A/N: I started working on this chapter before we left and I wasn`t able to finish and post it until now. As you can see I did not freeze to death and we had an excellent Christmas, thought I doubt my family will be doing this again. It was just too chaotic for our liking and we'll be going back to our regular Christmas routine next year. As for my gifts I got the second season of Glee and NCIS: LA (from my sister and her husband), while my brother's decided to chip in and be cheap at the same time and got me a two dollar pair of leg warmers. My parents ended up getting me an Ipod Touch, a docking station and two pair of pyjamas.

Enough about my Christmas…I hope each and every one of you had an amazing Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa here's to wishing you all a Happy New Year as well!

ENJOY!

Chapter Thirty-Five: Merry Christmas, G

"G was suppose to work on a plan B," Sam said, as they began to pack for their mission to get the flux compression generator back. Over the oast couple of days, they had found out that Christian Nettleton, had a large amount of student debts, that he would have to work his entire life to settle them, and because of the falling economy, there were not many jobs that he could use his degree with. He was desperate for money and that was the reason why he had hired a few men, that his father had known before his death in 2004. According to Professor Greene, Nettleton had no idea on how to actually the generator and was going to destroy the city of Los Angeles and the state of California, trying to shut down a banks' security system. Their problem was that there were so many banks in downtown Los Angeles, that they were completely unsure of which one they would hit.

"What do you mean, he was supposed to work on a plan B," Nikki said, as she too packed a bag. Her and Deeks were going to be working together, since the team in good conscience could not send Kensi out into the field while she was pregnant. G looked slightly sheepish, as he packed some of the tools that he and Sam would need. Eric had worked out that the generator would have to be on a high roof top, which had helped them narrows it down to at least five banks.

"We both worked on a plan A," G explained. Nikki blinked, and then decided to smack G upside the head, and as he flinched and rubbed the back of his head, she kissed him soundly on the lips. He was slightly surprised by her action, but quickly responded to this kiss, wrapping one arm around her waist, while the other tangled itself into her hair.

Kensi was sitting in the OPS control centre, while the rest of the team was getting ready for their mission. She was glad that Deeks and Nikki would be trying to stop Chris Nettleton from actually robbing the bank instead of being on the roof with G and Sam trying to disable the generator.

"Be careful, Mr. Hanna and Mr. Callen, in the event that you find yourselves on the woof when the generator goes off, there will be no air assistance," Hetty said, as they left. Eric shared a look with Nikki. He had found what she asked him about three days ago and she smiled at him. She had gotten G, a Christmas present just in case Eric couldn't come through for her, but this made it even better now. Nikki bent down and gave her grandmother a hug, before g helped her into the SUV and they were off. Eric hurried upstairs and into the control centre, where he was going to search the rooftops of the banks that were high enough that it would give this thing enough clearance.

Sam parked close to one of the banks that they had marked down as a possible target. All four of them were watching the different street corners, hoping to maybe spot the people behind this scheme.

"So, Nikki, will you and G be joining Sheila and I Christmas Day," asked Sam.

"Maybe, depends on how things go," Nikki responded. She could see the look that G was giving her out of the corner of her eye, trying to figure out what she meant by that, so she decided to change the subject the best she could.

"Did you ever find that Parker Pony for your daughter?"

"Eric found it up for auction online, but this other buyer grabbed it right out of our hands at the last second," Sam explained. He was now looking at the rooftops, seeing if he could spot anything out of the ordinary.

"That's why I'm telling Ava, that her Uncle G and Aunt Nikki, let her down," Sam explained. All three of them turned to look at him to see if he was joking, but there was no hint of laughter on his face. Nikki and G's jaw dropped.

"You wouldn't," G asked, turning to look at his partner.

"You shouldn't," Nikki continued, "That is unbearable torture. I should know. I had used it on my father enough times." The guys' brows furrowed and looked at her. She turned to look out the window at the bank across the street from them.

"When I was ten, there was this new teddy bear out. I can't even remember what was so special about it, all I can remember is that I wanted it really bad. My birthday was coming up and because my birthday is only twenty-eight days before Christmas, my parents decided that I would get one present and then that way I could get spoiled at Christmas. That year, I told my exactly what I wanted. I can remember him searching for it night and day, but he was never able to find it before my birthday. I didn't speak to him until Christmas, when he finally found it," Nikki explained, a single tear running down her cheek. G grabbed her hand and rubbed her knuckles. This was his only way of offering her comfort at the time.

"Guys, it's on top of the building, across the street from you," came Eric's voice. The team jolted into action. Sam and G to the stairs, while Nikki and Deeks followed slightly slower, hoping that they would be able to stop Nettleton, before he actually got away.

"Where are the safes usually in a place like this," Deeks asked quietly. Nikki took a quick look around and then she saw someone dressed in all black sprinting around the corner out of the corner of her eye. She motioned for Deeks to follow her, and they went chasing after the suspect. He was leading them higher and higher into the building.

"G, are you on the roof," Nikki asked, while she chased after, who she guessed was Nettleton.

"Yeah, we're trying to disable the thing," G answered.

"Okay, we're in pursuit of someone, and they're headed towards you," Nikki explained. Deeks was in pursuit of the suspect, when the suspect took a quick turn and was suddenly running down the escalator. Nikki ignored the next thing that G said, and slid down the middle of the two escalators, trying to cut in front of him. She landed just in time to stick her leg out and trip the guy, who stumbled, allowing Deeks to rugby tackle him into the Christmas display, that the bank had in their front foyer. Nikki got up slowly and walked over to Deeks who was standing in front of the suspect, panting.

"That take a lot out of you, Daddy to be," Nikki joked, smacking Deeks on the shoulder. He glared at her, while he reached down and pulled the mask off the man that was lying under the tree. It was Christian Nettleton. Nikki smiled at Deeks and then tried calling G.

"We got him," she said.

"Okay, all we have to do now, is disable this thing," G answered. Nikki blinked and looked over to Deeks, who was now cuffing Nettleton.

"Ow…ow…the handcuffs are too tight," Nettleton complained. Nikki shook her head.

"Yeah, well they're new, so they might stretch out, once you wear them awhile," Deeks said, looking at Nikki, waiting for information on what was happening up on the roof.

"They still haven't disabled it," Nikki explained, before going back to her conversation with G," Do you want Deeks and I to come and help?"

"No," G yelled in her ear, "You're safer down there." Nikki heard some motion on G's end and she knew that he had taken his ear piece out. She looked at Deeks and motioned for them to walk out of the front doors, but carefully. They had no idea how they were dismantling the flux compression generator, but it was obvious that it was taking longer than they had.

"Okay, Callen, you need to pull it farther apart. The beam can still jump the gap," Eric explained to them, as they stopped pushing the parts apart from one another. Callen and Sam shared a look and then tried to continue pushing the parts farther away from each other. But it was too heavy for just the two of them. G wasn't going to risk calling Deeks and Nikki up onto the roof to help them push the pieces. It was too dangerous and he didn't want Nikki getting hurt if something happened, before the could push the pieces farther from each other, even though he would do his best to protect her.

"Okay, I'm doing plan B," Sam digging into his bag. G looked at him confused.

"When did we come up with a plan B?"

"Just now," Sam said, as he pulled the liquid nitrogen from his bag. G looked at him and then watched Sam, as he poured the chemical onto the generator. Sparks began to fly causing them to grab the grappling hooks from their bags, throwing the bags onto their shoulders and jumping off the side of the roof. The flux compression generator exploded in a ball of fire.

Below the ground began to shake, and Nikki looked up to the sky to see the explosion. Her jaw dropped and she began to desperately reach for the cell phone that she kept in her pocket at all times. Tears began to blur her vision, as they threatened to fall. All she could hear was her heart hammering in her chest. She had no idea if G or Sam were alive and she had the sudden feeling of being seventeen again and being told in her Criminology class that a plane had hit the North World Trade Centre. She needed to know and she needed to know now.

The phone began to ring and she took a deep breath. Her heart slowly stopped hammering and then sh heard the ring echo. Her brow furrowed and she looked around.

"It's a quarter after one, I'm little drunk and I need you now. Said I wouldn't come, but I've lost..."

She knew that ring tone. She was the one that picked the ring tone, when they first started dating. She wanted G to know it was her, every time she called. Deeks heard the ringing too and began looking around. It was then that he spotted two people hanging by grappling hook, from the side of the building. He tapped Nikki on the shoulder and pointed to where the ringing was coming from.

It was then that she began to tap her foot.

G looked at the caller ID on his phone and looked at Sam. He slowly began to hand it over to Sam, who began to look at him like he was crazy

"She's calling you, you answer it," Sam answered. G looked at him and then at the phone.

"Hello," he said, as casually as he could.

"Need a parachute, G," Nikki asked, before hanging her phone up quickly. She giggled silently. The only evidence that she was laughing were her shaking shoulders and to Deeks, who was standing behind her, it looked as if she was crying.

"What's wrong, Nik," Deeks asked, adopting the nickname that G had started calling her weeks after their first meeting. She turned and looked at him and then back at G and Sam.

"Do you think we should call for help and get them down or should we just leave them there? I personally think that we should just leave them," Nikki asked resting her arm on Deeks' shoulder. He looked up at where Sam and G were dangling and then to Nikki. He contemplated it for a moment and as much as he would love to just them hanging there, he could see that Nikki was indeed joking with him and if he said that they should leave them there it would have him on her bad side quicker than if he were to put his feet on her late mother's coffee table.

"It's not rocket science, Deeks…should we leave them up there or call for help tp get them down," Nikki asked, as she waved her hand in front of Deeks' face. It was times like this that she wondered how Deeks had gotten Kensi pregnant, when he couldn't answer a question as easy as the one she was asking. Still Deeks didn't answer her, so she waved a hand at Deeks and walked up to the building and leaned against it dialling her grandmother's number at OPS. She had no doubt that Grams, Kensi, Nate, Nell and Eric had seen everything, but they probably couldn't reach the two of them because her fiancée and his best friend were too afraid to answer her call.

Eric, Nell, Nate and Kensi watched as Hetty paced in front of the big screen, desperately trying to get a hold of G and Sam. They had watched the explosion via satellite and ever since the flux compression generator exploded in a ball of fire and smoke, they weren't able to see anything, because the smoke that had clouded over the roof of the building.

Hetty heard the phone begin to ring, as she paced. Eric quickly hit the answer key.

"Mr. Callen," Hetty asked.

"Wow Grams, I'm your only grandchild and you ask for your employee before me, thanks," Nikki answered. Hetty let go of the breath she had unknowingly been holding.

"Sorry dear, how are you," Hetty asked.

"Good and so are Deeks, Sam and G, besides the fact that G and Sam are dangling from the building by grappling hook, but they're good," Nikki answer offhandedly. The room looked at one another in confusion at her statement, but then Hetty remembered that G and Sam had packed grappling hooks into the bags.

"Will they need assistance getting down," Hetty asked.

"They didn't bring enough rope, so yeah," Nikki answered.

Hetty knocked the spout into the keg, while G, Nikki, Sam and Eric watched.

"This is Yeichstan's finest ale, flown in from Yorkshire England and then brewed as it was in Charles Dickens time," Hetty explained tapping the side of the barrel.

"Nettleton got handed over to the LAPD," Deeks said, as he walked in with his arm wrapped around Kensi, stopping beside G and Nikki. Hetty looked at them all. She was glad to them all standing there, enjoying the holiday instead of working on the stolen flux compression generator case. She slowly began to pour the team, minus Kensi drinks.

"Can't drink on an empty stomach," said Nell, as she held out a plate of cookies for them all to help themselves too, "6 hours and glocks." Nikki smiled and laughed. She recognized the recipe. It had been the first recipe that her grandmother had taught her and her mother when they were younger.

"Wait, did you bake these in the microwave," Kensi asked, a tone of surprise in her voice, as she leaned against Deeks, who was already shoving a cookie in his mouth.

"I actually reconfigured the burn room incinerator as a convection oven, so," Nell explained, as Kensi went to put the cookie in her mouth.

"Smart girl," said Nikki, as she looked above her and G to where Nate was holding some mistle toe. She giggled and smiled as G and her leant into one another to share a gentle kiss. Eric walked away silently.

"Uh, Sam," he called. Sam turned around, brushing the crumbs from his hands as he did.

"I got a little something for ya," Eric said. He pulled the box that was behind his back to in front of him. Inside the box was the Parker Pony that Ava wanted. Sam smiled and walked over to Eric, leaving Deeks and Kensi to watch as Nikki and G continued to kiss, even though Nate had already taken the mistle toe down from above them.

"How'd you find it," he asked, taking it from Eric's hands.

"Don't ask."

"You saved my life," Sam said. He grabbed Eric by the neck and give him a quick hug. Eric's smiled got bigger. By this time Nikki and G had stopped kissing. Nikki reached into her pocket and took out the number that Eric had handed to her earlier.

"I've got something for you too, G," she said. G looked down at her. They had agreed they weren't going to exchange gifts until Christmas Morning.

"I thought that you might want to make this call now, rather than two days from now," Nikki explained. She handed him the piece of paper. On the piece of paper the name, Alexander Callen in Nikki's handwriting and below it was a number and a Los Angeles adress in Eric's familiar scrawl.

"Nikki, what-" G said looking at completely confused.

"Christmas is a time of family. So I used my friends at the FBI to look into your family history and I got your father's name, who according to FBI records is very much alive. I then asked Eric to try and find a recent number and address. You've given me everything I've ever wanted and more, and I wanted to find you someone you could call family-" G cut Nikki off, giving her a passionate kiss.

"Thank you," he whispered, hugging her to him.

"Merry Christmas G."

A/N: All finished and I know it's two days late, but I only just got back home about three hours ago and I needed to finish this before I could update it. Please check out the poll on my profile. What gender should Deeks and Kensi's baby/babies be?

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