"Eric, where did he go after the safe house?" Callen demanded, ever the team leader.

"The last place he was seen was down in San Pedro, at some garage" Eric replied quickly sensing the urgency in the team leader's voice

"Alright thank you, send the address to my phone, you and Nell keep digging, find ANYTHING you can on this guy understand?" Callen paused seeking understanding from the two, "and Sam and I will go check this place out."

"What about us?" Kensi asked quietly making the young couple known

"You two, go back to the safe house, scour absolutely everything, he has to have got to you two sometime, there has to be a tracker on you two somewhere. Check your cars and clothes, then dump your phones and come back to OPS taking the extra-long way around" Callen said urgency tinging his voice, he didn't like it when people threatened his family.

"Ok let us know if yo-"

"G, I think we need to tell them now" Sam interrupted Kensi as he sent a knowing look Callen's way, ignoring the questioning looks on the couples faces.

"I don't think now is a go-"

"Yes now is a good time, what the hell have you two been hiding from us?" Deeks all but yelled not caring he interrupted his boss.

After giving him a long look he opened his mouth and began to tell "After you guys left OPS the other day there was some more information that Eric had for us…" He paused sending an unsure look Sam's way but Sam urged him on. "There was a little bit more of the video that you didn't see, Kensi…he has your mum!"

Kensi let the words hang in the air, how was this possible, Danny didn't even know that she had a mum, she had never talked about her mum, or dad with him. No it was simply impossible, had he been following her for that long. God he made her feel so incompetent, she had been working for this agency for god knows how long, hell she could take down Sam in a knife fight, but she couldn't even spot someone tailing her. What good was she in this job if sh-

"Hey stop it" Deeks whispered in her ear pulling her from her thoughts "You're not useless, don't even try and deny you weren't thinking about it, in case you didn't notice we all missed it, hell I was with you most of the time. We'll get her back. "

"I know but it doesn't make me feel any better, I missed it, I screwed up. I felt safe in my own home, I relaxed on safety I took routes more than once a week, I stopped being safe, this is on me. He took my mum because of me."

"No, don't do this to yourself, we are in this together remember, so let's do what our fearless team leader says, we are getting our butts out of here, going to our safe house and pulling apart every scrap of clothing we have until we find anything. Got it?'

A smile flitted across the young agents face as she took Marty's hand in her own and nodded in response, and proceeded to make her way to the exit.

"Be safe out there guys" Callen called after them

"You find that son of a bitch" Deeks yelled back in parting, placing an arm around his girlfriend steering them towards the garage "And you put him down."

"There has to be something, anything, why can't I find ANYTHING" Kensi was yelling by this point, they had left OPS and were now at the safe house trying to find anything. There were clothes strewn throughout the entire safe house, technology ripped apart and a defeated Deeks sitting on the couch. "Deeks there is nothing here, how the hell did he burn us, we have taken everything apart and. There. Is. Nothing" Kens said punctuating her words for emphasis.

Deeks sighed, he hadn't felt this useless in ages, and this Danny guy seemed to be running circles around them. How had neither of them spotted this, they were trained in the art of undercover and spotting tails was their specialty, for crying out loud. "I don't know Kens, we've looked everywhere. I checked every single nook and cranny a car has and all of my clothes… we're missing something."

Kensi flopped down onto the couch next to him, laying her head on his shoulder. She sighed deeply before placing her hand in his and bringing it over to her swollen stomach. This simple movement seemed to calm both of them, they both visibly relaxed sinking further into the couch and turning their heads to one another. "We need to think this through logically, like Nell would."

"Okay"

"Kens we need to think. Ok so you used to date him, did he ever go to your apartment?"

"No, well yes, but I have moved since then, and before you ask, no he doesn't know I work for NCIS, he knows I'm a fed, but not who I work for."

"So how the hell could he track down a fed who is pretty much a ghost in the system, changes her routine daily and… oh my god" Deeks trailed off staring off into the distance. "Remember what we were talking about when I was in hospital after I had been shot," pausing again to see her nod in acknowledgement, "Well I was the weak link back then and I would still be now figuratively speaking. All it would have taken was for him to see you with me in the street looking close to know there was thing between us and for him to flip. I'm not as much of a ghost as you, Callen and Sam are, I have a routine, I wake up in the morning and go to the beach that is my routine. Yes while it is pretty much a different beach every day, it doesn't take a genius to figure out I would be were the waves are. Not only that but I am an LAPD cop, people would recognise me. All it would take is a bit of asking on the right side of town and he could find me. Then once he found me, I would inevitably lead him to you! I'm so sorry Kens!"

"Hey, don't be sorry, remember what you did at the hospital after that you realised that, you saved my life and you have had my back ever since, so we will go out there do what we do and kick some serious but." Kens said sitting up to look him in the eyes. "Now, let's head back to OPS…the long way, and hear what Sam and Callen have."

"Yes ma'am"

"Eric send back up NOW" Callen yelled through the comms. Both he and Sam had tracked Danny through the streets of San Pedro until they had caught up to him. It felt like they were playing a massive game of whack a mole. Every time they saw him, he disappeared around another corner, and now they were cornered and in a shoot-out, this day just kept on getting better and better. Originally they had assumed that Danny was alone in the car, now they were sure he wasn't He had three others… of course he did.

"Okay, on it's way, Kensi and Deeks are on their way too, they should be pretty close by now."

"Thanks Eric." Callen replied too distracted by gun shots to pay too much attention to what he was saying. "Sam, I'm running low, what you got"

"On my last clip, 5 bullets, got to make 'em count G."

Sam certainly wasn't a pessimist but he surely felt like one now, he was also fairly sure that unless back up arrived in the next minute, that he and Callen weren't getting out of this unscathed. A screeching of tyres around a corner caused both Callen and Sam to pop their heads up at the same time, they caught a glimpse of a silver SRX, Kensi, as the back end fish tailed out giving Deeks the perfect opening for a shot.

Now that Kensi and Deeks were here, the odd were evenly stacked, although, Kensi shouldn't be here, dammit why didn't Callen listen to what Eric was saying over the comms, Kensi was pregnant for crying out loud, she shouldn't be on active duty, she should be sitting at her desk doing paperwork.

Deeks quickly took out two of Danny's men which gave Sam an opening for the third guy, he lined up and took a shot. It flew true through the air and sunk in his target. A headshot. Dead before he hit the ground. Quickly realising he was surrounded, Danny dropped his weapon and sunk to the ground on his knees. Only now had Kensi gotten out of the car, once she had known that the area was secure and it was safe for her she made her way to where the team was gathered around Danny on the ground. Callen quickly pulled her aside as she made her way up to her team, "You know there are no cameras here and if something were to happen to Danny, I wouldn't see anything."

"Thanks Callen, I'd rather just let him rot in jail, although a few broken ribs would certainly make it unpleasant." She whispered in reply, breaking from Callen's grip moving to stand in front of Danny. She had intended to be calm but as soon as she was standing in front of him, she couldn't quell her anger, it rose up inside her bubbling away. "Where the hell is my mum? What did you do?" She yelled, after only a few seconds and a smug expression stuck on the captured man's face, she placed blow after blow on his ribs and one to his face for good measure, splitting his lip open and knocking him to the ground unconscious. Callen moved to pull her away but Deeks beat him to it. "Kens…KENS, it's ok…it's ok, we got him, he's down!"

After what seemed an eternity Kensi uncurled her fists and brought them back to her side, "He had that coming" was all she said as she turned away went to stand behind Deeks.

Left with just the senior agents in earshot, Deeks did the only thing he knew how to do, make light of the situation. "Hell hath no fury like a pregnant Kensi Marie Blye!" This elicited a bark from Sam and a chuckle from Callen, for a moment all seemed right with the world. But it wasn't, not yet anyway.

Holy crap this is my longest chapter by far, I hope you liked, I was going to finish the Danny story here but it shall continue into the next chapter. Anyway, please review