Title: Season Ten Tidbits

Chapter 14: Protect and Serve

Summary: These are short scenes that I want to add to the season 10 episodes. A lot of them will be Densi. These scenes take place during the episode 10x14 Smokescreen Part 1. The first scene happens as Kensi is going back to the car to get more blankets for their homeless witness. The second scene happens right after the first blast at the movie theater, but before the show actually cut to footage of Kensi and Deeks; and again after the second blast, but before the show cuts to them.

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS LA or the characters. I simply enjoy writing about them in this forum.

Rating: T

Protect and Serve

As he phones the license plate in to Eric, he watches her continue talking with their witness. The idea has passed through Deeks' mind before, and he's sure it's passed through Kensi's too. She always makes connections with people when they make it to the soup kitchen or the homeless shelter to help out. After their talk this morning though, he thinks this avenue could be a real possibly for her. No, she wouldn't be saving hundreds of people from bombs, getting into fights in the back of a moving trailer, or breaching warehouses; but she would be dealing with some pretty tough people on occasion and she would be saving lives and helping people.

"Lock it down Deeks. She needs to come to this on her own," he thinks as she returns to the car.

As she rummages around in the 2nd kit for blankets and grabs their personal blanket, she can feel his eyes on her.

"What?" she questions turning to him.

"Nothing," he replies quickly, knowing he didn't hide his thoughts quickly enough or well enough.

"You're giving me a look," she observes.

"No, no look. Do you want to talk about why we just spent the last hour here when we could have called in a surveillance team right away?" he questions, improvising that the look was about her past rather than her future.

"Not really, I'll be right back," she responds shutting the trunk of the car.

"You know I want to hear it all when you are ready to tell me," Deeks shares as she rejoins him in the car.

"I know, and I will," she assures him, but with a closure that tells him it won't be today.

Even though he feels her hand on his arm, Deeks lowers the arm that had automatically gone up to protect his head and glances over to make sure Kensi is still standing, or rather crouching beside him. He utters a, "Son of a...!," as they turn toward where the blast came from in shock and horror and cautiously rise to their feet.

As Nell, Eric, and Ochoa try to contact Sam and Callen, Kensi and Deeks start moving in the direction of the theater doors where the blast came from. Another blast shakes the ground beneath them and echos through the air, but does not penetrate the doors of the theater this time. Startled again, Deeks and Kensi reach for each other and clasp hands for a brief moment. They share a commiserating look expressing that it's going to be a tough day, and then they are back in action trying to contact Sam and Callen and fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

Thanks for reading. I loved this episode so much. It had everything: action, romance, the caring partner and work relationships, and even a little comedy. They even touched on some of the ongoing questions we have like Hetty and Callen's father. There wasn't much to add, but these were two little scenes I thought might add a little more depth to what was already happening.