Chapter 5

Callen and Sam walked into the man's house with their guns in their hands but they knew that it was highly unlikely to find him and Kensi there. They had learned years ago that smart people don't bring the ones that they kidnap to their own houses especially after making a threat directly against the person that they're kidnapping.

Callen froze when he opened the door to one of the bedrooms of the house. There was a huge blood stain on the floor, right in the middle of the room and there was a knife and a pair of handcuffs right next to it.

"Sam, you have to see this!"

Sam went upstairs immediately and was shocked to see the same thing. They both knew that no one would ever survive such a big blood loss. It looked like they had been keeping someone there and that when the person became a burden, they had killed that person. Sam went inside and looked at the bed. There was a shirt there with a cut in the stomach area and blood all over it. The victim had been wearing that shirt when he or she was killed. Sam showed the shirt to Callen and was instantly alarmed by the look that he saw on his partner's face.

"That's Kensi's shirt! She was wearing it yesterday…"

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After calling Eric to let him know what was happening, both agents got in the car and drove to the operation's center in complete silence. They were both aware that if that shirt belonged to Kensi, there was a possibility that all that blood belonged to her too. What didn't make sense was why he wouldn't leave the body in the house. Neither said a single word on the way back but they were both terrified for their friend's life.

As soon as they entered the building, Eric came to them immediately. He looked as worried as them but slightly more at ease.

"I found a camera in a warehouse not far from here that was deactivated a few minutes ago but before they could turn it off, I was able to take a peak!"

Sam looked at Callen and then back at Eric who was pressing a few things on his computer.

"Why were you looking for security cameras there?"

"I remembered something! Kensi's phone and car are impossible to trace for anyone but me but she was carrying a pen drive that Hetty had given her a few days ago for an assignment. That pen drive has a chip installed that broadcasts the sound but it can also be traced. I made a search and found that it was on a warehouse not far from her. I hacked into the security cameras and saw this."

A video showed up on the screen and Callen breathed in relief along with Sam. The video showed Kensi sitting on a chair with a couple of bruises. They could see that her hands and feet were tied to the chair, her eyes were covered and her mouth had duct tape in it. They couldn't tell if she was conscious or not but she was definitely alive. She was wearing a man's shirt and the thought that someone had touched her body made Callen curl his fists in anger. No one was allowed to touch her but him. No one was allowed to see her almost naked but him.

There was a man in front of her with a gun but he was just doing surveillance to make sure that everything was okay and that there was no one there to rescue her.

Callen and Sam left the building and drove to the address of the warehouse. They didn't have a plan, they never did…all that they wanted was to take Kensi out of there alive.

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They were about to burst through the doors of the warehouse when Eric stopped them.

"It won't be as easy as it looks. There is a labyrinth made of boxes to get to the center of the warehouse and I'm almost sure that the guy who's keeping Kensi company has explosives wrapped around him. If you shoot him, he'll burst along with Kensi and a good part of the warehouse. I'm not sure if he's alone or not but he probably has more people there. I didn't see anyone else before the cameras were shut down but the other ones might have explosives too."

Callen looked at Sam before answering.

"You're just chock-full of good news, aren't you?"

Sam tried to talk to Eric this time.

"What are the chances that this entire place is wired?"

"I'd say between 99 and 100 per cent!"

Callen looked at Sam with a look of pure shock and annoyance.

"Always the optimist, Eric!"

Sam and Callen stopped talking to Eric and made their way to the door. They got inside without problems and without noise but they saw what Eric was talking about right away. There was a wall made of boxes right in front of them that reached the ceiling making it impossible for them to go straight to the middle of the warehouse. They made their way to the side and saw three men with guns on their hands but no signs of any kind of explosives. Sam signaled Callen to let him know that he was going to cause a diversion. He shot one of the top boxes and that made everyone turn to that box. Two of them went to check what had caused the box to fall and Callen and Sam knocked them out with a good aimed punch. After a few seconds, the one that was left there went to see what was taking them so long and met the same fate.

The two agents kept walking to the middle of the warehouse and saw that the man who had explosives was still there, along with Kensi and the one that had kidnapped her.

Carl Harper was talking to her what made them believe that she wasn't unconscious, but she didn't even try to move. She probably knew how dangerous those men could be.

Callen and Sam saw that the man with the explosives was only a distraction because they noticed that the explosives weren't even ready to blow up.

"Where is your brother now, honey? I know where he is…he's probably crying in his house because he went to look for you at my house and now believes that you're dead. I think that that is a good thing. Maybe now he'll learn to keep his mouth shut when he's supposed to."

That was his plan. He had killed someone else to make her brother believe that she was dead.

Callen motioned for Sam to go to the other side and made himself visible.

"NCIS, drop your weapons right now!"

The two men looked at him and the one with the fake explosives dropped his weapon right away, making Callen realize that he was new at this.

Carl began to laugh.

"I knew that Michael was well connected but I didn't know that he would call federal agents to solve this. He knows that all he has to do to get his beloved sister back is drop the charges. He has to say that that is a lie and that he meant it as a joke. Then, he'll get his sister back!"

Before he could say anything else, Sam shot him from behind and hit him on the back of one knee, making him drop to the floor in pain.

Callen rushed to Kensi and took the cloth out of her eyes and the duct tape out of her mouth, carefully. She breathed in relief as soon as she saw them both there and Carl Harper on the floor in pain.

"Are you okay? What did they do to you?"

Kensi gave him a very light smile and answered him while he untied the ropes that kept her in the chair.

"They stabbed my on my left leg so I couldn't make a run for it. It hurts like hell."

Callen looked down and saw that she had a cut on her jeans and blood on her thigh, all around the cut. He took her in his arms and went outside to the ambulance that had just arrived. Sam gave the directions to the backups that had just arrived too to arrest all the guys that were inside of that warehouse and to take them to the boat house to interrogation. After that, they would be Camp Pendleton's problem.

Callen went with Kensi to the hospital glad that she was safe once again.

He couldn't help but think that if he hadn't been stupid enough to leave her house, she wouldn't have driven to Camp Pendleton and this would have never happened.

One thing he knew for sure…He would never let her go again and he would make her see that she was just afraid to open up her heart to him. He needed to make her see that she was safe with him and that he wouldn't be just one of those guys who left her. He would always be there for her. And he was going to make her see all of that as soon as she left the damn hospital.

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Hi everyone!

Thank you for the amazing reviews. I'm sorry that I didn't post this chapter sooner but I had to wait for Sarah to give me her laptop. Her brother is getting married soon and she has been freaking out because of the bridesmaid dress. It's inspired in the 80's and that's driving her crazy so I have to be the good boyfriend and help her calm down.

I promise that the next one will be posted soon as long as I have more than 10 reviews on this one.

David