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So here is the next episode, it is set in season 2, episode 14 'Tin Soldiers'. I hope you like it.
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The following day started as many others did for the couple, with them waking up beside each other. Or more truthfully Deeks waking up on his warm pillow and turning to stare into the piercing blue eyes he loved. Once they managed to pull themselves out of bed Deeks moved to the kitchen, to start cooking breakfast for them both. As he did so he found what he had been missing the last few mornings, a note with the words 'I love you' written in G's hand. He couldn't stop the way those words made his heart skip a beat, nor the smile that appeared on his face and refused to leave throughout their journey into work which was conducted in G's car, Deeks' having been left at the mission the previous evening.
In fact his smile didn't leave him until Kensi got the call from Singh saying he had taken the bait and wanted to meet up with her. But when Sam asked Callen how he wanted to play it, he'd told Sam he was in charge. It seemed G Callen had other things to do, on his own once more, and neither of his partners could stop the frowns that appeared on their faces as he walked away from them and out the door without another word. But they still had a case to solve, and they needed to trust G would be fine without them as they watched Kensi's back.
The meeting of Kensi and Singh was going well, until another player showed up. It seemed that Callen's midnight visitor, who worked for Arkady, was also working for Singh. Oh that wasn't going to end well. Especially when the team learnt that the man was working Arkady for Singh's own gain. Yeah that really wasn't going to go well. It seemed Arkady was being played, which meant that they no doubt were being so too. Damn this op just got a whole lot more complicated.
Callen joined them just as the rest of the team were leaving, and right after Deeks, Sam and Kensi apprehending a man who tried to hurt the latter. It helped in the fact that they now had the guy's phone, and using that and the intel Callen had gathered from his solo investigation, or at least the bits that didn't obtain to his personal life at any rate, they managed to narrow down what was going on. It seemed the guy who had broken into Callen's house, Niko, wasn't just playing Arkady, but Singh too. And all three groups were heading towards the LA Forum where Singh was supposedly getting his delivery of counterfeit computer chips.
It was time to divide and conquer as Callen put it, though Sam was not pleased at how that dividing ended up. Because Callen sent him and Deeks with Kensi to Singh as back up, while he went alone to confront Arkady. Yeah Sam really didn't like that idea. He should be with his partner, watching his back. That was what partners did. Surely G trusted Deeks enough have Kensi's back on his own. Of course he did. Sam knew the real reason that G wanted to go alone was because he wanted to talk the Russian, about whatever it was that he had said that was tied in with the damn soldier his partner had found on his sisters grave. But that did not make him any happier about the situation. In fact it made him feel worse. The last time G had gone off alone he had lost someone he cared about, he did not want that to happen again. He did not want any harm to come to G.
Therefore he was not in the best of moods as he waited in the car with Deeks for Kensi to make contact with Singh and get him to move his shipment somewhere they only had to deal with the one group of people. The bad mood caused by worry and tension came to head in the car as the two none partners followed Kensi to the new meeting point.
"Don't get too close." Deeks warned, not wanting them to be made and therefore giving Singh a reason to mistrust Kensi whom was still with him.
"I know how to run a tail Deeks." Sam replied in a tense tone, really not wanting advice from the cop sitting beside him. Because however much training he had given the guy, he still wasn't an agent, no matter what Callen's feelings for him were. At work, he still wasn't as good as the rest of the team.
"Okay, well, just fall back a bit." Deeks responded knowing Sam was worried, but he was too damn it. Not only was his partner in the car in front of them, he had no idea how the man he loved was. Whether G was safe, and if he would continue to stay that way when he spoke to this Arkady guy. Which in his mind made him doubly worried.
"We'll fall back to the curb and kick you out if you don't shut up." Sam snapped. He was done being the nice guy, they had a job to do, and he knew very well how to do his thank you very much.
"What is your problem?" Deeks asked in disbelief as he heard those words. I mean, he thought him and Sam had got through all these issues and were working well together. But it seemed he was wrong. How could all the good times they had spent together, with G and Sam's family, mean nothing to the big guy?
"You're my problem. The fact that I have a partner out there who's on his own while I'm stuck here with you. A partner which you should have convinced not to work alone." Sam answered in anger, taking out his frustration with G on the person who was closest to him. Oh he knew it wasn't Deeks' fault the guy had gone off on his own, just as he knew when G got all lone wolf no one could stop him. But he had hoped that now his partner had found love and a stable relationship that he might stop doing this crap.
"I'm sorry, but I'm not exactly G's keeper. And for your information I'm worried about him to. Not to mention I'm stuck here with you while my partner is trapped in the car ahead of us with three armed guys. So maybe we have the same problems." Deeks snapped back. He was so done being Sam's punch bag. Where the hell did he get off saying he should have stopped G from going off on his own? He was a grown man, he could do whatever he liked. Did Deeks like it? No, but could he have stopped him? Not a god damn chance.
"Yeah, well, maybe we do." Sam growled out, knowing the kid had a point. Damn it.
"Okay, then maybe we can agree to agree on the shared problem thing. And maybe we should act like partners so we can save our partners so you and I don't have to be partners." Deeks rattled out quickly in exasperation. He did not need this right now.
"What?" Sam asked in confusion. He did not understand how Deeks mind worked. That ramble of words had made no sense to him.
"Just drive." Deeks responded with a sigh, though being as he was who he was, he couldn't help but add on at the end a "not too close." Which actually got a chuckle out of Sam as he sent a small smile to the man next to him, getting one in return. They were both worried and tense about what was going to happen, but they didn't need to take it out on each other. no they needed to work together on this one to make sure all those they cared about got home safe and sound at the end of the day.
Singh's car pulled into an industrial park and the guys in the car and Kensi climbed out. There was a van waiting for them, and Kensi couldn't help but tense slightly as she realised that this was what they were looking for. The shipment of counterfeit computer chips. But when Deeks and Sam came round shouting federal agents, it was to find that the shipment wasn't computer chips at all, it was cash. Bags and bags of cash.
Oh this did not bode well for Callen. Because there is nothing more deadly than groups of armed men who desperately wanted to get their hands on millions of untraceable dollars. No one walked away from that without putting up one hell of a fight. G could well be walking into a firestorm, but when they tried to connect to him, the team discovered they had lost contact with their leader. Really, really not good.
Meanwhile Callen was walking around the LA forum trying to find Arkady. He finally made his way into the main arena, calling out that the shipment wasn't coming. He hoped that now he had done what Arkady had wanted him to do, getting Singh arrested, that he would give him the information he needed about the photo. The intel he needed about the man who's fingers prints he had found on it. He needed to know what he had to do with Callen and his past. Wanted to know if he was the same guy who had given him the soldier on the beach as his memory seemed to be implying. He had recognised the guy's Romani tattoo and the soldiers he had been painting when he was killed were just like the one he had, just newer. So if he was the same man he remembered, then why was he there on that beach? And what did it all mean? Was he the one who had been reaching out to him? And if so why?
There were so many questions he wanted answered, but considering the guy was dead, he knew he wouldn't be getting them from him. Which left him only Arkady to ask.
Of course before he could get anything concrete from the older man the bullets started to fly, and it was just the two of them surrounded by Niko's men. It was not looking good, for either of them.
Arkady had run out of bullets and Callen only had four left when they heard it. The sound of tires squealing, and then from one of the entrances came Callen favourite sight in that moment. It was the black Challenger belonging to his partner, skidding to a stop in the centre of the arena. And out the doors slid Sam and Deeks. Callen had never been so relieved to see the two men in his life. He was even happier when between them they took out three of the four men shooting at them, Sam getting the other to surrender.
Callen stood from where he had been crouching completely forgetting about Arkady, and therefore not even noticing as he tried to make a quick getaway. No, instead he found himself smiling at the man he loved. He watched as Deeks moved to arrest the last remaining member of Niko's group, and he couldn't keep his eyes off of the younger man, even as he spoke to his partner.
"Cut that one close, don't you think?"
"You're like the lone wolf till your butt's on the line. Then you expect me to come to your rescue." Sam returned smirking as he noticed what it was that had caught his partner's attention. Of course he was watching Deeks do all the work, though the kid was the cop, so surely he had the most experience in arresting people. Might as well leave it up to him.
"Isn't that what partners do?" Callen asked turning back to Sam with a smile on his lips as the adrenalin started to leave his body after the firefight.
"You're pushing it, you know that?" Sam replied before turning to the younger man with them. There was something he needed to say, to make up for how he had acted earlier. "Nice shooting, Deeks."
And Deeks looking up at him smiled as he heard what those words actually meant. They were an apology for the way Sam had acted, and a thanks for helping save their butts. "Thanks. You too." He replied nodding his head to show he accepted what hadn't been said before he turned his eyes to G and ran the up and down his body automatically, checking to make sure he wasn't harmed in any way.
"G." He finally said in a relieved voice when he had confirmed he was in fact fine.
"Marty." Callen replied softly as his smile got even wider as he stared into those baby blue eyes he loved so much.
This of course made Sam roll his eyes at the pair of them. I mean seriously? They were in the middle of a crime scene, but he didn't say anything. Mainly because he knew if it had been Michelle in a shootout he would be looking at her the same way the other two were looking at each other. So he would give them a pass, this time. His attention was soon caught though by movement as Kensi walked towards them, a disarmed Arkady Kolcheck in her grasp.
"What do you want me to do with this one?" She asked her team leader, causing Callen to remove his eyes from his boyfriend and turn to the junior agent, but not before he caught the slight raise of Arkady's eyebrow inquiring without words at what was going on that he was missing. It seemed he had not been as discrete as he should have been as he stared at Deeks.
"Let him go." Callen replied before switching to Russian, telling Arkady he owed him one for this, and mentioning in a gentle way, that if he ever thought to go after any member of his team he would kill him without hesitation.
Arkady replied in the same language accepting Callen's terms and claiming he didn't see any reason to go after any of Callen's team, before getting his gun back from the female agent at his side and making his quick exit. Of course as soon as he left he made a note to find out who the new man on Callen's team was, and exactly what he meant to his old friend. Just so he could look out for him, and nothing else, of course. Though if that information did help him somewhere down the line, who was he to say no?
Deeks had stood up when Kensi spoke, and when G told her to let him go he guessed this was the famous, or was that infamous, Arkady Kolcheck. He couldn't stop himself studying the man. He had an air about him of someone who would do anything to get what he wanted. He could be dangerous, or your friend, but he was not someone to trust. He was pulled out of his thoughts by G switching to Russian, and he couldn't help but find that extremely sexy. I mean who wouldn't, the guy you loved being all threatening in a foreign language. And yeah, he knew G was being threatening, he had that tone and serious look in his eyes, even if he didn't understand a word he said. It was still awesome. Of course he then had to stand there and watch Sam and G bond, and he couldn't help but wish it was him and his boyfriend, rather than his boyfriend's partner. But he knew his time would come, this case was at an end, and soon G would tell him everything. He had promised, and he was going to make sure he stuck to that.
Returning to the mission after everything had been cleared up, the whole team just wanted to go home and relax. But they all knew they had things to do, and reports to write. But as the four of them made their way down the corridor towards the bullpen Callen grabbed Deeks arm and held him back from the others.
"Hey Marty. Can you come round my house tonight? When we're done here?" He asked quietly. It was time to give the man he loved the answers he deserved.
"Okay. I'll pop back and grab Monty then come over, if that's alright?" Deeks agreed smiling widely. He was so glad that he wasn't going to have to remind G about his promise. That it seemed he was willing to share all he knew without any prompting from him.
"That's fine. I'll see you then." Callen replied smiling himself at the look on his boyfriends face. The smile he had was as if the sun itself had decided to shine on him in Callen's mind. It was beautiful and sexy and gorgeous, just like the man doing the smiling. It was everything he had missed while he had been off the gird trying to get answers. And he couldn't wait for things to go back to how they should be, with him and Marty together. Yes, it was time for things to go back to how they should be. One day he would get the answers he needed, but until then he had the love of this amazing man, and that really was enough for him.
It was time to make sure he hadn't lost it through his latest stunt.