Disclaimer: See the first chapter.
Okay, last one for the night, or morning, considering it's like 1:00 in the morning.
The Next Move:
We all stood around the table in the Ops center except for Deeks. He had gotten a phone call and had left to take it.
"Have you found out where any of these could have been taken Eric?" Gibbs asked.
"We've got it narrowed down to downtown Los Angeles, but that's still a lot of ground to cover" Eric said typing away on his tablet a frown on his face.
"It's probably near a hotel or a park that's close to a hotel" Nell said.
"That's still a lot of ground to cover" Kensi said. The doors opened and we all turned to look at Deeks.
"Guys, we have a problem. Viktor Frinovskii just died" Deeks said.
I turned to look at Gibbs. "You and your team go see what you can find out there, we'll stay here and see if we could narrow down the locations any further" he said. I nodded and the four of us headed towards the hospital.
When we got to the hospital Kensi and Sam went to go see if they could find anything on Viktor's body while Deeks and I went to go talk to the LAPD officers that were supposedly on guard.
"What happened?" Deeks asked after we had flashed them our badges.
"I don't know. A nurse came in saying she had to change his bandages and that there may be a little screaming, but it was because he was in a lot of pain. Then she left, and a few minutes later he died" said one of the police officers sounding confused himself.
"Callen we found a needle mark on Viktor's wrist, and he was tied down with a gag in his mouth" Kensi said coming out of the room. Sam was still taking pictures.
"You didn't think to go after the woman when you saw he was tied down and gagged?" I asked turning to the police officer.
He nodded saying "We did, but by the time we got down there, he was already dead, and she was gone".
"Do you at least now what she looked like?" Deeks asked.
"Yeah, she was wearing blue scrubs, had long brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, and she had green eyes. Really pretty" said the other officer.
Sam came out of the room and we all exchanged glances. I pulled out my phone and brought up a picture of Megan from her NCIS file.
Turning it so they could see I said "Is this the woman you saw?"
"Her hair was longer, but that's defiantly her. I would recognize her anywhere, like I said, really pretty" said the second officer. I turned and shot him a glare but then went into the room that Viktor Frinovskii was still in.
"Did you check for prints?" Kensi asked one of the officers who was photographing the crime scene.
He shook his head saying "The place was clean, except for his and the nurses and doctors we identified, there were no others."
I turned to look at Deeks. "See if you can get LAPD to let us take the case since it's connected to ours?"
He nodded and headed off to go look for the officer in charge.
Sam and Kensi came up to me. "She's getting braver, she walked right past his guards and killed him" Sam said.
"Could she be getting desperate?" Kensi asked.
I shook my head. "She'll keep a level head. She won't get desperate. She's ending this all quickly, but I have a feeling that Mikhail Levanda's death won't be a quick one. He holds all her anger, he's the person she's really after" I said before walking out the room.
Deeks came up to me. "LAPD handed this over to NCIS quickly. They don't want to have their guys taking the fall for letting the guy get killed right under their noses, even though it will happen anyway" he said.
I nodded and turned to Kensi and Deeks. "See if you can get all security tapes for the time of the murder from this floor and from the lobby" I said. They nodded and headed towards the security desk.
I pulled out my phone and dialed Eric's number.
"Yeah Callen?" he said.
"Eric, I need you to pull all traffic footage from the time before and after Viktor Frinovskii's death. See if you can find Megan and find out where she's headed from here" I said as I headed over to the elevators with Sam.
"You got it" he said before hanging up. I hit the button that would take us down to the lobby.
"Where do you think she would head from here G?" Sam asked.
"I don't know Sam, but wherever she goes she'll go somewhere familiar" I said as Deeks and Kensi came up to us with the security tapes when we reached the lobby.
"Let's head back to the office and see if Eric and Nell can find us something off of these" I said as we headed towards the car.
"There she is" Tony said as Eric stopped the feed. There was Megan coming in the hospital with a backpack. She got into the elevator, most likely heading towards the eighth floor.
"Can you pull up the eighth floors cameras now?" Gibbs asked. Eric nodded and they came up.
We watched Megan get off the elevator and head towards the bathroom. A few minutes later she came out in scrubs and headed back downstairs. When she got back on the floor a few minutes later she had on an ID badge that she must have taken from one of the nurses. We watched as she headed towards Viktor Frinovskii's room. She flashed her badge to the guards, said something to them, and then went into his room shutting the door behind her.
A few minutes later she came out the room dumped a pair of latex gloves and a syringe in the recycle bin and headed back towards the bathroom. She came out in regular clothes and had her backpack. This time she had on a black wig that was cut short. She got into the elevator and headed towards the lobby. On the lobby camera, she walked out, got in a taxi, and then was gone.
"No wonder they couldn't find her, she didn't look like she did when she entered his room" McGee said.
"Eric did you find out where she went?" Sam asked.
"It looks like she headed back to the old apartment complex she and Callen use to stay at" he said pulling up traffic cameras that followed her taxi.
"What do you think her next move will be?" I asked turning to look at Gibbs.
The Ops center doors opened and Nate stepped in. "She'll probably go find Mikhail Levanda. Now that Viktor Frinovskii is dead, Mikhail Levanda is the only one left that poses a threat to her. He's the real reason she's here, she'll want to finish this" he said.
"Time to find Mikhail Levanda" I said.
Well, that's the last one for tonight. There are only four more chapters left guys. Hope you liked it.
-Haleybug
