Jealousy Chapter 6

A/n: Kind of a fun chapitre. (FUN WITH FRENCH!) I'm sorry, it's been a long, crazy, but fun day! I got to go to the beach : ) Okay, you guys don't care… so here's the deal. Once again, proofreading doesn't really happen, ignore my typos and auto correct fails.

Disclaimed. I own a laptop.

Finals. Will. Happen. I. Will. Study.

Update when I can. Thanks all!

"Who is it Deeks?" Kensi asked, looking at her confused partner.

He stammered, cancelling the call and shoving his phone back in his pocket.

"Deeks…" she called.

"It was someone I don't want to talk to," he said, "and you were about to go talk to Eric."

She looked at him and squinted her eyes. "You promise that if there's something going on, you'll tell me, right?"

He nodded. "Of course."

They walked up stairs to OPS. Eric was sitting at his computer, right where they had expected him to be. He didn't glance up from his computer until Kensi and Deeks approached him.

"Hey guys, what can I do for you?" Eric asked nonchalantly.

"A couple things," Kensi started.

"Shoot," Eric replied.

"First of all, what's up with Nell? She got aggressive with Kensi yesterday, and that's not supposed to happen, like ever," Deeks questioned.

"She's under a lot of pressure. I have no clue what Hetty left for her to clean up, but I take it it's not pretty," he said. "What else ya need?'

"I need to know why I was sent to Afghanistan," Kensi replied.

"That's still classified, until Hetty gets back, or if, well…" Eric stuttered.

"Eric, I was beaten and tortured in that desert. Somebody better start giving me some answers as to why," Kensi said forcefully.

Deeks gulped, clearing his throat. Raw emotion was spilling out of Kensi's mouth, a vulnerability he was not comfortable seeing her display.

Eric also looked disturbed. He didn't look like he pitied Kensi, because he knew that wasn't what she wanted. He just looked really uncomfortable.

"There has got to be a file or something. If you don't want to give it to me, set it up so that I can sneak in and access it on my own. That way I can take the blame if you were to get in trouble," she pleaded, "Just give me some answers."

How could he deny her this? It would hurt her, he knew that. But she was hurting as is, assuming that Deeks was the cause of her reassignment.

I'll have the file in your inbox by the end of the day," Eric mumbled softly.

"Thank you. I knew I could count on you," she said, tapping him on the shoulder. She and Deeks started to exit OPS.

"Kensi," Eric called.

"Yeah?" she called back to him.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad you're back," Eric said.

"Thank you," Kensi nodded.

Kensi and Deeks walked away from OPS quietly, as Deeks was steel reeling from Kensi's comment earlier on.

"You're really brave. Have I ever told you that?" Deeks asked tentatively.

Kensi smiled, "No, that's another new one."

"What do you mean, that's another new one?" he inquired.

Kensi paused, realizing her mistake. Oops. She'd just referenced the "You're beautiful" moment. Crud.

So she decided to blow over it. "Ya know, just that thing you said the other day. You might not have meant it,"

She started to ramble off, but Deeks stopped her.

"Hold up, what do you mean I might not have meant it? What are you talking about?"

"The beautiful thing, it's not a big dea…"

"What do you mean I didn't mean it? Of course I mea…"

Suddenly the pair were aware of Sam and Callen's presence in the office space. Their conversation was going to have to wait.

Most of the afternoon was spent on desk work- or as the agents preferred to call it- busy work.

Deeks found himself staring across the room at Kensi too often. How could she not know how beautiful she was? How beautiful she was to him?

Kensi found her mind wandering and her stomach churning. Tonight she'd find out what really happened in Afghanistan. Plus, she just about heard Deeks call her beautiful a second time. She'd know he meant it when she could hear it again. Confirmation.

At the end of the day, Sam and Callen headed out. They'd had no word from Hetty. Kensi wasn't about to go try to deal with Nell, but Eric said he'd try to talk some sense into her.

As Eric descended down the stairs, he shot a wink at Kensi. She immediately checked her inbox, and there was the file.

Jack's Ghost.

Deeks joined her at her desk. "That's it, huh?" he said solemnly.

"Yep. That's it," she agreed.

"I'm here for you," he replied.

"I know, this is just something I need to do…"

"Alone. I get it." He leant down and pressed a kiss into her hairline. "Call me if you need me, any hour."

He took off down the hallway. She sat there, taking in what had just happened. Every time he kissed her, her brain lost connectivity with the rest of her body. Even if it was just a forehead kiss, it made her emotions go all haywire.

Suddenly, he turned around and came back to her.

"I almost forgot. About earlier, and the beautiful thing," He said.

Their eyes locked. She wasn't going to look away for anything.

"Of course I meant it. You're beautiful, and that's that."

She smiled, and he smiled back.

Their thing was coming along mighty fine.

"Night Kens," he said.

"Night Deeks," she replied. With one last glance back at her, he was gone.

Kensi decided that this would be a long night, and that she'd rather do this in the comfort of her own home.

Once she got home, she realized how similar this felt to her father, and her investigation of how he really had died. She was breaking rules. She was trying to figure out what was going on. She was researching in the middle of the night.

It was way too late.

She pulled her laptop out and settled into her couch. She could use her desktop, but that would feel too much like her father's case.

Nervously she logged into her email. There lay the file, all of the data she needed.

Before she could back out, she clicked download.

And she began to read.

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