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Authors Note (ONLY POSTING ONCE) : I don't own NCIS:LA/NCIS. I'm just borrowing the characters and I promise I will give them back. Sarah is mine. Any character that is introduced to the NCIS:LA/NCIS universe is mine.

I will try (note the word try) to have chapters go out more frequently this time. BUT things can change. I have a family situation going on right now and I may have to drop everything and go.

Again thanks for all the followers/favorites. Please review so I know that someone is reading it.

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Song used "Deh vieni non tardar" From the Opera "Le Nozze de Figaro" by Mozart

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Prologue

Washington, D.C.

2012

He heard...music.

Deh vieni, non tardar, o gioja bella (Oh, come, don't be late, my beautiful joy) Vieni ove amore per goder t'appella (Come where love calls you to enjoyment) Finche non splende in ciel notturna face (Until night's torches no longer shine in the sky).

Where had he heard this song?

Finche l'aria e ancor bruna, (As long as the air is still dark) E il mondo tace. (And the world quiet.)

He knew he had heard this song before...

Qui mormora il ruscel, qui scherza l'aura (Here the river murmurs and the light plays) Che col dolce susurro il cor ristaura (That restores the heart with sweet ripples) Qui ridono i fioretti e l'erba e fresca (Here, little flowers laugh and the grass is fresh)

Then he remembered. Sarah sang it, at the Opera/Musical Scenes performance, at the University that she worked at, on opening night. She surprised everyone, walking out on stage just before intermission, wearing an emerald green gown. When she sang, she only looked at him. That's when he knew it was time to propose to her.

Ai piaceri d'amor qui tutto adesca. (Here, everything entices one to love's pleasures) Vieni, ben mio, tra queste piante ascose. (Come, my dear, among these hidden plants.) Vieni, vieni! (Come, come!) Ti vo' la fronte incoronar di rose. (I want to crown you with roses.)

G. Callen opened his eyes slowly, as the music faded away. "Sarah?" he said, trying to move, and felt the pain go up his arms. His wrists were handcuffed to the chair, and his upper arms had thick leather bands wrapped around him, attaching to the chair. The last thing he remembered, was going to Gibbs' place and seeing her there with him. He should have known immediately that it was a trap, but he trusted her.

"Hello, sleepyhead," the goon said, sitting ten feet away from him.

G remembered seeing him at Gibbs' house. He was the bastard who knocked him out when Callen saw her. The man smiled, and got out his cell phone.

"El este treaz" (He is awake) he said in Romanian. He looked at G while listening to instructions, "Amendă." (Fine) he got up, and opened the door, while putting his phone in his back pocket.

Callen heard heels of the woman's shoes, slowly clicking on the concrete, as she came down the hallway. As his eyes started to focus, he could see that she was wearing a black dress and her beautiful hair was down over her left shoulder. She stopped in the doorway under the dim light that shone like a spotlight above her.

"Lasă-ne."(Leave us) she told the man the door. She looked at Callen, smiled, and locked the door after he left.

"Sarah," he whispered again, and looked into her eyes. He couldn't believe that she would do this to him.

She walked up, kneeled in front of him, and touched his cheek; "I'm here," her voice was soothing. She kissed him softly on the mouth, unknowing to him she took the small syringe "Everything is going to be okay," she whispered in his ear, while sticking the needle in his left arm, injecting him with the drug, and making him pass out.

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