DOUBLE TAKE

Chapter 26

Prague

The team regrouped back at their apartment to go over their next plan of attack. John and Jackson provided them with the intel on the illegal drug trade, and decided that would be their next hit. Within an hour, they were outside another property, ready to go in with their guns blazing. They couldn't risk leaving any loose ends now they had started their attack, nor anyone finding out what they had done already. The plan was for Deeks to pose as a lost tourist with a map in his hand. It reminded Callen of the time they had used the biscuit trick with Kensi looking for her lost dog. He smiled at the memory to back when Deeks was still new to the team. How long ago that seemed now.

Deeks portrayed the lost tourist perfectly, as he distracted the man at the gate, while the others jumped over the wall into the property. When he knew the others were all safe inside, he twisted the neck of the man in his care till he was unconscious. Deeks pulled the man behind the wall to keep him out of sight. His agent training with Callen and Sam had paid off at last.

Sam and Callen went to the west side of the building, while John and Jackson went to the east. They waited for Silverton and Deeks to arrive at the front door. "On the count of three. Three two one." The three groups of pairs barged in the three entrances they had access to and moved from room to room. Gunshots were heard as Deeks and Silverton met with armed men.

"Clear," Callen called.

More gunshots could be heard. "Four down." Jackson's voice was heard over the comms.

Sam and Callen had so far not come upon anyone, but they had to tread carefully, as the others had made their presence known with the gunfire.

Five men rushed through the doors in front of Sam, surprised to be met by anyone, as they fled from the gunfire elsewhere in the building. Sam and Callen took them down, without injury. "Five down." Callen voiced through the comms.

They continued to clear each room, until they arrived into the main room of the building. Shelves of drugs sat in boxes ready to be shipped across the world. Ten armed men fired automatic weapons at the six intruders. Deeks and Silverton ducked behind a cabinet, while John and Jackson came up from behind and fired their weapons at four of the men. Sam saw one turn to aim at Jackson, he fired his weapon, hitting the man in the chest. Sam's position had been given away and he became the next target.

Callen came up behind the man who was firing at Sam and threw his knife into his throat. He moved his weapon around scanning the room. It had suddenly become strangely quiet, until they heard someone clapping. A man in his early forties appeared.

"Bravo! I have to say, I am really impressed with your handy work, Agent G. Callen. You and your team are as good as I have been told."

Callen glared at the man. He felt a gun to the back of his head. He looked to where Sam was but he had vanished from sight. As he looked around the room all he saw was himself and Jackson held at gunpoint. They had been out numbered and led into a trap. "

What no hello, Agent Callen? No questions as to how I know who you are?"

Callen knew who had told him. There could only be one answer; Kevin. That bastard had betrayed his country and his family. His body tensed as he was pushed closer towards the man who was talking.

"Let me introduce myself then, seeing I seem to have the advantage to know who you are, and you appear to not know who I am. I am Ales Jankovic, a very good friend of someone you know, Agent Callen. Does the name Dracul Comescu mean anything to you?"

Callen tried hard not to react to Ales' words.

"Dracul and I were in boarding school together and became very good friends. He told me about you and your team and how the four of you destroyed his family empire two years ago. But it seems I cannot find my dear friend, Dracul. Somehow I believe it has something to do with you, Agent Callen."