Chapter 6:

"Tell you what, Agent Callen?"

"That you are Agent Yashkin's godfather. That's why you assigned us this case, because you are trying to get in touch with her again. She stopped talking to you a few years ago and if you save her then maybe she'll be inclined to talk to you out of gratitude. Am I hot or cold?"

"Get your hands off me, Agent Callen, and I would watch your tone if I were you."

"It's true isn't it? You're putting my team at risk so that you could get your estranged goddaughter to talk to you again. Why'd she stop talking to you, huh?"

"That is none of your business, Agent Callen."

"Oh I think it is since it concerns my team."

"Stand down, Mr. Callen." Hetty said coming up behind them.

"Hetty-"

"I said stand down." Callen reluctantly let go of Granger and then said, "All of you follow me to OPS." Once there, Hetty turned to Eric and said, "Mr. Beale, please open up case 'Red Baron'."

"O.k. 'Red Baron' is a CIA case in Russia in the 1970s."

"Yes. It was a case were american operatives infiltrated the KGB to find out what their next plan of attack was. Now in certain cases, the KGB was like the mafia, like a family. A former member of this family was Mikhail Yashkin. He realized to keep his family safe was to retire from the life. On his last day with the KGB was arrested by one of our operatives."

"His last day. Damn that sucks."

"Yes it does. We all know how the CIA deals with people who we think are threats to our national security. The entire time he kept repeating the names of his family. A few days later, I approached him and offered him a deal. If he would work with us then we would make sure that he and his family were safe and they could go to America."

"He worked on the same team that Henrietta and I worked. He is a good friend to us. When they came to America, his wife Katrina was pregnant with a little girl. After she gave birth, Henrietta and I were asked to be Galena's godparents. After her mother's death we tried to be there for her but it became increasingly difficult over the years with the constant traveling back and forth and working."

"As she grew older, Galena, became more of a troublemaker but eventually she cleaned up her act and went on to become a very successful ICE agent. It has been five years since she has spoken to either of us aside from holidays where she is forced to interact with us. A lot has changed in our relationships with her but this will be a way to make up for it."

"Hetty, she won't forgive you for doing this for her." Sam said.

"I realize, Mr. Hanna, but it's a start."

"A start for what?"

"To make up for not being there for her."

"Hetty-"

"Find her, Mr. Callen."

Callen and Sam were driving around when Sam turned to Callen and said, "So, G, what do you think?"

"Of?"

"Of Hetty and Granger and Agent Yashkin?"

"I don't know."

"Really, it doesn't remind you of anything?"

"Like?"

"Like a certain young man who was left on his own after his family-"

"Stop it, Sam. I told you a million times, you are not my mother or therapist but my partner and friend."

"Look, all I can say is that there are similarities between you two."

"How so?"

"You grew up alone and she grew up in a large family that wanted nothing to do with her. Then both of you acted out in your teenage years and now both of you are federal agents that tend to go all lone wolf and are the best at what you do."

"Sam, stop."

They were on the boardwalk again and looked over at Jackie's shop and saw her hugging a young woman. The brunette walked away and took off her glasses for a moment to assess her surroundings and then quickly started to walk away. "Did you see that?"

"Yeah. That looked a hell of a lot like Agent Yashkin or she has a twin out there somewhere."

"What the Bulgarians just let her go?"

"I don't know, but we're gonna find out. Come on."

They got out of the car and started following her and saw her go down up to a hat stand and Callen approached her slowly. "That looks good on you."

"Yeah. Not really my style though." She said without looking at him.

"Well it looked good."

"Thanks."

"I'm Callen."

"Lena."

"I know."

"Excuse me."

"You are Galena Yashkin." Once she heard that, Lena punched him in the nose and then started running. "Ahh. Sam, we got a runner."

She ran and they continued to chase her until she reached a dead end in an alleyway. "It's over, Yashkin. Let's go."

Sam cuffed and took her back to the boat house.

"Who are you guys?"

"I'm Agent Callen, this is Agent Hanna, we're NCIS."

"NCIS? Hetty and Owen sent you didn't they?"

"Yeah, they did and they want to talk to you."

"Great. Just what I need today."