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This is my first fanfic! Hope it isn't too bad.. Thanks for reading, if you comment I'll check your stories out! (:

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If I owned any of this stuff, I don't think I'd be writing fanfiction…

"Now boarding flight 217 to Sydney, Australia."

"I can't believe we're doing this." Kensi whispered to Deeks as they walked to their boarding group.

"I promised you didn't I?" Deeks replied.

"I didn't think you were serious."

"Kens, we were in a life or death situation there, and you were trying to make me pee on a shirt. One of us had to be serious."

"We needed a liquid."

"Sure, that's it." He looked at her with a smile. It wasn't one of those charming smiles he flashed at her so often, though. It was a "you know you did it because I'm gorgeous" smile. She instantly rolled her eyes at him out of instinct.

"How did you get the tickets so fast?" she inquired, quickly changing the subject.

"Well you see, I knew this girl-"

"Never mind." She interrupted. She heard enough about his romantic escapades. She wasn't jealous.. just not interested.

"So what did you do with the arrangements for Hawaii?"

"Christmas present for a friend. He wanted to surprise a girl I know so I told her I would take her the cancelled last minute and suggested he go instead."

"That's a really generous gift. Do I know them?"

"Uh, I guess maybe."

"What are their names?"

"Group A now boarding flight 217." The speaker interrupted.

"Come on, we should hurry up so we get good seats." Kensi hastily replied, not yet ready to rat out her friends.

"They have assigned seating, Kens. What are their names?" Deeks wasn't giving this one up quite yet.

"They're just some old Marine buddies. I bet you don't even know them."

"Then why did you say I might?"

"We work for NCIS. We're surrounded by Marines; I thought maybe you ran into one of them. But on second thought, they've been stationed in Norfolk since 2002, and you were just a cop then, so I bet you've never met them." Kensi didn't like outright lying to Deeks, but he was practically begging for it. Besides, wasn't that one of Agent Gibbs' rules? Always be specific when you lie.

"Okay. I'll take your word for it, partner." Deeks knew there was more to it, but decided to leave it alone. For now.

Nell walked in to Ops. The rest of the team had the weeks ahead off but Nell and Eric needed to work on some general upkeeping of the computers and other devices. They spent their last day of work before vacation installing new software and eating Oreos.

"So what are you doing with your vacation?" Nell asked Eric while handing him another box of Oreos.

"I'm probably just gonna go surfing or go play soccer with some college friends." He replied

"Oh. I didn't know you played soccer." Nell said, trying to hide how extremely attractive the thought of Eric in a soccer jersey was to her.

"Yeah, it got me a scholarship to CalTech. I heard you and Kensi are going to Hawaii? That sounds like fun."

"We were, but Kensi made last minute plans. I don't really want to go alone so I'll probably just sell the tickets." Nell replied, playing the part of the damsel in distress quite well.

"That sucks. You know, you could, uh, hang out with me, you know for the holidays. I'm not really doing much." He wasn't sure if she would take this as an invitation as a date or just to hang out as friends. Sure he thought it was great being friends with Nell, but, a part of him hoped for the former rather than the latter.

"That would be great. I'm just disappointed to not go to Hawaii. Kensi and I spent a lot of money on this trip."

Eric walked over and stood in front of Nell.

"You know, we could go to Hawaii together."

Kensi woke up leaning against Deeks' arm and realized they were almost in Sydney. She and Deeks must have fallen asleep while watching Titanic on her phone a couple hours ago. It was her favorite movie, and even though it was probably the millionth time she had watched it, watching it with Deeks was different. Better.

She was stirred out of her thoughts when she felt Deeks move next to her. It was just then that she realized he had his hand sitting on top of hers, on top of his leg. She couldn't explain the small jolt of adrenaline she felt. She didn't want to.

Somehow while they were sleeping they ended up leaning against each other, cuddled up in the corner seat.

"Deeks" Kensi tried to wake him.

"Hmm..." Deeks replied, still half asleep.

"Can I have my seat to myself? We're about to land."

"Kens, I somehow get the feeling you don't enjoy my closeness." He said, now fully awake.

"Yeah, your feeling would be right." She replied, now irritated by his need to annoy her.

"That's sad, because I kind of like it." He hadn't pulled his hand from hers yet.

"Deeks, if you don't get away from me, I will head slap you."

"Okay, god. You've been spending way too much time with Agent Gibbs."

"Maybe I should take to DC and have him teach you the consequences of breaking rule number 12."

"Rule number 12"

"Never date a coworker."

"Although it flatters me that you would even think of us dating, Kens, we're just friends. But we could have benefits." She glared at him. "No? No benefits? Okay then. Your loss." He settled in for landing while Kensi wondered what it would be like if they were more than friends.

A/N II

Next chapter will have more Nell/Eric.