A/N Thank you for my hardcore reviewers and to anyone else that cares to let me know how they feel about this.

Because I wasn't happy with the way the last chapter ended I needed to write this one too...so you get two for the price of one.

Disclaimer...nope nothing has changed since this morning, still not mine.

Chapter 4

Eric turned his back on his father and looked at the shocked face of Nell.

"Are we done?" He snapped, he did not mean to, Nell was a sweet person and he knew she had a close family and he really was not in the mood to explain his relationship with his father right now.

Nell in her own way got that. Eric was her partner. Maybe they did not go out in the field like Kensi and Deeks or Sam and Callen, but she still had his back just the same. She gave him a small smile just so he knew that they were ok and signed off.

Eric ignored his father and turned to Callen and Sam.

"Callen, interrogation room one is set up for Mr. Beale." He said and then with a smirk added, "I hacked the company files, anything you need to know just ask,"

Eric had his hands balled into fists he wanted so much to beat the information they wanted out of him, to take out every measure of his sorrow and anger out on the man who had abandoned him all those years ago.

Christian narrowed his eyes and looked at his youngest, "I came here of my own free will, what gives you the right to hack my files. I'll sue NCIS!" he raged.

"Bite me!" Eric grinned, "I take full solo responsibility for this, sue me…..oh you can't can you, you left me broke and alone with a kid on the way at seventeen!" he yelled leaning across the table at his fathers face.

Christian looked horrified, "You never air family business in front of strangers." He hissed at his son.

"They are my family, you're nothing." Eric was about to walk away but was stopped by a voice from the top of the stairs.

"Daddy… Are you alright?" Summer asked worriedly having heard her father lose his temper, something that happened usually only when she had been in danger.

"My God!" Christian breathed looking at his granddaughter for the first time.

"Back in the room now!" Eric said. Summer looked at her father worried, "Peaches." Was all he had to say a look of fear crossed her face; she ran into the room and then bolted the door.

Callen and Sam looked at Eric quizzically and all he said was "It keeps her safe." Then he turned his attention back to his father. He knew the field agents should be doing this but he could not bring himself to wait.

He grabbed the photos of Niklas and threw them in front of his father.

"Did you know Klaus had Myra?" he asked.

"Who is Myra?" Christian said innocently.

"Myra, My wife, the woman you thought was beneath me and you threw me out onto the streets for." He snarled.

"Was that the unehelich?" Christian asked.

Eric launched himself across the table and was grabbed by Callen and Sam, "Don't you call her that! Don't you ever call her that, she's perfect and my child!"

Sam and Callen pulled him over to the other side of the room. "You good?" Sam asked he was shocked never having seen this level of anger from their tech before.

"Nowhere near, just get the information from him," Eric replied.

"Eric, you need to calm down if we are going to do this." Callen said. "We know she isn't. He's just trying to get to you."

"Fine." Eric smoothed down his shirt and walked back to the table.

"Where is Klaus?" Eric asked his face again impassive.

"Why should I tell you?" Christian asked, "You are just a tech geek."

"Where?" Eric demanded.

Christian looked at his son, there was so much anger in the boy, he had known he was going off the rails when he took up with that girl, but he had hoped the years would have mellowed his son, but no. There was still so much defiance there.

"Klaus did what he thought was best for you. He went to see Myra to try to get you to come home, He talked to you and you blanked him, the night he came home with her." Christian said, "Why did you not listen to him and come back to the family?"

"I never saw Klaus; I haven't seen him or Dominik since the day you ordered me to leave." Eric said realizing that any false move now and the information that was so close would be lost to him forever.

Christian looked confused he remembered that night he had seen Myra get out of the van her head down and Klaus taking her to his apartment on the grounds.

"But you knew she was here, she couldn't leave she had that agoraphobia, she wouldn't leave the house or receive visitors but he sent word for you to come get her. You never came." He looked his son in the eye and realized he knew nothing of this.

"Klaus is at your old cabin. He took it on after you left, he and Todd like to ski and they go for weekends."

Eric looked at his father, feeling nothing but pity for the old man. "Who is Todd's mother?" he asked already guessing the answer but hoping he was wrong.

"Myra… Eric I have a letter, Myra said one day you would come for it. She has asked me to carry it with me, may I?" He gestured to his coat. Eric nodded and he picked it up.

Eric took the letter, turned to Callen and Sam, "Can you watch him, this is the address Klaus is at tell him we have Christian. He'll come for him."

Eric sat at his favorite spot in the boat-shed, the top of the stairs and opened the letter.

Callen and Sam watched him as he read it tears streaming down his face eighteen years of emotion finding, its way out.

The stoic agents looked at each other before both reaching for their cell phones. "Kensi!" they said together, if anyone could deal with the crying analyst it was she, after all she was a girl.

"Yes." She replied from behind them, her and Deeks entering but moments ago.

"Eric!" they said in unison and pointed to him.

Kensi smiled at their distress and then walked up the stairs to where Eric was sitting.

She squatted down so she was at his level, "Eric are you ok?" she asked quietly.

"No…." Eric showed her the letter, "He raped her….my own brother told her I was selling her and he raped her…when she saw me…." Eric sobbed remembering the look of horror on his wife's face as he was handed that envelope in the car park that night. "She died thinking I hated her and she still apologized to me and said she loved me and Summer and she hoped if she was ever free that we could meet up again."

Kensi put a hand on Eric's shoulder but he shook it off. "How am I going to tell her…How do I tell Summer this happened to her mother and she thought I did it. Worse still how do I tell her she has a little brother." He looked up, looking more lost than she had ever seen him.