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She tossed and turned throughout the night. Her nightmares haunted her, her terrors showed up every time she closed her eyes. Deeks woke that night to the muffled sound of Kensi's whimpering cries. He sat up on the floor, looking around his a room. It took him a moment to remember where he was, and why he was sleeping on the floor of his own room. Then he heard her whimpers and he remembered. He smiled, for a while there he had almost thought he had dreamed this perfect day up, this perfect girl. Deeks moved over to sit on the bed beside her.
"Kensi." He said.
Kensi opened her eyes, and jumped up out of the bed. "Whoa! Easy you're ok." Deeks said putting his hands up to show her he meant no harm. Kensi laid back down in the bed and turned her back away from Deeks. She tried so hard not to cry, she didn't want to do this not hear, not now. She couldn't help it; she had been fighting it for far too long. So she cried.
"Kensi?" Deeks asked.
Kensi rolled over to face Deeks. Her eyes were red; her tears were running down her face uncontrollably. She looked up at him. "What's wrong? What can I do?" Deeks asked Kensi.
"I see him when I close my eyes. Every night he is there. Every night I try to do things differently, I don't leave, I tell him not to leave, and… and it always ends the same. He dies." She explains.
Deeks looked at her confused for a moment, and then all of a sudden it clicked, "Your dad?" Deeks asked.
Kensi nodded her head yes as she tried to gain control of herself. Deeks eased himself down next to her in the bed; he reached his arms out around Kensi's shoulder and brought her body close to his. She rested her head on his chest, and he ran his fingers through her hair, as he held her while she fell apart.
"It's ok. I have got you baby girl." Deeks said. Deeks didn't really know what to do. He didn't really know what to say that could take away the pain she was feeling. He had never been good with emotional stuff, so he just held her until she cried herself to sleep. Long after she had fallen asleep, Deeks just kept watching her sleep. He didn't want to close his eyes; he didn't want her to have another nightmare that he could stop.
The next morning Deeks was still awake, he never did close his eyes the night before. Instead he spent the whole night watching this beautiful broken girl sleep in his arms. Kensi yawned, looking up from her position on Deeks chest.
"Good morning sunshine." He said.
"Morning." She said as she pulled herself up into a sitting position. "I'm.. Oh God this is really embarrassing."
Deeks smiled at her, "You're gorgeous even first thing in the morning after crying all night long."
Kensi smiled sweetly at his gesture of trying to make her feel more comfortable. "I.. I am sorry for falling apart." Kensi whispered.
"You have nothing to be sorry for." Deeks replied.
"Thank you."
"For what?" Deeks questioned.
"Being you. Not many guys are as honorable as you." Kensi explained
"I told you, you will always be safe with me. I meant it." Deeks admitted. Deeks climbed out of the bed, and turned back towards Kensi. "How about breakfast?" Deeks asked extending a hand to Kensi. Kensi smiled taking his hands, "Sounds great. I am starving." Kensi said.
Kensi and Deeks made their way into the kitchen. Deeks grabbed skillets, and laid them out on the stove.
"What?" Deeks asked when he turned around to find Kensi smiling at him.
"I can't cook." Kensi said honestly.
"Well lucky for you, I can. Now get your butt over and assist me." Deeks explained.
"I will try. I can't make any promises." Kensi laughed.
Deeks grabbed a bowl and the cartoon of eggs and placed it in front of Kensi. Deeks leaned in close to Kensi, "I will give you an easy job. One I have no doubt you can manage. Crack these eggs so I can make us an omelet." Deeks said.
Kensi blushed, and her heart beat rapidly at their closeness. She instinctively moved in closer towards Deeks.
"Hey man!" Ray said.
Kensi and Deeks pulled away from each other. "Morning Deeks, Wikipedia. What's for breakfast?" Ray asked clearly oblivious to the fact her interrupted their moment.
"Possibly omelets, if Kensi ever gets the eggs cracked here." Deeks said putting it off on Kensi.
Kensi rolled her eyes at Deeks, then started cracking the eggs in the bowl for breakfast. "Well seeing has you two of have this situation under control; I am going to just go now. So um yeah enjoy." Ray said awkwardly.
Deeks and Kensi both laughed as Ray turned and walked off into the other room.
"What's was that all about?" Kensi asked Deeks as soon as Ray exited the room.
"It's Ray, who the hell knows," Deeks explained. "You have those eggs ready for me yet sweet cheeks?" He asked.
"Yep. Eggs are ready." Kensi said. She moved over towards Deeks who was standing at the stove, she placed the bowl down beside him on the counter that held the content of the cracked eggs he was seeking. "So where did you learn how to cook?" Kensi questioned.
"I kind of just taught myself. I was in one of those situations where it was learning to cook and take care of yourself or starve, because the people in my house that called themselves my parents sure as hell were not going to do it." Deeks explained. Deeks turned his attention to Kensi as he added the eggs to skillet. "What about you? How did you not learn how to cook?" He joked.
Kensi smiled and jumped up on the counter beside Deeks to sit on. "My mom wasn't around she left my dad a few years ago for another. She tried to take me with her, but I ran away back to my dad. It's has always been him and me since then."
"And your mom? Where is she now?" Deeks asked.
"I imagine she is heading back to Boston. That is where she thought she was taking me."
"Where was home?" Deeks asked.
"It's always been all over the place. My dad was a marine so we traveled a lot. We were about to move to California." Kensi admitted. Deeks took an omelet out of the skillet, flipped it onto the plate, then passed the plate to Kensi.
"So was that your plan, head to California?" Deeks wondered.
"It was."
"And what happened to your wonderful plan?" Deeks joked.
"I was side tracked by something I never expected to find." She said with a smile.
"Well that makes two of us princess." He said with a smile. "Now, eat we have stuff to do today."
"We do?" She asked confused.
"We do indeed Kens."