"What's going on?" Callen asked as he and his partner took their seats.

"Deeks is letting me stay with him until I find a new place. Mine's being demolished and I have to be out in a few days."

"Why?" Sam asked. Kensi explained the whole situation again to her teammates.

"Do you need help moving? I mean a week isn't very long to get everything out." Sam offered.

"Yeah that would actually be great! I don't want to keep you guys from anything though with the holidays and everything."

"No need to worry about that, Ms. Blye, I'm giving you all a few paid days off to go help Ms. Blye. Consider this your Christmas present." Hetty said from the top of the steps.

With that, everyone left the building and immediately headed over to Kensi's place. Upon arrival, Kensi and Deeks tackled her bedroom while Sam and Callen took the living room.

"Why'd you want me to help in here? I mean I figured you'd want Callen or Sam to help in here.. let's face it; they're much less likely to make some of the comments we both know I'm going to make when we find some of your more intimate items." Deeks asked as they started folding the items from her closet and putting them into boxes.

"I don't know, I guess it's just less awkward for you to see some of my more… personal… items than it would be for them. I mean, Sam's married, so it would just be kind of awkward. And Callen's like my big brother and it would just be kind of embarrassing for both of us. And it's not like you haven't seen any of it before…" She said, alluding to when he'd checked her bruised ribs in her mother's garage; which required the removal of her shirt.

"Yeah, I guess you have a point." He agreed.

"Plus, it's not like you're not going to see all of this stuff in your laundry room anyway. I am going to have to wash clothes while I'm at your place." Kensi reminded him.

"Ha! We both know what that means! It means your laundry will somehow find its way mixed in with mine so that you don't have to wash anything!" Deeks remarked, bringing back the banter.

"Well you do still owe me a month's worth of laundry…"

"So does that mean you're going to be helping with the cooking and the cleaning or…"

"In your dreams!" Kensi quickly replied. "Do you really want me to cook?"

"Ah, nevermind. I'd rather not get food poisoning. Now that I think about it , why am I not charging you rent for this? I mean you're going to get free culinary masterpieces, free laundry, free housekeeping…"

"Because you're the best partner ever." Kensi replied with an honest look and a smile that he was certain she saved just for him.

"Yeah, there is that." He grinned back at her. Then he had a realization as he took another armful of clothes out of her closet. "Kens, my spare room is meant to be an office so there's no closet in there…"

"I've seen your closet, Its huge and you have almost nothing in it. Unless, you know, you want more privacy than that, which is okay, I can just leave them in the boxes until.."

"No, no, no its fine, I just didn't think of it before! Yeah, that should work. I may have to rearrange some things so you can have like half or something."

"No, don't go changing anything for me. I'll just fit my stuff around yours and whatever doesn't fit can stay in boxes. I'm not going to need it all out anyway. Hopefully I'll only be there a few weeks so most of my clothes can stay packed away. And we don't even have to work until after New Year's Eve so most of my work clothes won't even need unpacked until then."

"Okay, hey look it's time to move on to the fun part!" Deeks said as they started on the drawers. Kensi obviously tensed as he seemed to automatically find the drawer with her less than professional clothing items.

"Wow, maybe this isn't a good idea, I mean how am I ever going to look at you again without wondering if you're wearing this or this or, oh wow, this.." He trailed off as he continued to pull out her bras and panties. She made her way over and started on another drawer.

Of course his comments kept coming but soon the drawer was empty so he had to move on. It seemed like it had only been an hour or so when they were taping shut the last box in her room. Kensi looked at the time on her watch and realized it was already after two.

"Hey, do you guys want to order a pizza or something? We kind of lost track of time." Kensi said as she looked around and was pleasantly surprised at the progress being made.

"No, I think we're just about done here. Do you mind if we head out? We left you're bathroom and some of the more personal items for you to pack."

"No that's fine! I really appreciate you guys helping out. I couldn't have done it on my own." Kensi said as she gave each of them a quick side hug.

"No problem. Merry Christmas guys!" Sam said as he walked out the door.

An exchange of farewells and holiday wishes later and Kensi and Deeks found themselves alone.

"Do you want to order something?" Kensi asked as she picked up the phone.

"Sure, whatever you want." Deeks replied.

With that Kensi made the call to their favorite Mexican delivery joint and went back to work, starting in her bathroom. Deeks started moving the boxes out of her bedroom and into the living room so that it would be easier to load them into the moving truck that was coming in the morning.