Pacing the length the room like she had done for the past half an hour, Kensi's mind raced through everything that had happened to day. She didn'tknow how to process everything, she didn'tknow what to do. It had started off as normally as one of her days can considering her line of work, dead body, list of suspects- the usual. Sadly not everything happened the way it usually does, whilst her and Deeks were paying a visit to a suspect's house things went wrong. They were already prepared for the visit of the NCIS agents so they were outnumbered, from that minute things went from bad to worse. Thankfully Kensi managed to escape but Deeks was not so lucky, he gave himself up in order to protect Kensi. She knew that something like this would happen eventually, it was inevitable. There is always this risk when you become romantically involved with a co-worker. But Kensi and Deeks were different they weren'tlike any other couple who had recently began a relationship, although they hadn'tbeen together for a significant amount of time, there feelings for each other were stronger than most couples who have been together from decades. But with such powerful love comes many costs.

Deeks was taken captive by the Mexican cartel who had a serious axe to grind with NCIS:LA for recently convicting dozens of their members for a series of murders and they had decided to take revenge my murdering one of their operatives.

For the next four hours all government agencies were frantically trying to assist NCIS with finding their missing agent, with this happening they had to take a closer look into detective Marty Deeks' life, with this many revelations were made and if Hetty and Granger didn'tknow about their relationship, they sure did now. So not only was Kensi unsure whether she still had a future with Deeks, but also if she had a future with NCIS.

Those four hours was the longest period of time Kensi could ever remember and she has been in many stressful situations. Now she finally understood why Sam and Michelle no longer worked together, its gut wrenching enough as it is when a colleague is put into life threatening situations, a feeling Kensi was all too familiar with, having gone through it with Dom and Renko. But with it being with Deeks it was unbearable, Kensi hadn'tfelt this helpless and insecure since the tragic passing of her father.

When it came to light of her romantic involvement with detective Deeks, she was removed from the case at hand due to her personal involvement, Kensi understood that this was the standard procedure that she herself has put in place herself, but that didn'tmean she was happy with their decision or the fact that she had been banished to the boat shed for the rest of the afternoon and a pile load of paperwork she needed to catch up- like she was going to have the concentration to complete it. What made it worse that she was forbidden from contacting anyone so she was in the dark about everything, she had been left with a not so friendly officer and the promise that if anything happens they will let her know.

She was snapped out of her thoughts when the officers phone began to ring, this phone call could only mean one thing Deeks had been found, whether he was alive or not was a different matter. The agent passed the phone to Kensi who tentatively pressed it to hear, fearful of what she was about to hear.

"Miss Blye, there has been some developments regarding Mr Deeks." Spoke the voice on the other end of the line, the voice belonged to none other than the infamous Henrietta Lange and to true to form she didn'tbeat about the bush. From that moment it was like a whirlwind happened, one that Kensi couldn'tremember. Previously hour's stretched on forever for Kensi and from that point on everything was a blur, until she found herself waiting again, this time in a hospital waiting room, where the smell of antiseptic filled every square metre and was so strong it encompassed Kensi, as once again the uncertainty of her future with Deeks consumed her. Since she had been at the hospital all she had been told was 'Detective Deeks is still alive for now." It was the 'for now' that really worried her, it was as if everyone knew what was about to happen but no one wanted to tell her.