, not fitting in? I've never seen someone walked in and fit so well with a team." He said, shaking his head. "Has she received any correspondences from anyone threatening her?"

"As soon as she told me about her plans to leave, I asked Ms. Jones to check on it and we haven't been able to find anything. We will keep looking." She assured him. "Will you be flying up to San Francisco of driving?"

"I think I'll fly since Katy drove, we can drive back down." He said.

"Alright, Mr. Callen, if you'd like, I can see to it that you get to the airport tomorrow evening if you'd like to leave then." She offered.

"Yes, thank you I'll book a flight right now." He told her and hung up.