Warning: Mentions of abuse.
Chapter 3
Casey and Charlie had been at it for a while, but Casey hadn't broken yet, she hung on with all the strength she had against his beatings.
"You're tough Casey, but I'm tougher."he said and struck her again as she lay on the mat.
She got to her feet as a man rushed in from upstairs, "We got visitors!"he exclaimed.
"Damn it!"Charlie cursed, "Get ready to leave."he commanded and turned his attention back to Casey.
"To be continued."he said and did a roundhouse kick to her head, knocking her unconscious. Carrying her over his shoulder, he went upstairs and outside dumping her in the trunk of his car. Gathering his things he got back in the car taking off for their next location meeting place.
Unknown to him, the man who had given Casey, her food, left a little note behind for the agents to find.
Callen and the others sped toward the farmhouse in their vehicles as fast as they could. They stopped and got out; armed with their guns and bulletproof vests. Callen and Sam took the front while Kensi and Deeks took the back.
"On my count."Callen said, "One, two, three!"he told them and they busted inside searching the main floor before spliting up to check upstairs and in the basement.
"Clear."Kensi and Deeks said from upstairs.
"Clear."Sam told them as Callen examined the shackles.
"She was here."he said, and checked around finding a crumpled up piece of paper behind the post.
He opened it and read aloud; "Your agent is alive, and holding on. I'm a friend, use a gps signal on this number and you'll find us."
"Can we trust it?"Sam asked,
"Yeah, it could be a trap."Kensi pointed out.
"We don't have a choice."Callen told them and told Eric the number.
"It's heading thru down town, it's going towards the docks guys."he told them.
"The docks, that's a lot of hiding places."Sam commented as he drove.
"Yes it does, but we're not going to the docks."Callen told him.
"What do you have in mind?"Sam asked, Callen merely grinned.
Casey awoke in an empty warehouse, aside from the chair she was tied to of course. She could hear the waves faintly outside, 'We must be at the docks.'she thought.
"Why did you kill Kyle?"Charlie demanded, making her jerk in the chair. He stood behind her, right in her blind spot, using scare tactics instead of beating her.
"Charlie, it's simple. You should be able to figure it out, if not well it shows how stupid you are."she said.
"I know you did it for revenge on us for killing your partner, but why Kyle?"he said easily.
"Kyle was close to Sean, figured it would cause the same pain and hurt that you all caused me."she replied.
He chuckled and laid his hands on her shoulders, "You wasted your time on him sweetheart, you should have killed me, afterall I'm the one who killed Richard."he told her.
Casey knew that, "There's still time on the clock."she retorted.
"Not for you there isn't."he said and put a bag over her head taking away her vision before cutting the ropes holding her and yanked her to her feet.
Callen approached the warehouse in his homeless man disguise, he poked around the garbage cans watching the two guards out front.
They parted to let Charlie and Casey through, "I see her."Callen said.
"How does she look?"Sam asked.
"Alright, she has a bag over her head so it's hard to tell. Kensi, Deeks, are you two in position?"he replied.
"Yes, we're ready."she confirmed.
Callen made his way over to the guards, "Do you have any change?"he asked.
"No, get lost!"One of them snapped.
"Easy, it's all good. Who's the girl?"he said.
"Get him!"The same guard yelled, as Callen ran off down the side alley of the warehouse.
Kensi and Deeks secured the guards and Sam joined them to go get Casey back.
Casey currently was hanging twenty feet above the water by a rope tied to a crane hook.
As Charlie had been tying her up, he left her with some parting words, "A slow and agonizing death, just you deserve and I've won."he told her.
Casey thought about those words now, he believed he had won but she knew that couldn't be farther from the truth.
"Casey!"Callen yelled seeing her dangling in the air.
A shot rang out and Casey jerked a little as part of the rope holding her was gone and the rest was going to give away.
"Any closer and she goes swimming!"Charlie threatened from the dock.
The team watched him as he backed away towards his boat, a man got up from the boat and tackled Charlie to the dock knocking his gun from his hand and it slid across the wood surface and into the water.
Kensi and Deeks rushed towards the dock to give the guy a hand, as Sam and Callen tried to figure out how to help Casey.
"The crane we could lower her down."Callen said,
"No time."Sam said.
"We have to do something!"Callen exclaimed, as the rope snapped and Casey fell into the water.
Casey kicked with legs and pushed towards the surface but she couldn't guide herself with tied hands and the bag on her head was disorienting.
A hand took hold of her arm and pulled the bag off before helping her to the surface. Casey took in a big breath of air as they broke the surface and coffed a little.
She turned expecting to see Callen beside her, but it was the mystery man from Charlie's crew.
"You, you saved me."she said.
"Yes Casey, I did."he said and started bringing her to the ladder on the dock.
"What's your name?"she asked wanting to know.
"I'll come visit you when you're recovering."he said before he helped her up the ladder where Callen and Sam greeted them.
"Casey, are you alright?"Callen asked checking her over.
"Yeah, thanks to him."Casey said, pointing to the guy.
"Lets get you to the hospital, you need to be checked out."Callen said and started to pull her away.
"Sure."she said and tried to move on her own but exhaustion over took her and fell into Callen's arms.
Sam was on the phone dialing an ambulance within minutes as Callen laid her down and put his vest under her head because it was all he had.
The LAPD and ambulance showed up about the same time and amungst the rush of people the mystery man slipped away as Casey was taken to the hospital with Callen riding in the ambulance with her.