Never Tell

Chapter 5

Kensi walked into the LA offices, Callen had left early with Sam to go back to the cover house as he called it. Eva had Lena and she knew she'd be able to get a few hours paperwork under the belt before her husband arrived home with dinner.

Sat at her desk she watched Macy take a call and pace up and down her office. The more she tried to work on her paperwork the more she was increasingly drawn to Macy. Sure she got agitated before a big case, but this seemed different. Macy opened her door, "NATE!" she yelled, causing every employee within earshot to jump.

Kensi shrugged Gibbs had just left and Callen had told her there was some tension between those two but this seemed over the top.

Nate ran into Macy's office and Kensi watched as Macy collapsed down onto her desk. Nate helped her to her chair and motioned for Kensi. "You and Renko need to get in here." He called around the door. Mike, at the next desk shrugged and followed her up the stairs.

"Mace, you ok?" Kensi asked concerned.

Mace sat in her chair shaking…. "I have some bad news…Agent Callen was shot in a drive by shooting an hour ago."

Kensi bit the inside of her mouth to keep from screaming Nate noticed her looking shaky and offered her a chair which she gratefully accepted as her tears began to fall.

"Is he….?" She couldn't bring herself to as if she was a widow.

"Sam's with him now, he's in surgery…" Mace replied.

Kensi stood up, "I need to go now."

"Kensi, I know we are all concerned about Agent Callen, but you need to be here now."

Kensi stood up and walked out of Macy's office, "Agent Blye!"

"NO!" Kensi said grabbing her purse, "I'm going to the hospital Mace," she walked past a shocked Nate and out of the building.

Nate looked at Macy who was stunned by this outburst, "The team is very tight knit Mace you should let her go." He advised looking at Renko for support.

Macy sighed and turned as her phone started ringing. "Out." She ordered the two remaining men who only too glad of the excuse to leave hightailed it out of her office to inform the others of Callen's shooting.

"Macy..." she said as she answered the phone.

"Hetty, it's been a long time, it's not a good on right now…" Macy started and then stopped as the tirade started on the other end.

"Hetty… I didn't know!" Macy tried to defend herself, "Yes Callen told me about the girl following him, I thought…." She held the phone away from her ear as Hetty tore her off a strip.

"I'm being what!" she couldn't believe what she was hearing, "Transferred…but what about this department…the team?"

She sighed as Hetty filled her in on the fact that she was indeed being transferred to NCIS in Camp Pendleton and that in fact Hetty was moving to take over as director of operations at the office of special projects.

Sam was standing outside the hospital trying to call Macy as he caught a glimpse of what looked like Kensi going into the building. He shook his head there was no way she could know yet as he hadn't even called his boss.

Kensi saw Sam on the phone but made it past him and into the building. She went up to the nurses' station; the nurse from the other night was there.

"Mrs. Callen?" she said surprised.

"Rosie!" Kensi smiled, she had liked this nurse "I heard Callen's here, I need a favor, I'm known as Kensi Blye to my co-workers, it's important that they don't know we're married." She said urgently glancing in the direction of the door lest Sam walk in.