A/N: Okay, so not enough of you are voting, and if it came down to me, I'm just going to go ahead and do the multi-case fic.
Please make a choice, because I don't want to do wrong by my readers.
Okay, now that I'm about to work on the undercover part a little more I have no idea where I'm going with this so if it becomes confusing in the next few chapters, I'm sorry but I didn't think this far ahead for some reason. But I'm trying.
[Disclaimer: I don't own it.]
Chapter Ten
"What was that?" Nell yelled into her phone after arriving back to her hotel room.
"What was what?" Eric asked innocently over his com.
"You know what the hell I'm talking about!" She screamed. When she made it back to OPS after this assignment she was going to kill him.
"I don't know what you're talking about." He said trying to avoid the topic. She's mad, right now I'm more scared of her than Hetty, that's saying a lot.
"Eric, will you know what I'm talking about if I stick my foot up you a..."
"Ayyye, hey Hetty," Eric said over his end of the phone call to warn Nell that Hetty was in the room.
"Hey, Hetty, I was just…"
"No need to explain, Ms. Jones. I was listening when Mr. Beale acted so unprofessional, I understand you anger, but please refrain from using that language for now." Hetty said cutting Nell off.
"Okay, Hetty." Nell said.
"Mr. Beale my office, now." Nell heard before the phone was hung up.
"Mr. Beale, this is Ms. Jones first undercover case and acting like that wasn't productive."
"I'm sorry Hetty." Eric said before Hetty continued.
"Mr. Beale I understand that your worry about your 'partner' but acting like this is just going to put her in more danger."
"I know Hetty," Eric said.
"Do you agree she's a good agent?" Hetty asked as she studied his face.
"Yes, of course." Eric said.
"Then, what is the issue?"
"I just, I don't know."
"You don't know, or you won't say?" Hetty asked.
"My baby, her name's Kyla. She's the best thing in my life." Ayana said. "She the only thing in my life that's absolutely perfect, you know?" Sam nodded, he felt that way about his kids. "I'm afraid that they're going to take the light out of her eyes, but she never fails to amaze me. Her smile stays even after all the abuse she gets from Victor. The only reason I'm still alive is because if I'm not then who's going to get her out, who's going to let her know that there's a brighter side to all the darkness she sees in the world."
"We're going to get you and your baby out." Sam promised, he knows he shouldn't but he's knows how a child can make you want better.
"You know she is two years old, and she's already seen more than anyone should." Ayana says. "Look, just get her out, I don't care about me."
"Do you know where Victor keeps you?" Sam asks remembering that he should ask.
"It's a um, red abandon building. That's all I know."
"What about a street sign?"
"I never learned to read, none of the girls have, I don't know."
"Great more feds." One guy hollered from the other side of the room. Callen and Sam just continued to walk, ignoring whatever nonsense was being thrown at them.
"We are looking for Detective Ellis." Callen said as they walked into the precinct.
"I'm Detective Ellis, wait don't tell me, you work with Detective Deeks at NCIS, right?" a guy said as he stood up. Callen just shrugged.
"We need information on what Kent Laggs was about to bring you on your human-trafficking case." Sam said as he walked closer.
"Who told you he was our informant." The detective said in a hushed voice as he walked closer to them.
"He did, apparently someone told the leader of the ring about his plan to turn the information in so they shot him." Callen said.
"Why wasn't I notified?" He asked.
"Because it seems like your office has a leak." Sam said.
"We don't have a leak!" he blurts.
"Well tell me, how did the head of a human-trafficking ring find out about the information? Or was it just coincidence that your informant got shot the same day he was going to turn the information in." the detective wipe a hand down his face.
"He was going to bring in pictures and surveillance tapes of where they store the girls and how they were being treated, he was also going to bring in copies of emails that were sent and received by Tyler White, the head of the organization. The information, he was about to bring in was enough to get us a warrant."
"Tyler white wasn't the head of the ring. A guy by the name of Victor is." Callen commented.
"Well, we were unaware of that."
"You seem to be unaware of a lot." Sam said. Sam and Callen stood up before turning to leave.
"Are you the ones that work with Detective Deeks and that sexy looking NCIS agent?" A guy asked just before they exited the building. Sam turned around to look at the pathetic excuse for a detective. Sam was about to charge into this guy for being so disrespectful to Kensi, but he felt Callen's arm swing in front of his chest as if say 'it isn't worth it.' "If you see her, ask her if I could come over to her place tonight."
"Sam," Callen warned.
"Oh, and tell that jackass of a detective that, that girl Ayana I think her name was, is a whore and a piece of dirt if you ask me. And defending her is a waste of this state's, no this country's resources. She's just trash." Sam was mad, he breathing quickened and before Callen could stop him, Sam's fist rammed into his face. This guy seems to always find himself on the floor.
"That 'trash' is a little girl who was taken from her home county and forced into prostitution with a little girl of her own. No wonder she couldn't get out, because she has to depend on jackasses like you who refuse to see past what on the outside. She and her baby girl, they don't deserve ignorant cops that just sit on their lazy asses. They deserve so much better."
"Weston this is Michael, my partner, and his wife, Sierra, who also works for me." Nell introduced. Weston shook both their hands, but lingered a little when he shook Kensi's hand.
"Hi," she said trying not to break eye contact, even though she really wanted to.
"Hi," he repeated, forgetting that the others are in the room. An arm swung around Kensi's side and she immediately dropped her hand. She visually tensed as she felt him draw circles in her side before he continue the conversation. The circles started off making her tense then they calmed her and she began to relax. No one notice his finger but Kensi.
"Hey," Deeks said a little possessively. Nell notice Kensi had tensed up and notice that the arm around her is holding her tighter than needed.
"I did a little research on you two and it doesn't seem like anything's wrong with you. So later you can meet Victor, if he hirers you then you will start with the first shipment at the end of the week." He said before he left the Nell's hotel room which they were in.
"Bye," Nell said before he left. "What's up?" Nell said after waiting a few minutes.
"Yeah, even we can see that there something going on." Callen said over the earwig.
"Nothing." Kensi and Deeks answered in unison.
"Doesn't seem like nothing from what we can see." Nell's room had been bugged just in case Weston said something.
"I'm extremely beat, guys." Kensi said hoping they'd drop it. "Maybe I should go get some sleep."
"You didn't get any sleep last night?" Eric asked.
"What were you doing that made you stay up all night?" Callen asked as his interested peaked. Nell looked over to Kensi and saw in her eyes that something was bothering her and she needed an escape.
"You know what? Maybe Kensi and I should get something to eat from downstairs. They have breakfast until twelve. She looks like she could use some food."
"Okay, I'll come with." Deeks said.
"We can bring you back something, I wanted to talk to Kensi about how she can deal with having a partner "bother her while on an op'." she said the ending louder so Eric would know she was talking about him.
"I'm not as bad as Deeks." Eric said defensively.
"Come on." Nell pulled Kensi out the door.
"Is there something you want to tell me?" Nell asked as they entered the lobby of the hotel making their way to the food they were supposed to get.
"No." Kensi answer simply.
"Come on, Kens, I can see you were glad to get out of that room."
"Deeks… He's…" she whispered.
"What he'd do this time?" Nell asked in the same tone as Kensi as she severed herself some eggs.
"He, um… Okay, so he and I keep getting into the same fight."
"About?" Nell prodded.
"Well, he's keeps saying that I've been sort of ignoring him and he keeps asking what he did. I keep trying to tell him, he didn't do anything and that he should just drop it but…"
"But he can take a hint." Nell nodded in understanding.
"So last night, I jump into the shower. I have needed a cold shower more, lately."
"Because of your dreams." Nell said ask she continued on her thought.
"Yeah, so he starts screaming through the bathroom door about how we need to talk. After I tell him to drop it for the tenth time he sneaks into the bathroom and yell that I can't push him away."
"Oh my- what did you do?" Nell said abandoning her food on the table.
"He said he wouldn't leave until I tell him what's going on, so I tell his the truth, how I need some space because of the dreams. Then he made it into a joke, saying that he could help me with one of them."
"Did you take him up on his offer?" Nell said intrigued.
"No, why would you even ask that?" Kensi asked.
"Did you want to?"
"Hey what's going on with you and Eric?" Kensi asked trying to get out of that conversation.
"Eric is irritating, you know yesterday he got jealous and started talking none stop in my ear about Weston." Nell lowered her voice some more just in case someone was listening. "But don't try and change the subject. Did you or did you not want to take Deeks up on his offer?" Nell said persistent to find out.
"Hell yes, but that doesn't change the facts."
"The facts are, you both like each other and you seem to love him, so what the problem?" Nell asked as she sat down to eat her food. Kensi sat across from her as she placed Deeks' food on the table next to hers and started to play with her food.
"Why aren't you dating Eric?" Kensi asked as she put her fork down. "The same reason I don't want to date Deeks, because we're partners."
"Look, do as I say, not as I do. Okay?" Nell said.
"Nell, Eric like you and you can tell that just by the way he looks at you and the way he's protective of you."
"Deeks is the same, and you know that."
"I don't, every time things get serious, he just make a joke out of it and I don't know whether he's just afraid to address our 'thing' or if he just toying with me. He makes it impossible to tell."
"You do to. No one can read you, when you put up so many protective layers. All the walls you've built aren't protecting you from getting hurt, their preventing you from moving on, from falling in love. They're keeping you from being happy."
A/N: Wow, I started and finished this chapter in one day. I'm so proud of myself. More to come. Tell me how'd I do, I understand Nell and Kensi may be a little OC (out of character)- if I'm correct, but I needed a Nell and Kensi girl talk and I would have like to have seen sweet Nell yell at Eric on the show.
Okay, so I'm not really sure about this chapter. It makes me a little tense when I think about posting it; maybe because I feel like now, whatever I write will turn out like shit. Tell me real writers go through doubt sometimes too.
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