She wasn't entirely sure whether her eyes were open or not, even when she blinked a few times. Everything was unnaturally black. Kensi realised that she was laying on something, and it was rather soft. Using a hand to investigate without causing much of movement, she found out that it was a bed. She paused and closed her eyes once again, using her insticts to determine whether she was alone or not. After a few seconds, she decided that she was and pushed herself up into a sitting position.
Her head hurt as she did and as she put a hand to the back of her head, she felt the stickiness of blood in her hair from where they had hit her to knock her out. A bout of anger coursed through her at the fact that she had lost to the two men when she was very capable at defending herself. She just hadn't seen the two additional men who had put a gun to her and then knocked her out.
Knowing that it wasn't going to help matters at that moment, she looked around the darkened room that had turned to a few shades of grey as her eyes adjusted. It was a small room, like a psychiatric hospital room, with no window and nothing else but the bed that she sat on. The door wasn't too far either but it was on the other side of the room.
Her eyes stung as she kept on staring and Kensi lifted a hand when she felt liquid on her eyelashes. It was more smoother than tears and she figured that they must have put something in her eyes, but she wasn't too sure what or why. She didn't even know how long she had been out for or whether she had a concussion or not. But seeing as she had slept a bit and woken up alive, the concussion can't have been that bad.
Slowly, she moved to the edge of the bed, listening out for any signs of people around her or the room, but hearing nothing like she had predicted. Her arms ached as she used them to move herself forward but it was a dull ache and nothing but her head hurt with a sharp pain. She took it as a good sign that they hadn't killed her already. Once she sat on the edge of the bed, she thought back to what had happened. All that she could remember was taking the photos before being confronted.
Her hand quickly when to her ear where her earpiece had been but it had been removed already and she knew they would have crushed it by now. Her jeans pockets were empty, her gun was gone and she realised that someone had taken off her bulletproof vest, but she was just grateful that that was all they had taken off.
Standing up, she used a hand to balance herself as her head spun at the new motion before keeping the hand out to guide her around the room. It only took about 3 steps before she was by the door. Naturally, Kensi tried the handle even though she had known it wouldn't be open. She tried it twice, in both directions, before letting it go and looking back towards the bed. She still couldn't see much and her eyes began to strain as she used too much effort in trying so.
Suddenly, she could hear something in the odd silence; footsteps. She guessed it was because of the small sound she had made when trying the door, and she stood still next to it whilst listening to the foorsteps near before stopping outside. Keys jingled and Kensi prepared herself to either fight with the person entering or to distract them somehow to run out. The footsteps had come from the opposite direction so she knew where to go.
When the door opened, the man entered slowly as if preparing himself for her attack, but he had not been expecting it so soon as she used the door as the only weapon she had and slammed it into his face to disorient him. Before he could even get his bearings, she grabbed his arm and twisted it before kicking out his legs from under him. Kensi didn't stay to see if he had truely gone down but used the opportunity to get out of the room and run down the corridor towards the end. Her head pounded and her whole body fought against her actions but she was trained to ignore it all to get out safely.
The building was dark itself, but not so much as the room she had been it. She passed a high window to see darkness outside and realised why the building was plunged into such darkness. Making her way through the corridors, she did her best to keep an ear out for sounds of footsteps and and eye out for any doors that led out. It worried her that she had made it so far without anyone coming after her but she pushed it to the back of her mind.
That was until she reached a door that took her into a bigger room, almost like the room where she had been taken. Suddenly, she heard voices, whispering quickly and angrily and she knew that she was the cause of it. The room was too large for her to see anyone, but she knew they were in there and as she made her way around the edges, she finally realised that she could hear the whirring of computers. She guessed that they had cameras placed about, something that was confirmed when she saw one screen with the corridor that she had just come down. That was why they hadn't come after her and why they were waiting there for her.
Because they knew that she had to come there in the end.
Which meant that there was a way out from that room.
Slowly, Kensi creeped around the room, pushing back the thought that wished someone from her team was there with her or even Eric in her ear to guide her. She couldn't see well in the dim light and she had no weapon but herself to defend herself.
Sudden shouts of 'there' and 'by the east wall' told her that she had been made and she did her best to get away from there, but she wasn't quick enough to outrun 3 men whilst injured and in a place she didn't know. She was stopped by a man in front of her so she went left, only to find someone else blocking her. This time, she attacked, hitting him in the neck to startle him before kneeing him in the stomach to make him double over. Kensi thought that she had made it until the sound of a gunshot echoed in the big room and she froze when the man with the gun appeared in front of her with the gun pointing straight at her.
"If you run, Agent Blye, the only that's going to chase you is a bullet." he told her and she refused to frown or scowl or show any emotion to his words when on the inside she felt fear trying to get out. She squashed it quick enough to to realise that the man who spoke sounded a lot closer than she could see him, and even then, all she could see was an outline.
"If you wanted to kill me, you'd have killed me already." she said nonetheless, squinting and trying to see him better but to no avail.
The man laughed. "Having trouble seeing, Agent?" he asked tauntingly before calling out to two other men and she recorded the names to memory. "Wilson, Taylor, turn on the lights." Kensi was grateful for the order because she thought it would give her an advantage and to take in with what she was dealing with but when the lights came on, her eyes felt as if they were on fire and she couldn't fight the natural instinct to cover them with her hands. "Better?" he asked tauntingly again.
Kensi composed herself to stand up straighter, but kept her head downwards. "What did you do?" she asked him roughly as the lights dimmed slowly when the man clicked his fingers and she realised that he was the man in charge. Opening her eyes, she glanced up but her sight was worse than before. "I can't see." she stated quietly, more to herself than him.
"I know." he told her. "It's a pupil dilator. Renders you blind in the light, and naturally in the dark." he laughed and she felt someone grab her arm. She went to attack him on instinct but the man's words warned her off. "You can fight your way through my men, but you won't get out of here until you fight through me. And seeing as you're blind and I have a gun, I think I'd win, don't you?" he asked sarcastically and she did everything she could to keep away the urge to attack anyway.
Kensi let out a long breath as she let herself be guided to where she assumed was the middle of the room. Her eyesight was going back to grey again and she could see small points of light from what she assumed were lamps from the corner of her eyes which only distorted her view more.
"I have a job for you." he told her and she could place his voice at being further away from her than before. If she couldn't see then she would have to rely on her other senses to help her out. "If you refuse, I'll kill you." he said matter of factly.
"And if I do it?" she asked plainly, not liking the grip one of the men had on her arm and she guessed it was the one she had just fought.
"I'll let you go." he said simply and she smirked. "Find that funny, Agent Blye?"
"Oh no." Kensi said sarcastically. "I always believe the words of the man holding me hostage."
He laughed at her words. "I think we're going to get on just fine. I like humor in a woman." he stated and she let the smirk die as she thought about how she would hurt him once she was out of there and had her eyesight back again. "You're not a hostage. I don't want anything from anyone else for your release. I just want your expertise."
"Which is?" she asked and she heard a rustling as something like a tarp was moved away before the unforturnately familiar smell of decomposing bodies hit her.
"I want you to help me get rid of these bodies so that noone will ever know it was me." he said and she shook her head.
"I'm not a forensic scientist. I can't do that." she said even though she was lying and she was certain he knew that.
He let out a breath and she could tell that he had prepared for this conversation but was rather bored too. "You work on scenes and you investigate. I need you to tell me what to do so that noone will know to come after me. I know you can do it, and you will."
"Or you'll kill me?" she asked rhetorically in hope to but some time.
"Yes." he said slowly. "But first I'll start with your teammates. Agent Sam Hanna and Detective Marty Deeks. Correct?" he asked and she refused to give him the joy of an answer. "Or should I start with the innocent technican, Eric Beale?" he asked her and she felt herslf stiffen at that. She knew that Sam and Deeks could look after themself, but Eric could bare touch a gun or punch something without hurting himself more. "So, do we have a deal?"
Kensi paused and realised that he had missed a very certain someone out on the list and she hoped that that meant that either they hadn't researched deep enough or he was still undercover. Although she was certain that they would have let Callen know about her being missing ASAP and she knew that he would come after her no matter what, like he had promised. All she had to do was to stay alive and stay there until then, which meant stalling. And considering that she was currently partially blind, she was sure that would be a good reason to why she couldn't direct them properly with the body dumps.
"Well?" the man in charge asked again.
"Alright." she sighed in fake sorrow although she didn't like it either. "We have a deal."
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