Never free of the past
Chapter 7
Evie woke up to soft fingers running through her hair. She opened her eyes to see that she was resting her head on G's chest. She looked up at him and saw him watching her with a small smile.
"Morning." She said, pulling away from him and getting up.
"Morning." He replied, watching her move about the room in cotton shorts and one of his shirts.
"Did you sleep at all?" She asked, grabbing her clothes. It was a known fact that G Callen is an insomniac, being able to function with around 3 hours sleep a night. Some nights he would sleep for a lot longer, but that is only after a very long and tiring case.
"A bit. Not as much as you did though." He said with a smile.
"Get dressed. We need to get to Ops." She said, walking into the bathroom and locking the door. She immediately felt guilty that she had spent the night at G's instead of looking for her little brother. She sighed, thinking back to the kiss they shared in the gym before getting dressed. She made a promise to herself that she would do nothing except her best to find her brother, and that includes not kissing G.
15 minutes later, G pulled up into the car park of the building and Evie made a bee-line to the Ops centre while G went to the empty bullpen.
"Got anything new guys?" She asked as she saw Nell and Eric sat at the computers.
"Nothing. It is impossible to find anything on this guy!" Eric said, running a hand over his face. Evie looked both of them over and realised that they both looked exhausted, and were wearing the same clothes as the day before.
"Did you two go home at all last night?" She asked, making them both shake their heads. "Guys! I am extremely grateful for everything you're doing to find my brother, but you need to go home at some point!"
"We lost track of time and kinda fell asleep at the desk." Nell said, rubbing her neck.
"If we knew his real name, then we might be able to find something on him." Eric said, making Evie's head snap up. She couldn't believe she hadn't thought of it herself!
"Call my Dad and put the video on the screen." She said, earning a confused look from the two. Within minutes, a dishevelled and tired looking Jeff Tracy appeared on the screen.
"Evie! Have you found them?" He asked, sounding anxious and scared.
"Not yet. I'm sorry Dad. I forgot about the time difference." She replied, noticing the dark sky out of the window behind her father.
"It's ok. What's wrong?" His eyes had no sparkle and he looked as haunted as he had when his only daughter had ran away from home.
"I need to talk to Kyrano. I think he can help us find the Hood." She replied.
"Ok. I'll go get him." Jeff said before leaving the room. A few minutes later, a tired looking Kyrano was sat in front of the screen.
"I'm sorry to wake you Kyrano, but I need your help." Evie said, aware of Nell and Eric watching the interaction.
"It's fine Miss Evelyn. What do you need?" He asked. Evie could see Jeff in the background, listening in.
"I need to know your brother's name. It might help us find Alan and Fermat." She said, seeing his shock at the request. He bowed his head and closed his eyes.
"His name is Trangh Belagant." He said. Eric and Nell started typing away as Evie let out a breath she didn't know she was holding.
"Thank you Kyrano." She said.
"Bring them home Miss Evelyn." He said as Jeff put a hand on his shoulder. "And give him hell."
"I intend to." She replied before the call ended. She walked up behind Eric and Nell to see what they had.
"Ok. There are a few properties in Malaysia under that name, but none of them are big enough to hide the kids." Nell said.
"Maybe he's using another alias?" Eric suggested.
"Maybe." Evie mumbled. "Let me know if you guys find anything." She left the room and went down to the Bullpen, seeing Kensi and Deeks at their desks, typing away on their laptops. "Hey. Where are G and Sam?"
"Talking to Hetty. Apparently, Assistant Director Granger isn't happy about you using NCIS resources for a personal vendetta." Kensi replied as Evie sat down at the desk she was using.
"Can't see why that is. He's used our resources for a personal vendetta before." Deeks muttered.
"Well Granger can stuff it. Nothing is going to stop me from finding my brother." Evie said.
"Evie! We've got something!" Eric yelled as he ran into the bullpen, Hetty, G and Sam right behind him. "This is one of the kidnappers. Cameron Warren. Forensic found his prints on the door handle after Alan accidently took his glove off in the struggle." He said, putting a picture of the man on the plasma screen they had in the bullpen.
"Kensi, Deeks. Get him to the boatshed. We'll meet you there." G said.
"I'm interrogating him G. Don't even think of trying to tell me otherwise." Evie said as Kensi and Deeks left.
"I was actually going to offer you a lift." He replied.
"This is his file." Eric said, handing the brown file to Evie. "He has a lot of outstanding arrest warrants, including one from the FBI. Apparently he hacked into their servers and accessed a lot of classified files."
"Ok. Thanks Eric." Evie said as she and G walked out to the car while Sam went to call some of his Navy contacts. By the time they got to the boatshed, Kensi and Deeks were already there.
"He tried to run when he saw us, but Kensi here gave him a well-deserved punch to the jaw." He said with a small laugh.
"Thanks guys." Evie said before walking into the room.
"Hey! I want a lawyer! That crazy chick punched me!" Cameron said, sporting a nice bruise to his jaw.
"Ok. I'll call a lawyer at the same time I call the FBI. Or did you think I didn't know about the outstanding arrest warrants?" She asked, sitting down and placing the file in front of her.
"They are misunderstandings!" He said.
"Fraud, burglary, GBH, illegal possession of a fire arm, evading tax and hacking into a government server." She read from the file, picking up a pen. "Let me just add kidnapping to that list."
"Wait, what? I 'aint kidnapped no one!" He said, crossing his arms. Evie pulled Transome and Mullian's mug shots out of the file and showed them to him.
"Do you recognise those two?" She asked.
"Yeah. I met them a few days ago." He replied.
"Did they tell you that they escaped from a prison in London a week ago?" She asked, watching his reaction.
"No!" He said immediately.
"What about this?" She pulled out a still from the kidnapping and put it in front of him. "We found your prints at the crime scene. And I bet that when we analyse that gun we found at your house, it is going to be linked to the slugs we pulled out of the teachers' bodies. So, start talking."
"No one was meant to get hurt!" He said. "We were supposed to go in, get the kids and get out. I didn't know he was going to shoot them."
"You didn't seem too concerned when you were the one doing the shooting." She shot back. "I have very little patience. So either you tell me the truth now, or you'll find a bullet in your ass. Why did they want to kidnap those kids?"
"They had a beef with two of them. Said the rest were collateral damage."
"Where did they take them?"
"I don't know!" Evie sighed and pulled out the Hood's mugshot.
"Do you recognise him?" She asked.
"No. I never met him." He replied. Evie leaned forward, placing her elbows on the table.
"You didn't even look at the picture." She said. She pulled out a photo from a year ago of the Hood and Cameron talking. "See, what I think is that you know a lot more about this than you're telling me. I think you know exactly who this is and why he wanted to kidnap those kids."
"No! That's not me! I never met the Hood." He said, making Evie raise an eyebrow.
"I never told you his name." She said, getting up and walking around the table until she was right in front of him, putting one hand on the table and one on the back of his chair, leaning in close. "I'm going to give you one more chance. Where are the kids?"
"I don't know!" Evie had enough. She pulled the chair leg with her foot, sending him toppling to the floor. She pulled another photo from the file and grabbed his shirt, pulling him up and slamming him against the wall. She held him there with her arm on his throat.
"You see this boy?" She said, shoving the picture in his face. "Look at the picture." She snapped, making him look at what she was holding out to him. "He's one of the boys you helped kidnap. He's also my little brother. Now tell me where he is or I swear to God, I will make sure that you never see anything other the inside of a cell for the rest of your life!" She said, slamming him into the wall again.
"Evie!" G yelled, running into the room. "Let him go!"
"Not until he tells me where they are!" She said, pushing her arm harder on his throat.
"This isn't going to help Alan." G said, putting his hand on her shoulder. She let her grip on the man go and he dropped to the floor.
"We took them to a warehouse." He said, making the two agents look at him. "Transome and Mullian put them in another van and took them somewhere else. I don't know where." Evie stalked out of the boatshed, barley noticing Kensi and Deeks in the room. She walked down the beach, trying to calm down.
"Evie!" G said, running up behind her. "Are you ok?"
"What do you think G?" She snapped, immediately feeling guilty for it. He was only trying to help.
"Right. Stupid question." He replied.
"Someone must know where they are! They can't have just dropped off the face of the earth!" She said, refusing to look at G as she walked.
"We'll find them. We're not going to give up because one man doesn't know where they are." She gave him a small smile as her phone started to ring. She answered without bothering to look at the caller ID.
"Evie!" Gordon's voice rang out, quiet enough for only Evie to hear, but loud enough to make her wince. "John got a signal from Fermat's watch! Scott, Virgil and I are on our way in 1 and 2."
"Get Scott to pick me up at the airstrip." She said.
"He's already on his way with your flight suit." He replied.
"Thanks Gordo." She said before hanging up and looking at G. "I have to go. I'll call you later." She ran up the beach and flagged down a taxi, getting in and not looking back to see if he was still there. She got the driver to drop her at the entrance to the airstrip and ran to the tarmac to see her brother waiting for her outside of Thunderbird 1.
"Get changed. Wheels up in 5." He said as they went into the craft. She grabbed her flight suit and went into the small passenger area at the back of the small 'bird and quickly changed, making sure she had her shorts and bikini top on underneath. She climbed into the co-pilot seat and strapped herself in, putting her earpiece in, as Scott took off and quickly caught up with their brothers.
"Thunderbird 2 from Thunderbird 1. Bug, we're right behind you." Evie said as they pulled alongside the green 'bird.
"FAB Female Thunder. We're 2 minutes from the signal." Virgil replied, pushing his 'bird as fast as she would go. They reached the area and quickly landed the 'birds, meeting on the ground between them with their helmets on. Scott looked at the warehouse and grounds in front of them and turned back to his siblings to see Evie putting her gun in her boot.
"Right. Bug, you check the shed over there. Female Thunder, you check the warehouse. I'll check the grounds. Nemo, stay with the 'Birds. Don't take any chances." He said before they parted ways and went to check it out.
Scott looked around the grounds, most of it overgrown and full of weeds. He felt something touch his foot and jumped when he saw it was a rat. He was about to head back to the 'birds when Virgil radioed in.
"Nemo, Female Thunder and Fly-boy. The shed's clear." He said.
"Nothing in the grounds either. Heading back to the 'birds." Scott replied.
"Guys! I found Fermat's watch. But there's no sign of the boys." Evie said as Scott met Virgil and Gordon outside the 'birds. "What the-" There was a thud over the comms, making the 3 brothers share anxious looks.
"Female Thunder? Do you read me?" Scott asked. He looked at Virgil and Gordon and nodded to them. "Go check it out." The 2 ran into the warehouse, calling out to their sister as they went.
"Fly-boy, we've found her watch, earpiece and helmet, along with Fermat's watch." Virgil said over the comms.
"Any sign of her?" Scott asked.
"Negative. She's gone." Gordon replied, making Scott's breath hitch.
"Shit."
Here you go guys. Even more drama. Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Emma
