A/N As usual a huge thank you to my beta SnoopGirlZ who turns my overtired ramblings into something worth reading. 28 coffee's a a few hours sleep later...you have this.

Chapter 10

Hetty awoke slowly to the sound of beeping, she was obviously in a hospital bed but why? She gasped as the events that had just happened played out in her mind.

"Hetty?" Kensi asked as she sat up realizing that the woman was awake.

"Miss Blye...where am I?" she asked with a groan and a slight slur as she tried to sit up. She did not like feeling so out of control. She had spent years being on top of everything and now things seemed to be falling down around her.

Kensi passed her the remote for the bed and moved her into a more comfortable position. "You're in Los Angeles...it's been a month since you had a small heart attack and a stroke," she informed the older woman.

Hetty nodded silently taking note of what was working properly and what didn't seem to be as strong as before. She wanted to ask if she was in custody, but she assumed by the lack of restraints that she wasn't. So maybe they hadn't got their hands on the book, which meant that Callen still had it.

"The book!" she couldn't stop herself from saying it aloud.

"Shhh...don't…" Kensi pressed the button for the nurse, "It'll be ok." She tried to stop the older woman from worrying.

"Callen….he...he took...he killed….I have to..." Hetty closed her eyes as the strain tired her out. When the nurse came in and injected more sedatives into her IV it caused her to fall back into a restless sleep.

Kensi stood up and went into the hallway to call Sam. She stopped as Director Vance and Lauren Hunter walked towards her.

"How is she?" Lauren asked.

"She woke up and said something about the book. I think she was having flashbacks to what happened in Romania...she got agitated and the nurse sedated her," Kensi told them.

"Damn! So the book is real?" Hunter asked. "None of you in your debriefing mentioned the book."

"It…" Kensi realized that they had made a mistake. "We focused on Callen with that woman...and Dom...I forgot the book. I mean he was fixated on it, but neither of them really said what was in it."

Lauren shot Vance a worried glance and Kensi caught it.

"What is it about this book? Is this why Callen and Dom went rogue?"

"Ms. Lange will be asleep for a while. Agent Blye, call the team in and I will fill you in at the boatshed," Leon said making a judgement call.

Kensi nodded in agreement and went to do as ordered.

Lauren watched her go. "Leon, Hetty wouldn't want this to get out," she said, still loyal to the woman who had raised her.

"Agent Hunter, it is about time we did what was right. If the information I have is correct, then a lot of good people may be in danger. My problem is that I don't know who they are in danger from, people who support Ms. Lange or the people who are helping Agent Callen." He sighed wearily as he looked through the small window in the door at Hetty's sleeping form. Steeling himself he turned and with Agent Hunter on his heels, headed for the boatshed. Pulling out his phone, he made a call on the way to the car.

By the time Agent Hunter arrived, Kensi, Deeks, Sam and Eric were all in the boatshed.

"So what are you not telling us?" Sam snapped as she walked through the door.

"I know as much as you do Agent Hanna," she responded as she walked in. "I was hoping Director Vance would be here first."

"I am," Vance replied, walking out of the back room with another man who was dressed in a suit. "Everyone, this is Agent 'Smith' CIA. His real name is classified beyond my pay grade. He is here to read us in about the black book," he said and then indicated for the older man to sit.

"The black book has been talked about in discrete circles since the 1950's back when the CIA was OSS. There was an Agent, young...motivated, a George Callen. He stumbled across the list while taking out a crime family known as the Comescu's." He stopped at the looks of shock and recognition that was on the faces of the people around the table. "You know of them?" He asked surprised.

Sam nodded. "We've had dealings," he deadpanned. "So...what's in the book?"

Agent Smith looked hesitant before he replied. "The names of double agents, past and present. Lists of dirty CIA agents." He smiled slightly, "Yeah there are a few. The CIA have been trying to get their hands on this list for years."

"So what happens if this book falls into the wrong hands?" Deeks asked.

"You don't have it?" Smith asked surprised.

"No. Callen...ex-Agent Callen; and a man we thought was dead, Agent Dominic Vail; who supposedly died in a shootout three years ago; and an unknown woman, took off from the Comescu compound with the book." Sam said.

"Callen as in George Callen?" Smith asked. "Do you have photos?"

Vance nodded at Eric as he pulled photo's of Callen, Dom and a photo of the woman up.

Smith smiled, "Craig, he's a good Agent,"

"Sorry...Craig?" Hunter asked.

"Adam Craig, Counter Terrorist Unit. He's been undercover for years. He was sent to NCIS to flush out the book, and rumors of a group of assassins. We weren't sure whose side they were on, we still don't he went dark about three years ago."

"So the CIA had an Agent undercover?" Leon asked his voice rising with annoyance.

Agent Smith nodded, "We suspected an older woman, ex-CIA Agent Henrietta Lange, who worked for you, but as she's not here, I assume that she doesn't anymore. We believed she had something to do with the Comescu crime family and possibly the death of Agent George Callen and his daughter CIA Agent Clara Callen."

Leon shook his head, "Hetty Lange is our Operations Manager. She is in hospital recovering after being shot by Agent G. Callen," he said pointing to Callen's picture.

Smith looked at Callen's picture and nodded. "I can see it, he looks like his mother, she was a good woman," he said softly to himself. Then he turned and looked at Leon. "You had Lange and Callen on the same team, do you not know?" He asked amazed. "Lange was a Comescu, they are sworn enemies, it's amazing he's still alive!"

Leon looked at the man in concern, he had had no idea that there had been a danger to his agent from their operations manager.

Eric coughed, "We have these images of a man we have seen a few times with Agent Callen. I've been looking and there are a few of the woman as well."

Agent Smith stopped as Callen and Arkady were shown looking at something in a childrens playground.

"Reznikov…" he breathed. "You're man Callen know's him?"

"Apparently, from what I have been told, Agent Callen has gone rogue and is working with him," Leon snapped.

"No." Smith shook his head. "A Callen working against his country would never happen," he said adamantly.

Leon shrugged, "That remains to be seen. You said this other man was called Reznikov?"

Smith nodded. He wrote something down on a piece of paper and handed it to Eric. "Access this file, password Semper Fortis," he instructed.

Eric tapped on the tablet and a file opened on the screen. A younger version of the man appeared along with a set of pictures, which ended with the red-headed girl and a blond haired little boy in the last one.

"This is Nikita Reznikov, he is the son of Alexsandr Reznikov, who worked for a while with the Comescu's in the 40's. Alexsandr joined forces with George Callen to help write the black book, so it is said." Smith stopped and watched as the others took it in, "It is said he had a son but no one has been able to find any pictures of him, since this one." A picture of a very young boy with familiar piercing blue eyes stood out on the screen. "Rumor had it he was killed, but other rumors had him kidnapped. Reznikov was searching for him for years, then in 1985 he stopped and worked solely on finding the black book. We assumed that maybe the son was dead."

Sam took a step closer, "I think Callen is the son. The woman he called his wife, called him Greg."

"Gregori Nikitovich Reznikov. We have heard of him, but again no pictures. Maybe a brother."

"Anything on the woman?" Leon asked.

Eric nodded, "Nell Jones, last seen in Colombia, September 2000. She was fifteen, on a school trip when she was reported missing; she had slipped away from her group and despite a search by authorities, there was no sign of her. They concluded that she was sold into child trafficking."

"So Reznikov bought her?" Sam asked incredulously. "I don't buy it, G wouldn't...not a kid...no way."

"Callen had a mission in Colombia in 2005 where he went missing for six months. We found him crossing the Mexican border back into the US, then told us he was injured in the raid."

"Maybe they met then?" Kensi suggested.

"So who's the kid?" Deeks asked.

Smith shrugged, "We think it's Jones' kid. Somehow she is tied in with the Reznikovs. She's never out alone. She's either with Nikita or a blonde-haired woman named Svetlana Volkov, who is a cousin."

"Maybe we should bring her in?" Hunter suggested, "A rescue mission, she might tell us what she knows."

Leon nodded, "Hopefully she'll be grateful enough at being released and will co-operate."

"You are right, but I want in on this. If she knows where the black book is I want to be the one to find it. I've been looking for it for years," Smith admitted.

"Very well," Vance said looking at the team. "Bring in Miss Jones," he ordered.