'My move. Chess talk.'
Eric and Nell overheard in Ops from the Agent's comms. They had just seen the blast play out on the big screen. The blast had been a surprise to all of them. Melissa threw the purple envelope in her pocket and holstered her gun back at the Challenger.
'He's toying with her. Can we get up footage of the car as the blast happened?' Gibbs asked Eric and Nell. Eric and Nell both typed before Eric sighed. Dante had covered his tracks, the camera cutting out as the blast happened giving himself enough time to place the envelope before disappearing as quickly as he had appeared only stopping when he'd got safely to the street corner to watch the show. He had known Melissa would chase down the only lead he had given her but by no means was he going to make it easy. He wanted her to work for it but hadn't wanted to miss the fireworks though. He had been slightly disappointed there had been no injuries and pleasantly surprised by Melissa's speed back to the car.
'Chess talk,' Melissa repeated. 'Nell is there any parks or places you can play chess in the vicinity?'
'Checking!'
'You sure you're alright?' Sam looked at his young partner trying to gauge if she was about to lie to him. She was stood next to him and the car while Callen was stood on her other side.
'Callen pulled me out of the way in time I'm good.'
'You sounded the warning early enough.' Callen simply recognised fighting a smirk.
'Well thank you anyway. I don't think he meant serious bodily harm, that was a warning, for entertainment purposes.'
'She's right.' Gibbs nodded back in Ops. Hetty had stayed quiet the whole conversation. She had not expected a blast to risk her agents nor the surprise turnaround of Callen and Melissa's relationship as a result.
'We have two.' Nell answered Melissa's question as her tablet beeped with the results in Ops.
'Two?' Callen clarified over comms.
'A park and an old community centre.'
Callen could only look as Melissa nodded at the information. Sam looked at Callen and tried to figure out what his friend was thinking.
'Melissa where are we going?' Sam asked as she dived into the car closely followed by Callen.
'Park is our next stop then. Open ground he's not stupid enough to risk being cooped in not yet anyway. He's toying with me, he thinks he knows me.'
'And does he?' Callen looked at her from the passenger seat.
'No, I've changed probably if not more than he has. Nell what's the park address and ETA?'
'Macarthur Park, ETA 5-7 minutes.'
'Nell, Eric I want no way for him to get out of there without us knowing how bad is CCTV?'
'High crime rate in the area probably not great.' Eric notified her.
'We'll try though.'
'Thanks. High crime rate may work in our favour though. Honour among thieves and all that.'
