Tell Me That You Love Me
Chapter One
Words: 1053
Couple: Special Agent Kensi Blye and Detective Marty Deeks
TV Show: NCIS: Los Angeles
Disclaimer: Shane Brennan owns all names/characters ect. that you recognise.
Slightly AU.
Slightly drabble.
Established Kensi/Deeks.
Hints to an established Nell/Callen relationship.
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Thursday the 9th of February 2012
"We've been together for nearly two years now, I just don't get why you can't say it?" she sighed, looking at him from across the bullpen.
"I don't get why it's such a big deal to you Kensi, you know that I do, so why am I supposed to be the one to say it?" he replied, shrugging as if the problem meant nothing to him.
"Because, at this point in a relationship, after all the stuff that we've done together-"
"I've heard that line before," G Callen interrupted the pair, "what did you do this time Deeks? Steal the last of her chocolate and peanut butter cups?"
"I wish it was that simple," the LAPD detective answered.
"There is nothing simple about you Marty Deeks," the female agent countered, standing up and dropping files on her partner's desk, "nothing."
Marty Deeks sighed, watching his partner walk away and head towards the OPS centre. Being honest with himself, he really doesn't remember how this argument started, nor does he remember why. Though whilst being honest, he had to admit that most of his arguments with Kensi Blye were like that; they'd start arguing about something completely crazy, and neither would really remember why they were arguing about it.
"You haven't said it yet, have you?" the team leader questioned.
"No, and she's making it seem like I've got to be the one to say it first," he groaned, dropping his head in his hands, "she's so complicated."
"Aren't you both?" Callen chuckled.
"Nell, don't say we're both complicated, if you want complicated, look at your relationship," Kensi murmured, leaning back in the chair she sat in next to the intelligence analyst.
"Good point," the pixie-haired girl laughed, "but really, why are you two fighting about this in the first place?"
"I don't know Callen, if you can tell me that, I'd be at your mercy for the rest of my life."
"So you have no idea what started this?" the NCIS agent prompted.
"I don't know! I mean, one minute we were talking to Nell about something, and then bam! It's like she just went from completely sane to insane in the span of five seconds," Deeks explained.
"Well, girls do that around this time of year, I know Nell is like that all year around, but come Valentine's Day-"
"Valentine's Day?" the LAPD detective sat up straight, "it's nearly Valentine's Day?"
"Uh, yeah, in about five days."
"Do you think he has anything planned?" Nell asked with a small smile.
"If he does then I don't know about it," she shrugged, "he hasn't said a word about it, it's like he's forgotten."
"Deeks wouldn't forget Valentine's Day, isn't he the one who spent more time fussing over it last year than you did?" the intelligence analyst gave a small laugh.
"That's why it's so confusing, I mean, last year he went all out, roses, chocolates, he went with all the clichés and we had an amazing time, but this year," she sighed, "nothing."
"Maybe he hasn't said it yet because he's waiting for Valentine's Day and wants to surprise you?"
"Deeks is a romantic piece of work, I'll admit that much, he's one of the most cliché people you'll ever meet, but not that clichéd."
"Should I say it on Valentine's Day?" Deeks asked in a hushed whisper.
"Dude, you have four and a half days to organise something, otherwise you're screwed," G Callen told him simply.
"When did you say it?" he questioned.
"What do you mean?"
"When did you say, yanno."
"I love you?" Callen prompted.
"Mr. Callen, if I had known you and Mr. Deeks were going to fall into a relationship so soon, I would have waited to have him join your team," Hetty said, slowly walking into the bullpen.
"Not us," G Callen laughed, shaking his head, "him and Kensi."
"Ah," the older woman smiled mysteriously, "the dreaded three words."
"What's sad is that I'm going to my co-workers for advice, seeing as my trusted bottle of whisky is gone," Marty murmured
"What if I say it first?" Kensi asked.
"Don't, it's just stupid," Nell replied almost instantly.
"Who said it first between you and Callen?"
"Depends, are you asking about the drunk version or the sober version?" the intelligence analyst questioned sheepishly.
"There's a drunk version?" the female NCIS agent raise both eyebrows.
"Well, in the drunk version it was me, in the sober version it was G, and I'm not explaining that story right now," Nell explained.
"One day you will."
"That's besides the point," G Callen told them, "Deeks here nearly forgot that Valentine's Day is coming up, he has nothing planned."
"Let me tell you this much, Callen, I will never be able to live up to the standards of last year, never," the LAPD detective sighed.
"Follow your heart, Mr. Deeks, because it seems that your brain doesn't do a lot of thinking in these sorts of situations, not that it seems to do much thinking at all," Hetty smiled slightly, leaving the pair to themselves.
"Did she just-"
"Yes Deeks, Hetty did say it," Callen chuckled, pulling a pencil from the stack in front of him and beginning on the paperwork on his desk.
"What should I do?" the female NCIS agent questioned.
"Wait it out, see what he does," Nell shrugged, "but if he forgets Valentine's Day, and doesn't say anything about it until nine-pm, shoot him."
"I'm not going to shoot him Nell," she said, narrowing her eyes.
"Don't aim to kill him, just aim to seriously injure."
Both the LAPD detective and NCIS agent sighed from where they were sitting, an entire floor apart. Marty Deeks could not think of anything to do with either situation – the three dreaded words and the upcoming holiday – while Kensi Blye couldn't stand to try and 'wait it out', though she'd never been good at doing that to begin with.
…
So. I guess that Valentine's Day is coming?
Yeah. I'm going to be forever alone with my seventy-two cats on February fourteenth, forever alone. I love being forever alone. It means I have time to write this stuff!
This particular two chapter one-shot has nothing to do with any of my ongoing stories, this is just something I thought of. But while writing this I got an idea for an Callen/Nell one-shot – based off of what Nell told Kensi about the first time either of them said 'I love you' – and I'm thinking about planning that when I finish this.
I should be doing dishes right now, but this is much more fun :)
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