They had searched the entire warehouse for over an hour and Eric had tried to find any camera footage to see if he could find out anything more on where Kensi had gone but they had all come up with nothing. The only thing that they had was her cell phone so Sam and Deeks headed back to the Ops center with the phone to give to their tech operator so that he could maybe unlock it and get the photos that Kensi had taken to give them another lead.

It hadn't taken Eric long to get past the first lock code and they were all optimistic that they would be able to get to the photos and identify the man in charge of the kidnapping pretty quickly. But once he had gotten into her cell phone items, there had been more passwords, and these were harder to crack. He knew that they wouldn't be easy because the OSP agents' phones were encrypted and protected about 50 times more than the original cell phone just in case they fell into the wrong hands. Although they didn't keep anything personal on their cell phones, things such as the pictures that Kensi had just taken would be of value and use to the bad guys in this case.

Eric himself had done most of the encryption which allowed him to get a bit further but what he hadn't done or known were the passwords that Kensi had set up herself so that noone else could get into the phone except for her. It had been him who had told her to do that just like he had told everyone else, but right then, he wished he hadn't because it wasn't going to help them.

He sighed and turned to look at where Samm, Deeks and Hetty were standing and pacing in the room. "I can't get into the pictures." he told them with another sigh and a sad look.

"Why not?" Deeks asked.

"They have a lock on them that I can't work my way through. I set up the system so that it wasn't breakable and it's working." he told them. "And I think that even if I got past this lock, there'd be more to come. I can't overwrite it." he added, knowing that it wasn't what anyone else wanted to hear.

"So what do we do?" Sam asked angry that they had not only lost one of their teamates, but that they had no way of finding her at the moment. "Without that, we have nothing."

Deeks shrugged as he spoke. "Maybe she wrote it down somewhere or told someone." he suggested and Sam looked up at him as if in a sudden realisation. "What?"

"G would know." he said and they all agreed that he was right.

"Too bad he's undercover." Deeks commented with a sigh though there was feeling inside of him that it wasn't going to stay that way for long.

Sam turned to look at Hetty as he spoke. "He'll want to know. One of us could go meet him and take Kensi's cell phone with us so that he can unlock it. We'll have our lead."

"If I know Mr Callen, and I do believe I do, then he won't take the news lightly. He'll want out of his case and be back here." she told the other man and he nodded.

"He told Kensi that he was close to closing up. A week or something. Maybe he could pull it forward." Hetty still looked a bit worried so he carried on. "We owe it to him to let him know at least, right?"

Hetty sighed and shook her head a bit. "Unfortunately, you are right there, Mr Hanna. I'll leave him a message that we need to meet with him ASAP." she said as she began to leave. "You decide which one is going to go and what you're going to say and do."

Sam nodded and turned back to the one remaining person on his team who held his hands up. "Hey, I do not want to be the one to tell G Callen that we got his wife kidnapped." he said and Sam rolled his eyes. "Ok?"

"I'll go." he said in reply and he knew that he didn't want anyone else to be the one to go and tell his partner and best friend about what had happened because it was more his job, and Callen was less likely to do anything rash if he was there to reason with him like noone else could right then. Turning back to Eric he remembered what had led them to this moment right then in the first place. "Eric, what's been happening with the body from this morning?"

He turned to his computer to put up the information that he had received. "She had been dead for about 2 weeks, which was 3 days after she was taken." he told them.

"If it's the same people, then maybe Kensi will have 3 days too." Deeks pointed out before frowning. "Although, they didn't take her for a reason other than the fact that she had seen who they were and heard what they had said."

Sam shook his head. "Nah, if they didn't want anything, they would have killed her." he told him. "They know that she's NCIS and that she was on the case. Maybe they want her help with the other bodies because the last one led us straight to them."

"Good theory, especially as they haven't contacted us yet about her, and the victims' family said that they were contacted within an hour, and it's been over 2 for Kensi." Deeks added with some relief just as Hetty reentered the room.

"Mr Callen replied. Meet him at the benches by the central park in half an hour." She informed them and Sam nodded before telling the others to carry on with trying to both find Kensi and maybe getting another lead from the other cases, and then dreadingly walked out of the room to go to see his partner.

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