Title: Season Six Snippets

Chapter 3: Sleepover

Rating: T, better make it a T+

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS LA or the characters

Summary: A series of added scenes based on season 6 episodes. This snippet takes place after Nell, Callen, and Sam escape Hetty's house through the secret passage and when Deeks and Kensi take Nell home. My imagination ran wild and this fic brings Kensi and Deeks together faster than they actually got together on the show. It also explains why they were so nervous and babbling to Granger about carpooling the next day.

Sleepover

"You want to take Nell home?" Callen asks Kensi. He had taken note of her comment about having a terrible day and figures that after being questioned about Afghanistan she could probably use the night off too.

"Sure," she replies hoping that being there for Nell helps take her mind off of her own day. "Can I take my partner? He tends to be good with this type of stuff." Callen notices the soft expression on her face as her eyes drift to her partner who is over talking to some LAPD officers.

"Yeah, you guys got this?" He uses what has become a traditional question when he or Sam pass on more responsibility or a new task to Kensi or Deeks.

"We've got this," Kensi assures him remembering the first time she killed someone, and the senior agents who got her through it. Well technically they got her drunk, but it helped. "Call us if you need us," she requests referring to their current ongoing situation of there still being someone after Hetty.

"So, usually this situation calls for a stop at the bar and a drink…or several as you ladies prefer," Deeks begins. He glances at Kensi in the passenger seat and then back at Nell with a teasing smile, but both are pretty melancholy. "Either of you feel like going to the bar?"

"Nope," they reply simultaneously.

"Then, what I suggest is a good old-fashioned sleepover."

"I kind of just want a hot shower and to go to bed." Nell is really not sure how she's feeling or what emotions are going to come out tonight. She's not sure she wants it to happen in front of her coworkers.

"You shouldn't be alone. Plus you can take a long hot shower at Kensi's. She owes me some water for always doing her laundry at my place."

"Deeks is right. You shouldn't be alone," Kensi agrees ignoring his water comment.

Nell nods her consent to the plan.

"Unfortunately due to our Hetty situation, the alcohol intake will have to be minimal, but we'll get pizza and junk food and watch the best sleepover movie of all time."

"We're not watching Goonies," Kensi proclaims.

"No Goonies," Nell strikes down the idea at the same time.

"Okay, let's hear what you got," Deeks taunts.

"The Princess Bride," Kensi suggests.

"Labyrinth," Nell adds.

"Bettlejuice"

"Ferris Bueller"

"Karate Kid"

"E.T."

The girls keep rattling off what they consider to be the best sleepover movies.

"Okay, okay," Deeks gives them the win as he pulls into a parking space. You two get the junk food. I'll get the take-and-bake pizza and text Beale.

Kensi and Nell beat Deeks back to the car. Kensi climbs into the backseat with Nell.

"How are you doing?" Kensi asks.

"I don't know. It's like I know in my head that he was a bad guy and that he would have killed me, but I saw the life drain out of him and I did that."

"It's definitely not something any of us takes lightly. Some days it's easier than others. Some days it just hits you that it's someone's life that you took. It's normal to feel the way you're feeling," Kensi assures her.

"I don't know if I can do this all the time Kens," Nell admits the thought that is most prevalent in her mind. "I thought being a field agent was my ultimate goal, but now I'm not sure."

"That's a normal feeling too. Give it a little time," Kensi suggests. "You're a good field agent Nell. You're smart. You're tough. You're skilled…" she trails off because she knows from Nell's faraway look that nothing she says is going to help right now. Just being here is going to have to be enough.

Eric meets up with the group at Kensi's apartment.

"Want to talk about it?" he asks Nell while Kensi and Deeks get the pizza in the oven and open drinks for everyone.

"It sucked. Not much else to say," she replies.

"I'm here for you," he tells her.

"I know, that helps," she assures him.

Nell is pretty quiet most of the night, but the easy chatter of her friends and the distraction of the movies help take her mind off the shooting for awhile.

When the credits roll, Kensi wakes from the nap she'd been taking since the middle of the movie. After spending most of the night on the floor, and last night on the couch, her body is craving her bed.

"Night all," she mumbles sleepily dragging herself to the bathroom to wash up and then her bedroom

Deeks does a little cleaning up and makes sure Nell is asleep and Eric is in the bathroom before slipping into Kensi's bedroom. Even though she's close to falling asleep again, she hears him open her door. A few seconds later he's sliding into bed under the blanket, but on top of the sheet.

"Unless something has changed in our relationship that I don't know about, get out of my bed," Kensi insists firmly.

"Yeah right, you know you want me in your bed," Deeks retorts.

The fact that he speaks the truth frustrates her and she shows it by her fist connecting with his thigh.

"Ow," he complains even though he suspects she didn't put all her might into it, and the sheet between them slowed down her velocity a bit. "I've been thinking," he says softly as he reaches out and places a hand on her hip. "Maybe it is time we change things."

Her eyes, which had remained closed up until this point, fly open as she exclaims in a whisper, "really?" She has to restate it to emphasize the shock she is feeling that he's doing this now. "REALLY?"

His hand travels up her body and down her arm to find her hand. "I didn't plan on saying anything tonight. I really just came in here because I need to sleep in a bed or I'm going to be a zombie. But, the truth is we are more than partners. I've been trying to deny it because I don't want to hurt you. Spending so much time together is making that difficult though."

"Do you want to stop?" she asks tentatively. She doesn't want to stop what they have outside of work. She needs him.

"No!" he replies quickly. The truth is he hadn't just come into her room for the bed. He wants to be closer to her than the movie night with Nell and Eric allowed. "I think I am beginning to realize that as good as we are together as partners, that the potential of a more personal relationship outweighs that."

"We are good for each other," she agrees as she lets go of his hand to bring hers to his cheek. She lunges more than scoots closer to him and before he knows what's happening her lips are on his. The kiss quickly becomes passionate and hungry. The sheet and blanket are pushed down as hands frantically grasp and grope for more. Kensi wraps her arm around his shoulder pulling their fully clothed bodies flush against each other. Deeks groans as her tongue enters his mouth and finds his. She moans quietly as he slides his knee between her thighs.

Suddenly she's on her back. His kisses are traveling down her neck and over her pajama top. She knows they can't do this tonight so she has to decide just how far it's going to go. She decides it's too good to stop just yet. "Deeks!" She sighs as his lips light her skin on fire even through her pajama top. He means to stop. He knows they have to, but the way she's arching toward him and sighing his name are driving him on. He pushes up her pajama top and places kisses on her stomach.

"Deeks!" her tone is full of confused desire as she is torn between how much she wants him and the conversation she knows they should have before this happens. She grasps his face and brings it back up to her own to slow things down a bit so they can think.

"I'm sorry," he apologizes between kisses for going at it like horny teenagers.

She puts a finger to his lips to stop his apology. "Never apologize for something I want. We just can't tonight," she says running her fingers through his hair. "Not with Nell and Eric in the next room and not before we have a conversation"

"about not being just partners, or being more than partners," Deeks finishes her sentence then presses his lips to hers. He rolls off her and onto his side. She misses the contact with him and rolls onto her side pressing her forehead against his chest.

"um hmm," she agrees caressing his arm.

"Any ideas about that?" he questions as his hand finds hers once again.

"Not really," she sighs softly reminding him that she's had a long, emotionally draining day. "I just know I want more with you," she adds after thinking on it for a bit.

"Me too…I want to take you on a real date," he tells her, then places a kiss in her hair.

"Sweet, but not necessary," she says sleepily.

"Yes it is," he argues.

"I already know I'm your girl," she explains letting go of his hand to wrap her arm around him.

"Yes you are," he concurs as his arms go around her.

Just as she did earlier that day, Kensi feels so safe, cared for, and loved in his arms.

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