I know it's been a long time since I last updated that story and I'm so sorry. Here is the next chapter.

Back in the 5-0 headquarters, Kono was trying to trace the signal from the microphone Sam found in Deeks' motel room. She asked for Eric's help after the video communication they had. Catherine had invited Kensi to her office. They were sitting on the couch. They were reminiscing their childhood. They were happy. They were very happy until the night Donald Blye was killed. They were together at the cinema that night with their boyfriends. After Blye's funeral, they lost contact. Kensi stepped away from everyone and everything. And as a result, she spent almost a year on the streets living as a homeless until the Child Welfare found her and gave her to a foster home.

Catherine had a lot of questions about the years they spent apart. They knew each other since they were two years old and they last saw each other when they were fifteen. She wanted to know everything that happened in her friend's life. Her story with Deeks, the reason she broke up with Jack, why she decided to join the NCIS instead of the US Marine Corps. Kensi had never lied to her friend. So she told her the real reason she joined the NCIS. And Catherine was shocked when she heard that she only wanted to find her father's killer. But she was impressed of her story with Deeks.

The baby started kicking her again. It could feel its mummy's heart pumping harder and faster. She put her hands on her belly to calm it down. "Are you okay?" Catherine asked.

"Yeah. It, just, hasn't stopped kicking me all day."

"That means you need to calm down. Okay? We will find him. And you will go home all together." She gave her a smile and Kensi smiled back.

That was when Chin entered Catherine's office. "Ladies, we have something. I think you may want to see it." They both stood up and followed him outside to the screen. "Kono, play the video. It's from a security camera at the Waikiki Beach just a few seconds before the blast."

It was him. It was Deeks. During the explosion, he was just two miles away from his car. He was talking on the phone when he heard the boom. He turned around and saw his car going off. He hung up and fled the scene. "Thank God!" So he was alive. "Do we know where he is now?"

"That part we don't know. What we do know is with whom he was talking." Chin began. Kensi was looking at him. "With your Assistant Director." She was shocked. Why Granger didn't tell them anything? Why did he hide it?

"Do we know who put the bomb in his car?" Catherine asked.

"HPD lad is still working on find fingerprints or from where the device was bought." Kono answered.

That was when the five men returned. Kensi turned around and saw them coming. "When exactly were you planning on telling us that you spoke with Deeks just a few seconds before the explosion?" The rest of them were staring at him shocked. "Yeah, that's right. Our Assistant Director was talking with Deeks before the explosion. He heard everything. He knew he was alive and he didn't tell us anything."

Catherine went behind her and fondled her friend's arms. "Kensi, sweetheart, you need to calm down."

"You were hiding the call, you were hiding his real mission. What else are you hiding?" Callen asked him, kind of yelling.

"His….his real mission? What do you mean?" Kensi asked. But no one was giving her an answer. "Callen, what's going on?"

Steve decided to take the lead on that and approached her. "You know what. Why don't you come to my office? And we can talk." He put his hand behind her back but she stepped away to avoid him.

"I want to know what's going on. What's his real mission?"

Without thinking about it, Granger told her everything; about the photos, his intel and emphasized the fact that he's dangerous. She couldn't believe it. How could this man have taken pictures of her without even noticing him? And how could he have followed her all the way to Afghanistan? "Is there something significant that happened before or close to March of 2012?" Catherine asked.

Kensi and Granger exchanged a look. They both remembered it. "On February 2012 we tracked down my father's killer, Peter Clairmont. But he's dead." She didn't say further details on that matter. She knew she owed him. He basically saved her life that day.

"And he wasn't married or had any kids who might want revenge for his death." He paused for a moment to think. "Officer Kalakaua, call our team in LA."

"Yes sir."

In the next few chapters, I'm planning on writing some flashbacks (e.i. when Granger received the photos, some of Deeks' e-mails to Kensi, the explosion,…). I hope you like it so far.