They come back in at nine, Kensi hasn't said anything to him yet, obviously she's mad.

Shit, that's not how it was meant to go!

He should have thought about what he was saying before he said it. Blurting stuff out when you're running on fumes usually doesn't turn out well, especially if you're talking to a sleep deprived Kensi Blye.

He looks across at her, and decides to try and explain to her. "I'm sorry about last night. It didn't come out right.."

"Oh, I think I got your point." there was clearly no ground to gain with her right now so he just sighs.

"Okay, I'm going to shoot if you want to join." he figures at least she wouldn't be shooting him.

She starts following him to the shooting range.

"You think all women are the same."

"No, Kensi that's not what I was trying to say," they're entering the doors of the shooting range at this point. Callen and Sam turn to look at them.

"What? You weren't saying women were harder to work with than men? Because that's what it sounded like to me!" She was basically screaming at him.

"Did you seriously bring a homicidally angry Kensi to the shooting range, Deeks?" Callen isn't completely joking about this.

"I say we retreat before this gets ugly, G" The two senior agents had noted the hostile energy in the bull pen and had come down here, but apparently their partners were going to follow. They leave the shooting range and stand in a spot where they can see in, but Kensi and Deeks can't see them.

"Kensi, I said you were more difficult to work with. Not women in general."

"Oh, because that's better." She walks into a stall and loads her gun. She hears Deeks behind her. "What?"

"You don't get it do you?" She's confused.

"What is there not to get, Deeks. You don't want me as your partner anymore. I don't think standing there's going to help. Just go talk to Hetty and leave me alone, okay!" She turns back and reaches for the sound mufflers.

She senses he's still behind her and turns around. She leans against the ledge and crosses her arms in front of her.

"Kensi, how many times do I have to tell you? I didn't mean it that way." She just looks at him and doesn't say anything this time.

He walks up and leans towards her, putting a hand only an inch away from either of her hips and searches her eyes. She's off guard and looks completely confused.

"Does Deeks realize she's still within arms length of a loaded gun?"

"Yeah, I don't think he cares though." Callen watches as Deeks leans in closer.

He's surprised when she doesn't immediately push him away, so he takes it as a sign to continue. He leans so there's about half an inch between them. Sam and Callen are watching closely. This is not what they suspected was going to happen.

The scruff of his beard tickles her jaw as he whispers in her ear. "I said you were difficult to work with, and yeah it would be easier working with a guy, but not for the reason you're thinking. I think working with anyone else would be easier, but I would hate it. It would be easier working with someone else, because I wouldn't have to worry about being attracted to them. I wouldn't have to worry about falling head over heels for anyone else, because nobody's ever made me feel how I do around you." As he pulls back he kisses her cheek.

Callen and Sam are trying to figure out what Deeks is saying while he's practically laying on top of her standing up. Judging by the look on her face, it was something important. Her eyes got really big and her jaw dropped a little. What they couldn't see from their angle was when his lips touched her.

Looking into her face, he's relieved to see she's not angry. She looks more in shock. He exhales slowly, now that the huge weight was off his chest.

What the hell just happened! Did he just... Oh. My. God...

Kensi can't even think any more, she tries to say something but no words come out. He looks her in the eyes for a few seconds, then leaves her in there by herself.

Well, it didn't start as planned but I think it ended better than anticipated, I think.

Deeks walks out and looks at Sam and Callen standing there. They'd probably watched the whole thing, but how much could they see from there? He turned around and quickly realized they'd been able to probably see everything.

"I don't know what you just said to her, but I don't think I've ever seen that look on her face before, Deeks." Callen has to comment on this.

"What did you say?" Sam pushes as the three of them head back to the bull pen.

"Ah, nothing." He lies, but they don't push anymore.

They hear Kensi fire her gun three times as they walk away. Deeks isn't sure if that's a good or bad thing and decides to play it safe.

Kensi heads to the gym to burn off some energy she doesn't really have to begin with. She just needs to be alone right now to sort things out. What did he mean by that? He said he was attracted to her and she made him feel different than anyone else did.

The words that really struck her was when he'd basically said he was falling head over heels for her. Did that mean he though of her as more than just a partner?

She finally decides the punching bag has taken enough of a beating and goes to take a cold shower. She decides she'll have to talk to him later, but she had to think of what she would say first.

Callen and Sam left to chase some small lead, it wasn't even worth going up to ops to discuss, so it was just him in the bull pen.

He'd seen Kensi heading to the gym and decided to go out for a little fresh air. He needed it.

I don't think she's mad, her eyes didn't look mad, but sometimes she over-processes things and then gets mad about them because she's twisted them around somehow.

He doesn't even try to go there, but he ends up at Kensi's favorite little coffee shop around the corner. He orders himself a latte, and then orders Kensi her favorite coffee and donuts. It couldn't hurt to be safe.

Arriving back at Mission, he and Kensi are the only ones there, and they both just happen to be walking into the bull pen at the same time. She kind of gives him a sideways glance, but it was so much softer than usual. She starts writing her report of the night before. There wasn't much to write, Callen and Sam did most of it.

She sees Deeks still standing at her desk and looks up at him. He just smiles and hands her a coffee and holds out the bag of donuts, letting her choose. She gives him a little half-smile thing, trying not to let her face get too red. She takes the chocolate filled donut with chocolate frosting.

"Thanks." she says quietly before going back to her work. She notices he'd gone to her favorite coffee shop, and picked both of her favorite types of donuts. She's glad it doesn't take her much effort to write this one, she's got a major headache right now.

Deeks watches as she eats the donut and drinks her coffee. She definitely wasn't mad. That was a start. She wasn't really talking, but then again, he didn't know what to say either, so they enjoyed the mutual silence.

That silence ended as Sam and Callen walked in. "Hetty, no. We work fine as it is."

"A little change is a good thing, Mr. Hanna."

"But Hetty..."

"No buts, Mr. Callen."

"What's going on?" Kensi finally breaks her silence.

"Hetty thinks we need new seating arrangements." replied Sam in an annoyed tone.

"It will be beneficial to your partnerships." Hetty says. "Now, all of you, out. Team exercise."

They know she's not using a tone to be argued with and grab their gym bags.

Sam and Callen hit the hoops leaving Kensi and Deeks to spar. The coffee and donuts had given her an energy boost and she quickly had Deeks pinned.

"Nice, Kensi." Callen comments. She had Deeks on the ground in less than two seconds. One of her personal bests.

She moves to let Deeks up but he has other ideas. He wraps a leg around her hip and pulls her down into him before flipping her over.

Deeks was laying on top of her and she was breathing, hard. He just held her down and she looked up into his eyes. They didn't need words. A grin crosses her face and she repeats the motion. But this time she places a knee between his legs, daring him to move.

He laughs a little. "Okay, you win, can you move your leg now. I'd kinda like to have some dignity left here."

She moves off of him but doesn't break eye contact as she holds out a hand to help him up.

"Is that what you would call team bonding, Sam? To me that looked like a little more than just sparring."

"To each team their own." Kensi was glad Sam wasn't pushing anything like Callen. She and Deeks hadn't even said anything, why would she tell him. Okay, so Deeks had said something. She hadn't.

The group heads back to the bull pen, afraid as to what Hetty was doing.

Kensi happily realizes her desk hasn't moved, but then looks at the rest of the desk tops, seeing where everyone else was.

Callen's desk was directly across from hers, Sam's was pushed right next to it. Not a crack between the tops.

She glances over and realizes Deeks' desk was in the same position, right next to hers. Meaning they were now going to be sitting only a couple feet apart. Was Hetty trying to make her go insane?

"Really, Hetty? You know I like my personal space." Sam complains, but takes his seat anyway.

Deeks leans in and whispers in Kensi's ear as he passes. "I'm not complaining." And he's glad he looked over his shoulder as he passed, because her face was priceless. A mix of disbelief and if he wasn't mistaken, happiness? Yeah, Kensi definitely liked this, she wasn't going to say it though.

Deeks says something out loud, just so the other guys wouldn't notice him being too quiet. "Hello, new neighbor, nice weather we're having, isn't it." He says this with his horrible English accent.

Kensi rolls her eyes as she sits down and pretends to be annoyed. But his day gets a whole lot better the second they guys turn around and she gives him a real smile. She reaches up onto his desk and places her hand on his and squeezing it quickly before pulling back and acting like she's rearranging stuff on her desk.

Back from the safety of her own little area, Hetty smiles at this. She sees the look on Deeks and Kensi's faces, and can't help but be proud of herself for picking just the right day to do this. She had eyes and ears everywhere. Including the camera in the shooting range.

Ha ha... I love Hetty, she always knows what to do.