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I don't own. We're broke. Don't sue.
The only thing I do is Sarah.

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Thanks for all the reviews and favorites. Sorry this has taken long to post. Summer, kids, vacation and writers block happened.

There is a flashback in this chapter.

Special thanks to Anthrdumblond for input, editing and keeping me sane (or making me believe I was sane ;-) ).

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Chapter 3

He stood there looking at both of them."Your Godmother." He said slowly trying to process it.

"Yes" She could feel the redness flush her face.

He looked at Hetty. "You're her Godmother?" He asked making sure that he heard her right.

"Yes." Hetty said.

Everything started to click. "Are you an agent?" The details that he didn't even notice when she told him what happened. The look of shock when she found out he was an agent. He just thought it was because of being attacked. Then he remembered her the look she had when he was on the phone with Eric. She was scared and she had the same look now.

"No. I'm a teacher. What I have told you is the truth." Sarah said.

Hetty walked closer to them. "She is telling the truth Mr. Callen. But she was an agent at one time."

Sarah looked at her "Hetty."

She looked at Sarah "Could have been one of the best." She said with pride.

"Hetty!" Sarah hissed.

Hetty walked over to Callen handed him a file and went over to the screen. "But that is a story for another time. Now we have a problem Sarah."

"What is this?" She looked at the screen. Pictures of women were up on the screen with the picture of the man who attacked her the night before "You are very lucky Sarah."

"He told me that this guy had a record." she started getting a bad vibe about this.

Hetty continued looking at the screen "Yes he has a record and is the suspect of doing this to three other women. The one who was attacked before you died this morning."

Her face went white as a sheet. "He...he" She looked at him.

Callen took her hand "I did not hear about that. I would have told you if I did." He told her.

Hetty looked at them together remembering seeing the same look over forty years ago and knew this could be a problem. "So." she said to bring them back to reality "We'll need to get you back on active agent status."

"What?"

"Hetty are you sure about this?" Callen asked.

She walked over to Hetty "No. I can't we agreed-"

"We agreed that you could go on reserve status but if there was a case that you were needed on you would come back." She was not going to let this opportunity get away from her to have Sarah back.

"I can't. I was the one who was the victim." Knowing that reason wouldn't fly with Hetty at all.

"You're going to be on this case Sarah." She said.

Fighting wouldn't work. Begging wouldn't work. Trying to reason with Hetty Lange wouldn't work because she had done that all before and she knew it would be useless to try again. Sarah sighed. "Fine." She walked out.

G. stood there wondering if he should go after her or try and talk some sense in to Hetty.

Sam watched Sarah walk past her. "I'll keep an eye on her G."

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Sam found her on the other side of the boat shed sitting in one of the chairs looking out at the water. He sat next to her and didn't say a word. He knew from experience never to try and talk to a woman who was pissed until she was ready.

"How long did she threaten the suspension for?" She finally said.

"What?" He asked. How in the world did she know that Hetty threatened everyone with suspension if they called G?

She tried to be calm. "You are his partner and friend. You would have called or had someone at the office to let him know that she was on the way. She threatened suspension didn't she?" She said.

"Yes she did."

"How long?" She asked again.

"A week."

She laughed. "She's pissed."

He looked at her "She didn't show it."

"It's Hetty. She never does. I stayed with her the first summer after my Dad died. I was fourteen. She grounded me for a month the first day I was there. I was trying to sneak out of the house. She was there when I got out of the tree shinning a flashlight in my face." She smiled at the memory. "She didn't yell. She just looked at me and said 'If you are going to try and sneak out of my house you should do it without stomping around like an elephant young lady' and then made me go up the tree back to my room."

"So what did she have you do?" He asked.

"She taught me how to sneak out of the house and then other things. When I got back to DC she got a very angry call from my Grandfather. I found out a couple of years ago that it wasn't me 'stomping around like an elephant' like she said. It was the neighbors dog that gave me away." she looked at him. "I always hated that dog."

"So she trained you?" He asked.

"Mostly. There was also my Godfather and other friends of my Dad's. It almost became a game between them and I was a quick learner."

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They stood there in silence watching the video that Eric just sent of in the bar of Sarah singing. "Are you sure about this?" Callen asked.

"I wasn't lying when I said that she could have been one of the best Mr. Callen." There was something different about this performance. Full emotion and didn't care if anyone saw it. It was easy for Sarah to perform after being an agent because she treated it like another alias. "But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles" She wondered how he would react if he knew that Sarah picked this because that lyric reminded her of him.

"What happened? Why did she go on reserve status?" He asked.

"Mission gone bad, betrayal, I still don't know all of it and she will not talk to me about. She went even as far as making sure I didn't know what happened by going above my supervisor and making sure I never got to see it. Told them it was a 'conflict of interest'. When she got back, gave her report, turned in her badge and walked out. Anything that involves her goes through me and I take care of it. I was always hoping she would return. Now it's ten years later."

"We can always have Kensi do it." He suggested.

The second video of the attack came on. She watched as Sarah walked to the parking lot thinking about something else was taken by surprise as the man grabbed her purse. "She's rusty but I'm sure she can do it. There's more to this than we are getting. There is something going on here. The three other women look similar to her. I'm just glad that you and Mr. Hanna were there." She would have never forgiven herself if something happened.

"His lawyer wants to charge her with assault. Says he was trying to help her and she started it." Callen told her still not believing the guts this guy had when he was told that.

"I'll take care of that." Hetty said trying not to react to Sarah fainting in Callen's arms, the look of shock on his face, and the way he just held her.

"Okay I'll get started on this." he went over to get Sarah's phone.

"Have her go through all the tests don't have them go easy on her. She should be treated like everyone else. I bet that she'll be able to point out every agent you have at the restaurant when you take her out to dinner tonight" she smiled.

"I'm not even going to ask how you know about that"

"I've seen the look she gave you when you told her you didn't know about the woman who died...a long time ago. Trust your instinct. Protect her, find out why they did this and we'll be happy."

"We?" Wondering who else Sarah knew.

Hetty smiled "Just read her file Mr. Callen." and walked out.

He opened the folder and skimmed it and then saw the name that caught his eye 'Guardian: Henrietta Lang Emergency contact: Leroy Jethro Gibbs'

"Great"

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May 5, 2009

Sarah stood on the boardwalk watching the water thankful for not having to work until afternoon.

"Hey Red." the voice said behind her.

She turned to see Gibbs and smiled "Hey! You look good" She hugged him.

"You look great. How are you?" He looked relieved to see her but there was still some tension.

"Stressed. Opening night in three days for the Opera/Musical scenes." She handed him his coffee.

"They'll do great. They have an awesome teacher." He sat down on the bench.

She sat down next to him "Well I'm worried about something I cannot control. My lead is pregnant and her morning sickness is at night. I really don't need Christine to get sick on The Phantom." She took a sip of her drink.

Gibbs laughed. "It will go great. You work best under stress"

"And coffee you taught me that. How long are you in town?" She asked hoping he would be here to see the performance and talk with Hetty.

"Don't know. Depends on how business goes." His expression then showed it all. There was something more than just this case going on.

"You're here on business?" She asked.

He nodded.

"That's why you're stressed." She could always read him like a book

He looked at the cup. "I have to deal with someone who I don't get along with. I'm trying to be" he searched for the word "Nice."

She smiled. "Just breathe and count to ten" which is what he told her when she was an agent.

"I've already done that several times." He took a sip of the coffee.

"So that's why I got a text from you this morning to meet here and to bring coffee." She put the cup down.

"No I wanted to see you. But I do have to meet someone at ten" He checked his watch.

"Well I'm glad I can help you out." She said knowing that she couldn't push him about it. Never mix business and personal lives...that was her rule.

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"How is she?" Callen asked Sam when he walked in.

"She's okay. You know she stayed with Hetty when she was a kid. Seems Hetty has taught her almost everything she knows." Sam took put a bag that Hetty brought for Sarah on the couch.

"Hetty wants her on the case" he continued looking at her file.

"How do you feel about that?" Sam asked already knowing how he felt. He was going to use the 'don't date if they have handcuffs' rule.

"Don't know." He handed the file to Sam. Sam saw Gibbs name on it and he smiled. "Well I think she'll do fine." he said. "Oh and before I forget you both are invited to dinner at the house on Saturday night" He said

Callen looked at him "Dinner?"

"Yeah...she wants to meet her." Sam said smiling.

"Sam."

He was not going to let him get out of this now. "She wants to meet her." He repeated.

He knew he wouldn't be able to get out of this one when she wanted them there "Fine. We'll be there."

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Sarah walked in and saw him watching the video. She took her cup that was in the kitchen area, walked up next to him and watched the video. She immediately started seeing all the things she did wrong and annoyed at herself for being so hard on herself. She hated watching herself on video because then she could see all the mistakes she did while others couldn't.

He saw her reaction to the video out of the corner of his eye. "How are you?"

"It's been an interesting twelve hours" She said wondering why in the world she just didn't let the damn purse go.

"Yeah"

"Karma is a bitch. Only I would have the luck of having my Godmother be your boss." Sarah looking at the file.

"It doesn't surprise me. Nothing about Hetty surprises me anymore" Callen said thinking about the last six months.

She looked at him wondering what he meant about that. "I didn't ask you what alphabet agency you worked for because I wanted to know you. So if I go back to agent status it's going to be to find out who is doing this. Once it's over I'm back to teaching. I just need to know that you-"

He pulled her to him and kissed her just to shut her up. She tensed up in shock of him kissing her and then felt her relax.

He broke off the kiss making her want more. "Don't worry. We'll we find out why Sarah I promise." Callen touched her cheek.

"Okay" was the only thing she could say looking in to his eyes. She never saw eyes that blue before.

"Dinner tonight?" he asked slowly letting her go but still having his hand on her back.

"Sure." trying to get out from under the spell he had her in. What the hell was it about this guy who could make her weak in the knees from him just looking at her?

"Sam and Hetty went to the office she wants us there in about an hour or so. There are some clothes for you over on the couch. They are already working on getting you into a safe-house. Besides work and your assistant did you tell anyone else you were taking days off?" He asked.

"No."

"Do you trust your assistant not to say anything?"

"She knows something is up. I never take time off when we start blocking for a show. She won't say anything." She told him.

"Good." He handed her phone to her "I put my number and the teams in your phone. Only take calls from them no one else"

She laughed "Okay"

"What?" Callen asked.

"You do know that you just went into agent mode on me." She said

"Sorry." Callen smiled.

"It's okay." she kissed him on the cheek "It's cute. I'll go get ready."

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