~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~

Decided to make Chapter 5 into a storyline of flashbacks that I've been working on (thanks for the advice from Anthrdumblond). This is after "Lange, H." The main two people who are having these flashbacks are Sarah and Deeks. There is something that happens in Romania that Deeks will eventually remember in the next couple of chapters.

Chapter 6 will be up (hopefully) in the next week or so. That chapter has been a thorn in my side and as soon as it is done the other chapters that have been waiting for MONTHS to be done will be good to go.

Special thanks to Anthrdumblond and Keviana for reading, opinions, and the music advice.

Thanks again for the favorites and reviews. Please keep them coming it lets me know that it is being read.

~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~

These miles have torn us worlds apart

And I miss you, yeah I miss you

And I wish you were here

"From where you are" By Lifehouse

Today I lost a friend of mine

I never even got to say goodbye

I thought we had time to burn

But life is short

You only get one turn

"Don't Wait" By Addison Road

~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~

Flashback: After "Lang, H." (after the Flashback "Off I go")

Sarah woke up with her head throbbing. She groaned "Damn Gibbs what was in that coffee." She asked looking around the room. They were in a hotel room A man sat in a chair not too far away from her reading a newspaper.

"Classified." The man said.

"Where am I?" She asked she sat up.

"Classified." He said again.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked.

The man folded the newspaper and smiled.

"Fornell. I should of known." She got up and walked away from him.

"And a hello to you too Sarah."

"He roped you into this?" She looked to see if there was anyway to get the hell out of there.

He put the paper down and watched her. Gibbs said that she would be like an animal who was stuck in a cage. "No. He asked."

"So where is the other Boppsey twin?" She asked seeing that the place only had one door out and a window. She opened the curtain and saw that was boarded up. Gibbs took no chances. She didn't blame him he knew her abilities and she still trained. Only because of Hetty not slacking off. Hetty. The pain of remembering what happened. 'Get it together Burgess' she told herself.

Fornell got up and walked over to the table and opened up the containers. "Had some business to do. Should be back soon. Breakfast?"

She looked at him "You have some first and maybe I will."

"Don't you trust me?" He asked with a slight grin that he knew that he could get away with her. He liked the fact that she didn't take crap from anyone. She was also his daughter Emily's favorite babysitter which drove Diane nuts and anything that drove Diane nuts made him happy. But the whole situation with Hetty just made him worried. If anything happened to Hetty they wouldn't have to worry about Callen and the team they would have to be worried about her.

She laughed. "I trusted him look where that got me."

"Sarah. He did have a reason. He wanted to keep you safe-"

"Oh don't try talking to her about that Tobias you'll just get another ulcer." Gibbs walked in with coffee and a grocery sack. He locked the door behind him.

"Where in the hell am I?" She glared at him.

"D.C." He tossed his keys on the table and put the grocery sack down. "Sit down Red." She stood there still glaring "I got some news from Vance now sit the hell down." He glared right back.

"Okay." She backed off and sat on the bed.

He told her about her team. How they took the news and that they found her. After telling them that they could not go they turned in their badges and walked away. They were now on their own and they found her.

He sat next to her and took her hand "Hetty was shot."

She bit the inside of her cheek trying to not break down in front of them "And?"

"She'll be okay."

"Okay." She sighed in relief. "What the hell was she doing?"

Gibbs got up and opened up the grocery bag "She was working on one of her cases."

"It must be one hell of a case. So what do we do now?"

"Go to the bathroom and use this." He tossed her a box.

She looked at the box "Hair color?"

"Yeah. I have a plan." Someone knocked at the door. "We'll have plenty of time to talk about it on the way there to see her." Gibbs opened the door to see McGee there with two backpacks.

"Where are we going?" Sarah asked.

He handed Sarah her badge. "România."

~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~

Sarah walked down the hospital hallway. She tried to stop grinning but she couldn't. Hetty was alive. She got on the elevator and another woman followed her in. The door closed and it started going down. The woman slammed the stop button and glared at Sarah.

"Who the hell are you?" She said.

"Excuse me?" Sarah said.

"You are not a nurse at this hospital." The woman said.

"What are you talking about?" Sarah asked.

"Why did you see Hetty?" She asked glaring at her.

Must be a member of the team. She didn't remember seeing her before. "Miss Lange is a patient here and that is none of your business. Sarah went to push the button and she was slammed up against the wall.

Her hand around Sarah's neck "You think I'm an idiot? You are not a nurse!" The woman said.

Sarah kneed her in the stomach hard and broke free. "Look lady I have no idea who the hell you think you are but you have the wrong person!" She went to hit the button.

The woman took a swing at her and Sarah put the metal file up to block it.

Sarah kicked her and made the woman fall to the floor. Sarah stood over her. "I don't know who you think you are but I can and will get you banned from this hospital if you touch me again." She glared at her. The anger and hurt from the past three weeks. Emotions flooding. This woman had no right to tell her what she could and could not do when it comes to Hetty. She pushed the button and the elevator moved.

The woman stood up "You have no right to see her." She said.

"Again you have me mistaken for someone else." Sarah said picking up the file straightening her scrubs.

"Really? Are you sure about that Sarah?" She said looking straight ahead.

This time Sarah hit the stop button. "Who the hell are you?" Sarah asked.

"The one Hetty trained first."

"Right. Should have known you would show up again someday Lauren."

"You have no right to see her."

"I have every right to see her! I'm her Goddaughter"

"No Sarah. You quit." She said. The truth was out. Because of what happened to Sarah and trying to leave the agency this crazy bitch thought all ties to Hetty were now gone. "That gives you the right to try and beat the crap of me in an elevator?" She asked.

"Only time I could get you alone without him protecting you." She said.

"I don't need protection."

"Really? Have you told Hetty what happened on your last mission Sarah? How you got the agent assigned with you killed? How she almost took the fall for you and resigned?"

Sarah slapped her in the face.

She smiled. "I hit a nerve."

This time it was Sarah who slammed her up against the wall. "You have no right to talk or even know about that! You have no idea what hell I went through there. You have no idea how much I lost that day!" She felt the emotions flooding. Emotions that she hid so deep for years she knew that she would not be able to control.

"I do. But Hetty doesn't. I wonder what she would say if she knew."

"Shut up" She said quietly.

"She doesn't know that you were pregnant did she Sarah?" She asked with a smile.

"Shut up!" She repeated.

"She doesn't know that Agent Sullivan was the father. She doesn't know it was your mistake that got him killed!" She kept her voice even and smiled wider.

Sarah hit her. They now just started grabbing, pulling, pushing, kicking, anything that they could. They didn't notice that they elevator started moving or that it finally stopped on the first floor.

The doors opened. "Whoa!" Someone said.

"What the-" Gibbs dropped his coffee. The man grabbed Lauren and Gibbs grabbed Sarah. They pulled them apart from each other. "Red you have to stop this they are going to find out!" He whispered in her ear.

"I don't care." She said still hitting Lauren.

Gibbs shut the doors and pressed a button to get them away from the growing audience. He pressed the button and stopped them.

~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~

Deeks walked over to the hospital. The week he had was becoming a blur. (They left, got Hetty, got her to the US base in Romania and now have to wait for her to recover.) But the most important thing was she was alive. Over the past year Hetty was the only one that he had an attachment to. She was the first one who actually gave him a chance and she believed in him when others didn't. What he told Vance was true. If he could have turned in his badge to go with Callen and the others to get Hetty he would have. Maybe he should sign and turn in the application for NCIS.

Then there was another important thing that happened to him in the past couple of days. Kensi. In a strange twist of fate they were now together. They didn't mean for it to happen. Everyone probably knew that it was going to happen. But the night after knowing that Hetty was going to be okay and after calling Vance to let him know what was going on Kensi asked him to go to the bar in the hotel. One too many shots of tequila and they both woke up in his room the next morning. He was willing to let her use the "we were drunk/we could have died" card but she didn't. After she got done guarding Hetty's door at the hospital she went to his room.

Now it wasn't even dawn yet and Kensi was still in bed at the hotel. Why in the hell did he leave her there? Oh he remembered now because he's an idiot and volunteered guard Hetty's door. But he had to he didn't want Sam or Callen to find out.

He walked up to the elevator and pressed the button.

"Deeks right?" The man said next to him drinking coffee.

"Yes. Gibbs?"

He smiled. "Right." He looked at his watch and knew that Sarah should be getting out of Hetty's room about now. "How is Callen?"

"Okay I guess. Never can tell with him."

"True."

"What is going on with this elevator?" Gibbs said looking up at the floor lights blinking. The elevator started to move again and as it got closer they heard screams and banging on the walls.

"That is not good." Deeks said.

"No it's not." Gibbs said praying that it was not Sarah in there.

The doors open and they saw Lauren Hunter fighting with a nurse.

Deeks looked at Lauren in shock "Whoa!" This fight from different from what Kensi would do. This fight was like a you-took-my-boyfriend-you-bitch fight with scratching, pulling hair, and kicking.

Gibbs dropped his coffee and went right to the nurse. Deeks saw him whisper in her ear.

"I don't care!" the nurse said kicking and elbowed Gibbs in the chest. Gibbs leaned back and tried to catch his breath.

Hunter was the same "I swear I will-"

Gibbs pressed a button and got the elevator doors to close. He pressed the button for the fourth floor.

"Hunter! Come on." Deeks finally was able to pull her up and get her away from the nurse. The woman was freakishly strong.

Lauren started speaking in different language and the nurse seemed to know what she was talking about because she glared at Lauren but she didn't respond.

"Enough!" Gibbs said. "Agent Hunter! You will go with him and stay there while I make sure this nurse is okay. " The doors opened and Deeks helped her get up. They both walked out of the elevator.

"Oh and this better not get to Little Mother or the others. Understand Agent Hunter?"

"Yes sir" She said and then glared at the nurse in the elevator as the doors closed.

~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~

Deeks took Lauren by the arm and walked down the hallway. He found an empty room and closed the door behind them "What the hell Lauren?"

"Long story. Not going to talk about it." She wiped her mouth and found blood on her fingers.

Deeks grabbed a paper towel and handed it to her. "I don't want to know."

"What do I have to do to make you not say anything?" She asked while he looked in the cabinets and got out and ice pack.

He turned to her and smiled.

"I don't think so Deeks." Lauren said trying to sound polite and already knowing that he was probably in a relationship with Kensi.

He tried not to laugh. "Don't flatter yourself cupcake." He knew that it was probably not a good thing to call his boss that but right now he didn't care.

She looked at him in shock. "Cupcake?"

"Looks like I have all the cards now. You want to know what to do? Do what Gibbs says."

"And?" She asked.

"I'll think of the other one later." Looks like he would be able to get that parking spot after all.

"Fine." She took the icepack from him and walked out the door.

~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~