Wondering what was going on Lori answered her phone.
"Lori Carter."
"Hey Mrs. Carter, this is Kelly Newman."
"Hello Ms. Newman, is everything alright?" Lori asked concerned.
"I'm calling you because Myra got sick. She just threw up."
"Oh poor thing. I will call our nanny and have her come pick her up, I'm at work right now."
"Thank you, that's fine."
Lori hung up the phone and called Emily.
"Hey Lori," Emily spoke as she picked up the phone.
"Hey Emily, I just got a call from the school saying that Myra got sick. Can you go pick her up please?"
"Uhm sorry, but I have an appointment in ten minutes. I figured I could do it this morning since the girls would be at school till noon."
"Okay, that's no problem. I will go pick her up myself then."
"Okay. I will come to your house as soon as my appointment is finished so you can go back to work."
"Thank you that would be nice."
Lori hung up the phone and went downstairs. She walked into Hetty's office.
"Hey Hetty, I'm sorry but I've just gotta go home real quick. The school just called and Myra got sick. I called Emily but she's had previous arrangements. She will come to my house as soon as she's finished so I'll be back then. I will take my laptop with me so I can work from home."
"That's fine Mrs. Callen."
"Thank you Hetty."
Lori went to the bullpen and grabbed her stuff. Callen and Sam just came walking in from the gym.
"Going somewhere honey?" Callen asked.
"I've just gotta go pick up Myra."
"Is she okay?" Callen asked concerned.
"The school just called. She got sick and threw up."
"Oh poor thing. Can't Emily pick her up?"
"She had an appointment. She will come to our house and soon as she's ready and then I'll come back to work."
"Okay."
Lori gave Callen a quick kiss before walking out and getting in her car.
Fifteen minutes later she was at the school and she walked to Myra and Julie's classroom.
"Mommy!" Julie called and ran up to Lori.
"Hey sweetie," Julie spoke as she gave Julie a kiss.
"Hello, Mrs. Carter. I thought your nanny was coming?"
"She had a previous arrangement."
"Ah okay."
"Hey Myra," Lori spoke when Myra came walking up to her.
"I sick," Myra spoke.
"Yes I know sweetie. Mommy is gonna take you home."
"Since it's already 11am you can take Julie home too," the teacher told Lori.
"Okay thank you. Come on girls, let's grab you stuff and go home."
"Bye Myra, bye Julie."
"Bye Ms. Kelly."
Lori grabbed the girls backpacks and loaded them into the car before driving home. Lori put Myra down on the couch with a blanket. Lori turned the TV on and started 'Frozen'. Julie sat on the couch and watched the movie too. Lori grabbed her laptop and put it on the desk they had in the living room. She logged onto the server and looked through some information. Just past 11.45am the doorbell rang.
"Hey Emily," Lori greeted once she had opened the door.
"Hey Lori."
"Thanks for coming already."
"My pleasure. Hey Myra, hey Julie."
Myra and Julie were too busy with watching the movie.
"Julie, Myra, can you say hello to Emily."
"Hi," both girls spoke without taking their eyes off the screen.
"I've gotta get back to work. Call me if you need me."
"I will but we'll be fine."
Lori packed up her stuff and gave both girls a kiss on their head before going back to the office.
"How's Myra?" Callen asked once Lori walked back in.
"She's okay. I put her on the couch with a blanket. I took her temperature and it was a little bit high so she has a small fever. I gave her some kid Tylenol already."
"Ah okay."
Lori sat behind her desk and opened her laptop.
That afternoon they got another lead on the case. The other two guys had been ID'd via x-ray pictures. They both had surgery on their knees. They had gotten a knee replacement. Their doctor had been able to ID them. Their names were Ben Roberts and Travis Brennan. Neither one of them had a connection to the Navy either. They found an address on Roberts and Brennan. Sam and Callen went to check out Roberts' place as Kensi and Deeks went to check out Brennan's place.
Callen and Sam arrived at Roberts' place and knocked on the door. When there was no answer Callen picked the lock. Guns drawn they walked through the house. Every room was clear. The only room they hadn't checked yet was the basement. The door was locked with an extra lock on the door. Sam kicked in the door. Guns drawn they carefully walked down the stairs. It was dark so they couldn't see much. Callen grabbed his flashlight and looked through the place. He found a lamp hanging on the ceiling with a string on it. Sam pulled the string and the light flicked on. They were shocked by what they found. Four Navy officers tied up to a chair with tape over their mouths. Callen and Sam quickly checked if it was safe before stepping up to the hostages. They were all alive but barely.
"Eric, we need an ambulance. We found four Navy officers tied up," Callen spoke through the com.
"On its way."
Callen took pictures of the faces and sent them to Eric and Nell for identification. A couple minutes later the place was covered with paramedics. They took the four men to the hospital. Callen called Kensi to update them on what they had found. Kensi and Deeks hadn't found anything at Brennan's place so they went over to the hospital to talk to the four men once they were able. Callen and Sam put their gloves on and searched the place as CSU searched for any trace of who took the four men.
"Why would they have four navy officers in their basement?" Sam questioned.
"I don't know. Maybe they kidnapped them to pose as them to get drugs or something."
"Yeah but why take different ID's then? I mean If they took the same ID's as these guys we would have found them in the Navy database."
"I don't know. Maybe we'll know more once Eric and Nell found their names or Kensi and Deeks have talked to them. Maybe these four men were into something shady and they used their Navy connection to get drugs or something. I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud."
They didn't really find anything at the house. They grabbed a laptop for Eric and Nell. Just as Callen and Sam arrived back at the office Nell came down the stairs.
"We've managed to the ID the four men you found at the house. They are all indeed in the Navy," Nell informed them and she put their ID's on the screen. "They all just came back from a mission and had some time off so the Navy didn't realize they were missing.
"Did any of the dead guys at the warehouse have a connection to one of the marines found at the house?" Callen wondered.
"As a matter of fact yes. Ward's sister was Roberts girlfriend but he wasn't listen in the navy database as next of kin."
"Was?"
"Yes she died about a couple months ago while on a mission with the Navy."
"And he blamed Ward for her death?"
"It looks that way yeah. We looked through Ward's emails and he got some threats from Roberts. The other marines you found at the house were all part of the same team."
"So that would explain the kidnapping but why pose as Navy officers with a drug cartel?" Sam asked.
"Well, that's where it gets interesting. They weren't just selling drugs there but also military grade weapons. CSU found a crate at the warehouse that held guns. Now the guns were gone but the crate was traced back to Pendleton. They went to check and it turned out there were four crates missing."
"Why didn't they report them before?"
"They didn't know they were missing. There was no robbery or anything."
"Who took the guns then?"
"It was Ward. His ID was used to get the guns out. We looked at the security cameras but it was actually Morgan who took the guns. He changed his look to look like Ward. They are very similar."
"So they kidnap some marines cus of Ward's sister's death and then use his ID to get onto the navy base and steal weapons and then end up dead at a drug slash weapons deal gone wrong?" Callen summed up. "That just makes no sense. But we still have four crates of military grade weapons out there. Do you have any lead on where they might be Nell?"
"Eric's working on finding them," Nell spoke as she typed some keys on her tablet. "Got a hit on them." Nell pressed some more keys and a picture appeared on the screen. The crates were transported to this warehouse in West Hollywood. Eric checked the cameras in the area and spotted them unloading the crates into this warehouse. According to the cameras they are still there and so are the men."
"Great work. Let Kensi, Deeks and LAPD know and send the address to our phones."
"Okay."
Nell walked back upstairs and contacted Kensi and Deeks and gave them the address. Just after Callen and Sam arrived, Kensi and Deeks arrived too along with SWAT and LAPD officers. They all geared up and took their positions. Callen and Sam took some SWAT and LAPD officers while Kensi and Deeks did the same. Callen and Sam went to the front while Kensi and Deeks went to the back. Lori, Eric, Nell and Hetty were watching the op from up in OPS.
"Move in on my count," Callen spoke. "Three, two, one."
"Federal Agents!" They called as they stormed the place.
The cartel members quickly drew their weapons and fired at them. The agents and LAPD officers ducked behind the first thing they could find and fired back at them whenever they could. After like ten minutes of heavy gunfire the cartel members were either dead or wounded. The wounded were patched up and taken to the hospital with some LAPD officers. Callen, Sam, Kensi and Deeks looked through the place and found the missing crates of weapons. All weapons were accounted for. The weapons were shipped back to Pendleton and the coroner came to pick up the dead cartel members. They had gotten the cartel the LAPD had been after. Once they members that were taken to the hospital were stable Kensi and Deeks interrogated them. They were in fact the once that killed the four 'Navy officers'. The case was closed, finally.
"I just got work from the hospital," Hetty spoke as she walked into the bullpen. "All four marines found at the house will make it."
A sigh of relief went through the bullpen.
"That's good news," Sam spoke.
They finished up their reports before going home.
"Hey," Lori spoke as they walked into the house.
"Hey," Emily replied.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Julie came squealing at them.
"Hey sweetie." Callen and Lori both gave them a kiss.
"How's Myra?" Lori asked Emily.
"She's okay. She managed to eat a bit of cereal and drank some milk. I gave her some more Tylenol in the afternoon. She slept for a couple of hours on the couch. I took her temp again about an hour ago and it had went down a bit already."
"That's good."
"Hey Myra," Lori spoke as she walked over to the couch and gave Myra a soft kiss.
"Hi mommy."
"Feeling better sweetie?"
"A bit mommy."
"That's good."
Callen showed Emily out as Lori went to get started on dinner. Callen sat on the couch and pulled Myra onto his lap.
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Lori had another doctor's appointment she was now twenty three weeks pregnant. Myra's fever had cleared after a few days. Lori's appointment was before work. Callen hadn't been called into work yet so he could go with Lori. They took the girls with them too since it was Lori's day off. They sat in the waiting room waiting to be called in. Once Lori's name was called Callen followed her into the exam room. A minute later the doctor walked in.
"I've got your test results here from your last appointment and everything is alright with you and the babies." Callen and Lori were both relieved to hear that. "Everything came back normal, everything is right on track for twenty three weeks. Why don't you lay down so I can examine the babies."
Lori lay down on the bed and rolled up her shirt as the doctor got the ultrasound machine ready. Once the machine was started up the doctor put some gel on the wand and placed the wand onto Lori's stomach. She moved it around a bit before the babies appeared on the screen.
"There are the two little babies."
Callen and Lori looked at the screen. They could see both their babies and their heartbeats.
"Are they doing okay doctor?" Lori asked.
"Yes, everything looks fine. They babies are growing nice and big. They are both looking very well."
The doctor pressed some keys and a 3D image popped up. It was so nice to see the babies like this. Lori smiled when she saw the babies, it was almost like they were playing together. Lori and Callen got a DVD from the ultrasound and another picture. Lori made an appointment for three weeks from now on their way out. Callen dropped Lori, Myra and Julie off at home before going to work.
It was a beautiful day so Lori took the girls to the park. It wasn't that far from the house. Myra and Julie went on their stepping bikes. They lived in a street which had a cul-de-sac at the end. The road went around and came back on the same road. In the middle was a playground. Their house was just a little in front of the cul-de-sac.
"Myra, Julie, wait at the end near the post. Wait for mommy until you cross the street," Lori called.
Myra and Julie waited at the end of the sidewalk until Lori was there.
"Alright, now let's check the street if something is coming. First left, then right and then left again." Lori looked and so did Myra and Julie. "Is it safe girls?"
"Yes mommy," both Myra and Julie replied.
Lori looked once more to make sure it was. "Alright, yes you can go over."
Myra and Julie stepped across the road and Lori followed. Lori sat down on the bench with the girls' bikes next to her as the girls went to play. First they went on the see saw.
They stayed there for about two hours before going back home. Lori set the table outside for lunch. The girls could play a bit in the garden before it was time for their afternoon nap. While they girls slept Lori got went to do some laundry and some light housework. Once the girls were up Lori took them to the store to get some groceries. The girls both got a small cart. Lori placed some items in their cart and they could help Lori place the items on the register. Lori paid for everything and put the items in a bag. Myra and Julie put their carts back before they walked to the car. Lori loaded everything and everyone into the car before driving home.
Just past 5.30pm Callen walked into the house.
"Daddy!" Myra and Julie squealed and ran up to him.
Callen sat down on his knees and wrapped his arms around them. "Hey girls, daddy missed you today." Callen gave them both a kiss. "Have you been good girls for mommy?"
"Yes daddy. Went to stoe and play," Julie answered.
"That's nice."
Callen gave both girls another kiss before he walked into the kitchen where Lori was.
"Hmmm, it smells delicious honey."
"Hey G."
"Hey honey," Callen replied and gave her a kiss. "Hey my little babies." Callen gave Lori's stomach a kiss too. "Have you been good boys to mommy?"
"Yes they have."
"Good."
Callen gave Lori another kiss before he went to the living room and spent some time with the girls before dinner. After dinner Callen went to work on the nursery for a bit as Lori put the girls in bath. Callen had painted the walls already and had added the wallpaper border. He was working on putting the furniture together now. It were different cribs then with Myra and Julie so he had to figure out how they would go together. He looked at the pictures and tried to put them together. It was a bit tricky but eventually he got it.
"Hey G, how's it going in here?" Lori asked as she walked in.
"Good. Got one crib up already. Are the girls asleep already?"
"Yes they are."
"Alright, I'm gonna stay up here for a little while longer."
"Okay, just be quiet."
"I will honey."
Lori walked downstairs and sat on the couch just watching a bit of TV. She shot up when she suddenly heard a loud bang coming from upstairs.