A/N I hope everyone is enjoying this story. I'm sorry for the delay in updating, I keep finding things to add or edit when I read them before I put them online. As I haven't updated in a while, I will be up loading two chapters.
They met up with LAPD SWAT a block from the building, looked over satellite footage, planned the assault and headed in. The plan exploded into a million pieces when an RPG disintegrated the lead SWAT truck, along with half the SWAT team. The rest scattered for cover as gun fire erupted from the roof of the building.
No one could get a shot off as there were three men on the roof and they covered each other well. The roof also had a decent height of brick edging around it.
"We need to come at them from above." Yana shouted to Callen.
"Can't risk a chopper, not with that rocket launcher around." Kensi shouted back.
"Not what I had in mind. Callen, open the boot." Yana moved closer to the rear of the car, then when Callen popped the lid and lay down cover fire, she whipped round and pulled out her bag.
"I don't see how another gun can help us." Deeks joined in.
"Whoever said anything about a gun?" Yana said as she threw a grin to Callen, who smirked back.
Kensi and Deeks watched as she assembled the bow that was neatly stowed away in under a minute. She pulled four arrows from the quiver. Holding three in her left hand, she loaded the fourth and bobbed up to see where the three men were.
"Tell me if they move, Callen." She ducked back down, slid back from the car a little, closed her eyes and out of sight of the men on the roof, loosed three arrows in as many seconds. Several long seconds later silence rang out as the shooters fell silent. Those that were watching the roof noticed each man jerk and drop as an unseen force felled them from above.
The rest of the team watched as Yana stood as the last bullet rang out, bow drawn and aimed at the roof in case one of them was foxing. After a few seconds spent sweeping the roof she called out "Roof clear." Before releasing the last arrow. "Almost forgot to lock the door." She said as the arrow thudded into the door under the handle, stopping it from turning.
The others looked at her in shocked silence. "What, I've been shooting since I was five. We going to get this man or not?" She followed Callen, who was the only one of them that had seen her shoot and recovered fastest. They breached the building behind the SWAT officers that were still on their feet and wanting to get the men responsible for the deaths of their fellow members. They split like they planned, the NCIS team heading up while SWAT cleared the ground floor.
Callen and Yana went left while the others went right. Not having enough intel to know exactly where the Major was being held, they checked every room. The lack of bad guys was starting to worry the team and they said as much. As Callen rounded a corner, bullets ripped the air around him and he went down. Yana behind him and still behind the safety of the wall pulled him back.
"Cal, you ok!" She called out. Seeing him look up at her, she fired a couple of shots round the wall, hoping to hit something. It worked as the bad guys backed off a little. She turned back to him and looked him over. The only thing she could find was a graze to the arm. The moment the bullets started he had hit the deck.
"Callen!" Kensi and Deeks called out over the earwigs and Yana could hear Hetty and the others in ops wanting to know what was going on.
"He's ok." She said at the same time as Callen responded with a "I'm good." Yana pulled a folded handkerchief from her pocket and tied it around his arm over the wound. It would do until they could get to a medic.
"Now what?" Yana asked as Kensi and Deeks reported that they were at the other end of the hallway behind the kidnappers.
"Think you can do it again?" He asked, nodding to her bow that she had slung over her shoulder.
She grinned and said, "I thought you'd never ask." She stood and they changed places. Pulling a couple of arrows, she took a quick peak to see where they were. Lining up her shots, she fired at the wall and watched as they bounced off directly at the men. Hearing shouts of pain and surprise, Kensi and Deeks, at Callen's word took advantage of it and filled the hallway with their own gunfire.
Silence filled the passage. After a moment Deeks and Kensi called the all clear. The SWAT team called up from below to say that they had not found anyone; which meant that they were all on the current floor. And with the door to the roof locked, no one else was around.
They slowly came up to the door that the men had been guarding and found that it was filled with bullet holes, as was much of the surrounding walls. "Major Williams?!" Callen called out. The team saw the remains of a bed frame against the door and figured that the man had tried to block the door when the shooting started. The bad guys could not get in so they had filled the room with bullets in the hope that they killed him. Through the holes they saw movement and tensed up until they made out the uniform.
"Who are you?" the voice called out, it sounded strained.
"NCIS." Callen continued.
"Thank God." Said the man. He crawled over, his legs clearly broken. With him tugging from the inside and Callen and Deeks pushing from the other side they removed the frame and opened the door. The team let out a small sigh as they recognised the missing Major.
"You ok?" Callen asked.
"They broke my ankles when I didn't tell them anything. I don't have any family for them to threaten which took them a week to figure out. Thank you." He shook their hands and let the medics load him onto a stretcher to get him out of the building. Two officers had been killed when the truck was hit, the driver and the man standing next to him. Four others had been seriously wounded, two were still unconscious, but they were all on the way to the hospital. Callen's graze didn't even need stiches. Just a plaster over it and he was good to go.
They arrived back at the mission in a sombre mood, thinking about the officers that had been killed. And how easily Callen could have joined them if it weren't for Yana. They sat at their desks as Hetty came up to them and congratulated them for finding and rescuing the Major before he could divulge any information. "It doesn't feel like we did a good job, two men got killed." Yana said, her voice sounding troubled.
"It comes with the territory, Miss Talbot." Hetty said. She turned to the young woman. She had a feeling that today's operation was the first one she had been in since she got out from undercover. As far as she could find out Yana had been on lock down since getting out of her undercover job. But still being in the UK, there was a risk that the people she had been under with would see her, so the Yard had put together some documents for her to get out of the area and she had come here. Hetty had made some calls to the Yard while the team was on their way back to the OSP, the assistant director there had given her something to give to the young woman.
"I made some calls to the yard. Seems everyone there misses you a great deal."
"I made some friends while I was there."
"Well the assistant director there asked me to give you this, she said that you would know what to do?" Hetty asked, hoping to be filled in. She handed over a piece of paper that she had written an email address on to. She watched as Yana took the paper, a slight smile on her face, until she saw what was on the paper. Hetty saw her face go blank and fear appear in her eyes.
The team noticed the quiet and watched as she typed in something onto her computer. After a moment, Yana's face went white and tears filled her eyes. Her breath turned choppy then she slammed the lid closed and raced from the room. Their eyes followed her as she headed to the gym then turned to Callen, who nodded and got up to follow her.
"Mr Callen, if the news was as bad I think it is, please inform Miss Talbot that if she needs to stay here a while longer, she can continue to work with us." Hetty called after him.
"Hetty?" Callen turned and looked at his tiny boss. She had not been pleased at having the woman at OSP in the beginning, but he had a feeling that after today she had been glad that Yana was here. Now here she was, telling him that Yana could stay longer if need be. What had she found out in the last few hours? "Doesn't she need to be an American citizen to be on the team?"
"I found out that her mother worked for the FBI before and several years after she married. Yana herself was born here and spent the first five years of her life here." Hetty looked in the direction the young woman had fled and continued "With Sam away for the length of time he is, I would prefer you not to be on your own out in the field. I watched you work together today." She turned back to Callen "Your morning runs and sparing sessions with her have helped you both to work out issues and you both know each other's weaknesses and strengths. After today, you know how she reacts to situations. Is there anyone else you think you can work with in the way you did with her today?"
Callen thought about everything that had happened over the last week and realised that Yana had become something similar to what he and Sam had after their first week together. Their first door busting had happened just six hours after meeting each other for the first time. When Sam had found out about his tendencies to go lone wolf and bare the weight of the world on his shoulders, he had started sparring with him regularly. Callen had remembered feeling better after that first spar with Sam. Their partnership had grown from that and had become something legendary. "No. I was planning on coming to you and asking if there was some way that she could hang around, but you just answered it. Either of you have a problem with Yana staying on until Sam returns?" Kensi and Deeks had stayed silent until then.
"Sounds good to me." Kensi said, pleased that the young woman was staying for a while. "Callen can you ask her if she would like to join Nell and I for a girls night out?" It might help the younger woman to adjust a bit more. She smiled at Callen's nod and started to plan something for the weekend.
"Girl's ni… can I come?" Deeks expected reply came quickly and Kensi simply rolled her eyes.
"You're not a girl, Deeks."
"I can be." His voice had turned high pitched and he bunched his unruly curls behind his head.
"With polish on your nails and waxed legs?" Callen joined in now.
"What?" Deeks turned to him in horror then to Kensi.
"Legs, arms, other areas." Kensi flipped her hair and looked down at her paper, pretending to shuffle them while looking at him out of the corner of her eye. She nearly lost it when Callen mimed waxing his snail trail and below and Deeks choked and gulped at the same time.
"I'm good Callen, rather her than me in that regard." He then got to his paper work so he missed the smirk that Callen gave Kensi and the satisfied smile she returned.
Hetty watched the exchange and while it drifted a bit from the topic at hand, she realised that it was the team's way of adjusting to the change coming. A night out with other women that she knew and had watched her back that day could help Yana enormously. She nearly laughed as Callen joined Kensi in teasing the detective, but it was as it had always been with them. Callen nodded to her and left for the gym. She had noticed that he had been keeping an eye on the front door behind her and occasionally turning to look toward the door of the gym in case Yana left the mission. She headed to her office to inform Granger that she was staying with them for now. He had left for Washington several days before and had yet to return.
A/N: I hope this chapter makes sense. I have seen people shoot a bow and hit a target at a distance. Granted the target was quite a bit bigger than a door handle, but, writers liberty and it is fiction.
A/N2: Um, Any Doctor Who fans reading this? I just finished watching some season three episodes, and it just hit me about the name Yana. DID NOT plan it. I just liked the name.
