Agent Antics

Lesson Learned

It had been stupid, irresponsible, childish even, impulsive. Callen groaned his patience running out as he let his head fall backwards against the wall. His arms were aching bent back in the awkward position, his necked was cricked, his back hurt, shoulders, head everything. His hands and feet were tingling slightly due to the thick ropes that bound his wrists and ankles and he was sure that Deeks and Sam felt just as bad.

"Are they ever going to come, I'm hungry" Deeks whined to his right,

"I don't know we might wish we were back here once we face Hetty" Sam countered back to the detective and Callen groaned again. Hetty...he was not looking forward to seeing her. The woman was going to be furious.

"She can't blame us, we didn't know it was a trap" Deeks defended,

"We should have" the ex seal that was on Callen's left muttered in frustration,

"Hetty's going to kill us" Callen concluded and they all knew it was true. A silence settled over the trio of agents for a moment. At least until Deeks broke it a several minutes later,

"Maybe she's leaving us here, you know, to teach us a lesson"

It was at that moment that the door to the large shed slid open and they cringed at the shrill sound of aluminium on aluminium. A figure walked through the door, her boots echoing on the cement around the large vacant warehouse, and for a moment Callens heart skipped in relief at seeing the woman,

"Never mind Hetty" Deeks muttered and it was then that the other agents focused properly on the figure and caught the scowl on the woman's face,

"Hey Kens a little help" Callen asked innocently and she placed her hands on her hips,

"What were you lot thinking!" she said loudly still a fair way away from them and all three men cringed at the tone of her voice. She stalked across the shed towards them pulling out a knife from her waistband and Callen could only hope that she planned on using it to cut them free and soon.

"Kens we di-"

"Stop talking Deeks" Kensi cut her partner off and none of the men dared to talk as Kensi's face reddened even further. She gathered herself for a moment before she turned back on them eyes still flashing dangerously,

"You three leave me at the victim's place to head back to ops and then half an hour later I get a call from Hetty saying you've been captured!" her furious voiced echoed around the shed bouncing off the walls as if it was equipped with a well wired surround sound system,

"So you're angry because we didn't bring you wish us to get caught?" Deeks asked and if his wrists hadn't been tied behind him Callen would have thumped him one to the back of the head. He heard Sam groan and Kensi's glare simply intensified before she strode around to stand in front of deeks looking down at him,

"NO I'M ANGRY BECAUSE YOU WERE SO STUPID THAT YOU DIDN'T BOTHER TO CALL FOR BACK UP DIDN'T BOTHER TO CALL ME AND TELL ME WHAT YOU WERE DOING. I'M ANGRY BECAUSE YOU COULD BE DEAD RIGHT NOW. ALL THREE OF YOU! BECAUSE YOU WERE TOO STUPID. THAT'S WHY I'M ANGRY DEEKS!" Deeks didn't answer this time instead he just watched his partner and he could see the concern, stress and worry simmering just behind the anger that was taking over,

"Kens we're sorr-"

"Save it. You know what Callen I know you like to play lone wolf and don't like to work as a team but there are other people here too. Think about Hetty, how do you think she would feel" Callen swallowed the lump in his throat as she turned on him, sending angry words full of emotion his way and he felt his chest constrict even though he knew that she was too angry to think about what it was that she was saying. He knew that she had been scared, terrified that they weren't going to come out alive.

That three more of those closest to her would leave her. Callen cursed himself because beyond everything he knew that she was right. It had been a stupid move and they could all have been dead by now. Several times.

"And you" Kensi continued moving around to where Sam sat his back to Deeks.

"You're supposed to be a seal where was your team work why the hell didn't you insist for backup what would happen to your wife and kids" Sam cringed at her words because he knew that he had let himself down but more than that he had let her down and all he wanted to do was to get out of the bonds and wrap her in his arms around the young woman who was for all intents and purposes, his little sister, and tell her that he was sorry. He was more than aware that Dom's death was always in the back of her mind. Hell it was in the back of all of their minds. Constantly. But he knew that it still hit her a little too often than it should. He knew that it brought up memories, ones that sometimes she couldn't push down no matter how hard she tried; memories of her father, of Jack.

Kensi took a deep breath before turning away for a moment as if everything had just caught up with her. They watched her carefully, Deeks' neck craned backwards so he could see his partner.

"Don't ever do something so stupid again" she said slowly and she glared at them all before turning on her heel, knife still in hand before stalking away back out the entrance.

Silence.

They all took the time to let her words sink in, each feeling just as bad as the other.

"Um…now what?" Deeks asked a second later and Sam let himself slump back against the pole behind his back. Thankfully for them another head popped into the large shed,

"Hey guys, need a hand?" the trio were just as thankful as each other to hear Nates voice and several minutes later when they were all standing and stretching, cracking and twisting their stiff joints they all knew that had a big apology to make and a long week of coffee's and Kensi's favourite doughnuts. Maybe a few weeks.

Hey guys I'm not so happy with this one, it's a bit more serious than I would have liked but I'm going to post it anyway. I wanted to keep it a bit lighter and the plan I wrote out ended a bit differently but oh well,,

Hope you still like it, more soon : ) Thanks for reading

And review pleasee!

Nina

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