The replacement
Chapter 8:
"Helloooooooooo"
"Hey!"
"I know you're out there will you just stop ignoring me!"
Kensi Blye sighed and gently banged her head against the door in frustration. She stopped knocking on it, giving her reddened fist a break. The agent had long given up on being quiet, she was tired and frustrated and caffeine deprived and she wanted answers.
Where the hell was she?
She groaned out loud as she turned back and closed her eyes not wanting to look at the feature wall of the room. She had inspected it all morning and recalled what she had been doing when most of the photo's had been taken, she'd gone through any old enemies or recent ones who might want revenge for one thing or another.
She had meticulously studied her surroundings and concluded with absolute certainty that there was no way she could get out of the small room; at least not without someone opening the door that had been secured with over six different locks – and while she had already picked two of them and rendered them unable to be locked the other four weren't going to help her out any.
"Helllloooooooooooo" she tried her throat prickling in pain and dehydration.
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Callen and Sam walked briskly back into the tech room their expressions serious while Nate and Scott filed in behind them. Nell and Eric faced their computers and didn't bother to look up both engrossed in what they were doing while Hetty stood behind them. She, however, did look up to her senior agents but they both shook their heads at her unspoken question. A moment later Eric swivelled around in his chair his eyes sweeping around the room before he began to speak,
"Okay so there's no records of her in the hospital's and I've checked with the ER staff for women of her description in case she used a different name but came up with nothing. Trace on her phone shows that she went from the bar, home and hasn't moved since. There's one red light camera a couple streets down from Kens' house." Eric reeled off the information he'd collected and they turned to the screen as the footage from the camera began to play.
"At ten forty the cab goes past" they could all see Kensi in the back of the cab. She was sitting in the back and all they could see was an arm around her shoulders that was obviously Fields. Callen didn't look away from the screen but felt his insides tighten. He'd already lost her. He felt a pain slice through his chest at the thought but pushed everything away and focused back on the screen as Eric began to speak again,
"And twenty minutes later, just before eleven, the cab returns" this time they could see in the left hand side of the cab and all they could see was Fields who now sat in the front of the cab talking to the driver.
Callen turned from the screen to look at Eric,
"Anything else?" He asked hopefully and the look on Eric's face answered them.
"So what do we do now?" Fields asked and Callen closed his eyes turning away from him,
"Well you were the last person to see her. Did she say anything, do anything, look sick or anything like that?" Sam asked and everyone watched him carefully,
"No" he said shaking his head after thinking for a moment,
"No she said that she was tired that she wanted to go to bed but that's about it" he said and Callen spun around,
"Are you sure?" he asked and Fields nodded an irritated look on his face,
"Are you suggesting something Agent Callen" Sam could see Callen's patience running out and knew that Callen was replaying the previous night over in his head. But before Callen could answer the man Hetty intervened,
"Maybe it would be best if you all got a good nights sleep and we can resume our search in the morning" and it was those words that had Agent Fields turning on his heel and quickly leaving the room. Callen turned to Hetty,
"I'm not leaving" he said
"I didn't expect you too" there was a chorus of the same sentence alerting Hetty that none of her team would be leaving that night.
"Let me know if there are any advances I have several calls to make" she turned on her heel and began to move out of the room however stopped turning back to the team,
"Mr Callen, this is your new team and as the senior agent you shouldn't have a problem working with anybody" she said and the senior agent simply held her gaze before nodding curtly after a moment and turning back to the screen. She exchanged a glance with Nate for a second before departing from the room knowing that there was not much point in arguing when her lead agent was so worried. And she was beginning to think that he had good reason to be.
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He unlocked the door swinging it open and nodded to the man at the table in the middle of the room who looked up at him.
"Honey I'm home" he deadpanned and the man at the table smirked leaning back in his chair taking a long drag of the cigarette he held between his fingers. The place already smelled of cheap tobacco and liquor.
"How'd you go?" he asked and Fields shrugged,
"Think the Callen guy's getting suspicious but I could be wrong"
"What the one who was angry that night at the bar, I told you he's got a thing for her" the man said and Fields turned back to him with a dark look,
"The boss won't be happy" his statement was just met with a shrug,
"Not our problem"
"How was she?" he asked looking towards the door on the other side of the room,
"Awake...all day and loud. At least for a while and then she settled down. Other than that fine" Fields nodded before leaning to reach for a rusty set of keys on the table as he took a long sip of the beer he'd just pulled from the fridge.
"Time for a visit" the men smirked and the second man's chair scraped on the stone floor as he stood. They turned and headed for the door.
Kensi's chest heaved up and down from where she stood behind the door. She heard a group of keys being jingled and she had managed to overhear most of the conversation between them. Callen was worried. Did that mean he knew Field's was in on it? God she hoped so.
"Hello Miss Bly-" he began to say as he swaggered in confidently but a nasty kick to the back of the knee had him on the ground and as Kensi slammed the door shut on the second guy hearing a yell she sent a well aimed knee into Scott's face hearing a crunch as she did so. Bright, frank blood spurted from his nose and his eyes had a maniac look about them. Holding the door she kicked the hand that went to his belt where she knew an NCIS gun was holstered. He yelled out for the second time becoming even angrier. It was then that she heard voices outside yelling loudly and she could only hope that maybe the guys had followed Field's home?
With adrenaline coursing through her veins the second distraction had been all the bleeding, winded man had needed as he pulled her down where he was before sending a punch to her stomach. She rolled away the second time and heard his fist crash into the stone floor even though he still had an iron-clasped had around her arm. But as she sent another fast and hard kick towards the family jewels two more men entered the room one, satisfyingly, with blood rushing from his nose.
With that a gun sounded and Kensi felt the bullet wiz past her and slam into the wall behind her. She turned to find the source only to indeed find herself looking down the barrel of a gun. It was then that the other man, while wiping blood from his face, walked forward and she felt Field's grab her from behind his gun against her head as well. She saw the glint of metal and turned to watch the man walking towards her. When she saw the needle she backed up as far as she could but hands on her stopped her from doing so.
"You coward" she spat towards him but he a feral grin just stretched over his lips. Another set of hands roughly pulled her head to the side, a hand tangled in her hair and one on her chin giving the one enough room to easily jab the needle in carelessly. She protested and squirmed not making it easy for them.
"Lucky I stopped by hey boys?" the new arrival spoke and she saw the man, playing doctor, roll his eyes. But she couldn't focus on anything else as the drug coursed through her veins. She felt the effects immediately. The men stepped back and it was only Fields who kept hold of her. The panic was rising in Kensi. She couldn't move her arms, her legs, couldn't get up. She felt weak, out of control. She was out of control,
"Hey partner!" he said enthusiastically as he reached his hand forward and gripped her chin turning her to look at him,
"That wasn't very nice now was it?"
"They're going to work out that it was you" she said her eyes narrowed, it was about all she could do.
"Oh I don't know baby girl I think I've covered my tracks pretty damn well, they already think that you went back to your apartment and you didn't did you?" he said,
"So do you like wall love, I decorated it jusssst for you" he said spinning her around. It was then that the first man from before walked back in carrying a chair and Field's hoisted her up before pushing her into it. She couldn't do a thing about the rope being wrapped around her ankles and wrists couldn't fight them could barely speak and she wisely chose not to, conserving her energy.
"Do you see how long I've been watching Kensi, watching all of you and nobody's ever noticed, you never did"
"I know your team back to front Kens" she glared wanting to tell him not to call her that,
"I know that Sam often drives past his wife's house and sometimes still follows his kids to school, I know that Callen goes for lots of runs usually not the same route, I know that Beale, your technician goes for a surf every single morning same beach, I know that the psychologist drives the same way to work every single morning and I know who every other single person is on this wall"
"I think the point that he's trying to make young lady" the man behind her said his hot breath on her ear,
"Is don't piss us off cause we know them and we know where they are and we know where your ops is, so be very, very careful" he said before leaving the room. Field's gave a disgusting smile before running a hand down her cheek and catching a roll of duct tape the man threw towards him. Kensi sighed before he ripped a piece and placed it over her lips. He grinned and stood before gripping her chin and pulling her head up and placing a kiss on the tape over her lips,
"Night Kens"
Chapter 8 of the replacement…exams are neeeearly overrr and I can get back to writing! YAYYYYYYYYY
Can't wait guys so I hope you can stick with me for a bit longer!
Nina,
Xx
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