A/N: Hey guys, so I've loved NCIS los angeles since the day it aired, I've watched every episode and read waaaay too much fanfiction about it, tried and failed to write one, I hated it. So I decided to try writing for this fandom again. This takes place in early season 5 after Deeks comes back to work, but before Kensi leaves for Afghanistan and before they sleep together. This is based off of the Friends episode where Ross and Joey fall asleep on a couch together, I've always loved that episode and I thought it would be funny if that happened to Deeks and Callen. I wrote it more as Deeks & Callen friendship, but you could read it as pre slash if you wanted to see it that way. Anyway, enjoy!
Disclaimer: Pfff, I wish.
"So, Kens movie night?" Deeks asked, hopefully, leaning back in his chair after an action packed day of catching the bad guys and avoiding death. The sleeves of his long sleeved blue shirt bunched up around his elbows, showing off tanned skin from mornings surfing at the beach.
"Ughhh, Nope, not tonight partner, I, am going home and sleeping, forever." She said dramatically, faking a yawn and stretching. The hem of her yellow short sleeve blouse rode up revealing a small strip of her toned stomach, Deeks valiantly tried not to stare, and failed miserably. She grabs her bag and whizzes out the door, before Deeks could convince her she had to watch Die Hard with him, again. She still doesn't understand why he loves that movie so much, probably because it's a cop saving the day, and being all badass, and the cute girls, probably the cute girls.
"Ahh, come on! Kensi?" he called to her retreating back, then turned to the rest of the team. Sam sat in his chair smirking at the younger partners banter, Callen was openly laughing.
"Sam, Callen, movie night?" He asked, knowing they would probably say no, but he tried anyway, to be honest he just didn't want to go home and be alone tonight. The nightmares and flashbacks were always worse when he was alone. While he would have prefered to be at home with his amazing and beautiful partner Kensi, he would settle for Callen and Sam.
"What movie?" Sam asked, surprising the detective who thought he'd just shoot him down like he usually did.
"Die Hard." Deeks answered, this caught Callen's attention immediately, he lifted his head from putting his laptop in his bag to look over at his younger teammate. He cocked his head to the side, thinking, while he was just about to pretend to have plans, now he was reconsidering. Die Hard is and always shall be G Callen's favorite movie.
"Which one?" Sam asked, Die Hard is his favorite adult movie. The Lion King is his favorite kids movie, don't judge, he has two kids and even after seeing it 30 times it is still amazing.
Deeks scoffed as if it should be obvious, "The first one, duh." He answered, standing and collecting his gear. "So, you guys in?"
Sam paused for a minute considering, Michelle and the kids were at her parents house tonight, and to be honest he didn't want to spend the night alone. "Sure, why not, you in G?" Sam smirked knowing what his partner's answer would be, having watched the movie together many times.
Callen shrugged, trying to be causal, Deeks did not need to know just how crazy obsessed with this movie he is, "Sure could be fun."
Deeks pumped his fist in the air, "Yes!"
The three teammates arrived at Deeks apartment about twenty minutes later. Sam, never having step foot into the place before, was surprised by it's almost OCD cleanliness, expecting it to be as messy and crazy as the man himself could sometime be.
"Nice place Deeks." Callen complimented just as surprised as his partner. He was expecting something colorful, disorganized, weird, and a little zany, instead he got colorful, weird, spotless, and organized.
The walls of the living room were a bright blue, like the ocean. There was a picture of Dog's playing poker on the wall above the couch. There were four framed photos arranged in a perfectly equidistant diamond shape on the wall by the window covered by brown cowboy themed curtains. This pictures had the same two people in them Deeks and an older woman who Callen assumed to be Deeks' mother. They were obviously graduation photos, high school, college, law school, and the police academy. There was a diploma framed and mounted on the wall next to the photos, Callen assumed it was his law school degree, but when he looked closer he was surprised to see it was actually his high school diploma.
On a shelf next to the flat screen mounted on the wall were a few pictures of Deeks' friends, some obviously from college, a few LAPD officers and detectives Deeks was close to. One was of Deeks and Kensi on a beach laughing, one of the four of them out at a restaurant on Sam's Birthday and one with all of them, including Eric, Nell and Hetty at the office Christmas party last year. Who knew Deeks was the sentimental type?
Not surprisingly there were two surf boards leaning against the back wall, one older, a solid green color, the name K. Deeks printed in small faded black letters along the side of the board, Sam wondered what the K stood for, to whom the board belonged to, a brother maybe? He wasn't going to ask though, not now at least, didn't seem like the right time. The other board was newer than the old one, but was obviously well used, it was orange with blue stripes and had M. Deeks scrawled across the side. Next to the two surf boards, was a wood colored long board and a smaller, normal sized skateboard, the back decorated with artfully creepy tie dye skulls.
The sound of Doggy claws on hardwood floor interrupted their contemplation of Deeks' place. Monty came running down the hall and jumped on his master, barking happily a few times.
"Hi buddy, did you miss me?" Deeks petted his pooch, earning a contented moan from the mutt, who was wiggling in Deeks arms. Deeks stood up after a minute and walked into the kitchen.
"You guys want a beer?" He called back, grabbing three from the fridge, when he heard two yes from the men absentmindedly petting his dog, who was now leaning against Sam's legs enjoying a good rubdown from the big guy.
"Nice place Deeks." Sam said honestly, looking around the oddly yet tastefully decorated apartment. Absentmindedly swiping dog hair off his long sleeved red henley.
"Thank-"
"COO-COO!" Deeks was interrupted by a coo-coo clock going off to signal it was 8:00pm. Sam actually jumped, and looked to the coo-coo clock in the kitchen,.There was actually a bird going in and out of the house shaped clock coo-cooing away. Deeks laughed and went to the coo-coo clock, pulling a chain and the coo-cooing stopped.
"Sorry, I forgot to warn you about that." He lied, giggling manically, he was hoping the coo-coo clock would scare the guys as much as it scared Kensi, who almost wiped it out of existence with her SIG. To Deeks glee the highly trained federal agents, as they liked to remind him, jumped in surprise at the sound of the coo-coo clock his mom had bought him as a housewarming present when he had to move after he got shot four years ago. The two agents just shook their heads good naturedly not really that surprised he had a coo-coo clock, it suited him.
Deeks ordered two pizzas for the three of them, One pepperoni for Callen and Deeks and one sausage for Sam, who for some unknown reason hated pepperoni, who woulda thunk? The three of them teased each other over the beers while waiting for the pizza. Sam and Callen teasing Deeks about him and Kensi's "Thing" while Deeks was trying to say there wasn't really a thing and Sam and Callen not really believing him. Sam and Deeks teasing Callen about his unusually shy flirting with the super smart red headed janitor named Cassie that worked nights at the OSP center where Callen sometimes still hung out at night. Deeks and Callen ragged on Sam about his hatred of Pepperoni, the only good pizza topping they argued and about his irrational fear of squirrels. Deeks tried to con the story out of the two, but Sam wasn't going to tell and Callen was laughing too hard to explain anything. At one point Deeks started petting Monty enthusiastically and the other two shrugged and rubbed the pup too until Monty was moaning and groaning and wiggling around on the floor enjoying the six hands petting him.
When the pizza arrived the three of them sat on Deeks extremely comfortable purple couch, in front of the flat screen, with Monty curled up in the green armchair to the left of the couch. They ate the pizza, drank beer and shouted occasionally at the TV. Deeks was surprised and thrilled when Callen started quoting along to the dialogue, trying to mimic the voices and doing a hilarious Bruce Willis Impression that had Deeks in stitches, never having seen his team leader acting this goofy before. Sam just rolled his eyes smiling, having witnessed his partners craziness before
All too soon the movie was over and Sam was getting tired.
"Die Hard!" Callen and Deeks shouted pumping their fists in the air. Deeks looked over at Sam, "Dude you didn't say Die Hard?" He said a little concerned, they had started doing that half-way through the movie. Something that Sam and Callen did when they watched it together
"Everything ok?" Callen asked jokingly. Sam just rolled his eyes good naturedly at his partner.
"Anyone wanna watch Die hard two?" Deeks asked, holding up the DVD, honestly he didn't want this night to end yet, it was rare that Callen, Sam, and himself hung out outside of work, even rarer when they actually got along and had a good time without Kensi as a buffer between the older agents and the detective. Things had gotten progressively better between Sam and Deeks after the Siderov case, helping each other through their trauma had helped the two teammate understand each other better and form a closer bond. Sam had actually put in the time, energy, and effort to get to know Deeks, not just judging him by his surface personality. As Sam and Deeks got along better, Callen had also taken time to try to get to know the detective better outside of work, one of the reasons he had agreed to the movie night with them. And the movie was Die Hard. Who passes up Die Hard?
Sam shook his head, "Sorry man, If I don't leave now, I'm gonna fall asleep, right here, on this ridiculously comfortable couch, seriously where did you get it?" He asked, proving his words a second later when he yawned so wide he heard his jaw crack.
Deeks had to think for a minute, "It was my mom's she was getting rid of it, and I love this couch so I brought it home, no idea where she got it from though." Deeks shrugged.
Deeks turned to Callen, "Die hard two?" Callen grimaced not particularly fond of Die Hard two, sequels were never better than the original.
"We could watch the first one again." He grinned, Deeks just laughed, but nodded along. They said their goodbyes to Sam, Sam actually hugged Deeks, Deeks was pretty sure this was their first real hug and not a bro hug, but wasn't gonna make a big deal out of it, cause he's cooler than that.
"Die Hard!" They both shouted, throwing a fist in the air, then laughing at each other.
About halfway though the movie Deeks felt his eyes droop and his head loll to the side. He jerked it up again trying to focus on the explosions on screen, but the pull of sleep was too much and his body slumped to the left onto a warm body pillow.
Callen felt the sleep calling his tired mind halfway into the movie. His eyes kept drooping and as one who has chronic insomnia he didn't argue when his body allowed itself to rest. Knowing he was in a safe place, he let his body slump lower on the couch, his head cushioned on a throw pillow with a cat face on it. He was halfway asleep when he felt a heavy blanket drape over his chest. He unconsciously wrapped an arm around the lumpy blanket and for the first time in a long while he drifted off into a deep sleep, unplagued by demons from his past.
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