Tuesday December 21st, 2027
The sun is shining through her window as Madison starts to wake up. She sleepily searches for her alarm clock and when she feels it underneath her hand, she grabs it and brings it towards her face. When she sees that it reads 9:53, she throws her comforter off her and runs into the kitchen.
"Deeks! Deeks we're late!" She doesn't see him in the kitchen so she runs to his room. She throws open the door and sees his bed neatly made. She almost runs to the window to see if she can see Deeks' car in the parking lot, but then she sees a envelope sitting on his bed. She walks over to his bed and sits on it as she grabs the letter.
On the front reads 'Madison' in a very neat chicken scratch writing. She opens the envelope and pulls out the two pieces of paper. She opens the note and starts to read.
'Madi,
I know you're probably wondering where I am. Well I am at work trying to make sure I can have the next six days off.' Madison sets the letter down on her lap and grabs the second piece of paper that was in the envelope. She reads it and sees that it's a round trip ticket to the City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. She smiles and then picks the letter back up.
'I know you just looked at the plane ticket and yes we are going to Colorado. We are staying at a friend of mine's cabin in Fountain Valley, which is about 20 minutes from Colorado Springs. We're leaving tomorrow morning as you can also see. Now. I want you to go eat breakfast. After you eat breakfast, start packing your things for the week (and don't forget we're going to a place with snow!), and then pack Monty and Bella's food because they're coming with us. Don't worry about the rest. See you at 4 (I'm gonna stay later than usual so that way your Uncle Callen doesn't get too mad about me taking almost a week off.) There's some leftovers in the fridge in case you want them for lunch (or an early dinner.)
-Deeks'
She smiles and shakes her head at the letter before she puts it back in the envelope along with the ticket and walks out to the kitchen. Now sitting in the middle of the kitchen, are Monty and Bella, who are both looking at their empty food bowls.
"Did Deeks forget to feed you two this morning?" She asks as she grabs the dog food from the top of the fridge. Monty starts barking and Bella runs to her bowl.
"Apparently he did or else you wouldn't be barking now would you Monty." She says as she scratches behind his ears and pours food into Bella's bowl. She pours food into Monty's bowl and then goes in search of her own breakfast.
She opens the cupboard and is surprised when there is a box of Cocoa Pebbles sitting right in front of her. She pulls it out and sees a sticky note on the front.
'Figured I probably should get you something you want to eat. Even got you some skim milk.
-Deeks'
She shakes her head once again and sets the cereal on the counter. She grabs a bowl and spoon from the dish drainer and sets them on the table. She opens the fridge, smiles when she sees that there really is skim milk in there, grabs it and sits down to eat. She feels a vibrate and grabs her phone from the front pocket of her pajama pants. Her phone shows her that she has one new text message and she opens it as she eats her cereal slowly as she tries not to spill it all over her.
She watches her phone as it loads and then reads the message which is from a phone number not saved in her contacts.
'Hope you're not doing too bad without me. Miss you so much xoxo 3' Madison checks to see if the number that sent her the text message is familiar and when she sees that it isn't, disregards the message as a wrong number. She doesn't delete it though.
The rest of her breakfast goes by uneventful and as soon as she has rinsed out her bowl and set it in the dishwasher, she runs to her room and grabs her now empty purple duffel bag. She sets it on her bed, and sets to packing, her first thing, making a list of everything she needs.
He sits in the chair across from Callen and leans back in it.
"You know, Madi talks about you a lot." Callen nods.
"I took care of her with the help of Hetty when you guys were on undercover assignments." Deeks nods. They sit in silence until Deeks speaks up.
"I wanna take her to Colorado for Christmas," he starts. "'Cause-"
"Because Kensi took her to a cabin in the mountains every Christmas since she was two. I know Deeks. I am Madi's godfather." Deeks shrugs.
"Forgot about that little tidbit." Callen rolls his eyes.
"How many days Deeks?" Callen says.
"Six. We'd be leaving tomorrow morning and be back the 28th." Callen nods.
"Well go do some work if you're gonna be gone so long." Callen says with a mock angry tone that Deeks can read right through.
Deeks stands up and walks to his desk. As he goes to sit down, his phone vibrates. He reaches into his front pocket and opens the message, expecting to get a text from Madison.
'I hope she's doing okay. Keep strong for her. I miss you both.' He triple checks to make sure that he doesn't know the number the message is from and when he realizes he really doesn't know this number, he dismisses it and goes back to work.
Hey look I'm alive! Well, I had up to Chapter 10 written, and then my other laptop decided to quit on me. Which is partially why this is so late. That and after I got my new laptop, I hadn't really felt like updating this story. But that has obviously changed!
