Chapter 10

After having hit a dead end in the search for Nell, Darren the tech from OPS was very happy to present a first huge breakthrough in this case. The whole team was gathered in OPS as Hetty finally said to the tech: "Mister Dawson please show us what you've got."

"Yes Ma'am, ten minutes ago a traffic cam in west los Angeles picked up this suspicious looking black van with stolen plates driving towards an abandoned factory but sadly the quality of the camera on the building next to it wasn't that good so I wasn't able to run any of the faces of the passengers through facial recognition. "

"But it gives at least an idea to where she could have taken her after the well prepared ambush." Deeks said as he kept looking with a grim expression on his face at the blurred faces of those guys, which were probably directly involved into the kidnapping of Nell. Of course all of their thoughts had been with Eric all the time, who had been transferred to a room after he had finally left surgery and only time would tell when he would wake up again. Kensi and Deeks left OPS first making their way to the address of the abandoned factory in West LA and of course really hoped that they were at the right place after they had been coming up empty for a quite a while and that all totally frustrated them. The picture on the screen then changed, the events of the day where Nell got kidnapped playing in front of them and the OPS tech saying: "I was able to get a hit in facial recognition as I had finally improved the quality of the traffic cam which filmed the kidnapping. " A picture appeared directly next to the traffic cam footage and Darren Dawson continued: "That's Dennis Parsons, former member of an Army Black Ops team and according to the FBI; he has been on their watch list for a while because of possible involvement with a regional terror group and I've found his last known address: 22nd east carver road. "

"Ok thanks Darren and call me right away if anything new comes up." Callen said before he left OPS with Sam in tow and of course it didn't go by his partner unnoticed that Callen was pretty lost in his thoughts the whole time and so he asked: "We will find her before that douche bag harms her G."

"Yeah you're right we will Sam I don't know why I doubted that for one second." Callen replied after the two finally drove away with Sam's Challenger and in his mind he hoped that Eric would wake up very soon. Steve finally returned to his prisoner, a wicked smile on his face and in his hand was little package that he placed on the floor before he cut her loose from the robe, which Nell had been able to loosen up a little. Nell didn't know what to think of this, her instinct telling her that he was definitely planning nothing good and he finally said: "Put it this on and don't even thinking about trying to escape!" After he had also let her out of the cuffs, he finally opened the package and even if she couldn't see it that clear because of the dim lightning in the room she couldn't believe what she saw: A white brides dress. She just sat there in total shock for a moment before Marks screamed at her: "Put it on now!"

Because she didn't want to upset Marks anymore, Nell finally agreed to put on the bride dress even if she really didn't want to pose for a fake wedding photo with her crazy ex-boyfriend. I guess I don't have another choice than just play along with this sick thing and hope this torture is over very soon!

Meanwhile back at the hospital Eric finally wake up from his coma, looking at the plain room around him he first didn't know how he got here and also panicked as he realized, that Nell wasn't with him anymore and so he pushed the emergency button next to his bed and anxiously waited for a nurse to arrive at his room. His head hurt really much, as he finally remembered the ambush again but he clearly must have lost conscious after the crash because he didn't know what happened to Nell. Finally a nurse arrived in the room and said: "It's good to see you awake Mister Beale, I'll get Doctor Andrews to tell him the good news but can I do anything for you first?"

"Yeah can you get me something to drink because I'm really thirsty. " He replied and shortly after the nurse had left room, he stretched his arm very long to grab the landline phone on the little white nightstand right next to his bed and dialed Hetty's number which he knew by heart.

He had finally been put through to the Operations Manager and just practically spit out: "Where is Nell?" For the Operations Manager that questions surely didn't surprise her and because she had no intention to hide Miss Jones situation from him she replied without much hesitation: "Miss Jones got kidnapped Mister Beale, but let me assure you that the team is doing everything they can to get her back and the best thing that you can do right now is get better, is that understood Mister Beale?" She said in that commanding voice that always left no room for debating and she surely hoped that Eric wouldn't start to act stubborn because he and Nell were not only colleagues at work but also a couple. Eric had to let that sink that in for a couple of minutes before he was finally able to say: "That is understood Hetty loud and clear just bring Nell back home in one piece."

"We will surely do that Mister Beale; you can count on that now get some rest please." The Operations Manager said before she finally ended the call and was happy to know, that he was still having a clear mind right now, not thinking about doing anything stupid even if the situation must be quiet difficult to handle for him.

Deeks and Kensi finally arrived at address of the abandoned factory bulding, of course having there bullet proof vests on as they surely expected to get into a fight and their heavy fire power would surely make it an equal fight with the bad guys. Inside the building Nell had finally put on the wedding dress but she also had decided that now was the best chance to get out of here. It's either now or never

She then anxiously waited for Marks to finally come back and even if there surely was a big risk of this to fail Nell was pretty determined to try her luck. With an evil grin on his face Marks finally came back with a camera in his hand and said: "Now it's time for our engagement pictures and I know that they will be so great!" Nell purely reacted on instinct as she kicked him with full force in his groin, making Marks falling to the ground like a stone and obviously haven't expected that turn of events. She quickly took the key out of his hand, had some problems getting this old rusty door open at first but with gathering up all the strength inside of her of one moment she was able to get it open. With a good aimed kick she took down one gunman before he was able to get to his weapon but as she left this room finally behind her she quickly had to realize, that it wouldn't that easy to get out of this trap. Deeks and Kensi finally moved in, taking out some armed guards as they progressed through the building and of course realized that the building was definitely a lot bigger than it would seem from the outside.

AN: The next chapter will be the final one, please read and review.