Tears started coming down her cheeks. She couldn't believe what she just read. Her father was alive. The last seventeen years of her life had been the worst. She was determined to live the rest of her life without her father. He never saw her on her eighteenth birthday or graduation. Or so she thought. Because he was always behind her. He was protecting her and he knew every move she did. He had regretted million times what he did. He missed his daughter's years. He missed everything of her life. He missed her; her smile, her laugh, her beautiful eyes. Everything.
She got up and went over Parker bedroom. There was an agenda with names and addresses. She searched in 'B' and found her father's name listed with an address she didn't know. She wrote it on a paper and ran to the door.
Officer Jonson had just arrived from the coffee shop. "Hey I got the coffee." But Kensi pushed him aside without saying a word, got in her car and left.
She drove back to Los Angeles as fast as she could and then to the address in Hollywood. When she got there, to all her surprise, two LAPD officers were at the scene. A yellow police tape was blocking the door and the officers were outside.
She pulled over outside the house and got out. She ran to the door where she was stopped by the officers. "I'm sorry, you can't go in. This is a crime scene." an officer held her from the arms so she wouldn't go in.
"My father lives here. What are you doing here?"
"Your father?" the officer asked confused. Kensi nodded her head. "I'm sorry, but he was found shot this morning."
"Where is he?"
The officer looked at his fellow and answered her "We don't know that. But we do know that he is not dead." Kensi seemed relieved to hear that. She ran back to her car and drove to Ops.
Callen and Sam were sitting in the bullpen when they saw Kensi running to Hetty's office. Callen stood up and tried to stop her. "Hey, hey Kens. What's going on?" He noticed the tears in her eyes.
"Apparently something that does concern me Callen. How did you do that? I expected from Sam, from Deeks, from Granger, from Hetty but not from you. This is my father we are talking about and you all kept it from me."
"How did you find out?"
Kensi looked at him for a moment. "Let me go." And Callen took his hands off her.
Hetty, who had heard her yelling, wasn't prepared to answer her.
"How did you do that? Why did you send me in San Diego?"
"Ms. Blye let me explain myself." But she cut by Kensi.
"I don't want you to explain anything because I'm not sure what will be true and what will be lies." She paused for a moment. "Where is he?"
"Pacific Beach Medical." Kensi left immediately without making eye contact with anyone.
At the hospital, Deeks was waiting at the waiting room while Granger had gone to bring coffee. Neither Callen nor Sam had called him to tell him that Kensi knew her father was alive.
Granger arrived a few minutes later with two paper cups of coffee and he handed the one to Deeks. "Thanks. He's been in the surgery for four hours now."
"He's strong. He's going to be fine." Deeks shook his head without saying anything.
If there was something Granger hated was waiting. This was the second cup he was drinking. He had his back against the wall across Deeks, who was sitting, and he was trying to be as much patient as he could. He decided to walk up and down in the hall. Standing without doing anything was making him tired. While he was walking, he noticed Kensi coming their way. "Oh my God."
Deeks heard him and looked at the way he was looking only to see his partner. Deeks got up and ran to her to stop her. "Where is he?" she asked with tears in her eyes. Deeks pulled her in a hug to calm her down.
After she kind of calm down, Deeks made her sit down and he sat next to her. "Where is he?" she asked again with an exhausted tone from the crying.
"He's in still in surgery." Granger answered her. "How did you find out?"
"Um,…., Hetty sent me to San Diego to bring here in LA Peter Parker. When I….. when I got to his home, he was dead. I found an e-mail to his computer written by my father. Parker had an agenda and.…." she was trying to catch her breath "my father's address was written there. I drove to his place and a LAPD officer told me that he was shot and Hetty told me that he is here."
"I'm sorry. Hetty sent you San Diego to bring here Peter? What for?" Granger asked.
"She said he was in danger." Deeks was looking at his boss who seemed confused.
Granger was running in his mind everything Kensi had said. And then he remembered this morning's call. Hetty was talking on the phone when he arrived at the office. 'Call me as soon as you get my message.' She was either talking to Parker or Blye. Granger didn't say anything and left leaving the two partners.
He drove to Ops as fast as he could. He was never that angry before. He was so sure that Hetty knew Donald Blye was alive and she didn't say anything. She was always hiding things from everyone; first from Callen about his family, then from Granger about the White-Ghost-case and now from Kensi.
When he arrived at the Mission, he went directly to her office. Callen and Sam, who were sitting at the bullpen, noticed that he was angry and in a hurry. "Everyone is looking for Hetty today, don't you think?" Callen asked his partner.
"I have a question for you and you better tell me the truth. Did you know it?" Granger asked her.
"I'm afraid you have to be a little more specific."
"Did you know Blye is alive?" Hetty took a deep breath but didn't say anything. Her silence gave Granger the answer. It was the first time he knew the less on the case. "How did you do that? Until three years ago, I was looking for his killer and not even then you didn't say anything." He was actually yelling. Callen and Sam had heard everything. "You own me the truth Henrietta and you will tell me everything."
"Eighteen years ago, he called me and asked for my help. He knew Peter Clairmont was after him and he wanted to kill him. So along with his lawyer, they staged his death. I knew it. Two weeks later, his lawyer was killed in a plane crush."
"What about Parker?"
"Blye told him everything about a month later. He called me last night and told me that Parker is probably in danger. That's why I sent Kensi. I was trying to call her father this morning but he wasn't answering."
He couldn't believe what he was hearing. "He left leaving behind him his fifthteen-year-old daughter. What exactly was he thinking?"
"He wanted to protect her."
"Protect her? We both know Hetty what she went through. And you are telling me that he was trying to protect her?" They were interrupted by Granger's ringing phone. It was Deeks. "What is it Detective? Okay. Thank you. He's out of surgery. Doctor said he was lucky and he's going to be fine." Hetty seemed relieved. Granger gave her an angry look and left without saying anything else.
Back at the hospital, Kensi and Deeks were waiting till the doctor will tell her that she can see her father. Deeks, always by her side, was holding her hand. It hadn't been five minutes and the doctor came back. "Ms. Blye, you can see your father." she nodded her head, turned to her partner and said. "Go, I'll be fine. I want you to find who did this." He kissed her in the forehead and she followed the doctor.
The doctor showed Kensi her father's room. "You have five minutes, no more. He needs a rest." Kensi nodded her head, took a deep breath and opened the door. What she was seeing was horrible; her father on a hospital bed surrounded by tubes and wires. She went closer to him and sat at the edge of the bed and took his hand into hers.
"When you didn't come home that night, I knew something was going on. But I kept telling myself that you were fine, that I'd wake up in the morning and you'd be in the kitchen making breakfast. When I woke up and you weren't there, I freaked out. A few minutes later, your best friend knocked the door and told me that you were gone. I didn't want to believe it. You had told me that you would never, NEVER leave me alone. And yet you did. You weren't there when I needed you." She felt a squeeze in her hand. He was awake. "Dad? Dad, please talk to me."
"I'm sorry baby girl. I wish I could do something to change everything." he said with a weak tone.
"We have time to change everything dad."
"You have no idea how much I missed you baby; your smile, your eyes, your beautiful face." He put his hand on her cheek and wiped her tears. That made her smile.
Back in the Mission, Callen and Sam were briefing Deeks on the latest news. He wasn't surprised to find out that Hetty knew Blye was alive and she didn't say anything. It would be a surprise if she had said it. What he couldn't believe was the fact that Granger didn't know it. He was his best friend and he trusted him. How could he not tell him that?
When the two agents finished the briefing, Eric and Nell rolled down the stairs and approached them.
"Guys, we found something." Eric began.
"We know that Parker knew Blye is alive, so we checked traffic cameras in Parker's neighborhood around the time of his death and we have footage of a man holding a gun with his left hand leaving his house three days ago. The car in which he left is the same with the one the guy who shot Blye used to leave this morning. It's the same car and same man." Nell continued.
"Do we have a name?" Callen asked.
"We do." Granger approached the bullpen and stood behind Callen. "Mark Clairmont. Peter Clairmont's only son."They were all shocked.
"Okay, let's take it from the beginning. Mark visits Parker, he is probably asking him to tell him where Blye is. Either Parker didn't tell him anything and he killed him…." Callen began.
"or he talked and then he killed him." Sam continued.
"But why did he try to kill Kensi's father? It doesn't make any sense." Deeks said.
"It does." They were staring at Granger. "Mark believes Kensi killed his father."
Stay tune for my next chapter…..
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