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Warning: may contain serious violence and torture.

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CHAPTER 6

Eric and Nell sat side by side in ops working at their own computers. Eric was glad to have his partner in crime back, but sad that her vacation had been cut short. It was her own choice though. She thought that finding Deeks was more important. He was one of them and she would do anything for one of the team.

Nell tapped away at her keyboard and stopped, getting Eric's attention. "I think I've got something." She said.

"What is it?" Eric asked.

She pulled up satellite footage on the big screen. "There are a lot more than fifteen people at Bayleaf Organics." On the screen was a thermal image of the building and there were many hot spots or people inside. "Looks like there is a clump over here." She pointed to the left side of the screen. Her finger moved to another part of the screen. "Then there are individual dots spread out pretty evenly in this back portion of the building."

"Could be employees in their offices or cubicles." Eric noted.

"I tried to find a blue print of the building to confirm that, but nothing is coming up." She replied.

Sam, Callen, and Kensi walked into ops.

"Anything new?" Callen asked the techs.

Nell pointed to the screen. "I've got thermal imaging of the building and there seems to be quite a few people inside." She said.

"I tried accessing their security cameras and so far I can only get access to the outside cameras." Eric explained. "They've got their system inside well protected. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a genius tech on their payroll."

"Anything good on the outside cameras?" Sam asked.

"Seems that they have a lot of customers at night." Eric replied. "They have a lot of cars in and out after 7 PM. There are no cameras aimed right at the entrance, so I can't get a clear image of anyone specifically going in and out, but maybe you guys should stake the place out and see if you can get any intel."

"That's actually a great idea, Eric." Callen said.

"What did you guys find out?" Nell asked. "Anything useful?"

Finally, Kensi spoke up. "I found Vasily. He's staying at an expensive beach house in Santa Monica." She explained. "It looks like he's got at least one goon with him at all times and possibly two staff members at the house. Dmitri paid him a little visit this morning and I never saw him leave. Vasily left about an hour ago and started walking beach side. I tried to follow him, but I lost him in a crowd of people."

"We talked to a manager at Bayleaf and he's the brother of Vasily." Callen said. "He wasn't very forthcoming with any information."

"According to our records, his brother died a few years ago in Russia." Eric replied. He tapped a few keys on his keyboard and pulled up the death certificate from Russia.

"Well, apparently, he's risen from the dead." Sam shot back.

Kensi tried to imagine what Deeks might have said. 'Either that or he's a zombie.' She let out a soft chuckle, not even realizing she was doing so. She had remembered him going on a zombie rant a while back and talking about how they should all be prepared for a zombie apocolypse.

"Kens?" Eric snapped her back to reality. Everyone was giving her a weird glare. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, it's nothing." She replied.

"Good, we've got some surveillance to do." Callen said.

The lead agent left Sam behind to help at the mission. He didn't like the idea of Kensi being alone right now. She was the closest to Deeks and he wasn't sure how she was handling things. He knew she liked to bottle things up and hide things. She was a pro at putting up a wall, but he could tell that Deeks had cracked the wall a little bit. Hell, Deeks might have even shattered the wall. He didn't want to give her a chance to build it back up. So, he partnered with her and they went to keep an eye out on the building to see if they could get an idea of what kind of customers were going in and out of the place so late in the evening and through the night.

The beatings had continued for Marty Deeks. He had awoken that morning in such terrible, throbbing pain as the drugs began to wear off, but they weren't finished with him. More questions came, ones he couldn't answer, unless of course, he wanted to lie.

"Swear, not working with..." Deeks tried to convince Peta that he wasn't working with Dmitri, that he had nothing to do with him. The whip came, hard and fast. The sound making him sick. He had been in and out of consciousness for a good portion of the day. He didn't know how much more he could take.

"Dmitri says the same about you. He claims that all of this is merely just coincidence." Vasily said to him. His voice was stern now. "I don't believe in coincidences."

Deeks throat was dry and his lips were cracked. His breathing was ragged. A lie came to him. "An agent, he's the agent." He was struggling with his words now. "Found out that he...he turned on us. Trying to get at you and take over things here. Says he makes more money here."

"What?" Vasily screamed angrily. "You're lying."

"Got nothing to lie about." Deeks coughed up a bit of blood. The bile taste nauseated him. His head bobbed and he knew what was coming. The darkness started taking over, he was going unconscious. He tried to fight it and tried to continue his lie. "He brought me here...so..." He coughed a few more times. "Couldn't report him...our boss." He was speaking at barely a whisper. The darkness came and he could fight it no longer.

When Deeks came too, he was surprised to see Dmitri's unconscious form in front of him. He was laid out on the floor. He looked better than Deeks did, not that Deeks would know himself. Peta had a foot on Dmitri's back, keeping him pinned to the ground. "I had a little talk with Dmitri." He smiled one of his evil smiles. "He didn't exactly deny what you said. I can not have someone trying to undermine me in my organization." Quickly, he reached for Dmitri's head, pulling it back by his hair. A knife appeared in his hand, seemingly out of thin air. Deeks hadn't even been aware that the man had one. The knife made a fast motion for Dmitri's throat, slicing it. Blood oozed in a thick stream as Dmitri began choking. In a matter of a minute, the man was dead.

Deeks body jerked when the knife made it's move. His arms mentally screamed at him in pain as they fought the shackles. He was honestly surprised he hadn't dislocated his shoulder after all of this time. "I must thank you detective. You have saved me some hassle. For that I give you salvation." He pulled a needle from his jacket. He moved to Deeks and gave him that sweet bliss. It was just in time too. Deeks was starting to tremble and he had a fever. He was withdrawing from his previous injections. The pain in his body was tripling and it didn't help that the beatings had continued for most of the day.

Part of him felt ashamed for welcoming the warm sensation of the drugs in his system. Part of him hated that he was such a coward for feeling he couldn't cope without them. The pain was so immense. The thoughts that plagued him, about the torture and the possibility of dying in this hell hole, were too much for him. The thought of not seeing Kensi's smile broke his heart. He had been in tough situations before, but nothing like this. He just wanted it all to be over. When the drugs invaded his system, his thoughts became so jumbled that he couldn't even think about any of that.

Kensi sat in Callen's car in a lot across from Bayleaf Organics. She had a camera in hand and a myriad of candy wrappers in the seat around her. Callen sat in the drivers seat with binoculars in hand, watching in the darkness as clients came and went from the building.

Callen gave Kensi a worried glance. "You ok, Kensi?" He asked.

She pulled herself from her thoughts. "Huh, yeah." She lied.

"I know you're lying." He replied. "You've barely said two words since we've been here and those were only when we saw Peta Vasily enter the building with his pal Dmitri."

"Deep down, I know they have something to do with Deeks and his kidnapping, but I just can't connect the dots." She said. "And I'm...I'm just, I don't want to lose him."

"We're all trying to connect the dots." Callen assured her. "We're all afraid of losing him, but I know it's harder for you. You're much closer to him then the rest of us are."

"It's just that I've already lost one partner. I know it was ages ago at this point, but it still scares me to lose another." She replied. She couldn't hide her emotions. She felt like she was going to break down right there in the car.

"But it's more than that, isn't it?" He asked.

She looked at him surprised. "I, how did you..."

"I've seen how close the two of you have gotten. Sam says that the two of you act like an old married couple sometimes." Callen remembered back to a case where Kensi and Deeks were undercover as a married couple and it was hard to tell if they were in character or not. It just seemed so natural for the two of them.

She pictured Deeks and his smile, his infectious smile. She would give anything to see him just one more time. She was drawn back to reality when a car whizzed by them, heading for Bayleaf organics. She readied the camera and started snapping photos of the person who parked, walked from the car, and entered the building. They watched for several hours, catching many people enter in and out. Most usually staying for just over an hour exactly. Peta Vasily had come and gone a couple of times.

It was nearly midnight and they were relaying the photos to Eric and Nell in ops, hoping to catch something with facial recognition, hoping to figure out who any of the men and women were that had visited in those hours. Most of the people seemed to just be random folks and a few were rich business men, but no one really stood out specifically.

At 12:30 AM, Callen's phone buzzed with Eric on the line. "I've got some interesting news for you." He said.

Callen put him on speaker phone so Kensi could hear. "What's up Eric?"

"Police were called to an apartment complex about 4 blocks from Bayleaf. A man's girlfriend threw a bunch of his belongings in the dumpster behind the building when she found out he was cheating on her and he went in the trash after them." Eric explained. Callen flashed his 'get on with it already' look, not that Eric could see it. "That's when he found the body of one Isaac Dmitri."

"What?" Kensi asked in disbelief.

"Sam's heading to the scene now to see what he can find out about his death." Eric answered.

"Ok, keep us posted." Callen replied, ending the call.

Gotta be honest, it's kind of fun hurting Deeks. Let's hope the team can find him soon though. Hopefully this little stakeout will help things along. Please review! Thanks!