A/N Thank you for all your reviews on the first chapter and I apologize for all the mistakes, I did have the 'flu'.

So I know this is out of posting sequence, but I had a inspiration hit on this this afternoon so posted it before I changed my mind.

Disclaimer, Nope...not mine...nope that's not mine either, but if i look hard enough I'm sure it'll turn up.

Chapter 2

As Eric powered down the ops center Nell walked back in, Eric jumped from the back of the computer as if burned.

"You alright?" Nell asked suspiciously.

Eric grinned, "Yep," He bent down and picked up his bag, "All ready to go, I'm off surfing tonight." As they left together, he looked back at the thumb drive he had been unable to retrieve.

Nell laughed as she walked down the stairs, "Ok, I'll see you tomorrow."

Eric sat in his car for a moment before he realized with her watching him he wasn't going to be able to go back and get it. So he headed for home.

As he opened the door to his trailer, he fell over a stack of books just inside the door. "Summer!" He called out; Summer stuck her head out of her room, "Yeah dad?"

Eric held the bag of books above his head. "Lose something?"

"Aw, I just left it there for a second, I had to get my wet-suit on, and we are still surfing today?" She asked giving him the puppy dog look; her mother had genetically gifted her.

"Summer Evangeline Beale you get this bag and put it in your room right now and then we'll surf and hot dogs on the beach for dinner tonight." Eric said 'mock' sternly as he knew he wasn't mad at her.

Summer grinned and put the bag in her room, "OK, I'm off out to Tamara's to study later I'm planning on staying over."

Eric smiled as he walked past to his room, "Fine, I'll just be five minutes, wax up the boards."

"You're immense daddy!" Summer said kissing him and bouncing out of the door.

Eric lay back on his bed for a second, he thought of Myra and hoped as he always did that she was alive wherever she was.

Less than five minutes later Eric kept his promise and was stepping out of his trailer and looking towards the surf where his daughter was waxing the boards up.

They surfed for a few hours and then had dinner and Summer kissed her father goodbye as she grabbed her books and left the trailer.

Nell was in ops first the next morning and was surprised when Eric wasn't about.

She booted up the computers and stopped as a small window appeared on Eric's computer window.

'please insert password'

She looked at it, and then she typed in her NCIS ID.

'Password invalid'

'Eric please input your password'

…...'

She picked up her phone, "Hetty I've got something strange up here." She said and explained what she had.

Hetty walked in to ops, Callen who had crashed on the couch overnight was there as well.

"What do we have Miss Jones?" she asked.

"There is an illegal program on here. Normally I would think we would have had an intrusion, except for this…it's asked Eric for his password,"

"Have you called Eric?" Callen asked.

"No I would never have thought of doing that!" Nell replied sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.

Callen smirked, Hetty cleared her throat and the two jumped.

"I tried calling him, his cell phone is off." She replied to Hetty.

Hetty looked concerned and went to say something as her phone rang. She walked onto the balcony and took the call.

Callen looked at Nell, "Can you still get in anyway, maybe find out what this file is for."

"I'll try." She said, she sat at her terminal typing away fully focused on the task at hand.

"Mr. Callen," Hetty said and gestured for him to follow her.

"What is it Hetty?" He asked.

"A body was found on the Beach outside a Trailer at Dockweiler Park on Vista Del Mar, I need your team to go down there as it's outside a trailer registered to Mr. Beale." Hetty said, Callen turned and looked at her.

"Is it…?" He couldn't ask

"It's a woman, but with Mr. Beale missing, I am concerned." Hetty said.

Callen nodded and grabbed his team filling them in on the way.

They pulled up at the trailer park next to the trailer with LAPD outside of it, flashed their badges and talked to the lead detective, Terry Carlson.

"What happened?" Callen asked.

"Early morning Surfers found the body outside the trailer, she was shot a single round to the head, we've put a BOLO out for the guy that lived here, and I just heard he's one of yours." Terry said.

"Yeah our Tech operator. Good guy,"

"Yeah….Well the bullet belongs to a gun registered to your 'good guy' and no one had seen him, until we find him he's a person of interest."

A motorbike screeched to a halt by the yellow tape, Callen watched as a woman with long red hair, and blue eyes got off the bike and started arguing with the police officer.

"I live here…..Where's my dad…..DAD!" she screamed as she saw a body bag.

Terry and Callen walked over to her, "Can I help you miss?"

"Is that my dad?" She asked fearfully tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

"No it's a woman, who are you?" Callen asked suspiciously.

"My name is Summer Beale, where's my dad?" She asked starting to get annoyed that the two men were not telling her anything.

Terry pulled out a photograph of the dead woman, "Do you know who she is?" He asked.

Summer looked at the photograph and her eyes grew wide. "Mommy!" She dropped the picture and tried to get past Callen and Carlson.

"No please, that's my mom!" Summer dropped to her knees in the sand and sobbed.

"We'll give you the scene, I'm accompanying the body back to the morgue keep me in the loop will you?" Carlson asked, Callen nodded and turned his attention to Summer.

Callen let her through and she sat on a deck chair outside the RV.

He gave her a bottle of water and a tissue and walked over to the others, "Her name's Summer Beale. She's related to Eric a sister I think and the dead woman is the mother."

Deeks looked confused at that, "She can't be." He told the lead agent. "Eric said once he never knew his mother, she died in childbirth, in fact I think it's the only time he's ever talked about his family."

Kensi walked over to Summer and showed her the photo of Eric, "Do you know this man?"

Summer nodded as she collected herself. "He didn't kill mom, he's spent the last fifteen years looking for her, he loves her….loved her." She corrected herself.

Eric's Car pulled up to the scene and he got out not paying attention to the gang outside his RV, there were sometimes people there, he saw Summers bike and called out to her, "Summer, I'm late for work come get your board off my car." He unstrapped his and turned.

Summer looked up as he called.

"Daddy!" she screamed and shot into his arms.

"It's ok baby girl, what's the matter?" He said soothing his daughter and then looking up to see the team there, a dark look crossed his face and he looked at Summer checking for injuries. "Are you ok baby?" he asked.

Summer sniffed and nodded, "They…..They….found…." She dissolved into tears again.

Eric looked at the team "Guy's what's going on."

"There was a dead body outside your RV." Sam said handing him the picture.

Eric looked down, went pale, and dropped to his knees, "Myra." He said.

He looked up his face composed his eyes devastated, "Did Summer find her?" He asked.

"No, some surfers, she was shot with your gun." Callen said, "Who was she?"

"She was my wife….but I don't own a gun….at least I haven't since I was a teenager." Eric turned to Summer again, "Grab a bag; you will have to come with me."

"Where are you going?" Sam asked.

"Work, you'll need access to my security cameras." Eric said pointing to the camera attached to a lamppost nearby. "And seeing as I left my thumb drive running last night, I assume you can't get the computers at ops to work either."

Callen nodded.

Summer headed to Eric's car. Then they all left for the mission.

Eric walked in first with Summer on his heels and he ran up to ops where Nell was still trying to get into the thumb drive and Hetty was watching.

"Mr. Beale?" Hetty said with a concerned look at the stranger in ops.

"Hetty Lange, operations manager, Summer Beale…My daughter."

Both Hetty and Nell stood open mouthed.

"Sorry I'm late Hetty someone murdered my missing wife, If it's ok with you, seeing as they tried to frame me I think It's about time I found out who did it."

"We can't get into the system." Nell said.

Eric opened the voice command on his computer, "Summer Evangeline Beale." He said.

'System online, Good morning Eric…..You have three hits on your chosen target.' The computer voice said.

Hetty walked up to him, "Your chosen target?" she asked.

"My wife." Eric said.

"He has a private camera feed watching his trailer, pull up what you have," Callen said.

"Outside, now." Eric said to Summer.

The others were surprised at his tone of voice. Summer nodded and walked outside, "Stay in the building." Eric warned, whoever had given his wife back just to murder her outside his home might be after his little girl and that he wasn't going to allow.

"Very well Mr. Beale, put up the footage needed and then I want you and Miss Beale in my office."

"No!" Eric said.

They all looked at him stunned, "I will come to your office, you now need to know about Myra and why I've been looking for her, and Summer doesn't need to hear it."

"Miss Beale is an eighteen year old woman is she not?" Hetty said "And she will need to be informed."

"She is my daughter and I will decided what she is told and when, I have looked after her since she was three and honestly Hetty, I assume you would never tell Sam how to raise his children and what to tell them, I expect you to extend me the same courtesy." He said.

Hetty nodded and left a very stunned ops in her wake.

Eric turned to the computer and pulled up the footage they were seeking.