He was alone. He was here sitting in a bar alone, and his partner was on the other side of the world in a place he did not know about. Wherever she is it is probably already 2014. He had tried calling her, but he didn't get an answer. So here is sitting in a bar alone, accompanied with the same bottle of beer he had in the four hours he was here and his thoughts. He could be at the team's New Year party, but he passed.

It's New Year's Eve and he shouldn't be by himself, but he is. He wish she was here. This is not how he expected his first New Year's Eve with Kensi to be. He had spent New Year's with her before, but things were different this year. They technically weren't even "official" for twenty four hours, but it felt like longer. She should be here. They should be at his place right now spending the New Year together or with the rest of the team, together. But that wasn't an option at the moment.

He hadn't even noticed the people celebrating around him until a presence of another body sit next to him, a familiar one, Sam.

"It's New Year's Deeks, cheer up," Sam said in an animated voice.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with the rest of the team?" Deeks inquired.

"I slipped out to come find you. I know you passed on the party, but my child asked where Uncle Deeks was."

Deeks chuckled lightly.

"You weren't at your apartment, so I knew you would be here."

Here being the bar he always came to with Kensi.

He dropped his head and fiddled with cap to his beer bottle. "Well, you found me."

"You miss her, it's obvious." He knew he was talking about Kensi.

"Really," Deeks said sarcastically. He wasn't even going to try to hide anything from Sam.

"I don't know the whole story between the two of you, but I have a pretty good feeling at what it is. I have been in your place before."

"Huh?"

"Michelle," he simply stated. "I met her on the job and look where I am now, and there have been times when she had been gone for months and vice versa."

"How did you handle it? How did you handle that you didn't know where the person you would give your life for is?" Deeks was comfortable asking Sam that. It was deep, but he was comfortable.

Sam fixed his gaze at him. "I would just have to keep reminding myself that she will come home, every day I would remind myself that. You can't think about the fact that she could be hurt or worse, you have to push that out of your mind. She will come home."

"Yeah, I know."

"You make her really happy, Deeks." Deeks knew that, she makes him happy. "We both know how she is with men, but Callen and I have never seen her so happy before. You're good for her," he said. "And the team, don't forget that," he added.

It was nice to hear those words, especially from Sam.

"Thanks."

"Now come on, let's go. It still isn't midnight." Sam got up out of bar stool. "I am not going to let you mope in this bar any longer, like I said, my child asked where you were."

Deeks just grinned. "Yeah, yeah, I'm coming."

He wasn't spending the New Year with Kensi, but he was spending it with people that cared about him. At the end of the day he just had to remind himself that she will come home, and they will be together.

A/N: I still have about three more hours until the New Year, but Happy New Year to all of you that have already entered 2014!