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Feel the Rush

Chapter 3

After making sure Deeks was settled in hospital, Kensi went back to OSP and relayed what Deeks had told her about his undercover LAPD assignment.

"We'll lock mystery man up for the night and get stuck into the case tomorrow" said Callen.

"You sure we can keep him locked up for the night Callen?" asked Kensi.

"Yep, he's been captured beating Deeks on the beach and a suspect in Deeks' undercover assignment. So we can definitely hold him" replied Callen.

"G, I just spoke to Hetty, she's getting the video sent to OSP, it should be there by morning and she said to go home, get some sleep, then we can work out what this case is all about tomorrow. Hopefully Deeks will be fine to help us out too" Sam said.

"Sounds good. Let's go home!" said Callen.

Meanwhile, Deeks was having trouble sleeping in the hospital. He was going through the case in his mind. "Things don't seem right with this" he thought, "Am I missing something?" He went through the events at the beach earlier "There's something about the guy Sam got, but what is it?" Deeks was getting annoyed at himself. "Come on Deeks, you're a detective – detect!"

The next morning Sam, Kensi and Callen were already at their desks as Deeks walked in.

"Hey! What are you doing here? Did the doctors release you?" Kensi fired questions at Deeks.

"First, I'm here because I work here. Second, I checked myself out a little early, but the doc's said I should be fine to be discharged today anyway, so I did." "Anything else?"

"Well I'll get Miss Blye to keep an eye on you Mr Deeks" said Hetty appearing around the corner. "Upstairs all, we have Mr Deeks' case to solve".

Eric and Nell were waiting for the team to arrive upstairs. "Hey Deeks, you okay?" asked Eric.

"Fine thanks Eric, do have something?"

"This is the video LAPD sent through to us. Deeks was right, it shows soldiers doing some crazy things on there", said Eric pressing play on the video screen.

On the video, soldiers were seen going on patrol; most were looking high on adrenalin. For most of these soldiers though, it wasn't the rush of adrenalin that was seeing them look highly alert, but uppers and narcotics. "Woo, can you feel the rush man?" said one soldier to another. "I know it's so good! I feel like I could take on the whole Taliban!" his comrade answered. When the soldiers returned back to base, they immediately took sleeping tablets to help calm their euphoric feelings, courtesy of their corrupt sergeant. The sergeant could be seen on the video, albeit with his face covered slightly in an effort to be unrecognisable, laughing and telling his troops, "This is the way to win boys! Feel indestructible! No one can beat us!" Sam was looking angry and disbelieving. He knew the military well and seeing soldiers' revelling in their false sense of bravado was gut wrenching.

"They are setting themselves up to get killed not win the fight" said Sam.

"Eric stop the video a sec." Deeks said. He saw something. "It may be nothing" he thought. Looking at the slightly grainy video he saw an image he recognised. A tattoo. On the sergeant's neck. It was small, possibly insignificant to most. "Why didn't I see this before?"

"Deeks what is it?" asked Kensi.

"Maybe nothing, but I've got to check out our prisoner". "Is he still at the boatshed?" he asked.

"Yes, but care to tell us what's going on Deeks?" Callen asked.

"I'll tell you after I've checked him out" said Deeks, already racing down the stairs.

"I guess we follow Deeks huh?" said Kensi.

"Let's go" agreed Callen.