Chapter 10 – It's obvious...

Callen sat opposite the operational psychologist watching him reading intently. He had spoke to Nate a few times but received no answer. As he watched the man reading for what was clearly the second time getting a very dark look over his face. Callen had been deceived as well, let down by those he trusted it hurt and Nate looked like he was hurting.

Callen looked down to the files in his hands; it was the locations taken from the dolls marked on satellite images. Two police stations, an intersection, the infamous hospital, county jail and county morgue. It had not taken Sam long to look up the morgue and find it was an incident with nitrous oxide similar to the one they had experienced. The two police stations were the same MO as had happened in the past couple of days first poisoning and then a small incendiary device. The intersection was a hit and run more a means of escaping then a premeditated act in the circumstances. The officer had been hurt but survived. The hospital events they knew from Nate but the jail, an incident after the deal had been made and Jane was incarcerated. Nell and Eric as had yet been unable to come up with any details other than a fire was recorded on the date that Jane was held there for the night.

There were other incidents as well on her vigilante spree, but only these ones were given place in the dolls.

"Why these ones?" Callen asked out loud as he looked at the maps again. "Why?"

Nate closed the article he was reading through for the second time, "huh" he asked. When did Callen come in he wondered.

As if reading his mind Callen replied, "been here all the time, being ignored I might add."

"Oh"

"Any words in your vocabulary?" Callen countered to the non committal sounds Nate seemed reduced to by the article.

"Why these locations and not others?" Callen asked again.

"What you talking about?" Nate asked sitting forward trying to see what was in Callens lap, "Which locations why?"

"The locations in the dolls were for these events" Callen elaborated passing the marked printouts onto the desk, "what was special about these? It's not in a chronological order, not in severity of the incident. Do they seem to mean anything to you?"

Nate studied the printouts as intently as he had read through the article. Switching between the six pages till he started to put them in some order. One that appeared to him as if it seemed to make sense. Having seemed to get them in order Nate stood, so quickly that his chair was knocked over. Before Callen could get to his feet Nate was already out of the office. By the time Callen had caught up with man they were in the ops centre and Nate had apparently asked Eric for something that Eric was not grasping.

Callen made a guess and asked Eric to display a map of Houston with all the doll locations marked on it. Eric complied and soon all were gathered around Nate as he seemed to be making connections. All waiting for the verbal version of his inner monologue as his manic page switching between the article and the maps and checking of the screen did not give anything away.

Hetty eventually broke the observation silence "I assume that the reading was enlightening, would you be so kind as to fill the rest of us in?"

Nate looked fit to burst "The first police station in Houston in the dolls locations, officers there put a arrest warrant out on her the people who killed her mum and dad after firstly letting them go," he started with the energetic impatience of someone annoyed the rest were not keeping up and wanting to get to the end of the conversation already. "The second station, the one with the incidenary device those officers were chasing the men when they crashed their car into her parents killing them".

Nate stared at the others like it was all plainly obvious, he was greeted with dumbstruck faces and confused looks.

Sam broke the silence, "she blames cops for her parents death and so became a cop?" He did not sound convinced.

"She's always blamed the cops for being an orphan. They can't do a good enough job to protect people Jane thinks".

Nate stopped and looked down working something else out. "John wrote this article, I think he knew about her escape, I just don't think he believed she would come here, it's why he never told me till the first attack to leave town"

"Was John connected to the parents case?" Callen asked.

"John had been in the police chase according to this, purely by chance. I think he knew who she was all along. They weren't romantically involved, he just protected her out of guilt. He couldn't stop what happened to her parents".

"Jane was 7, saw it all from the play park. Her parents were sat on a bench watching her when they were hit by the out of control car".

"Sad" Eric pitched in. Not much else to say. The room had gone momentarily morbid.

"Yes sad for the child but not an excuse for the adult to kill" Hetty returned walking up beside Nate and looking at the article he was blankly staring at. "Alison Moore?" she asked.

It was hand written in the bottom left of the page in pencil. "Her real name possibly" Nate asked.

Before Hetty had turned to Eric he had started typing and searching for the name. Soon they had some history of the Jane up to her disappearance at the age of 17. Foster homes, children's homes a lot like Callens story but the list was much shorter. Callen had remained quiet and no-one interrupted him.

"Does any of this tell us how to find her?" Kensi asked.

Beep

All eyes turned to Nate as his phone beeped. It was not going to be overlooked. He had not mentioned Jason was in town and no-one surprisingly had asked him who he had met with.

"You didn't ask who I met at the diner" Nate stated questioned looking between Sam and Callen.

"We didn't" Sam replied "Who did you meet, Jason Brewn?"

Nate just tightened his lips, tetchy subject best leave alone.

Beep

"You're phone Doc" Callen said forcefully any good will he had also evaporated but this change in subject.

Nate pulled his phone out from the farthest bottom of his jean pocket and brought the screen to life and opened the messages.

'Can we meet' the first message read,

'Urgent 911' read the second.

He shared the messages with the others.

"Tell him yes" Callen instructed from close up to Nate. There was no room for argument.

Nate started to feel more knots forming in his stomach. "He won't show if I'm not alone" Nate said.

"Oh you'll appear alone" Sam interjected crossing the room and picking up a box of ear wigs and pin cameras.

"Ahhh" Nate responded, somehow this did not make him feel better.