"Stop… please…!" Callen begged as Alexei moved for the gun Callen had noticed was tucked in the small of his back.
"Don't move." Sam said as Callen shifted putting himself between his partner and Alexei. "Hand over your weapon G."
Alexei laughed at that, "He can't do that, he is the weapon."
Gibbs with a glare raised his gun higher.
"You're coming with us, where is the information you were selling Callen?" Gibbs asked.
Callen sighed, "Back pocket."
Sam put handcuffs on both of them and he pushed Alexei towards the car.
"Careful!" Callen shouted as Alexei stumbled. No matter what he felt about the man, the man was right about one thing. He did owe him and in his own way Callen cared about him.
Sam shot him an annoyed look.
"I trusted you."
Callen didn't say a word, but he looked over with concern at Alexei as they were bundled into a transport van for the short trip to the boatshed.
Tony and Granger pulled up outside Cedar Sinai Hospital. "Do you want me to come in with you?" Granger asked, "For support?"
Tony shook his head, "I'll be fine. I'll make my own way back to the mission as soon as I know how my father is." He told him.
Granger nodded as Tony stepped out of the Challenger. "Remember to keep either myself, Hetty or Agent Gibbs in the loop." He ordered.
"Will do." Tony replied and he watched as Granger drove the car out of sight.
He picked up his phone and made a call. "I've ditched them, where are you Father?" He asked.
He waited as Senior replied.
"I'm on my way." Tony told him as he raised his hand to hail a cab.
By the time they got to the boatshed Callen was furious.
Gibbs and Sam had gone ahead in their own vehicle, leaving the backup team to take him and Alexei in. He himself had done this plenty of times, but after this he swore he'd kill the agents holding them.
He understood where their anger was coming from, the mole had been talked about in the mission for nearly a year and everyone remembered the fear and chaos when Carl Brown had been unmasked, even Callen had been annoyed after finding out he had been a member of The Calling. It had been after that, after Brown had killed Helen another member of the OSP family, that Callen had made his decision.
But these agents crossed the line, they were rough with him, and he could take it. Hell, he didn't care that they roughed him up as they threw him into the transport van, but as they arrived at the boatshed, Alexei stumbled and fell, the agents moving so that he fell flat on his face and Callen lost it.
"Son of a bitch!" Callen cursed as he launched himself headfirst at the Agent pulling him out of the van.
"Shut up traitor." The Agent snapped, "Your former team will just be finishing what we started."
Callen struggled as they took him into the boatshed. A shocked team standing there as Callen was lead cursing and fighting in to the interrogation room.
Kensi and Deeks sat at the table with Hetty, Nell and Eric watching over the monitor as Agent Patterson opened the door. Agent Trella came behind him with Alexei in cuffs, the man stumbling without the use of his cane.
"GET THE HELL OFF ME!" Callen cursed as he struggled.
The younger agents looked up in shock as their team leader was hauled in.
Callen pulled away from Patterson as Alexei stumbled again.
"Please…" Callen begged, "He needs his cane… you can't…"
Alexei stumbled again and Callen moved his body to protect the older man.
"Father!" Callen exclaimed quietly hoping that the others didn't hear him.
Alexei smiled kindly, "It is ok my son."
"No… No, it's not. Hetty, we don't treat people like this. He needs a doctor."
"Mr Callen if Mr….? If, he needs a doctor one will be provided." She promised.
She nodded towards the interrogation rooms.
"Put me with him, please…" Callen begged.
"Callen why would we do that?" Hetty asked.
Alexei shook his head and instantly Callen calmed down, remembering that look from when he was a child. He had insulted Father, and he knew it.
"Sorry." Callen capitulated, to the surprise of the junior agents and the operations manager who had never seen him use that tone with anyone in his life.
He said nothing more as he was moved into one room and Alexei was taken into the other room for questioning.
By the time Gibbs and Sam arrived, Kensi and Deeks were already interrogating Alexei. Hetty was sitting at the table with a cup of tea in front of her.
She looked up as they came in.
"Mr. Hanna, Agent Gibbs and I will be conducting this interview."
"G's my partner, I need to be in there Hetty." Sam argued.
"Not yet." Hetty replied. She turned to the monitor, "Mr. Beale I want all recording devices switched off in interrogation room one." She ordered.
"But…" Eric started and stopped when he realized who he was about to argue with, with a look of confusion towards Nell he pressed a button. "They are all switched off. Do you want me to do the same with the man that Kensi and Deeks are questioning?" He asked.
Hetty shook her head, "Just Mr. Callen."
Sam glowered at them as Hetty stood up to go into the room.
"You're leaving G without a recording?"
"Mr. Hanna, If you must interrogate someone, see if Ms. Blye and Mr. Deeks need a hand." Hetty said as she moved to join Gibbs.
Callen looked up, anger still on his face as Gibbs and Hetty walked in the room.
Hetty, walking in last, locked the door.
"Well?" Callen snapped.
"All recording devices are off Mr. Callen."
Callen sighed and dropped his handcuffs on the table.
"Good." He smiled at Hetty, "How was I?" he asked.
Hetty chuckled, "Oscar worthy Mr. Callen."
Gibbs placed the file on the table, "He took the bait, with us all running around after you, he didn't think we'd notice when he took off."
"I'm sorry Jethro." Callen said honestly.
Gibbs gave a short, barked laugh, "Would have hurt more if it had been you." He admitted honestly.
For a moment Callen looked worried, "Is Fa... Alexei, is he alright?"
"You still care for him don't you?" Hetty asked.
"I didn't think he was still alive." Callen admitted, "Much less still running The Calling here."
"I have arranged for Sam to go in with Kensi and Deeks, if he's hurt Sam will pick up on it and deal with it."
"He has cancer." Callen admitted.
Hetty nodded, she knew at that moment all words would be useless.
"So what did you get?" Gibbs asked.
"Marco Marsino is going to take over The Calling from his Father. His Father is the leader of The Calling." Callen told them, "He's going to meet with Anna for her half of the list and when I 'escape' from here I will go with her to deliver the rest of the goods. I figure that I can use Fath… Alexei's capture to my advantage. You bug me and come in at the take down."
"So, when did you figure he was Marsino?" Gibbs asked.
"After you were shot, I read the reports on the case you were working, recognized Daniel's name. He was a sweet kid Jethro, God knows what they could have done to me had I not messed up and been saved by Hetty." Callen sighed. He gave her a small smile of gratitude. "So I told Vance what I knew about The Calling and left it at that, until Marco appeared in the middle of the bullpen one day. Then I knew who the main Mole in NCIS was and why Brown hadn't said anything." Callen gave a sarcastic laugh, "Being accepted, family… it's a powerful motivator. So," Callen started, "I take it the team hate me now?"
Hetty looked at her boy, "I don't know. Ms. Blye is upset, Mr. Deeks is mad. I am not sure if he's mad at you or because he's been betrayed too much in his past. Mr. Hanna, has not at any point accepted that you are the Mole."
Callen smiled, "Sam's smart. I hate doing this to them." He sighed.
"Be that as it may, Sam's reaction made it hard to make sure the others were convinced. However, your reaction on being brought in was perfect."
"I wasn't acting, you need to sort out those two idiots who bought us in. Alexei needed his cane and then let him fall deliberately." Callen shook his head, "I don't care about the others, Marco… was he convinced? Hetty I need to know, Anna's working her side of the assignment, she's meeting with his father now."
"He was convinced." Hetty told him.
Callen sighed, "I don't want her hurt, she doesn't deserve it."
"And you do G?" Gibbs asked.
"I was a member of The Calling, granted at 14 I didn't realize what they were or what they wanted, but I was there long enough that Fa... Alexei wanted me to take over for him. It was an easy way to get back in. Helen was a good woman, Eric was injured by Brown, Granger was nearly killed and he tried to kill Kensi. It wasn't until he was questioned and he mentioned them, I realized that I was just as responsible as he was. I could have stopped it."
"You didn't know Grisha." Gibbs said softly, "You were not responsible for Helen's death, or my being shot. None of it."
"So next phase?" Callen asked.
Hetty took an A4 sized envelope out and put it in a waterproof bag.
Callen chuckled to himself as Gibbs opened the trapdoor and Callen duct taped the bag to his chest.
"You know at this rate, I may just stop using the main door." He said before he smirked at the other two and jumped into the water.