The next morning had gone more to a normal schedule than the previous one, waking up to a human alarm in a much more pleasurable way than her cell phone. The only thing that had changed was the concerned look Callen had given her when she had finally gotten up before telling her that if she wanted to take the day off and rest, he'd make it happen and was sure that everyone else would understand. Kensi had shook her head and said that she was feeling much better, and she found that she wasn't even lying when she said that this time.
Once ready to go, she stopped by the bathroom to find two certain items that she wanted to wear that day and found them with relative ease. They were walking towards the car when he spotted the additional jewellary and he raised an eyebrow at her after capturing her left hand to take a better look. "What?" she asked him.
"I honesly cannot remember the last time you wore these." he said, rubbing the simple engagement and wedding rings on her ring finger before dropping her hand.
Kensi shrugged. "Me either. We're always working." she told him. "I miss the weight of them and I figured that I wouldn't be in the field today, so I might as well take the chance."
Callen raised an eyebrow at her words. "You won't be?" he commented on her words about not being in the field, knowing that it was his choice more than anyone elses when it came to who went in the field and who didn't.
"Will I?" she asked him sceptically.
"No. Not after yesterday. Maybe tomorrow." he said, backing up what she had said. "Hopefully we won't have a case today at all."
"Told you." Kensi said with a laugh and got into the car at the passengers side before driving off towards Ops.
They had gotten lucky and not had any new cases to chase after that day, but they did have paperwork left over from the day before. They had all attempted it with a bit of effort at the start of the day but as the time went on, they all got bored of it and decided that training would be more fun than working. Kensi agreed readily, needing to find a way to release her excess energy and gain a bit of control once again after the day before, even if it meant having to lose her rings for a little while.
They had started with a small sparring competition between them all for the fun of it before breaking off into their partner pairs when joined by other memebers in the gym. Sometimes, they all forgot that there were other people who worked in the same place as them who had to use the gym too.
Things has seemed all normal that morning between them all, and Kensi was happy that there was nothing weird between them especially her and Deeks. He had acted his usual goofy self which told her that he had stuck to what he had suggested and forgotten about it, which she was happy about, because if he could forget about it then she shouldn't be worrying about it.
She wasn't surprised when Callen and Sam started to play a game of basketball to pass the time rather than to work, but was really surprised when her own partner challanged her to a real sparring match with no props or anything. She agreed, not wanting to turn him down and face a lot of teasing from it for being too chicken which she knew would happen if she said no.
It started off slow with more verbal sparring and psyching each other out than physical before they got into it. They were both as good as each other, which surprised Kensi when he managed to ground her in their 5th round, but she then managed to sweep his legs out from under him and pinned him down to win that round too. She grinned down at him in victory, pinning his arms down to stop him from turning them around so that he could win in the end anyway, especially as she sat very unsteadily on her knees atop of his body.
"Ouch." Deeks exclaimed at her move when he could finally think after been taken all of a sudden. "I thought I had you there."
"That's why you lost." she laughed with smugness. "End it here before someone really gets hurt?"
He pretended to think about her question even though he knew that the one person who would get hurt seriously in their fighting would be him. "Maybe one more round?" he said anyway, not wanting to give in without a proper fight.
"You really like losing don't you?" she shook head before getting serious when he smiled in return. "What? Kensi asked suspiciously when he looked around as if to check who was watching them. She did the same and wasn't surprised to see that everyone else was more into their own actions than theirs.
He leaned up just a little bit , making her let go of his arms and start to get up but stopping when he whispered. "Kinda reminds you of yesterday, huh?" he joked. She had a sudden flashback to the previous day to when after they had blown the room up and landed outside in similar positions, though she had been leaning more on him back then. She remembered with a frown what that moment had led to and she could feel the guilt and anger build up inside once again, not knowing why he would bring it up again when he had been the one who had said to forget about it in the first place.
She couldn't remember how her emotions had taken over her actions when she was really well trained in keeping her emotions in check and under her control, but her fist had been made and had punched him in the nose before she could even think, not that she needed to because she didn't regret it. It even made her feel a bit better and she would have done it again if she hadn't been stopped.
Callen's arm around her waist from behind dragged her off him before she could do any more damage as she had planned and she fought against him at first. "Hey, calm down, Kensi." he warned her as he held her tight to make sure she didn't try to do anything stupid. She hated the fact that even though she knew how to fight and everything, any man had the power of strength over her.
She stopped fighting against him and breathed deeply to catch her breath again from the fighting, and then looked over at where Sam was helping Deeks stand up while her partner kept on poking at his nose to try stopping the small blood leaking from it. "He's fine."
Deeks' head snapped over to her when he heard her words. "I am not!" he exclaimed before dropping his voice a bit. "And I didn't mean that. There was no need to punch me."
Kensi narrowed her eyes at him to give him a deadly look that showed that she didn't believe him even if he was telling the truth, which he was. When she didn't say anything, Callen spoke instead. "What's going on?" There was no reply and he looked over at Sam who only shrugged, telling him that he didn't know anything either. He looked at the woman who he still had an arm around to keep her from repeating her actions. "Kensi?"
She stayed quiet for a moment and then let out a long breath, deciding that she could handle it better herself and that it was something her and Deeks had to sort out. "Nothing." she said turning slightly in a hint to break away from Callen's hold on her. She didn't make it far when he refused to let go, not trusting her yet not that she blamed him after she had just punched her patner.
"Really? You punched Deeks for nothing?" he asked skeptically and she nodded, pulling away harder and he finally loosened his hold on her but not let go entirely. "Deeks?"
Deeks looked over at him and then her before shaking his head lightly. "Nothing. Just a bad sparring match." he lied even though noone believed him.
"Happy?" Kensi asked sarcastically before pulling his arm away from her with more ease than she thought it would be and walking away towards the changing rooms without another word or look or anything and ignored the other people in the room who had gone silent and still after she had punched Deeks.
Sam waited until she had gone out of their view and Callen had neared them before speaking. "What did you do?"
"Nothing." Deeks said again and held a towel to his bleeding nose. He looked around the room to see people looking back at them, though some were polite enough to pretend they weren't and got back to work. The ones who didn't soon did when Callen copied his actions and looked around. The fact that they were still scared of the man that they had worked with longer than he had scared him but he forgot about that for the time being. "They're looking at me."
Sam smirked at him. "Of course they are. You just got punched by Kensi." he said and Deeks smiled shyly. "So what did you do?"
Callen cut in before he could speak in a tone just like his partner's filled with both amusement but much more concern. "And don't say nothing. We've worked with Kensi for years and she's never punched us."
"Ever." Sam said nodding. "And we've pissed her off to levels that noone else could." he added and when Deeks didn't reply again, he carried on. "Except you, obviously."
"So what did you do?" Callen asked again, crossing his arms and waiting for an answer. Deeks knew he wasn't going to get out of this at all so he sighed deeply and tilted his head back a bit before speaking.
"You really don't want to know." he said and saw Sam and Callen swap looks of worry.
"What did you do, Deeks." Callen demanded this time, keeping his voice low but seriously steady.
Letting out another breath, he shook his head. "Lemme begin by sayi-" he said before getting cut off by a roaring voice.
"What on Earth happened to you, Mr Deeks? I have people telling me my agents are beating each other up into pulp! So I come here thinking, no no, that can't be true, but alas, here you are!" the voice of their boss, Hetty, came as she made her way over to the three of them. "Well?" she demanded when noone said anything.
Sam patted the injured man on the shoulder. "Deeks'll explain." he said with a fake smile before heading off. Callen stood for a moment longer, knowing that there was something going on that he didn't know about and didn't like. Instead of heading in the direction that Sam had gone to the game they had been playing, he went to the dressing rooms and got changed, hoping to catch Kensi before she began avoiding them.
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