We get a glimpse of the frustrations building up in this chapter-just a taste though

"Kensi" G called as he caught up with her "give it a little time. Your still our little sister and we are still family. But the family is kinda messed up right now and taking sides plus Granger didn't help. Call me if your nightmares come back, I'll loan ya a shoulder if you just want to talk or cry it out or beat on someone like you used to on Deeks" then he groaned, wrong thing to say G he thought to himself.

Kensi was chuckling and said "Wow great pep talk there lead agent Callen but I get it and thanks. I'll be fine." Seeing the glare he was giving her she went on "he told you guys about my use of the word 'fine' didn't he?"

Nodding G said "Yep and the signs of needing a sugar fix and several other things that he called his 'Kensi first aid emergency save the rest of us kit" and they both chuckled. "I meant it about the call Kens. We'll break this thing tomorrow and then drag Deeks back here and beat some sense into him-figuratively. You 2 belong together and if you knew how hard that was to admit you would laugh out loud. If you repeat it though I will hide your Twinkie cache and not tell you where Deeks back up stash is." he said with a slight chuckle. Then added "we may be slightly dysfunctional but we are family still and we will put said family back together."

ONE MONTH LATER

They were all fed up. The agents were in the gym blowing off steam and Nell was helping Eric go thru the mountains of data they had generated. The case had gone cold. They were struggling with it and no word from Deeks. As Sam threw a quick left jab at G, Eric came running in saying "guys, agent Hammond wants you on a video conference. He has some information for you."

"1/2 hour Eric" said G as he grabbed a towel and headed for the showers.

Sure enough 25 minutes later all 3 agents came walking into ops just as Hetty was finishing a conversation with Director Vance. Looking up Vance nodded when he saw them and said "agent Callen have you found my missing Detective yet?" G shook his head "Ok but know that I want him back and I want him to eventually become an agent. He's too good to lose." This was said as he gave them what they called the 'Leon look'.

"Working on it Director as soon as we can solve this case and find him" Kensi mumbled with her head down. With that Director Vance gave the cut sign and agent Hammond soon appeared. "Agents, we have gotten updates on the 2 people I mentioned to you-the blond woman and the new enforcer-no names yet-these pictures just came in and we are running them as we speak. I wanted to get them to you ASAP as we are hearing there is a meeting in the L.A. area in the near future. Facial rec is running as we speak. Jim put those pics up on screen and send copies to their tech support please." With that 2 pictures appeared on screen. SAC Hammond had spit this all out in 1 big breath he was in such a hurry knowing the LA agents were anxious to solve this and get their agent/detective back. Then they heard a muffled voice in the background and he added "Really Jim, ok- -wow- -this is crazy, both came back with classified labels from LAPD. One appears to be a CI. What's going on?"

Nell let out a gasp as the pictures appeared. The other agents reacted seconds later. The first picture up was a blond woman that they all knew from previous dealings. When the man's picture followed seconds later, Sam let out an "oh shit, this is bad. Agent Hammond we need to do some fast digging, Eric will pull the detail on the 2 people and send it to you, but the info. is classified and for your eyes only. For now just be aware we know them both and the man is a good guy as far as we know."

"Damn, Deeks is probably compromised before he even gets started" growled Kensi. We need to alert him immediately since these cases have crossed. I'll call Bates, maybe he can get word to Deeks." All eyes had turned to Hetty as she loudly entered the room.

"Hold up Kensi. Ah Hetty er-a we have no way in to the Kings without Deeks so how do we get word to him" admitted G rather sheepishly. "Can you call Bates and get him to pass it on somehow? That call needs to come from you, or at least anyone but the 3 of us given his feelings and message the other day."

"Oh bugger, are you helpless? Find a way." Then after a few beats she added "missing Mr. Deeks are we?" and she chuckled and started to leave. She stopped for a second and without turning around said "Of course I will make the call immediately. In the meantime you need to find the woman in question and find out how she fits into this mess. We know she had contact with and possibly ties to the LAtin Kings." Hetty threw this last part over her shoulder as she did exit OPS.

The 5 people in the room just stared at each other before Sam finally offered "yea we seem to be acting a little inept here people."

"Stick it Sam" snorted G. "We are just fine. I may miss Deeks because he could handle Kensi but he's not the world's greatest agent or detective. Just a shaggy surfer with a few skills." Kensi stomped over, stared him in the face and punched him.

"Kensi" Sam yelled at the same time Eric and Nell did. "What the hell girl. Back off."

"No you back off Sam, G had it coming" this rather forceful statement came from Nell as she moved to stand beside Kensi.

"Nell, back off, you're the newbie here, don't get in my partners face" smirked G.

"And don't you yell at Nell" snapped Eric.

The 5 people stopped and stared at each other, the tension so thick it would take a full size table saw to cut thru it. Finally G spoke in a very subdued voice "wow, this is a first, why the tension? It just jumped up and bit us all."

Finally they looked at each other and Eric said "Deeks." After a pause all of them began laughing.

"He really did keep us from killing each other by diffusing the tension didn't he" G went on saying "I was wrong. I started this and I shouldn't have. Let's just solve this case and get back to being slightly dysfunctional."

"Wow" G Callen told a funny" said Sam. "Eric put a pin in this one." That broke the tension and the 3 agents smiled as they walked out leaving the wonder twins to their work.

Back in the bull pen they were reviewing what they knew when Kensi said "I got it. The pool hall/bar I went to with Max when we were looking for Ray. I can go in as his tough girlfriend and try to get information." The senior agents looked at each other and shrugged. "I can do it, you can be outside, listening in. Distress word is "noodle" and she got up to go to wardrobe.

This might be good. Anyone getting and ideas where we are going or how we are getting there? Let me hear from ya