Touche'
by phillydi
Chapter 14
Callen and Sam walked the outside perimeter of the cemetery at least five times during the course of their surveillance. Callen stops to assess the landscape, but Sam is like a caged tiger pacing back and forth to overcome the tedium and boredom of the stakeout. It was almost too quiet.
Callen checks in with Kensi a few times during the course of their watch. She is hidden well away from the gravesite and from Deeks' vision. She reported in when Ray arrived at the grave but they hadn't heard from her since.
"Hopefully this will be over soon," Callen murmurs. Sam's eye catches a quick flash of light through the trees. He wants to be sure his eyes aren't playing games on him. Sam holds his index finger up to his lips and motions to Callen to squat down. Both agents move covertly though the cemetery greenery with Callen following his partner's lead.
Sam nods his head pointing to the right. Someone is hiding behind the trees keeping their own vigil. The light that Sam caught before was shining off of an activated cell phone. He holds his hand out for Callen to stay in place.
Sam closes in on the intruder like a hungry predator. With no room for mistakes, he crouches behind his target and finds a young boy relaying his message to an unknown recipient.
"Él está aquí. He's here, Marcus."
Sam leaps forward to reach the boy before he can finish his communication. He grabs for his shirt but the boy has seen him from the corner of his eye and takes off. Sam closes in from behind, despite the boy's speed. He is able to tackle him after a few hundred yards and hauls the trespasser to his feet.
"Federal agent! Who were you calling?" Sam demands as he shows him his badge.
"Yo no hablo enlish!"
"Yeah, don't give me that. I heard your English and it's better than mine," Sam sneers. Callen reaches his partner and the captured prey.
"Who were you calling? The Kings?" Callen presses the boy.
He looks at the two agents and spits on the ground.
"Where's his phone?" ask Callen. Sam searches the boy's pocket and throws it over to Callen.
Callen quickly accesses the phone's call bank. "He's got a few numbers that he's called in the last few minutes." He looks at the teenager and grabs him by the chin.
"I have all the evidence I need here to put you in jeuvie for a long time, so you might as well cooperate with us now to make it easier on yourself. Who did you alert?"
"Whoever pays my price," the boy spits out.
"We got a junior mercenary here, G."
"Yeah, and that means he could have half the arms dealers and their gangs converging on this place any second now."
Kensi's voice interrupts their interrogation.
"Callen? I have a visual on both Deeks and Ray and I think Deeks is trying to persuade him to leave the area now. Hopefully we can wrap this up soon."
From a distance, Callen and Sam can hear a cadre of cars heading towards their direction. As they stop along the road, a collection of car doors begin to slam and the marching of footsteps echo through the trees.
"Callen? Are you there?" Kensi calls out again.
"Stand by Kensi," Callen's voice is tense.
"I think our young informant has earned his money tonight. I think we're going to need back up and soon." Sam turns to listen to the movement of the upcoming assault. As he does, the boy jerks out of Sam's grasp and darts away into the safety of the wooded area. Sam tries to catch up with him but he's too fast this time.
"Leave him; we have the phone as evidence." Callen yells. He turns his attention back to Kensi.
"Kensi, we have a big problem! You need to get Deeks and Ray out of there NOW!"
Kensi didn't wait for an explanation from Callen. It could only mean that the arms dealers have found Ray and have sent their street thugs to do the dirty work.
"Kensi we're going to try and hold them off for as long as we can, but you and Deeks have got to move fast." Callen directs Kensi. "They are headed this way with an ETA of around 2 minutes before they reach your position."
Kensi draws her gun to eye level and steps out from behind her cover to reveal her location to Deeks.
"Deeks!"
She sprints over to the two men while looking anxiously over her shoulder.
"Kensi, what the hell are you doing here….I thought I told you…."
"No time for small talk Deeks, we got to get out of here. They found Ray….come on!" Kensi shouts.
She turns as she hears the platoon of gang members charging towards their position. Deeks and Kensi both grab Ray by either arm and lift him to his feet.
"No, leave me, please Marty. I can't leave her…." Ray turns back to look at Jenna's grave.
Deeks realizes that desperate times call for desperate measures. He turns to face Ray and throws him a full-on upper cut to the right side of the head. Ray crumples to the ground like a rag doll.
"Sorry buddy." He lifts his friend and throws him over his shoulder and starts to run like hell with Kensi close by his side.
"This way," Kensi calls over her shoulder. After two harrowing minutes, Kensi and Deeks reach the mausoleum and Kensi's car.
They can hear the shoot out that is taking place behind them between the NCIS agents and the gang members.
Kensi throws Deeks her keys after she unlocks the back of the van to gather more weapons and ammunition. Deeks is on his phone calling LAPD for back-up.
"Take him back to the Boathouse," Kensi yells. "I have to go back in there to help Callen and Sam."
"Kensi…wait!"
"Will you just shut up Deeks and do what I say for once?" Kensi and Deeks stare long and hard at each other and then she rushes back to help her friends.
"Be careful," Deeks whispers. Deeks lowers Ray into the back seat of the SUV and commandeers the vehicle back to the Boathouse.
Kensi heads in the direction of the gun fire. From her vantage point she can see the two factions fighting it out. There was greater fire power coming from the left side which she assumed was the gang members. Kensi is going to change those odds once she joins her team but they were still going to need the other federal and police squads as back up support if they were going to get out of this alive.
"Callen?" she calls as she gets closes to her team.
"Over here, Kensi," he responds.
Kensi throws Callen and Sam the extra rounds of ammunition and takes her position watching their reverse flank.
"Deeks is headed back to the Boathouse with Ray. He called in for reinforcements before he left; we just got to keep them busy until help arrives."
"Well, at least we accomplished half of our object here tonight," Callens shouts over the deafening gun blasts.
"What's the other half?"
"Staying alive until then."