A/N: Here's some answers.

The older man's heart fills with a contentment at the protectiveness that the lawyer so clearly has over his baby girl. "I understand. Where do I start?"

Taking a deep breath, she looks into his eyes with a seriousness that he's never known. "You can start by telling me where you've been for the past 7 years."

He nods, taking a deep breath of his own. "Well the last thing I remember was being dragged out of my car…"

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He nods, taking a deep breath of his own. "Well the last thing I remember was being dragged out of my car. Everything before that….you, your mother, it all just vanished. I didn't even know my own name."

"What about your accident?" Kensi's curious as to how he survived that fire. And what about the body in the car?

He knows where her thoughts went. His rescuer told him that the passenger hadn't made it. "This young man saw my car on the side of the road. He got me out but couldn't get my buddy Rick out."

"So that's whose body was in the car."

Just imagining what his little girl had to go through thinking that he was dead fills him with anguish. "Yeah, it was. I'm so sorry, Kensi." He sees the tears in her eyes and it breaks his heart but she nods for him to continue. "So when he pulled me out, he took me to his cabin in the mountains. He said that he saw someone deliberately cause me to crash and cause my car to catch on fire."

"He didn't try to find out who you were?"

"I told him that if they knew I survived they would most likely come after him next to get to me so we stayed in a secluded area and lived off the land for close to 7 years."

"And how did you get your memory back?"

He smiles at the memory from a month ago when his entire life literally flashed before his eyes. "It's quite funny actually. I was outside and decided to take a walk by the river and saw a family down the way. A man and a little girl each with a pole and they started shouting and I was confused at first until I saw the large mouth bass at the end of her line and it all just came back to me."

"Our trip to Yosemite."

"Yeah, everything, baby girl. Our camping trips, teaching you how to throw knives and even starting you out on the scope. Have you been practicing still?"

Marty has bite his lip to try and not laugh. "Practice?"

The former marine looks at him confusedly. "What?"

"Sir, with all due respect I'm pretty sure she's a better sniper than you ever were."

A blush rises to her cheeks at the pride in her husband's voice. He's always the first one to bring up her badassness as he likes to call it. "Marty."

"That's what I like to hear." He says it with a pride in his voice that voice she'd never thought she'd hear again.

"Anyway, once it all came back to me, I headed to Boston hoping to find you and your mother but I came to a dead end. I wasn't really sure where else to look and then I remember Owen. Thinking that he could probably help me, I headed here and he helped me start looking for you. Not to my surprise though he found you in the database of NCIS and that you were an agent. Now here I am."

She can feel the tears start to pool in her eyes again. "So you didn't remember anything at all?"

"No, Kensi, of course not. If I could've remembered believe me when I say that I would've done everything in my power to find you."

And she does. She sees the sincerity in his eyes and feels a nudge from her husband. The agent gets up, mirroring her father and they embrace.

He squeezes her tight, never wanting to let her go. "I'm so sorry, Kensi. I'm so sorry that I've missed the past 7 years."

"I'm sorry, too."

"What do you have to be sorry for?"

She holds him tighter at the thought of their last interaction. "The way I treated you when you told me I couldn't go to the movies and the words I said. I never thought I'd get to take them back."

"Oh, baby girl, I knew you didn't mean it. You were just angry. I never held that against you."

"I love you, dad"

"I love you, too, Kensi."

Before they know it another party has joined them by wrapping his arms around both father and daughter. "And I love both you guys."

They both laugh at the goof that is Marty Deeks.

Once they remember they're in the middle of a restaurant, they take their seats once again. This time it's Kensi's turn to catch him up on her life.

"So what about you? What have you been up to in the past 7 years? Well, besides getting married to this fine young man of course."

She shakes her head and smiles at the feel of her husband giving her a shit eating grin. God I love him. She then begins to tell him about living on the street for awhile after he died and then getting into Pepperdine where she met Marty. Graduating and then them getting married two weeks later. And how after they got married they headed to Georgia for a couple of weeks until she got through training. She got offered the job in D.C. and now here they are.

He's heard a lot about the last several years but one thing she hasn't mentioned is another brunette. "What about your mother? Have you ever contacted her?"

She thinks she sees hope in his eyes. "Actually she works with Marty and we just recently reconnected."

A buzzing feeling flows through his body at the fact that he may not have to go looking for as well. "Wow. It's funny how life works."

She turns towards her husband, giving him a knowing smile. "Yeah, it is."

He watches the couple in their own little world. The love they share and how in tune they are with one another. He had that once, but he let the job get in the way. "I miss her."

Her brow furrows and she turns back to him. "Mom?"

He nods, giving her a sad smile.

"She misses you, too."

"Do you think she'd want to see me?"

That's when she realizes what's going on. He's seen the way she and Marty interact and the love that they share and his heart his yearning to have that back.

That's when her husband speaks up. "Don't tell Julia I showed you this, but when she opened her wallet the other day, something fell out of it and I picked it up." He takes the photo out of his wallet and hands it to the older man. "I haven't had a chance to give it back to her."

Once he has the crinkled photo in his hand and turns it around to read what's on the back, tears begin to pool in his eyes.

She's looks to her husband with questioning eyes, mouthing. "What does it say?"

Marty points towards her dad for her to look. She's shocked to she the tears are now falling down his cheeks.

"No mountain, nor sea, nothing of this world could keep us apart because this is not my world…..you are." Is all he says as he rubs his thumb across the words that he'd written so long ago on the back of a photo of him in his officer's uniform.

That's when it hits Kensi that her father gave up more than her mother that day. He gave up the love of his life.

TBC