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Thwart

Verb

1. To oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.

2. To frustrate or baffle

"We are in trouble. Big trouble." Deeks stated what seemed to be the understatement of the year.

"Really? And what gave you that clue?" Kensi snapped.

"Oh, how about the fact we are hand cuffed to chairs, our weapons and earwigs are gone and just the little fact that no one knows where we are." Deeks said.

All of this was true. Some of the bad guys that they were following got the jump on them and it was lights out for the two agents (well, one agent and one detective). When they came to, they were handcuffed to chairs in what seemed to be an empty warehouse.

"Gee, thank you Deeks for the little rundown on how much trouble we are in. I would never have been able to figure that out on my own." Kensi snapped sarcastically. She had been struggling against her cuffs since she came too, but to no prevail- those cuffs weren't budging. Kensi slumped in the chair in defeat. "I give up. We are stuck here until they come back or the rest of the team comes and gets us."

"Maybe not." Deeks said. Kensi looked at her partner with a questioning look. He saw it, but before he could give her an answer, footsteps filled the quiet room.

Suddenly, two men appeared in front of them. "Agent Blye and Detective Deeks, I presume." Said Tyler Jenkins, a sailor that is a suspect is a serious of murders across the LA area.

Deeks and Kensi didn't say anything, didn't even look at the guys.

"Staying silent will not protect you. Nor will it protect your friends. I think it would be in all of your best interest if you tell me what I want to know." Jenkins said.

During the guy's little speech, Deeks was mentally trying to communicate with Kensi, willing her to understand that he needed her to distract the guys. Unfortunately, Deeks mind communication skills left a lot to be desire and couldn't get Kensi to look at him. So he decided to make a move and hoped that Kensi would get the hint and follow his lead. "I bet I know what you what to know." Deeks offered.

Kensi snapped her attention to Deeks when he spoke. There was no way he was going to give any information away. She knew her partner and she knew he wouldn't talk. Well, at least not talk about what the bad guys want to know.

"And what do you think we want to know, Detective?" Asked their captors.

"You want to know how I am going to thwart your little plan of killing us and getting away with all those murders." Deeks said, glancing over at Kensi. Kensi knew the look in his eyes; it's the look that he gets when he's about to get into mischief. Which meant he was going to need her help.

"Oh? And how do you plan on doing that?"

"Well, I could do a number of things. I could break out of these cuffs and single handed take down you and that bozo over there. I could take you down while cuffed to this chair. Or maybe, I could attack you with your mind; Go all Professor X on your ass." Deeks said with a grin.

Kensi couldn't help but snort at this. "Really, that's your plan?"

Deeks looked offended and defensive at the same time. "What wrong with those plans? They are awesome plans. I call them "My Plans of Thwarting". Any one of those plans would look awesome in a report."

"Like any of them could actually happen. And what's with you using the word 'thwart'? Who uses the word thwart anymore? Nobody, that's who."

"So you are saying I am a nobody? That's hurtful. I am truly hurt by your comments. And after all the times I have saved your butt."

"Name one time you have saved my butt."

"That time in the desert, and again with the Russians and lasers, Christmas when dealing with the guy who pretended to have PTSD, then again from King. Oh, and from that one guy who wanted to kidnap you to learn where his ex wife had gone. And come to think of it, I did that with two bullet holes in my chest." Deeks stopped for a moment to think. "That's a lot of times. For such a strong willed woman, you sure need to be saved a lot."

During this whole exchanged, Jenkins had looked back and forth between the two partners. "Are you two always liked this?"

"Yes!" they said at the same time.

Jenkins gave a small shrug. "Don't know why I even asked, it's not like you two will be alive any longer. How about you two make up before I kill you."

"Yeah…not gonna happen." Deeks said with a smirk.

"And why is that?"

"Because, I picked the cuffs." Suddenly Deeks propelled out of the chair, tackling Jenkins' goon to the ground and began fighting for the gun. Jenkins backed away and took aim, only to have the back of his knee kicked by Kensi. His knee gave out and he fell to the ground. He looked at Kensi and only saw her boot coming towards his face.

Once Jenkins was done, Kensi focused on Deeks. "Deeks!"

"Don't worry, Princess. I'm alright." Deeks said, pocketing the goon's weapon and made his way over to Kensi. He knelt down behind her, the keys to the cuffs in hand. "Hang on and I'll get you out in a jiffy."

"How did you manage to get out of the cuffs?"

"Picked them. I have a bobby pin in my back pocket all ready to go. Just took me a while to get to it."

"You carry a bobby pin around with you? You are really metro, you know that?"

"Hey, I carry it around for professional reasons." Deeks said defensively.

"So you are paranoid instead." Kensi clarified. At this point, Deeks had the cuffs off of Kensi and was busy cuffing Jenkins and the goon.

"It maybe paranoia, but it paid off." Deeks said.

"I'll give you that one." Kensi said. She then smacked Deeks on the back of the head.

"OW! What was that for?"

"That was for keeping a list for all the times you have saved me."

"Just for that, I'm adding this to the list." Deeks said with a goofy grin.

"Like I am ever going to let you list all of that off." Kensi said as she stalked off, searching for a phone to call the Mission.

Deeks' grin grew even wider. As much as he enjoyed solving crimes and thwarting bad guys, the best part of the job was being partnered with Kensi Marie Blye.

Yay for another chapter done. I'm sorry that I am not able to update during the week, school week nearly always have my attention when I have any sort of free time. Hopefully soon I get better at time management and make time to write (and run. I need to run more). Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this one.

As always, feel free to review. I always appreciate your honest opinion. Happy reading!