Chapter 13

"Down" Sam shouted and pushed Callen down behind the car. "You trying to get us killed?" he hissed into Callen's ear. "Up, go that way, and stay alive" he added before he ran one way, watching Callen run the other way. Sam got to the car and sent an alarm.

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"Mom" Mackenzie had her hands behind her back, left leg behind the right as she looked down.
"Yes sweetie?" Maxine said, she knew there were something her daughter wanted something, and she wasn't going to say no if it had to do with the boyfriend, she trusted the child. She and Alicia still had trouble talking to each other, they walked on eggshells around each other, but she saw how good that kid was with her daughter.
"Anthony wants to take me to a concert and I really want to go" Mackenzie looked up at her mother.
"What concert?" Maxine asked.
"Deep Purple, they are so good" Mackenzie pleaded at her mother.
"Oh" Maxine bit her lower lip. "They are good, very good." Maxine said as she dugged into her pocket and got out three tickets. "Think he'll mind if I tag along?"
Mackenzie threw herself into her mothers arms "Mom, you're the best!"
"Go call Anthony, I'll talk to his mother" Maxine smiled softly as she hugged her daughter back. "Abby'll take care of Daniel."

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"Max, I'm in your tail, give up and I'll make your death quick and painless." A male voice said behind Callen, he was still well hidden, the bullets had missed him.

"G" a voice hissed in his ear, oh yeah, he had it in.

"Mm" he whispered back into his hand where the mic was hidden.

"Go through the apartment behind you, keep a low profile." It was Kensi.

"Don't I always" he muttered before he took out the ear thing and put it in his pocket, walking the oposit way of what Kensi had told him, he walked straight out into the traffic, he nearly got run over but someone speeded up beside him and pulled him into the car.

"Buckle up and do as your told."

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"Chris" Christopher answered.
"Hi Chris, its Maxine, is Alicia there? Kensi and Anthony wanted to go to a concert, I got tickets…" Maxine said.
"I'll talk to her Max, don't worry, me, Lauri, Bianca, Kensi Blye, Sam Hanna and Callen will be there too. They managed to convince him to go." Christopher said softly "How you holding up?"
"Kensi and Daniel. That's how I hold up" Maxine said quietly.
"Give him time, let him come to you. I know he will." He said as softly as before.
"Who is it?" Alicia's voice was heard through the room.
"Maxine, you'll talk later babe." Christopher said.
"I need to talk to her now" Alicia said and Maxine braced herself. "Maxie" Alicia's voice was soft. "We need to speak face to face, saying sorry doesn't cut it. Anthony's so happy, he's taking his girlfriend to the Deep Purple concert. You've reached out to me from the beginning, its about fucking time I do the same" Alicia said.
"MOM" Anthony's voice was heard, Maxine dried her tears as she chuckled. She didn't know where she had Alicia, but hearing the other woman speak in the way she did, she couldn't stop the spark of hope from rising.

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"Where are you taking me?" Callen asked as he looked at the driver.

"To your core, Sam's meeting us outside." Was his answer. "If you get yourself killed I swear I'll revive you to kill you myself Callen." The anger was audiable, Callen couldn't look at the man.

"This is about Maxine, isnt it" Callen stated, his eyes closed.

"Your damn right on that. You just left her standing there, you don't call her and now you go getting yourself killed. Maxie don't deserve this, neither does Mackenzie and Daniel." He stopped the car, looking at Callen.

"Lauri, you don't know…" Callen was silenced by the back of Lauri's hand.

"Don't you tell me what I know and what I don't." He bit of "I was over at Christopher's place and found Mackenzie crying in Anthony's arms, she heard you both, she saw you walk away from her mother." Lauri finished as he bent over and opened the door, he saw Sam standing there. "Now leave my car before I kick you out of it."

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"Kensi, its ok, Lauri picked him up." Linda said as she leaned back in the couch, flipping through the chanals. "He's dropping him of outside your core, wait, Lauri's here now."

"Yeah I see Callen, thank you, send my thanks to Lau as well." Kensi said.

"Kensi" Linda said as she got up and wrapped her arms around Lauri.

"You know what?" Lauri said "He didn't even answer me back, not more then trying to tell me I don't know" Lauri rolled his eyes, Lindas eyes landed on his right hand.

"We better ice it" She said, leading him into the kitchen.

"He cares about them Lin, first I doubted that, but he cares about the three of them." Lauri said as he looked at Linda, he hissed as she put the ice on his hand.

"I know babe" She said soothingly. "He loves her, he just don't know what that feeling is yet" she said as she lead him to the couch, he sat down and she sat down in his lap, his right hand in her lap, the ice on it.

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"Sam, just leave it" Callen almost growled as he walked passed him, and over to his desk, he threw his bag on the table, ice bag in his hand. Sighing deeply he threw the icebag away from himself as he buried his head in his hands, trying to think.

"What happened?" Kensi asked as she stopped Sam from going up to Callen. They both walked to the corner of the room for some privacy.

"Callen and Maxine had an argument little less then a month ago and he's been like this since then." Sam said as he leant back against the wall.

"She told him that she loved him and he left." Kensi sighed "I know, Kensi told me. She had heard them."

"Kensi? Oh yeah, right, Mackenzie, she goes by the nickname Kensi." Sam said "He need to let someone love him." Sam sighed and shook his head. "He's gone all his life without someone after work-hours."

"See why I don't go further then first dates? Even people you trust with your heart might break it." Kensi said.

"He never meant to hurt her." Sam defended Callen.

"I know, he never means to hurt anyone. Just a shame that Kensi had to hear it. She worships Callen and to have him hurt her mom…" Kensi sighed.

"She worships you too. Callen listens to you, maybe you should talk to him." Sam said.

"I donno Sam… He'll be thinking we set him up or something…" Kensi said after thinking for a few seconds.

"I'm not telling you what to say, and if he asks we just want him to be ok. I want him to happy but if I tell him that he'll deck me." Sam said as he sighed out of frustration.

"We'll leave him to figure that part out and just show him that we're there" Kensi said.

"Sounds good, its hard working with him like this. He nearly got himself run over, blown up and shot today. I'm amazed that he never blew his cover." Sam said.

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"Anthony" Alicia said as she hung up the phone. "I'm going to Maxine's place, you wanna come?"
"Coming!" Anthony said as he came running. Christopher had Marcus in his arms, hugging his son close as Sarah came into the room.
"Sarah" Christopher said "Can you watch Marcus, mom and Anthony's going to Maxine and Mackenzie, I'll be back in a while."
"Can I take him to Abby's lab? Daniel's there, so is Chloé, I want to talk to grandpa" Sarah said.
"Sure, just be careful." Alicia said, Christopher nodded at her.

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Kensi shook her head, Sam was walking up to talk to Hetty and Kensi found it a good idea to go approach Callen now. She looked over to the desks, he wasn't sitting there. Looking around the room she soon found him in the couch, he threw his phone across the room. She picked up the ice but let the phone lie.
"You ok G?" Kensi asked as she walked over to him and sat down next to him, reaching the ice to him.
"Huh?" He looked up at her, taking the ice.
"You aren't ok, are you?" Kensi hugged him.
"I think I did one big mistake." Callen sighed.
"Call her" Kensi said.
"I tried… the line was busy." Callen looked at her as he held the ice to his face.

"Don't give up, you know I'm here if you want to talk." Kensi said softly, hugging him again before she rose and left him with his thoughts. She turned and looked at Callen as his phone rang. He got up, picked the phone up, disappointment written all over his face.

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"Sarah's here in a little while, she got Marcus with her, Anthony and Alicia's going to Maxine and Mackenzie" Abby said, Chloé was in her arms and Daniel walked beside her as they exited the elevator.
"Oh, good, I really need to talk to Sarah." Tony said as he reached out to Daniel who jumped up into his arms. "How are you big boy?" He asked, holding the child.

"When will mommy come?" he asked. Tony looked at Abby.
"I'll get you to your mommy when we're done here, we gonna go buy mommy a birthday present." Abby smiled at the child. Daniel was satisfied with the answer and was let down on the floor, he sat down on the floor beside Tony's desk and began to colour a book he had there.

"I want to hit Callen" Abby said quietly to Tony.

"How come?" Tony asked.

"Maxie told him that she loved him and now he doesn't talk to her." Abby said.

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Christopher picked up his phone and called one number. "We need to talk." He said as he stood outside Maxine's home.

Alicia and Maxine was still hugging each other as Christopher got there.
"Everythings ok here?" He asked softly.

"Yeah" Both girls said, Anthony and Mackenzie sat in Mackenzie's room.