Dani was still upset about the break up but she knew that deep down Seth was right but she was determined to help him in any way she could, she had kept wiping her eyes from the tears that continued to fall from her eyes everyone had come down from Ops after the meeting. Deeks looked over to his daughter and it killed him inside to see her in pain, Sam and Callen then noticed something was wrong with the young teen.

"D, you alright kid?" Callen asked his niece gently.

"Not really". Dani said in a raspy voice.

"What happened?" Sam asks, going around to her.

"Seth wanted to end things to protect me" Dani sniffed.

"Protect you from what?" Callen asked.

"The group he's in they won't let him go, he said it wasn't safe for anyone to find out and he told everything to my dad and Aunt Kensi. They threatened to kill anyone if he said anything so he broke up with me to protect me"

"It was for the right reason he didn't want to see her hurt because of him". Kensi said, trying to ease the situation.

"Dani when you saw him was something different about him?" Sam asked.

"When I called him he sounded jumpy like he was scared then when we did see him, he was more jumpy than ever. He looked scared" Dani answered.

"Did he have anything with him?" Callen asked.

"Guys what's with the line of questioning?" Deeks spoke, agitated.

"Because maybe Seth did this" Sam answered, looking to him.

"He did do it but it wasn't by choice, he told me that if he even tried to leave that the people he's with will kill his family he didn't want them after me so he broke up with me. He said he had to put a backpack on a bus somewhere downtown and wait for the signal to detonate it". Dani explained.

"D why didn't you say something to us sooner about this?" Callen asked.

"Because I didn't wanna believe it was true about Seth, he didn't seem like the type to do it. I wanna help him before he gets hurt or he dies, I don't want him to die" Dani's voice cracked.

"Do you know where he could be right now?" Sam asked.

"The only places I know he could be is either home, with his brother, with me, or he could be at the abandoned factory where that group is". Dani said.

"Dani, do you think you could call him again so we know where he is?" Callen asked.

"Why?"

"So we can bring him in and talk to him, if what you said is true then we can help him and he won't get into any trouble," Sam said.

"I'll try but if he doesn't answer then you could have Uncle Eric trace his phone"

"Alright" Callen gave a nod.

The teen then pulled her phone out and called Seth. It had gone to voicemail so she tried a couple more times getting the voicemail.

"He didn't answer, it's just his voicemail"

She put her phone down and tried to hide her face as a new round of tears came. The dirty blonde father couldn't take it anymore and went to hug his daughter. Seeing her in this pain killed him, he gathered her in his arms and she weakly wrapped her arms around his neck.

He looked at the others. "No more questioning her. Just have Erin and Nell track that kid"

"I say again, that kid has a name it's Seth and I'll go get on that" Kensi spoke, going up to the Ops center.

Callen had gone over to his friend trying to separate him from his daughter, the blonde haired man unwillingly let his daughter go out of his hold. Sam had taken her from the situation to get her to fully calm down. Deeks had felt his emotions slightly going out of hand.

Before he could get a word out Callen started. "Deek, I know you wanna protect Dani and keep her safe, we all do. But If she does know anything about Seth or where she followed him we need to know and we have to ask hard questions"

"Then at least let me do it"

"You know we can't and you know why. Sam can handle it. If it becomes to much we'll stop"

"What if someone saw her? What if they know she was there and they take her?"

"Calm down, don't drive yourself insane with the what ifs. We will protect Dani at any and all costs. We protect our family. Nobody's going to hurt her"

The dirty blonde man had sat on the edge of the desk. "I promised my wife, Dani's mom, I would spend the rest of my life protecting her. I never wanted her mixed up in the cases we work on. I try to keep my work life away from her. If I lost her.. I don't know what I do"

"Deeks you're an amazing father, you would die for her. You do everything for her, you know what's best for her. You do what you have to do and we got your back"

"Thanks Callen"

"Anytime brother"

Sam had been with his niece as they went somewhere private in the office to talk. Dani had sat down and wiped her eyes, the former Navy Seal had sat down beside his niece and rubbed her back.

"Just take a few minutes to calm down and relax, then we can talk"

She sniffed and wiped her eyes. "I just wanted to help him Uncle Sam, why wouldn't he let me help?"

"He was scared you would get hurt or worse, he didn't want anything happening to you"

She had laid her head on his shoulder. "I love him"

"You love him or you think you love him?"

"I love him, I'd do anything to help him"

"Then let's start helping him. From the very beginning tell me what happened"