Deeks opens the safe deposit box. He takes everything out of the box and put everything in the bag they brought with them. In the car on the way back to Callen's; Deeks pulls out the files they went there to get and places them between him and Callen.
"Callen." Deeks began in a quiet voice. "Can you do me a huge favor? When you and the others go through these files, can you do it away from me? I know what is in the files and I rather not be there."
Callen listens. He wonders what is in the file that is making this so difficult for his teammate. He has an idea, but the way Marty is talking. It has to be so much more than he originally thought.
"You and Monty can stay in the back bedroom while we go through the files." Callen answers.
Deeks nods and stares out the window. He knows that he is making a big deal out of nothing; but he can't help it. He has spent his whole life trying to forget his past and now the whole team will know the details.
Upon arriving back at Callen's Deeks took Monty into one of the bedrooms and laid down on the bed that was just put there. Monty climbs on the bed with him. Sam knocks on the door before opening it.
"Marty, we got pizza."
Deeks doesn't bother to get up; he just stares at the wall. "Not hungry."
Sam wants to encourage him, but he can't force him to eat. Not now anyway. Besides, maybe he will eat later. Kensi looks up from the table to see Sam return, but no Deeks.
"He is not coming?" She asks.
"Claims, he is not hungry." Sam answers.
Kensi gets up from the table, puts 2 slices of pizza on the paper plate and takes them to him. She places the plate on the newly acquired nightstand. She has no idea what Callen will do with all this furniture once the case it over. But for now the house looks like an actual house that somebody lives in. She takes one last glance at Deeks who has his back to her and leaves. The sooner they find the person who stole the files and stops them from coming after her partner; the sooner things can return to normal. Well at least normal for them. With a new determination Kensi returns to the table.
"Alright let's get started."
Callen grabs the 2 files as everyone cleans up there space so that they have room to work. Nell and Eric are set with their computers logged into the NCIS database. So they can look up and confirm whatever it is that they need to. Callen opens the files and start passing out the forms. Majority of them were single page document except for the trial transcript. They all start reading over the information for important details. Nate is ready with a paper and pencil to take down the important information so that he could analyze it later.
Kensi speaks first as she looks at her document. "This is a court order to disconnect Jennifer Deeks Brandell from life support. It is signed by Judge Henry. Jennifer that must have been Marty's mother."
Next Sam speaks up as he views his document. "This is also signed by Judge Henry it is changing Martin Brandell to Marty Deeks. It is dated April 1, 1990. Marty would have been 11 years old."
"My document is dated March 25, 1990. It means that Marty just turned 11 when everything went down. No wonder this so hard on him and these are only 2 documents." Kensi added.
"I have the trial transcript and the summary of the charges." Callen begins looking for the date of the arrest. As he silently looks over the charges against Gordon Brandell, he sees that he was right in his suspicions. He didn't want to be right, he was hoping for another reason as to why an eleven year would shoot their father in self-defense. Even though he couldn't come up with one; he was still hoping that abuse wasn't the case.
"G, you okay. You zoned out for a minute." Sam asks worriedly.
"Yeah, I am fine. The shooting occurred on February 16, 1990. 'On March 5, 1990; Gordon John Brandell was found guilty of child abuse, domestic abuse and child endangerment. After badly beating both his wife and child, he came after them with a shot gun and was finally stopped when the child, age 11, fired a gun hitting Gordon in the shoulder.'" Callen reads quietly.
The team gasped at the charges and the situation there teammate was in. Not one of them had even suspect that he was once a victim of child abuse. Before this Deeks really didn't talk about his childhood, he made jokes but mostly left them wondering about his past. Sam could see that Callen wasn't surprised at the charges and then he remembers the conversation that had in the boat shed earlier.
"The whole situation is a mess, but I do think that there is more to the story than what they're telling us." Sam answers.
"There is more and I suspect that the more we find out, the less we would want to know." Callen informs.
"What are you thinking?" Sam asks not sure if he really wants to know.
"I don't want to say right now, in case I'm wrong."
Sam knows that Callen had already figured it out. He, Kensi, Eric and Nell all came from decent homes with 2 loving parents or a single parent household but a lot of love. He could never begin to imagine how difficult Callen's childhood had been for him. But Marty came from an abusive home and lost his mother around a month later. That type of pain would have to be unimaginable for a child to go through.
Eric interrupts Sam thoughts with his question.
"Why didn't they charge Gordon Brandell with attempted murder?"
"Amanda wanted to." A voice said.
Everyone turned to see Deeks and Monty standing there. One question is on everyone's mind. Who is Amanda?