DOUBLE TAKE

Chapter 22

Callen and Nell couldn't believe their eyes when they came across Sam and Deeks lying on the ground semi unconscious. "Are you both okay? Where's Kensi?" Callen asked them.

"Kensi's not here?" He heard Deeks say as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Shit!" Sam added. "We were walking and talking one minute, then nothing." Sam also rubbed the back of his head.

Callen looked around to see if anyone was watching them. "Damn it." Callen looked for any security cameras, as he dialled Ops. "Eric." He snapped through the phone.

Eric jumped as he heard the harshness in Callen's voice. "Callen—-what's wrong?"

"Kensi's been kidnapped. Sam and Deeks were knocked out cold when Nell and I found them. We're outside 3260 Maplewood Ave, Highland Park. There should be some security cameras around here, with the look of some of these houses." Callen still couldn't believe his father owned a house in one of the most expensive parts of Dallas.

"On it, Callen. Okay, yep, got it. Four masked men approached Sam, Kensi and Deeks about ten minutes ago. Two knocked Sam and Deeks out, and two have knocked Kensi out with something on a rag, which made her collapse. Typing in the vehicle's description into kaleidoscope now. It's a black SUV, damn. No number plates. Sorry, Callen. I will stay on it if anything shows up. Hang on, it has a scuff mark on the rear left of the bumper. This should help find it."

"Thanks, Eric." Callen sighed and felt frustrated at the situation. Whoever had taken Kensi were pros, to have had the gall to take Sam and Deeks out to kidnap Kensi. "Eric's found security footage of four masked men take you out and take Kensi. They knocked her out with something on a rag before fleeing in a black SUV. Eric is searching for the vehicle on kaleidoscope, but it's going to be hard, there were no number plates."

"Shit!" Sam said again. "We should have been more prepared. Do you think it's the Jankovic Family?"

Callen shook his head. "No. I believe it's got to have something to do with Kevin." Callen tensed and stormed off to his father's house. As Callen pushed through the back door, he stormed into the living room. "Where is she, Kevin?" Any form of trust Callen may have had left for his brother, had blown out the window.

"Who are you talking about, George?" John asked his son, shocked at the force he had entered the house demanding an answer from Kevin.

"Kensi, she's just been kidnapped by four masked men, only a couple of houses down the street. They knocked Sam and Deeks out cold when Nell and I found them." Callen had pulled his brother off the couch. "Where is she?"

"Goodness, Kevin, what have you done?" Hetty added.

"I've done nothing. I swear." He coughed and felt weak, but Callen wouldn't let him sit back down.

"Let him sit down, George, please." Charlie pleaded with him. She hated seeing her two cousins fight like they were.

Callen let his brother go. "We will find her, Kevin. And I swear, if anything happens to Kensi, I will personally kill you with my bare hands. That I do promise you."

"That's enough, George. I will not have you coming into our house and threaten Kevin like this. He's weak and recovering from being shot, saving your girlfriend, in case you have already forgotten." Beth was furious with Callen's behaviour towards her own son.

"Nell wouldn't have needed to have been rescued, Beth, if your beloved son here hadn't got himself mixed up in this mess with the Jankovics in the first place. Nor would we have wasted our time and resources in trying to catch the men we were after, if Kevin had come clean and told us what was really going on." He was furious with his brother. This mess he had thrown into all their laps was bad news, and kept on getting worse as each day came. "We're done here. You can go back to playing happy families, while I try and rescue my real family. You stay away from us, all of us." Callen spat out towards his brother. He turned and exited the house, taking a shocked Nell, Sam and Deeks with him.