The Replacement.

Marty Deeks wasn't actually the first to be brought in to replace Dom after he died. So what happened to the first replacement that director vance had introduced to the team and how did they take it?

Kensi snorted with laughter and Sam quietly slapped his hand over his mouth in an attempt to stifle his own laughter.

G Callen looked at the two agents in front of him and glared at the pair of them. He watched unamused as Sam turned to Kensi and began to move his hands in a series of crazy movements that made no sense but looked like he was doing some sort of very uncoordinated dance. But Kensi smiled and dramatically nodded knowingly making G shake his head in exasperation.

"G we're right here just tell us where you want us to go" Sam smirked at his partner who rolled his eyes and began to tell the two what the plan was.

As Sam and G walked out the back door into the sunshine they frowned as they looked around into the empty backyard,

"Kens?" Callen called wondering where the young agent was.

"Round here" They followed her voice both noting that she sounded slightly puffed out. Sam kept his hand on his gun as he was sure his partner was doing as well but when the two men rounded the corner they couldn't help but laugh at the scene before them.

Looking up at the two senior agents of the team she grinned at their expressions and finished brushing the grass and dirt from her jacket. Once she was done she stepped over a body of a large, burly man and walked passed Callen and Sam.

Both men turned and watched Kensi walk away her held high and looking back at the two large men slumped on the ground they both knew that no matter what had happened in the last two months their girl could handle still herself in the field.

On the way back to the boathouse Callen found his eyes continuously flicking upwards to the revision mirror peering into the back of the car. It wasn't that he was worried it was just that Kensi sitting in the back with their prime suspect who potentially could be charged with rape and kidnapping didn't sit too well with him.

Since Dom's death Kensi had been working with them and they'd become a little trio. Kensi fit perfectly in with Sam and Callen being able to keep up and both men found it refreshing to have Kensi out with them for a change.

They knew it wouldn't last for long. They all knew that while Hetty had been holding off their lost agent's replacement the director of NCIS wasn't so keen on leaving the OPS team short.

And so the three of them enjoyed working together while they could. Callen enjoyed having her quick wit and lip reading skills with them along with her sharp humour and the way they fell into their typical easy, playful banter and Sam ...well more than anything Sam enjoyed the fact that Callen would actually stop for Kensi when she requested something to satisfy her sweet tooth. He like Kensi liked a donut on a stake out.

Both men had found that they had become a lot closer to Kensi than they ever had been before as partners usually did but along with that Callen also realised that he had become a lot more protective over the younger woman as well. He knew she could hold her own in fact he was pretty sure that she could probably give both him and Sam a good run for their money if she fought them not that he'd ever admit it.

It probably came from them all being a little more vulnerable since they'd lost one of their own and so Kensi who'd been left on her own after losing her partner joined the team of Sam and G until there was a replacement. The three helped each other to deal with the loss and slowly as a team they were beginning to get through it.

And as he went to peer backwards in the rear view mirror again Callen caught Sam casually glancing towards the side mirrors at an angle which flooded straight into the back seat and grinned knowing that it wasn't just him.

Hetty stared down at her team observing them from above. They were one short but they were holding strong and she'd never been prouder of them. She watched as Sam laughed, a deep bellow from deep inside his chest as Kensi jumped onto an unsuspecting Callan causing him to drop all the papers in his hands. The agent was the senior one in charge for a reason though and after not even half a seconds hesitation he swung her around to the front of his body letting her swing around at a fast speed and grinned when she shrieked in surprise.

Her legs tightened around his waist and her arms around his neck and she sent him with a mock icy glare when he refused to put her down when she refused to agree to pick up any of the papers that lay scattered around them

A moment later her fingers found the one spot on Callan's body that was ticklish. The spot that only she knew about and he reflexively released her or more dropped her. Luckily she landed on her feet laughing,

"You're ticklish G?" Sam asked incredulously while still chuckling.

Hetty didn't bother greeting Nate as he sidled up beside her leaning against the railing as well. The two of them stared down at the agents who were doing everything but the paper work Hetty was still waiting for,

"Do you think they'll like him?" Nate asked Hetty who took several moments before answering,

"I think that he is going to have to be a very patient man if he wants to become a part of this team" Nate nodded knowing the woman was right.

Then again when wasn't she right.

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