In the morning Deeks woke up to the sight of Kensi sleeping beside him in bed. Smiling he woke up and got dressed, made breakfast, checked on Sophie. Then he heard Kensi get up, when she walked into the kitchen Deeks was speechless there she was dressed in his shirt holding Sophie.
"Sorry but I have to go, my mom and I are going to watch another movie marathon today." Kensi told him handing him Sophie then kissing each of them good bye.
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"Alright Sophie bear I think today is the day to find you a nickname, as you know Kensi had Fern then there are the wonder twins. Long story short we need to figure this out." Deeks said receiving a grin from Sophie, it was the kind where she scrunched up her nose and showed of the various teeth that had grown in.
"I knew you would understand!" Deeks said happy that he had the day off which he planned to spend it all with Sophie.
"So I was thinking of a few and here's what I have, Soph which we already use." Deeks said catching Sophie's attention when he said the common short form of her name.
"What about Sofa?" When he said this Sophie shook her head then point at the actual sofa in the living room.
"You're right; alright I'll get back to you on the whole nickname front." Deeks said noticing that Sophie was trying to move her feet while she was standing. He thought that maybe just maybe she was ready to start walking. He had heard that some babies walk at 9 months but it was uncommon, but now when was there anything common about this?
"I get it; do you want to try walking?" Deeks asked Sophie who only looked up at him. Carefully Deeks took her hands off the table she was using to support herself and put them in his own. Then he waited for her to move her feet, when that didn't happen Deeks just put her hands back on the table.
"Okay we'll work on it later no big deal." Deeks said to her, and then Monty came into the room and flopped down right down on the floor. Once Sophie saw the dog that was quickly becoming her favourite thing to play with her pointed at Monty and started whining.
"I agree let's go see Monty." Deeks said as Sophie started to crawl over to Monty; once she got there she grabbed onto his head and pulled herself up to a standing position. It was nice to see that both of Deeks' children got along even if they weren't the same species, around one in the afternoon Deeks decided it was time to put Sophie own for a nap.
"It's time for bed little bear." Deeks said getting Sophie changed and in bed, the whole time he was singing the classic song you are my only sunshine. Within minutes Sophie was asleep.
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"Hey Kens, I need to ask you something." Deeks said calling Kensi as Sophie was sleeping in the other room.
"Deeks, why are you whispering?" Kensi asked over the phone, she could barely hear him and for Deeks that was something new.
"Oh Sophie is sleeping, anyway I was wondering if you could watch Sophie tomorrow?" Deeks asked knowing that what he would say next could turn Kensi into a very angry lady.
"Sure for how long?" Kensi asked she had told Deeks that he didn't have to ask her if she wanted to babysit Sophie the answer would always be yes.
"Umm I'll be going undercover Kens, only for a few days though. It's just a routine drug case." Deeks told her trying to calm her down right away.
"Deeks…." Kensi hated it when her partner went undercover with LAPD since she wouldn't be able to contact him to see if he was good, or the fact that she wouldn't be the one there to watch his back.
"I know you don't like ti but it's something I have to do, this is part of my job you know that." Deeks said to her, it seemed like they always had this disagreement whenever he would go do work for LAPD.
"Yeah well it doesn't have to be." Kensi said bringing up once again that Deeks could just become an official agent already.
"We're not getting into this right now, I just need to know if you can watch Sophie or not. If you can't I can get Sam to do it." Deeks told her not wanting to start a fight when they were just starting out their relationship.
"No I'll do it, but you dare forget your promise okay?" Kensi told him hoping he knew that she was talking about the time where she made him promise that he wouldn't get himself killed.
"I won't, so I'll see you at my place around 2 then?" Deeks asked, he knew that it was the right thing promising Kensi that he wouldn't get himself killed but part of him knew that sometimes things were out of your control.
"Sounds good." Kensi said as she hung up the phone.
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"Did you have a nice nap?" Deeks asked Sophie when she woke up, in return he got a very sleepy looking baby in his arms wiping her eyes.
"I know it's hard to wake up sometime, how about we play with some blocks?" Deeks asked, although he would never admit it but he probably enjoyed playing with Sophie's toys more than she did sometimes.
"Is that a tower?" Deeks asked when he noticed Sophie trying to stack all her blocks in a pile. Then out of nowhere she knocked it down bursting into a fit of giggles causing Deeks to laugh as well. He thought to himself that he had a regular comedian on his hands.
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"Night Soph." Deeks said closing her door, it had been a day filled with fun which was something Deeks wouldn't trade for anything. Now it was time for him to get ready for going undercover. He started with food preparing various snack for both Sophie and Kensi knowing that Kensi wouldn't be cooking much. Then he made Kensi a list of things to do with Sophie just in case they didn't have anything else planned. Deeks wasn't too worried though this wasn't the first time Kensi looked after Sophie by herself if anything he was nervous about the case with LAPD.
This would be the first time since the torture incident that he would be going undercover with people other than the team. That scared him a little; he wasn't going to lie about it. This wasn't like all the times he went undercover before, now he had something worth losing. He had to think about Sophie and Kensi. Deeks understood that it was a simple undercover task but there were always risks involved. Maybe Kensi was right, maybe it was time for him to sign those papers Hetty gave him.
Deeks didn't know if he was ready to give up LAPD yet, yes they treated him like crap but Deeks knew that he was a cop. The idea of becoming more than that now didn't seem too bad but it wasn't something he could make his mind up overnight. A decision like this came with time and a lot of thinking something Deeks would try and do now. It was time to settle this battle he had inside of himself; once and for all he would pick one. NCIS or LAPD, cop or agent, station or mission, his team or the people that didn't want him. Thinking of it that way made it sound easier to pick one but Deeks was never to do things the easy way