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I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you a happy new year! This is just a short one in order to get going, again. Enjoy!
Chapter 6
Deeks met Kensi in the waiting room of Cedars-Sinai hospital, having wrapped up the scene with the help of LAPD. "How is he, Kens?" "They don't know how bad it is, yet. They need to operate on him to find out how much damage is done" Kensi answered. She looked drained. "In the ambulance they tried to stabilize Callen in vain and he stayed unconscious." The EMTs had packed the wound to stem the blood flow. Kensi had held his hand all the way to the hospital, reassuring him quietly. Deeks gave Kensi a heartfelt hug, he was as worried as she was.
Sam had driven to the hospital mulling over how this whole mess had happened. He knew Kensi and Deeks were irritated with him, damn, he was irritated with himself. He made his way up to the emergency waiting room and reluctantly strolled over to Kensi and Deeks, fully knowing that Kensi was mad at him. "Hey Kensi, Deeks," he nodded towards them, "how is Callen?" Kensi eyed him coldly "Now you dare show up? How could you let him down, shouting at him like that? You know his last conscious words? He thinks he has lost your trust, your friendship, he thinks he let you down! That is what is on his mind know, being unconscious and hurt!"
Sam let her wrath wash over him. "You're right, Kensi, he needed me and I didn't even check on him," Sam admitted, "I let the anger get the better of me and I screwed up!" Kensi stared at him, shocked at his disheveled appearance. Looking into his desperate eyes she realized he meant it. "We are still waiting for word on Callen," she informed, "his stats were all over the place when we arrived at the ER, the doctors can tell more once they had a better look at the wound on the operating table."
Deeks supportively squeezed Sams shoulder. Sam glanced at both of them gratefully, he knew he had been forgiven. How he could make up with Callen, though, he had no idea, yet.