CHAPTER TWO

An indeterminate amount of time spent watching the snow later, Kensi was brought back to conscious thought by Deeks squirming beside her.

'Hey, Kens?'

'Yes, Deeks?'

'I'm actually kinda cold now.'

'It's your own fault!' she scoffed, tearing her eyes from the falling snow to look at him. 'Oh my god Deeks!' she suddenly exclaimed, bursting into laughter as she took in the sight of him; somehow in the midst of her little assault snow had stuck to his scruff so that he now had a kind of Santa Claus thing going on.

'What?'

'Ha! Your- Ha!'

'Kensi, what?' he smiled nervously, he definitely preferred people laughing with him rather than at him, but at this point he'd settle for knowing what the hell she was laughing at.

Kensi still couldn't talk, in fact her laughter had descended into snorting and Deeks winced slightly in response, but his uneasy smile grew- while rather terrifying, it was still kinda cute. Clutching her chest as she struggled to get enough air into her lungs Kensi gestured vaguely to his face.

'Ok, seriously what?'

When he still didn't get a reply from Kensi, who by now had lifted her goggles to wipe tears from her eyes, Deeks reached into his pocket to grab his phone. Tapping clumsily at the screen with numb fingers he finally managed to open the camera app, changing the settings so that he had the 'selfie' view.

So that was what she found so funny.

'You think this is funny, Blye?' he questioned, regarding her with that soft grin he reserved solely for moments like this; when she was being completely and unreservedly adorable.

Kensi could still only grin, raising her hand to bring her thumb and forefinger together in a way that was supposed to say 'Just a little bit.' Her thick ski gloves slightly inhibited her effort but he understood her anyway.

'Oh really? Well let's see how much you like it, shall we?'

That stopped her laughter...just.

'You wouldn't.'

'Oh but I would!' he laughed, watching as she narrowed her eyes at him momentarily before scrambling to her feet.

Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, Deeks was expecting this move and jumped up with equal speed and agility, catching her around the waist as she tried to move away.

'I told you Kens, Jungle cat.'

Kensi rolled her eyes but chuckled nonetheless.

'To be honest you look more like a snow leopard right now.'

'And you look like an arctic fox with that white fur hat. A very cold fox.' He remarked as he watched her shiver- she wasn't going to point out it had less to with the temperature and more to do with the way his arms encircled her.

'Oh! A stone cold fox! You are literally a stone cold fox Kensalina.'

She really tried to glare.

A.N/ Because I love you all so much (and partly as a reward to myself for giving a speech, publishing something and writing my Lit essay all on the same night) here is the next instalment!

It's kinda short but, hey I don't want to spoil you! You've already got two updates on the same night!

I'm pretty sure I know where this is going, I have the last line written at least, but if you have any suggestions of things you'd like me to include go ahead and leave them in a review or send me a message on tumblr (iambrightgrey).

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