Callen and Sam pulled up outside a modest looking house on the other side of town; the dark SUV Deeks had described was parked in the driveway. Callen pulled the print out Deeks had gotten from Nell from his pocket and examined the photo of the man. Aaron Beaumont. In the picture he had a certain look of arrogance about him. Callen couldn't wait to smack that look right off his face.
"Ready Sam?" Callen asked.
"Let's do this G"
The two men got out of the car and walked staunchly across the road to the house. Sam thumped on the door with his huge fist. Both men had their black gloves on, sure to not leave any prints behind that could identify them, being a trained agent came in handy. Soon after Sam thumped on the door a second time, a tall muscular looking man with a very bruised, possibly fractured if not broken jaw, answered the door.
"You Aaron Beaumont?" Callen asked coldly.
"Yeah… who are you?" he asked hesitantly, but trying to sound tough.
"We need to have a little talk" Sam smiled mischievously as he grabbed Aaron by the collar of his shirt and hauled him effortlessly inside, closely followed by Callen.
"What the fuck man! Get off me" Aaron yelled, struggling under the strong grip of the former Navy Seal.
"You're gonna listen up and you're gonna listen good you get that" Sam said through gritted teeth as he pinned the man against the wall.
"Now, word is you like to smack around woman, that true?" Callen asked calmly.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Aaron claimed.
"Oh, I think you do" Sam replied, glaring at the man.
"Problem is, you picked the wrong woman to mess with Beaumont, see this woman" Callen said holding up a picture of Kensi. "You bruised her face, and I'm betting that wasn't the first time either, or the only place you have bruised".
"I… She…" Beaumont stammered, now visibly afraid of what these guys were going to do to him. Sam gave him another hard shove against the wall, just for good measure.
"I see her partner did a pretty good job bruising your face, poetic justice?" Sam asked looking over at Callen who laughed a little.
"So, here's how it's gonna be, you don't contact her again, you don't go to her house again, you forget you even knew her you got that" Callen spat. "If you don't do what we tell you, we are gonna have a serious problem on our hands".
"Yeah…yeah I got it" he spluttered.
"She is our sister, and we will do anything, and I mean anything to protect her" Sam added in.
"She doesn't have any brothers" Beaumont said looking very confused.
"Yeah, that you knew of" Sam laughed.
"If we hear that you have tried to contact her in any way, we will find you and trust me we have ways of making people disappear, it'd be like you never even existed" Callen smirked.
"I… I won't go near her, I… I swear" Beaumont said, clearly full of fear, looking like he was about to cry.
"Good, we understand each other then" Sam said letting the man go.
As Callen and Sam turned to leave they couldn't help themselves, they had to make sure that this guy was scared to even think about contacting Kensi. "Oh and one more thing" Callen said turning back to face Beaumont who looked like he was about to wet his pants. Not so tough when he didn't have a woman to beat down.
Callen approached Beaumont leaning forward to whisper in his ear, "This is for laying a hand on my sister you bastard". And with that Callen drove his fist into Beaumont's stomach will all the force he could, leaving the man on the floor coughing and winded. They stood and watched for a moment, satisfied that they had defended one of their own. When he finally caught his breath again, Beaumont was pissed. He lunged for Callen and was struck right in the cheek bone by a swift right hook from Sam.
They left the man, damn near crying on the floor like a little bitch. He deserved all that he got, and probably even more, but Callen and Sam were certain that he got the message. He wouldn't be going anywhere near Kensi any time soon.
When Callen and Sam had returned to the mission, Deeks had just emerged from the showers after a good workout. "Find him?" he asked.
"Sure did Deeks" Sam laughed.
"And? What did he say, what did you do?" Deeks asked, anxious to find out whether the bastard got what was coming to him.
"We had some words, and we may have thrown a couple of punches after Sam roughed him up a bit" Callen smirked. "Oh and I'm pretty sure Sam made him cry after he added to the nasty looking injury to his face that you gave him" Callen laughed.
Deeks couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction, as well as admiration for the way the guys stuck up for Kensi. He always knew that they were all close, but to see what lengths they would go to protect her, defend her honour, they were like one big family. Deeks was happy to finally find somewhere he felt he belonged.
"What you guys laughing about?" Kensi asked emerging from the showers.
"Oh nothing Kens" Callen said looking all innocent.
"How you feeling? Sam asked, noticing more bruises on her arms as she wandered round in a tank top. The sight of those bruises, some dark, some faded, made Sam wish he gave that bastard another good smack in the face.
"I'm fine guys" she replied attempting to reassure them, but they weren't fooled. They all knew her so well now they could see through her lie. Inside she was fighting some nasty demons. Deeks knew it was his job to help her through. Truth be told, there wasn't anything else he would rather do than spend time with Kensi.
In true silent ninja fashion Hetty appeared at the entrance of the bull pen. "We do not have a case today, so I suggest you catch up on the mountains of paperwork each of you have". With that she disappeared again, and the whole team groaned at the thought of paperwork…
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