A/n: Got this idea and I am so excited. I will continue Jealousy (hopefully update today!) but here is where my fluff and drabbles shall go. Set about 15 years after season 6, Kensi and Deeks' teenage daughter writes in her journal about her parents. I want to go through her finding out about the box, the knife, the frozen lake, Jack and Afghanistan, the Decent kiss, all that fun stuff! I'd love if you'd send me prompts about what you want her to discover, or about what you want to happen to her. Like she can fall in love herself, or punch someone and get in trouble… get creative, and let me know! I think it will be fun and make a pretty neat little fanfic in the end.
Gracie's Journal 6/4/29
I'm living in a really complicated world.
My life is really messed up.
Mom says I should keep a diary. I said no. We compromised. I'll write one as long as we call it a journal instead of a diary.
Gracie Marie Blye-Deeks. Mom is Kensi, Dad is Martin. They are not married. I believe this is called cohabitation. I have a screwed up hyphenated last name thanks to them. I have Mom's dark eyes and hair but Dad's curls. Dad says I act like Mom but Mom says I act like Dad. Hmph.
I'm kind of like the perfect mix of both of them, really.
We all live in this happy little house. Mostly. Because sometimes one of them (or both, for the matter) have to go into deep cover. Which really sucks, by the way, for obvious reasons. They're both NCIS agents. Kind of. Dad still works for LAPD technically. I'm not sure why though.
I keep waiting for Dad to propose. Like seriously, it's been 15 years already. Sure they're a pretty terrible couple, but they're too in love not to be together. They fight a lot. Then they whisper, usually stuff I don't understand. Something about a box, and a lake, and then sometimes a knife. He calls her Fern, she calls him Max. It usually ends with raccoons mating for life and then they have sex. Every. Single. Time. Do they think I can't hear them? It's not like I try to catch them doing this, they just happen to do it often enough that I catch them all the time. Ugh, parents. What a lovely pattern.
They're gross. They kiss a lot too. Nothing against kissing, but geez. Get a room. Preferably not mine.
Since they're in love, I asked Mom how it happened. I'm a teenager. I deserve to know how my parents got together and stuff.
She shrugged.
So I asked Dad.
He laughed. Then he shrugged.
So I approached it a different way. I asked Mom where they met. I assumed it was through NCIS.
Wrong. Mom said they met at a MMA gym. Dad confirmed.
I found myself even more confused, so I just dropped it for a while.
Uncle Callen says that their love story is the most metaphorical thing he's ever heard/seen in his life. Uncle Sam agrees.
Aunt Nell and Uncle Eric say that they were the first to figure out that Mom and Dad hooked up. They said it happened right before Mom was sent on some highly classified mission that they are not at liberty to discuss with me, even though it was over 15 years ago.
According to Aunt Nell, I was also a surprise. Really, I never would have guessed. She said Dad proposed when he found out Mom was pregnant, but Mom didn't want him to marry her just because of me, so she said no. And then, they never did it after that.
I want them to have a happy ending. I want them to get married and maybe have another kid or two that can enjoy this strange ninja assassin life with me.
I want a solid explanation for all of this. I need to know how my life got all messed up. They may be weird parents, and they may be dysfunctional. But they love me a lot and they're just so addicted to each other.
I guess this 'journal' mom wants me to write will be my journey to discovering how Mom and Dad fell in love. A little HIMYM cliché there. What can I say, I'm a fan. And maybe about my family. I have no grandfathers apparently; still don't know what happened to them. Only met one of my grandmas. Another question mark there.
Maybe I'll learn their ways, their metaphors, and their story. Maybe I'll write my own.
-Gracie.
