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Hetty looked at Gavin and then at Doctor Franks. "How is Dawn doing?"

Gavin looked at Hetty and said "I'll let Miles here explain Dawn's condition."

Hetty nodded and looked at Doctor Franks. "How is my God daughter doing Doctor Franks?"

Doctor Franks looked at Hetty and then at Sam and Callen and back to Hetty. "We got the bleeding to stop but ended up having to give Dawn four units of blood. While I was operating on Dawn I noticed that she had a couple of broken ribs and one of the ribs must have shifted when she fell to the ground because her lung had been punctured. I re-inflated her lung so she has a tube coming out of her chest. We got the bullet out of her leg and her leg will need to be in a cast for six to eight weeks. Dawn also has a broken collarbone."

Hetty sighed. "So how is Dawn doing now?"

Doctor Franks smiled a little. "Well the good news is that Dawn made it through the surgery. As for knowing exactly how Dawn is doing right now I'm afraid that we won't know that until she wakes up. I did have a sedative given to her because the more she rests right now the better of chance she'll have at healing completely. She will have to be in the hospital for the next couple of weeks especially since she punctured her lung."

Hetty nodded and then made sure she was looking up into Doctor's Franks eyes. "I'll need for you or a Nurse to show the floor layout to one of my Agents once she is in a room. She will also be under twenty four hour a day protection so you need to make sure that the Nurse's know not to tell any of my Agent's to leave the room for any reason. Someone tried to kill Dawn and they got away. I will not allow them another chance at taking my God daughter's life."

Doctor Franks nodded. "I'll make sure that everyone understands that. I'm also going to guess that whoever is placed in her room and outside of her room are going to need see the badges of the Nurse's."

Hetty nodded. "That they will. I'm not leaving anything to chance Doctor Franks. Dawn's parents were murdered and I have a feeling that whoever murdered her parents are now after her. On top of that her abusive ex boyfriend showed up here earlier. I'm not allowing my God daughter to be hurt any more than she already is. If that disrupts the hospital I'm sorry but first and foremost Dawn's protection and well being is the important thing here."

Doctor Franks nodded again. "I'll see what I can do about getting it to where Dawn will always have the same Nurse's each shift. That way it will make it easier on your Agent's and the staff."

Hetty nodded. "Thank you Doctor Franks. When can I see Dawn?"

Doctor Franks smiled at Hetty and said "I'll go and see how everything is coming along. As soon as Dawn is in a recovery room I will come and get you. If you'd like one of your Agents can follow me back and stand outside the operating room."

Hetty nodded and looked at Deeks and Kensi who had just walked into the waiting room and said "Deeks go with Doctor Franks and stand outside the room that Dawn is in until I can come back."

"Sure thing Hetty." Deeks said.

Hetty smiled slightly and looked at Doctor Franks. "Deeks will go with you. I'll be out here waiting. Come and get me as soon as I can see Dawn please."

Doctor Franks nodded and left the waiting room followed by Deeks and leaving behind Gavin who looked at Hetty and said "Besides the blood loss she did pretty good through the surgery. Her blood pressure dropped a couple of times but she never coded."

Hetty let out a sigh of relief. "Thank God for small favors then. Gavin meet my Agents; Callen, Sam and Kensi. Callen, Sam, and Kensi meet Gavin one of my oldest friends and also Dawn's God father."

Callen gave a nod of his head while Sam and Kensi both said "Hi."

Callen looked at Hetty and said "So how are we going to do this. I think one of us should be here at all times besides you."

Hetty looked at Callen and smiled. "I like the way you think Agent Callen. I'll let you guys decide who is here when but I think you're right. I have a feeling that something is going to happen and I always go with my feelings because they have yet to prove wrong."

Callen nodded. "I have actually had that same feeling. So I know that I'm staying here tonight but I'll leave it up to everyone else to decide what they want to do. Tomorrow we can come up with a rotation schedule on who is here and when."

Sam and Kensi nodded and Sam said "I'm actually all for staying tonight. G, if both you and Hetty have a feeling that something is going to happen it would be best if all of us stayed tonight. I know that we all probably can't stay in Dawn's hospital room with her but it wouldn't hurt for us to be close at hand in case something does go down tonight."

Callen nodded as did Hetty who said "That is a good idea Sam. I will feel better if everyone's hands are on deck at least for tonight. I don't know why but the feeling that something is going to happen is getting stronger."

Gavin looked at Hetty and said "I'll go back and check how Doctor Franks is doing with Dawn, Hetty. I know that you're worrying even more about her now."

Hetty nodded but didn't say anything. She couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong and she hated it. She hated that she had this feeling but she couldn't do anything about it. She looked at Callen and then at Sam and Kensi. "I want you three to be on alert tonight. I don't know what is going to happen but something is. I don't care what you have to do but I want to make clear that nothing else happens to Dawn."

Callen, Sam and Kensi all nodded but didn't say anything. All three were thinking that they would make sure that Dawn was safe no matter what it took to make that happen.