A/N: sorry for the long period in between the updates on this story but have been working on other stories and this chapter got lost in my computer and found it; next chapter should prove to come up with some results for the team; waiting to post the next chapter is agonizing but will be up tomorrow
Director Shepard doesn't look up from the pile of paperwork on her desk as her door slams open and already knows that Gibbs was there since he still was the only person who walks into her office like that and she ignores him while he stands there, "Yes, Jethro?"
"Want to tell me how someone broken in here and was able to get access to MTAC without someone noticing?" He asked leaning against her desk. "You know something."
She finally looks up at him sighing, "Carson when he escaped was rumored to be hooking up with someone who worked here in DC but we never were able to determine if the rumors were true or not but seems that since a code was used to get in there we now have the answer," she hands him a paper. "Dana Reese has worked as a tech in there for a year but hasn't shown up for work in 2 days."
He takes the paper and heads to the bullpen and see Tony and Deeks there, "DiNozzo and Deeks with me."
Tony and Deeks knew he meant them since were the only ones there and they grab their jackets and follow him, "Find something?" Tony asked. "She give you something?"
"Just an idea where to start looking for now."
/
The ride to the address was in relatively silence as all three of them are lost in their own thoughts as Gibbs pulls up to the small house and they follow him up to the front door and points so Deeks goes around to the back door and they take the front and knock. A woman in her 50's answers, "Can I help you?"
Tony shows her a picture, "You seen this man around? Or the woman?"
She takes the photo and looks it over, "That's my daughter Dana and her fiancé James whose in the military. Who are you guys?"
They show her their badges, "NCIS but can you tell us when the last time you saw her was?"
She motions for them to follow her inside, "They were here a last night with a young woman but she was asleep in the car. They brought her inside and stayed the night but left a few hours ago before dawn only because I woke up when their car backfired and then they hit the road. Are they in trouble?"
Deeks walks in just then and shows her another picture, "This the woman?" She nods. "She went missing yesterday afternoon."
"Oh, Dana and James said she was passed out drunk so they needed somewhere to stay the night. Of course I let them have the two extra rooms."
"You have any ideas where they were headed?"
She shakes her head in disbelief, "I heard them whispering but couldn't make anything out."
Tony pipes up, "Would you mind if we brought someone out her to go over the rooms to see if can find something to help find them?"
"Sure, if you think can help find that young woman go ahead," she leads them to two rooms across from each other. "They stayed in these rooms. Any questions let me know."
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a while later
Deeks is standing by the charger when the FBI suburban's and NCIS vehicles pull up with the van and rest of the teams pile out and walk over to him but he leads them inside and up stairs to the two rooms where Tony was looking around already there, "Seems they stayed the night at her mother's place and left a few hours ago."
Ziva scans the room and finds a panel in the wall loose and pulls out an envelope marked NCIS and inside was a letter
Gibbs and Callen,
years ago you ruined my life by taking away my career and it has taken me this long to find a way to get back at you
after a daring escape from that damn prison you sent me to but now I hold one of the things you care about the most
and if you wish to see her again you must return to where it all started.
James and Dana
Gibbs looks over to see his friend fighting his emotions after reading the letter but Seavor breaks the silence, "What now?"
"This all started years ago when we were stationed in the Gulf but came to head on the base in Quantico. That's where we start looking."
"What you want us to do, boss?" McGee asked him.
Callen runs a hand over his face, "We need a BOLO and APB out on all of them and find out what they were driving from the woman."
"I already sent the cars details to Abby how is looking for it now," Deeks said. "Head back?"
a week later
Callen is woken up but at first he wasn't sure what had pulled him out of his light slumber as his attention is drawn to his cell phone ringing and carefully moves his son off his chest to lay on the bed and grabs the phone and see a restricted number and answers, "Hello?"
"Agent Callen, I see we still have your precious wife," James said. "To bad if you don't find her soon she wont see any of you again."
"Why are you doing this and not going after Gibbs and me?" He asked moving to his laptop to trace the call. "Were the real ones you want dead not her."
"Yes, but by taking and hurting her I am pissing you all off which is even more fun. See I have sat in prison trying to figure out a way to escape and once I was able to I found Gibbs had become NCIS agent and his team was the best there and so I tracked you to Los Angeles and saw what you made of yourself. After the shooting in the school and way she seemed to help keep most of you all together I knew the easiest way to hurt both of you was to kidnap your wife. So you have 2 more days to find me or she dies."
There is a dial tone and Callen curses when the trace comes up with nothing and Kiera looks over to where can hear her father, "Dad?"
He walks over to the other room where the girls were and sits on side of the bed, "Yeah, kiddo?"
"You think mom is okay and coming home soon?"
He pulls her into a hug as breaks his heart not knowing how to answer her, "Were going to find her and soon."
She wipes at some unshed tears, "I miss her."
He lays her back down and kisses her forehead not sure what he would do if they didn't find her in time, "Me too. Go back to sleep."
Gibbs looks up when he comes into the basement, "Kiera, alright?"
"Yeah, just missing Nell. James called my phone and said we have two days to find her or she dies."
Gibbs had watched over the years how much Nell had changed his friend into something good and knew if she was to die it would crush him and that might crush their team because to them Callen was their rock and something like that would destroy the little family that they had made over the years with the team.
"Were going to find here before something like that happens and make them pay. Nothing on the trace?"
He shakes his head and pours some bourbon and drinks it, "He hung up before could get location but came up with general area in which already sent to the lab."