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On a late Thursday night, the team sat at their desks filling out paperwork. Well, attempting to fill out paperwork.
"Shut up Deeks!" Kensi finally snapped, causing everyone in the room to glance up at the female agent.
"Calm down Fern!" Deeks answered back with a sly smile, continuing to drum his pen on the desk. Kensie just shook her head and returned to her paperwork, her eyes narrowing dangerously. Callen and Sam looked at each other and laughed. It was not a smart move to mess with Kensi. Ever.
"How long do you think it will be untill she kills him?" Callen whispered to Sam. Sam glanced over at the two and smiled.
"Max of two hours." Sam said, taking in the features of the brunette.
"You are on. Stakes?" Callen said, starting a bet.
"20 bucks." Sam said as they shook on the bet. A strange noise from above caused the three agents and the liaison to look up.
"Your presence is required in OP." Eric called out, holing a kazoo. He disappeared into the OP as the others got up and followed.
"I swear that kid gets weirder every time." Sam spoke to Callen as they climbed the stairs to the room. Callen nodded his head then looked thoughtful.
"I wonder what Hetty wants?" Sam just shrugged as they entered the room and stood around the table.
"Where is Hetty?" Deeks wondered, looking around the room for the boss.
"I'm right here Mr Deeks." A voice behind him made him jump. That women was like a ninja assasin. A tiny ninja assasin. Deeks shook his head and returned his focus to the small lady in the room.
"It has come to my attention that it is time for another team bonding exercise." With that said Kensi and Callen high fived and straightened up, putting all their focus into what Hetty was saying. "Meet here tomorrow at 7am sharp. Don't be late or the coffee machine will be no more." Hetty dismissed the group, leaving Deeks standing there completely shocked. Not the coffee machine!
The next morning, everyone was in the OP room by 6:55 except Deeks.
"What are you guys doing here?" Sam asked Eric and Nell.
"Hetty asked us to come as well. I don't know why though." Nell answered, shrugging her shoulders. At that moment Deeks burst through the door, panting.
"Ugh made it!" Deeks huffed, looking at his watch. The others laughed at his antics.
"Wow Deeks, you made it with," Kensie looked at her watch. " a minute to spare! I'm impressed!" She said sarcastically, giving him a nudge on the shoulder. He gave her a half hearted glare and took a sip of his coffee.
"Why are you so energetic? Normally you are like the grumpy old troll in the mornings!" This time Kensi glared at him, and punched his arm.
"I am actually looking forward to this. And I'm only grumpy because I have to talk to idiots like you." Deeks faked hurt at Kensi's words and went to speak, but the door opened.
"I'm glad to see everyone took my warnings carefully. This bonding exercise is focused on pairs. Mr Beale?" Hetty looked to Eric as he pulled up a large map. "This is the boundaries for the exercise. Ms Blye, Mr Deeks, you will be working together, as will Mr Callen, Mr Hanna and Ms Jones and Mr Beale." Here are the directions. Meet there in 20 minutes." Hetty walked out the door and headed to the boundaries.
"What are we actually doing?" Deeks asked Kensi as they sped off in the directions Hetty gave them. Kensi smiled and pushed her foot on the peddle down further.
"You will find out." She answered as they pulled up at the forest. They had arrived first thanks to Kensi's erratic driving, so they took a seat on a large rock in front of an old cabin and waited for the others. When everyone had arrived Hetty opened the back of her car showing a bunch of paintball gear. "Everyone may take two guns and refills. Don't forget the protective gear as well. The game starts in 10 minutes. Once you get out, meet at the cabin. Here are your maps, good luck." She exited to the cabin as everyone raced for the guns. Kensi snagged the sniper just before Callen did and be groaned.
" We are all screwed now. Kensi got the sniper rifle." Kensi gave him a smirk as she fashioned the gun over her shoulder.
"What are the losing stakes this time?" she asked when she was finally happy with the gun position.
" Drinks tonight and lunch for a week." Callen answered quickly. Kensi nodded and her and Deeks raced off into the forest, ready for the paintball, war to start.
"Wait, so our 'team bonding exercise' is paintball?" Deeks asked, ducking under a bush.
"Yes, now shut up, I don't feel like blowing my money on Callen and Sam." Kensi whispered. " Now, I have a plan. They are going to go after us. We need to stay hidden." Kensi started climbing a tree. " I'll be up here ready to take the kill shot. If you stay by that bush and stay hidden, we can get them. Now start an argument." Deeks turned to Kensi.
"Start an argument? Really Fern?" He said with amusement.
"I told you not to call me that Deeks!" She yelled, startling Deeks.
"Ok sunshine, I will not call you fern." Deeks smiled, enjoying teasing Kensi.
"Shut up Deeks, or I will shoot you myself!" Kensi threatened. She listened around and held up a finger to Deeks signaling to the approaching footsteps. Wiithen a minute Callen and Sam entered the area. Deeks and Kensi aimed and fired. The air exploded with flying paintballs. Callen and Sam were ambushed with paintballs, and looked around for the culprits, but saw nothing. They looked down and groaned in disapointment. They were covered in large paint splashes.
"Ok Kensi, Deeks, come out wherever you are." Callen sighed, shaking his head. Deeks popped up fom the bush behind them.
"Hi guys! Kensi, come out!" Deeks called to his partner in crime. Kensie dropped from the tree in front of them.
"Wait, you guys ambushed us?! G, we walked straight into their trap!" Sam groaned, taking in the smug look on Kensi's face.
"All is Fair in love and War and Paintball! Can't wait for drinks tonight!" She gave them a wave and dragged Deeks back into the forest.
In the cabin, Hetty was shocked to see Callen and Sam enter the house first.
"Mr Callen, Mr Hanna! I expected better from my senior agents!" Hetty said, still keeping watch of the red blinking dots of the other agents.
"Deeks and Kensi ambushed us." Sam grumbled, romoving the headgear.
"May I ask, how did they get you? The dots haven't been moving." Hetty asked the pair, knowing exactly what happened.
"It was pure coincidence." Callen grumbled in defeat. Hetty gave him a knowing look.
"It seems that Mr Deeks and Ms Blye are a lot smarter then you give them credit for." Hetty said, knowing that the younger agents had officially outsmarted the others.
"Ok, so now we need to go find Nell and Eric." Deeks whispered as they crept through the woods. Kensie nodded and checked the ground for footprints. Deeks held up his hand as he heard voices. The pair ran in the direction, and slowed down as they reached an edge of a clearing. Kensi pointed in front of them. Eric and Nell were walking next to each other cautiously, looking around for the other teams. Deeks whispered the countdown as they burst into the clearing. Nell squeaked and tried to hide behind Eric but it was too late. The paintballs splattered on the two and they looked in dismay.
"Oh well, we knew we were going to be last." Nell shrugged, romoving her head piece.
"Oh guys aren't last, we took out Callen and Sam ages ago." Deeks told them. Nell and Eric looked at each other and high fived.
" Yes we weren't last!" Eric exclaimed, raising his gun in victory.
"Plus you don't have to pay for drinks tonight or your lunch for the next week." Kensi pointed out to them. Nell grinned as they said goodbye and headed to the cabin. "Wait! Nell, can we have the map?" Nell handed them the map and headed back to the Cabin. Kensi then turned to Deeks.
"Do you want to finish this once and for all?" Deeks nodded. They set their watch timer for 5 minutes and separated, the partner game turning into a fight untill death.
"What are they doing?" Sam looked at the screen and saw the two remaining dots split up at a rapid pace. Callen stared at the screen and smirked.
"They are fighting till death." Callen watched the dots and laughed as he saw one dot slowly tracking the other.
"That's why they wanted the other map!" Nell said, the realization dawning on her.
" Kensi will win." Nell picked her friend. The others made their choices, and it was fairly clear that Kensi was the favourite to win the battle. All the focus was on the blinking red dots, waiting for the battle.
Kensi was slowly tracking Deeks, and he had no idea. She saw he was starting to head into a fairly dense, bushy area so she made a quick plan in her head. She took of one of her boots and through it in the bush behind Deeks. Just as she planned, he spun around, gun ready. Kensi took this opportunity and raced to the front of Deeks. He stared at the bush for a minute or two, then relaxed and lowered his gun. He turned around to continue forwards, and spotted Kensi a few feet in front of him, pointing a gun at him. Kensi took a shot at him, and got him on the chest.
"Fine, you win Fern." Deeks said, holding his arms in surrender.
"Dam right I win!" Kensi laughed, lowering her gun and removing her headgear.
"Why do you only have one shoe?" Deeks questioned, looking down at her feet.
" Oh, that was my distraction." She shrugged and went to the bush where she threw the boot. She looked around, but there was no sign of the boot. She stood up and walked back over to Deeks . " Oh well."
The pair made their way back to the cabin and entered the small room. Everyone stood up to greet them as they placed the paintball guns on the ground.
"I see Ms Blye won. Congratulations to the pair of you." Hetty spoke, taking in the large paintball splash on Deeks.
"Thank you Hetty." Deeks took a seat in the cabin and took a large gulp of the water. Kensi followed, and gave a grin in Callen's direction.
"I can't wait for when we get back and we can cash in the bets!" Callen glared at Kensi for a minute before his expression changed from one of annoyance to one of confusion.
"Kensi, where is your shoe?"
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