a/n: sorry for the long wait on updating but have been trying to get over my writers block and catching up on other stories...next chapter up tomorrow

Deeks wakes up in the morning and takes a long hot shower trying to release some of the tension that was building in his muscles and wishes he could go surf for the first time since the shooting but figured that would be a bad idea with someone out there trying to kill him and slips on some clothes and heads into the kitchen and make some coffee and grabs his backpack heading for school and once there see one of the agents he had met the evening before there and see Kayla, "Marty good to see you."

She smiles and sits next to him on the bumper of his Mustang, "Same to you. How you been?"

"I have been okay since my dad is away been quiet around the place and my mom is always working but you?"

"Dealing with trying to catch up on my school work and keep my grades up to be able run track still."

"I heard you made it to sectional's this year and the big meet is today?" She recalled reading the school paper. "Happy and ready?"

he shrugs before taking a drink of coffee, "As ready as ever be I guess but tired a little."

"Remember you need to eat something good today before your meet but I will be there to watch you and know you will do great. You know got a new coach?" She points to where Renko was standing as a security guard as they lock eyes before looking away from each other. "Just transferred here from some school in San Diego is what I heard."

"Well, the other coaches all need some improving so maybe he can be a good change for us this year," the bell rings and they stand up and he kisses her cheek. "See you later."

~~NCIS:LA~~

after the track meet

Renko stands off to the side of the track and see as the teen is talking to some of the other runners that are on the team and not surprised that he had been a good runner after reading his files and how much he had to go through in the foster system and scans the area and spots someone and walks off to look around and pulls out his phone and dials OPs, "Eric, check the cameras around the track and see whose walking around this place in dark jeans and jacket a few minutes ago."

Eric starts to click away on his computer, "The man knows where the cameras are but going to run his face and see what I can get."

They hang up and Nell walks over to her friend smiling and they hug, "That was the best I have seen you run before."

He grins and walks with her to cars, "Guess after everything going on just helped me out."

She pats his on the shoulder, "Meet you at the house for something."

Once at Callen's place they both get there at the same time and walk inside to see Eric, Sam, Hetty and Callen all there with Renko behind them, "Surprise," Kensi said walking into the room. "Nell called and said you had made it to state and wanted to celebrate a little after your big race earlier. Congrats."

Hetty smiles watching them all talk and laugh as Sam walks over, "What you thinking Hetty?"

She looks up at him and back at rest of their team, "Some how he has seemed to be a good thing for everyone not just Mr Callen."

"He seems to have brought Kensi out of herself some more and Eric is more willing to come out and do something with the rest of us now."

"Yes, he does seem to have a way with rest of the team which in the long run is a good thing," she said and cleared her throat causing everyone to face her. "Earlier I have talked things over with Director Vance and a few others and made it legal for Mr Callen to become Mr Deeks legal guardian for now."

"So what does that mean, exactly?" Deeks asked confused.

"Means you will be no longer in the system if any of us can help it," Kensi told him. "Your stuck with us for life."

"Don't make it sound like such a bad thing," Nell told her friend. "Its a good thing Marty."

He smiles for first time all day, "I guess that was one of the reasons you threw the party?"

"And to congratulate you on winning your big race."

~~NCIS:LA~~

a few hours later

After everyone leaves and the place is cleaned up Nell had decided she would stay the night there and while Callen was out for a night run and she comes out of the shower and walks into the livingroom to see her friend looking out the window in the room and moves to stand behind him and rest a hand on his shoulder, "Marty, you doing okay?"

He nods without looking at her, "Just everything is happening so fast. Not long ago I had no idea I had more family outside my dad who I want nothing to do with and then you. Now I have an older brother I had no idea that ever existed and someone out there that may want me dead for some unknown reason. Along with a group of people willing to do anything to protect me and only after knowing me for a short time seems great to have."

"We all care about what happens to you," she pulls him by the arm to sit on the couch. "Sam, Mike and G are like brothers ever since they started at OSP when Hetty recruited them. Kensi is like a little sister to all of them and Eric is like the annoying cousin that you have to deal with because he's part of your family and when you can into the picture and they found out you were related to G that made you an instant part of the small family we have all created. This team is a dysfunctional family even if not related by blood."

He sighs before leaning back against the couch closing his eyes, "I can see and no matter what they always find their way back?"

"Mike is an agent-on-the-fly since he really doesn't have a team of his own but I think Hetty is trying to fix that but yeah they may go somewhere once in a while but always come back."

Callen walks into the room and see them, "What are you to planning in here?"

Nell rolls her eyes at the senior agent, "Nothing you need to worry about but should get some sleep if going to go with Kensi in the morning."

in the morning

Deeks wakes up earlier then he usually would on a saturday morning and takes a shower and makes sure there was some coffee ready as he goes about making breakfast knowing would be a good idea before they were to go out and do what she wanted to do with him as there's a knock at the door and he answers, "Morning."

Kensi smiles at him as he lets her inside, "Something smells good? Who taught you how to cook?"

He looks away sad as answers, "My mom did as a way for us to bond when I was little and up until she passed away."

She remembered reading a file where his mom passed away from a long battle with Leukemia, "By the looks you can teach Callen a few things."

Callen walks in and pours himself some coffee, "Where are you two-headed?"

"I was going to take him a few places around here and have some fun since been couped up inside for a few weeks."

"Just make sure you both have your phones on you at all times and charged," Sam said walking in. "Means checking in every hour."

"Yes mother," they both say before finish eating and leaving.

"Where are they going again?" Sam asked his partner.

"I am not sure but Nell has a list of ideas of where they are headed. "

~~NCIS:LA~~

back at OPs

Nell and Eric are the first ones there except Hetty who was in her office on the phone speaking to someone in a language neither of them ever heard as they start typing away and look over as the doors to OPs open to show Renko, Sam and Callen walking inside and over to them, "Any idea where their headed?" Sam asked.

Nell nods before pulling something up on the big screen, "Batting cages, arcade, a few movies, lunch at a good diner she knows and surf spot."

"Seems like a lot to do for one day," Eric told them. "Even for them."

"There are a few agents following them in case something happens and she wants to try to get him to relax for a while. No they're not going to surf but to see some famous surfer that will be there for today," Nell told them earning a few looks and raises eyebrows from the group of agents. "I overheard him telling Kensi about the guy last night."

"You find anything else about his family? That don't already know?" Renko asked.

"His mother died after a 18 month-long battle with leukemia with no family around CPS placed him into foster care where he was not so lucky and often changed homes a lot," Eric told them. "The mom was an only child and her parents disowned her when she decided to marry Brandall and no contact since the marriage. Well it does seem that their father's mom is still alive also and living in downtown Los Angeles and no contact with her son it seems in a while."

"Seems is downtown Los Angeles about a mile from the family home," Nell continues. "Address to your phones."

The ride there is in silence and once at Brandall's mom place Sam turns to his partner, "You going to be good G?"

Callen comes out of this thoughts and nods, "I will be good Sam let's get this over."

A woman in her 80's answers the door smiling at the men, "Can I help you?"

They flash their badges, "Mrs Brandall?" Sam asked and she nods. "Were here to talk to you about your son Gordon."

She sighs before ushering them inside to the kitchen, "Gordon and me haven't spoken in many years since he was sent to prison for what happened with his wife and son. I never have seen either of them in a few years and last I heard the mother died of cancer a few years back while he was in prison but nothing about son."

"Can you tell us if you know of someone who may want to get at your grandson threw him?" Sam asked the woman.

She walks over and hands them a photo and sits back down sighing, "Gordon and his wife had a good marriage until Marty was about 3 and then she was saying he became abusive. I tried to help them but for some reason he was always getting out of the charges she had brought against him. If she tried to run he would bring her right back. I tried to keep in contact but no one would tell me anything after his mother died and I tried to get custody of him the state said I was to old to care for a teenager like him and told me nothing about what happened and we lost contact after that. he would be 16 I think and if anything not like his old man he turned out to be one pretty good boy."

"You know if he has anymore family outside of you?" Callen asked.

She thinks a moment and pulls out another photo, "He had another woman for a few years before Caroline and Marty. She was from somewhere else and they did have two children a little boy and a girl but she moved away for some reason and I never heard about them ever again. 2 years later he met Caroline and had Marty 2 years later."

A man in a dark suit walks in and looks at them, "Mom who are these guys?"

The woman stands up, "Calvin, these are federal agents and here to talk about Gordon and Marty."

The man shakes his head, "Calvin Brandall and the man is my older brother but what about the jackass?"

"Seems you don't have anything good to say about him, why?" Sam asked the man seeing they might get something from him. "Know anyone that may want to get to his son because of him?"