11:22, the same time it had been the last three times Kensi looked at the clock on the wall. Time was dragging by, and it was slowly driving her insane. She nervously fidget with her hands in her lap, as she waited and waited for what seemed like half of her entire life. The feeling of being here in an office like this, made her uneasy. She felt like a prisoner, she felt confined, and confined Kensi was not good.
"Stop Kens." Deeks said reaching over laying his hand on top of hers.
Kensi stilled the nervous motions of her hands as soon as she felt his hands on her. Instantaneously, she began to relax just by this little contact. She took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly.
"How do you do that?" She asked.
"Do what princess?" He questioned.
"Make everything ok." She replied.
"Magic. And a good magician never reveals his secrets." He replied giving her his 20,000 dollar smile.
Kensi returned his smile and added an eye roll to go along with it. She started absent mindedly running her thumb over the back of Deeks hand while they waited. It didn't seem to bother him, he honestly seemed to be rather enjoying the contact between them.
"Hey Kensi, sorry about keeping you waiting so long. Come on." Nate said, as he opened the door to the room they were currently waiting in.
Kensi turned to Deeks for his encouragement and strength to get her through this. She didn't want to be here, she hated the idea of talking to him. Deeks had insisted that she had trusted Nate, and this may help to bring more of her memories back. Kensi stood, turning to look at Deeks one more time, Deeks nodded his head for her to go on. She smiled at him, then followed Nate through the doorway.
Nate opened the door to his office allowing Kensi to enter the room first. The agent in her kicked in once she was in the room she started taking note of her surroundings. The office itself was small, two windows on the back behind the desk. The desk itself was clean, not cluttered with unnecessary junk. There was a name plate on the corner next to the computer, and a framed photo of Nate and a woman Kensi did not recognize.
"You look great." Nate said laying his stack of papers he had in his hands on the desk.
"Thanks. I'm glad that cast finally came off." Kensi said.
"I imagine it does make things a lot easier." Nate replied. Once he had his papers sorted out he took his seat at his desk.
Kensi didn't say anything. She wasn't sure what she suppose to do honestly. Did she sit there and wait for him to pick her brain? Was she suppose to volunteer information or ask questions? She thought to herself. She nervously twisted her hair between her fingers why she waited for him to say something.
"How are you doing Kensi?"
"Sick of people asking me how I am doing." Kensi said.
Nate laughed amused by Kensi's reply.
"Same old Kensi. I will make this as fast as possible for you, so you can get on with your life."
"My mind is all yours. Or what is left of it." Kensi said, with a smile.
"Do you know how you lost your memory?" Nate asked.
"No."
"You never asked the nurses in the hospital, or Deeks how you ended up there, Why?" Nate questioned.
"Why would you watch the end of a movie before you understand the beginning?" Kensi answered.
"You know you cant answer my questions with a question, that is not how this works." Nate said.
"Then how does this work?" She asked.
"Kensi."
"Fine, no more questions." She agreed.
"What is that makes you trust your partner more then anyone else?"
Kensi thought about this for a moment, sometimes she wondered this herself, sometimes she was pretty she already knew the answer to this. "He was there when I woke up. He was the first person I saw beside me. I had know idea who he was, but when I looked up at him there was something familiar about him. Something told me I could trust him, I could count on him, that he would always have my back."
"Other then Deeks do you feel like that about anyone? Do you feel close to anyone else the way you do him?" Nate asked.
"Nell and I seem to be really close." Kensi said.
Nate wrote down what Kensi had been telling him, he knew exactly why she was so close to Deeks, they all did. Nate didn't want anyone to tell her why they were the way they were. This was something he insisted she figure out on her own.
"Does anything ever seem familiar? Do you remember anything?" Nate asked looking up from the folder he had just previously been writing in.
"Only twice. It was kind of like a flash from a dream more then a memory the first time, but it was something that had happened before." Kensi explained.
"And what brought on these memories?" Nate questioned.
"Deeks." She replied.
"What is it about him that makes you remember things?" Nate questioned.
"He is my partner, he knows me better then anyone else."
"What is it that makes your partnership different from Sam and Callen?"
Kensi laughed, "I'm a hot chick with a gun, and Sam is not."
Nate couldn't help but laugh at this. "What is the one ingredient that makes your partnership unique?"
Kensi thought about this, what was it that made them special? What was it about Deeks touch that could trigger her memories she had long forgotten? What was it about his words, that seemed to reach right out to her, and pull her back in a moment in time? Why did she trust him? Her mind was a conflicting mess of unanswered questions right now, but her heart, her heart deep down knew all these answers and more.
"I don't know." Kensi replied softly.
"When you figure that out, everything else will become clear." Nate explained to her.
Nate could read Kensi clear as day. He knew she knew exactly what he was talking about. He knew she felt it, and knew that she needed to trust what she felt to bring her out of this.
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