Deeks was brought to an abandoned warehouse only a few blocks away from his police department. They provided him a bed for the night so that he could rest and got ready for tomorrow's hit.
One of the gorillas was ordered to guard him, which made it impossible for him to make contact with his team.
He could hardy rest, let alone sleep with his mind constantly on Kensi. If he had known what that man sitting right opposite him had done to Kensi, there was no doubt he would have killed him by now. However, he was living in the darkness for the time being.
Deeks was certain that G and Sam had gotten Kensi out of that burning house in time, though he wasn't sure how serious her head injury was. 'Was it just a concussion or something more severe? How hard did he slap her? Could she ever face him again after all the things he did to her?'
He was surprised though when he realized that he wasn't sure either if HE could face her again. How could he joke about his sex dreams he has with her? How could he touch her again without resenting the feeling. How long will it take them to turn back to normal? Will things ever be the same again? Is she going to ask for another partner? Is she going to quit not being able to handle the cost of this job anymore?
The speed of his thoughts were driving him crazy. He didn't know of course that there was a slight possibility Kensi wouldn't make it through the night to answer him all these questions. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and tried to focus on his mission.
His phone was removed from him for security reasons...how ironic! They still didn't trust him but he needed to get as much information as he could to lead them to the boss. This would be extremely hard considering the fact that the gorilla was in no mood to chitchat. He just stood silent across the room watching Deek's every single move.
Deeks hoped Eric and Nell had run a facial recognition on the three of them and a possible match by now. Fingerprints were out of the question since the fire must have destroyed all possible evidence.
How could these men stay under the radar for so long? Obviously, they are not invisible and this was the closer anyone had ever gotten to them.
The team knew that his police department was the target so they would be alert and probably warned everyone at the station. The only problem was how he was going to get to the boss. They were surely planning to kill him after the hit, just like the others so he didn't have much time.
He pretended to sleep hoping someone would call the gorilla and he could overhear their discussion.
As soon as the ambulance reached the hospital, they immediately took Kensi in the OR. The paramedics couldn't give any more details of her condition and neither did the doctors. At least not until the surgery was over.
G paced nervously up and down the waiting room for the last 2 hours as Sam sat silently on a chair. A couple of minutes later Hetty arrived alone. Vance had stayed at the ops along with Eric and Nell to supervise the progress of this case. Facial recognition from Kensi's hidden camera had brought no results so they had to check every piece of evidence that was gathered from the house.
"Have any of the doctors come out yet?" she silently asked.
"No! Did you have any news from Deeks?" G asked.
"No!" she said trying to hide her disappointment.
"What took you so long?" Sam asked her almost like criticizing her.
"One of my agents is in the hospital and another is missing Mr. Hanna. I had some serious explaining to do to my superiors."
"They should get Vance to do the explaining," G said as he finally sat down on a chair.
"I will leave that to Ms Blye and Mr. Deeks handle director Vance. I think they both deserve to have a couple of words with him," Hetty said with a smirk that was half-evil half bitter.
Before Hetty had, the time to sit down too, one doctor approached them.
"Are you Ms Bowman's family?" he asked.
"Hetty stood up, "Yes, I am her mother."
"Your daughter, Mrs. Bowman has suffered a severe head trauma and has a dangerous swelling on her brain. Her rib was broken, and unfortunately penetrated her heart. She went into cardiac arrest but we managed to stabilize her for the time being. We are keeping her in an induced coma for the next few hours to deal with the swelling. There were also some minor burns, nothing that won't go away in time. Worst case scenario they leave a mark."
All three listened carefully to the doctor and couldn't believe the severity of the situation.
"Can we see her?" G asked.
"I am afraid not yet. We are transferring her to the ICU right now. A nurse will come and take you to her when she is ready."
They thanked him and sat down again each one dealing with the bad news deep inside.
"How will we contact Deeks? He must find out sooner or later," Sam said.
"I'd rather it be later. He had to concentrate on his mission right now. One simple mistake and this can turn even uglier," Hetty replied as she stepped up and walked out of the waiting room door.
"How do you think he is going to react?" Sam asked G.
"I don't know. He SHOULD feel guilty as he played his little part in all this," G said angrily.
"You are not being fair man. They both followed orders, they both played their parts despite the outcome," Sam defended Deeks "In this case there was no right choice. No matter what choices they made, it came with consequences. Who knows, maybe we would be waiting at the morgue right now if they chosen to be compromised. "
G looked at him angrily. Deep down he knew that Sam was probably right but he had to put the blame on someone.
"Let it go G. If it is someone's fault, that would be the three bastards and their boss. That's where you need to focus"
G just nodded and started pacing the room again as they waited for the nurse to come.