Kensi's POV. After 6 x 11, the Christmas episode when Deeks and Kensi decide to make things official. They travel to Mammoth together with Monty for the holidays. One Shot. Mature content up ahead.

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The big red truck pulled up on my driveway and I could hear NPR on its radio. (Monty's fave) The slender, blonde, hunky driver got out of the car and walked to my front door with his adorable swagger and a smile on his face.

Yup, that's him. That's my boyfriend. Marty Deeks is my boyfriend.

"Kensilina" he hollers.

I opened the door, dragging my mountaineers backpack and welcomed him with a hug. He kissed my cheek and his scruffy beard brushed my face. Hmmm, he smells so good.

"Let me get that for you" he took my backpack from me and headed back to his truck as I locked my apartment door behind me.

I sat at the passenger seat and Monty, his dog, wagged his tail and panted heavily, all happy to see me. Deeks put my backpack beside him in the back seat. "What a needy baby" he said of his dog.

"He just missed me" I replied, giving Monty a generous pat on the head. Monty started licking my hand as Deeks settled on the driver's seat.

"Woah, Nelly, quit with the licking" Deeks said as he turns on the engine. "Leave some for me". Deeks gives me a little wink. You know, he does that to seduce me or to annoy me. Which in truth is really more the former than the latter. I rolled my eyes to hide my teenage giddiness.

As the red truck pulled out of the driveway, I looked at my sad, dark apartment and I am absolutely delighted. No takeout noodles by the TV this weekend. No reruns of Law Order until I fall asleep. Nope. This weekend -- A Christmas weekend at that -- I will be in the arms of my new boyfriend, Marty Deeks.

We have been dancing around this relationship for a while, from hanging out to touching, and then the touching became kissing, and then the kissing became petting. He falls asleep at my couch, or I fall asleep at his. Never really talking about the big elephant in the room, whoever's room.

And yet we will die and kill for each other.

Last week at the skating rink, I finally had the courage to say: let's do this. Let's go for it. No more games. Chips on the table. And he agreed.

The drive up to Mammoth was uneventful at first. We just talked about the office, gossiped about Callen and Joelle, talked about what to eat ("I can cook more than fritatas, you know" he said), wondered if Eric and Nell were together.

Then we came to an intersection. While waiting for the red light to turn green, his hand moved from the center console to my knee. He then rubbed my knee with his thumb.

I had to look away because I had this big stupid grin on my face.

"What?" I guess he noticed.

No point hiding, so I looked at him, smiling. "Nothing"

He took his hand away. "Sorry, I was just trying out something."

"No, don't stop doing that" I said and grabbed his hand and put it back on my knee. "I like it. Very boyfriendy."

He smiled back. But this time instead of my knee, he took my hand and kissed it.

The rest of the way, Deeks and I held hands as he drove to the hotel up in Mammoth.