kissing meme on tumblr - for aprylynn - "accidentally witnessed kiss"

I forgot to post this last week when I wrote it


The air is cool by LA standards but Kensi only feels the comforting and familiar heat coming off her boyfriend's body as he leans in to her, pressing a soft kiss to the tip of her nose. The ice they're standing on has nothing on the warmth that fills her heart at the smile on his face.

"Thank you for coming here with me." Deeks rests his hands on the railing on either side of her, effectively pinning her to the boards of the ice rink. Her hands find his hips and he sighs contentedly at the contact, still smiling at her. The look on his face is one that Kensi can only describe as pure happiness.

"Did you think I wouldn't want to come?" She can't and doesn't try to hold back a broad smile of her own. "We have good memories here."

"The best."

"A whole year," she squeezes his hips, "can you believe it?"

"Yes…and no."

"No?"

"No because, we've been...something for so long, I can't believe it's only been a year." He reaches up to tuck her hair behind her ear. "And before this year, things between us always seemed so complicated, I wasn't sure we could ever really have this…us…something normal."

She cocks her head, raising her eyebrows at that.

Normal. Yeah, if normal meant guns and bombs, undercover ops and internal affairs investigations, spending nights at home with matching ice packs and a shared bottle of ibuprofen.

As if he can read her mind, Deeks rolls his eyes, but he can't stop the chuckle that bubbles up from his chest. "Okay, so not normal normal."

Kensi's shoulders shake in silent laughter as she dips her fingers into the waistband of his jeans and pulls him against her. His arms wrap around her shoulders as hers snake around his waist and she settles her cheek against his chest, listening to the reassuring thump-thump of his heart.

There may be a whole lot about their relationship that isn't normal, but the feeling she gets whenever he holds her close, when she links his fingers through hers as they walk down the street or sit on the couch, or simply when he does or says little things that prove how much he loves her – she's pretty sure that's the "normal" that matters.

Lifting her head and tilting back to look at him, she smiles when his eyes meet hers, "I love our normal."

He nods once and unlike their last trip to the ice rink, Kensi knows exactly what's coming next as he cups her face and lowers his lips to hers. "I do too," he mumbles against her mouth before kissing her again.

Lost in each other, they don't notice the constant rush of skaters moving around them or the way the trees light up as dusk settles on the city.

They also don't notice the man across the ice laughing to himself at the serious episode of déjà vu he's experiencing as he watches the young couple off in their own little world. The man shakes his head and smiles, thinking he should have known that the Hannas wouldn't be the only ones to make a trip to the ice rink an annual thing.