I've decided from now put the days as the title of the chapter, because forward the story will have a flashback and I think it may be a little confusing to locate in time. Anyway, today is a national holiday, June 10th it's the Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities, and I took advantage of it to post another chapter. Hope you like it...

"My LAPD buddies sent me a copy of the case file. Take a look and tell me what you see." – Deeks gave her the case files.

"Same MO, same gun. We're definitely looking for the same person. Let's check on the crime scene."

"I drive." – Deeks said somehow rudely.

Arrived the crime scene, Deeks walked faster than usual, like he was anxious or nervous for seeing it.

"Did you know her?" – Kensi asked, seeing him staring to every corner of the house.

"No."

"Don't lie to me. I noticed your face when you saw the photos of the victim. Was she a friend?"

"Kind of. Meet her through someone else."

"What do you know about her?"

"Not too much. Her past 5 years had been either healthy mental states or long and deep depressions."

"We need to know everything you may have."

"I know nothing else!" – He said angrily.

"Ok Deeks, calm down."

"Sorry, but can we focus on the crime scene, please?"

Kensi sighed and looked around. It looked like Werder's place, with broken and overthrown furniture.

"According the case file, there's no wounds that may have been caused by… this." – She said glancing around again.

"Which mean someone else has been here. And that same person could also have been on Werder's house."

"Blood," - She pointed.- "Over there."

"Maybe, of our killer."

"LAPD already ran into data base, and found anything." – Kensi held the ringing phone and checked the ID on the screen and she said to Deeks. – "It's Callen. Hey, any luck with Johanna Parker?"

"No, she doesn't knows her. And what about you guys?"

"LAPD made a good file, everything checks out."

"Ok Kensi, we meet at the Ops."

"I need coffee." – She said after hung up.

"And a donut?" – He said letting a smile show up.

He got a sideways look from her, but she confessed:

"Yes, I do need a donut…or two…ok, maybe three-"

"I buy half a dozen." – He said rolling eyes that meant "typical conversation!", while both were leaving the house.

"Ok, but under a condition!"

"I'm the one buying them! It should be me imposing conditions!"

"Deeks…" - She said smoothly, turning to him her sweetest look.

"Ok, fine! What you want?"

"Four of the donuts."

"That's not fair. Three for each one."

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Four!"

"Three and a half…?" – He proposed.

"Five!"

"Kens!" – She looked at him smiling. – "Four for you, two for me. Happy now?" – Kensi raised up her arms in victory.

During the rest of the day, Eric and Nell tried to get a connection between the two victims. Next day at the Ops Center, Eric whistled and called everyone upstairs.

"Did you got something?" – Sam asked him.

"We ran through everything, we can't find any connection between Rosalinda Santiago and Corporal Werder."

"Then why did you whistled?" – Kensi asked still cleaning the corners of the mouth full of sugar.

"Hum," - Nell proffered. – "we got information on our murder weapon from the lab; it came negative for any fingerprint. But, it was found another dead body, this morning. LAPD thought it looked suspicious that victim was killed with gunshot straight to the head."

"Just like Corporal Werder and Rosalinda Santiago." – Deeks affirmed.

Nell ended up:

"Victim is Courtney Kennedy, nurse at the Pacific Beach Medical."

"But we cannot base our investigations on two similar MO's. We need something else." – Callen advised.

"Well, there's a trace of blood on her house that that matches the blood found on Rosalinda's house."

"It got to have a connection between them all." – Sam reinforced. – "I don't think this guy is killing random people."

"Nell and I checked everything. There's nothing in common."

"It has to exist!" – Deeks insisted. – "Now we have three victims, so it will be easier. Find out their hobbies, cafes they go, metro or bus they get. They got know each other."

Nell and Eric sighed, they needed to find a connection.

"So, we're back at square zero, until you find a connection." – Callen said, putting all his hopes on them two.

"I think we're at square minus three since the beginning!" – Deeks joked with a bit of hidden sarcasm and cynicism.

…

"Guys, we found the connection." – Nell announced after hours had passed, descending a few steps. The four agents ran upstairs.

"This is our first victim, Rosalinda Santiago, killed at home two days ago." – Eric showed her photo on the screen. – "She has a daughter, Alexandra Katherine Santiago, 16, with criminal record involving arresting among a gang, robbery to a convenience store and two drug stores. – The girl's photo popped on the screen. – "Alexandra was included on the project "Big Brother Big Sister" almost four years ago, and she had, on the last third months two mentors or big brothers as you want. First one, Corporal Francis Werder for only three weeks. Second one, do you guys want to guess?"

"Nurse Courtney Kennedy." – Three of them answered.

"Who's the third mentor she had?" – Sam asked remembering that fact. As they were speaking, Hetty entered, glancing at Deeks and crossed her arms behind her back, waiting for Eric's answer.

"Third mentor is the same person that had been with her for the last four years."

"Who was the mentor?" –Callen inquired.

"You guys are not going to like that." – Eric advised.

"Mr. Beal, please." - Hetty ordered.

Eric put Deeks' photo on the screen and Kensi, Sam and Callen looked at him. Sam was for sure ready to start speaking:

"When were you thinking of tell us this?"

Hetty didn't let Deeks answer and justified:

"I gave him permission to keep accompanying Alexandra two months after he being shot. Now, Mr. Deeks, try to speak with Alexandra…And be safe. Whoever is doing this is looking for her and killing everyone that is somehow related to her."

"Did she ever have experience of shooting and access to a gun?" – Callen interrogated his partner.

"Yes."

"Did she ever have a gun?"

Deeks took time, but answered:

"Yes."

"What gun did she have?"

"Hetty," - Deeks said in a lower voice. – "Can I have a word with you?"

"Deeks!" – Callen raised his voice, seeing he was dodging the question.

"Well, of course Mr. Deeks. To my office, please. I'll be right there." – After Deeks leaving, Hetty turned to Kensi. – "Independently of what our conversation will be about, you know what to do after he leaves, understood Ms. Blye?"

"Understood, Hetty."

"And Mr. Callen, don't try to consider that scenario."

"Why not? Do you have any proves otherwise?"

"No…I just don't want it to believe it. But, I can't deny it may be a possibility."

How about this twist? Were you waiting for this? Review and tell me what you think about it and what will happen in next chapters.