Deeks POV-
I wake up in a concrete room. My arms and legs are chained to the wall i am sitting against. The cold concrete giving me shivers through my body. I see a small window on the other side of the room, and a table in front of me.
Three guys walk through the door. The door shuts when the third man walks in. Two of the guys take their places on the sides of the door. The third is carrying a box which he sets on the table. He has a hood on and is turned away, so i can't see who he is. He takes a camera out of the box and secures it to the wall. He adjusts it so it is facing me. Just by watching his movements and size I could tell this man was not Vega. This man is too tall and much bigger than Vega could be. He looks oddly familiar, only if I could see his face.
"You're not Vega. Who are you?" I ask. My head starts to ache, probably from whatever they injected into me. I can feel the stinging bruises on my torso.
"You're right Im not Vega" The man said.
The man turns around and faces me. My jaw drops. How could this be?
The team and Ray head back to OSP when Hetty requests them to come back for a debrief. They walk into the old building and walk up the stairs. Ray looks in awe when they head into OPS where they meet Hetty, Granger and the wonder twins.
"So any luck with the flash drive?" Sam asks when he enters the room.
"Its password protected and you only get 5 tries before it deletes everything."
"You can't somehow hack into it?"
" its top of the line in security. Even if i did hack into it, it would take days"
"Days we don't have." Granger says.
Ray looks looks at the flash drive that is currently in Eric's hands. "Hold on" Ray says while he grabs the flash drive from Eric.
Everyone looks at Ray. "Whats going on?" Callen asks Ray.
"This is Marty's Flash drive."
Confusion and lifted eyebrows come from the team. "How do you know that?" Kensi asks.
" This is the same flash drive Marty used to have when we worked together. He kept it with him on deep undercover ops or ops that he felt unsure about. I don't know what he keeps on it, but he used to joke about how this could be the key saving his life one day. I can't believe he still has it"
"Deeks kept a flash drive with him, I never knew. "Kensi says in a quiet voice.
"Do you have any idea what the password would be Mr. Martindale?" Hetty asks.
Ray shakes his head, "No, he changed it often. "
Kensi takes the flash drive from Ray and walks over to Eric's computer. "Here let me try." Eric gives her his seat.
'okay, Deeks what would your password be?' Kensi thinks. She types in the date of when they first met in that MMA gym, 'that was the day both of our lives changed big time. So that could be it' but then an error comes up saying she has 4 tries left. Then she thinks 'what is something that Deeks would use for his password? He's using a very secure flash drive. He told Ray that this could be the key to saving his life one day. So someone besides him would have to know it right? Then It has to be something nobody else would know outside the team. Maybe something only him and I know.' Then it hit her. She remembered a conversation she had a few weeks ago.
I walk in the kitchen washing dishes when a glass cup falls and breaks on the ground, it slices my foot and I let out a loud yelp!
Deeks walks out of the bathroom shaking out his wet hair when he hears the shattering sound of class and a my yelp from the kitchen. He runs to the kitchen "Kensi!" he yells worry in his tone. He walks into the kitchen wearing only grey sweatpants just below his hips. He sees me sitting on the floor holding my bleeding foot. "Oh my god! what happened Kens?" He says making his way over to me and kneeling. He places a hand on my cheek and the other on my hand.
" Just dropped a glass and cut my foot." I smile at his concern.
"Here lets clean it up" he says while picking me up bridal style. I yelps in surprise and he grins and kisses me on the temple, carrying me to the bathroom. He sets me down on the toilet while he grabs the first aid kit from the cupboard. I look over at my shirtless boyfriend. Droplets of water still visible on his skin from the shower. Wow he looks sexy. He sets down the kit and examines my foot.
"Well its not deep enough for stitches." Deeks says.
"Well that's good to hear Dr. Deeks". I say with a teasing smile.
He chuckles and grabs some peroxide out of the kit. "Okay so im going to clean it out, its going to sting."
I nods and he pours the peroxide on my foot. I flinch at the slight pain. He then blows air on it to help with the stinging. He bandages my foot and looks back at me, love visual in his eyes. He softly kisses my foot. "All better" He says with his famous smile and making his way closer to me.
I smile and roll my eyes. "You know you didn't have to bandaged my foot. I could have done it myself". He places kisses on my shoulder leading to my jaw, pulling away slightly just reaching the edge of my mouth. I can feel my heart racing at the contact.
"I know you are very capable of doing it yourself. But you see, I had to. You are the most important person in my life. You are what keeps me alive everyday so I can only give the best care for my ladybird".
I smile and feel a slight blush on my cheeks. I pull Deeks closer if that is even possible and kiss him passionately, my fingers running through his golden curly hair, still damp from the shower. His hands rest on my waist.
"I love you" I whisper against his lips.
Deeks smiles and says,"I love you too."
Kensi comes out of her flash back wiping a single tear she didn't notice fell. She typed in the word "Ladybird". And she was granted access. She moved out of Eric's seat and turned around to the questioning faces of her teammates.
"What was the password?" Callen asked curiously.
"Ladybird" She answers.
The team still confused but let it go, clearly seeing it was something between her and Deeks.
"There's a video file here." Eric says.
"Put it up Eric ." Granger orders.
Eric typed on a few keys and the video appears on the big screen. The video begins to play.
Deeks face appears on the screen. He is in an office, wearing some casual clothes. He must have taken the video before going undercover.
He begins to speak," I hope you guys never have to watch this, but if you are…well if you are then things are really bad. Im either in a lot of trouble or dead." Deeks runs his hand through his hair. " Wow that sounds weird to say out loud. I made this video to at least give you some information that Bates may not give to you. As you guys already know Ray has went missing and I am going back undercover to re-establish contact with Jacob Vega to get Ray back. Vega is a well known arms dealer here in L.A. I was first undercover in his organisation 7 years ago, but was pulled out when.. " Deeks looked down and then back up to the camera.".. when a fellow cop on the same operation was killed. Ray was working as my informant at the time. I have a really bad feeling about this operation, I don't know what it is but I need to see this through." Deeks takes a breath and continues. "I know you guys won't stop until you find me, and that you are going to have to look into to everything, and that's okay. You guys are going to come across some things I haven't told you before, and it's not because I didn't trust you. I need you to know that I trust you guys more than anything. I just wasn't able to tell you, for your safety. Im really sorry. Just know whatever is going on and whatever the outcome is, it's not your fault. There are some files down loaded on this flash drive, that may or may not help you figure out what is going on, but at least you will get some answers. They are on there in case something from my past may have come back to haunt me, because in this line of work its always a possibility. I can't talk about it right now, but when you see it you will understand." Then there's a noise of a door opening and Deeks looks away from the camera, He speaks to the person off camera. The man at the door says "Wardrobe and your car are ready, just waiting for you."
Deeks then says, "okay ill be out in a minute." The door shuts and Deeks looks back at the Camera. "Well times almost up, It has been a pleasure working with you all, Hetty, Callen, Sam, Wonder twins, and most importantly my beautiful ladybird. Take care. Oh and you too Granger." Deeks smiles and the team including Granger all chuckle. Then Deek's face turns more serious and he continues, "If this results in the worst just know that I very much enjoyed being on your team. It means alot to finally be accepted, I never really knew what it was like to be surrounded by people that care, until I came to NCIS. I just wish It didn't have to end this way….Um and Kensi, I'm so sorry. You are the best partner anyone could ask for really. I never intended to leave you, ever. I am sorry I broke your promise. Even though I don't know how, or why I am gone, I do know that I tried my best to come back to you, because there is no reason why I wouldn't want to. I don't want anything more than to be by your side fighting bad guys, kissing you goodnight, waking up next to you , getting you twinkies and donuts for breakfast everyday for the rest of my life, and even raising a litter of little mutant ninja assassins , that fight for the side of justice naturally."
"Naturally" Kensi whispers to herself remembering that same conversation about mutant ninja assassins, as Deeks called them. Deeks smiles and then it quickly fades. "I love you more than words can even begin to explain Fern for forever and always. I miss you, all of you actually, and slightly even you Granger, but just slightly " Deeks smiles and turns off the video.
The room was silent. Sam is angry, and frustrated about not being able to help his friend. Hetty and Callen was emotionless as usual, but inside they are blaming themselves for their missing and possibly dead team member. Kensi is staring at the floor not moving, silent tears flowing down her cheeks. Ray has a hand on her back, comforting her. The wonder twins and Granger were staring at the big screen that just moments ago Deek's face was on.
Then Callen spoke up. " Eric I want you to find those files on that falsh drive, and we need to find that SUV that Deeks was in. Ray can you remember anything about the car, or the men that took you? "
Ray takes a minute to think. He grabs a paper from his jean pocket "yeah I remember seeing some of the license plate, I wrote it down before I came to you guys so I wouldn't forget. It was a black SUV. Definitely a california plate. Some of the license plate was…
Ray reads from the wrinkled paper, "Echo..2..4..delta" Eric and Nell Type away searching for the SUV. Ray continues "There were two men in front including Vega. Deeks, me and another one of Vegas men were in the back. The alley they dropped me off at was no more than 15-20 minutes away from the warehouse."
Nell then speaks up, " okay I got a hit on the SUV." Everyone's heads all look at her. She continues, " It was reported stolen 5 days ago. There is no cameras near the alley, Ray was in. We have a bolo out and are running a kaleidoscope search to find it."
"Okay what I don't get is why let Ray go. leaving a witness? Why not take both or kill Ray?" Callen says.
" Youre right that doesn't make sense. Theres something were not seeing here." Sam agrees with his partner.
After a couple of minutes of silence with everyone in thought, Ray speaks."Wait a minute when I was in the car, I heard Vega talking to someone. I don't know who, but he ended the call just before he tossed me out. "
Just after Ray finished talking Eric Speaks up," Hey guys a bolo just came back for the SUV."
"Ok where is it?" Kensi asks, eager to go get her partner.
"Oh.. umm." Eric says nervously.
"Spill it Eric?" Granger orders.
"The SUV is part of a Triple Homicide investigation. They found three bodies all executed in the car."
Kensi's heart just sinks at the mention of bodies in the SUV that held her boyfriend. She gulps and says," Um, did they ID the… the victims?"
"No they just arrived on sight."
"Eric send us the address. Tell the Detectives there to not disturb anything until we get there. We're going to check it out." Callen says.
"Got it."
As the 3 agents start to walk out of ops when Hetty stops them and says, "Mr. Martindale will go with you, to help ID the Victims."
The four of them head out of the mission to the crime scene. Sam and Callen in the Challenger and Ray and Kensi in her car.
Okay this chapter was quite a bit longer than the others. I hope you liked it. Another will be up soon. Who has Deeks and What is on that flash drive?