They had left him in the interrogation room as they sat in front of the TV in the main room of the boathouse with Deeks to communicate with Eric and Hetty via the link. Once filling in the others with what Anderson had told them and tossing around a few theories, they had came up with a plan with what to do with him and his cell phone.
"It's not unreasonable to expect them to expect us to come after them." Callen stated from where he perched against the table with his arms crossed as he thought of the best way to use their advantage. "But they wouldn't expect it to be through Anderson." he carried on as the others nodded.
Sam spoke up from where he sat on the couch, facing the TV screen more even though he spoke to them all. "He said that only the guy in charge, 'Boss', recruits them, so if we tagged along, we'd be made in a second." he told them.
Hetty nodded at their words, even though she had been watching the interrogation herself. "Yes, but how does this help us?" she saw a familiar look on the other three men faces' that she had seen before when they had come up with a plan that was slightly on the wrong side of the line. "Well?" Usually, she preferred denialibilty, but right then, she needed to know what they planned to do to get her agent back safe.
"He missed a call from the guy in charge." Callen stated, not comfortable with calling him 'Boss' if he didn't have to. "Which means he'll know something's up. So we play into that."
Hetty waited a moment for more but when they didn't go on, she said, "Explain."
"We get Anderson to call him back, saying that we caught up with him but let him go because he convinced us that he was just a drug supplier and we were more focused on getting Kensi back." Callen told her, sticking to as much professionalism as he could as he thought about the time that was ticking past. It had just passed the 12 hour mark since she had been taken and there had been nothing to ensure that she was still alive apart from hope and a lack of a body. "That'll confirm that we're coming after them. Anderson will go back to where they have her and we'll follow. He said that there are a few roads that lead up to it and it's pretty secluded for miles around with hardly anyone ever passing."
A silence followed in which the three in the boathouse waited for one of the other two to ask a question that they were waiting for. It took only a few more seconds before Eric spoke up. "But if they're expecting you to come after them, won't they be on the lookout for anyone except for them approaching where they are?"
"Exactly." Sam smirked, only to receive a very questioning and demanding look from Hetty.
"Let me get this straight. Instead of using Anderson and the cell phone to possibly negotiate a deal to get Ms Blye back, you want to send him back with one of you following, knowing that you'll get caught and risk getting captured or killed as well?" she asked sceptically and the others all nodded, leaving the explaining to Callen, who they knew was the only one who could most possibly change and coerc Hetty. "Do you care to explain what will happen after this?"
"After they find out that we know where they are, they'll have to move." Callen told her. "Either that or risk us coming back, full fled with backup and storming the place."
"Why are we not going for the second option right now? We have an insider who you could send in to survey the place before we go in." Hetty asked and Callen simply shook his head.
"It's too dangerous." he said, earning himself raised eyebrows from the other two on the screen as they thought about the hyprocrisy in his statement. "The place is like a giant, empty maze. Chances of us storming into the place and actually finding Kensi are slim, let alone us finding her before one of them find us and kill her there and then." he explained and Hetty nodded, clearly impressed by the answer and the thought they had put behind it.
Deeks spoke up for the first time since they had started their conversation to finish off telling the rest of the plan from where he stood next to the table, slightly agitated to go and do something to sit. "Anyway, once they start moving, Anderson will give us the heads up. Even if he backs out, we'll be watching. And that's when we'll strike!" he finished with determination and a small smirk that only made the other two agents with him shake their heads. "Not only should we be able to get Kensi back, but we should be able to find the other two bodies they're hiding and capture the rest of them."
Hetty let out a long breath as she thought over the plan before nodding once. "Sounds like a plan, Mr Callen." she said and he nodded once as well. "How long until it's put into action?"
"As soon as we've scripted Anderson with what to say." he told her. "Then it'll be another hour or so before we let him leave and then it's up to them."
"Very well. Keep me up to date with the progress." she told him before adding almost hesistantly. "Mr Callen, I feel as if I should warn you that there is a lot riding on this and that if something goes wrong, that the best action would be to abort and try again. Nothing too drastic and nothing without a well thought out and backedup plan. But you already know that, correct?"
Callen paused for a moment, fixing his jaw as he thought about it. In all honesty, if push came to shove, there would be no way that he would abort. If he was close enough and it didn't seem like Kensi was in mortal danger, he would do what he did best and improvise to get her out of there. But that wasn't what their operational manager wanted to hear. "Of course." he lied stiffly and Hetty nodded before walking away, terminating the call and leaving the three others to carry out their plan.
Sorry about the delay once again, and about this short chapter, and the lack of personal gratitude that's usually down here in my AN. I'm running out of time on this public computer as mine has died on me so I have to be as quick as I can lol. I hope you enjoyed this and I will try to update ASAP. Please r&r!