He was still standing at the door when she turned to look at him. She takes a minute to observe him, he's looking anywhere but at her with his shoulders slumped and it scares her because he looks defeated. She knows this isn't the man she fell in love with.
She starts toward him when he looks up and she catches a glimpse of his eyes before he looks away again. She reaches for his hand when she gets close enough and is surprised when he doesn't pull away. She wonders how she can convince him otherwise "you really think I would be better off without you in my life?" He just looks at her and she knows that her previous assessment of his body language was true he has given up on everything. "Why wouldn't you? You wouldn't have to worry if I'm going to come home from work or not." As he says that all she can think is seriously that's the best he can come up with "We wouldn't be here now if I couldn't handle the thought that one day you wouldn't come home from work. I believe that that day won't come for a while, then again if you keep acting this way it may be sooner than either of us wish." Neither one of them speaks for a couple minutes lost in their own thoughts.
Deeks phone rings breaking the silence, he swears when he sees who is calling him. He answers the phone and speaks to whoever called him briefly before hanging up. Deeks turns to Karina "that was Bates he needs me to come in for something said it was important."
"Are you going to come home after you're done talking to Bates?" Deeks turns to her, he knows that what he said and his actions hurt her "depends on how long this meeting takes. I'll let you know, try to get some sleep and try not to worry about me." He changed his clothes and was about to leave when he turned and walked to where Karina was and gave her a kiss on her forehead.
Deeks arrived at the station and headed up to Bates office. As he got closer to his office he could hear what sounded like arguing but he couldn't tell who Bates was talking to. Deeks knocked and entered Bates office when he was told to enter he noticed Jameson was there when he closed the door and went to take a seat. He turned his attention to Bates "you wanted to see me?" Deeks had a sinking feeling that whatever reason he was there wasn't a good one. "I need you to go undercover, military weapons are disappearing, two have been recovered in the commission of crimes. We have the names of the guys the weapons were bought from, but we need someone to go under to bring the entire organization down. How we bring them down is up to you. This will be a joint operation with NCIS so I want to send you in as a supplier but Jameson thinks it's too risky." Deeks was quiet as he weighed his options "while sending me in as a supplier would be the best and quickest way I think Jameson is right, I'm going to go in as someone who wants to buy the weapons." Upon hearing his decision Jameson relaxed knowing that Deeks was thinking somewhat clearly. Bates wasn't very thrilled about his decision to not go undercover as a supplier but went along with it since he let Deeks decide. "When does the op start?" Deeks asked Bates, "I need you to go under by the end of the day." Deeks looked over at Jameson who just shook his head at him, "Who is going to create my alias?" "That tea sipping svengali made it very clear that NCIS would be the ones to do the background for your alias."
Deeks nodded and got up to leave with Jameson following him "You want me to tell Karina that you were sent undercover and that it will be a few weeks before your done?" While pulling his phone from his pocket Deeks looked at Jameson and said " No I'll tell her, all I need to do for now is let NCIS know what approach I'm taking and they can start the background without me and I'll meet them later."
Deeks called a number he had called just a few hours ago "what do you want now? Don't you think you've caused enough trouble already?" "I'm sorry about earlier I was out of line, and before you ask no Karina doesn't know I'm talking to you now but I will tell her. Are you working the weapons case?" Kensi was quiet for a minute before answering him "umm that's classified how do you know about that case?" "I know about that case cause I'm the detective they decided to send under. Look I know you guys are probably expecting me right now but I need to let Karina know I'm going undercover and that it's a joint op with you guys." Kensi sighed "when can we expect you to come in?" "Give me 2hrs to tell her and get there. Do I meet y'all at the boatshed or the mission?" Deeks could hear Kensi talking to someone in the background before she answered him "the mission." They hung up after that and Deeks headed home.
