NCIS: LOS ANGELES...
WHAT TROUBLE CAN HAPPEN...NOW?
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS: Los Angeles and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
It's been four years...Dani and D.J. Deeks are now 16, Callie Beale is 15. The three are best friends. What has changed in four years? What trouble is about to happen? Sequel to...
Get Out Of My Head, Deeks!
CHAPTER 18: A CODE FOR THE WORDS 'I'M FINE'...
Dani had spent two days in the hospital and it had now been two days since she had been released.
Ever since Dani had come home, she had not been the same girl everyone had known.
She had locked herself in her room and refused to come out.
At night she was plagued with nightmares...
Nightmares from being kidnapped and the torture she had gone through.
For the two days she was missing...
She had been given little food and water.
The kidnapper trying to get her to tell NCIS what he wanted them to know and he beat her.
If her parents and everyone had not shown up when they did...
The kidnapper would have raped her.
FLASHBACK *
TWO DAYS EARIER...
DANI'S HOSPITAL ROOM...
Eric and Nell said since they had to pick Callie up from the safe house...
They would pick up Kensi's mom and D.J. as well, then bring them to the hospital.
So that Marty and Kensi could both be there for Dani.
Kensi stood beside Marty as they stood just outside Dani's hospital room talking to Dr. Cook.
Dr. Cook explained that in addition to the cut on Dani's neck, there had been bruised ribs and more bruises than that.
Also saying she wanted to keep Dani a few days for observation.
After getting Dani to the hospital they had to finally sedate her, so she could get some sleep.
"Fawn, is going to put a fight about staying here...she hates hospitals." Marty said after him and Kensi finished talking to the doctor and walked back into Dani's room.
Kensi fell into the chair beside Dani's bed and Marty began to massage her shoulders.
Both of them exhausted, but relieved that had found Dani.
"Why dose stuff like this keeps happening to our family, Marty?" Kensi asked, as she turned her head to look at him "I..." Marty began, but Kensi continued as though he had not said a word.
"D.J. was kidnapped...when he and Dani were two weeks old, because someone from the LAPD hated you.
Then Dani was kidnapped and tortured, because some a$$hole wanted NCIS to drop a case. We're supposed to be able to protect our kids, but..." Kensi couldn't seem to think of the words to continue, but looked at Dani.
Now Dani would have to carry the emotional scars of what happened to her.
"Kensi, we do the best we can to protect our family and there is no way we could have known this was going to happen." Marty said.
What Marty told her now, were similar to the ones she had told him just a little over eight years before. When Dani had been just eight years old and they had finally told her about her twin brother being kidnapped.
"I wish..." Kensi began. "
We just protect them the best we can We've taught Dani how to protect herself.
Remember Fawn is not a helpless girl...she was in that fight at school four years ago and tried to take on...How many were there? Five boys if I remember right.
Our daughter is tough...just like her mother." Marty told her again and when Kensi looked at him, he had a small smile on his face.
"You once said that our kids..." Kensi started.
"No uh, Princess...I said you would have 'a litter of Gifted Mutant Assassins.' I didn't know at the time...we would be parents together. Though I can't say that I didn't hope," Marty replied.
Before Kensi could say another word the door to Dani's room opened...
D.J. and Julia came in.
"How is, Dani?" D.J. asked making his way to the right side of his sister's bed, with his parents on the left.
"She should be okay in time." Marty told his son.*
END FLASHBACK
MARTY'S P.O.V.
I was sitting on the couch leaning against the arm, with Kensi leaning her back again my chest and my arms around her.
Dani was in her rooms and D.J. was in his room.
"Fern..." I said and she turned to look at me. "What?" She asked. "Want to talk about what's on your mind?" I inquired.
"I was just thinking..." Kensi began. "Thinking about the same thing that you were thinking about the other day at the hospital?" I asked, rest my chin on her shoulder and she nodded.
"Yeah..." Kensi began, but before she could say anything more...
We heard a scream come from just down the hall...the direction of Dani's room.
Kensi jumped off the couch and I was right behind her as we ran to see what was wrong.
DANI'S ROOM...
Ever since Dani had been kidnapped and after what she went through...
She had been having trouble sleeping at night.
I know she's having nightmares about what she went through, but the thing she always says she can't remember what the nightmares are about.
I have a feeling that she dose remember and just doesn't want to talk about it.
She is at this point refusing to go see a doctor about what she went through.
I don't know where, but sometime over the years Dani has picked up a love for writing stories.
So she might be using that to help her cope...
We reached Dani's room and D.J. was standing just outside the door.
"...a dream." Dani was telling D.J.
The smile on Dani's face was one she had been wearing a lot lately.
A fake smile to convince everyone she is okay.
"Fawn..." I began and the smile left Dani's face. "I told you not to call me, Fawn anymore dad. I'm fine...it was just a dream." Dani told me.
"Really, 'I'm Fine'? Dani, you know that the words 'I'm fine' in this house are code for..." I started.
"I'm okay, dad. Hey, can we go watch Soul Surfer?" Dani asked and I knew she was to do something else that seems to run in this family...
'Change the subject and avoid facing whatever the problem is.'
"Do you want to tell us what your dream was about?" Kensi asked.
"I-I don't remember. I just want to watch Soul Surfer...we haven't had a Family Night in a long time." Dani said as she got up from her bed and then walked out of her room.
D.J. Kensi and I followed her.
THE LIVING ROOM...
KENSI'S P.O.V.
When we reached the living room, Dani was sitting down in a chair that sat in the corner.
D.J. sat down in another chair. I went to grab the remote, but Dani was quicker.
"I just want to watch my movie right now..." Dani said, looking at me...before turning her attention back to the movie.
"Dani..." I began, but she turned the movie up and I looked at Marty as he grabbed my hand and pulled me down beside him.
"You do the same thing, Kens. You say that you're fine when you're not." Marty muttered in my ear and I glared at him.
"And you try to use humor to deflect. We still need to have a family talk when this movie is over." I told him and Marty nodded his head in agreement.