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Chapter Five: Relentless
"Callen the guy in the hospital is called Viktor Frinovskii. He came to Los Angeles two weeks ago and has been staying at the Riverdale Hotel ever since. The guy he was talking about, the one Megan was looking for, is a man by the name of Mikhail Levanda. He's been suspected of working for the Russian Mafia and is at the top of their ranks. He's been a ghost for the past two years. There isn't as much as a penny to his name. There's been no activity from him, including in Russia" Eric said pulling up two pictures. One of the man we had found in the warehouse, the other of a middle aged man with dark hair and dark eyes.
"Any links between Viktor Frinovskii and Mikhail Levanda?" Gibbs asked.
"Apart from both of them being Russian, no. Each were born and raised in a different part of Russia. Frinovskii from St. Petersburg, Levanda from Moscow. Different social classes, one from the middle class, the other from the upper class" Nell said.
"That's nothing to lead us on" Tony said.
"How about this? We talked to Viktor after he got out of surgery" Kensi said.
"He's part of the Russian Mafia, not a big surprise, and so is Mikhail" Deeks said. Kensi looked at him.
"Mikhail Levanda has climbed up the ladder in the Russian Mafia and is now a very strong influence in it. It seems that he's the real reason Megan is here in Los Angeles. We all thought that the reason she chose Los Angeles because we were here; let her old team work the murders. Not true. She came here because she got word that Mikhail Levanda is coming to Los Angeles. Viktor use to be his right hand man, so she figured the way to get to him was to find out from Viktor. Seems that our boy Viktor had a falling out with Levanda, now he's up in Serbia with some of the other Mafia, at least that's where he was before he came to L.A.
"Viktor thought that Megan was dead. So, we offered Viktor our protection from Megan if he told us why she was here. Levanda was calling the shots on Agent Briars and Agent Andrews. He's the reason their dead" Kensi said looking at us.
"This means that she's going after him. He's the only one left besides Viktor. Mikhail Levanda is Megan's biggest and final target" I said turning to look at both my team and Gibbs.
Eric and Nell came hurrying down the stairs. We all looked up, their faces were urgent.
"Guys, Megan's phone just turned back on. She's out at Venice Beach" Eric said. We all grabbed our guns and headed out.
Hetty stood at the door to her office. "Bring her home Agent Callen" she called.
The car pulled to a stop and we all got out. "Sam, you and Tony take the west. Kensi and Deeks take the east, Ziva and McGee take the south, Gibbs and I will take the north. Do not scare her off if you find her. We don't want any civilians hurt when we bring her in" I said. They all nodded and headed off in their different directions.
Gibbs and I quickly walked down the beach looking for her. Suddenly over our earpieces, we all hard McGee say "She's out here near the bridge".
Gibbs and I took off running in the opposite direction we were originally going. We met up with Kensi, Deeks, Sam, and Tony as we went, all of us rushing to get there.
We slowed down when we found McGee and Ziva trying on hats and sunglasses, keeping an eye on her. I watched Megan carefully and found her walking slowly along towards the bridge, a cup of coffee in her hand. I saw the bulge under her jacket at her lower back and knew she had a gun on her. I turned back to everyone.
"She has a gun, go behind the cars and stay out of sight. We want to box her in and bring her in. Do not fire, we don't want to cause panic and lose her in the crowd" I said. They all nodded and Gibbs and I headed off first.
Megan turned slowly around and she locked eyes with me. She took a sip of her coffee and then slowly walked away. We picked up the pace. Glancing over her shoulder she saw that we were still coming and she threw the coffee cup down and took off running, pushing people in our way. We all started running. I heard the others behind us.
"Gun!" Gibbs shouted and we all ducked behind cars hearing the sound of gunfire. The Director was right. She was making it clear that she wasn't going to come in.
The cars we were hiding behind we sprayed with bullets. I looked up and saw that all the civilians were out of the way, running away from Megan. None of them seemed to be hurt, and I knew that she was trying to keep them out of line of fire. Although she wanted the people who needed to pay dead, she didn't want to hurt a regular civilian.
The gunfire ceased and I knew she was reloading, or she had stopped for good. "Megan, why don't you come out? Talk to us. Tell us everything" I called breathing heavily, the adrenaline pumping through me.
I heard her breathing heavily as well. "You know I can't do that Callen" she called back. For a moment she sounded like her old self. The edge of the assassin's personality was gone, and she sounded like a scared, desperate NCIS agent.
Everyone else was quiet, it was clear they were going to let me do all of the talking. Megan hadn't begun to fire again so I stood up; aiming my gun at the car she was hiding behind. The others followed my lead and did the same thing; they wouldn't shoot her though, not under my orders.
"We know why you did it; we know who you're after. Come in and tell us everything. I swear they'll pay for what they did Megan. If you keep killing them, you'll end up just like them" I said.
"I will never be like them! I don't kill innocent men, women, and children. I don't kill someone over spilled coffee. They have to pay. They have to know what they've done, who they've hurt. If they don't pay, then they never will!" she said. I heard the pain in her voice.
"They will pay Megan, I promise. Just come in" I said.
"You know just as well as I do that the minute they leave America you'll never find them again. They'll never pay. I have to do this. For them. I owe them that much. I couldn't save them, but I can bring them justice. I can't stop until I finish what I started" she said.
We waited, but everything had gone silent, that's when I began to get worried.
Suddenly I saw Megan stand up. She locked eyes with me and I saw the sorrow and pain in them. Then she took off running towards the bridge. Ziva took off after her.
"No!" I yelled but Ziva wasn't listening.
I watched Megan run quickly towards the railing on the bridge and knew that she was going to jump. I took off running towards the two women. Ziva raised her gun and I yelled "No!" again before I heard the shot and watched it go into Megan.
She yelped in pain, but continued running. I watched her grab onto the railing and push herself over it. Then I watched her jump off and heard a splash and knew she had jumped into the water below the bridge.
We all stopped and looked into the water below. There was nothing but the ripples from where Megan had landed. Megan was gone.
I turned to Ziva. "I told you not to fire! She could be coming in if you hadn't fired!" I yelled turning on her.
The former Mussed agent just looked at me, not flinching back from the bite of my words. "I thought she would have stopped once she was injured, it seems I was wrong" she said.
I turned on my heel and headed back towards the car. I slammed my fist against it angrily. We had been so close to getting her to come in. Now, we were back to square one, hunting down an assassin with an agenda in a city like Los Angeles, California.
"What do we do know Callen?" Kensi asked as she, Sam, and Deeks came up to me. I turned to look at my team.
"We have to find Mikhail Levanda. If we find him, then sooner or later we'll find Megan. She made it very clear that she was going to end this, which means she's going to try to kill him" I said.
Gibbs and his team came up. "If we find him first then maybe we could prevent him from getting killed" he said and I nodded my agreement.
"Then let's get started" I said and we all got in our cars and headed back to headquarters.
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-Haleybug