Chapter 8
Callen and Sam finally arrived at the address, which the tech from OPS had given them as the current location of Nell's mobile phone. Callen surely worried about Eric's partner, sure he knew that she had got some field training in the past but putting them in a totally unknown environment and in this kind of difficult situation was something totally different when you not had that much experience in the field. The ally they had parked Sam's Challenger in was very dirty; a lot of junk was lying on the street and a lot of graffiti's on the walls.
Callen looked at the GPS Map on his mobile phone, the GPS signal of Nell's phone still not having moved one bit but he could see on his phone that he and Sam got closer to current location of it. Meanwhile Eric had arrived in surgery at the hospital, because of the fact that he had lost a lot of blood during the crash. Kensi and Deeks were anxiously sitting in the waiting area in front of surgery, looking at the big door the entire time and waiting for some news on the medical condition of their colleague and good friend.
"So….do you think he's going to make it?" Kensi said, obviously had to fight hard to keep some tears from falling down her cheeks because it had made her so sad to see her friend and colleague all banged up like this. Deeks softly laid his arm around the waist of his partner, wiping one tear away from her right cheek that threatened to fall down and softly replied: "Eric is a fighter; of course he will get through this Kens. " Kensi leaned on his shoulder, enjoying this comfort very much and she surely didn't know what she would do without Deeks in situations like this. Steve finally gave his "guest" something to eat, even if she had of course preferred to eat on her own but he had insisted: "Sorry sweetie but I need to make sure, that you're not trying to fool me so your hands stay tied to the chair just to make sure that you don't try anything stupid." Even if she was happy to be able to eat something, she felt so helpless right now because of the fact, that she didn't know how Eric was doing and there wasn't any way to get rid of the robe.
After he had feed her, Nell was finally left alone again in this very plain looking room, a lot of photos from her where pinned onto the wall and she clearly had the feeling that this had to be some kind of shrine. For first time since she had woken up in this dark torture chamber like room the robe really started to itch.
Callen finally found Nell's phone in a trash can, he quickly took out the gloves out of his jacket pocket and then put it into a little plastic evidence bag. "Call Hetty to tell her that we found Nell's cell phone, but no evidence yet that could lead us to her current location." While Callen continued to search for some clues, that Nell had maybe left behind Sam took out his phone to notify their boss of the latest development in this case. When Callen thought, that he wouldn't come up with any clues to the techs whereabouts he found a heavily damaged hair clip on the ground in a little dark alley just a few feet away from the main street. "Sam, you have to see this I found something!" Callen yelled into the other direction where his partner was searching for any things to bag that could get them closer to find their missing tech.
Sam quickly rushed to his partners' side and looked at the damaged hairclip, which was lying on ground before them before he finally said: "It's nice to see that Nell had actually the time to leave behind a little clue for us shortly after she was grabbed and I hope she's got not too badly injured in the accident." Sam then bagged the evidence after he had put on his gloves, his partner looking around the scene and thinking: Nobody knows what this sick human being is going to do to Nell, just because of the fact that she didn't have the same feelings for him as he had for her. One thing is clearly for sure: I learned in my long career as an agent, that the most dangerous men are most of the time those who have nothing to lose anymore.
Back at the hospital one of the doctors finally left surgery, directly walking to the chairs which Deeks and Kensi where sitting on and said: "I'm Doctor Peter Andrews, the good news is that Mister Beale is stable right now, the operation went very well but he's still unconscious and we have to closely keep an eye on his condition in the next twenty four hours because he has lost a lot of blood during the accident."
"That's good to know Doctor Andrews, thanks for the Information on our colleague's condition." Kensi replied being relieved on one side but also a bit worried that something could maybe go wrong in these twenty four hours.
Kensi recollected herself finally, telling herself: *I've to stop thinking that negative, Eric will get through this!* Deeks shortly took his partners hand into his, softly squeezing it for a moment and then said after some silence between them: "You look hungry Kens; let's get something to eat in the cafeteria." Kensi just nodded in response and now tried her best to fill up her mind with some other thoughts even if that wasn't very easy right now because of the fact, that Nell had went missing obviously being held captive by her crazy ex-boyfriend and Eric being badly injured in an accident.
Nell kept trying to block out the pain, that came from the still very tight fitting robe and thanks to the fact that there wasn't any window in the room she didn't had a clue if it possibly was dark outside right now and it bothered her so much that she had lost track of time. Tears started to fall down her face, as those thoughts came upon her mind that she couldn't keep back anymore: She would maybe not survive this and never see Eric again, that one person that she had felt in love with after working for so long side by side at OPS. But didn't want to allow letting those negative thoughts taking over: I can't give up already! I maybe not as experienced in the field as Callen and the rest of the field agents but I just have to find some way to get out of here! Even if it was pretty dark around her, she tried her best to find something in this dim light that would help in getting rid of this very uncomfortable robe that was making it impossible right now to move her arms freely.
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