AN: This is a little something tagged to episode 3x4 Deadline, it's an extension of the scene in the news station, where Kensi is interviewing the cameraman.
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"You work with her much?" I ask tentatively, I know what it's like to lose a partner. That day on the rooftop when we lost Dom, I don't think I will ever forget it. The feeling of my heart being ripped out again. My breath been taken away, trying to get it back by crouching on the steps tears pouring out of my red raw eyes.
"Every day for the past 2 years" he replies whilst looking up at the news screen behind me, glazed over eyes with a hell of a lot of truth in them.
"Partners" I state, glancing a look at my counterpart, he's sat going through Adrianna's computer.
"You get pretty close to someone when you spend that much time with them." Steve has a broken heart I can tell. I steal another glance in the direction of the shaggy surfer, he's fidgeting with his blonde mop again.
"Yes, you do." I never thought that just under 2 years ago when I met the Marty Deeks that I would get close to another partner, let alone becoming best friends with said partner. And I think I'm beginning to let him in even further than I ever anticipated.
"We'd get into it a lot—differences of opinion–but even in the middle of that, there was…" Well this sounds familiar, how much do Deeks and I bicker over the tiniest of things, the radio or who drives or what takeout we have on our movie nights. But this is coupled with the light-hearted banter between us, underlined with those looks from him, sometimes I reciprocate and it scares me.
"Heat?" I interrupt Steve without realising, its like I have no filter in these type of situations. That admission from my part shocks me slightly, I say it through gritted teeth, and purse my lips slightly, clenching my jaw, because I feel exactly the same as Steve right now, and it is scaring me. A lot. "Did she feel it, too?"
"Maybe." He's just had his heart shattered and I really do feel for him, he loved his partner, Adrianna, and losing a loved one is the worst feeling. I can empathise with Steve because, like Adrianna, I don't know why my Dad died, it was so sudden. My eyes glaze over at the thought of my Dad, my best friend, so I look over to my partner, my Deeks, for the strength I always know he can give me.
I let Steve go, its too painful for him. Deeks is still looking through the computer, with the obvious help from Eric. I'm just standing there, staring at my partner, a smile brought to my lips when he fidgets with his curls again. Without realising, I'm looking intently at his lips, reading them accidently on purpose. My diary, what does he want with my diary, why does he want to read my diary, hang on how does he know I even have a diary? These thoughts are whizzing through my mind, "Hurry up Deeks, I'll see you in the car!" I yell at him, leaving before my whole body starts to shake.
Yep, we definitely need to talk about this.
Sooner, rather than later.
AN: Please leave any reviews, it would be gladly appreciated. I am unsure if I should continue this and make it into a 3, possibly 4 chapter story, extending the storyline to include 3x10 The Debt?