Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center
One hour.
23 hours had passed since Granger had last seen Deeks, leaving the agent one hour left to act on his threat. The agent had walked out of OPS and in Granger's belief, he disappeared into thin air. The assistant director had immediately called LAPD, the FBI, and the NCIS San Diego office to send every available man, woman, and police dog to help scour Los Angeles for Deeks.
And the search had turned up empty.
No sign of Deeks was beginning to trigger a severe sense of paranoia in the assistant director. He spent the last twenty three hours looking over his shoulder and holding onto his Sig like it was a life support. If it wasn't for his reputation of being feared, Granger would be wearing a bullet proof vest out in public. The man was about to take desperate measures to find the agent, but an idea popped in his head.
There was only person that would get Deeks out of hiding- Kensi Blye.
Now, Granger marched down the hallway that led to Sector 4-B at the detention center. Kensi was on lockdown in her own cell far away from Nell Jones, who was also at this detention center. The last time Granger had seen Kensi was on the anniversary of Deeks' disappearance where he had tortured the woman with reminders of her miscarriage and jokes about Deeks' "death". He had taken the most pleasure in the surrendering look in the agent's eyes. It was the same one that Nell, Eric, Callen, Sam, and hell, even Henrietta had.
He found Kensi being escorted from the medical bay and back to her cell. The previous week, Granger had heard that she had gotten sick for unknown reasons.
"I'll take her," Granger told the security officer that was escorting Kensi. The officer held up his hand and stepped back while Granger grabbed the handcuffs that held Kensi's hands behind her back.
"What do you want?" Kensi said in a lifeless voice. If it wasn't for the clock ticking on Deeks' threat, Granger would have snarled or spat in her face.
"Your boyfriend's alive," Granger said with a smirk. His comment sparked life into Kensi as her eyes widened. Granger pushed Kensi forward towards the sector entrance. "He put a death threat on me that expires in one hour. Let's go see if he was bluffing."
Conning River, Simi Valley- 40 minutes from Los Angeles
"Granger, what the hell are you doing?" Kensi yelled as she stood at the edge of the bridge that overlooked Conning River. The brunette agent was inches away from falling into the river, but was being held in place by Granger. He held a gun to her head and had a tight grasp on her shoulder. The bridge was blocked from traffic for construction, which meant no one was around to hear Kensi call out for help.
"Like I said before, I'm seeing if Special Agent Marty Deeks is really big and bad as he acts," Granger said. He quickly looked down to his watch and saw that four minutes was left on Deeks' threat. "I have torn apart Los Angeles looking for that moron and I can't seem to find him! I know he's watching me so let's see if his girlfriend almost dying will bring him out to play!"
Granger pushed Kensi onto her knees and then looked outward to the river. "I know that you're out there, Deeks! You've been following me like a rat- I know it! four five minutes left on the threat so come out like a man and face me!"
"Granger," Kensi yelled, "Deeks isn't here-"
Granger ignored her. "You want an incentive to come out, Agent? Well, here it is!" He grabbed Kensi's neck and began to squeeze. With her hands still in handcuffs, Kensi couldn't fight back.
"Stop…" Kensi gasped as she struggled for air. Granger's losing it! It's been a year- Deeks couldn't be back in LA…Could he?"
Granger yelled louder, "I'll kill her, Deeks. Three minutes!"
Try and talk him out of this. "Gra-Granger…he isn't…..here," Kensi gasped.
Granger pulled her close to his body with his hand still around her neck. "He's here- I saw him at the OPS Center. That bastard is alive and if he doesn't show himself," Granger turned back to the river, "Kensi Marie Blye will be dead!"
"Even if he was…he wouldn't…..stalk you. Deeks isn't here….."
"Listen, you little bitch!" Granger sneered at Kensi. "Don't you try any of those let's talk-this- guy-off-of-a-ledge speeches. I've been doing this since before you were born. Two minutes!"
Kensi's vision started to blur. "You're killing me…."
"Good! Then that gives Deeks a reason to come out and an opportunity for me to finally put a bullet in his brain! 90 seconds!"
Kensi eyes began to flutter as she began to lose consciousness. She suddenly heard Granger growl in her ear, "You had to be angry at Deeks that day, didn't you? At China Lake back in September- it you hadn't put Deeks a damn time out, he wouldn't have found those codes and things would be smooth sailing! "Thirty seconds, Deeks!"
Kensi felt a tear run down her face. She knew she didn't have thirty seconds.
If Deeks didn't show up or a miracle didn't happen, she'd die.