A/N: My very first NCIS: LA story. Tips and flames are welcomed. I have something like this writen for Boondock Saints but I want to see how well I do on this for NCIS: LA.

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS: LA just this story.

It was mid afternoon on a hot summer day and almost everyone in Los Angeles was at the park enjoying the day with friends and family. A group of children, no more than eight years old, gather around a little girl as she covered her eyes with both hands and started counting as the group scattered and looked for some good hiding spots while parents sat back and watched. Once the little girl counted to fifty she uncovered her eyes and went about to see how many kids she could find. She found four so far and as she passed some trees, she saw movement and thought it was her friend so she ran into the trees to tag them out but when she moved a branch from a bush, she stopped dead in her tracks at what she saw beyond that. There, lying on the ground bound and gagged was a young man that looked beaten and clearly dead. The little girl did what every seven year old would do and that was screaming while running to the safety of her parents arms.

NCIS Headquarters

Kensi gave a sigh of relief as she felt the cool air of the A/C unit that just kicked on and thanked God that Hetty was understanding about the heat and needing to put the A/C on to keep everyone from killing each other. She walked over to her desk and just sat down when she heard Callen and Nate talking about something and from the sound of it, they were disagree on something that she wanted in on.

"I'm telling you Nate, that's not his name."

"Yes it is. I think I would remember his name since I've watched it when I was little."

"Yeah, so did I and I can tell you that you're wrong and I'm right."

Kensi just shook her head when she realized she wasn't going to be in on the discussion unless she put herself in so that's what she did. "What are you boys disagreeing about?"

"Callen here says that Dick Dastardly's dog is named Muttley and I say its Muggsy," Nate said, leaning against the wall while Callen took his seat at his desk.

"Well Nate, I'm gonna have to agree with Callen on this one," Kensi said with a smile. "The dog's name is Muttley."

"Are you guys sure?"

Just at that moment Sam arrived and everyone looked at him like he should give his option though he doesn't know what they're talking about.

"What?"

"Sam, you're going to be our last hope," Callen said, looking at his partner. "To actually be right and Nate being wrong, what is the name of Dick Dastardly s dog?"

"The one from Wacky Races?"

"Yeah."

"Muttley."

Callen put his hands in the air and looked at Nate with a smile. "Sorry Nate but it's three against one and the dogs name is Muttley."

Nate held his hands up in defeat and smiled before turning to get some coffee when a familiar high pitch whistle sounded through the building and looked up to see Eric smiling and waving them up to get upstairs and get ready for work. Once they were upstairs Hetty was already reading over some papers and looked up when they came in.

"Good morning everyone, I hope you all slept well," she said, nodding to Eric to get started. When the picture of the bound and gagged young man appeared on the screen, she looked at her agents. "This young man was found in the park yesterday afternoon by a seven year old girl playing hid and seek with friends. He was found bound, gagged, beaten, cut, and no way of identifying him."

"Okay, who is he and why does NCIS have to take this case?" Sam asked. He saw Eric pull up a picture of a young man in an army suit. That would explain it.

"The young man you just saw is this young man right here, Cadet Jason Ryan Williow. He is 23 years old and came home from Iraq a month ago. At first it was LAPD's case but when they pulled his dental records and saw he is military, they gave the case to us."

"We looked deeper into his history," Eric said, pulling up a picture of a teenage girl, "and found this. Amanda Willow, age sixteen, disappeared from the same park one year ago."

"I remember that," Callen said, looking at the Missing Person's ad. "LAPD had no leads and it ended up being a cold case."

"According to parents, Jason was distraught when he learned his little sister went missing and friends said he vowed to find her when he returned home," Eric said.

"Well, looking at the bruises and cuts I would say this man was tortured," Nate said. "The marks on his back could be from a whip, cuts could be anything, burn marks under his feet, on his arms, rope burns around his wrist and ankles, even looks like burn marks from a stun gun on his shoulder and stomach. The coroner found traces of sensitives in his system but none of that resulted in his death."

"Then what killed him?" Kensi asked.

"Looks like a simple blow to the head."

"Okay, so far the only thing we can do now is talk to the parents and hope that can give us something to go on," Callen said, looking at Sam before leaving the room.