Author's Note: Sorry for the short chapter. I just wasn't sure where to go next. I know it's kind of OOC for them to talk about her 'behind her back' but it makes sense here, I hope. Will they talk to Kensi right away now? Talk to Deeks first? Hetty? Call in Nate? What do you think?

"G., I'm worried about Kensi," Sam surprised Callen by interrupting the comfortable silence in the boathouse. The two agents were watching the big screen as Kensi interrogated a suspect. Deeks was off somewhere scrounging up something that could pass as lunch.

"She looks like she's doing great," Callen responded. He paused before he continued, "But something is off. I can't put my finger on it."

"Have you noticed how she won't look Deeks in the eye?"

"She doesn't look me in the eyes either. Never has."

"Callen, that's not the point! There is an icy wall between the two of them now, and it isn't good for either of them."

Callen thought for a minute before speaking.

"Deeks has been off, too. Last week when Hetty made me take him to interview the wife of that dead marine, he didn't make a single wise crack."

Sam grunted. Callen couldn't help but smile. Sam must have used up all his words for the day.

"Do you think they broke up?" Callen asked with a teasing glint in his eye.

"That would require them to be in a relationship," Sam responded on instinct.

"Weren't they?" Callen pressed, trying to lighten the mood.

"If you can count one night."

"Agent Sam Hanna, do you know something you're not telling me? " Callen fully expected Sam to continue to deny that anything had happened between Deeks and Kensi.

"I talked to Kensi last week."

Suddenly the light hearted banter was gone, the humid ocean-side air became nearly stifling. Callen held his breath unwittingly, knowing Sam was about to share, knowing it wasn't good news.

"She's really struggling, G. They messed her up good over there."

The regret in Sam's voice was evident.

"Why didn't she say anything to me?" Callen nearly whined, wishing he could take away his friend's pain.

"She's trying to move on as if nothing happened. But she can't. I don't know what they did, but they messed with her head. She called what they did to her 'punishment'."

Callen connected the dots. "She believes she deserved it," he whispered.

Sam nodded.

"She blames Deeks."

Callen was stunned by Sam's words, "Why?"

Sam just shook his head. He couldn't wrap his mind around it any more than Callen could. They watched Kensi on the screen in front of them, carefully observing her.

"Sam, does she look like she's lost weight?"

"Yeah, yeah she does."

"How did I not notice that?" Callen berated himself. A fine team leader he was being.

"I bet she isn't sleeping either," he added.

Sam nodded, "Nightmares."

"But she's still damn good at her job," Callen said after noticing the look of triumph on her face. "She just got the confession."