It had been a week since the accident and Deeks had not been sleeping. Sure he could catch a nap whenever Sophie had one but he found it impossible to sleep through the night. He would wake up at least every three hours just to check on Sophie now that she was sleeping in her own crib. Carefully he would crack open her bedroom door and peered over her crib. Once Deeks saw the rise and fall of Sophie's chest he would leave.
"Deeks, can we talk to you for a second?" Callen and Sam asked him. They noticed a change in the detective a few days after Sophie was home from the hospital. Each knew this is how Deeks acted after he encountered the torture earlier in the year.
"Look if this is about what I said about male pattern baldness I'm sorry. I know that both of you chose your hairstyle, nothing forced about it." Deeks said, the minute he said the joke yesterday he regretted it knowing how bad the hair jokes can be.
"No forget that, this is about you sleeping. We know something is going on with you this week. Is it the trial?" Sam asked, every member of the team was dreading the impending hearing of custody.
"That's not it, in fact nothing is wrong. I've just been a little under the weather lately no big deal. I'm fine, really don't worry about it." Deeks explained hoping this excuse would stick, the last thing he needed was the team down his throat about PTSD plus if that were to get brought up in the trial things could go downhill for him fast.
"Alright man, just know we're here for you." Callen said understanding that Deeks might want a bit of space when it came to dealing with whatever was going on, however he wasn't afraid to take action if this were to continue.
NCIS LA
"Ms. Blye, can you stop by my office for a moment, I think we need to chat?" Hetty asked the agent who was busy filling out paperwork at her desk. Wanting any excuse to stop filling out the mind numbing Kensi immediately followed Hetty back.
"What's going on Hetty? Is something wrong?" Kensi asked her heart started to race at all the possible scenarios that could have made her boss summon her to this office.
"It appears that your partner is struggling once again with getting a full night of sleep. Now I know something has happened but I don't want to get involved so I'm asking you to fix it." Hetty said, Kensi knew that Deeks was struggle and she had a general idea why.
"Hetty what do you mean fix it?" Kensi asked, she could never seem to follow what Hetty was saying most of the time and forget the ability to wrap her head around the secret messages hidden in everything her boss spoke about.
"I mean do whatever it is you did last time to get Mr. Deeks back." Hetty said dismissing Kensi from her office. Kensi didn't know about the impromptu dinner she had with Deeks when she got him to fall asleep when he was still trying to short everything from the Sidorov ordeal.
NCIS
It was a long day of work but Deeks got through it, he decided to watch a movie hoping that exhaustion would take over his body. He had Sophie beside him in a play pen sleeping and titanic at the ready. Just as the play button was about to be pressed there was a knock on at the door.
"Comin' coming, gosh you think a guy could get a second to himself." Deeks said under his breath thinking that whoever was at his door was trying to con him into buying something that wouldn't work.
"Hey I thought you might like dinner, I got us some fish tacos this time." Kensi said holding them out for her partner to see. She knew that they would have to do some talking late on but Deeks didn't have to know that right away.
"Alright then, quiet though Soph is asleep in the playpen I was just going to watch a movie." Deeks said leading them both into the room where he was just sitting. Quickly Kensi handed him a fish taco and they got to eating.
"Kens we might as well get that impending talk over with now, I can't believe you seriously thought I wasn't onto your plan." Deeks said he knew that's why she was here with him. Part of his heart though hoped she came here because of the feeling they now shared for one another.
"Deeks you know that you have to stop beating yourself up over what's happened. You can breathe now; no one is going anywhere any time soon." Kensi told him catching her partner off guard. It was like she read the thoughts that were hidden in the back of his mind.
"How do you do that? Know what I'm thinking without trying?" Deeks asked smiling at her, he knew she was right and he was going to figure things out but right now he needed some sleep.
"It comes with practice." Kensi said sliding down further into the sofa. This position was oh so familiar to them, Kensi with her head on Deeks' chest while he wrapped a protective arm around her waist. In a matter of minutes they were both out like a light.
The sound of a phone going off made the pair of them break apart, it took a second for each of them to find their bearing but once they did everything became clearer.
"This is Deeks." Deeks said answer his phone now realizing that it was the sound that had woken them from their slumber. While he was waiting for an answer Deeks also noticed that he had slept through the whole night without waking up.
"Mr. Deeks this is Ms. Dolly it appears that there is a problem with the custody trial." Those few words made Deeks feel like the wind had been knocked out of him. This wasn't supposed to be happening to him, not now, not after everything he's been through with Sophie.
"What's going on? What kind of problem are we talking about? The kind of problem that goes away on its own, or the type where Sophie might be gone forever?" When Kensi heard Deeks ask that she grabbed his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze hoping he understood that whatever this was she would be here for him.
"It turns out someone from your brother-in-laws family is trying to get Sophie as well, now this doesn't change too much but now we have to be more prepared for the trial. You will probably have to answer question by the people trying to get Sophie back but we will also ask them questions." Ms. Dolly explained to him, she hated to do this truly but it wasn't up to her. Truth be told she didn't know what the fate of Sophie would be.
"Thanks for calling, when is the trial?" Deeks asked not knowing if this would mean the trial is pushing a couple more days or if it would remain to be held in a week.
"The trial is still in a week, Marty I really hope you get her." Ms. Dolly said before hanging up the phone. It felt like Deeks was frozen there, everything around him continued to move at a speed that was so fast.
"Deeks are you okay? What's happening with Sophie?" Kensi asked scared since had never seen her partner in this kind of state before. He looked so lost and…breakable.
"Someone else wants Sophie." That's all Deeks could manage right now, things were just not in his favour it seemed.
NCIS LA
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