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"Us?" Sam replied unconvinced.
"Yes you and your team. I don't know what his problem with you all is but he wants you dead." Kyle told him. "I told you all I know, I want a deal."
Sam looked at him before nodding and walking out of the room to find everyone staring at him. Hetty had sat down out of surprise at the confession, Deeks and Kensi just glanced at each other and while Callen stared at his partner. Nobody spoke for a few minutes still trying to wrap their head around what they heard.
"Mr. Beal." Hetty spoke after a while to the TV where he and Nate were watching and listening from OPS center.
"Yes?"
"I want you to get Agent Higgins, I would like to talk to him." Hetty told him.
"I'll get him Hetty." Nate said walking off to find him.
"Why?" Sam asked her confused. Chris Higgins was in charge of security for the OPS center and their safety while there; Sam didn't understand why they would need him now.
Hetty merely glanced at him before looking back at the screen where Nate, Eric and now Chris were in view.
"Agent Higgins I want you to initiate Silver Cube." Hetty ordered him.
Chris looked at her alarmed, while Eric, Nate, Sam, Kensi, Deeks and even Callen looked at her quite confused and worried at the look Chris was giving her. Chris glanced the team quite baffled before returning his gaze to Hetty.
"Hetty…" Chris said seriously. "Are you sure?"
"Yes Agent Higgins. Do it. We will be heading back shortly. This team, are the only ones allowed in and out besides you and myself understood?"
"Yes. Would you like to tell me what's going on or save that for later?"
Hetty looked at Callen silently asking for permission to tell him. Callen glanced at Chris before starting to speak.
"Maddie was taken this morning." Callen started. "She called me while she was running. By the time we got to her at the boardwalk they had her, and shoved her in a black van. The video behind you is live."
Chris looked behind to find Maddie on the big screen still tied to a chair looking worse then before. Chris hung his head running a hand over his face before looking back at them.
"Who took her?" Chris asked.
"A man named Ethan Bishop, Eric's still trying to get clearance on his files. He called us and sent us the video feed. Eric's is still trying to trace it. We found a lead at Callen's house to a storage unit, when we got there we found a box of explosives. We talked to the guy on the screen, Kyle Griffin. He doesn't know where Maddie is located but he did tell us we were the targets of the bombs, including Hetty." Sam concluded for Callen.
Chris looked alarmed and disturbed at the same time before leaning over Eric to type a few things in the computer. Then he looked back at Hetty seriously.
"Call me when you're coming back so we're ready." Chris told her.
"Very well, go Mr. Higgins." Hetty told him before he nodded taking one last look at Maddie and walked away to set Silver Cube in motion.
"What's Silver Cube?" Deeks asked curious.
"It's a security plan. The entire OPS center will be on lock down, except for us here in the boathouse and Agent Higgins. His teams will search the building and outside perimeter to make sure nothing was compromised. There will be no outside communication except for us. Understood?"
They nodded their heads in agreement. "I can't risk your lives." Hetty told them.
"Or yours." Kensi replied.
Hetty merely nodded. "Now let's get back and see if Mr. Beal has anything for us. And let's pick some dinner up on the way."
Back at OPS center
The team was back at OPS sitting at their desks eating a late dinner considering it was 9 at night already. Chris had the place on lock down and no one was to leave the building until they resolved the issue except the team of course, but that meant everyone was staying the night at OPS. Eric, Nell, Nate and Hetty had now joined them at their desks and were discuss what Eric and Nell had found.
"We haven't been able to track the video stream yet. We've been working on it for hours." Eric told them.
"We're almost through but it's still going to be a while. Morning at the earliest." Nell said.
Callen exhaled loudly, clearly frustrated. "Anything else?"
"No sorry, the Director has yet to get back to us and until then we don't know much about Ethan Bishop."
"Keep working on it. If what Kyle said was true then we might not have much longer then a day." Sam said.
"Your right Mr. Hanna. We must find her and soon. It won't take long for him to realize we have found his source and explosives." Hetty stated. "Ms. Jones and Mr. Beal, I wouldn't work too late night."
Kensi took a look around and realized Callen was frustrated decided to get out of his hair. "Deeks and I will help you for a while, if you want." She volunteered them.
"Sure." Eric said going upstairs with Nell, Deeks, Kensi and Nate. Leaving Hetty, Sam and Callen together, all of them not saying anything.
All of a sudden Callen pushed off his chair and got up leaving the room.
"Where you goin?" Sam asked.
"To shoot something." Callen told him trying to contain the emotion in his voice as he left for the shooting range.
Sam and Hetty shared a look of concern as Hetty let out a small sigh looking up, "Let us find her soon or help us all what Mr. Callen will do."
Sam nodded and got up slowly to follow Callen. By the time he got there Callen was standing at the shoot range shooting his gun, firing it over and over straight at the head of the target. Sam quietly stepped in without interrupting, put some safety earpieces on and stood there watching his partner shoot.
After a few rounds of shooting Callen finally put his gun down and stepped back taking a deep breath. Callen was frustrated, stressed, tired and most of all upset with himself. He couldn't get over the fact that it's his fault his niece is missing, just a week after they found each other. He didn't want to but he was going to give her an option when they found her to…
"Shit Sam." Callen said turning around to find Sam standing there.
"Sorry."
"Did you need something?" Callen asked walking past him out the door and into the gym.
"Nope. Just came to see if you were ok."
"I'm fine."
"Really? Oh yeah you seem real fine to me." Sam replied sarcastically.
Callen rolled his eyes before going over to the punching bag, after he had changed and hitting the bag, feeling the strong urge to get it out of his system.
"You wanna talk about it?" said Sam watching him from the wall.
"Nope."
"You're gonna have to sometime."
"Sam I'm fine." He said with another punch to the bag.
"Alright. If you need talk I'm here."
Callen stopped to look at Sam, before nodding slightly and going back to punching the bag. He went at that for 45 minutes, punching, and kicking it over and over with Sam watching the entire time, not saying anything just watching. Sam was concerned for his partner. He knew Callen was having trouble and he wanted to help him but until Callen opened up to him he couldn't.
The hitting and kicking felt good to get out of his system, but he was getting tired, he hadn't stopped for anything and knew Sam was watching him like a hawk so he kept going. Every punch was full emotion; he was trying so hard to contain them and this was the only way he knew how express it without breaking down completely. He knew if he did stop he would break and he couldn't let that happen. He went another 15 minutes until finally he gave one more forceful punch before sliding down the bag to the floor breathing hard.
Sam watched as Callen slid to the ground in exhaustion. Callen sat there on the ground with his arms on his knees, his head between his legs breathing in deeply. He sat like that another 10 minutes trying to cool down, keep his emotions at bay before he looked up to find a water bottle, a towel and Sam in front of him.
He slowly took the water and towel, nodding to Sam, taking a few sips of water and wiping himself with the towel. Looking up again Sam held his hand out to him offering to help him up. Callen took the hand and got up still breathing a little hard. No words were exchanged between the partners as Callen walked off towards the showers to cool off. Sam watched him go before heading back to find everyone else.
Callen made his way slowly to his desk noting it was 11:30 at night and went to sit down. Sam was at his desk on his computer, Kensi and Deeks were talking quietly on the couch on Kensi's computer and he assumed Nell and Eric were up in OPS still working, leaving Hetty in her office with the light on. An hour and half went by making it 1 in the morning before the team started to slowly fall asleep.
Sam had fallen asleep on the soft chair next to the couch, leaving Kensi and Deeks on the couch with Kensi's head on his shoulder. Hetty's light was off to which Callen assumed she went to get some sleep and he hoped Eric and Nell got some sleep as well, leaving Callen the only one up. He sighed and got up, taking a blanket and covering Deeks and Kensi with it before taking his chair and sitting in front of the TV screen that showed Maddie live.
