Chapter Eleven - "Staring At It"
"What do you believe this has to do with Narcotics?" Hetty asked him. Hetty and Deeks had moved from the bar back to Hetty's desk at the OSP. Deeks had asked if they could go somewhere no one could over hear.
"I am hoping I'm wrong," Deeks started to say. "I think maybe Morelli has a man on the inside. My team and I were supposed to raid Morelli's compound tomorrow night, but two detectives bust the place this morning. It doesn't make sense."
"You believe someone informed him?" Hetty asked him.
"I don't know what to think," Deeks said. "I've been with these people for the last three years, wouldn't I have seen something?"
"Are you sure you haven't?" Hetty asked him.
"What is that supposed to me?" Deeks asked.
"How can you know for sure you haven't seen something, you might not know you saw it," Hetty said to him.
"So I'm supposed to try and remember three years worth of stuff," Deeks said. "I didn't even want to be transferred to Narcotics to begin with. Which is why I was." Deeks said slowly putting it all together. "I was put in Narcotics because someone believes cops are on the take?"
"I did not say that," Hetty said to him.
"You didn't have to say it," Deeks said. "So does that mean this whole set up with the raid wasn't a raid, but a way to get Kensi in to the LAPD?"
"Mr. Deeks," Hetty said.
"No," Deeks said as he got up from his chair. "So was this whole thing Kensi's idea or yours? Was that story about the team true?"
"This was Bates idea," Hetty said to him. "I informed him about your decision to leave NCIS and suggested to give you something more then just another job. He informed me he had something. This story I am not aware of it."
"Bates? I knew I should have challenged his need for me to be transferred to Narcotics," Deeks said.
"We knew if we told you, you would not be for it," Hetty said to him.
"You're damn right. I just wanted to go back to the life I had before…" Deeks said. "I don't need this. I just need to go back to…"
"Mr. Deeks," Hetty said to him. "I am not trying to force you back into the liaison position, I would not do that. I did not want to see you back in the position you did not enjoy. You may not believe it, but I am just looking out for you."
"Is the team really gone?" Deeks said.
"Mr. Hanna has chosen to spend time with his family, Mr. Callen has joined the Red Team," Hetty said to him. Confirming what Kensi said. "Mr. Beale and Ms. Jones are still here."
"And Kensi?" Deeks asked.
"She has been through a lot, but she has continued to work here," Hetty said. "It has been a long road… for us all."
"I did what … It was the right thing to do," Deeks said to her.
"I never said it wasn't," Hetty said.
"She made her choice, I made mine," Deeks said.
"I am not here to tell you, you were wrong," Hetty said to her.
"How is she doing?" Deeks asked. He knew he really didn't have a right to ask and didn't think she should. He just really wanted to know.
"She would tell you she is fine," Hetty started to say.
"But she's not," Deeks said.
"I should not be telling you this, you should really talk to her," Hetty said.
"She avoiding the subject and from what you are saying she'd say things are fine," Deeks said. "I walked away because I couldn't be around anymore, but it doesn't mean I stop caring about her. I want to know she's okay and happy."
"You should talk to her," Hetty said.
"I will, after this case," Deeks said. "But I can't do this alone and neither can Kensi."
"She isn't alone," Hetty said. "She has the team behind her."
"I'm sure they are fine agents, but this isn't just any undercover assignment," Deeks said. "She needs proper backup. She needs the team."
"That is not possible Mr. Deeks," Hetty said.
"Look if Morelli is everything I have heard about him, then if he finds out Kensi is a cop or a federal agent, he's going to kill her no questions ask," Deeks said to her. "I don't know what she's done with this new team, but if I was her I'd want the people I trust my life with. Those people are Callen, Sam, Eric and Nell."
"And you?" Hetty said.
"I'm talking Agents," Deeks said avoiding the statement. "You talk to Granger, you talk to Director Vance, you talk to whoever you need to, but you get them back."
"Is that an order Mr. Deeks?" Hetty asked.
"I wouldn't do that." Deeks said.
"Even if I could get Director Vance to agree, what makes you so sure they would all come back?" Hetty asked.
"Because…" Deeks started to say. "It's Kensi."
"Look I already told that other detective that I didn't know anything," Kensi said to Detective Flynn, as he brought her to an interrogation room.
"And I'm not going to ask you about Morelli," Flynn said to her. He cuffed her hand to the table and then walked over and closed the door. He turned back to Kensi and sat down in the seat that was across the table from her. "I just want to know what you were doing at his compound?"
"Which will lead you to asking me about Morelli," Kensi said. "I know nothing about."
"I know you are Deeks case, but I'm sure I could help him out by charging you with prostitution. Why else would you be at Morelli's compound? I have heard he likes them tall skinny and brunette," Flynn said to her. "What do I know, I'm just a cop looking to take down Morelli."
"You and I both know you couldn't do that," Kensi said to him.
"What? Take down Morelli?" Flynn said. "I can and I will. Next time you see him you can tell him that."
"I meant charge me with prostitution," Kensi said. "There are not grounds, and unless you plan on making up charges we are done here. I believe I have the right to remain silent now."
"You know an awful lot about the law," Flynn said.
"I watch a lot of crime shows, you know Law and Order, CSI," Kensi said hoping he'd by it. "You can say I'm a crime fighter by TV."
"I'll wait till your lawyer gets here," Flynn said. He started to get up when the door opened. As the person walked in Kensi's couldn't help but be shocked. The last person she ever expect to show up was Sam and as her lawyer.
"No need, I'm here," Sam said. He closed the door and walked over to Kensi.
"What is my client being charged with," Sam said.
"She arrested at Morelli's compound," Flynn said. "She is either working for him or with him."
"What is my client being charged with?" Sam asked again.
"We haven't gotten anything yet, we are holding her for 48 hours," Flynn said. Then the door opened again and in walked Deeks.
"Seriously Flynn, I leave for two hours and you try and take over my case," Deeks said. "You passed on the Morelli case, you said it was a lost cause. It's my lost cause."
"She knows something Deeks, I know it," Flynn said.
"I'll find it out," Deeks said. "Vanessa is here to see you, it's call girl Tuesday."
"Not funny Deeks," Flynn said. He then left the room. Deeks turned back to Sam and Kensi.
"If you are not charging my client, I think we are done here." Sam said to Deeks.
"She was found at the house of a known drug trafficker. Does she want to explain this?" Deeks asked.
"I happened to be going over for a party he was hosting," Kensi said to him. "It was on the up and up."
"Nothing is on the up and up with Morelli," Deeks said. "We do have no legal grounds to hold you."
"Good can I take my client home?" Sam asked him. Deeks walked over to Kensi and undid the cuffs.
"Don't leave town," Deeks said.
"Why would I leave?" Kensi said.
"Lets go Tiffany," Sam said. Him and Kensi headed out of Interrogation and out of the precinct.
An: Will most likely be deleting this. Maybe will rewrite and bring back.
