The replacement

Chapter 9:

By the time Callen, Sam and Nate pulled up to Kensi's place for the third time that day the last quarter of the sun was just visible over the horizon and the shadows were growing. Pulling out his key Callen walked into the house and the other two men followed,

"Okay there's no sign of a struggle, if Kensi had fought someone there would be signs of a struggle" Callen said as he walked into the room his eyes sweeping over everything,

"Our girl wouldn't have gone easily or quietly, we should check with the neighbours" Sam said and Callen nodded,

"Then again she wasn't feeling well when she left the bar" Callen said as Nate walked into the kitchen. Sam, however watched his partner closely as he walked around the lounge looking for anything,

"G you couldn't have done anything about it" he said reading his partner's mind and catching the guilt that was swirling in his eyes. Callen just shrugged but Nate spoke before Sam could tell his partner how stupid he was being,

"Plus all the lights are off, if someone surprised her she wouldn't have had time to turn the lights off and leave" Callen and Sam shared an appreciative glance at the psychologists detective work, maybe that time spent with Kensi had done him some good.

"She always leaves the bathroom dimmer light on at night" he said. Callen sighed, it was all true, everything they were saying but it wasn't going to get them anywhere. They were still finding nothing. And nothing wasn't helping them. Then again maybe that was the clue. Walking through to Kensi's bedroom Callen frowned,

"Her bed's made….Kensi never ever makes her bed" Callen said and then rolled his eyes at Sam's raised eyebrows,

"And where are her clothes from last night?" Callen asked the two who looked around. Opening the cupboards he went through the clothes. Nate flicked the washing basket lid open to find nothing as well.

"If we hadn't seen the footage from Eric and her bag and phone weren't here I would have said she never came home" Sam said and the other two nodded frowns on their faces. It just didn't add up. They were missing something.

"Get forensics down here?" Sam asked his phone already in his hand and Callen took one last look around before nodding.


"So how'd you get her in the cab with you" the newest arrival asked,

"Easy Shaun, couple of moves had her eating out of my palm. She liked me, she got in the cab with me too easy" Shaun raised an eyebrow,

"Uhuh" he said taking the beer from Max who yawned after having watched the girl for the whole day,

"Should we call the boss now" he said thinking of the large, delightful pay packet he was about to receive,

"Spose" Fields said pulling out his phone. He flicked through the phone before hitting a button and raising the phone to his ear,

"Yeah Peters here" he said,

"Yeah we got her….she's fine, yep….when do you want her moved? ..okay..right" the short conversation was over in under forty seconds and Fields headed back towards the room once he hung up the phone,

"So what did he say?" Max asked as Fields opened the door,

"We're moving her tomorrow night" he called,

"What are you doing?" Shaun asked,

"Boss wants a photo of 'er" he said as he stood in front of Kensi. Kensi just stared at him although she could hardly do anything else. The drug that still coursed through her veins made it impossible to move. He ran a hand down her cheek before he snapped a photo and hit the send button smirking.

"Beautiful"


"Eric?" Callen asked as he walked back into the ops centre Sam and Nate behind him. They had waited for forensics to show up as Hetty had promised they would – even at the time it was. Eric looked up,

"You got anything" the technician shook his head glumly,

"Nothing" it was then that Hetty moved into the room,

"I've just spoken with Director Vance and informed him of our position. The director will be on the first flight down and Agent Gibbs and his team sends their regards along with their offer of assistance at any time should we require it" the team nodded glad to know they had more hands on standby if they needed them.

"I believe it's time to put in a missing person's report" she saw the looks on the agents faces. They didn't want to put in a report, they wanted to find her, they didn't want her on the missing list because they knew how often those people weren't found. And they were going to find her.

"It is better to be safe than sorry gentleman and the more people on the lookout for her the better" Hetty said and they knew that she was right, she was always right.

"I will do that, I assume that you did not find anything at Miss Blye's house" she questioned and they shook their heads,

"But Kens was always the one good at forensics not us so they'll find something" Callen said but the other's didn't answer. They knew his words were as much to convince himself of his words as they were to convince them.

Little quick chapter for you guys

Xx

Nina