Title: He said, she said

Pairing: Kensi/Callen.

Disclaimer: I wish Callen was mine, but damn I'm really not THAT lucky.

Spoilers: There's a tiny mention of Agent Giordano and since I suck at episode titles I can't really tell you which episode she was in.

A/N: Please be kind, this is my very first NCIS LA fanfiction. Sorry if they are a little bit OOC, like I said this is my first fic.

Love Callen and Kensi, love him more than her obviously BUT Daniela Ruah can totally be my girl crush.

Big kudos to my newest beta (since my dearest friend Erin is sick) Amber, who is SUPER cool! Erin, get well soon!

She was happy. For the first time in days she smiled as she walked inside the house, waving at her co-workers as she passed by, oblivous to the reason of her sudden mood change. The truth was nobody new, nobody but her and the man who captivated her days and nights. She didn't see it coming, and she was sure neither did he. Everything happened so sudden she had hard time processing it all. One day she was working calmly in a very belated paperwork, and he was sitting across from her on his own little space, then he lift his face to her, smiled sweetly and asked her out for dinner. Just like that.

She would have said no, if it was different man she would have said no. But this was Callen, the man to whom she was almost devoted to, the man who drove her insane with his insecurities and his mysterious past, the man who also drove he crazy by just looking at her with his bright blue eyes. She just couldn't refuse. Then again this would be the only date, since herself made rules were one date only and that's it. She was oh so wrong.

They kept coming back to the same spot; dinner and coffee. Until the last few days. He treated her different when nobody was around, a few touches here and there, and a wink when they were processing a scene. She was not afraid of felling this way about him, she didn't even care about her rules, and she threw them to the trash can when she had met him.

And today, at this very moment, he made her smile every single second. She felt goose bumps just thinking about seeing him walking in. She felt like teenager all over again and didn't even care.

"Morning Kenz" Sam said walking towards her,Callen following close behind

"Morning" she smiled at both of them and concentrated on her current task; trying not to blush at Callen piercing blue eyes staring at her

Sam was feeling awkward, she could tell. He was staring from Kensi to Callen over and over again. He didn't know what to say or do since the couple was acting odd in front of him, which never happened in their many years as partners. He didn't want to ask because he truly did not need to, the look on his best friend's face said it all.

Then he remembered something...

"Hey G, didn't you have a date last night?" Sam asked him and the look on his best friend's face changed was a smart guy, he knew when he had screw up and didn't need to be told twice, this was that sort of time he wanted to drop dead in a second. But it was too late to change what he had said.

"I don't know what you mean..." Callen answered back, look at his desk, avoiding Kensi's eyes.

"Yeah, forget it" Sam spoke "I must have been dreaming or something"

"Dreaming?" Kensi asked interested in the current interaction. "About Callen having a date? Since When?"

"It's really not important" Sam told her, but she wasn't about to forget it. If there was something she hated was being lie to, and she felt just like that.

"Callen, what is he talking about?" she went straight to the source, since being honest was something he was really trying to do (but failing miserably),and the way he avoiding her gaze proved her telling the truth right now was not easy at all. "Callen"

"It was just coffee, Kenz" he said, staring at her with only regret in his eyes."Nothing more than that"

"You went out on a date?" She spoke firmly, feeling somehow stupid for trusting him in any way.

"It's not what you think..." He spoke, walking towards her, ignoring Sam's presence for a second.

"With who?" She asked though knowing the answer would cause her pain.

"You don't have to do this"

"Just tell me so I won't feel any more stupid, Callen"

He swallowed hard and stole a glance from Sam, who already felt awful for bringing the topic up. Although this mistake was his own, and then he wondered why since he didn't even like that woman in the first place.

"Agent Giordano" he whispered looking down and she sighed heavily.

"I asked you..." she spoke softly "I asked you and you lied."

"Kensi"

"How could you do this to me?" she felt hurt and stupid, more stupid than she had felt in many years. She regretted everything; the coffee, the dinner, the nights in his .She, for a brief second, regreted breaking her own rules.

"It meant nothing, I swear" he apologized, briefly touching her hand but she pushed him away, like he thought she would. "Kensi please let me explain..."

"Explain what exactly?" she snapped "that she force you out on a date? That you just couldn't resist her?"

"Kensi don't do this"

"Yeah, you're right. I won't do this anymore" she moved away slowly "We're done"

"What?" he asked dumbfounded

"You and me, we're through"

She turned around quickly as a tear rolled down her cheek. She wiped away furiously, hating the idea of crying over him, despite the fact that she believed him a real honest man but turned out to be just like many other she had meet. But she hated herself even more than she hated him for falling in love with Callen was not on her plans.

Then the way he touched her hand made the anger raised unexplicably, and she turned around fast, just the way she would have done at being attacked and her reaction shocked both man. She hit him hard with her feast, right on his nose and he moved away from her to cover his bleeding nose. The fear and pain in his eyes broke her inside, but she didn't care, she didn't care about anymore.

The blood from his nose had subsided quickly. She had a heavy hand, he knew that much, though he never thought he would feel the anger directed towards him. He stood there, in the same spot as before, looking at the path that followed her outside. He felt an unexplainable pain in his chest, as if someone were squeezing his lungs and heart hard, as if the air was abruptly being pulled out of his chest, and the urge to cry he could not contain. He could feel Sam's eyes on him, and silence that roomed the air was as thick as before, because neither one of them knew exactly what to say, probably because his friend felt as guilty as he did.

"G, I..." Sam spoke and he stopped him didn't not need to hear how sorry he was because he knew. They were connected that way.

"You would have known" he said "nobody did"

"Nobody knew what?" Sam asked and Callen walked away to a private space somewhere behind his desk, and sat on the couch he used to sleep in, just before Kensi offered a place in her house.

Callen looked down, feeling somehow embarrassed for keeping such an important thing to his best friend, but that was the way things where; a secret nobody should know, at least not yet.

"About me and Kensi" he spoke, dragging his body to the couch and dropping himself in it, frowned at him for a second. "About me and her being together"

"Together as in dating?" Sam asked

"Yes"

If Sam felt bad before, sure he felt awful now.

"Why didn't you say anything before?"

"Because we both agree it would be better if we kept it for ourselves for a while" He explained "since it could clearly interfere with our work"

"Isn't it interfering with you work right now?"

He stood up and paced, he rarely did it; only the stress was too much for him to bear. And right now it was. So he paced around the tiny space and rubbed his head at the headache that was threading to come soon. He felt helpless and stupid, and to him that wasn't a very good combination at all.

"SO let me ask you this" Sam interrupted his troubled friend "If you and Kensi are together, officially or unofficially I don't really care why you did go out with Giordano in the first place? Would have said no save you some troubles?"

"Don't you think I tried?" Callen yelled distrassed."First Hetty said I should ask her out, and then she showed up out of nowhere and refused to leave. II try telling her about Kensi but she didn't listen" he explain "I seriously think that woman has issues with people saying no"

"So Hetty tried acting matchmaker on you?"

"Yes."

"And you couldn't just tell her about Kensi?"

"She would have killed me" He said clearly referring to Kensi and his promise of all things private.

"Dude, she's going to kill you anyway!"

He had no idea who to hate, if Hetty for bringing Giordano into the picture, or Sam for being so right about everything.

"I have to do something" he spoke desperately "I have to explain to her"

"You should let her breath for a while" Sam advised him "if you try and talk to her when everything is fresh in her mind, you would only make it worse"

"I can't wait. I can't just sit here and do nothing" he said and made his way towards the door again, but his friend stopped him, grabing his arm before he took another step.

"G, you are not thinking clearly here"

"Of course I am" he answer back at him "I'm not going to sit here and watch the only real relationship I've had in years to go away from some stupid mistake I made"

"I understand..."

"No, I don't think you do" he spoke urgently "She's special,'s the only woman who doesn't give a damn about who I am, she doesn't care that I don't have a background or that I barely even know my own name. She's the only one who keeps me sane and focus, she's the one who brings the best of me and makes everything worth a damn.I don't know if I can be myself without her anymore"

Sam stared at his friend with a smile on his face. He had know Callen for many years, in which he did saw him dating a few girls here and there, never a serious relationship just one night stand and such. He said he wasn't the "commitment" type of man since his life was way too complicated to drag someone along, he never agreed with Sam when he had told him his match would show up someday and he wouldn't be able to control falling in love one day. Who would have thought that his words would finally make effect on him, and who would have thought Kensi would have that life change effect on him.

"I can't let this end, not when I can make it work"

"Then we got to find your girl.

TBC