Deeks stuns the team by accepting an impromptu offer to work an operation with Gibbs. They finally realize what he means to them. It hits them harder than they ever thought possible. Losing a team member at the hands of the enemy is always a possibility, but they never saw losing one of their own to another team coming.

Episode 5x05 Densi tag. I'm team Deeks, all the way. (WOW, that sounds so Twilight-ish) I just feel like there's so many unresolved issues from the torture (what Sam said, Kensi fleeing and leaving Deeks there...) This attempts to scratch the surface. It starts with actual dialogue from the episode and continues with what I think should have happened (but obviously didn't)