A/N: Hey everyone, here's another update. The next few chapters are really quite Five-O centered. I've been feeling like I need some of my favourite team in here, and I wanted to deal with some of Chin's mourning. So here is a Chin centered chapter.
Chapter 18: Chin's Revenge
"So how do you want to play this?" Deeks asked as they pulled up to the van lot.
Kensi was driving the vehicle that Deeks was riding in - Kono and Chin followed closely in another vehicle.
"You and Kono go in. I'll take Chin and cover you." Kensi said and over the wireless the okay came from the vehicle that had been following them.
"What's my angle?" Deeks asked cheekily.
"You're a surfer working with the national organization and you want to rent the vans for the US Open." Kensi stated.
"I have a US champion with me." Deeks boasted.
"Yeah, that's why I'm sending Kono in with you," Kensi stated unimpressed with Deeks' behaviour.
"Everyone who is anyone knows I'm off the tour, Deeks," Kono stated as she leaned in the open window and startled him before he could protest in retort to Kensi's displeasure.
"All the more reason for you to be running this show," Kensi said and shot Kono a knowing smirk. "I present you with LAPD detective Deeks. Do with him what you will."
"Yes please," Deeks stated flirtatiously.
"That's not what she means," Kono said knowingly as she smiled at Kensi and she chuckled.
"What are you two all about?" Deeks asked with something like discomfort in his voice.
Kensi shrugged.
"So you want us to get eyes on Holick?" Kono asked changing the subject as they heard Chin chuckle over the line.
"And take him quietly. If not, we'll just shut the place down." Kensi answered with a nod.
"All right surfer boy, let's go." Kono ordered and Kensi shooed Deeks out of the car.
"Chin, help!" Deeks called.
"You're on your own, Brah!" Chin answered.
"Let's go." Kono ordered, grabbed Deeks by the arm and dragged him away from Kensi's vehicle.
"Your plan really is to throw him to the wolves isn't it?" Chin asked over the radio connection.
"I can handle this," Deeks retorted.
"We'll see," Kono chimed in.
"We're waiting on your signal." Kensi stated and snapped a few photos of the van yard. "If anything, this should be very interesting to listen to."
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Meanwhile, in a silent car somewhere in down town LA - stuck in traffic...
"You should have let me drive," Danny huffed as he picked at the edge of the unfamiliar bullet proof vest. He hadn't planned on needing his - he was only a consultant off the island - so he'd left his back home.
"When do I ever let you drive?"
"Well this should have been one of those rare occasions because I've been here before and you've got us stuck in traffic!"
"What makes you think I don't know where I am?" Steve huffed. "You don't know how many times I snuck off base to explore California."
"Actually I do," Danny retorted, "because Joe told me all about your irresponsible behaviour - not that I didn't know all about it from personal experience. He also told me all about how he caught you, punished you, and molded you into the super human war machine that you are, but remember, you snuck out at night and this is day time and you've managed to get us stuck in traffic. Therefore, I'm sticking with my original argument. Hetty is not going to be happy with you."
"You're more concerned with Hetty than the traffic."
"Yes I am."
"Look on the bright side - the longer we are stuck in traffic, the less likely you are to get shot at. Now wasn't that thoughtful of me?" Steve reason logically, "and furthermore, isn't it nice that it's just the two of us?"
"It's always just the two of us," Danny grumbled. "The change of scenery hasn't been unwelcome, and the conversation has been better."
"Are you going to try and tell me that you're upset that you aren't paired up with Callen? Is there a bromance brewing? Should I be worried?" Steve asked in shock.
"You're jealousy is showing."
"I'm hurt, Daniel, really. I am."
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"Can I help you?" A young woman asked as Kono and Deeks walked into the office located in the centre of the van yard.
"Hopefully," Kono said cheerfully. "We're with the National Surfing Association, and we're in a bit of a bind."
"Yeah, our regular service provider has backed out on us and now we're stuck for transportation for the surf championships that are coming up." Deeks explained.
"Well we have plenty of vehicles that would suit you." the woman stated pleasantly.
"Do you have drivers as well?" Kono asked sheepishly.
"We have a few but we mostly do rentals."
"Do you need a special license to drive one of your vans?" Deeks asked playing the part of confused surfer.
"No," the woman laughed. "We have some larger commercial vehicles that do need special licensing, as well as the busses that we have, but for most of the passenger vans anyone with a valid drivers license can rent and drive one of them. We just need the documentation for our files when the vans are rented."
"So we could rent a transport vehicle too?" Kono asked almost excitedly.
"Yes, but those need a qualified driver."
"Do you have those?" Deeks asked.
"Yes, as long as you don't want them to play chauffeur," the young woman answered with a laugh.
"So maybe we can kill two birds with one stone," Kono said as she turned to Deeks.
"We'll need one big rig to move everything and several smaller passenger vans to transport our out-of-town surfers."
"As long as we can get some volunteers to drive them, we should be fine." Kono said cheerfully and with relief.
The young woman smiled and nodded.
"You don't, by chance, have one of your rig drivers on hands? We would like to talk to someone about the transportation of some of our more fragile equipment - how it would be loaded or prepared for loading. You know, things like that?" Kono asked.
"We do, yes, let me get him for you." the young woman stated and then disappeared into a back room.
"Why would Holick drive a truck?" Kensi asked in Deeks' ear.
"I don't think we'll be finding Holick." Kono answered having heard the inquiry as well.
"What we really want is to see if we can verify that the vans that we suspect are in the yard." Deeks added in a whisper to Kono for show.
"We have eyes on one of them - license plate was verified by Eric." Chin chimed in. "If the driver isn't someone we know. Get him to take you out to have a look around."
Kono and Deeks jumped out of their conversation as the door opened again and the young woman was followed by a man.
"Kalakaua!" the man gasped and bolted.
"Chin, it's Rick Henson!" Kono yelled, drew her weapon, and rushed after the fleeing suspect while Deeks held the young woman at gun point.
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"Finally!" Danny stated as he and Steve pulled to a stop outside a house on a relatively quiet street.
"How would Callen handle this?" Steve asked bitterly.
"Oh my God! Would you grow up?" Danny yelled and got out of the car and walked up to the front door.
Steve had to jog to catch up to his angry partner, but before Danny had reached the door, he'd drawn his weapon.
"Do you smell that?" Danny asked.
"Yes," Steve answered, knocked at the door, and when there was no answer, he kicked it in.
Lying in the middle of the floor, in a pool of his own blood and the foul stench of decay, was the first of the men Danny and Steve had been sent to find. He'd been dead for days.
"Someone beat us to him." Danny sighed as he stepped backward away from the smell.
"Let's hope the last one has faired better." Steve said but Danny could tell that there was a change in his partner.
Shadows darkened Steve's face as he too moved away from the body and made the call for the back up that was standing by.
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Sam and Callen watched the home of Maksim Holick for a long time knowing generally what was going on with their peers. Callen had asked Eric to keep him posted on Danny and Steve's progress, as they worked alone, and he knew that he could count on his team - Kensi and Deeks - to keep them in the know.
"He's either already in the wind and not here, or monitoring the actions of his own accomplices just as we're doing." Sam said with a sigh as he leaned on the edge of the car's open window.
"We're accomplices now?" Callen asked skeptically - never taking his eyes off the house.
"Some people - high up in the organization - may see it that way."
"Granger." Callen stated with a nod. "I'll admit that on occasion we've gone against protocol and acted contrary to our orders - in which case we would be accomplices - but not now. This is a joint task-force following orders in the name of national security. We're partners..."
"In crime." Sam finished.
Callen rolled his eyes and then raised the binoculars to them. "Why would you carry out a plan of the magnitude that we are assuming this is, out of your house?" he asked skeptically.
"Because he thinks we think he'll find a secret lair for all his secret projects, when really out in the open would be the better idea?" Sam asked skeptically instead of answering his partner."
Callen shook his head. "Something seems off." he added and again looked to the windows of the house in question. "There is movement."
Sam placed his phone to his ear. "Eric should there be anyone else in the house?" he asked even though he didn't need the phone - it was all for the show, and the little old lady who had decided to walk up and down the street suspiciously with the most yappy little yorkie Sam had ever seen. Three times she made the slow process around the cul-de-sac never taking her eyes off the Charger parked on the opposite side of the street from the house they were observing.
"Our records for the location say no," Eric answered, "but infrared says there are two, possibly three, people in the house."
"Possibly three?" Callen asked suspiciously.
"Yes, one heat signature hasn't moved. It's large enough to be a person but somehow the satellite can't give us a definitive result."
"What kind of technology could fool a satellite?" Callen asked.
"Probably something involved with project Chameleon." Sam said with a sigh not waiting for Eric's response.
"We're looking into it." Eric said. "Hetty is on the war path because someone is trying to pull the wool over our eyes, and the body that Danny and Steve found has been positively identified as Lieutenant Commander Whitelaw, but the technology is missing from that crime scene."
"Send Danny and Steve on to the next location. We wont move until we know what they find - that is unless we have to," Callen ordered.
"Max Bergman is with the new body now," Eric added.
"Perfect. Hopefully he and Rose will be able to find something."
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Chin rushed after his cousin at the sound of the name she'd shouted. Deeks gave the all clear for Kensi and she too left the safety of the vehicle and joined the pursuit.
Once around the far side of the building Chin spotted the fleeing man. He was a good distance away from Kono - who ran as fast as she could - but they were heading right toward Chin. Chin and Rick made eye contact as fire flashed in Chin's eyes and Rick knew that Chin knew that he'd pulled the trigger in the murder of Chin's wife. No more than a moment was spent in realizing what was going on, but Rick hesitated, swerved and took off in the opposite direction.
He ran away from Chin and right toward Kono. As quickly as the exchange happened Rick came barreling at Kono. One swift movement and Kono round house kicked the man right off his feet. He fell backward, landed hard but rolled to one side and found his footing. He bolted again. Vaulting himself over a low cinderblock wall and nearly disappeared - except for the top of his head.
Chin vaulted after him, but to his surprise Kensi cut him off. Rick swerved again and headed down an alley toward the traffic of another, busier, street.
Chin fired one shot, made contact with Rick's leg and sent the man to the ground again.
"Just kill me! I know you want to." Rick yelled as Chin caught up - followed by Kono and Kensi.
"No, I want justice for my wife. I want you to pay and I want you to rot in jail." Chin stated angrily as he grabbed Rick by the shirt and pulled him to his feet. "But most of all I want you to feel my pain. You ripped my heart out. You tore off my limbs. I don't know how to live anymore and you, you are going to feel that physical pain that I feel!" Chin spat at he yelled in the man's face.
Rick cried out in pain as he was force to put his weight on his injured leg.
"Now you can feel the pain you put my wife through." Chin growled as Kono pulled Rick's arms behind his back.
"Now walk." Chin ordered as he let go of Rick's front and Kono and Kensi held him up by either arm.
"I can't," Rick yelled as he stumbled.
"You either walk or I'll shoot you in the other leg and you'll never walk again."
Rick bit his lip as the girls held him up, forcing him to remain on his feet as he moved slowly back to the vehicle where Deeks and the young woman were waiting.
Silently, through the moans of an injured fugitive, and the protests of a young woman, the four new friends loaded their people and gear back into the vehicles - never breaking the silence, and never making eye contact with the one man whose heart was still scattered in a million pieces on a kitchen floor in Honolulu.