I do not own NCIS: LA. I do, however owe a pretty new sundress.

From the episode " BLYE, K" part I (Season 3, episode 16)When Deeks has to bring Kensi in.

Deeks stood in front of Kensi's door, not really sure what he was doing there. Since she was being investigated for the death of Sergeant Blake, Deeks hadn't seen her since that morning and to be perfectly honest, he was worried about her. Kensi didn't have any family to turn to in her time of trouble. All she had was her work family and he was going to make sure she knew they were there for her. He knocked on the door, careful not to spill any of the coffee.

After about a minute, Deeks saw the shades move and Kensi peek out the window. Once she saw it was him, he heard the door open.

"You know the convenience store around the corner really sucks, all they had was stale coffee and fuzzy donuts." Deeks said as he examined the coffee cup.

"Deeks, it's not a good time." Kensi replied softly.

"It would be a pity to waste a mediocre cup of coffee." Deeks said as he handed one of the cups to her. "Here, just hold it and I'll-." But instead of leaving, he pretended to drop it, distracting Kensi long enough for him to get inside her place. "Sorry about that." Deeks said as he walked further into the house. "God, I can't believe you just fell for that." He picked up a piece of paper to take a closer look at it. "Just uh, so you know, you got two undercover agents outside watching you."

Kensi snapped the paper out of his hands "Yes, I know." She said in a tone too soft for her.

Deeks didn't let any emotion show, he just picked up another piece of paper. "Just to clarify things, when did you start moonlighting as a hit man? You got the whole "federal agents by day and killer by night"? I mean, it really does have summer blockbuster written all over it." He said, taking a closer look at a DVD case.

"Well, if it were true, guess who my next victim would be." Kensi said, sounding a little more like her usual self.

"Wow." Deeks replied and then he reacted out to move the giant cloth that covered her table. Kensi shouted out no, but it was too late; Deeks saw the sniper rifle. Deeks looked at the rifle for a moment and then to Kensi, the question obvious in his eyes.

"It was my dad's." Kensi said as an explanation.

"That doesn't explain what you're doing with it."

"I was cleaning it."

"Why?

Kensi chose to change the topic. "What do you guys got so far?"

"Subject change; I'll play along." David Blake's car was tampered with. His break lines were rigged with a small explosive. Looks like he was murdered."

"You don't think it was-" Kensi started to ask, fearing the worse.

"Not for a second." Deeks firmly stated, cutting her off. They were both quiet for a moment, letting the words just sink in.

"Why haven't Granger arrested me?"

Deeks made a slight face. "Cuz we haven't told him yet." He watched as the energy just kind of deflate out of Kensi. "Thought we could buy ourselves a little more time, but forensics is eventually gonna find it."

Kensi didn't say anything, just sat down on the couch, trying to gather her thoughts.

Deeks put his coffee cup down on the table and pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket "I realize that this is the point in the conversation that I say something profound and life affirming, so I actually came prepared." Deeks cleared his throat. "Everything is going to be fine." He stared at the words for a little bit and then flipped the paper over. He could have sworn that was longer.

"That's it?" Kensi asked from her spot on the couch.

"It seemed longer when I was writing it. Probably sounds better in like, Latin. More profound…" He trailed off his train of thought when he heard Kensi start to laugh and he couldn't help but grin himself. "But you're laughing, so it obviously worked."

"Yeah."

They both went quiet for a moment and Deeks knew Kensi was going to tell him something important, so he took a seat on the chair.

"There's a lot about what's going on that I haven't told you." Kensi said.

"But I'm your partner, you can tell me anything."

"I haven't told you to protect you, because there are-" and right then Deeks' phone went off. He made no move to answer it. "Are you gonna get that?"

"Wasn't planning on it." But after Kensi gave him a look, he gave in. "Won't be but two seconds." He said as he pulled it out. "Deeks," he said as a greeting. After a couple of seconds of listening and Deeks replying back, he hung up. "Uh…"

"What?"

"It was Hetty. LAPD discovered that Blake's car was rigged." He paused for a moment, knowing that the next words out of his mouth were going to hurt both him and his partner. "I gotta bring you in."

Hello, my lovely readers! I have returned!

Sorry its been so long. This was a difficult semester for me and then I had health issues (had surgery last week, so hopefully that'll get better). Any way, I am gonna work at catching this story up, even have an idea for a different story and I have most of the summer to do that.

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