When Marty Deeks came into work he thought it was going to be just another normal day at LAPD. The sun was shining when he walked out to his car with Francis Boyle, his new partner.

"So it looked like it´s going to be a normal sunny day" Francis said as they sat in the car and drove into traffic.

"We have a 62 downtown, who will go down a see what is going on?" the radio interrupted what Marty was going to say and he picked up the radio

"A little early for shop lifting don´t you think?" Boyle smiled at Marty before he took the radio

"Station, station tell us the address and we will be right there" he said and laid the radio back again

" Address is 67 Lincoln Blvd" the radio went dead again as they turned around and made their way towards their first assignment of the day.

When they came to the address they got out of the car and walked towards the store manager who was standing in front of the store and behind him was a security guard who had a young girl not older than 15 who had a look of sadness and shamefulness on her face but when Deeks caught her eye she quickly looked away.

"Hello officer" The manager said and shook first Boyle than Deeks hand before he stepped aside.

"We caught this young girl trying to steal some clothes and some candy" the manager said as the young girl looked any were else but at Deeks and his partner.

"We will take it from here" Boyle said as they took the girl towards the police car.

When they got to the car they turned around and looked at the young girl, Deeks was the first to talk

"So… Do you have some ID on you?" He asked and she looked at him and rolled her eyes

"Do I look like someone who has an ID on me?" She said in a sassy and aggressive tone

Deeks looked at her and felt almost sorry for her, she was dirty and had holes in her clothes, her hair was a mess and her eyes were blank and empty. The young girl caught his starring at him

"What?" she spat at him before she threw her arms around her even though it was sunny and almost 25 degrees.

"I just want to know your name" Deeks said and the young girl looked at him and he could see her lip twitch a little almost forming into a smile but she stopped herself and looked down again.

"Kensi" she said low and she looked up at Deeks again

"Okay, Kensi… how old are you?" Deeks asked and Boyle looked at him

"Deeks can we talk private for a minute?" Boyle said

"Umm Yeah" Deeks said before putting Kensi into the car.

"What are you doing?" Boyle hissed at his partner

"I´m trying to talk to a young girl who clearly has a tough life" Deeks said and reached for the handle to the car but Boyle stopped him

"We are her as police men, not as a social worker" He said and Deeks looked at him

"What if I want to do both?" Deeks said as he opened the door and helped Kensi out of the car again.

"So… how old are you Kensi?" Deeks said as Boyle walked away getting annoyed by his new partner who thought he could save the world

"15" she said low before she looked up at him and pulled at her sleeves on her jacket.

"Isn´t it a little early to start a carrier as a shoplifter?" he asked but she looked away again and shrugged her shoulders.

"Okay, here is what we are going to do, you tell me where you live and we talk to your parents and figure this hole thing out" Deeks said and was about to call Boyle when she said something that made him stop

"I live over there" she said and pointed down the ally next to the store, he could see some boxes and dumpsters and he knew some homeless slept there so they could steal from the containers.

Deeks sighed, this was a new situation, she lived on the streets and clearly didn´t have any money so telling her to pay for the things was not an option.

Kensi didn´t know this man but she could sense he was a good man, a lot different from the other men she met.

He looked at her again but Kensi didn´t want to meet his eyes, she was used to be alone on the streets and she could take care of herself and didn´t need a policemen to help her.

She has lived on the streets for almost 8 months now and she was not used to people helping her without something in return. She had been arrested before and was kind of looking forward to spending a few hours or even the night in detention, away from the crappy and dirty streets, she was always on edge out here and she always had her backpack close with some cloths and a few things of her dads.

"Where are your parents?" Deeks asked but she pulled her backpack up against her ear and looked away, clearly didn´t want to answer him.

"Gone" was all she said

"Can I go now or are you going to arrest me?" she said quickly before she looked around not wanting to get caught talking to the police, that didn´t look good out here, maybe they thought she was a snitch and that was the worst thing you could do because everybody that lived on the streets needed someone to look after them, if they thought she was a snitch they would never trust her again.

"Do you have a phone?" he asked and she just nodded and looked up at him

"I will give you my card and if you need anything you call me okay, day or night?" he said normally he didn´t do this but he could feel that she was different, he gave her his card and he offered her a small smile when he caught her eyes, he could see something in them that he didn´t normally see when he talked to people that lived on the streets, look that said she didn´t want to spend her life on the streets, that she was just a teen who tried to make it though the day, but the look disappeared as quickly as it came and he could see that she was trying to be strong and hard. Deeks was sure nobody noticed and she hid it really good but he could see it in her eyes, he got really good at reading people when he was a kid and his dad used to beat the shit out of his mom and him, he could pick up on the smallest in peoples faces and he thought of that as a gift when you were working in the police department and had to read if people wanted to shoot you or just acting cool.

She took the card and nodded before she turned around and ran towards the ally where she could be alone and safe, in the ally there was only one way in and one way out, she could see everyone and everything that happened in the ally and she liked to have control over every situation.

When she had found a good spot inside the ally she sat down and took out the card and looked at it

Detective Marty Deeks LAPD

She put the card into her jacket and went on the hunt for food in the containers that were in the ally.