I need to pick up the pace here so I need to skip some of the episodes but still, the very best will stay.

As always many thanks to my amazing beta reader GinnyGinervaWealsey.

(02x10 Deliverance)


Too close…

The sound of the blast was still ringing in Deeks' ears, his whole body was screaming with pain after taking most of the impact with the ground but to be honest he couldn't care less. Kensi was alive and safe and… very much on top of him staring down at him. He had his hands still wrapped around her and didn't want to let go. There was something in her eyes that Deeks couldn't put his finger on, but it was hypnotizing him. His mind was playing tricks on him, presenting images that weren't appropriate ways to think of his partner. Her tousled dark hair was tickling his cheek and it was breathtaking being so close to her.

But they were in the middle of a blast zone and Deeks just pulled her from a room full of lasers and it was not the time to be thinking improper and unbelievable things that could happen between them.

"I need to pee." Kensi finally whispered breaking the moment and earning a huge smile from Deeks.

"I think I already did," Deeks answered and started laughing hard. After a moment Kensi couldn't help herself and joined her partner. All the hours of adrenaline induced stress finally got to her and without thinking about it she rested her head on Deeks' chest. A huge relief and gratefulness for her partner overloading her senses for a moment. She was alive, maybe a little banged up but still, Deeks was the one who took most of the impact on his back. She was happy that she got out from that room in one piece and for a moment she just needed to appreciate that.

After a moment of hesitation, she could feel Deeks' arms tighten around her hugging her closer to him. It was the first time he hugged her and what was even more surprising for Kensi was that she didn't feel weird being pulled into him. She could hear his heart beating frantically against his chest and it was the most comforting sound she had ever heard.

"I'm sorry I let them take you." Deeks murmured against the top of her head his voice serious. The tone of his voice the seriousness and the warmth in it sent shivers down her spines.

"Don't be." She whispered against his t-shirt, "You got me back." She couldn't look into his eyes. She was too scared of what she would see in them.

Neither of them wanted to move. Kensi was mesmerized by the sound of his heart, the soft scent of his t-shirt mixed with all the dust and ash from the explosion. Deeks was afraid to even breathe harder, he was scared that if he moved the moment between him and Kensi would be gone. And he wanted nothing more than to hold her for a moment longer. A strange warm feeling crept into his heart and left him dizzy with the possibilities. At that moment he understood that he would do absolutely everything for her and be able to hold her that close was the greatest reward. He knew that he was not supposed to be feeling like that but at that moment, he couldn't care less.

Suddenly they heard footsteps approaching fast and voices of Callen and Sam. Kensi started pulling away from him and he reluctantly let her go. Their eyes met again faces so close that their breaths mixed together. Kensi's dark eyes hold Deeks' blue ones and he had to fight hard not to do something stupid. It would be so easy to just pull her closer and…

Callen and Sam were running towards them accompanied by at least two police officers and bomb squad officers. Good timing Deeks thought darkly looking at the last men arriving at the scene. Kensi looked up too and began scrambling to her feet. The moment was gone.

"I'm wondering what the bomb squad will be disarming?" Deeks grumbled when getting up from the ground. "I think we disarmed it pretty well."

Kensi looked at a dark hole in the place where the storage room had been and glared at her partner. "It's not funny Deeks."

"No, it's not. I'm beginning to think ever since I have joined NCIS that the bomb squad is more to clean up the mess after something was actually blown up." Deeks said darkly looking at the men overlooking the blast. Suddenly he was being poked and pulled by two of the paramedics that came running to the scene, "I'm fine. Check Kensi first." He fought the men off him looking at his partner. Kensi just rolled her eyes but allowed herself to be hauled to the ambulance and checked for any injury, even though she was dreaming of finally finding the restroom. She wasn't kidding when she told Deeks that she really needed to use one.

It was way past midnight when detective Marty Deeks finally got home. He was bruised all over and exhausted. The extracurricular activities of gathering information and blackmailing were time-consuming exercises but they paid off nicely - Hetty was safe.

He still couldn't shake that odd feeling at the back of his mind. He was trying very hard not to look at Kensi too much for the rest of the day, to be honest, they both were trying not to be near each other the entire time they had been working in ops that evening. If Deeks didn't know better, he would think that Kensi was trying to avoid him. To be honest, she didn't need to, Deeks knew perfectly well that he needed to get a grip over himself and that thing in his heart if he wanted to be working with Kensi. It could never be.

He was thinking and rethinking about the day's events when he was driving back home and decided that he had to stop doing that to himself. She was his partner and it needed to stay that way. And at the way the things between them were going it was dangerously close to crossing the line. She was an attractive, funny and amazing woman and his friend and it was supposed to stay that way.

He needed to find a distraction for his own sake.


A/N: OK, ever since I've seen that scene I knew I need to write some more of it. Come on it was full cuteness :D Please leave a review and tell me what You think. The key word here is REVIEW! :D