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Silent Secrets
Chapter 5
"Kensi meet me back at the car right now, we're off to the boatshed", Deeks said to his partner on the phone.
"Huh? The boatshed? Why Deeks?" Kensi asked confused. But her partner had already disconnected the call, leaving Kensi a little irritated. "Well that was kinda rude Deeks" she huffed, however she told Kelly and Shelby she had to go and thanked them for their help and asked them if they remembered anything else to notify her and she made her way back to the car.
Callen saw Deeks with the cuffed young woman beside him and stopped Deeks as he reached the crime scene.
"Deeks, who is your friend?" Callen asked.
"Not sure yet. She knows our dead Lieutenant and she thinks she knows who might have killed him, so I'm going to take her to the boatshed".
"Who killed him?" Sam butted in.
"She thinks it could have been her brother", replied Deeks.
Kensi was standing by the car when Deeks arrived and she saw him with a cuffed young woman and was immediately intrigued. Kensi hopped into the driver's seat and started the engine. They drove a little way in silence until Kensi had enough….
"Deeks you were a little rude on the phone back there you know", grumbled Kensi.
"Sorry Kens, I'm just thinking about the case…."
"It's probably just another usual run of the mill situation; someone killed a guy for money or drugs or something Deeks. I'm sure it'll be fine".
"Maybe. I think there's more to it though…."
The team arrived at the boatshed soon after and Deeks un-cuffed Sharni and sat her down in the interrogation room. Callen and Sam were going to take the interview, when Deeks stopped in front of Callen.
"Callen, please let me interview her? I feel…..I don't know a connection to her".
"A connection? What sort of connection Deeks. Tell me you don't have feelings for her?" Callen sighed.
"No, not feelings. I don't know what it is but I just feel something with her….please?"
"Okay. Kensi sits in with you though", said Callen.
Deeks and Kensi entered the room and Kensi sat over the far corner and let her partner take the lead in the interview. It was rare that Deeks took charge of the interview of a person as they usually did it together, so it was an unusual feeling for Kensi and she wasn't sure how things would go. She knew her partner was an experienced cop and had complete faith in his abilities as he had done many interrogations before….but this had a distinctly different feel about it.
"My name is Detective Marty Deeks LAPD liaison and that is my partner, Special Agent, Kensi Blye from NCIS. What is your name?"
"Sharni Nichols".
"Hi Sharni. Can you tell me how you know Lt Rowan McIntosh?" asked Deeks.
"Rowan was a friend of my brother Glen. They went to college together and then joined the navy after that. I only met Rowan a few times, but he seemed nice".
"So I take it your brother's name is Glen Nichols?"
"Yes"
"Eric, I need everything you have on Glen Nichols. He was in the navy with Lt McIntosh and went to college with him and was his friend. Also find what you can on Sharni Nichols too", said Callen, phoning the OSP centre.
"Okay, I'll call you back guys".
"Sharni, who caused those bruises on you?" Deeks asked gently.
"Glen", she said bowing her head in shame.
"Sharni, listen to me. There's no need to feel ashamed. I know all about being hit by someone close to you. It is not your fault".
"Someone hit you too?" asked Sharni, raising her head to look at Deeks.
"Yes. My father was an alcoholic, he drank all the time. Ever since I was about four or five years old, he would come home absolutely plastered and the slightest little thing would upset him and off he would go. First off he would start on my mom and then I would cop it…bad. I used to try to protect mom so I would stand up to him and make him hit me instead of her and he never hesitated in hitting me".
"Glen never hesitated either. What did you get hit with?"
"Anything he could get his hands on. His favourite was taking off his leather belt and whipping me, but he didn't only use the strap he also used the buckle and that used to puncture holes in me. Another favourite was stubbing cigarettes on me".
Kensi had tears welling in her eyes, listening to her partner recall the horrors of his father's abuse. She knew his childhood was bad but listening to the reality of it gave her a whole new insight into him. Sam and Callen who were listening outside were also shocked by the revelations of Deeks. They just thought of him as a surfing, shaggy haired, cheeky young detective, kind of annoying sometimes, but more than capable of handling himself in a fight. Like all at NCIS they were aware of Deeks shooting his father in self-defence when he was eleven years old and now they fully understood why he did.
"Jesus, no wonder Deeks shot his dad. I knew it was bad for him as a kid I didn't realise how bad it really was", said Sam incredulously to Callen, who nodded in agreement.
"Sharni, what makes you think Glen killed Rowan?" asked Deeks.
"I think Glen's planning something terrible. I have no idea what it is though I've been trying to figure it out. I thought if I knew what he was doing then I could tell the authorities and I could be free from his abuse. Glen's never been the same since our dad died just before he went to college".
"How did your dad die Sharni?" asked Kensi.
"He died of cancer. Because Glen was going to UCLA and I was in my last years of high school, the child authorities agreed to us staying together as I had a part time job and could support myself when Glen was at college".
"What about your mother?" Deeks asked.
"Mom died in a car accident five years ago taking dad to hospital for treatment. A drugged up driver went through a red light, hit her straight on. Dad survived the crash with only a broken arm, but mom didn't make it".
Kensi heard Callen through her earwig and interrupted the interview between Deeks and Sharni.
"Deeks, Eric's called Hetty wants all of us back at OSP right away. Sharni, we are going to put you in a safe house under protective surveillance, so you should be safe. We'll need to speak to you again soon".
"Did Hetty say why she wanted us Kens?" a confused Deeks asked.
"Nope, just it was something to do with this case", replied Kensi.