Requiem for the boy

Chapter 12

Sam looked at Callen and Callen nodded, knelt down and started picking the lock as the sounds of things being thrown around started inside.

Deeks had a spoon and was trying to pry the bars off the window with it.

Callen, Sam and Kensi burst into the room and stood watching, "Deeks?" Callen said with smirk, "What the hell are you doing?"

"Digging the bars off the window and getting away from the monsters at the door." He slurred. "Now grab a spoon and help me before they get in!" he insisted.

Kensi looked confused, although, knowing Deeks wasn't in any danger, stepped back for a moment and looked around the room.

There was a line and a half of Coke on the foil on the table and half a bottle of scotch sat next to it. Old, dirty plates were in the sink, the bed was rumpled and used condom wrappers were in and around the trash can.

Deeks looked wild-eyed at them, "Hurry. They are gonna find me." He insisted again.

"Who, Deeks, Who's looking for you." Sam asked sitting on the corner of the bed.

"Can't say she said she'd hurt them, can't go home, too dangerous…here's safe." He said Callen put his hand on his shoulder; Deeks shook him off and moved back to the window. "No, have to go you don't understand, she has people watching me…found me…hospital not safe,"

"Deeks sit down; do you know who I am?" Callen said gently.

Deeks cocked his head and gave him an 'I'm not mad' look.

"Callen…you need to leave….please…." Deeks begged.

The door banged and Deeks looked scared, "He can't see you…you can't be here!" he gasped. He moved a modesty screen that covered the kitchenette area from the rest of the room… "Please!" he begged.

They nodded and moved behind the screen.

Deeks opened the door, "A…Andy….I…." He was cut off as a smack was heard and Deeks fell on the floor.

"Do you think she didn't know, they found you, Jake's made arrangements for you to be moved, and she has two men watching your family." He showed a picture of Sarah and Carl both with their back to the camera looking at something and Jen and Jeff inside Deeks' house playing with Monty...The last photo was of Kensi on a run her hair in mid-swing as she jogged along the sidewalk.

He traced a finger down the picture of Kensi.

"You know you can't get away, you tried that when you ran the first time, now Max, did you take your medicine like a good little boy?" Andy asked sarcastically and checked the table, "Come on Max there's a line left, can't have you kicking the habit now can we, we need you nice and compliant when Jake brings Charlie round, Charlie's gonna help get ya settled into your new gig, She doesn't think you've been punished enough, you have a new job coming…"

Deeks struggled in his grip, "I won't do it,"

Andy played with the picture of Kensi, "That Kensi is pretty…for now, I can mess her up good!" he drawled.

Behind the screen Kensi balled her fists and Callen laid a hand on her shoulder, there was more going on here than Deeks just hitting rock bottom and before they made a move he needed more information.

Andy grabbed Deeks by his collar and pushed him up against the wall, "You know what you are Max…you are where you belong, if you don't want them hurt you'll behave…now you pretty yourself up for Charlie, and don't forget to pack, we are moving you tonight…you're going to live with Charlie…he needs a new pet."

Andy laughed as he walked out the door, Deeks slid down the wall sobbing, forgetting the others were there.

Callen, Sam and Kensi looked at each other, stunned at what they had heard. Callen opened his phone and called Hetty, Kensi and Sam walked over to Deeks.

"Marty….Hey, Marty…it's ok, we can help you, you just have to come with us." Kensi said.

Deeks slumped to the floor, his knees up to his chest and his face in his hands.

"C…Can't…" he sobbed, "N…Not safe."

"Marty, come with us it'll be fine, no one is going to judge you all we want to do is help you." She said softly.

Deeks shook his head to clear his mind, as fuzzy as it was it was registering her touch, "Kenz?"

"Come on Shaggy, we need to help you get better." She smiled.

"No, I can't if I get better she'll find out and you'll be hurt, you and Jen…Can't take the chance…not worth it…" he closed his eyes as a wave of dizziness passed over him.

"Who…Deeks, who will hurt Kensi and Jen?" Sam asked.

"Frieda…she's been watching me, she made me leave…had picture of Jen through a scope and Kenz too!" Deeks sighed, "Can't fight anymore, too tired, lemme die Sam," Deeks crawled towards the coke line on the table, "Just a bit more, it'll be all over…everyone'll be safe." He said tears falling unchecked.

Sam lifted Deeks back and held him in a bear hug, "Not gonna happen pal, I got your back."

Callen walked back in the room, "It's sorted, Hetty has a room for Deeks in a private hospital, and we just have to get him outta here."

"Can't…Jake's sold me to Charlie…gotta stay, gotta do as I'm told, Can't put em in danger, gotta save my family, gotta save Grandpa…she's gonna get em if I don't." Deeks sobbed. "I love Kensi; Sam. Jen and Sarah….Grandpa loves me…he's the only one who ever did…he knows about Brandel and he loves me, can't be a screw up, can't let em down." Deeks had no idea that anyone was really there, he saw faces, faces of people he cared about but he knew they couldn't really be there, but this hallucination had Sam comforting him, no one ever comforted him and he liked it, so this time…till he came down from his high and found out he was alone again he relished in the comfort.

Callen's phone rang, "Paramedics are here, you wanna go with him?" He asked Kensi.

Deeks gripped Sam's arm, "Don't leave me Sam, and don't let Charlie take me….lemme die first, pleeeaaassseeee!" he wailed.

Sam looked at Callen, "I'm staying with him." He said.

The other two looked at each other; there was no argument with Sam when he was in this mood.

Callen opened the door and two men walked in.

The first paramedic knelt down, "Mr. Deeks?" he asked

"No…no. no. no. not Deeks, Deeks not safe….SAM! SAM!" Deeks screamed.

"High on coke, I'm staying with him." Sam said helping the paramedics tie Deeks to the gurney.

Callen grabbed Sam as Kensi walked along with Deeks and the Paramedics to the ambulance.

"Sam, I'm gonna take the long way with Kensi." He said earning a confused look from his partner.

"When you get there, make sure they run a rape kit on Deeks….Kensi does not need to know about this…" Callen left the implication hanging in the air, but Sam caught it.

"I've got his back. G, Don't worry."

"OK he's booked in at the Las Vegas Recovery Center, Hetty and Deeks' family will be there about the same time you are, Keep that bit quiet, for Deeks." Callen requested.

Callen watched them go and told Kensi to meet him in the car.

He sat back in the room Deeks had occupied. Not even his worst placements had been this bad. He sat on the armchair and turned it so it faced the door and sat with his gun in his lap.

He looked at his watch and smiled, "Come on Charlie." He grinned.