An:/ Wow it has been a really long time since I have published anything! Had so many technical problems with my laptop and what no I just never found the time.
I am working on several pieces at the moment but cant decide on story lines, so I thought I'd get this one going and see what people have to say.
I haven't read many fanfics in the past 4-5 months so fingers crossed I haven't copied anyones idea.
Please enjoy & let me know what you think.

Lottie!


All week Kensi had been acting decidedly weird, well according to Deeks she had been. Every time her phone rang she jumped on it like a lifeline and now often took several of the calls to a separate room, which was new for Kensi. She'd even taken to closing her laptop rather swiftly when someone was within reading distance.
Deeks had watched this new sudden change in behaviour from afar, wanting to give Kensi some privacy if that's what she needed. Deeks had thought about questioning Sam or Callen about the subject but had decided against it, knowing that his prying would get back to Kensi.

Deeks racked his brain as to the reason why her actions had changed so unexpectedly and all Deeks could conclude was that Kensi had a newly acquainted boyfriend. This wasn't something Deeks had decided upon lightly, he knew of Kensi's ridiculous one date 'rule' and that she wouldn't let just any one in to her seemingly complicated life, but there was nothing else he could think of that would explain her peculiar behave. Therefore Deeks decided to stick with his gut instinct and watch how the events were about to unfold.


A week past by slowly for the agents, and was yet another week filled with quirky Kensi, yet still nothing was mentioned to Kensi by any of the members of Ops. A look was shared between Sam and Callen every now and then, whenever Kensi over reacted to any close contact, particularly Deeks', but they continued to turn a blind eye for it was not their responsibility to probe into Kensi's private life, yet.

By the end of the drawn out week, filled with small cases that came with mountains of paper work, Kensi had suddenly returned to her normal self and her new weird quirks dissipated. Deeks naively assumed that meant, that the mysterious and elusive boyfriend had been given the flick and Kensi was once again a single women.
Deeks still hadn't decided whether he was feeling sympathetic for the poor guy, who without a doubt had endured the wrath of Kensi or if he was elated that Kensi was once again single. She's your partner, who can't be pleased she's single. Deeks scolded himself, trying to bide off the forbidden emotions.

This wasn't the first time he had to do such a thing, his feelings for Kensi were still somewhat clouded but were becoming more definite the more time the partners spent together, so in turn he was beginning to get much better at covering for himself, or so he thought. Shaking his head Deeks removed his eyes of the LAPD file that he was reviewing at look around the NCIS office. Deeks had been sitting alone for at least an hour, reviewing the urgent case file for his boss at the LAPD whilst the agents of the team were renewing their fire arms training on the stimulator in the shooting range, which Deeks had completed several months ago.
'I wonder if anyone will shoot Hetty'Deeks laughed to himself, reminiscing over the events that took place in his certification.

The Mission had been fairly quite that day and not many cases had come through that required the attention of the team, hence why Deeks had been stuck doing the requested LAPD work that had been piled up on his desk. Becoming bored with the task at hand, Deeks decided to distract himself by zoning out of his current situation and aimlessly daydreaming on being anywhere else than stuck behind his desk doing paperwork.

The ringing of Kensi's cell phone brought Deeks back to his reality after several moments. Deeks looked around for any sign of Kensi or any of the other team members that may be approaching the bullpen, but came up short. Deciding that answering the cell was probably better than ignoring it; Deeks retrieved the offending cell phone diligently. The caller I.D. read 'Gabriel', a name that Deeks had never heard associated with Kensi before. Racking his brains, Deeks tried to recall any active Ops that Kensi was currently involved in, so as to not blow any alias she had in play by answering the phone call. Deciding quickly that Hetty hadn't assigned the team any undercover operations in quite a while Deeks answered the phone.

"Hello?" Deeks said into the phone, trying to keep the confusion out of his voice but still being careful.

"Hello? Kensi?" A deep man's voice echoed through the phone. Deeks pulled the phone away from his ear and contemplated it strangely, it had expected a female voice to come through the phone not a males. He checked the caller I.D. again and confirmed that the name did read Gabriel.

"Not Kensi, Marty. She's not available at the moment would you like to leave a message?" Deeks replied still puzzled by the caller. Then it clicked. Kensi's boyfriend, the one she has gone to arms length to hide from the team. The one that was causing Kensi to act like a love struck fifteen year old all over again. Deeks cringed. Kensi is going to kill me. Deeks scolded himself internally, wishing he hadn't answered the phone, but now to curious to hang up.

"Oh okay, can you just let her know that Gabe called, she'll know what to do." Gabe politely asked Deeks, his voice never faltering, sounding intrigued in the man he was talking to. Deeks looked around the office once again and caught sight of a very pissed Kensi storming towards him.

"You know what Gabe, here she comes now..." Deeks trailed off as he smiled innocently at the furious Kensi. Play it cool and maybe she won't kill you, Deeks thought to himself still smiling.

Kensi didn't return the smile but rather removed her cell from Deeks hands. Yelling obnoxiously loud Deeks identified who was calling. "It's Gabe for you" Kensi rolled her eyes dramatically at Deeks and turned away from him. This didn't faze Deeks who continued to stand rooted on the spot, eagerly waiting for the phone conversation to end so that he could begin his interrogation of Kensi.

"Okay I'll see you then, you have your key? Okay good, bye" Kensi said beaming at the phone. Turning on the spot, Kensi found Deeks in very close proximity.

"Gabe hey?" Deeks asked in a blasé fashion, picking up Kensi's stapler.

"Yes Gabe" Kensi replied sitting down at her desk, trying to ignore the inquisitive stare of Deeks.

"Care to share? Or?" Deeks questioned as he stood in front of Kensi's desk a smug smile on his face. Kensi looked at Deeks plainly, leaning back in her desk chair. Deeks could tell by the look on Kensi's face she was less than impressed with the current situation and that as soon as she got Deeks alone he was a dead man.

"Not going to happen Deeks" Sam commented as he placed his gym bag beside his desk. Deeks smile grew wider and he looked over his shoulder.

"Oh I'll find out…." Deeks started before turning back to the glaring Kensi.

"She'll tell me sooner or later" Deeks smugly decided, winking at Kensi before putting her stapler back on her desk, returning to his own. Kensi rolled her eyes at Deeks actions and Callen just shook his head. Gabe was going to cause a lot of trouble.


For the rest of the afternoon Deeks made references to Gabe, questioning as to whether was a friend of Kensi or something else. Deeks knew his inquisition was frustrating Kensi, but he claimed his inquiry was purely professional, although he was hoping that doing so would get a rise out of Kensi and some unwanted information shared. He wouldn't be Deeks if he didn't push a little. But no matter what was said or what is implied Kensi kept her mouth shut, although that was the complete opposite of what she wanted to do. If she had it her way Deeks would no longer have the function of his left hand, but she knew that his health was required to get the job done, so just bit her tongue and continued her days work.

Closing the case file on her desk, Kensi gathered her belongings and was ready to head home for the night, to spend the weekend doing absolutely nothing. Standing, Kensi bid her fellow agents good night and sent a small nod in Deeks direction. Deeks nodded in return and gathered his own belongings.

"See you Monday" Deeks called over his shoulder as he raced out to catch Kensi at her car.

"You think this going to be a problem?" Sam asked looking at Deeks now empty desk chair.

"When aren't those two a problem" Callen sighed, covering a smirk.

Deeks called out to Kensi as she was getting into her car. Kensi smirked at Deeks and closed the car door, winding down the window so she could still speak to the Detective. She knew what he wanted to discuss, Gabe, and she knew he was going to apologise in hopes she would sympathise and share more information with him. Kensi was on to Deeks, she had seen his tricks at getting a suspect to talk and she was not going to let him use them on her.

"Problem Deeks?" Kensi asked grasping the steering wheel, smiling innocently at Deeks.

"Not really, I just wanted to say that in all seriousness, I am happy for you Kens... What I mean is, sorry about today." Deeks stumbled out, trying to sound sincere but maintain the banter that he and Kensi had perfected so well.

Kensi smiled and shook her head, just as she had expected. "Thanks Deeks"

The two stared at one another for a moment, before Deeks leaned back and took a step away from Kensi's car. "Have a good weekend Partner" Deeks winked, smirking.

Kensi smiled and rolled her eyes. "Goodbye Deeks" And with that Kensi pulled out of the Ops parking lot.


Kensi arrived home exhausted and drained, and wanted nothing other than to sit back and relax on her couch. But fate had decided otherwise. Pulling into her assigned parking space out the front of her apartment, Kensi was enveloped with a feeling that something was quite right. Slowly exiting her car Kensi approached her front door with caution. The glass paned door was wide open and there was no one in sight. Pulling out her weapon, Kensi prepared to search the place, edging in closer to the threshold, when she was stopped by a man's voice.

"Oh put that away Kens, you don't scare anyone" The man smiled his bright white teeth shining. Kensi let out a breath she didn't realise she had been holding and lowered her weapon.

"Do you want to be shot?" Kensi deadpanned glaring at the man, holstering her weapon.

"Not particularly Kens, but if I had to be shot I'd pick you to do it. You have some major sex appeal when you hold that thing" The man commented smirking at Kensi, in a manner that Deeks would. Kensi rolled her eyes and smiled, huffing a little bit before speaking again.

"Gabe, how I've missed you" Kensi honestly admitted embracing the larger man in a strong hug. The pair hugged for several moments before Kensi pulled back, "And I do so scare people…" Kensi scolded hitting Gabe lightly on the chest.

"Nobody but that cute partner of yours" Gabe joked winking at Kensi. Kensi rolled her eyes and followed Gabe into her apartment.

"How was your trip?" Kensi asked as she removed her badge and weapon from her belt. Gabe stood in the kitchen, making a salad out of the fruit he'd found in Kensi's refrigerator, amongst all the junk food she considered 'healthy'.

"Good, met this real cute guy…" Gabe started sneering at Kensi. Gabriel Montez had been Kensi's best friend since she met him on the base when she was eight. They'd been through the highs and lows of high school together, it was Kensi that Gabriel first came out to when he was sixteen and it was Gabe, Kensi turned to when she was informed her father was dead. They were practically brother and sister. Gabe was just over six foot tall, tanned, all muscle and had a thick mess of dark brown hair, which was always styled to perfection and complimented the green in his eyes. Gabe had always been extremely good looking and wasn't ashamed to use it to his advantage.

"When don't you meet a cute guy" Kensi teased stealing a grape of the platter Gabe was preparing. Gabe swatted at her hand and pretended to be offended.

"This guy was for you Kens" Gabe started smiling at Kensi. "I hate the idea of you being down here all alone in this apartment."

Kensi groaned internally. Ever since Kensi's high school boyfriend Broderick Tate, broke up with her in Junior year, Gabe had made it his mission to find Kensi someone to spend the rest of her life with. Gabe prided himself of most choices he found for Kensi, but Kensi seemed hard to please especially after the Jack fiasco, that Gabe still points out he had nothing to do with. Kensi often returned the favour but Gabe had his own particular flare that he was able to connect to.

"Now you're starting to sound like Grandma Jolie" Kensi commented stealing yet another grape, it was as though her Grandmother and Gabe sat around once a week and discussed Kensi's love life.

"And I told you, I'm not interested in your set ups. You're here so we can spend time together." Kensi pointed out, indicating between herself and Gabe.
Gabe pretended to pout, before breaking into a grin again showing of his perfect teeth, making his eyes pop.

"Okay then Kens, tell me about this partner of yours, that I can't get you to shut up about" Gabe demanded leaning forward on the counter and closer to Kensi. Kensi rolled her eyes and leaned forward herself.

"Well…."


An:/
There is more to come, but not real sure whether to continue because I'm working on other stuff to.
Would appreciate some honest opinions. Thanks :)