KING'S RETURN
/Chapter 8/
Surprisingly, as hours tick by and the initial fear, anger and adrenalin wanes boredom and fatigue sets in and soon Colby and Deeks found themselves dozing off.
What could have been minutes, hours or days for all they could discern of the passage of time in the windowless room, the door to their prison opened?
Both men eyed King warily.
"Back so soon," Deeks snarked.
"Well, despite my wish to the contrary, I need to keep you both alive now...turns out I can double my money on this deal..." King said pointedly looking at Deeks, "Guess I'm not the one that gets to kill you after all...but a million dollars is a good substitute; and as I have to leave immediately after I conclude my business I'll just have to settle for your team never knowing what happened to you as my little piece of payback."
"What the hell are you driving at," Deeks spat out, "neither NCIS nor LAPD pays ransom..."
"No, but the brother of the Chinese diplomat I was hired to steal that statue for would very much like to make your acquaintance; and is willing to pay quite a bit for that honor," King informed the detective smugly. "
"What are you talking about...?" Deeks asked in confusion.
"Vengeance, detective and Lo Chin has a million more reasons than I do to want revenge...seeing as how his brother committed suicide shortly after being deported back to China," King explained. "Never like leaving a client in a lurch, bad for business; and when dealing with the Chinese spy network, it's also bad for one's health: so, I just happened to let it slip to the right people that I could give Lo Chin a little chance at payback..."
Deeks just looked at King in surprise...he could picture himself in all kinds of dangerous situations, hell, he'd been in all kinds of dangerous situations already in his law enforcement career—but a foreign national hating him enough to pay a million dollars for his head on a platter...he didn't know whether to be terrified or honored.
Meanwhile, Colby just hung his head in utter disbelief; of the million or more people in LA he manages to get kidnapped with it's the one guy that had ties to his kidnapper.
"Nothing to say, detective..."King prodded smugly.
Deeks was sparred coming up with a re-joiner, when another man walked into the room, "Uh, hey King...we might have a problem...just got a call from Preston...the cops are nosing around, kids getting' spooked..."
King gave Pomeroy a hard look before saying tightly, "take care of it...that kid blows this deal for me and it won't just be the kid who suffers...you got me..."
"Hey man, back off...we know how to do our job," Pomeroy said angrily. "I'm not about to lose this payday either..."
King just nodded curtly, "Lay low...meet up at the other safe house a few hours before the buy. I don't want to take a chance of anyone following you back here."
"Whatever..." Pomeroy snarked as he turned on his heel and left the room.
"Problem in paradise there, King," Deeks said cheekily. "You kidnapped a cop and an agent...you gotta know our teams our out lookin' for us..."
"They'll be too late..." King replied before turning abruptly and leaving the room.
Exchanging looks with each other, Colby said needlessly, "This is so not good."
...NCIS LA...NUMB3RS...NCIS LA...NUMB3RS...NCIS LA...
A/N: sorry it's another short one...but it is two posts in one day! Also, I don't know that they ever gave the name of the Chinese diplomat/spy that King was working for so I just pulled a common name out of a hat and used it...and I'm pretty sure I did indeed screw up Kensi's alias-I think it was Stacy not Lori...oh, well...no one has corrected or called me on it...so we'll just go with it.
A/N: I think I'll probably pull two, three more chapters out of this before our boys get home...'safe & sound' being optional!