Title: Season Ten Tidbits
Chapter 8: With Me
Summary: These are short scenes that I want to add to the season 10 episodes. A lot of them will be Densi. This scene takes place during the episode 10x08 The Patton Project. It takes place after the first day when Callen goes to talk to Ochoa and everyone else goes home.
Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS LA or the characters. I simply enjoy writing about them in this forum. Lines from the episode are in Italics.
Rating: T
With Me
"Let's get a workout in," Deeks suggests as they pack up.
"I'm starving and we worked out this morning," Kensi counters.
"Well this potential case has me kind of tense. I could use a release."
"Feed me, and I may be inclined to give you a different kind of release," she flirts hoping to also ease some of the tension between them over this case. When even her offer of sexual relations doesn't seem to sway him, she pleads, "Please baby, I haven't eaten all day because of this case."
"Damn it!" Deeks grumbles angrily 50 minutes later as the rice for their dinner boils over.
"It's fine babe," Kensi soothes reaching around him to turn down the burner. After stirring the rice, she turns to him and anxiously rubs his bicep while she gathers the courage to begin a conversation. She looks up at him and tentatively brings up the subject they've been avoiding for months. "I know neither of us wants to be where we were before Mexico, but that's where we'll be headed if we don't talk about it. We can't wait until everything comes to a head again. Wherever this anger is coming from, you need to let it out." She bites her lip as she processes how to continue. "If you're angry with me, then we need to talk. If it's the job, then maybe you take some vacation, but you can't keep knocking people out and yelling at out dinner."
He knows she's right and he emits a heavy sigh of relief. He hadn't known how to approach this with her, but now she's opened the door. "I need to ask you something and you're not going to like it," he prefaces. "I know what it's like to cross that line Kens. I've gone all the way over it, and tip-toed over to the other side and back again. I can't go there again. There's too much guilt, regret, and inner turmoil. I can understand why you think we'd be on the right side or the side of the greater good here, but it's a slippery slope. If we keep taking the law into our own hands, where do we stop? I need you to be with me if I need to walk away from this case, because if you don't I know I won't."
"Thank you for telling me and for trusting me enough to ask this of me. I know I hurt you by not walking away from Mexico, and I'm sorry."
"Yeah, you hurt my noggin," he tries to lighten the mood rubbing his no longer evident injuries on his head.
"You have no idea how much I regret that," she apologizes gently brushing his hand away and caressing his head. "Of course I'll be with you if you need to walk away from this case," she says placing both of her hands on his cheeks. "I'm your partner. I have your back, and I love you," she proclaims leaning in to kiss him.
"I love you too partner," he replies before their lips meet and the forgotten pot boils over again. This time they laugh.
Thanks for reading! I'm afraid they are never going to have any conversations related to Mexico or their differences on their future, so I had to put one in and I felt this was the perfect episode since they did have a difference of opinion in Ops over whether they should take the case or not.
