"And that, is the story of when I ruled Nicaragua."
"Wow, Hetty. That was…. Incredible." Kensi said.
"Yea, I would have never thought…. Gosh, that's amazing." Callen added.
"Yes, well, it was one of many wonderful adventures I've had. We certainly all have had our fair share."
"We sure have." Nell agreed.
"We're gonna miss you guys. OSP won't be the same without you." Kensi said to Nell and Eric while sitting in a booth at the Squid and Dagger, having one last drink as a full team. The original agents, Callen, Sam, and herself were all there as well as their LAPD liaison turned agent Deeks, the wonderful wonder twins, and newly returned Hetty. It was the original gang all back together for the first time in years, and what would likely be the last time for years.
"We'll miss you guys too, but we'll visit, and you guys need to promise to visit us too." Eric said.
"Of course. It's been too long since I've been to Japan, and I would love to show Deeks around my old stomping ground." Kensi replied.
"You know, I've been to more than a hundred countries, but somehow I've never made my way to Japan." Callen said.
"I was in North Korea once…. Unofficially of course." Hetty said.
"Of course." Callen agreed laughing.
"This is pretty surreal. I mean, we've spent almost every day together for the last decade." Sam lamented.
"Been through a lot together." Callen agreed.
"God, I, I just can't believe we're leaving. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm so excited to start this new chapter in our lives, but…. This is just so bittersweet….I'm gonna miss you guys so much." Nell said.
"We did good work." Deeks said, echoing the same words Nell had said to him earlier this year when his LAPD liaison position was eliminated.
"Wouldn't change it for a thing." Nell said with the beginning of tears in her eyes.
"So much has changed." Kensi said.
"And this team, we really have done so much." Callen added.
"Whole lotta good." Sam said.
"This office prevented the sale of several nuclear weapons." Nell mentioned.
"Prevented smallpox from being weaponized." - K
"Protected the Ricin vaccine." - D
"Stopped botulism from being sold to the highest bidder and released in a mall." - C
"Saved a Saudi Prince" - S
"Uncovered a group of Russian Sleeper cells in a gated community." - D
"Prevented world war 3." - K
"Prevented an economic terrorist attack." - E
"Stopped the bombing of a naturalization ceremony." -N
"Took down a few neo-nazi groups along the way" - C
"Helped get Monica Tenez elected to the Senate." - K
"Took down Rathburn and Citadel." - E
"Kens single handedly saved the world from a nuclear holocaust." - S
"That did happen." Kensi said remembering the time she had to call Deeks to say goodbye.
"Convinced the entire world that the "little black book" was nothing more than a folklore" Callen said looking at Hetty knowing full well she had it in her possession.
"Got frelted." Eric said wrinkling his nose. Deeks laughed at the memory.
"Took down a decades long blood feud and eliminated the entire family tree of one of the most notorious human and weapons traffickers in eastern Europe." Nell added.
"Found my family." Callen said
"Me too." Deeks said smiling over at Kensi who returned the smile before adding, "Avenged mine." She said thinking of her father.
"We've caught some of the America's highest valued targets." - S
"The Comescus." - C
"Sidorov." Deeks and Sam said simultaneously while looking at each other.
"Asakeem." Kensi said with a sigh. Deeks put his arm around her shoulder and gave her a gentle side hug.
"Alright, let's play a game. Favorite criminal. I'll start. Kirkin!" Deeks declared.
"I mean, I gotta go with Janvier." Callen said.
"Really, not Arkady?" Sam asked.
"Arkady's not a criminal." Callen said.
Everyone raised their eyebrows at Callen.
"Yeah, just like Kirkin wasn't." Deeks said while raising his glass in the air. "Pouring some out for you my man." He said as he spilled some of his beer on to the floor.
"Fine, I'll take Arkady then." Sam said.
"I thought you hated Arkady?" Callen asked.
"He's grown on me. Besides, do I really have to like him. You telling me you like Janvier? Arkady's just the most interesting criminal we've worked with."
"He sends me Christmas cards." Callen said.
"He's also the reason Deeks and I got tortured."
"Fair point. Alright, it's Arkady."
"Good choice." Deeks said.
"Kens, what about you?" Sam asked
"Ricky and Frankie."
"That was a great case. You know we don't get to speak in accents nearly enough, particularly British accents." Deeks said.
"You can only pick one criminal." Callen argued.
"Fine. Frankie. He was…. Charming."
"Should I be jealous?" Deeks asked.
Kensi completely sidestepped the question and continued around the circle and asked, "Hetty?"
"Mattias. Very few people are still out there who still respect the code of the thieves. Mattias was among the best."
Callen chuckled.
"Uhhh, do you all count?" Eric asked. "You've all gone rouge plenty of times and done some questionable things."
"…..No." they all replied simultaneously. "Ok, then I'm with Deeks, Kirkin."
"That's what I'm talkin about." Deeks said as he offered Eric a low five.
"Nell?"
"Oh, there are just so many good ones to choose from." She said sarcastically.
"If I had to choose… I guess I really liked your man Lil' Dip, Deeks. He was…. Fun… to mess around with."
"He is a character, alright. And he's got a great head of hair. Alright, favorite case?" Deeks directed.
"Driving that Shelby Cobra was pretty great." Kensi said.
"That was artful driving, Ms. Blye." Hetty said.
"That, that was a good day." Deeks thought back remembering his return to his normal self after his torture.
"You, Deeks?" Sam asked.
"Well, I hate to bring up bad memories for you Callen, but probably the case around Christmas when Joelle got held up."
"And why would that be?"
"Welllll, wasn't so much the case as the… after action report."
Kensi smiled at Deeks.
"That was a great day. All of us together. Michelle and my kids. All of you. Family." Sam said smiling at the memory.
"Sam?"
"I enjoyed flying down to the Bahamas to get the money back from your ex-wife, G."
"Well I gotta say, that Angelo op was still some of the most fun I had in a while."
"You mean when an actual robbery happened in the middle of trying to extract Angelo?" Kensi asked.
"That's the one." Callen said smiling.
"It was because you had Arty with you, wasn't it?" Deeks smiled at Callen.
"That, was the one part of the op I could have done without." Callen remarked.
"Uh huh, sure." Deeks joked.
"That was a fun op." Sam agreed.
"Yea, not our favorite" Deeks said on behalf of himself and Kensi.
"No." Kensi agreed.
"Been to a lot of places." - S
"Russia, Vietnam" - E
"Romania and the Czech Republic" C
"Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan." - K
"Yemen, South Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia." S
"Germany… sort of." Kensi said.
"Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Syria." D
"Cuba, Mexico." C
"More often than not our overseas escapades ended in disaster….Mostly for me." Kensi realized. "I should really stay put." She joked.
"Afghanistan and Syria were no joke." Sam agreed. "Yemen and Sudan weren't great either. Or Vietnam." Sam said while looking at Hetty.
"Could have passed on the events of Mexico too." Deeks added.
"Yea." Callen agreed.
"Still haven't gone to Iceland." Sam said sighing.
"Or the moon." Deeks joked.
"Someday." Callen reassured Sam.
"We really have been through it, huh?" Kensi asked.
"I'll say." Nell agreed.
"Thank you both for keeping us safe." Kensi said directed at Nell and Eric. "If we didn't have our secret squirrels up in ops… I don't know how we would have made it this far." Kensi said.
"Truly. We probably didn't give you guys enough credit. You saved our asses more times than we can count." Deeks agreed.
"Thank god we finally found an intelligence analyst that Hetty could deal with and Eric could tolerate." Sam joked.
"I more than tolerated her." Eric said with a smile.
"Wonder Twins for life." Nell agreed fist bumping Eric.
"It's crazy how one small change in any one of these cases we've been through could have drastically changed all our lives, and the rest of the world's." Kensi thought out loud.
"Yea. A few minutes later, a misstep here or there, the world could look like a completely different place." Sam said.
"Well, how about a toast. To OSP, everything we've done, and everyone who have walked through her doors."
"To Nate, and wherever the hell he might be" Nell said.
"To Renko" – K
"Dom" S
"Hidoko" – N
"Granger" H
"Mosely and Derek, wherever they are" – C
"And everyone else still to come." - H
"Here's to making the world a safer place." - S
"And looking damn good doing it!" Deeks added.
"To the Office of Special Projects." Callen said as the gang all clinked glasses.
"Cheers." They all replied.